The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-20


ABcTFALo GIRL got rid of an undesirable
| sutton IN a unique way. He proposed on the
way home from church sunday evening. and
the fair creature who is ''O'er Young t. marry.
/ sad yes. bat added HAT she would not marry
/ him til he gained the consent o. her faith r.
] The young man discovered the lexl day { lat
/ the young isdy's father died ssrera. years ago,
/ and the disappointed lover has eInlgrated to
| Black Rock.
In what strange ways some people meet their
deaths. Here is g Northampton, England. man
who died from injuries caused by a tall hat
/ which he was wearing coming in contact with
/ the top of doorway. Tle deceaseI when pass
/ ing from one room to another in his own house
struck the top OF his hat against the Intel Of the
| doorway, aud forced the ha. further on his
| head. As he suffered considerable pain n edi
| cal aid Wa summoned, but he succumbe1 10
injuries TO the brain, caused by compress ion OF
the skull.
| THE OLDEST ACTIVE STAGE DRIVER in New
England is probably Harvey Ward, who drives
| between East Eddington and Bangor. Although
| his route is but twelve miles long, II takes MIN
| into the woods, away from railroads and tele-
graphs and where bears and deer cross his road
almost daily. Harvey always eats his Thanks
giving dinner at a certain Bangor hotel and last
| Thanksgiving day he drove up to he door Tor
his fOrtieth consecutive annual turkey dinner
on the very ssme red coach which he drove 10
the same door in 1873
THE queerest Sunday service held in Maine,
or perhaps in the country, is that Of the Liberal
| fraternity. which meets every Sunday after
noon in a hall in Portland, Me. Here infidels,
agnOstics, spirtJaiists, Buddhsts and thinkers
Of various shades OF heterodoXy come together
and do battle. The service generally consists
OF free discussion. IN which every man is in
vlted to eXpatiate upon bis creed: but occasion
ally some clergyman or speaker OF reputation
is invited to add ess tie assembly. The strang-
est OF notions get an airing here, and sometimes
provoke heated controversy
According to a Boston special. a raw army
| recruit from that city. Spencer Jackson, col
| lege graduate so it is said, recently created
| sensation among his cavalry associates and has
! been sentenced 10 six months in the guard
| house. He deserted his troop when ordered in
! to service. fled back TO Fort Duchesne ard told
| such startling yarn abOnt the redskins ami
| hIiatlug the command that veteran officers,
| fearing great uprising Of the Indians, ordered
the soldiers to be kert under arms all night, the
women huddled into stone retreat, carr eTs
/ dispatched for reinforcements and telegra ms
| sent to the Secretary of War The next Gay 1t
was found out that the whole tale was untrue,
and Jackson was courtmartlaIed for his be
! haviOr
CERTAIN house owners should profit by the ex-
pericnce Of wealthy Louisville widow, who
rather than accept a fair rent for a dwelling
! kept the latter vacant It remained so for
months and eventually the boys in the neigh
! borhood began breaking the windows with
stones. Then somebody tore down and carried
away the front fence. Perhaps other PEOPLE
concluded after this that tie house was a stray
! one, for they tore down the stable and other
! outhuildings. The shutters, doors, windows.
! floors. etc, next disappeared. Large loads Of
| brick began TO leave the house, and in q short
| time all the neighbors had paved yards and
| sidewalks. The walls Crumbed away and fell
in, and in a short time scarcely a semblance Of
| a house remained.
SPECIAL from Delphos, O., says: Parties
| living at Anna station, a few miles from here
| on the Pittsburg railroad, are greatly excited
over the finding of a rare treasure-a remark
| able collection Of old coins. Charles Manning
| while chopping down a hollow beech tree. which
| WAS apparently $50 years old, had his attention
| drawn to a peculiar looking earthen jar. which
was well >mken in the center of the hollow
/ butt. \ few blows of the ak liberated it from
! lis confined position, and, after securing il. it
! was opened and found filed to the brim with
| silver coin. They were all Of Spanish mintags
with a few exceptions. Some Of the coins were
over 300 years old, but all the Spanish silver
J pieces were about POD years old The face value
Of the coin is about $500"
\ CORRESPONDENT of q Rostou paper tells this
dog story: Last fall received letter from
my son saying that he and his wife and daugh-
ter were coming to pay us a visit; he concluded
b. saying. Kill the fatted calf and put a bottle
on ice. / read the letter aloud to my wife, the
dog an Irish setter sitting up beside me, and
looking wise that called my wife 5 atteu-
ton to MIN. saying. Look at the Judge After
| had finished reading, he barked TO 20 out. and
| did not get home until quite late He came into
| the sitting room " here was reading, and made
such denominations that followed him TO the
outside door, a d in the porch found the lower
! part Of the leg OF calf He wagged his tail
| ard jumped up on ne, saying as plainly as he
I could, There 5 the calf; now You attend to the
| bottle
NJ Cow, an Italian savant, has presented a
paper to the French Academy of Sciences, in
which re claims for Calico the distia ion of
| having discovered the microscope, as well as
| the telescope. He has found a book printed IN
! 1910 according to which Calico had already
directed ms tube fitted with lenses to the OBJ
servatiOn Of small near objects. The uhiOso-
phcr himself stated, shortly after this date,
that be mad been Ob.e q observe through lens
the movements Of minute animals ana their
organs Of sense, In d letter, written in 1914 he
states tbat he has with his microscope seen
and observed files as large as sheep, and how
their bodies were covered with hairs, and they
| nal Sharp claws. The discovery of the micro
scope is usually ass gued TO the year 1921, and
the invention is attributed to Drebbel, a Dutch
man.
THIs is from the Des Moines Qowa) Leader:
An accomplished young lady of this city made
a call upon somebody the other day and she
avows she passed a very delightful afternoon.
Who the person was she called on she does not
know All sle knows is that she started out to
got into tie wrJng house, where she met a very
cordial reception from young lady who evi-
IDENTIFY knew her well. This young lady rushed
up 10 her when she entered tho door and told
how awfully glad she was 70 see her. calling
her by name. She also entertained her guest
SO pleasantly and everything appeared 10 be so
agle able all around that the latter did not have
the heart to break the spell by asking her who
her unknown friend was, and the unknown
friend never knew that she was not known by
her guest.
A MovENE Mt has been started in New York to
establish a botanic garden. The Torrey Botani5
cal Club is active in the movement and in a
circular says that the uses Of the garden would
be educational and scientific. pharmaceutical
horticultural ant lastly as a place Of agreeable
resort for the public at large. Such a garden
should be devoted largely to the representation
Of distnCtiveiY American plants well as
others. This would make the garte a Mecca
for hotanists from all over the world would be
of great value to schools and colleges within
100 miles Of It,, courses of instruction could be
provided for pupils from New YORK and its
vicinity; plants Of medicinal value could be cul-
tivatel. and thus students of medicine and
pharmacy would be greatly benehte T. Horti-
culturally the hothOuses Of such m institution
would be models. and the methods OF cultiva-
ton would be the bes. that science and ex-
pariencc can dictate Furthermore. the garden
would I've the place for rare species aud floral
experiments.
THE RUSSIAN EXPEDITION 10 Thibet, inter
rupted by the death Of Prjeva sky, has been re
sumed, but meanwhile the British Indian gov.
eminent slips ahead by friendly agreement
with China, which Acknowledges the control of