The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-13
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A STATISTICAL GENIUS has figured out that
this years corn crop 100000, 600 bushels, will
load a string of wagons stretching 2S!, 900 miles,
! or enough TO make eleven rows of wagons;
loaded with corn, clear round the earth ard
have 1900 miles Of teams not in line.
UNDER the laws of Delaware a woman can be
whipped and pi loried for the crimes of arson,
horse-steaing and burglary, and pioried alone
for the Grim $ Of perjury breaking into house
to commit crimes and subornaton of perjury.
The present legisa ure will probably do away
with the offensive statute
WHY will the people postpone their benefac-
tons! Record was made in London the other
day of lady bequeathing fortune in 1873 to
man who had saved her life in 1913. Twenty
five years are big slice of a mans life, and
perhaps in the above case, the man died in the
interval between his heroism and the proposed
reward.
A PLEBIscITE has been taken at Milan. The
municipality has directly asked the heads of
households their opinion as to whether religion
teaching should form part OF the curricu Jun
in public schools. OF the q 515 votes recorded,
over % COO were in the affirmative. That is an
answer which agitators will hardly dare to
overlook.
For bandness of depression. the following ad-
vertisement, taken from a London paper, wants
good deal of beating: Il, Emanuel Emanuel,
sole surviving partner of the firm of Z. and E.
| Emanuel, goldsmths. etc, beg to inform my
customers and friends that the announcement
| in a London paper of my death and burial is
pre- nature.
A MAN named Dronin who was born in Brit
tany on May Is. 1887, died a few days agoin
Paris In his early years he was a sailor and
fought at Trafalgar. The cause of his death
| was fall sustained while ne was under the in
fiuence of liquor For years he had gone to
| bed every night slightly elevated" The ply
| sicians who examined his body said that he
might have lived to be 1873 years of age if he
had not met with an accident.
A NOVEL SUIT has been entered in the Third
district civil court, Williamsburg, by William
J. McIntee, well-known politician against the
| Brooklyn CrosStown Railroad Company. The
suit is brought for the recovery of the value of
| a coat. He accidentally sat on covered stove
and burned off the tail of his coat. He then
| went to the railroad company and demanded
damages, and the official of the corporation
offered him SO to buy new tail for his coat
| with. He Indignantly refused the offer, and is
now trying to find out how much the coat tail
is worth.
POLITE BURGLAR has made his appearance
in one Of the small towns surrounding Boston
After removing all the portable articles Of
value from the residences In which he piled his
trade, he proved himself a perfect gentleman
by leaving in each case the following unique
note: Il regret to say that the high cost of
living and my failure to receive certain sums
which had confidently expected have put me
under the painful necessity of permanently re-
moving your silverware With all due apology
and wishing you the compliments of the season
| an respectfully yours"
AN old man sauntered into the circuit court,
San Francisco, last week, and at once attracted
attention on account of a great growth of hair
on his head and face. He was approached by
reporter. to whom he explained that his name
was George Story, and that he was SO years old.
He left Nantuck Island in lS49 for California
and expected TO return in year or so. Before
leaving he told his relatives that he would not
use a pair of scissors on his hair or a razor on
his face till he returned. He has not been home
since and as he kept his word. his hair. which
is coal black represents a growth of forty
years.
THE abnormal severity of the season and the
extraordinary heavy snowfalls have made
wolves exceedingly aggressive in Southern Rus
STA. native paper says that issuing from
the Podolian and Volhynian and Lithuanian
forests, they have assembled in formidable
numbers, compelling the inhabitants in the
smaller towns aud TIE steppe hamlets to OBJ
serve a constant watchfulness On the Nicolaieff
post road pack OF some 200 wolves appeared
some days ago. They were partially dispersed
by an organized raid, but such travellers as have
the temeI1ty to proceed by that route in sledges
are officially warned to see to their weapons.
correspondent OF the Boston Transcript.
talking about cigarettes. says that those
bought by our boys are quite another thing
| from those comparatively innocent ones smoked
| by Cubans and South Americans that set the
fashion. Wrappers, warranted rice paper, are
proven TO be ordinary paper whitened with ar
Senlc In the u expensive popular brands with
one exception, were found sufficient quantit es
OF opium to create such q craving could only
be satisfied by an inceSsant use of cigarettes or
resort to opium alone We soc many cases of
| lightning paralysis, insomnia, INSANITY, unques-
tionably SO produced, and the whole army of
cigarette smokers show it in skin, weak eyes
and weaker manhood
THE sophomore freshman racket a LAFAYETTE
! n l1a1 ha- bid
sophs compelled the freshmen to ride has met
with an unit mely end. The SO. hs had intended
making big parade about town on Monday
leading the calf in the procession, but the fresh
mea had butcher in their ranks. and eay ming
where the calf was housed, this freshman ended
its existence in scientific ST yle and turned over
the carcass to meat dealer to be served to the
sophs. This occurred while the sophs slep
aud when the students marched 10 chapel later
the goal posts on the football grounds were
draped In mourning, while the biz coal box
was put in similar attire and bore the inscrip-
ton: Sacred to the Memory of Our Calf
THE GREAT HORSE CAR STRIKE has given rise to
very original game called 'scab" in New
York 1t can be played by any number of boys
The ARREST, strongest and most active boy of
the nighborhood is selected as the "scab." The
other boys are strikers. The ''SCab" IS given a
start, and when he has reached a certain dis
lance the strikers pelt him with mud and small
stones. When he is hit by a stone or a lump OF
mud the strikers turn into police and try 10
catch and beat the boy that threw the stone
that hit the 'scab.' II the successful boy suc-
ceeds in reaching a base before he is overtsken
by the police he is appointed ''scab" and the
game is repeated. The danger of the game
adds novelty 10 it., and it is, therefore, a great
favorite with the rising generation Of Gotham.
THE CHAIR in which President Cleveland has
sat for four years is one that he had made to
order and paid for himself. II is made Of light
oak 10 match the desk made from the timber
Of the ResOlute and sent TO the white house bv
Queen Victoria. II is a great, wide-sprea ding
revolving chair, with a seat and back of split
cane and heavy frame tastefully carved. In
the next room, where the cabinet meetings are
held, are other interesting chairs always
grouped around the time-worn old table at
which 20 many cabinets have held their celib-
! erationS. The smallest chair there is the presi-
q nj s-a light bent wood appurtenance all
| gi!ded. Secretary J. a rchi,d'S chair is a big one
that Mr. Manning brought over for himself
| from the treasury department. Secretary
Bayards chair is another large one on rockers
OFFICERS in the German army must always
be arrayed in uniform, even when they are on
leave, unless special permission has been
granted to dispense with the garb, and this is a
| favor seldom TO be obtained. The emperor has
recently issued order however allowing
| them to DIRE, as they please when hunting
| shooting or mountaineering. II lately struck
| Prince Frederick of Lippe, who is an officer of
~ foaf A.