The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Kansas this spring wear Mrs in front of their
| names.
| COL MAJENDIE concludes as a result of his ex-
pertinent that one volume of liquid benzine will
render 10000 volumes of air inhammable.
| CONCEPTION CoRrEz, who died recently at
Matamoras, Mexico, was 113 years old. His
wife Luz Lara, who survives him, is nearly 100
years old.
| THE first arbor day was observed in Nebraska
seventeen years ago, when Il, 900 trees were
planted. There are now growing in the state
! COS 900 900 trees.
A DEAD GOOSE cost Postmaster Gerweg, of
Dakota City, Neb., his life. He had shot the bird
and was trying to get it, when the boat upset
and he was drowned.
A coLoRED MAN on trial for robbery in Wash
ington, instructed his attorney to challenge
every negro on the jury He said he preferred
to intrust his case to white men.
THREE MICHIGAN WOMEN, whose birthdays
come on March a. have not failed to pass that
day together for thirty one years, though no
two of them live in the same town.
A MILWAUKEE, MAN made a cannon, filled it
with powder and double B shot, got in front of
it and touched the thing OFF. His purpose was
to commit suicide, and he succeeded.
In MADIsoNvILLE, KY, the authorities have
passed an ordinance forbidding brass bands
from meeting 'for the purpose of learning new
pieces of music within 800 feet of a dwelling
house."
THE little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. L. P.
Fisher, Of Columbia, Ind, who died few days
ago, was probably the smallest child in the
state Although three months old she weighed
only three pounds
A PHILADELPHIA clothing store is advertising
novel bait to catch customers. Each person
I'M riprr ie hot I,.aI -, 1,
clothes free of charge and the scheme is
proving paying one.
Mrs. GRoUNDwATER the new police Judge at
Cottonwood Falls, Kan, began her administra-
ton by fining a plain drunk S. and costs. On
the same day she set hen, made two gingham
aprons and returned five calls.
PROF. GILBERT, of the geological survey, esti-
mates that Niagara Falls are 5000 years old
One Of his colleagues on the survey calculates
that the falls have undergone a recession Of l03
rect IN the last forty four years.
THE 9-year-old girl baby of William Laws of
Erie fell into well containing feet of water,
but its stiff skirts assuming parachute shape,
sustained it till pole could be thrust down, to
which it chung till it was drawn out,
A MAINE MECHANIC is the inventor of a sleigh
which is to be run by steam. The model which
he has built has capacity and motive power
sufficient to carry Is 900 feet of logs The sleigh
has made a number of successful trips this
winter.
AN ASSOCIATION just organized in London pro-
poses to set up disabled or poverty stricken war
veterans in the business of hower-selling on the
streets. The veterans are to be provided with
glass-covered barrows like greenhouses on
wheels.
In CANTON Chinaman, who stole dimes from
his employer and regularly swallowed them TO
avoid detection. became entirely too greedy for
his healthS good and he died from stomach
trouble after a few days illness. An autopsy
revealed thirty-two dimes in his stomach
AN immense terrestrial globe on the scale of
one mihionth is to be exhibited at the Paris ex-
hibition. The globe measures 10 meters in di-
ameter and is to be surrounded with platforms
ana ladders that any part of its surface can be
examined. Paris appears on it in space not
quite centimeter square
ONE OF THE OLDEST railroad conductors in
New England is Elbridge A. Towle, of the East
ern railroad who mas been in its employ con-
lnuously since March g. 1S47. During all that
long perlot he has never met with an accident,
ana there mas never been single passenger on
any train under hiFScharge killed or injured
HOMER, EEs,, GIRL. named johanna Chris
topherson, has within the past few days Killed
fifty eight snakes, and Miss Nina Ream of the
same place gave the alarm which saved a lot Of
valuable property from being destroyed by
prairie fire and outran all of the men to the
scene of the contagration. Homer is very proud
of its girls.
THERE has just expired at Rye, England. an
old sailor named James Bayley, who was known
to have saved no fewer than twenty-six lives
frequently at the imminent risk of his own
On one occasion he kept three men afioat in
sunderland har6or until they were rescued, and
ne twice saved the occupants of Deal boats
which had capsized off the South Foreand
PbiladaIphia rasfo ,raDt
tached, says paper OF that city, walters NAV
be seen coming daily to the bar with cup and
saucer and asking for an Il T. straight" The
cups are handed back to them containing a
mud that very much resembles tea, but smells
OF something stronger l.. T. means ladies'
tlppe, and it is simply an ingenious way of
serving whisky straight at table to the MANY
women who call for it without attracting atten-
ton.
ASHLAND, Me-, boasts of a woman who. be-
sides managing family of children and a re-
fractory husband, carries on large numbering
operation She recently made a trip of forty
miles into the woods to her lumber camps SET
tied with her men, examined the landings of
logs and timber with a critical eve inspected
an extensive dam made for driving purposes,
and made arrangements for driving out the
lumber. Sac can boast of having been farther
into the Aroostook wilderness than any other
white woman.
Hoop DE DOODLE Doo'' the Australian par
rot, which died in Cincinnati of "old age was
an expert talker. 1t would uniformly answer
every telephone call by saying "Hello hello"
greet every one with How d. do?" call every
member of the household by name ask for
water and food, initiate distinctly and call for
the dog. the cat, the horse; initiate the Quail
tne cnlcken, the pig; sing THE Girl Left Be-
hlnd Me- cry like a babe when disappointed.
put on style by elevating his wings and strutting
on MS perch; stop the street cars by calling the
conductor with a shriIl whistles: call s'Firei
hre! upon hearing the fire bells, and orier
people out of the house by saying Go 'wavi''
and Get out Of here!" Time to go home -
WRITER in Sundays Washington Post saws:
II am informed on the highest authority that
the President contemplates taking the whole
south front, first floor, of the state department
for executive business offices, and establish a
routine or office hours. Let us hope that he
Will not be deferred from this purpose III he
does 1t. and rescues the white house from its
existing degradation, he will earn the applause
or every decent man in the United States |
think every such man viii agree with me that
the President ought at least to enjoy as much
domestic privacy in the house where his family
must live as any other American citizen is enti-
tled 10 ENJOY The fact that man is President
ought not to aoridge his rights as a gentleman"
AN old Washingtonian says that the game of
picking or cracking Easter eggs is played in a
novel manner by the youth black and white. of
the Capital City. They take the toughest and
hardest shelled eggs they can procure and
repair with them 20 the slope back of the white
house. There matches are made between the
lals, who decide them by rolling the eggs
down the slope. The boy whose hen fruit SIR
wives the down hill iOurnav u,ftl,o,,t a. -,