The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-06
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NOVEL FEATURE Of the coming fremen's
picnic in New Brunswick. n. j.. is TO be a real
pigs-in-clover contest. Prizes of s25 are to be
given to every man who can in twenty minutes
get four live pigs into pen in the middle of the
grounds.
A HORSE recently sold by Nathaniel Rice at
auction to a man living seven miles away, the
other day took il INTO his head that he wanted
70 go back to his old home. In order TO do so
he cut across lots, and jumped thirteen fences
on the way.
a crrIzES of South Chester, Pa. absorbed in
street fakir's jests a few nights ago, and un:
heedful of passing drum corps, was struck
on the nose by a baton which the drum major
was twirling, and he had to be taken to a drug
store aud fixed up with court plaster.
The Newark and Elizabeth On. J.) horse rail
road has been leased for ten years, beginning
| June l, by gas motor company. The lessees
guarantee per cent. interest on the entire
! capital stock. The cars are 10 be run with
gas machine burning naphtha, stored in tank
on the top of the car.
Two HUNDRED BUCKETS of sea stars, the oys-
ter's pest, were caught by one oyster dredg
ing steamer in five hours off Norwalk. Conn.
the other day Unless something is done to ex-
terminate these ravenous fish their depreda-
tions upon the oyster beds will be more severely
felt than ever before.
The Bath CMe) Times says Rev. John McFad-
in Maine, sixty years ago raised barn without
treating his helpers to liquor. This innovation
made great stir, aud the opposition was only
quieted by enjoying the excellent dinner pre-
pared by Mr.. McFaddens wife.
PARIS has taken the lead in bringing to time
one of the greatest oppressors of the travelling
public-the cabman. Recently in that city thirty
drivers were arrested and sentenced to one
months imprisonment for ili-treatment of pas
sengers. Some of them had assaulted foreign
ers who objected 70 being imposed upon.
AN s-YEARoLD BOY named Stevens of Grotou,
Long Point, Conn had the end of his little toe
bitten off by a large quahaug (hard clam, as is
believed one day last week He was ''treading
out, quahsugs !the old Indian way of finding
them. in the soft mud at Mumfords cove, and
was in water up to his knees. 1t is supposed
that he stuck his toe into the partly opened shell
of the quahaug, and that the bivalve shut up on
him. The quahaug could not be found.
AUGUSTINE HAMILTON of North Colebrook,
Conn, uses three times a week razor with
which his grandfather, Ebenezer Edgerton of
! Grandby, used to shave the face of George
Washington. While serving in the revolution
| airy war Edgerton. being then only Is years of
| age, rescued two soldiers who had broken
| through the ice on a river This brought him
| under the especial notice of Gen. Washington,
who made him his valet. The razor has a fine
| edge and clear ring to this dav. 1t is said to
have been very satisfactory to the father of his
country.
THE owner of baggage-checkng stand at
the union dept. Kansas City, was in trouble one
morning this week, A woman left baby car
| riage, containing baby, in the stand, checking
it, and promising to be back in half an hour
''If the baby cries. Just shake the carriage a
little, she said, land he'll go right to Sleep"
AS soon as the mother had disappeared the
child awoke and screamed The more the check
man rocked the carriage the louder the baby
howled. Finally IN desperation, he hired
young boy to wheei the baby up and down the
platform oflthe depot. He says he will check
MANAGER JOHN w. NORTON OF St. Louis de-
MES the statements made by newspaper of
that city, that he had offered to condone his
wife'S conduct if She would leave her paramour,
Henry w. Moore. at the time that the erring
pair had fed to Topeka, Kan He simply offered
to provide for her If she would Immediately
abandon Moore and go to her people, or else
where, and lead decent life. In speaking of
| Moore and his base conduct from first to last,
| Manager Norton said in St. Louis on Tuesday
| last: by the way. is it not exquisitey ronical
| that that brute, Moore, should have charge of
| the chidren's column of a big New York
| daily?''
| SAYS Washington correspondent of the New
York Sun: persons who have studied the per-
sonal characteristics of President Harrison
most say that the best time to see him for a
| favor is about 20 O'Clock at night. 1t is then
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| of busy and troublesome day. He has devoted
| the forenoon aud afternoon to the statesmen,
| the office-seekers and the other bores, and
| greeted the people in the east room. After din
there are also cares of state but as it begins
to be too late for callers and as the time for re-
| firing is not more than an hour or two away
| the mood of the man changes. He chats freely
| with the family or the visitor, and has even
| been known to tell story and good one
| That is when the President and his late law
| partner have their quarrels, which make them
| love and trust each other SO much the more.
| A REMARKABLE DISCOVERY has been made at the
| Cathays yard of the Taft Vale Railway Com
pany. Alarge elm tree, grown in Gloucester
| shire, was being cut up into timber, when right
l in thevery heart, a cavity feet long and 71s
inches wide was discovered 1t contained a
| comb Of the honey bee and a squirrel skull
| No means of access to the hollow was discover
| able, neither was decay anywhere apparent
and around the cavity itself no less than fifty
| ''rings.'' each ring denoting a years growth
were counted. The hollow was of uniform size
| throughout, and presented the appearance of
having been bored with an anger, and, great
though its dimensions were, it was practically
| filed with the comb, intimating that the bees
were in possession for several years. How the
bees got there lisa mystery. 1t Is surmised
that squirrel 7oAce occupied decayed hole in
the tree cleared away the decay, occupied the
cavity as it's own, and there died. Then the
bees took possession and filed the hole with
comb when by some means the entrance
u.
the large quantity of grub and fly being taken
as evidence that the nest was not voluntarily
deserted. Then for fifty years the growth q
the timber went on. The entrance being her
medically sealed, the comb kept in good condi-
ton until found.
AT a recent meeting of the Physiological
Society, Berlin, Prof. Moebius spoke on the
movements Of the flying fish through the air
As a result OF detailed investigation the
speaker had proved that these fish do not fly,
since the anatomical arrangement of their inns
and muscles is not adapted to this purpose.
What really occurs is that when frightened by
the approach of q ship OF any enemy they shoot
up out of the water, us do SO many other fish,
aud are then carried along by the wind, which
strikes on the under surface of their out
stretched and evenly balanced fins. Notwith-
standing the general acceptance which was ac-
corded to the above Investigation, it was urgei
by many that the buzzing Of the fins and the
rising over the crest of the
wave were evidences that this
fish really executes movements which results in
flight. In reply to this the speaker pointed out
that the buzzing of the fins takes place when O
strong current of air is directed against the out
spread fins of dead flying fish by meaus of a
bellows and further, that the rising over the
crest of a wave or the bulwarks OF a ship may
be explained by the ascending currents of air
which are always produced whenever strong
horizontal wind strikes against any elevated
object, such as a wave or part of ship.
A WRITER in London journal calls attention
to the unappreeiated uses and preventative
qualities of soapstone, material. he says, which