The morning news., 1889-02-05
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/ The enormous rise in the value of property at
/ Berlin is shown by the fact that the Hotel du
7 No-d has Just been sold to the German Discount
Society for e11J.000 whereas in 1854 it was pur
/ chased for $4,000 aud ia 1S43 for ElS.000.
! THE FREAK BORN to Polish Jewess in Boston
| lately, died a few days ago. 1t had ten fingers
on each hand and the same number of toes OF
| each foot. It's parents were very poor and hav
| ing several other children gave the new conner
| to the physician who gratuitously assisted at its
| birth.
Col. ABNER TAYLOR tells a reporter Of the
San Antonio Express that the capitol syndicate
has its 10000 acres fenced in as a ranch upor
| which are 600 cattle. He says the syndicate
| will keep the land as a ranch until the exten
sion of settlement in its direction makes it profit
| able to sell.
A GHOST" that carries a knife and threat
ened the other night to carve pedestrian, visits
| that part of Havre-de-Grace Md near the Sal
! vation Army barracks. Several persons claim
| to have seen it. A shot was fired at it day or
two ago, but the ghost lodged and the bullet
hit colored woman.
DR.. DIVER WENDELL HOLMES, who graduated
at Harvard college sixty y ars ago, had with
him at dinner in Boston few days ago six of
| the alumni Of the same class C29l including the
Rev. DIS StckneY, DevlnS and S. f. Smith.
Ihe ''eutocrat," who is in excellent health will
be 50 years old should he live until next August
NORWICH Conn CORRESPONDENT SAYS that
longevity is far more prevalent in that State
now than it was half a century ago. Within
the past eighteen months, he saws. not less than
Sixty old ladies', ranging in ages from 95 to 100
nave passed away Besides these there have
died during the past four years four persons
between l02 and 106 years old
TERRA GOTTA MONEY jugs for saving UP coins
are becoming very common. Many families
keep them handy and drop into them their
spare dimes and nickels until the ilg is full
Then 1t is broken and the contents applied to the
purchase OF some special article long desired
but which it was thought could not be afforded
Public jugs have now been introduced.
RECENTLY YOUNG GIRL, named Martha
VI Murrin, of Mullabrack, ireland, when in bed
was terrified at seeing standing near her per
son dressed as man, brandshing q weapon
and crying out, Il am Jack the Ripper" The
glrl never mentally recovered from the shoe
and the police found it necessary to take the
poor creature into custody After being med
lcaliy examined she was pronounced danger
Gus lunatic and removed to on ASYLUM The
perpetrator of the Joke" proved to be female
friend of the unfortunate girl.
j. D. BEALs of lewiston Me, went the other
morning to clear out boiling spring in his
pasture. He was greatly surprised during the
work to see a snake foot and half in length
come forth and go wiggling away over the snow
Hardly had the snake disappeared before out
jumped a large frog. The next morning he
went to the spring again, and 10 two frogs
came out of the recesses of the well ''They
thought" says Mr. BealS that summer had
really come, and expected on coming to the
surface to find the green grass and everything
corresponding"
THE commission in charge of the State of
Names representation at the inaugural centen-
NAL to be held in New York has decided to send
the adiutant general to the metropolis before
making any definite plans. The state cannot
afford to spend over $1,000, the committee
THINKS, and the members have decided that is
all they VIII allow. The entire military force
was invited to attend, and it is thought thirty
two men from each company may be SENT Le-
Sides the governor and staff, the field and staff
officers of the brigade, the military committee
and invited guests.
A CAPE BaEToN PAPER reports startling oc-
currence on Mcqueen Lake, short time since
Reliable witnesses say that the ice with which
the lake WIS covered suddenly cracked like a
boiler explosion and something very like whale
rose auoTe he surt tce. showing between 20 ana
90 feet of its body. Then it subsided, but the
hole in the ice and tn QIrt cast about were left
to mark its appeance, a similar incident hap
Eened there about twenty 4arS ago causing
great excitement. A scientist advances the
theory OF not spring or sort of volcano which
IS affected periodically and throws mud etc.
from the bottom Of the lake.
Philadelphia has recently been much gratifed
at receiving several requests from ladies for
lock of his hair. But the other day his wife re-
celyed not that put a different light on the
subject, 1t ran as follows: my Dear Mrs X:
Won you please ask your good husband to
send m just little Jock of his hair? We have
all been taking lessons in making hair flowers
50 many of the other girls have asked him and
ne sent Il to them, but l thought | would rather
ask you to get it for me- Now won't Won
il bar tn
white hair for lilies of the valley"
IT cost an Auburn truckman nearly $50 to
move certain family few years ago and the
story of it is just coming out. woman who it
was atterward learned had had some falling
out with her husband, and had decided to leave
MIN, come 20 the truckman and engaged his
services in the removal of her household belong
ingS The truckman sent along one of his men
to do the wor6. He did it without asking anv
questions, but later he sued for doing so
It being alleged that he had knowledge
OF the wonans s project and was helping the
thn5 along The case went into the courts and
an execution was issued against him. and as
SAID before, it cost him in the end about $50
aad Furthermore he didn't get his pay from the
woman for moving the furniture.
ONE of the latest art treasures which the
Stuart collection has unearthed and drawn pub
lie attention to- says Edmund Yates in his
London letter to the New York Tribune. lis a
remarkable oil painting which Mr. Mitchell
consul general of Norway discovered in an ont
of-the-W ay store of Moscow. and which for sew
era generations had done duty in peasants
family as picture Of Christ. Il represents the
vision OF Charles l. on the morning of his ex
cuUlon. The earthly crown has fallen TO the
ground; the Bible is open at the lesson for the
day, describing the Passion of the Sav' our. and
a martyr crown is on the sacred page While
an angel reveals the Grown Of Life Ia Greek
is the inscription of whom the world was not
worthy. The picture thus recovered will be-
broug ght TO England and restored II is no
doubt, the work of an English painter and
must have been taken to Russia by the fugitive
cavaliers.
A SPECIAL from Canandaigua, N. Y, has the
following: Joshua Granger, wealthy citizen
OF Putneyvle, Wayne county, prominent in
politics, church, and society, disappeared last
sunday. lie settled at Pultneyville forty years
ago and married wealthy woman. The result
OF the union was a son who has grown to man
hood Several years ago his wife died and after a
reasonable length OF time Granger marri d
again. Several days ago the postmistress told
him that she had received letter from West
Virginia iuquiring if he lived in Putneyville.
Granger was allowed TO examine The letter and
last Sunday he excused himself from attending
church, and after the family had gone he left
TOWN. Two days later a woman aged about 60 |
arrived IN the village and introduced herself as
Mrs Joshua Granger, of West Virginia Over
iorty years ago, she says, Granger was employed
by her father He made love to her and they
were married. They lived happily together
untll Granger suddenly decamped with large
share OF her fortune. She had never given up
her determination to find him"
ACCORDING to the New York World. DR.. |