The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


| IN London the windows of private houses are
washed bya limited liability company at the
rate of cents day.
| An empty freight car which was carried of
in the Mississippi cyclone of three years ago has
| just been found in a swamp ten miles from the
| spot where it was picked up.
| Up to the present time $4,000 900 rabbit skins
| have been export ID from New Zealand alone;
| and yet the number of rabbits in that country
has not perceptiby decreased.
THE following advertisement lately appeared
in Partisan newspaper: "A lady having pet
dog. whose hair is of a rich mahogany color,
! desires to engage a footman with whiskers to
| match"
A WHALE, 80 feet long, the first seen there in
twenty years, lately went ashore in the
| Copenhagen sound. and was killed. It's skele-
ton is to be forwarded to the Copenhagen
| museum.
ENGIAND's "oldest" clergyman, Rev. Bar
tholomew Edwards is dead He lacked but a
week or Whereabouts of being a century old
and had been rector Of one church for seventy
| six years.
ONE transatlantic line of steamships in New
York uses 10000 tons of ice, 100000 pounds of
| meat, 100000 eggs, $4,000 loaves of bread, %
| tons of raisns and currauts, 460 tons of -four
| and IS tons of cheese every year
THE largest locomotive ever built in Mas
sachusets, will be shipped this week from
| Taunton, Mass, to the Mexican Central road.
| The engine has a 56-inch steel boiler, 54-inch
| driving wheel, and 20xI4 cylinders.
THREE SKELETONS, supposed to be those of
| Indians, we're unearthed in East Bridgewater
Mass, this week, by workmen engaged in dig
! ging for the foundation of a factory. One of
| t g skeletons was exceptionally tall, and was
found in a sitting posture
| ELISHA LATHRoP, Of Bozrah, Mass, showed
| himself man OF unusual nerve, a few days ago.
| by setting his own leg when it was broken by
| falling log in lumher camp. When the doctor
| arrived he asked who performed the operation,
and said he never saw better job.
| GENOA New, BLACKSMITH proposes the fol-
lowing scheme for securing water for irrigation:
| Lay pipe over the mountains to Lake Tahoe,
| roof the lake with an air-tight covering and
| then pump air until the pressure is great
enough to force the water through the pipe"
A coRoNER's JURY in Cheshire, England re-
turned a verdict Of temporary insanity in the
| case of a shoemaker who had hanged himself
| The poor man had married a widow with six
teen children, and, as the coroner justly oo-
| served, they wanted no better proof that he had
lost his senses.
A STRANGE ACCIDENT has befallen young
lady Of Cherveux, France She was playing
with little child on her lap, when she suddenly
| threw back her head an remained mOtioneSs.
| hairpin had pen trated her skull. She never
| a
| time afterward.
A WEALTHY MEMBER of the Smith family, VIII
resides in Falls township, O.. visited GAINESVILLE,
| O., Tuesday, and invested S120 in monument
| and coffin, the latter to be delivered when he
dies After making the purchase, Smith who
| enjoys good health. declared that he felt much
better now that he had these little matters at
| tended to-"
NEARLY all the roses that New York bellies
wear are raised in Madison n J. Probably
| more roses are grown there and sold than in
any other place in the world. There are eighty
| five enormous greenhouses in the town, and $50
people are employed in the cultivation of roses
| At least a score of men have grown rich from
the sale of the queen of flowers. On an aver
age 1000 cut roses are shipped from there to
| New York every day in the year. Two cars
| bear the fragrant load.
NJ. Mosso, Of Turin, having carried out a
| series of experiments with the blood of eels
finds that it possesses marked poisonous prop
| critics. Even to the tongue it has an iusuppJrt.
| able acridity, and very small quantity of the
serum Is sufficient to kill a DOG. Half cubic
centimeter injected beneath the skin of dog
| weighing 35 pounds killed 1t in four minutes At
| this rate, an eel weighing pounds W Juld con
tain enough poison to dispatch ten men. The
blood of animals thus poisoned cannot be made
to coagulate, just as after the bite of serpents.
, Fortunately the blood is inert when introduced
via the stomach, and it loses it toxic properties
| when heat d.
AN exciting marriage took place the early
part of the week, at q museum in Memphis,
| Tenn. The bride was an Albino "curio' and
the groom an attache of the establishment AS
| the ceremony about being performed by a
justice OF the peace the Albiuo's brother caught
the bridegroom by the collar and the groom
| graSped him by the hair. They waltzed around
| the hall in a hostile embrace, the bride clinging
/ to her chosen and the justice following in
| trot, repeating the formula required by law
| By the time the circuit of the room was COM
| DIoted Justice announced he twai
| were man and wife, and then began to separate
| the irate husband and brother. The newly
married coupe left the hall under the protec-
| ton of the law.
THE following story is interesting, if true;
| Among the letters of coincidence which the
Emperor Francis Joseph received on the death
OF his son was one signed by the Mother Of
Oberdank' In 1882 Oberdank was arrested for
having shell in bis possession when the en-
peror visited Trieste He was tried ard CON
| demned to death. His mother sent an appeal
| TO the emperor for his pardon So did Victor
| Hugo. His majesty refused the pardon and
| Oberdank was executed. Unhappy father
| says the mother in Ter letter to the emperor I
regret that on account of the tragic death of
your only son you are compelled to feel the
same pangs that l, poor abandoned mother,
felt on the morning Of Dec. 90 1882
A MISSISSIPPI river captain says: THE goose
bone has again proved itself the only true and
reliable indicator of the weather While on
| geese, and was particular to have the breast
| bones preserved. In each case the upper two
! thirds o the bone were found to be clear and
| white, thus indicating onen weather for Dec an
| Der and January, while the lower third is
| cloudy and DARK, thus indicating cold and
| stormy weather for the last part of the winter
All through the southern country the very
| highest respect is paid TO the goose bone, and
| to reflect upon its prophetic powers is to get
| yourself dsliked. am not at all suparstitious
| myself, but 1t is kind of curious how often |
| have seen the goo e-bone tell the truth about
| the winter.
GIRLS in Biddeford and Saco, Me-, seem to
! have some queer tastes One lady makes an
| excursion to the brickyard each summer and
! lays in supply of nice, blue clay to eat through
/ the winter. Another favorIte dainty is a soft
BRICK, and long experience has taught her how
1 to select the choicest specimens at a glance
Each of these ladies has lived to a good old age
| to enjoy her favorite disn. One young lady
| may often be seen picking from the sidewalk
| soft, shelly rocks, and, after nibbe to see If
/ they are just right. transferring the rock to her
| pocket for future consumption. Soft clay
| pipes. which one girl buys by the Dozen ground
! up slate pencils, chalk, sea sand, white rags
! brown wrapping paper and starch are among
! the favorite luXurles Of others Perhaps the
! queerest taste of all is that for ashes One
| young lady is said TO delight in coal ashes aud
to be often seen raking over old coal ashes for
| lump only partially burned, upon which there
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