The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


| ford. Vt, by couple Of hunters the past win
ter A bounty Of 50 cents for each fox destroyed
| is paid by the state.
WILLIAM vERM of Centervi.le had both legs
| cut OF Friday night in a singular manner at
! Elz3 bethport. n J. While standing in an
| empty coal car the bottom suddenly opened.
| dropping him under the train, the wht els Of
| which passed over his legs.
T. H. GRAY, photographer of Lynn, Mass,
while working in bis shop one day last week,
| happened to overthrow some shelves in the
| room, on which we're 10000 negatives. The
whole weight fell upon him. pinning MIN to the
| ground, and his rescue was accomplished with
| great difficulty.
TREE opposite the railroad station at Will
liams Bridge, Westminster county, N. Y, has
grown through the hole in the center of big
| grindstOne which has been lying near the tree
| for many years. The hole is four inches square
4 and the tree, which is six inches in diameter,
| extends out beyond the hole little above it.
sHREwD NEwsBoY in Dubuque, Ia, square d
his account with bad paying customer by
sending him C. o. D. a package of bricks, on
| which the charges amounted to something like
| two or three dollars. The man paid the sum,
| and on discovering he was the victim of an old
trick, started off to learn who sent the bricks,
| but hadn't succeeded up TO last account
TIE youngest elopement of the season took
place in New York on Friday. A little boy 4
! years OlQ ana a girl years OeuDeF2IeIy ran
| away from home. They were captured by a
newspaper reporter, and related how they both
| loved each other, and were never going back
home again. A pound of candy, however,
| caused the young lovers to retrace their steps,
The BIG RAFT that is to float from Puget
Sound down to San Francisco will be made Of
longer logs than were ever put
into raft on Atlantic waters. 1t
will have but 5000 logs, against
the % 900 in the big JoRgins raft of last year,
h,frar will ha faat I'D fha
great size of the sticks it is thought, will bring
the amount Of lumber up to the amount of the
eastern raft.
AT the American Express Company's sale Of
unclaimed baggage, which took place in Buffalo
| on Tuesday last, toy trunk was sold for so
cents. On opening it the purchaser discovered
| number of letters, and among them notes
aggregating $500 in value. Two of the notes
had been outlawed just three days-One for q
small amount, and the other for 1923. The
others are pronounced good, and amount to
something over 800.
SAYS Prof. Hadley: 1.-THE speed of railroad
trains is restricted within three theoretical
limits First, physical limit of eighty miles
hour, beyond wnich it is found impossible for
train to mold the track; second an operating
limit of sixty miles an hour which practical ex-
perience has found trains cannot run without
much damage to life; third, a commercial limit
of thirty miles per hour, at which, all things
considered, 1t is found most economical to run
train"
ONE of the small humbugs of the day, as
noticed by New York paper, is an advertising
card of a coming theatrical attraction. On the
reverse side is printed pretty, highly colored
picture. beneath which is the caution to read
the other side, and afterward immerse the card
IN water. picture uppermost tor three days,
then watch carefully the result. 1t is needless
TO add the result is nil, but the scheme is rather
clever, for it InSIres six times ont of ten, the
careful preservation of the card.
THE North China Daily Ne,cs says: 1--WE are
informed that the so-called closing of the
breach in the Yellow river is a farce. When
the surface Of the river flowing through the
breach froze over, the Chinese laid planks on
the ice and covered them with millet- stalks and
earth, and reported the breach closed: but
the river is still flowing through the breach I'M
der the ice This news comes to us on good
foreign authority. and there is every reason to
believe that it is absolutely true
ONE YEAR AGO R. c. Kells Of Marysvine Yupa
county, California, put out quite a number of
peach seeds at a nursery owned by G. W. Elder
Esq. From them have sprung up a number of
Seeding trees, all of which are of surprising
hight and dimensions. One of them is I feet
high and measures 228 inches in diameter. 1t
has dozen roots which measure fro n Ii to
inch in dame err This is the largest Seeding
that has ever been grown in that locality, and
/ doubtless cannot be surpassed in the whole
country.
A CURIOUS STORY of foster relationship be-
| tween wood duck and hen is told in the
PoDu'dr Science Monthly. The duck was
Matched along with brood of chicks from an
| egg that had been placed under the hen. 1t
was attended as well as her othef chicks by the
mother, and reached adult age. Then, when
the hen brought out another brood of chicks, it
kept in close attendance much to the hens an
noyance, and with occasional resultant fights.
Finally, the duck drove away the zen and took
exclusive of the chicks during the day,
only giving them up at night
IN 70 tba
Greeks tinted their statues, a correspondent of
London Notes and Queries says there is not the
least doubt that the answer must be in the
affirmative. There is the amplest evidence of
the fact that the sculptures of the Parthenon-
at least some of them-were tinted. but they
were not painted with solid paint, like the
statues in the Crystal Palace. Architecture and
sculpture were often tinted, not alone by the
Greeks, but by the Etruscans, AssyrianS and
Egyptians. Colored statuary abounded in the
middle ages as any one may see for himself
who examines medieval monuments.
On the subject of wedding fees, well-known
New York clergyman thus expresses himself in
the Tribune: 81 think the clergy have had too
much 10 say about the smallness Of some of
their wedding fees. There is no earthly reason,
in the first place, why clergyman should re-
ceive any fee for his services on such an occa-
sion. If fees are TO be given at all, they would
be much more appropriate when a clergyman is
asked TO Ot11clate at funeral which. in some
cases, may consume several hours OF his time,
But, granting that wedding fee is allowable,
my experience is that such fees are q a rule
too large rather than too small l Lave Off
ciated at the weddings of a great many me-
chanics and working men, and in the large ma
Jorlty OF instances the grooms have given me
$40 Some of them have given fifteen and even
twenty dollars Now, the lowest of these sums
is out of all proportion to the average income
Of mechanic. 1t is much more than they can
afford for a service which christian minister
should be glad to render for nothing. And in
my own practice | have always returned the
fee in such cases, unless the groom was SO fool
ishly proud as to refuse it"
A VERY CURIOUS CUSTOM Of the Vienna Hof-
burg was brought before the public by the
death Of Crown Prince Rudolph. On the day
after his death an undertaken at Vienna re-
ceived the order for an oak coffin, to be de-
livered on the same day. The man asked for a
little more time, but the order was that the
coffin must be delivered the same day, other
wise it would be of no use. What was the rea-
son for this haste? The crown prince lay
already in his coffin. and no one else had died
at the Hofburg. Presently, however, the rea-
son was given that it is the custom to have
always a coffin ready at the imperial palace
When the terrible news from Meyerling came
to Vienna the oak coffin, which had been in
readiness ever since the death of Archduke
Franz Karl, the father Of the present emperor
was sent TO Meyerling to receive the remains Of
the dead man. And. according to tradition,
empty coffin Tor twenty four hours in order
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