The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-15
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errand BOY and aided 25 cents to the price, and
the shoes went off like hot cakes
THE public library at Toronto has become the
possessor Of copy Of a very rare book pub
hshed in Paris in 1888, ''EstGt present de rig
tiSe ct de Ia CoLofie Frdncoise dams la Aouueile
france, par ". FEUe0Ue de Quebec" The au-
thor was the second bishOpof Quebec, St. Val
here; and the book was the fruits of his first
visit TO Canada in 1855.
If gave you pound of metal and ordered
you to make the most of it, what kind of metal
would you select?' asked well-known jeweler
Coll. of course" was the prompt reply
Il d prefer pound of Steel = said the ieweler
and I'd have it made into hair springs for
~atches' pound of such springs would sell
for an even $4,000
LETTER which read as follows was received
the other day by the mayor of Dallas, Tex. ::
Sir have been in this city few days Am
a carpenter and would like to get some work.
ana at same time would like to marry. AS
an a stranger, | Beg you would assist me in
gettlng wife. have about $500 laid up; am
nov particular as to looks, so she knows how to
"ork. Am democrat in politics.
BENJAMIN JOHNSON, it is said, owns farm in
ifush valley, Utah territory, upon which he has
JUST discovered mine of natural shoe black
lnS An analysis of this peculiar material
SHOWS that 1t contains 16 per cent carbon 81
per cent. aluminium and the remainder CLAY
W1eh TAKEN out the material is moi t and soft,
anu w en- US ed as a shoe biac ing produces
line polish, which is not easily destroyed.
The CHINESE have barbarous way of taking
clans, which often grow to enormous size in
the western Pacific ocean. some weighing
twenty pounds per clam, not Including the
Smeii Walch sometimes wei EhS over zoo pounds
me me ChlneSe fishermen watch for these clans in
clear, SHALLOW water, as they paddle along shore
IN nat bottom boats and when they see one
WIN shelt open they ram q sharp pointed
stakelnto the creatures body and lift it into the
boat.
IHREE-YEAR-oLD CLARA YOUNG, playing with
her o-year-old brother on the banks of the Vel
l2wstone, near Livingston, Mont, waded into
tne water ami was caught by tue current Her
IlItle brother ran home a d told his father
Young ran down the stream aud saw his littl
| eau Shter floating face up and unframed. He
i II her Tor a mile and quarter when
| Jonn Souther heard his shouts. and, plunging
INTO the undermining river, brought ner safely
| to shore.
CARIBOU. Me-, has ghost. A few years ago
Jonn Cochran of that place mysteriously disap-
| peared and nobody has heard from hin since
| Inc family occupying his old home have moved
ou5' not oelng able to endure the superna ural
asounuS heard IN the house at night. Neighbors
nave gone and stayed through the night and
| nave come away believing in some supern atural
| agency at WORK there. Last Sunday night a
man oy the name of Bubar stayed there r lp-
| f'HS1ot LltCu SUI Iueu ike the blows OF X.
| were heard IN the ch amber aud on the outside
| OF the house when Mr.. Bublr called out: 1T
you are the sp rit of John Cochran rap on the
otiler side OF the house!"-and Immediately the
TdpS came from that direction.
ALBANY, Wis, has gone wild on the subject of
clans. Two weeks ago worthless young fell
| low' who was a stranger to the citizens of this
place, began fishing for clans in the bed of the
river. No one suspected that the man whom
| they saw with a rake and rowboat was ral1inp
IN snug little fortune The other day this
leIlow, thinking his luck worth celebrating
wen on drunk. He gave his ''snap" away
una now mel, women and children are fortune
hunters, and with more or less success He had
I1und pearls, ami now everybody is finding
Iuen one man has fShed two DAYS and Sc.
cured $1,000 worth; another reports $500 worth
OF pearls as the result of one DAYS work
everybody in the town has turned clam fisher
except the one JeWeler who is kept busy est.
matlng the value of the pearls brought to him.
