The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

CLYDE COLLINS, O 5-year-old Louisville lad
was before the Louisville police court the other
DAY charged with being confirmed vagabond
and petty thief.
JOHN NORRIS of New York took his sweet
heart to picnic, and then took $50 worth of
Jeweiry beion Sin2 to her sister, He is now
plcnlcking in the Tombs.
PETER DIEDoFF of Brooklyn PIT a stone on
the Sidewalk and covered it with an old hat
Mrs Frankinmuth came along, spit on her
hanoS ana gave 1t kick, and her broken toes
cost Peter $3.50.
L. H. PLATT AND JOHN ALLEN of New York
city have completed their long horse back ride
across the continent. They reached San Fran
cisco four months and about four DAYS from
the time they left New York.
LEE CHARLES living four miles north of S..
Joseph Reno county, Kan, has raised on his
farm fa this year 1900 bushels of wheat. He has
SoO acres or corn hat will average forty-five
bush=lB per &C Q, and 300 acres of oats, some of
which was lost through hail.
A PITTsToN PAPER recently printed a notice
OF the death of Jacob Rodgers at the age of III
years. lie was born near Pittsburg on Jan l.
I1Io. he was IN the war of 1912, and was
wounded In the battle of Lundy's Lane BY
MS frSt wife he was the father Of fifteen child
rem. and by his second of six. Nine of the
twenty,one are living, one of them being 81
MT Rodgers had used tobacco for nearly 100
years. Until Few months ago he read without
spectacles.
EMULATING the deeds OF tbs Italian fasting
men, Succi and Merlatti, a Frenchman named
Leto-t living at Lyons, recently began a fast of
twenty days for a wager He went on all right
and reached the twentieth day, takins nothing
put water for nourishment, but then overtax ID
ms powers OF endurance by adding five days
more 10 MS term OF torture. and has just died
IN the Hotel Dieu, despite the efforts Of the
doctors TO recuperate his completely scattered
constitution.
ALL THE PRIVATE PAPERS of Abraham Lincoln
and all documents referring to his private bust
ness affairs are in the Gust dy of the First \ a
tlonal Banl Of Bloomington, ILL., Ths late
David Davis, formerly justice of the supreme
court OF the Unite States, and later a senator
ana acting vice president, Mr.. LncoIn's
executor, and to him all the great Presi .ent's
private papers were given. Judge Davis took
them all to his home in Bloomington and de-
posted them in the First National Banks vaults
ne ne oelnx heavy stockholder in the bank.
Though the work of the executor was long since
completed, and Judge Davis has gone to his long
rest, the papers are still there.
In ADJOINING HOUSES in Washington board a
naval officer, with his young son, and member
OF the French legation. The boy is a lover OF
chickens, and has collected quite q fl ok of fine
roosters The Frenchman is a skilled musician,
and his piano is seldom closed or stilled Lately
he complained to his boarding lady that the
Growing or the ROSTERS bothered him. and that
the nuiSance must be abated. The lady, cum
ming diplomat that she is brought the foreigner
and the owner Of the offensive fowls together
anu tae former stated his case When he had
nnlShed the little fellow thou ut minute and
then exclaimed Il tell you what, if you will
shut up on That piano of yours I'll get rid of my
ROSTERS" The foreigner is considering the
Offer"
KENrUcKIANs frequently see snakes, but they
do not often encounter such monster as is re-
ported to have beel seen by several reliable
parties in the vicinity of Center Furnac on the
Culnberland river. James Armstrong d prom
lnent farmer or Lyon county, while out hunting
c me across the reptile, which, he says is at
least % feet in length, It's body was partially
concealed by the underground, and be had
seized a club and wondering how he could
attack 1t, when Kissing noise caused him to
look up and he behed the monsters head
reared up about feet above the earth as it
azed at him, its forked tongue hanging out.
says II would have fought him had re not
retired, when it alsO ran rapidly away, 1t has
brlght spotted skin, and head th5 size of a
child'S.
IT IS NOT IMPROBABLE that the richie ct known
ores will yet be discovered in unexpected places
throughout the mountainous regions of the
e tire south. Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee
nave already uncovered deposits which promise
to make them as rich AM prosperous as they
are pictures lue, AMI elsewhere there is O most
equally encouraging news just the other day
a farmer VIII was doing some work in Wolfe
earth and wi ii CT Iuc Instruments got from it
an ounce and quarter of pure S liver. The dis
covery mas ha / the usual effect of exciting the
enufe county, and some ri tedious claims ABOUT
the value of the deposits ars being put forth
But when quiet has again been restortd and the
rainbow chGsers 90 no ne it may be that the
steady workers i'll find the ore IN paying quar-
titles. An evidence If tn genuil eness Of their
faith in the future is their manifest unwilling.
ness E sell their lands Nearly all the local
papers call upon them to hold their homesteads
a la nf In han and To
as warnings Of the folly of selling fortunes in
ore for song
A CORRESPONDENT of a Ceylon, journal gives
some Interesting information about the turtles
on the coast in the neighborhood of Jaffna, in
the north of the island, which are said to be in
Vulnerable. They are of three Species called
sea, milk and pariah turtles respectively. The
ordinary. or sea turtle, is generally irge in
size, and is met with everywhere at sea around
Jaffna. Two tiny islands, called Iranativu are
literally swarmin< with them. The islands
themselves are sterile and always exposed to
inundation; the inhabitants are poor anu ignor-
ant of az iculture, live chiefly on the tur-
ties They use the shells of the large ones as
seats. In the town Of Jaffna the ordinary tur-
tie is always procurable and j. favorte article
OF food with the p ople. The milk turtle is
snail in size and is to be found ony III wells
and banks. II is not an article of food exceDt
with the poorer classes. The pariah turtl has
a b gh back, and Shell which somewhat re-
semb.es that of to. toise 1t is found in
marshes ana bitches. 1t is not article of
food, but is highly valued by native medical
men because its flesh aud blood are supposed
to be panacea for ailments peculiar to chill
dren.n
l HEAR most amusing story about the
famous cartoon Of Ben the Conoueror." re-
Gently published in Judge, says the New York |
Star. Gillian, the artist who drew it, is an !
English an. He has been naturalzed how
ever, and ike most Englishmen, has become a |
raold republican. He was d republican when /
empioye on Puck and ma 10 many OF the /
severeSt cartoons against Blaine in 1884 He
believes Ia the sensationaiiSm of cartoons and
thinks less OF their political applicat on He
oelleV Sen the ConQUeror" would create a
sensation, as it did ia sense he did not an
tlclpate. When 1t was about ready for the |
press of Judge he showed it /
TO Russell Harrison, who made one |
criticism on it. In the picture the statesmen |
who were conquered in their den were repre- !
ssnted as leonine in size If not in aspect while |
Ben the Conqueror' was especially diminutiye
as cherub with wings. Young Harri son Oh /
Jected 10 this difference in sizes and urEed that |
MS fathers figure be much enlarged. ''If you |
don't make father the Ia rgest figur. he will look
insgnidcs Mt besides the Others" When the |
cartoon proved sensat on Gillian REPRODUCED |
1t. When it turned out to be political boom
erang Mr. ArSell invent d the story that the |
name was intended to be Ben the Calculator ~
but Gilla II denies this absolutely
AFTER one of the congresses recently held in
Paris, large party interested in hygiene. led
by NJ. Bechmann, engineer in chief of Paris,
vic ifadf hn