The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-17
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| HEREAFTER in Kansas grand jury can only
be drawn on petition Of 100 taxpayers, and moi
then if the judge of the district shall declare
| month before the beginning Of court that there
| Is no necessity for it.
| THE BOROUGH Of Pottsville, Pa, wanted q
| bridge across the Pennsylvania and Reading
railroads, which run side by side. 1t taxed each
| company $1,000, built the bridge for SIS, 932 o.
| and was over 81, 900 in pocket
| GEORGE GRANGER, of Allaben. Ulster county
| New York, has Leghorn hen which has three
| legs. On the third leg there are six toes. Mr.
| Granger has named the three-legged hen Tim. 81
| When it hears that name ii walks out from
| the flock and will follow the person who
called it.
TRADES PEOPLE and shopkeepers in Russian
Poland are being compelled to sign an agree
ment not to use the Polish language among
| themselves or to customers. For the first
| breaking of the agreement they are fined, aud
| if they break it twice their shops are closed BY
the police
| ENTERPRISE, even though it be Of funeral
kind, is always appreciated in the west. And sc
there is not little subdued rejoicing among the
| tive citizens of Chadron. Neb., because tina,
| town can now support a hearse. The first
l funeral at which the vehicle was used occurred
| a few days ago.
Il
| hold Of China to the emperor on the occasion
| Of his marriage comprised 200 ounces in gold
| 10000 ounces OF silver, and one gold tea set,
two silver tea SETS silver basin, 1000 pieces
| 0f cloth and twenty ponies, with saddles and
brides complete.
"PEoPLE who are fond of condolences, re-
1 marks the Boston Transcript, twill find it in
teresting to note that William Henry Harrison
Miller, born in the year the first Harrison was
| elected President and named for him, becomes
| forty eight years later the Attorney General of
the second President Harrison.
WILLIAM NEWMAN Barnum's experienced ee-
plant trainer, is credited with the following
philosophical comment: Elephants are very
much like human beings, especially in one re
gard, and that is the females are very much
| better and nicer than the males, and also in
| that when female is bad she is worse than the
worst male
| INVESTIGATIONS made by Chicago newspapers
I show that, in spite OF the mild winter there
have been more suffering i'd sickness among
/ the poor of that city than ever before known
more men have been out Of employment, and
| In many sections. especially in the vicinity OF
some of the rolling mills, which have been shut
down all winter, the suffering has been intense.
Mrs. MARY ARNDT, lady about 80 years old.
| living at Calhoun, Ind, a small station on the
Lake Shore road, was taken sick several days
| ago and was confined TO her bed The second
night OF her illness her hair which jet
black, began to whiten. and by morning it had
turned completely white. The woman has re-
| covered and is an object Of considerable in
terest.
SEVERAL practical jokers in Bridgeport, Conn,
| finding a friend had gone off and left his store
| door unlocked, went inside and began turn
| ing the place upside down" When they had
had fun enough, they started out only to find a
policeman at the door, who, with loaded re
volver ordered them back. They could not
convince him that they were not burglars until
| a messenger had brought the storekeeper to
| identfy them and authorize their release.
AwoRKMAN engaged in removing bodies from
| an old graveyard in San Francisco found in a
| coffin containing the remains of Chinaman
one of the $50 gold Slugs which were coined
and put in circulation by the San Francisco
assay office i'll 1852. Thinking the pieces was a
Chinese coin, the man tried to sell it to a con
| tractor for s. The latter refused to purchase
the slug, and, when its true value was soon
after discovered, the finder said he would not
sell it for SIS.
PROF. j. d. BRYANT, visiting surgeon to Belle
| vue hospital, New York, is making preparations
to perform singular and wonderful, if sue
cessful, surgical operation at the institution.
He is going TO attempt to cause new lower
jaw to grow on an ex-confederate soldier in
place of the one that was shot off his face Oh
the battlefield of Chckamauga by a Union shell
on Sept 20, 1853. The patient is Capt. John n.
Sloan, GO years of age, formerly of the Forty
fifth Mississippi regiment.
RAT and a cat may be seen playing together
any day at De Wits livery stable in Louisville,
at Seventh and jefferson streets. The cat Is e
big black Tom. with long whiskers, a short tail
and yellow eyes The rat is a sleek and fat
specimen of the genus rodent, and has cum
ming but prosperous and contented look, The
cat is 1erceneSS anu savagery itself. and bears
the scars of innumerabie battles, not alone with
rats and other felines, but with dogs as well,
and he has never been whipped, and has never
been known to decline fight.
IT IS REPORTED from London that "a very
finely executed fresco has just been discovered
in that portion of Canterbury cathedral which is
known as Ansen's chapel, originally dedi-
Gated to St. Peter and st. Paul. The removal
of a wall, which was probably erected shortly
after the great fire in liza, with a view to
strengthening the wall of the choir disclosed
the painting, which represents ST. Paul in the
act Of detachiDg from his hand and shaking
into the flames the viper by which he was bitten
on the Island of Melita. The coloring of the
fresco is in wonderfully perfect state of pres
ervatlon, and the string course of bordering
remarkably good The painting is about feet
square"
SEA oULIs have a wekuown habit of picking
up mussels from the strand, soaring aloft, and
dropping them upon stones to break them open.
resident of Sea Bright, N. j., according to g
report from there, wears large patches of court
plaster on his shining bald head in cons squence
of the sagacity of these birds. He was walkinsi
along the beach near his home when he saw q,
gull tiutter upward from the sands. Suddenly
his hat flew off, and In the next instant he felS
hard blow on the top of the head that stunned
MIN for moment Looking upward, he saw
the gull bearing down upon him, and, lodging,
the puzzled bird flew off 1t had mistaken the
unfortunate mans shining Uranium for a stone
and cut large furrow in it.
WHATEVER may be said for or against the
certainly one respect in which they may chal
lenge the admiration of the world namely in
matrimonial fidelity. In the recently issued
tables giving statistics on the subject OF di
vorce, after finding that our own country leads
in having granted nearly half a million divorces
during the twenty years past, | turn to the re
cord of foreign lands to find that the European
nations are coming into competition, but in
looking against the name ireland. | see that
there have bee eleven divorces throughout the
length and breadth of Erin. Protestant or
tinue tue partnership until it is dissolved by
death
A KANSAS CITY DISPATCH, dated the 10th,
says IN. X. Barber died here last month =,
leaving an estate of about a quarter of a mil
lion to his second wife. John X. Barber who
claims to be son of the deceased. contested
the validity Of the will The defence intro
duced novel plea, which was based on the fol.
lowing remarkable story: BARRIERS first vile
died Ia giving birth to the boy. When one day
old the boy was placed in charge of an aunt
who had the same day given birth to a boy
loss to tell which. II was finally decided that
il was the son of Young Rarber's amt