The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

An Old HAID in Connecticut adopted q boy and
called him Moses David AbsaIosn Daniel Marx
| White" The other DAY when he became Of aga
ne sued her for $4,000 damages for hitching all
tnese names IN front OF him, and il Is hoped the
jury viii give hin every cent Of it.
A NV BEDFORD CLERGYMAN. who has been in
| service a long time, advertises 100 sermons for
sale, covering all subjects. and applicable to
/ any locality. Re only wants 81 apiece for the
lot, II taken in lump, which is one-half OF
regular price, and a decided bargain for the
money"
To APPEAsE the Hungarian Jealousy Of Aus
tria, the emperor-king has ordered that all the
notices placarded in his palace at Budapest
SHAH be written in the Magyar language: and,
further, that on all such placaris the words,
Imperial and royal" shall be substituted for
'Imperialroyal-'
TIE Ohio papers we're not long since com
nenting on the uniqueness of marriage cere-
mony performed by a woman. Within few
days Joseph Cause and Miss Ida Boren were
united in marriage in Milton. Ind by the
groom's mother, she being a minister Of the
Society Of Friends.
AT LAST benevolent genius has discovered
how TO make life pleasing for English people.
The court bureau, limited. is going to leave
cards for them, send out invitations engage
servants, select houses, take rooms for them at
hotels when they go abroad. and even retain
ONE Of the very few revolutionary war pen
sioners still living is Mrs Lovey Aldrich, who
resides with her son. z. Z. Aldrich, in Jackson,
Mich. Mrs Aldrich is 90 years old, and was
| born in Sanbornton, n. H. Her husband, who
was soldier under George Washington, died
in lS49, at the age Of 81 years.
PHILADELPHIA NAN who has worn the same
green overcoat for twenty years, has just
brought the article out again. The cloth was
woven for him, and cost S12 per yard. On its
twenty -f1rSt birthday il will be secured and
cleaned with great ceremony, and its owner
hopes that 1t viii be fitted for a life of useful
ness.
The TRUSTEES of the British museum have
just purchashed a Roman silver service COM
posed of about twelve pieces. 1t was found in
1888 in France. The execution is said to be of
the third century A. D. Together with it was
purchased small bronze relief, about six
inches high, representing Bacchus and Ariadne.
and found in the Island Of Kalki, near Rhodes.
MAN AND WIFE residing in North Minneapo-
lis, who owned forty acres of land within the
city limits, offered 300 900 for it five years
ago, The husband wished to sell, but the wife
| refused TO sign the deed, The result was a
quarrel between the pair, since which time not a
word has passed between them. The wife cooks
for both but they eat their meals at separate
tables and sleep in separate beds.
JUDGE KNowLToN Of Lewiston, Me-. set a trap
for rat in peck measure full of meal in his
barn chamber. the other day, and tied the trap
to the measure. The next morning he looked
into the chamber, and all he could find of his
arrangement was the meal rat evidently
had been there. but neither rat trap nor peck
measure could be found And there WASH {
any kind Of hole as big as mans fist in the
chsmber He has searched high and low, but
can obtain no clew to the whereabouts of his
missing property.
MOUNT ARAFAT has this autumn for the first
time, been assembled by young girl. 1t seems
tnat the forester, MIokossevitch, ACCOMPANIED
by his daughter, who is only II years of age,
and by bis son. a boy of "a, undertook the as
cent, IN the company Of three Kurds. The
strength of the boy was exhausted when they
arrived at the right of 1900 feet and the
father stopped at the height of 16, $50 feet. The
young girl and the three Kurds, however, con-
tinued the ascent until they reached the top
1897 feet. There the girl fell ill from the in
tense cold, and an the descent was obliged to de-
pend upon the Kurds for support.
The INJURY to oysters in Quiambang Cove,
near Mystic, Conn., by peculiar growth called
marine cabbage springing up among them and
oversnadowfnR them, has much in common
with destruction which attacks oysters some
seasons in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributa-
rfes. Certain seasons, for some unexplained
reason, there is very heavy growth OF grass
on the bottom of creeks. and out in the rivers
and along certain parts of the Chesapeake Bay
The oysters on the bottoms where the grass
grows are killed by the dense shade the grass
makes as effectively as board laid on a lawn
will kill the grass under it in short time.