The morning news., 1889-04-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| is the name of the latest downtown cheap
restaurant in New York city.
! HIGH WINDS tolled the bell of a church at Sea
| Isle City, ? night or two ago, and the doieful
sounds greatly worried the superstitious people
| there.
| A WOMAN in Baltimore bled to death from a
cut on the leg. caused by the breaking of a
whisky bottle that she habitually carried in her
| stocking.
ALBERT RosEBUsH, a Branford Conn lad,
smoked ten cirgarettes in four minutes on
wager, and is now suffering severely for his
| foolishness.
JOIN HAMILTON of Frankford, Philadelphia
was some months ago bitten on one of his hands
by dog. Since then Hamilton's hand has been
almost useless, the bones appearing to decay.
His physician has recommended amputation of
the hand
LIGHTNING acted strangely in a Middletown
(Pa) barn. One large steer next to the wall
was found dead two next without hair singed.
while the fourth was killed outright. Then it
crossed the entry and performed the same feat,
the one next the wall and the third one being
killed.
A YOUNG MAN, giving the name of Henry
Banks, visited Mount Holly. N. j., several
months ago and made preparations for his
death. Two weeks ago his grave was dug at
his direction, and Monday he died from con-
about himself.
Mrs. KINNEY of Portsmouth, N. H. a
New England exchange relates, after being un-
der medical Treatment at Biddeford, Me-, for
several weeks, dsgorged from her stomach
nght-colored snake, over twelve inches long,
which she had swallowed three years ago while
drinking water from brook.
ACCORDING to a return which has just been is
sued, the Duke of Edinburgh besides his an
nuity of 925,000 got last year f3, 5U as COM
mander OF the British Mediterranean squadron,
and the Duke of Connaught received upwards
of f6, 600 on account of his Bombay command,
IN addition to his state allowance of 825.000.
PETER BERGER, of New York, was presented
with an old iron safe which was considered use
less He tried to sell it to junk dealer, but the
latter found it too heavy to carry away. So
ly, tried to find what was inside the safe. He
broke it open and found lot of old silver worth
$780,
Or all the war vessels of the United States
the largest and most powerful will be the
Maine. She will be 80 feet long. with a breadth
Of 81 feet, displacement of 664S tons, and a
horse power of 5000 She Will have two bat
teres, and her armor will be II inches thick.
Sac will be very ugly customer for any hos
tile vessel to attack.
AN INTERESTING CASE, growing out of the will
Of the late j. c. Stilson has Just been filed in
the circuit court at Galesburg III. The suit is
brought by Anna StilsOn, a daughter by Mr..
Stlson's first wife Mr.. Stilson left a large es-
tate and his will made provisions for his wife
and three children. He states that Anna shall
receive but 500 in case she marrieS Samuel
Unger, young man with whom she has been
keeping company for some time and to whom
she is engaged to be married. The case prom
lses to be long contested one,
The way in which the military authorities at
Berlin are beginning to practically utilize the
balloon for war purposes is described as very
interesting "TempelhOf, where the balloons
are being made, represents at present a SC ene
which would credit to any stage Several
ropemakers are hal d at work; next to them
talCrS shop has been erected, where the bal
/ looms are cut and Sewed. In another shop they
are made waterproof and dried, and on fine
day number of soldiers sit in front of the
/ tents occupied i'll making nets Groups of Off
GERS stand about trying their various scientific
instruments, which they hope to use when
! hoatlng in the air ships during the approaching
maneuverS."
The following remarkable, but by no means
solitary, instance of quick exchange of letter
correspondence between New York and Lon
don was effected last month on the Southanp-
ton route. The mails from New York of March
/ II were delvere in London by the Norddeut-
scher Lloyd liner Lain via SOUTHAMPTON early
on the morning OF Thursday, March 81. The
letters being distributed in the city by the first
delivery, many of item were replied to by bank
ers and merchants on the same morning in time
for the outgoing steamer Trave, which left
Southampton on the evening Of that day. This
steamer reached New York Friday morn
ing, and merchants in that city were thus en-
abled to receive on March % replies from Lon
don to their letters of March 49,
A DAY OR TWO AGO several employees OF an
electric lighting company began digging hole
opposite a fine residence on Summer street
Boston, and after finishing they started to
in he meantime, had secured man and told
HIM to go up in the woods and dig up the first
tree that he could find. and hurry back and
plant 1t IN the hole for the electric pole. Before
the men commenced to raise the latter the
owner CT the residence invited them to come
into his cellar and take drink, which they all
did. There the owner detained them long
enough to allow the man sent for the tree to
come back and plant the tree. The electric
men did not dare to remove the tree so they
put their pole in the wagon and drove off, as
there was no place in front of the house where
another hole could be dug.
GEORGE GRAY an employe of Farmer Bull.
near Pine Mill, Pa, was hauling stones in the
field, and while overturning pile of them was
attacked by weasel and bitten on the arm.
The taste of blood seemed to increase the fllry
of the weasel, and Gray had all he could do to
keep 1t from Springing on his throat He at
last succeeded in stunning the weasel by kick
and was about to hurry to the house to have
alter the other, trooped from the stone pile and
made a combined attack on Gray. They
swarmed upon him, biting and tearing his flesh
on the legs arms and body Fearful for his
life, Gray turned and fled followed by the wea-
sells which chased him clear to the house over
half mile, infcting still further wounds with
their sharp teeth. Gray's shouts for help
brought three men to his assistance. The wear
sells we're finally routed, but not until the men
were covered with blood from head TO foot
Gray has been confined to bis bed ever since
THE fourth ''Nlazarn' Bible sold within the
last sixteen years has been knocked down to
Mr.. Quaritch for e., 900, says the London Globe.
Sir John Thorods copy fetched as much as
t3,9OO; that which was offered at the Perkins
sale in 1873 went for Sc 600 and Lord Craw-
tord's, in 1887, was secured by Mr. Quaritch for
t2t5O So far, then, the work would sem to
have deprecated very little in value Never
theless. 1000 is not a bad figure even for a
copy of the first edition of the Bible-and in
deed, the first book printed with movable types
by the inventors Of printing This version of
the Holy Scriptures the work of
Gutenberg and Faust, and, though
more than four centuries have
elapsed sine it was given to the world IL mas
never been urpassed-probably never has been
equaled-as all artistic production. OF course
we have our editions de iUre, which especially
in the case of those turned out in France are
vertable things OF beauty. but loving as is the
care often bestowed upon modern books not
only by the publisher and master printer but
even by the employees who work only for paw
we do not nowadays produce such masterpieces
as came from the press, even at the beginning
public taste for such elaborate products has
virtually died ont