The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-04
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wrote l03 words of memorized matter on the
| Typewriter in half a Misunderstanding the
| record
! NUNBER of the principal hotel proprietors Of
Paris have met and decided to increase their
| prices by from 20 to rs per cent. from the open
ing OF the exhibition.
RUsHvILLE, ILL, girl put her lump of chew
| ing gum on her pillow. 1t got into her ear
| while asleep. 1t took several days to remove
| it, and now she is deaf.
| AN INGENIOUS Boston man has captured 100
crows, and proposes to hatch with an incubator
| crow chlcks Tor the Maine market where their
! heads are worth 10 cents apiece.
| SIMON COHEN, Brooklyn boy, while playing
tag, was pushed against a staircase by play
| mate, and sustained injuries which have de-
veIoped IN congestion OF the brain.
OUT in backwoods town in Indiana. last
week, the sheriff left the court room for dinner
| forgetting all about his prisoner who afterward
leisurely walked off and has not since been cap
| tured.
The DUKE and Duchess of Marlborough are
| fitting up the house in Carlton square with
| great magnif1cence and when completed it
| will be one of the most sumptuous abodes in
| London
AN English medical journal declares that the
number of infants smothered TO death by half
tipsy parents between sunset on Saturday and
sunrise on Monday. exceeds the mortality of
any other night in the week.
THE present annual revenues of Alaska are
S9,OOO,00O yet the territory is practically I'M
developed Camel coal has been discovered
there in large quantities, and all the mineral
resources are said to be enormous.
The FACT of cob pipe factory in Missouri
paying $64 to farmer for wagon-load of de-
sirable corn cobs leads the Memphis Avaldnche
10 remark that the time may yet come when
the people Will raise wheat for the chaff -
SOME WOMEN in England make good salaries
by manufacturing the dainty silk aud lace lamp
shades now so popular. A dealer in London,
VINO gloSleS IN the royal patronage. pays one
woman 500 month for the shades she makes
DURING the water famine in New Orleans Mr..
Lorio was the envy of his neighbors, because he
had a big cistern. One morning he discovered
that during the night someone had broken open
the cistern and stolen from 1900 to 900 gallons
of water.
A SCIENTIST has promulgated the theory that
natural gas will gradually turn blonde hair
dark He says the gas generates an ammon-
zeal vapor, which combines with the sulphur in
the hair chemically and produces sulphuret of
ammonia.
LOUIS GoULoN, laborer in a French mill is
62 years old, and has gray beard three yards
long that he wears wound around his neck His
beard and mustache began to grow when he was
II, and at Il he had beard foot long 1t is
still growing.
THERE is natural born humorist at Red
Cloud, Neb He announced exctedly the other
DAY that he had made an important discovery
or coal, and volunteered to show the place. He
was followed by al enthusiastic crowd all over
town, when he led the way to the coal yard.
A SPORTING MAN in Chicago was so certain
that his dog would win proposed fight that he
mortgaged his cigar factory and all his iewelry,
ana even persuaded his sweetheart to put up ali
her loose cash. The other dog won, and his fac
tory was closed out, and the girl committed
suicide.
A SALoNo, CAL, paper says: The straits are
literally swarming with sea lions, and the fish
ermen are having hard struggle with them.
Out OF sixteen salmon in net Tuesday only
two were secured ~ the fishermen, the sea
lions eating up before their eyes the other
fourteen, besides tearing the net to pieces
THE beautifully paved streets of London are
so slippery that association has recently
been formed called the Society for Promoting
the Safety of Horses, and another called the
Horse Accident Prevention Society The pro-
posed plan to receive the most commentator
was to keep the streets clean and we'll sanded
A REPORT lately laid before the Italian Cham
Der of Deputies shows that in Italy there are
1898 persons who have received licenses to beg
and who are, therefore, unchallenged by the
police. A bill is now before the Chamber pro-
vding for the abolition of these licenses and for
the erection of poor house in each commune
YOUNG DAUGHTER of Milton Blake of Keene,
N. H., became seriously and mysteriously ill.,
Finally it was suggested that the illness might
be due to the new green flannel dress she had
been wearing. piece of the goods was
analysed by chemist, and found to be heavily
loaded with arsenic. The girl had been pos-
oned.
A TELEGRAM from Goshen, Ind, reads: LEX
element was aroused to-day by the discovery
of pouch of old coins in a field near here The
W m la l1crbf na vynfo
who claimed to be a clarvoyant. He says he
located the spot by tingling sensation in his
fingers when he approached. The value of the
discovery is but few dollars.
A SOLDIER named vertjoie has just been con-
demned to death for an extraordinary perform
ance He was being tried by court martial at
Oran for an attempt to desert when he suddenly
threw the quid of tobacco comfortably slowed
away in the recesses of his cheek in the face of
Col Thierry, who presided. The man was at
once sentenced to death for an assault on a
superior while on duty.
THE absence Of Historian Bancroft from tie
Senate chamber on Inauguration day caused |
considerable comment 1t appears that Mr.
Bancroft was refused a ticket of ad mission by |
Senator Hoar, of the Senate committee of |
arrangements. Perhaps Mr. Bancroft did not |
know that he had a right to a seat on the floor |
as one of the few Americans who have received |
the public thanks Of congress
TEACHER in a western town, who asked one |
Oh ner puplS 10 procure grammar, received |
the following note from the girls mother: II |
do not desire that Matte shall ingage in gram |
mar as | prefer her to ingage in more yollsfnl |
studies and can learn her to speak and write |
proper myself. | have went through two |
granmars and can't say as they did me no |
good prefer Matte t. ingage in German and |
drawing and vokal music on the piano"
For EIGHT weeks the girls comprising the
Feather Workers Union of New York city
have suffered lockout because they refused
to accept the schedule of prices set forth and
because they refused to allow non.unioa girls
to receive the most remuneratve part OF The
work. The plucky girls have at last had TO
give in, finding it impracticab,e TO continue
their stand in view of a reduced treasury
and the prospect of the lockout being pro
longed.
The PEOPLE of Rutland Vt, tried the Aus
traian system Of voting at their village district
election last week. and local pauer reports
That over 100 votes hal to be rejected OWN.
10 lrregularity, while there was much gruu. 4
bling before the day was over and some con.
tested offices will result. This failure was due
TO no defect in the method but TO Ignorance
ana the elimination of the element of secrecy
the voters being allowed TO help and advise
each other in the matter Of eraslres
THERE are now fifty electric plumbers in OK.
istence, and very few people have ever heard Of
the term before, yet it is the name of a trade the
members OF which are well paid, and which in
Few years will bold an important place among