The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-31
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day has been 29S. 900.
Mr. PERETrI, the curate Of Catholic church
at Calyi seaport of Corsica, has just written
book to prove that Christopher Columbus was
native of that town and not of Genoa. The
claim Is not new one
a REPRESENTATIVE of French syndicate has
been looking at an island near San Francisco
with a view of establishing there a frog farm.
According to his estimates an enormous for
ture IN the right way.
IHE horse attached to buggy in which was
seated n WY married couple of Essex county,
Ontario. was frightened by being struck by rice
thrown by friends OF the pair, ran away. and
the bride was so badly iniure by being thrown
from the buggy that it is feared she viii die.
A GHOST which has been making a house at
Leoni, Mich, Uninhabitabe, proves to be the
same old wind that blows through peoples
tree against the weather boards ana made q
noise tnat sounded exactly like a person open
ing door and walking down stairs.
TRERE lives in Dansville, N. z, man nearly
so years old. who has lived there all or nearly
al his life, and, with the exception of three
years in the army. has never slept in any other
ped than his own and In his own house. The
man Is as regular as ctockwork in everything he
does, and it rarely happens that he is away
from home after O'Clock.
THE soldiers monument in Indiana polls, OF
which the corner syone was laid by President
Harrison on Thursday, will have hight of 2jS
feet. The monument will be built of light Indi-
ana limestone. When completed, with one eX-
ceptlon. the Washington, it will be the hi chest
IN the world. The monument third in hight is
the Bunker Hill monument
WARREN HUMEs, the oldest guide and the
most experienced hunter in the Adriondacks,
l.,
all sportsmen. He claims that there are to-day
no less than $4,000 deer and 5000 bears in those
regions. Mr.. HumeS has united there for the
past forty-live years and during that time
has Killed over 1000 deer and more than 200
bears
THE latest thing in hotel bills of fare is an
edible menu card. You select the dishes you
want. and then while waiting for them you
amuse yourself by leSureiy eating I'D the bill
OF fare, 1t acting as appetizer IL is the
scheme of Il LOnGon confectoner. He makes
thin sheet of sweetened dough, and after it has
been baked he prints the menu upon it in ink
made Of chocolate. 1t hasn't got over here
yet, but it will by and by.
MAN in Ignorance of the fact that his hand
was of was found by policeman walking on
the railroad track at Lynn, Mass, early one
morning this week. 1t was afterward learned
that shortly before daylight, while he was
asleep under sned with his hand on the track
a freight train backed aud severed the IN .mb.r
The amputation was as cleanly done as if q
knife ma been used, thou h it numbed all the
nerves OF the arm. He admitted having been
drinking, and dldn' t look unlike a tramp.
No COUNTRY in the world produces and CON
sumes so much leather in proportion to its
population as the United States. In 1880 the
country's product of leather amounted in yllue
to more than 500, DOC. CCO;at the manufactures
During the last year the cOuntry's imports of
raw hides amounted in value to SIS, III, 75p in
addition to the enormous quantities of domeS-
tic hides and skins that were converted into
leather. In the same period the exports of
leather and its manufactures from the United
States amounted in value to So IA, GSg-a gain
OF more than Sl,O00,O0O in the last twelve
months.
For SOME WEEKS PAST most curious game of
ball has been in progress in the shop window of
Brooklyn toblcconlst. The players are little
paper mache Skel tons, alb 1ut half foot high
such as you se5 in the Japanese stores every
where The dimnulive diamond is mapped out
with lit e foul ilgS and chalk lines, and Il
skeleton mans every position of the in and out
neld. The astonishing part Of the whole is the
wonderfully exact ni.nicgy OF attitude of the
player. The grotesqus exactnass of every de-
tai IS startling, an eyide lceS the master hand
OF some close Student of the ball field.
JOHN |. BLAIR, the New Jersey railroad king.
who recently testified in a legal proceeding
| that he was worth from Si0,000O0O to $50. 900.
wv says tnau ne lald the toundatlon of his for
tune by trap ing when boy 1t was in 1909
while living on the homestead farm, near Blairs,
| town, that the spirit of money getting took
| p sse sion of him, and he began trapping for
| rabbits. He caught them By the dozen The
| local market being dull, he walked to Easton
| Pa. twenty miles away. and, after dickering
| with the various merchants, sold a lot of skins
| for VI. This was the first money he ever
| owned, aud MIR. Blair declares he then felt
richer than he ever has since, despite his
! wealth.
| ALL the gossips Of Paris are busilv engaged
with Henri Rochefcrt's private affairs lust
now. He lived when in Paris on the Boulevard
de Rochechouart, and sent instructions lately
from London for the removal from his house of
his pictures and brca brac. While the removal
was being effected the police put in an a ipear-
ance on behalf of NJ. RochefortS landlord The
Malicious gos>ips aver that NJ. Rochefcrt
wanted to get his elfecrs away ''to the sound of
the wooden bell, - that is clandestin w. More
likely the exile wanted to save his prOpertv
from the sequeStratiOl with which it is threat
ened by reason of NJ. Rocnefort's 'contemnt Of
cour. IN dlsregardng the second summons OF
the Haute Cour de Justice.
| THERE is q gold digger at Atlantic CITY. His
name is Amos. and he can be seen every fair
| day on tn beach, with sieve and spade. Close
| to the edge OF tn board walk. where thu peanut
| shells lie thlckeSt and the chance of lilcre is
| greatest, Amos vigorously proSecutes his work
| Every thre or four feet he halts deposits half
| dozen ShOyelfulS of s4nl in his tub-like slave
| rocks 1t back and forth to get rid of the dross
! then, when tie last grain of sand has dribbled
through, he proceeds to examine the result
ShoeStringS, halrpinS d rusty nails together
with the inevitable peanut shells, cigar stumps
and tolu wrappers, generally form the bulk q
his eaten, but often penny or a nickel or a
| coin of greater value, peeps forth from the con-
| glomerated heap and speedily finds its way to
Amos pocket. He gets considerable money for
| recovering lost jewels and returning them to
| their owners.
| CATHERINE ELIZABETH WRIGHT, widow aged
| 70 years, is confined in the town hall at Jamaica
| She came from Louisville, Ky, and says she
walked from Trenton to New Brunswick. a dis
| lance of twentysix miles. waen she took a train
| to New York, and then walked TO Jamaica her
| former home, reaching that place Saturday
night. The overseer of the poor will send her
to R.verhead. where she has a son and daughter
The Old woman claims to have lived in Jamaica
while the Long Island railroad was being built
| and to have done all the spinning for TIE family
| of Abraham Lincoln at Sprin field Ill She
also says that her usband, William WRIGHT
worked the first printing ifesS ever iowned by
| Horace Greeley in his New York office. She
| says that soon after she was born her mother
| diet. Her father married again and his second
wife poisoned him, for which she was han sed
| In Hudson, N. Y, sixty years ago.
COPE WHIrEHoUsE lately presented before the
British Association at, Bath, England. a plan
which he has been advocating for several years
for storing the surplus waters OF the foods OF
| the Nile in the depression called the Raiar
| basin-which he believes to be the size of
| ancient Lake Moeris--to be drawn off again tn