The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-05-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Saturday by the planting Of about twice as
many trees as on the same day in 1888.
A SOUTHERN PAPER tells the story of mouse
which fell into pan of milk in Texas dairy,
| and kept up such a lively swimming that he
churnei it into butter and was enabled to leap
out and regain his freedom.
JACOB HoUsER of Housewife, Pa. has in his
| possession a watch which has been in the
Houser family for 300 years. it having been
brought over from Germany by an ancestor
| who migrated TO this country 1t is in constant
use and is a good timekeeper.
A STEUBENvILLE MAN thought something was
wrong with his nose, 1t was nearly stopped up.
After suffering from this annoying ailment a
! wear or so he went to the doctor who removed
a shoe button from the base part of the nasal
| cavity. The man now breathes more easily.
some TRICKY YOUNGSTERS in Belfast, Me-, put
| one of their number in the bottom of bag,
| covered him with old iron. rags, etc, dragged
| the whole into a shop, had the bag weighed and
| were just setting with the man Of the shop
! when the hidden boy Sneezed and spoiled the
! trade
! CAPT. c. n. CoNLEY. who resides near Pales-
tine, Writ county, West Virginia, is the ownar
| of pig that is indeed a natural curiosity. II
| has six we'll formed legs and six feet 1t has
seven toes on one foot and ten on another. 1t is
about months old, and Capt Conley says it is
as thrifty and hearty a pig as he ever saw. 1t
| seems TO experience no especial Inconvenience
| from its numerous feet, but gets around as
! lively as any pig.
DISPATCH from Dubuque declares that a
| Spectator is buying cats there at 50 cents to
| 81 each, to take to Dakota to sell to the farm
| ers as protection against rats. When he gets
| a good carload of cats let him 20 sixty or sew
| enty miles north of Dakota, in Assinaboia, Man
| ltoba, or Alberta, where there are no rats, but
| where the pioneers are 81 lonely that they will
| give as high s. for a eat or dog merely for
| the sake OF companlonshp
! GAME OF baseball at Long Braucn was sud
I denly terminated on Thursday by the center
| fielder, in fielding ball falling head foremost
| into nest of thrty-tWo garter snakes. He
| picked himself up, but again sank to the ground
| almost Frustrated by fright and it was fully
| half an hour before he r covered sufficiently to
| walk. His companions, with their bats sue
| ceeded in killing twentysix Of tho ugly reptiles,
/ some of which measured three feet in length.
| IT is a very valuable and comprehensive pis-
| catorial collection that Commissioner Blackford
has presented to the museum of the City Col
| legc, New York. 1t contains 800 preserved
| specimens, or nearly all the varieties Of food
| fish found in the waters of North America and
| South America, that have been procured during
| the past quarter of century by the United
| States fish commissioners. II will make the
| finest show of the kind to be seen i'll this coun-
| try.
A coLoBED WOMAN at Birmingham, Ala, re-
moved to Memphis last fall She determined
to leave her dog behind. Just as she was start
ing the faithful animal came bounding into the
| car where she sat When she returned 10 Biz
mingham she did not feel able to incur the ex
| pense Of dog fare again and so left the animal
| in Memphis Last week the dog, foot-sore and
| half starved, came bounding into his old home.
| be had Travelled @5l miles to rejoin his old
| mistress,
| INVESTIGATION, it is said. shows that the an
archsts in Chicago are continuing their work
| of organizing, and are all now working in per-
feet harmony: Their Sunday schools and other
! meetings are being held with great regularity.
| They have adopted the Russian plan for hold
! ing meetings. The members are informed by
! secret signs where the next meeting shall take
place For the purpose of making it more diff
cult for the police 10 watch their meetings and
| control their movements, they meet in small
| groups at the houses OF various members.
will the educated woman marry" is
| question under discussion in some of the maya
| zines. That depends. If her education makes
| her bright pleas ant, entertaining and sensible
Sne viii marry, provided a Gau worth having IS
| within reach. But if her education makes her
| critical, dogmatic and pedantic, she will not
| marry, for the simple reason That no man will
ask her. All women ought 10 be well educated.
| Nothing more requires a wise and well-trained
mind than to adrnins ter well the affairs of
household. An education which units woman
for this IS not worth the name.
JUDGE C. G. GARRISON of Mercbantville. n j..
is the owner of a remarkable hen, whose pecu-
liarity consists in the fact that from the time
little angle Of the hall behind the front door of
the house rs the place of her choice. AS regu-
larry as the family seated themselves at the
| breakfast table she would fly up to the window
sill of the dining room, repeat the gentle tap
plug Of 'POe's Raven, and when the window
was raised, betake herself with a cluck to her
favOrIte nest. When the egg was laid she did
not cacisle until she fairly out of the house.
She then invariably as hard as her legs
| would carry her to the barnyard and awakened
TIE echoes with her triumphant notes.
while blowing ground in the Mansion Hill ad-
dition Of the James Taylor estate on Monday,
made startling discovery. The ground was
formerly the fashionable cemetery of the dis
! trct but was abandoned manv years ago. and
! all the dead were supposed to haze been trans
ferred to resting place. In a small de-
| preston in the field Corbett's plowshare
| plunged into mass of half rotton wood which
| came to the surface, and proved to he coffin.
| which az once crumbled to pieces The body
I it contained was comparatively well preserved,
| the features being distinct as in life, and the
| clothes, which were the uniform of a British
| general were scarcely widowed. A dispatch
| reports that upon the left breast was silver
| plate on which was Inscribed Gen. Thomas
| Tibbotts: born in Lancaster, England, 1856
| Inquiry developed the fact that Gen Tibbotts
buried in the old graveyard in 1893, having died
| while visiting his grandson, John Tibbotts. a
| resident Of Newport, who aiterward became
| wealthy. The heirs of the Taylor estate, who
| are related 10 tue Tibbotts, will give the body
/ an imposing refinement"
MR. CAMPBELL, Of the Bombay civil service
| has recently discovered number of interesting
| Buddhist relics by excavating a huge mound to
! the southeast of JunagGdh in Kattywar. Ten
! years ago a similar discovery by the same gen
I tleman near Sopara excited great interest
| among antiquarians; but the new, or Gifnar
| mound is far larger than that at Sopara. It is
| ABOUT 80 feet high and 80 yards round, and
| both are believed to date from about $50 b c.
! On Jan. Is the eXcavators came on the relic box
| or Golfer, to guard which he mound was origi-
| nally constructed II was OF stone, about ii
| inches square and inches deep. inside this
was a reddish clay stone casket, which. again
| contained a copper box or bottle. almost round
| in shape and ABOUT * inches across This was
| green with verdigris, ami contained a silver
box, which. again contained & round, spiked
| topped gold casket, in shape and size like a
| small chestnut aud still bright and uutarnished
after 900 years. 1t was 1915 inches high and
| seven-eighth of an inch across, and ii contained
seven artic eS, six being intended for the pro-
| lection of the seventh. These were four pre-
| cious stones and two small pieces of wood. The
| seventh was a fragment of what appears to be
bone OF about the size of the little finger nail
A WRITER the Lewiston (Nie) Journal is
| responsible for this story: Whether "a lie well
told and stuck to afterward is as good as the
truth" was debated at a dinner table where
| uas stiff do ~ 10