The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-18
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other day and gave the lady's last name wrong.
M WI notified Of his mistake he said he really
uiuh know what her name was.
A NEWPORT MAN captured q sea serpent" last
week and has put it alive in a glass jar 1t falls
Iar Snort OF the descriptions usually given of
ana weighs two pounds
THE SPANISH BULL-F1eHrERs, having con-
quered high society in Paris, have been received
latterly in the same circle in Madrid in evening
dress Formerly they were Obliged to wear
Ihelr war paint. Next year they will be seen in
| London.
HERR r. FRIcKE, the African traveller, says
that travelling in the Dark Continent is so
PerIlous, owing to the cannibalistic tribes, that
ne has been forced to carry phial of poison
captured.
a sKILLFUL CoRK-CUTTER can produce from
LOU to 1000 corks day, his only tools being
two sharp broad bladed knives Machines have
pen introduced which can turn out about :, 200
corss an hour, but they are useless for the
cutting OF the finer qualities.
IT has often been reported that the British
army is largely composed of understood boys
instead of stalwart men, but the returns do not
pear out these stat sments. OF 202, 16l men only
Il'oSo are under 10 years of age, while 81 per
cent are over feet inches in hight.
A MAINE MAN is mad because his lost trunk is
found. He had presented bill OF S77 for the
iost box, when railroad emDloye found it
IN Ine Bangor depot, and the box contained
peck OF peanuts, monkey wrench aud a jack
more.
CALIFORNIA will make 100000 gallons less of
wine this year than last This is because so
large portion of the grapes went not to the
Iulce OUT TO ralsnS. The willy vineyarders
Louno they could squeeze more money out of
dr1ed grapes than by squeezing wine ont of the
fresh ones. O1' "a '-0
1HE FRENCH SERVANT GIRL is no better than
the American, and the French countess has her
troubles with them the same as Mrs. John
0mlth One Of the nobility of France was
nauied into court and fined 81 the other day
LOT losing her temper and boxing q servant
girls ears.
ABOUT 800 Hghlanders are going over to
Paris under the chieftainship of David White
OF ABBEY Craig, who has periodically thrown
uo"nt the gauntlet to the world with the object
OF proving that for athletic skill, swiftness of
alu manly beauty there is no nation in the
world like the Scotch.
The OLDEST Of all the obelisks is, the beauti-
1ul one of rosy granite which stands alone
among the green fields upon the banks of the
ME, not Tar from Cairo. 1t is the gravestone
OF great ancient city which has van shed and
IeIt only this relic behind The city was the
Bethshemesh of the scriptures and the Heliop.
OILS OF the Greeks.
A GENTLEMAN was out shooting near Totnes,
England, the other day, when he had the mis-.
fortune to shoot his dog For moment he
was TOO much overcome TO see what damage he
mad done, and before he had recovered himself
tne animal, black retriever, had come up to
nlni, bringing in its mouth its own tail, which
had been shot clean of.
On Sept. 10 three spring lambs owned bv
William E. Mayhem of Eagle township. near
Palmyra, Wis, disappeared. On Friday, three
weeks later, they were found, two of them being
awe under an inverted box, 31Sx4 feet. that
nad blown over them. They had remained
without food or water during ali that time
1hough very weak, they will recover.
a VIENNA MILLIONAIRE has just died leaving a
request for his only heir to keep the family
vault lighted with several Jablockoff electric
lamps Tor one year. But the authorities having
refused Inc necessary permission the heir has
ordered candle and box of parlor matches
10 De placed near the man in his coffin in case
no should wake up from his long sleep.
The state of Montana was settled in 1862 II
old not have judicial hanging until 1874. But
Judge Lynch opened court on Alder Gulch
within fifteen months after the first settlement
AT tnat first term of this popular tribunal there
were twenty hangings in fifty DAYS Vipi
lantes inflicted the death penalty whenever IL
was deemed necessary for more than ten years.
WHAT is considered one of the most unac
counted for sights in Utah is mountain abcut
thirty five miles northeast of Salt Lake Citv
occupying an area of about thirty acres. and
completely and thicky covered with oyster
shells. The mountain is between 300 and 100
feet high, and situated over 1000 feet hiober
than Salt Lake City, which is 1890 feet above
the level of the sea.
A FEW NIGHTS AGO North Wheeling CV. Va.
physician was awakened by the terrific ringing
of his door bell and woman's screams of main
The man of medicine dressed with all haste and
admitted the woman, who stated between her
groans that something was the matter with her
ear Inc physician got out his instruments,
and, upon making an examination found q
small bug gnawing at the tympanum A pair
of tweezers soon removed the bug and the ear
resumed its normal condition.
THERE LIVES IL UNION TOWNSHIP, Indiana a
family that can boast of the most curiouslv
complicated relationship. Some years ago a
widower named Horgan, who had grown son
married widow who had a grown daughter
After awhile he and his wife secured a divorces
His son then fell in love with his fatbar,c
divorced wife and married her. Th father got
married to the daughter of the woman from
whom he had been divorced Each couple has
children, and the two families are terribly
mixed as to their relationship.
A LONDON PAPER announces that Worcester
shire village, from the fact of its being called
Broadway, first attracted the attention and
then the visits of Americans, and now there ia
quite an American season and small arts
colony, which is six miles from railway sta
ton. The American artists have established a
Broadway schoo. at this spot, whicn, with its
ivy and creeper-covered Worcestershire houses
is regarded by them as the most typical of
English villages The object of Mr.. Alma
Tademas special journey to this favorite resort
was to paint some wild roses growing in q cot
tage garden.
ONE of the oldest cases on record has lately
been occupying a Justices court at La Crosse.
Wis. An elderly German with a young wife
was the plaintiff A young man of the neigh
borhood sought to persuade the youthful wife
that her husband was quite too old for her. and
promised to spend 100 marks in the purchase
of prayers for his death, in case she would take
up with him afterward. Her husband remon-
strated. and was hustled. He sued for nro-
spective aud implied damages from the adverse
prayers, and direct damages from the ass aut
After bearing many witnesses the court fixed a
fine sufficient to carry costs, and the young
man promises not to pa for any prayers.
BRANNERTTE is the name of a new mineral
recently discovered in the northern part of
Arkansas by Prof. w. Albert Chaplain, of Lead
Hill. and named in honor of Prof John G
Branner, the Arkansas state geologist. IL was
found on the property known as the Coon Hol-
low Mines. in Boone county, and lis an outcrop
of more than two feet in thickness and of ledge
form. The examination causes it TO be &C
copied as new and undescribed species of zinc
ore, and one commercially considered of great
importance, both because of its occurrence in
quantity and the possession by it of certain
features having an important bearing on its
reduction and utilization in the manufacture of
zinc white. 1t is anhydrous carbonate of zinc.
milk white, luster dull to slightly glistening 1t
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