The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

II HARTFORD, Van Buren, county, Mich a
barn was destroyed by lightning last week. aud
to prove that lighting doesn't strike twice in
| the same place, it IS asserted Tn four build
: lngs on the identical spot have been demolished
by the fluid
JEREMIAH wilcox, of Lebanon. Conn, is 90
years old, his wife 70, and both are well. Mrs
| Wilcox is spryer than her husband One day
last week she slipped the bail of O SiX-quart tin
| pail over her arm, climbed the family Cherry
| tree 20 the top OF it, ami picked the measure
| fuil of cherries. She didn't need a ladder. Mrs
| Wilcox descended went into the house. and
made cherry pie in quick time.
! YEAR AGO Ira Marsaw's house. near Caro-,
Mich. was struck by lightning and somewhat
damaged. Since that TINS Mrs Warsaw has
! refused 70 live IN the house. and she persuaded
| the family TO move out. Last week the deserted
mouse was again struck and in such manner
as 20 make it probable that if it had been occu-
pied, somebody would have been hurt. Mrs
| Warsaw now says: Il told you So"
PARTY OF CAMPERS at Moosic lake near Car
oondale, had heard of bear in their vicinity,
but didn't credit the story. But when they saw
the bear coming directly toward them the other
evening there was c0mmotiou. Lewis Comp
TON, the crack marksman of the party, seized
ms rifle, and when the animal reared upon its
hanncnes, sent bullet into its body that put an
end TO bruns career in short order
Two CoLoRED MEN named Young and Garrett
| have induced 81 colored men to locate upon
| government land in Oklahoma taking 100 acres
each. or 1880 acres in all. They have laid out
a town site near the center of the C llony TIE
name OF the town is Lincoln, located on The
north bank of the Cinaorrn river aud is de ,tnei
70 De the county seat, as ey have five town
ships and are IN the majority ten to one.
Tibet is the only known country on earth
not open to missions 1t has an area of $50, 900
square miles. The creates, len tn from east 10
= mi l.- az9
mated at 100000 Il is the stronghold Of
Buddhism. Llassa, the capital. Is the Rome
OF the BuddhiSts. and the Da al Lama is the
Buddhist pODe. H is supreme in both tenn
| poral and spiritual things. One monastery has
about 5000 Buddhist priests. and there are
| about GOOD in the country Thibet is virgin
so! Tor missions. The country is tributary to
| China.
| The only person on record who did not have
to wait for his turn in barber shop was Scipio
| AfricanuS for 1t was in the year 800 B. c. taat
| the Romans commenced shaving and,
| according to Pliny, Scip was the first OF the
| Romans to submit to the razor. Alexander the
| Great had a Il OF his soldiers shaved TO prevent
| the enemy from catching them by the beard.
Peter the Great, after returning from one of his
| tours issued an edict ordering a C mpulSory
| Observance in relation to the beard. He taxed
| the hrSute appendage, ami aft .rward ordered
| all those he found bearded to have the hair
| pluc6ed out with pincers or shaver with blunt
| razor.
SEVERAL Troy merchants are conducting a
| novel sign war They seem to vie with each
other IN seeing who can put up a sign that will
| most obstruct his neighbours view A few DAYS
ago one merchant piled up a large number of
| boxes and baskets almost in front of his neigh
| o9rs window. The other merchant then put
| up sign extending the whole length Of his
window and extending out from il about three
| leet. Inc other merchant, not to be outdona
| put up a board partition between the two
STORES FRIDAY morning before daylight, which
IS about twenty-f five feet hiyh and at least four
feet wide. While it shuts out his nrighor's vie
IN one direction, it abstracts his own from the
other.
AT Newington, Conn. the other day a black
spider had a curious adventure The matron
OF family lay down on her lounge and l-pt
Inc spider crawled over her. Along her side
ne crept, up her check, around to thu side of
her head, then he climbed on the rim of her ear
and gazed down into the aural crater 1t was
spacious one and he went in. Then the lady
got up with a shrek and bound The family
ran to her aid. she told them that son1ethlng
a fly possibly, was walking about in her head
They prepared a pint of warm SOAP suds and
poured most of it down her back and some of
IT. int9 her ear. Thereupon the black spider
rushed out, wet. astonishet, but as lively as
ever. He ieaped to the floor and got into his
hole IN the padding of the lounge.
A REMARKABLE and very disastrous plague to
stock is now raging in Daviess county, Indiana.
During the past few weeks a number of farmers
in various parts OF that county have lost some
OF their finest horses An invest cation as tn
the cause OF the strange occurre ces brought
to light what seems incredulous state of
afalrS, but has proved an absolute fact II was
iound that ticks are actually killing horses.
Whlc the pc is attack in great swarms and
sucA the blood from the animal until it il helm
less, and is relieved of its Sufferings nv death
Exa nnations show that the pests eat their way
tnrougl the hide into the flesh, It is tholioht
the ticks were brought by the Texas Monies
which have been sold there in large numbers in
the past few months. The ticks att lck cows
put do not seem to have the same effect as on
horses.
MosT PERSONS, in thinking of Millet, associate
his life with Barbizon. In this village, close to
the forest of Fontanebleau. he lived for twenty
years. 1t was there that he painted his rnast.r.
pieces; there that he died. And yet there is an.
other village in France far less known, but per
maps OF equal Importance to any student of tne
peasant painters career Just as Ran1oaI
though he worked in Rome is forever associated
with Urblno; just as Titan, though he painted
Tor long years ID Venice, is scarcely To he
named without mend of Cadore s. the
artist VINO IN our time has acquired a fame as
wide, perhaps, as any artist of this century
though he painted at Barbzon, was a native Of
Gruchy, Norman village, and by the life and
atm sphere of that distant corner of France
was mainly inspired to the memorable work he
was able to achieve.
THOMAS B. WALMLEY of Dallas, Tex, is san.
guine, reports the New York Tribune. of the
usefulness Of a scheme to protect Coney IslanIs
beaches from the sea, by using Oil ct free from
pipes along the shore $50 feet seward dnrino,
storms. He says that proper experiments viii
demonstrate successful results adding: II have
given much thought to this subject during the
past few months, and | should not he n1nch
surprised TO see such an experiment made soon
in the harbor of Galveston By he apDlicaticn
of the right kind of oil the highest waves an he
checked, and thus harbor protection. the mn
loading of vessels in midocean the Drotection If
lighthouses and light vessels in open roadste de
may be effected by the use of oil. am in ac-
cord with the theory of the hydrogra Dhic
bureau that crude petroleum will give Food re-
suits in smoothing heavy seas, but its useful
n ssS in this direction decreases in proportion to
the degree to which it has been refineli
A PAYMAsTER in the United States Navy pivas
an exchange the following account of the "red
tape" that must be gone through in making
purchases for man-of-war: Supposinr that a
paper of tacks is wanted on Board q limited
States ship on fore gn station, the followinS,
is the routine actually required under general
order No. AZ: Four acquisitions are tTnaie ont
which are signed as follows: officer MAKING tbe
requisition four times; captain, eight; pa ymas
ter eight, and admiral four. Bids are sent ont
to five merchants. which are signed nv nav
officer five times; merchants bidding five. az
ceptance of bid, paymaSl er one. Bids are then
made out in quintuplicate, and are signed
by the captain five times; paymaster ZEN.
senior officer of the board of inspection five
and person receiving the money, five A report
Is attached by the senior officer of the boari Of
survey in duplicate, two signatures, aud the