KEuKA LAKE, New YORK, is 20 miles long by
two miles wide Penn Yam is at one extremity
Hammondsport at the other. While making
passage across the lake citizen of the former
place related this story: Some wears ago a
friend or nlne taking his little son along went
ilshlng on TINS lake. The boy was at the fathers
oacK IN the stern of the boat. Soon q violent
Splashlng, accomp lnied by a Stihed scream
STARTED the father, who a moment later
clutched the foot of his son. Just disappearing
IN the waters of the AXE. Pulling hin aboad
iiC anu ldLNlStl Il S4lIllOn Trout nVe ct Icing
weighing 40 pounds, with his teeth firmly i'm,
bedded IN the boys face on either side of the
nose. The little fellow living on the seat lis
oody halt over the side OF the boat, was mirror
ing his race In the lake. The fish spra @ up.
SEEING him, and so LOST his balance AS quickly
as possible the boy was taken home a doctor
and photographer were called, and to-day a
picture of the bow with the fish attached NAV
be seen at Penn Yam.
AN EXTRAORDINARY EVIDENCE of the reason.
alliances of on OlH
at Oregon, Mo-, recently, wnen the body of a
young man who had been d owned was tound
by pacing one of the decease IS shirts on u a
water surface, and following il in boat until
IL sank young man named Ryan na been
drowned while bathing, and his friends sea rche1
IN vain Tor the body. After every effort had
been made by dragging and diving it was sug-
| gested 10 throw the shirt he had on Just before
| ne went into the water. Mr.. Taylor. a resident
| OF the nelghoorhood, spread out the shirt with
| the bosom downward and arms stretched ont
| on the water, and let it float on down the
stream as it would. He followed slowly in a
skin: . Al after the shirt had tioated along for
about 100 feet it suddenly sank plumb down
the man hurried with the sSiff AMI was close
by when the last veScige of the garment WIS
seen. Tuen he stopped and felt down with
long pole right after the shirt and Touched tha
body with the end of the pole
EMPEROR WILLIAMS sister has the noorest
trousseau of all tue royalties The emperor is
not exaggeratively fond of any of his sisters,
and is besides, perfectly incapable of seeing ,yhv
ne should spend his money on furbeows for a
woman. therefore, he has killed two birds
with one stone, ald saved his money ano en-
hanced his reputation for patriotism by oblip-
ing her 70 buy everything in Berlin The Ger
man dressmakers are the cheapest and worst
anywhere IN Europe, and no fashionable Ger.
man ever gets her clothes anywhere save IN
Paris The emperor hates this custom, and
hopes to break it up by forbidding his sister to
follow IL, but TINS wise young woman having
submitted with all apparent meekness to her
brothers orders, has got around the diffcnlty
by DuyIng as rev thin IS as she can possibly pet
on With In Berlin, and spending all the rest of
her money in lac IS. in which she has invested
more than half the m lney set aside for her
trouSSeau; then as soon as Sne is married and
can do as she phases, she will go to Paris and
get all the clothes she wants.
JACK DEMPs sY's STYLE OF BOXING is fast he
coming the ideal type, says the New York
World. Though not a slugger. Dempsey is a
punsher If his man doesn't come to him. he
goes to his man. And still he makes the utmost
use of suca scientific resource as geltin,,
away. Wnle Dempsey utilizes every souare
inch of 4-toot ring during battle no man
has ever called him a runaway. DEMPSEY has
a style of getting about and breaking ground
| in his contests that is original with him |
| don believe any man who has ught Dempsev
| ever caught him fulton with biow-that is
| Dempsey is a master in not doing the very
nents do. namely-run into blow. Dempssy.s
| science is, beyond a doubt, the school of tbs
future, for Is 1t not the very highest idea of a
| Skllltul boxer for man to be able to defeat a
| larger and stronger opponent unaidel by the
| ring trick OF going down to avoid blow