The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


UNDER the new Schefer law ia Minneapolis,
which makes drunkenness a crime, a woman
/ was the first to be sentenced to Jail.
They are trying to acclimatize the Conn cti
cut oysters at several places on the coast OF
Sweden So far they have done very well.
A New YORK GROCER the other day displayed
a sign, Take one. in front OF his store refer
! ring to a litter Of kittens in a wicker basket
SUsANvILLE. NV. boasts citizen who has
been sunstruck, struck by lightning, frozen until
he lost consciousness, and yet is as hearty as
| eyer"
WHEATsroNE concluded that electricity
Travelled at the rate of 2ss, 900 miles per second
and Maxwell considered it to travel at or about
the same speed as that of light.
IT IS THOUGHT that the introduction of en-
tensive electric lighting plants throughout the
| United Kingdom will in many ways lead to a
sill greater development of gas consumption
AN AMERICAN. Charles F. Lusher, fills the
position OF sergeant of the river police at Shang
hal, China. He is visiting his former home
| IN New Bedford, Mass, after an absence OF
thirty years.
GoosEBERRY bush growing out of the side
| OF maple tree, twenty-five feet from the
ground. was big sight seen in Johnsbury, Vt.
! When tree was felled in the court house yard
| the other day
FROM NORWAY we hear of curious telephone
experiment, where a physician. being a dis
| tance of 100 miles from home, talked to his dog
| an English setter, through the telephone the
doS showing his understanding by series of
! barKs.
NOT far from Los Angeles John Mcclure took
| up piece of waste cactus land That was
years ago, and he had a hard wre,tle with it;
DuC the other day he shook his head, mo. sir
| when man offered to plank down $4,000 for
| the place
| MILTON (PA) PAPER says that on the day of
| the Sullivan Kilrain fight the wife of William
| Foimer, of Shakespeare, presented him with
I twin boys, of six and eight pounds which tne
rather named Jacob Kilrain aud joan Sullivan
| respectively.
THE first settlements in Arizona and Califor-
MIA were founded by Eusebio Francisco Kino,
Jesuit, who was an explorer in those regions as
early as 1850 He founded tie first settlement
IN Ariz ma on the ella river in 1870. and in 1885,
| IouhCed the first settlement in California.
EDGAR S. HOWARD of Brownsville, Me-, put
dynamite cap in his pocket, and afterward en-
gagged in game of ball He was at the bat.
wnen wildly pitched ball struck his pocke5
squarey over tn. cap, which exploded, i6jurin
him SO badly that it was thought he would die
SMOKE extends from California to Western
Kansas distance off 1OO) miles. At first the
SNAKE partially shut of the rays of tn SUI )
NAMING JIe air cooler, nut now II adds to the
already hlgn temperature 1t is supposed
To De caused by the mountain fires in Montana
NEW YORK has pension law for its militia
1t is two years old, but the first awards under
It have just teen approved by the governor
Inc highest award is So per month, given to
mIltlaman who lost both arms and one eve
by a. accident while on duty under state order.
THERE is a philosophical citizen of New York
who is fond of repeating his maxim for the hot
1 rAnf lar. i,
he holds that If PEOPLE would refrain from
| bab0lng aud whining over the heat they would
suffer from it far less than they pretend to
suffer
R. w Smith, one of the substantial citizens
| of Toledo, declares that he went out on the lake
in quest of sport and in the space OF about
MT en- minutes drew from their native element
| no less than siXty-fOur of the funny tribe at
| turned the scales at from one to twenty-five
! pounds
| HONEY BEES, that come from nobody knows
where, are making life miserable around Reno
New. They invade dwellings. and have forced
| several families to vacat. portions of their
! homes. One man has killed twelve swarms
| this season, but the bees seem to be as numer-
Gus as ever.
A. NJ. Snow, farmer near Athens forty-two
years ago discovered a land terrapin on his
farm which bore on its under surface the
carved legend "A. H., 1771.' He has many
|
! recently again found it, being able to certainly
identity it by the initials and the date given.
The Deu!sche FiScherei Zeitung, one of its
| contemporaries states, is wrong in saying that
| the device of packing fish in ice for transporta
| ton in hot weather was first used in America
| Ia DO k published in Nuremberg in 1880 Eras-
| mus FranciscuS refers to it as a Chinese cJs-
tom, and recommends its adoption in Europe.
but 1t was left for yankee to reintroduce the
| practice nearly two centuries later.
A SPECIAL from Lacrosse, Wis. dated Aug, 8.
reads: John Spever, late arrival in this coun
| try from Prussia, working as a day aborer at
| Whatever turned up, was surprised to receive
notice from the German consul at PhiladeIphia
| requesting his immediate presence in the old
country a relative having bequeated to Spever
over SI5,OOO In securities and large landed DOS
sessions. Spever went east last night
New HAVEN POLICE recently detece a sa
loon keeper who was selling liquor on Sunday in
| curious way. An officer assembled East Rock
| having first secured good spygiaSS He took
| a position where he could see the saloon and
watch It, Presently he saw some mel enter
and he there pom gave the signal by waving a
handkerchief 10 squad of officers staff med in
a house near the saloon. They also had glass
and when the signal was given descended unon
the saloon. The proprietor was arrested and
| fined 30 and SITS the next day.
LABoRERs around a new building in Boston
were amazed the other day to find that thew
| could not release their hold on a guy rome of
| the derrick The foreman shouted to THIN to
go to work, and they replied that they couldn't
He be anne angry at the answer and rms ing
to the spot, grasped the guy. He then under
| stood the situation peri city, but he was uual .e
| to remove the cause of the trouble-a live cleo.
| ire wire that had crossed the guy Soon the
! connection was unaccouutaby broken and II
the men were released, little the worse for their
| experience.
MISS JENNIE SLACK, aged sixteen years. resid-
ing in the blue grass region of Iowa. near Vii
lisca, has this season planted and cultivated
| tnlrty-tive acres of corn, besides milking ak
| cows night and morning and helping in other
| work about the farm and household The corn
is in splendid condition for big crop, and the
| young lady who raised it is said 10 be fine look
| ing intelligent and noue the worse for the hard
| work she mas done for her invalid father who
| was unable to pay hired hand or do it him
| self. Such girls make good helpmeets for
| worthy and Industrious young men.
THE Turkestan Gazette publishes an official
| account of a tour recently made by the gov
ernor general through that province The con
| dition of the country is pronounced to be gen
| orally satisfactory, even from an economical
point of view, but the decay of the six industry
| is deplored, aad various remedies are sugges ted
| for its revival. The decline IN the Industry is
| traced t. the disease among the silk worms,
| which has reduced the produce of silk TO one
| fourth what it was four years ago. Among the
| remedies tried have been Manese and lana
| raaga air- hut