The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-06
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acres a day.
C. L. ALEXANDER has on exhibition at his store
IN Madison n. D., a very perfect little specimen
OF the finny tribe, presented him by his friend.
Willard Laughlin. 1t came forth from a 19o
Ioot artesian well twenty miles southwest of
Howard. This well, it is said, flows With a won
derlul force, and throws out small fish freely
during the spring and summer.
They have an effective way of dealing with
habitual drunkards in Norway aud Sweden.
They put them in jail and feed them entirely
on bread and wine. The bread is steeped in
VINE for an hour before it is served. The first
day a man will take it, but before many more
ne Will nate the sight of it, After an incarcer-
alton OF this sort many become total alb
stainers.
WHAT is SAID to be the largest organ in the
world is building at the Roosevelt organ works
Boston. for the Auditorium building, Chicago
IL VIII be operated b. electricity. Electric
motors are now used for pumping the organs in
elgnt churches in New York city at a cost of
SlO per month per horse power. The water
motor consumed too much water and the gas
engine was TOO noisy.
A WESTERN INVENTOR is endeavoring to inter.
est capital in his electrical magic lantern for
casting or rejecting advertisements on the
dark clouds that often hang low over a CITY
The inventor claims to have secured contracts
from several well-known firms for displaying
LheiF CARDS IN this manner. If the idea is fully
uoNC.Opou we may expect to see some very
startling and groteSque effects.
A NOVEL CURE was effected by the use of the
dynamo recently at Westgate-on-S Sea, England
A Mr. Brown was fitting a false bottom to
CRATE, and while chipping it to make it fit. a
| very small splinter of iron flew off and struck
him in the eye. An electrical engineer who
met him shortly after, seeing his plight. took
| MN TO dynamo that was working near by.
Brown placed his eye as close as possible to the
| machine, and the magnetic attraction was suf-
| nclently intense to withdraw the splinter of
| iron from the eye, which was instantly relieved
| ana which gave no further trouble.
| IF YOU wish to see medical curiosity, saws
Cincinnati paper, "step into Appraiser
Khmper's Office in the government building
and ask him to show you a Chinese Dill. He
| mas dozen or so of them. They are as big as
| large marbes-in fact, they are just the size of
crao apples-and are coated with a semitrans-
parent Sugary substance covered with flowers
| and gilt letters. Some of them have this sweet
covering broken, and you can see beneath the
pill proper, black as bail of India ink aud the
very ~ thio9gnt OF mastlcatng that mass in order
70 get IL down IS an emetic. But it must take
| an unusual amount of moral courage in a
Chlnaman to tackle pill.
a GREAT oUTcRY has been raised in the Swiss
canton lessen against the prevalence there of
bribery at elections. The political workers are
constantly racking their brains to devise new
means OF buying votes. The mayor of small
CITY near Locarno recently while running for
fe-electlon- invited every man who would prom
Use to vote for him to eat and drink at his ex-
penSe for three months at certain specified
taverns. The success of his plan is shown by
Une Iact That he was reelected and that his bills
at the tayerns in question amounted to $4,000
francs. Votes bought in the old fashioned way
cost from 20 cents to So each. Even the clergy
are sad TO bride electors right and left.
THERE ARE some good-sized families in Maine
to-day, but probably none so large as one men,
toned in the histories of old colonial DAYS 1t
Is told on the authority of Cotton Mather that
The flrst royal governor of Boston was one of a
famlly OF twenty-Six children, and was born in
tne woods of Maine, near the mouth of the
hennebec, IN 1851. His mother was left a
widow when he was a child and is said to have
lad all she could do to provide for the wants of
her family. 1t is hoped that when the governor
got SlO0OOO knighthood and goblet valued
at $4,000 as reward for folding Spanish
treasure-ship that had gone to the bottom half
century before, he remembered his mother
and made her last days easier than her earlier
ones had been.
APRoPos of the discussion how wives can
keep their husbands at home nights is a story
Gen. Wagner Swayne told the other night at
the Ohio Society in New York. 1t was about a
young wife who had great admiration for her
mother-ln-law, because of the manner in which
she managed her husband. The honeymoon
was hardly over before the young wife came to
the older woman, to beg for knowledge how to
make her young husband good a man as his
father. You have some secret about it,
mother, am sure; and now that I am your
daughter, you can tell me about it, can't your
The Old lady insisted that she had no secret
ana knew OF no special plan by which to make
a man always as he. ought to be, but finally,
under repeated urgings, she smiled and said
simply this: Daughter, feed the beast"
A FAMILY OF RATS in Hartford, Conn, have
amazingly disturbed the fami y in whose cellar
they dwelt. For several days in succession the
morning paper, which was left upon the front
steps of the house early every morning, was
missing. Complaint was made at the office of
the paper, and it was found that it had been
properly delivered right along. Some days
later neighbor, who had risen early in the
morning, happening to look out of his window
saw two large rats upon the doorstep of the
house opposite. He watched their movements
for awhile and saw them take the morning
paper and disappear with it under the piazza
He reported what he had seen, and an invest-
CATION showed that the rats had burrowed down
from beneath the porch to the cellar, and in a
secluded spot, mad built nest and were rearing
promising batch of young. The nest was
constructed out of Hartford morning news
papers.
SIGNS are multiplying of coming cold win
ter, but Ridgefeld, Conn, has one of its own.
which is worth noting, in the person of George
Washington Gilbert, a genuine hermit, who
lives the outskirts of the town. Gilbert
though we'll off, never wore shoes except In the
coolest weather, and his feet have become so
sensitive that he claims to be able to foretel the
weather three months ahead. All Ridgefield is
watching inteEtly his pedal implements from
the end of September every year. If he dons
mis- shoes on or about Oct. l, they know that the
winter will be early and severe. If he goes
barefooted until Nov. /, the winter will be as a
Florida one. Well, George Washington put his
shoes on last October, and feeling of dread has
settled down upon Ridgefeld. Moreover the STRAIT
ford fishermen say that the eelS were coming IN
the Housatonic river a. far up as Birmingham
which is a never failing sign of some singing
cold weather.
THERE is an amusing story of the little Ger
man crown prince, who seems to have inner.
tied some of the pleasing qualities of his
father The prince was driving out with his
governess. AS usual, the Germans cheered the
little one, or lifted their hats to him as he
passed, to which the young prince replied by
raising his bonnet. At last the crown prince
got bored with having to continually acknowl-
edge the salute of the populace. Flinging him
self back in his carriage. he said to his
governess: Il am tired now, and shall not lift
my bonnet any more to them, no matter how
much they cheer" You are naughty bow
replied the governess, land unless YOU acknowl
edge the salutes of the people l shall not con-
tinue to drive with you" The little crown
prince sat up Immediately. "Coachman," said
he. The coachman looked around. stop the
carriage, coachman," continued the little one:
this lady will get out, he added with lordly
wave of his hand toward his governess.
A BosroNIAN, who has a very accomplished