The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-30
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nackmen." Toe strangest circumstance in re-
| lation to the will is that there are few hackmen
IN that portion of Missouri.
BUSINESS FIRM in Chicopee, Mass, offered
! prz for the best guess as to the number OF
marbles in a big boot exhibited in their window.
| A hoemaker OF the town, anxious to win the
| prize, made boot. as he thought, of the same
size, and filled il with marbles. Then he
| counted the marb es and gave the number as
ms guess. He was over two thousand out OF
the way.
IT IS SAID that the common cowcatcher at
| tachment TO locomotives is about the only ar
| ticle of universal use that was never patented.
| It's inventor was u. B. Dawes. of Columbus, o.,
VINO found his model in the pillow. Red lights
on the rear car of trains it IS further said, were
adopted at the suggestion of the Lite Mrs.
| SwisSheln, after a railway accident in which
| she mad narrow escape.
SINCE 1870 the aspect of Rome has consider
ably changed. The old narrow winding streets
| are thing of the past, and are replaced by
| large, wide thoroughfares. Blocks of the old
| houses have been knocked down, and large
| modern palazZI have sprung up in their stead.
! The narrow Corso of old times viii soon be no
| more as it is gra lually being Widened by half
| again its original width.
THE progress that electricity has made in
| this country is wonderful" says an expert
electrician. There are now in use in the
| United states more than $3.50 centiai electric
arc lights ami 2,6OO,UO0 incandescent lamps
There We're tifty-nne electrical railways in oper
atlon up TO july /, and at present there are
| elghty-si4 additional roads in process of con-
sUructlon. Inc increase of capital in electrical
| S7OO0O,O 900.
TALES of Nasir-ed- Din continue to add to the
total OF human gayety, although the King of
Kings is now we'll on his way TO Persia, The
! latest comes from the Cave of Neptune at He'll
6roln. Observing hose pipe connected with
fountain. the shah gleefully played it upon the
sHI IN BOY S Clothes, who is his inseparable
companion, whereupon the favorite, not daring
TO retalate upon tn sacred person of her SOW
erelgn took 1t out by drenching the whole of
the lmpe ial suite to the great delight of the
merry monarch, who laughed until he was
forced to sit down and rest.
UTOPIA is a small country station on the Ohio
| and Northwestern railroad, in Clermont county,
yet 1t contains among its quiet inhabitants a
citizen VINO has bit of interesting history and
storical relic The man alluded to is John
Cneyne, and tue relic is the key buge that as
sembled tue Geomanry of the Guard at the
coronation of Queen Victoria, june 90 1887
MT. Cheyne was at that time young man, and
a member of the barracks band, which fur
nlshed music for that sp ndid troop of soldiers
he was one of the four buglers who sounded the
revellle Tor the mastering of the guard that at
tended the queen on the way from Windsor
castle to the house of parliament, where, with
great pomp and ceremonies, she WAS crowned
queen.
Has it ever struck you," said a well-known
New Yorker, "how many New Workers there
are who spend Sunday fishing? 1t would pay
curious person to go to the Staten Island ferry
nouss az the loot OF Whitehall street, any Sun
day lnornlng-say at o'cock-and stay there
until about O'Clock. He would see more men
carrying fishing poles and ba ,kets containing
the necessary tackle, brown bottle included,
than he ever Imagined went fishing. Hundreds
Staten Island a ait ar
4 rlnce Bay or off South Beach, returning at
dusk with baskets and strings of striped bass or
olacktlsh. There are scores of fishermen who
40 not care TO go down with the crowd on Sun
lay morning; they leave town Saturday even
my Spending the night at the hotels or else fish
all night
A PORT JERvIs INVESTIGATOR has learned that
Erie men have a nomenclature for all k nds of
cars and engines, and that these names extend
all over tn entire road and branches. ''Black
Maria" are Pennsy ivania coal cars, which are
painted jet black. The Wootten engines with
Cne double cabs are called Camel Backs or Hog
ocalders" The various classes of coal cars are
named as follows: Long Johns, Exclusive,
Standard Black Marias and Jimmies. The
Long Johns" are the gond la-shaped cars with
sides, SLACK Marias' are mentioned above,
Exclusive are twenty-ton cars and are used
exclusively for the Delaware anu Hudson coal,
Standards are twenty five ton cars and rs
the present Erie standard coal cars, and jim
mics are tue four wheeled dumps, of which
there are but few in use.
AN extraordinary case of smuggling is re-
ported from Sourabaya, in Java. Chinese
passenger having died on board a Junk which
was anchored in the roadstead, the health
officer of the port went off, and after viewing
the body, gave tue necessary permit for burial
The master of the junk then came shore and
ordered a large coffin of the usual Chinese kind
During the early hours of the morning the
crew with the coffin landed, and the funeral
procession passed along the streets After the
funeral the party went back to the Junk which
Immediately put out to sea. In the middle of
the day some natives found an empty coffin in
he middle of tue road close by the Chinese
cemetery, which not only smelt strongly of
opium, but also had small particles of the drug
adneiing TO its sides. The custom house au.
t.lorities found the maker OF the coffin who
identified II as the one supplied TO the master
Il the junk. AMI the dea body of the China
man was washed ashore soon afterward. so that
1t was clear that he had been thrown overheard,
and the burial permit used to Smuggle on Shore
large coffin full OF opium.
DELEGATES from the South American coun-
tries are already gathering in Washington to
attend the All-American state congress which
secretary Blaine has, in his Motif alton to the
other countries, said will convene at the canital
Oct. l. Among the countries whose represent
atlves are now mere is the United States of Ven
ezuela. Venezuela is attaitAng quite little no.
torlety in com nercial quarters. She has the
most liberal constitution of any of the South
Am rican republics, il some respects more lib
eral than the constitution of the United States
There is no such thing as CAPT al punishment
Compulsory military service is abolished shave
ry is prohibited. and, what is rather hard upon
Doycotters, nobody may be compelled to do
anything against the Jaw, nor prevented from
dong anything according to tie law. No citizen
may be arrested or imprisoned for debt unless
the debt has been contracted by fraud Pubic
officials, by the constitution, can have no other
title than that of citizen and Your honor"
Altogether it seems that Venezuela is a good
country TO be a citizen of.
FRANKLIN WEBSTER has found that the prev.
alence of incendarism is susceptible of being
graphically represented systematically accord
ing to the season. The monthly curves for the
four years ending in 1885 show that the e are
m re criminal fires in January than in Feb
ruary; that the numb r increases through
March, April and Nay ia Is off in June then in
creases again TIL November, to fall off a ain in
December. Taking the years separately Their
appears to be an extraordinary regularity in
the number of criminal fires in the first six
months, while the chief Irregularities and
W dest fluctuations are in the last half of the
year; and in this period criminal fires taking
t whole couEtry, are excessive compared
with the earlier months. In the farming dis
trictS they are more frequent when the greatest
activity prevails, and are especially numerous
in the time devoted to harvest; while during
the months when most of the great crops are
growing there is a hull in the reports of incen-
diari m. Mr. Webster concludes that incen-
diary fires for the sake of collecting insurance
are rare as compared with other fires Of crimi-