The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-15
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TIE MALE MEMBERS Of the Reformed church
in Eeston, Pa. having heen dflasory about dig
| ging the cellar for the new church, TIE ladies
| turned out with shovel aad pick and did so
much work that the shame-faced men finished
the job.
TIE bill restoring the punishment Of Jogging
with the cato -nine-tails and authorizing its
/ infection upon burglars convicted of having
| dangerous weapons in their possession has
/ passed third reading in the British House of
| commons It's passage IN the House of Lords
Is assured, it IS said.
| THE famous leaning Tower Of Pisa has been
put up for sale by lottery. The municipality of
Pisa having become greatly straitensd for
| money on account of expensive Improvements
offers the tower for sale in order to prevent the
| town nall from being seized, and has adopted
the method of lottery SO as to get the highest
price possible.
| TELEGRAM from Marion, o. has the follow
ing; Mayor Galley yesterday took the school
boys who were born in 1876 to a circus. and
| aIterward TO restaurant, where they were
| treated TO ice cream. His idea was to find the
| number OF boys who were born in that year,
| and thus honor his son, who was born in 1876,
| and is now dead"
| duck with four legs has been Matched out
ct Isle. ILL., The two superiuous legs stick Cd
from beneath the wings on the back. so that
the bird will be able to swim UPSIDE down
| When IL wants to reverse its motion on land ali
it has to do is to turn half somersault and
iight on Its back, when it can run away with
| its face to the foe"
AT Gadsden, Ala. the other night, two col
ored men entered the house of widow named
| Jones, after the family had retired. and at
tempted to chloroform one of the inmates Mrs
Jon.s 1U-year-old son, being aroused fired the
contents OF a revolver at the intruders who at
once took to their heels. The two men were
| subsequently captured
SOME TIME AGO DR.. Weber, of Lancaster. Pa.
| saw poor boy of II years passing his office
who was suffering from the effect of a metal
tube inserted in his throat for diphtheria, six
years ago, in Germany The metal had cor
roded and the flesh was angry The doctor
raised fund and bought a gold tube in Phila-
| delphia, and will insert it shortly
| some of the Germans of Punxsutawney. PA.
In the hope Of being able TO locate the body of
| Roman Baldauff, who was drowned SATURDAY.
night, took loaf of bread, wrapped it I'M in the
last shirt which Baldauff had worn, and threw
| II into the water at the place where he had
| fallen in. The theory was that the bread and
| shirt would float down to the point at which
| the body stopped and there sink They did
| noat ABOUT halr a mile down the creek and
| SINK, but here the parallel ends. The body was
| not there.
The value of the South African diamond
mines may be judged from the fact that out of
| Kimberley mine, from 1871 to 1885, about e20 :
| OOO0OO worth of damon is have been taken
| whlle the gross value of the diamonds excavated
rom Debeer S mine during the same period is
not much under 80, 900 900, representing ~ tons
| weight or precious stones. The BultfOntein
/ mine has yielded about 95,000OOO and the
Dutoltspan about f6.OOl,00O, while the annual
| output of diamonds from all the mines is now
| somewhere about 100000 carats, equal in
value to about 94000,000.
| EDWIN BRYCE, the 14-year-old son of w. f
| Bryce of Swansboro Va. in a violent coughing,
| spell the other night, which lasted for several
hours coughed up a two-inch English galvan-
| lzeo horseshoe nail, which he swallowed ff-
Teen months ago while livingin Fredericksburg
oeVeral physicians endeayored to locate The
NAIL but were unsuccessful, and it was finally
concluded that the lit g fellow must have heen
mistake in saying he swallowed it, and as his
healtn began TO fail and he was subject to con
| tlnued spells of coughing, his case was pro-
nounced consumption and he has been treated
Tor that Tor some considerable time He is now
doing well and will recover.
| GRANDFATHER SMITH of Punxsutawnev. Pa.
| who was gathered to his fathers several wears
| ago used to say, after the great food of 1861.
| that 1t was all in the moon. Whenever ), he
| said, the moon changes at IL o'clock and "a
minutes in the day time on June /, YOU may
| look out for heavy rains and big food Ihave
| time, and they were all caused by the chang
| OF the moon at this particular time-1l:59, June
l. When the change OF the moon comes again
| at that time, look out" Several of the citizens
| OF That place remember this, ami, it is said
| looking up the altman le, found that the change
| OF the moon took place on June l. 1899 nre-
cisely at 1883 O'Clock, and in consequence they
marvel much. --
IT IS AMAZING how policemen on the Brroklyn
| bridge are piled with questions. One of them
| thus talks about some of his experience.
sometimes man will come Up to me on a.
1 d. i -
while the river breeze cools his head He asks
all KINDS OF, questions: flow long nv hours
| are, what my pay is, how. l ike my work and
| such things. Well said one man to me once
| after talking with me little while, you're
| lucky man. Don't ever try to do ANYTHING else 7
| wish were a policeman Do YOU know one
| man used TO come TO me every day all one sum
| mer ana talk for half an hour It seemed as if
| his face got older every day He used to saw
| TO me: Talk to me; tell me about your work
| He seemed TO like to listen to me. Once asked
MN why he did not go away, the summer was
| so warm. He looked hard when said that and
| answered that he was too busy. He stopped
| coming in August and | afCerward found ont
that ne failed in Wall street, go.
| THE popular notion is that old account books
are only fit to be tossed into the;rubblsh heaps:
that it is hard TO find anything more absolutely
worthless. And, yet the very reverse of this
prop9asitsioph y srlessys the BoQs Lover. What
books Of such early print trs as: Gutenbert
| Caxton, Aldus, Estienne Koburger etc9 Ard
| what prize would a leaf from an autographs
| account book of such a man sas Voltaire Dean
| Swift, Benjamin Frans shin be ia the ewes OF 4
| collector: Any account book 100 wears old Is
worth preserving. Not only would it be ex
| tremely valuable TO the artiquary, but it might
| easily become worth It's weight in god
| by serving to fix date, mark a boundary.
| or complete a chain of evidence "a
Now that the centennial celebration of
| Washingtou's first Inauguration a, PresIden6
| has turned peoples thoughts back to colonial
| times, 1t would be well for owners of account
books dating back 100 years to make careful
| examination OF Their pages. Even admitting
| that no valuable historical data might be forth
coming, yet of antiquarian lore there might be
much unearthed. 1t is maxim in the law that
document or record which has remained un-
Challenged tor thirty years needs no witnesses
10 prove its correctness. How much more
then, are these ancient account books, in which
there was no incentive to set down aught in
malice, deserving of careful study on the part
OF the children of this day and generation.
APRoPos of tattooing in Japan, subject OF
that empire writes to the Pal Mall Gazette as
follows: Some years ago, doubtless, the prac-
tice Of thus disfguring themselves was much in
vogue amongst the lower classes of the coun-
try; but now it is forbidden by the laws of the
government, and the man who tattoos renders
himself liable to a severe punishment. We con-
slider 1t, notwithst lnding tha skill and art that
may be attached TO the work. an ugly custom
and relic OF barbarsnl, which we have un-
fortunately received from our ancestors II
must admit, however. that there are still some
who like to have their bodies ornamented
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