The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-13
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fRANz GRITTY OF BrlstOl, Pa. recently sno-
a Wild goose near the town that measured feet
10 inches from tip TO tip Of lis wings
LAST xoxTH, Il IS claimed. was the wsttest
Nay Washington, D. c, has ever experienced
According 10 the signal Office s.57 inches Of rain
4 BAT was recently caught in Benona. Mich,
whose fur vas very fine, brown and tipped with
white The spread OF IT'S wings was sixteen
inches-
X house near Hagerstoxn, Nd, destroyed
by the eycIons Of few days ago, was sleep
ing infant which was found when the blow was
over, half a mile OF, and not injured
TIE average speed Of g rapid witness is gen
orally quoted al 80 words per minute Most OF
the Irish witnesses in the Parneu trial reached
~ and one woman attained the speed Of 230.
TIE HIS. OF London, claim that the organ
built oy them for the town hall Of Sydney. n.
S. y, is the largest in the world the reed stop
being 81 feet long, and the pipes numbering
1900
ACCORDING 70 a Berlin correspondent. Prof.
Forster, head physician Of the Royal Eye hos
pital in Breslau, maintains that short-si GIFTED
ness II children IS not infreouently dus 70 their
wearing too rgnt-ftting collars.
IL POLAND il was formerly capital crime to
xii cuckoo, because the old Slavonic mytho-
logical deity used 10 change himself into the
form OF that bird in order to announce to NOR
tals the number Of years they had TO live.
TIE largest ferryboat in the world is the
Solano, used IN carrying trains across the
straits Of Carquinez. between Bsnicia and Porta
| Costa II is 460 feeu long a8d has a capacity
| OF forty freight cars and two locomotives.
PETER C. CAMPBELL viii test his air ship on
June 70, at the Manhattan athletic grounds,
New York II weighs $50 pounds and carries a
| ballast Of 100 pounds, and is the only strictly
machine air vessel ever made, according to his
| statement.
| A PHILASTHRoPIc CITIZEN Of Harvey county,
! Kansas, has planted three miles Of peach trees
along public road for the benefit of trav-
elers." But the small boys of the neigh
ooroood have another theory as to whom they
will benefit.
The York (Pa) Dispatch says that Frank
Flemming Of that place, who drove an excur-
sion party to Gettysburg in a four horse wagon
was assessed $50 by the chief burgess of Gettys-
burg-S5 for each horse-for tbs privilege Of
driving over the battlefield.
MESQUITE, Tex. comes forward with cham
pion snake story. snake, measuring 6 feet
in length, was killed near there, and its immense
size caused the parties who found it to cut it
open II was foundto contain three large rab-
bits and twenty-five guinea eggs.
THERE is a new fly in the market which will
doubtless take well with anglers. The hook is
so completely concealed as to be invisible even
when the fly is held in the hand. Il is made
| ike white miller and is so constructed that
the action Of the water win not affect it.
MINNIE MosEs is sentel iced to be hanged at
Birmingham, Ala, on June IL The crime for
which she was convicted was highway robbery
and an attempt to murder an old woman ued-
der the old woman is still alive, and if the
sentence IS carried out Minnie will be hanged
for highway robbery
|
vertising itself in Paris. An open carriage is
daily hired, and in it are placed four of the
most conspicuous members of the confraternity
"a North American Indian. a Chinaman an
Egyptian and a Persian. These are driven
wherever the crowd is greatest.
RECENT EXPERIMENTS to ascertain within what
limits the ear can distinguish the difference in
the pitch Of two sounds shows that the small.
est difference percepubie by unframed or only
slightly trained ears appears TO be from one
sixth to onefortieth of a semitone 1t is said
that popularity that seems to apply alike to
| trained and unframed ears is that they detect
upward differences more easily than downward
HEREAFTER the Boston board of health will
cause the public library card in each family
where contagious disease is found to exist 10
be stamped, so as to indicate the presence of
such disease there. The library will there
after decline to allow other books to be taken
out on this card until the contagion has been
stamped out from the home. When books ara
returned from such locality they will be disin-
fected
WHILE Henry Parker was calling on Miss
Dudgeon, in q small town near Mount Vernon
o.. the other night at midnight masked man
| entered the room, presented a revolver at his
| head, and demanded his money Parker re-
piled that he had none, but when the robber
cooked the revolver the young man handed him
over 81, all he had. The robber escaped This
Is warning to allyoung men not to stay later
than II O'Clock
A CORRESPONDENT writes to the New York
World: by referring to statistics of railroad
and telegraph construction in this country. YOU
{ will learn that severe storms and atmospheric
disturbances increase in ratio to the con-
struction of same. resulting from un quail dis
tr1bution Of electrical forces caused by rail and
wire extension This may appear visionary to
you on superficial examination but observation
| Will prove the above theory to be correct
AN EXTRAORDINARY INSTANCE Of long hours of
labor was related lately before the sweating
| committee Of the British House of Lords A
Roumanian Jew stated that at Manchester be
works from O'Clock in the morning until IL
| O'Clock at Dight, and sometimes until 1 or 2
O'Clock in the morning, making an average of
| twenty hours day for six days in the week.
| leaving only four hours for sleep. He earned
, | shilngs day in the busy time, lasting about
ten weeks, and from sbillings to snillings per
week IN the slack season, and on this he had TO
| support wife and six children.
A CURIOUS CEREMONY took place at the white
| house on Saturday-the cremation of bushel
of letters written to President Cleveland bv
! cranks. They had been preserved in two mail
bags, and were found during the recent clea n
} ing Of the white house attic. They were written
by cranks in all parts of the country and gave
Mr.. Cleveland advice on all sorts of subjects
. About 100 letters had been received from a man
who signed himself David God Another
from one ]. H. Whkng related to the disap-
pearance of stovepipe. AS the weather was
warm, however, Mr.. Whiting informed the
President that the loss was not serious
Mrs. REUBEN FROST. of Louisiana, has two
genuine madstones that were given her years
ago by her father. the famous huntsman. Lord
Price. Their power of extracting the poison Of
| rabid dogs has never been tested though thew
will be loaned to any applicant Mrs. Frost
says her father killed in his lifetime upward of
| 800 deer and found only three .madstones two
| of which he gave her when a girl She further
states that her father told her that a hunter
could tell as soon as deer was killed whether
or not its stomach contained the magic stone
as in every instance where the stone is the hair
of the animal slain turned the reverse from its
natural position when cold in death
EVERYBODY who has read Dickens Bleak
House, ," says writer in the New York Ledoer
remembers Poor joe the prosecuted little
crossing sweeper. who knew nothing, and was
continually being ordered by the police TO
| move on The other day, while examining n
copy of the London Times of January 1850 for
very different purpose. we happened upon the
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