The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
An old saddle which had been kicking around
| in a Nashville harness shop for several years
| was ripped up the other day and found to con-
| tain 81 800 in confederate money. II the owner
| of the shop could only have found the prize IN
| March 1865, he could have bought o breakfast
| and three cigars
A MONTH AGO Miss Lucy Roseberry of Stating
ton. Pa, announced that she would open a
| boarding house. A day or two ago she stated
| that she had abandoned the project and was
I going to marry a Philadelphia grocer. The hus
band that is to be advertised for wife; a cor
| respondence. an exchange of photographs
| and an engagemement resulted in very brief
| time.
A GENTLEMAN in Albany made a purchase in
| a drug store few days ago. The clerk tied
up the package and inadvertently neglected to
cut off the Irvine. The purchaser carelessly
put the package in an inside coat pocket and
left the store. He had gone nearly a block
when paSSer-by noticed the string trailing be-
hind him. He had unwound nearly a ball of
Irvine without knowing it.
LUMBERMEN in the Saginaw valley in Michi-
gan, report that the outlook for a healthy year
in the trade is good. The spring trade is open
ing up briskly large manutac lurers stating that
they nave never known lumber to sell more
readily at this season of the year. The log crop
throughout the northwest is, however, short as
compared with last year, and it is estimated
that the cut of the mills this season will not ex
coed 700 COO 900 feet against $780, 0000O0 feet for
the year before
A NOVEL BRANCH OF LEARNING has been intro
duced into the higher grades of the public
schools of New Haven. 1t consists of bulle-
tin board upon which are pasted each day
clippings of important home and foreign news
taken from the newspapers. Special attention
is given to matters brought up in connection
with the study of history or geography. The
pupils take great interest in the bulletin"
and vie with one another in bringing the great
est number OF items which are suitable to be
pasted.
SAYS A HARDWARE DEALER in the Kingston,
N. Y, Freeman: MANY people imagine that
by blowing their breath on the blade of a knife
they can tell whether the blade is steel or pot
metal. Now. persons breath Will adhere to
pot metal blade and fade away the same as on
steel, but nine out of ten men don't know this,
and that is the reason why so many people
carry inferior pocket-knives. l hate to see a
man enter my store and blow his breath on
steel Knive. Unless the knife is rubbed off right
after. it will rust and spoil the app earance of
il"
AMONG the many good works of the Queen of
Saxony is her education of women of all ranks
to re nurses. In 1867 she summoned the women
of Dresden to meet her in council. and at the
end OF year there were 200 nurses ready
for service. They were called Albertinerinneu,
from the name of the then crown prince. Auy
one i'll in Dresden sent request for a nurse to
any hospital managed by Albertinnerinneu.
Under their charge is the queens hospital and
a convalescent's home on the banks of the
Elbe, which the queen purchased from her pri-
vate means.
AN ENGLISH sTATIsTICIAN makes the following
curious estimates. Each year 10 people out of
every 1000 marry. OF each 900 men who
marry So, are bachelors and 139 are widowers,
while of each 600 women only 80 have been
married before and 902 are spinsters Twelve
marriages out of every 100 are second mar
rIages. The average age at which men marry
is about -. while the average age at which
women marry is about p years. Out of every
900 persons 602 are unmarried, 345 are married
and 50 are widowed. Over 0ne-half of all the
women between 16 and 45 are unmarried.
ACCORDING to an old English authrity the
custom of making fools on the first Of April
originated from the mistake of Noah in sending
the dove out of the ark before the water had
abated, on the first day of the month among
the Hebrews which answers to April l; and to
perpetuate the memory of this deiverance, it
was thought proper, whoever forgot 81 remark
able a circumstance to punish by sending him
upon some sleeveless errand similar TO that in
effectual message upon which the bird was
sent by the patriarch. The custom appears to
have been derived by the Romans from some of
the eastern nations.
THE Tennessee legislature has recently passed
bill appropriating $500 for the removal of the
mortal remains of Gen. John Sewer, first gov
ernor of the state, from his grave in Alabama
to the soldiers cemetery at Knoxville. They
now lie buried on the Walker farm, short dis
lance from Cowles Station, in Macon county.
Ala, and near old Fort Decatur. The grave is
in the center of a large field. small white
marble headstone is all that marks the last rest
ing place of the first governor of Tennessee, and
one of the greatest soldiers who ever held his
own in hand-to-hand fight or led band of
warriors against the hostile Indians.
The mail route between Woodstock and
Bridgewater, Vt, distance Of six miles, APP
pears to be a star route that does not need a
congressional invest gation, but does deserve
some notice. For the last four years it has cost
Uncle Sam only cents for a daily mail service
ON this route and for the ensuing four years /
cent is to pay for the same service. If warrants
are drawn quarterly they will call for only one
sixteenth of q cent each, and the contractor
will have to wait four years. or until he has re-
ceved sixeeen warrants, before can draw his
cash. William B llings, who is believed by his
friends to have seen more years of stage driv-
ing than any other man now living, is to carry
the mail over this route.
THERE is a passage in Ameie Rves' new
story, 1.-THE Witness of the Sum-" says the
Critic. which 1 fancy was written with inten-
tion,' as the French say. The hero is famous
novelist, and he is talking with the heroine.
The latter says: THE idea of being manned is
always so horrible" There are worse things
than losing ones hand, doushka.' - what is
worse?" TO have the eye OF the public always
on ones keyhole. man might go mad for
that, thrust his pen through the opening and
put it out, and so have no readers for his man
uscripts. The sensation of being eternally
pred upon-and there is nothing much worse
than that, and that is the penalty" And yet
unless we are to discount everything in the
newspapers, there has been some authorized"
prying in the case Of Miss Rives.
]. L. McCLoUD, of Omaha, has been missing
eggs from his barn for some time past, and the
other day he found out the thief by mere acct
dent. He says: was standing in the barn the
other morning when hen came cackling from
her nest in the manger, and a few moments
after big rat came from his hole ran across
the barn and climbed INTO the Manager | could
hear him, and was IDLY watching to see what he
was doing, when you can imagine my surprise
to see him rolling the egg in front of him to-
ward the edge of the manger. After good
many efforts he finally succeeded. He paused
there, gathering the egg up under his
chin he rolled himself completely around it,
resembling the form of a hedge hog when
alarmed, then he deliberately rolled over the
edge of the manger and dropped squarey on
his back on the floor, two feet below, thus saw
squeal with all his strength, and just as | was
starting to put him out of his misery, thinking
he had broken his back in the fall, two other
rats appeared on the scene. They ran up to
the first one as he lay on the floor, and each
Selling hold of hind leg began to drag him,
egg and all, across the barn. just as they
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