The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
FRENCH COIN of the time Of Louis XIV. was
| found in cornhsld at Marengo. Ind, a few
| days ago. Il is supposed 70 have been there
| since the days when the French traded with the
| Indians
| CAPT. ANDREWS, who last summer unsuc-
cessfully tried to cross the Atlantic in the dJry
| Dark Seer I, Is fitting the boat for another
( tempt He VIII start, it IS given out, rom Nan
! tasket beach, Mas, July p, and will take h s
| son Horace with him.
| An OBSERVING sOIL-TILLER in Michigan at
| tributes the unusually large crop of mosquitoes
/ there this -umner TO the absence of swallows
/ lie says the Wet, cold weather Of the ca iy
! spring starved these birds. so that where there
/ were thousands last year there are none now.
| lunch.
The JURY in the case of William Minor, tried
| Tor the murder Of Farmer LETTERS at Trenton
| Mo. was discharg d, being unable to agree
! upon verdict Eleven we're for conviction,
! put one, preacher. stood out from beginning
/ TO end II favor of acqUutel. Being aske his
/ reason ne declare tIat he thought the better
| course was 10 release Minor and then reform
/ him.
JUSTICE Of Logan township. Blair county,
| Pa, has perpl-xnE case. A blacksmith butt
e wagon for another citizen. painting it brown,
anu ref sing to change the color to green. In
Tue night the citizen entered tue shop AMI gave
lhe vehicle coat of paris green. Eary next
morning the blacks nth's COW, sp,ing the
NtiuurOus TINT, licked IL OF and died. The
BLACKSMITH now wants damages for his cow
Mrs. MATILDA NORRIS whose home is near
Howell, Mica, recently celebrated her 9sth
birthday. She has lC0 lin al descendants W
hvlng, ! children, % grandchildren, 80 great
grandchildren and u <. eat- great-grandchil
Tue youngest being over II years of ag4. Mrs.
VAar ia q
great reader, and has within six months kuitted
Il pairs of stockings and made SO blocks for
bed quilts
GENTLEMAN described as one Of the best
Known Hebrews of New York lost Sl1 900 at
Phil Days, at Long Branch. Thursday night
On many occasio IS he has lost 81 900 or 5 90
Ia the early part Of the night, but he always
managed before TO retrieve his fortunes before
daybreak. This is the heaviest square loss Of
the season so lar and the incident causes much
ItlN me merchant takes his bad fortune very
good naturcdly.
IRE GIANT TOWER, at He'll Gate. in New York
harbor. is now no more. All that remained of
1t was pulled down recently and sold at auction
Tor old iron TIE total hight of the tower was
|3O feet and inches. the base being 100 fe t
nigh. The upper part removed in sections
Inc tower was built Y the government in 1884
IL was pulled down because the plot commits
81 ners condemned the electric light as an OBJ
structlon to navigation.
Dh' EDWARD Il. MARTIN, chemist of the New
York health board, has made report to that
DO " regarding the escape of gas from the suo-
ways He says: There are LOO miles OF gas
mans IN New York, and 10 per cent. of the gas
made escapes. Last year there were manufac-
iured 5000. 10000 cubic feet of gas and
o0,OOO,DO cubic feet escaped into the str ts
Inere is great danger of explosion from the
accumulation of gas in the subWays and some
means should be taken to give them ventila-
ton"
REV, W. b. BAcHMAN, leading Presbyterian
minister of Chattanooga, states that on the top
OF W,ite mountain in Western North Carolina
are three trees of the cachoin species growing
close together and elch ben about foot in
diameter and about fifteen feet in hight The
Top OF the trees is alb ut twenty feet in diameter
and perfectly fiat, being so completely inter
woven that number of persons can walk on
Jnem with ease Twelve persons can lie down
on the top OF the trees without danger of fain
Indeed, so close are these TOPS that holes had to
be cut in the middle for persons to get on top
IT may have been noticed that nova days
very few old shoes and scraps of leather are
observable lying in our streets or dust heaps
This is in great measure due to the collecting
or old scraps of leath-r, which are taken TO
mills, where they are ground into fine dust. To
this Is added about 20 per cent. of India rubber
and the whole is then sIbjecte to pressure of
o,OOO or 10000 pounds per square foot. The sub
stance IS tne cOlored and is sold at prices
some so per cent belo that of natural leather
1t IS manif silly poor substitute, and it is
wholly wanting in fiber; in fact, if it were not
for the insane craze for cheap articles, which
buyers valniy hope to substitute for tn Sc which
though the original cost is gr ater are in the
end cheaper, we should never hear of thi COM
pound. which might almost as well he made of
sawdust as leather dust
EDWARD FAuBEL, a young farmer of Sullivan
county, New York, recently came very near
being stung to death by bees He was moving.
and c anced to run his scythe into a nest OF
IA In iF,CN I,,v,r
angry bees were swarming about his mead, and
before Faubel could escape from them they ha
Stung HIM 10 scores of plac S about the head
face and neck. Immediately the parts in which
the stingS had been inflicted began to swell and
the swelling soon became SO bad that his face
was unacceptable, and his thro It so affected
that his windpipe almost closed and it was with
the greatest difficulty that he could breathe A
physician was summoned, and he found the I'M
fortunate young m IN al most Suffocated, and
black in the face Remedies to n.utralizs the
edectS OF the poison in the sufferers system
were administered, and he soon began to i'm
prove, and at last accounts he was believed to
be out of danger.
For years herd of buffaloes have been known
to roam the Red Desert, in Wyoming territory.
but for some reason or other the animals were
not much sturbed by hunters. Lately, how
ever, two ranchers brothers, named Williams,
started out with several cowboys to capture
the beasts. The hunt lasted nearly rec DAYS
and was very exciting Two full grown cows
while another bull and pair of females re-
warded the hunters the third day. The ami
mails struggled feerfully, but each was finally
paired with heavy work OK. One of the cap
tives, mastodon male, in bucking, fell and
broke his neck. Steve Williams had narrow
escape the second day out. mad bull gored
his horse, lifting rider, saddle and animal hign
in the air. o le of the COWBOYS sent a rifle ball
into the Infatuated brutes shoulder The hunt
ers sa there are between forty and fifty full
grown bison and few calves in the herd
JOHN DAWSON of Cleveland is a middle-aged
man VINO is intelligent and rational on every
other topic, but is a thorough crank on the sub
ject of bills of large denominations. He is well
known among bankers, brokers and merchants
and knowing his weakness for large bills they
save them for him, as they generally know
what day Dawson makes his rounds He walks
into a bauk or office and says: ''Any large bills
t0-day?" If the cashier hands him a SlOO bill
he is delighted. but if the bill should happen to
be one of a $1,000 denomination be goes wild
with joy. This is his mode of procedure: He
takes the bill! into his ha Ids, fondl it, looks at
it with longing eyes, places it i'll his vest pocket
and walks up and down the room for about five
minutes. He then takes the bill out of his
pocket and with Thank you, Sir" he returns
it. He devOtes a day or two every week for
this sort of thing, and the mora money he can
handle and place in his vest pocket the happier
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