The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-29
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.

a 1ANEEE has set uD q seho0l in Paris and
advertises that he s'eTiH teacE amy Frenchman
to speak tie only sensible Iasz'iags in the world
IN SIX weeks and at eospok1niy So
IL some sections Of isisssiFf it has rained
every day for ninety successive days TIE corn,
wheat and potatoes may suffer in conse-
tnistles
AtREScHHAE tried MS flying machine in the
suburbs Of Paris the other day He few Of
barn, and it viii De several months before his
broken legs Will allow him 10 canter around as
bllthely as before
The simplest way TO fumigaie q room is to
heat an iron shovel very hot and then pour
vinegar upon It drop by drop The steam aris-
ing from this is disinfectant Doors or win
vows should be opened that It may escape
THERE is an association in Chicago which is
sending postal cards to eastern men Offering
20 give them any academic degree they desire
Ior a money consideration. IL will sell a very
aic o u, u. degree, very slightly shopworn, for
AGRICULTURE carried on By means Of irriga-
ton IS usually much more profitable than IL de-
pendent on ordinary rainfall. and if 5000 900
more acres can be redeemed in Wyoming by
states.
AMERICAN MACHINERY in many respects seems
unsurpassed. yet we see it stated that tbs
United kingdom export over $50, 0O0, 900 worth
| IN a slngle year as compared with less tdan
States.
MOSQUITOES are so plentiful in Chicago that a
couple of lovers sitting on the back steps of
residence on Wabash avenue were bitten $50
Tunes in thirty minutes. They didn't mind it,
nowever-in fact, they didn't know they had
received bite until an hour after.
| A PRACTICAL. JOKE, says the Troy Chief, was
played recently on the venerable Methodist
bishop; William Xavier Ninde AT a hotel. the
9 0sher DAY, he registered as plain wv Ninde'
| linen the joker strolled up as soon as the
| olshop back was turned and wrote .shis,'
| under it.
LIE ordinary method of scraping or burning
on old paint is hardly expeditions enough for
general purposes and is also labo-ious. Soda
anu qulckhme are far more thorough. The
| solutlon or half of each is thus made: Dissolve
Ihe soda In water, and then add the lime, and
apply with brush to the old paint which can
1hns De removed in a few minutes.
HORACE WALKER, of Marlborough, Mass, has
experienced many disappointments. He tried
Parls green, but took too much; Jumped out of
ssecond-story window, but failed to land with
iatai effect. The next time he put bullet into
MS oraln, and, much to the surprise Of the
medical fraternity, he lived His last suicidal
ecI was 10 cut his throat from ear 10 ear, bnt
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THOSE living in locality in which mosquitoes
are troublesome may make trial OF the fol-
| lowing recipe for expelling these pests from the
house: Take a piece of gum camphor, in size
ABOUT the third of hens egg, and slowly
evaporate 1t by holding it in shovel or tin
vessel over lamp, taxing care that it does not
| ignite. The smoke will soon fill the room and
expel the mosquito and it is said that they will
not return, even though the windows should be
ieft open all night. itei
postal tube to connect Dover with Ca
lais, over the Eagllsh Channel, is being dis
| cussed in England. The plan is TO suspend two
| tubes of about yard each in diameter by
| means of steel cables across the channel. 40
| yards above the level of the sea- The steel ca
0les will be fixed to pillars at distances of about
500 yards, and in each tube little railway will
run with cars capable of carrying $50 pounds in
weight. No parcel of greater weight than this
| will be taken, aud the cost is estimated at the
modest figure of S5,O00,0OO.
| IT APPEARS that wood pavements have met
with greater success in some of the countries of
| Europe than in our own, the reason assigned
for this being the fact of their having founda-
| ton of concrete to rest upon in the former at
| the same time receiving more attention there
| in the way of maintenance than here. Owing to
/ its hardness and resinouS quality American
| yellow pine. it is said. has become the favorfte
| wood for this purpose in Berlin and Hamburg
| and an official report says that Frederick's
| bridge, Berlin, which was paved in the spring
| of 1879 with the wood in question is still in
| good cond ton, while the approaches paved
with granite blocks have twice since required
| repaving.
THE oldest organ in the United States is said to
| be in st. Johns church, Portsmouth N H TWAS
| imported by Thomas Brattle in 1913 and pre-
| sented to the society worshipping at Kings
| chapel by him. There was such prejudice
| existing against setting it up, that the cases
containing its parts remained unopened for
| seven months, after which time the organ wac
in use until l7s6, whenit was sold to St PauI,s
| church. Sewbqryport. In 1896 St johns
church, PORTSMOUTH, n: H., became the owner
paying S45O for the instrument. A new case
was provided the Old pipes and wind chest
being found in perfect order There the organ
| is to-day, doing service in the vestry, where
the veteran is regarded with the tenderest solic-
| itude. syfooi4r
| A Bosrox PAPER ctells of an old burning
| ground in a large southern New Ha mpshire
/ town where there Is an interesting eroup of
/ seven tombstones Each of six of them marks
little strip Of earth where rests the remains of
| one of the wives of one man. and the seventh is
1 the gravestone of the Blue Beard himself The
| epitaphs of the wives are short and simple
enough, but the fifth bears underneath the
| name and record of the woman's birth and
death. these words: The Peacemaker One
| can only speculate as to what the circumstances
| were under which she exercised her benevolent
| art; but no doubt she had to be peacemaker
| to enable her husband TO get along in any sort
of comfort with all his deceased wives rela-
| tions. But the epitaph on the husbands tomb
stone is gem. 1t reads thus: REST, Weary
| Pilgrim
| A STRANGER hurried into physicians Office at
Niagara, the other day, and, displaying bad
scalp wound, asked to have it sewed I'D. 1t was
of considerable length aud to the skull AS to
IKE manner of obtaining it he told this story.
| 81 was entering Prospect Park when hackrnan
solicited me to drive to the Whirlpool rapids I
| asked him his price and he said: oh never mind
| about that; will treat you all right: Jump in.
| anyway | wanted to see the rapids and so
got in. He drove me there, and on our return
the question of price arose, and he wanted
double the amount l thought was right L did
feel like paying so much, and when wouldn't
give it to him he raised his whip high in the air
and struck me on the head with the butt end
cutting me as you see'' The man did not give
| his name, but said he was from Canada and did
| sailant for fear hs wouli be detained.
| IT will be dsapRoint ment to the Canisbay
England, crofters should the attempt to dispute
the will of the late Earl of Caithness prove sue
| cessful According to a clause in it, ESQ 600
/ was to be divided among them. and, consider.
/ ing that the district is not large this would
mean very respectable sum to each iudi-
| viiual What would make the beau st all the
more acceptable is their extreme poverty for
/ though they get the name of being, as a com
| munity above the average in regard to thrift
| and industry. there is extremely little to he
| made out of their moory, heathery farms. or
| from the high sea out Of which they try to SIM
/ plemenC their livelihood. The late earl was on