The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-21
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TIE newest English umbrellas have knobs
with broad, fat tops upon which designs are
worked out In gold and silver and platinum
From Iowa CITY, IA comes the report that
the firenen Of that place have resigned in a
body because the cou-cil refused them an ap-
preparation TO go TO the state tournament.
Lyons, NIB. claims the champion wolf
hunter in tie person Of L. D. Higley, who in
three weeks killed sixty-six Of the ..sarmints"
Inc bounty on their scalps amounted 70 S2l5.
AT Crystal Falls, Mich. Mrs. Joseph
Clark was found Monday with a 3months-old
babe and not thing in the house to eat. She
/ h3d iVed on a dozen eggs fer a week. The good
| people provided tor the starving woman's wants
ana VIII look after her in the future.
THERE are some curious men on the legal
bench in this country. Connecticut court
fines man S. for lying in wait to kill mis- wife
and stabolng her, and an Ohio court calls il as
sault and battery when four bullets are fired
into farmer and he is robbed of his wallet.
AN unknown desperate rode into Golden City,
Barton county, Missouri, began firing right and
/ LETT and made people dance under penalty of
death. He terrorlzed everybody for twenty min
utes a o then rode away, but was pursued and
captured after being wounded in three places
JOIN DANIEL. a butcher. died in New York
Friday from erysipelas contracted in peculiar
way I1C was some QecaF6Q animal
ma Ter IN slaughter house and accidentally
scratched himself with a piece of bone. The
animal poison got into his blood and caused his
death.
THERE is an cid colored shoemaker in Hart
fort Conn, who has for twenty-five years de-
voted himself to collecting rare copper coins
AM studying their history H collection COM
prlSes nearly complete set OF pennies issued
from 1888 to 1857. His British coppers are es-
pecia ~ interesting, some of them dating as
far back as 100.
FRENCH CHEMIST named Beaumetz exhib-
| tied at recent meeting of the Pa ris Academy
o. medicine new alimentary substance which
he names fromentine. 1t is obtained from
wheat By the aid of special millstoaes and is
really the embryo of the wheat reduced to
| Il ,ur. II contains three times more heterogeneous
suns ance than meat, and large propoFsion of
sugar II is thought that it may advantageously
! replace powdere meat as a concentrated food.
| II may be employed for making soups and even
| Tor making biscuits.
| The following story is told at Ypsilanti
Mich, concerning Miss Mollie Richards, one of
the Johnstown victims: During the past winter
| Mss Richards was troubled with frghrfu
dreams, every instance she imagined herself
! crushed 10 death. The trouble became so great
| that the young lady refused to go to sleep until
overcome by exhaustion. 1t was then her
friends determined 20 send her TO Johnstown to
visit her sister. Hers WAS one of the first bodies
| recovered, and it was taken east by a young
man who thought ii was his sister. The mistake
was discovered and the BODY was reshipped to
| JohnstoWn. 'i' ah YlIi ~
THOSE who have read the, detailed accounts
OF the flood in the Conemaugh Valley" says
the Kansas City Star. can scarcely have failed
| 10 note that, with the single exception of the
messenger who rode TO his death in giving his
warning of the advancing torrent, the incidents
| or forUltude, self-sacridceS, resignation and
| moral courage, were traced for the most art
IL -, haI;a
! that the accounts are true to nature as we'll as
| true IN fact, and that in great emergencies
women develop a higher grade of moral
| strength than men, although they are regarded
as the weaker sex.
A DOG STORY, for which the Bridgeport
Comm Farmer is responsible: Samuel Reid
the truckman, is the owner of a very intelligent
| Irish setter, an he never tires or telling the
| wonderful performs noes Of his pet. Last night
| Mr.. Reid told his wife, in the presence of the
| dog, TO rouse him at o'clock this morning
| This morning Mrs Reid failed to awake at the
hour named, and Mr.. Reid was aroused by hear
ing his knowing dog scratchia at his bedroom
door. He arose, and upon looking at the clock
discovered that it was sos O'Clock Mr. Reid
| says iI would take considerable money to tempt
| him to dispose of the dog that seemingly. So
we'll understands the English language, and is
SO faithful.
MEN generally wear their scarfpins in their
neckties, but California boasts of a man who
/ mas CdITlc1 SuCQ dLl dFtlCle OF 1eWeIrY his
| throat. When pulling tramp off the cars at
Madeira, Fresno county, Ia April last Daniel
Anseon, brakeman, was shot in the neck by
| the tramn. The wounded brakeman was sant
| to the railroad hospital at Oakland where the
| bullet was extracted. He was discharged as
| cured three weeks ago. The man however
| always felt an unpleasant sensation in his
| throat. Thursday he returned to the hospital
| for relief. The doctor reopened the wound and
found therein section Of the silk necktie worn
by Anse IN at the time OF the shooting and frag-
ments OF his scarfpin. These were removed
| and it Is expected that in few days the man
| will be twisting brakes again
THE machinery hail. which occupies nearly
the whole width of the Champ de Mars. is cred
tied with being the largest bidding covered by
one roo in the world. Its central nave meas
ures $50 feet IN width aud 1889 feet in len tn
| and Is o0fed in by one spae. On either side
are galleries, 81 feet inches vide The cost of
the whole structure is given in an official return
as sl,5O9, 50, made up as follows: Earth work
and masonry. SllS, rs iron work, 81, 079 &C i;
| wood work, $oo7ee; covering, lead and zinc
S41 335; flooring, ?l57 -; joiners wora So, sos
glazing, 36.445; decoration, S51, 22j; painting.
S3l 7O5; miscellaneous, SIS 825; engineers. SIS
| occupied by France, and the remaining quarter
! is divided between Great Britain, the United
| States. Belgium and Switzerland.
RESIDENT of Newark. n. j., is in possession
of letter written by him to his wife at Dresden,
| in 1881, which failed to reach her there owing
TO Ter sudden departure, and which EaS. for the
| last eight years, been travelling about western
Europe, in spite of tue fact that the address of
| the writer in this city was plainly printed on
| the envelope. When the postoffce authorities
| at Dresdel failed to find the party to whom the
letter was addressed, it was sent to Paris and
from there to London, aud from t-ere to Liver
pool. At each of these c.tes it had apparently
been left at the Office OF the leading BANKERS or
other places at which American tourists ara
likely to stop. Finally it was sent to the Ameri
can exchange at Liverpool, where it has, to all
| appearances, lain for some time and being
| recently resurrected was returned to the
| Newark address, with the envelope STAMPED
! and stamped and Otherwise marked M with
| tn names of places at which il had been de-
posted.
/ E B. WAsHBURN Of Three Oaks, Mich. was
until the other night, the very dirtiest human
being that could be imagined. His hair was
long, snarled and unclean; his whiskers shaggy.
his clothes in rags, his boots were made OF rup-
Der, and his general appearance Such as to dis
| gust any decent citizen. He is widower and
| has Two children about l2 years of age, whom
] he refuses to allow to attend school, Tne other
veuing the citizens of Three Oaks procured A
| large tub. quantity of SOAP brushes, towels,
| etc. aud after receiving the donations of
| nat from one merchant, a shirt from
| another an oyerShlrt from another etc
repaired to the dingy howell of the old scamp. in
the rear of an old sire building, and proceeded
| orously and even showed fight. but the crowd
was too much for him, and when they got
! through an hour later, he had his hair Clipped.
| his whiskers trimmed, and was positively clean
4 for once
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