The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

] MISS EEANEIE RAYMOND, an 3 year lu OAlCaSO
girl. has three lion cubs TO play with
LOCOMOTIVES 10 be run by soda are to be in
troduced in Minneapolis where steam engines
are forbidden for street use
HOUSEWIFE at Gridley Cal. while dressing
a chicken for dinner, found in its crop dia-
mond, which was sold for Sl55.
They are building new meeting house in
Dover, Me-, and the minister is making the
pews himself. he being skillful wood worker.
Between 1900 and 1900 children are lost in
London every year, but nearly 9S per cent of
them are restored to their parents through the
aid of the police.
| A CHESTER tPA.) DOCTOR who adTised moth
er to give her child sage tea for its ailment has
been suspended from the county medical asSo-
ciation for unprofessional conduct.
A LOCAL PAPER polishes of the paintings at
the art institute Of Chicago in this fashion:
Bruce Crane hangs one canvas called Land
and Sky. Land good; sky, bad. Result, fair.
A MAN at Port Huron. Kich.. who has sold the
city seventeen acres of land % beaded to the
cemetery, has inserted in the deed the curious
proviso that no liquors shall be sod on the
premises. aeH OF bs1ogeb
CARRIAGE MANUFACTURERS are predicting that
in the not distant future wooden wheels will be
done away with and steel wheels substituted on
account of the increasing scarcity of lumber
for Wheels
A HOT SPRING near Ragtown, Col, throws
column of water nearly eight inches in diane
ter to hight of thirty feet. The water is boil
ing hot and the spray scalds the skin whenever
| 1t comes in contract
Mrs. GEORGE THOMAS, a Dubuque woman,
arose in the night to shut blind and her hus-
band bobbed up after her and fired six shots at
| the supposed burglar, not one of which came
within foot of her.
Fort KEoeH, Mont, has the widest range of
| temperature Of any place earth. Last sum
| mer the thermometer ranged from 1909 TO 1902
above, while recently it marked 65o below zero
| "a total range of 1867.
FRENCH SCIENTIST says that, allowing five
acres for each inhabltant, Europe has room for
| 900 more people Africa for 1,335,o000O0,
Asia for ,4C2,000.000, Oceaniea for 515,00000O
and America for 2,0000 100000.
SEWING CIRCLES down in Maine mean some
thing. One at Somesvile. Mt. Desert has
bought an or1an for the church, provided
hearse, built sidewalks and raised $500 to put
an iron fence around the cemetery
CHEROKEE, Iowa, has a novel way of getting
rid Of its tramps. A short time ago twenty rep.
resentatives of that class were sent out of town
in locked cattle car, and before starting hose
/ from the water works turned on them.
A PosToFFIcE CORNER OBSERVER remarks that
l
with directoire gown, the way her four coat
| tails shoot out at right angles from her waist
| puts mans ''claw-hammer" coat completely
| IN the shade.
| AN ENGLISH LADY has written to the newspa-
pers protesting against the outrageous conduct
of the railway companies in not providing mon
| to stand in the railway coaches and hold bonnet
| boxes on their arms, so that their contents
shall not be joStled.
ELIZA JANE STARR, an Oakland (CaIl widow.
has petitoned the supreme court to increase
her allowance of pin money. Her husband
| used to give her $500 per month, and she is
now only receiving $1,000. which she claims is
| not Sufncient for her Incidental expenses.
The theological department of St. Lawrence
university, at Canton, N. Y, was the first theo-
logical school in this country to open its doors
| to women, having admitted Rev OLYMPIA
| Brown in 1850. Women have been in nearly
every class in this seminary since that time.
GEORGE WADE of Cadillac, Mich. has applied
for patent on new hobby horse, which he
claims will eclipse the bicycle and other ma
chimes for travel 1t consists of an automatic
| morse so constructed that by rocking backward
| and forward it moves in regular lope as far as
1 the rider desires to travel.
| A MISSOURI GROCER advertises that any man
who takes two drinks of whisky a day for a
year at a cost of 10 cents each can have for the
same money at his store, thirty sacks of -four
| ~ POUNDS OF -gfanulAteQ sugar. SeVentY-twO
pounds of good coffee, and save So so as a pre-
MUM for making the exchange.
AN American painter, living in Florence, has
painted abig picture of Satan so Realistically
that when a lot of young people who went to
| see it began to dance the shaking of the canvas
made the figure have such semblaEce of
demoniac laughter that the dancers would not
continue till the picture was covered
THE latest wrinkle in the clothing trade is
garments made of paper. A Minnesota in
ventor is said to have made enough vests and
underciothes of paper last winter to create
something of panic among st. Paul clothers
| The paper is prepared SO that it is as soft as
! cloth and the cold cannot penetrate it.
THE New York and Brooklyn bridge has been
insuse for six years, and its receipts during the
past year have been more than twice as great
| as they were for the first year after it was
| opened, having risen from S403, 900 to S943. 800
| Inc pedestrians who cross it are but one-sixth
| as many as the passengers who take the cars
ELASTIC SIDE BOOTS began about 1912, and the
elastics were made in England. Boots and
! shoes were sewed up to the year 1890, then nails
| were introduced. 1t was about the middle of
the last century that high heels began to be
worn. Makers OF heels we're then introduced
| into the Shoemaker's trade. Even now there
are 400 heemakers in Paris.
| A VICIOUS CLyDEsDALE STALLION which killed
its groom in Kansas City, Mo, and injured sew
eral other keepers, now owned in Wilbur. at
| tackled stable hand one day last week and
| crushed his arm into an unsightly mass The
| horses jaws had to be pried apart before il
would release its victim. the man will lose his
arm and the stallion will probably be killed
| Two OF THE ENGLISH BISHOPS are on the sick
list. DR.. Carpenter, the bishop of Ripon, has
| broken down, and is obliged, under medical or
ders, to cancel his preaching engagements He
will probably have to take a prolonged holiday.
| DR.. Wilkinson. the bishop of Truro, has lust left
| England for a heightened tour abroad in homes
| of recovering some of the nervous energy which
he has so prodigally expended in six years
Cornish work.
| A CALIFORNIA PHILOSOPHER evolves the theory
that the many divorces in that state are due to
| the GOODNESS of the climate and the high price
of coal. In the evening, he says it is SO chilly
| that the husband and wife can't sit down com
fortahly as they do in the east and with ccaI at
SIS ton they can't afford to use it. So the hus-
| band gets Into the habit of going out for q walk
| in order to keep warm. and the wife often Gets
into the same habit Divorces soon follow
A LADY near Willis Point, Tex. recently, was
busy about the house when she heard her in
FAINT, whom she had left on a pallet on the porch
| make peculiar noise. Sac FASTENED to her
| babe, and was Mortified to see a long poisonous
snake loosely coied about the child With it's head
in the baby's lap. boxing straight into the
| child face. The mother with one frantic move