The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

SACRAMENTO. CAL, has passed an ordinance
making it unlawful for any person u7der II
wears Of age 10 smoke cigarettes Withih Tue
city limits.
PARTISAN WOMEN have carried the watch
wearing mania to the point Of wearing umecc
pieces as ornaments 70" the hair ana ihsleau oi
rosettes on their bail slippers
A MAN has just been released from the Minne-
sofa penitentiary after serving ten years for
murder, wnich MS brother committed am re-
Gently confessed on his death bed
IT IS STATED that the United States govern
ment has paid more money in the investigation
OF the disease OF hogs than it has for all the
diseases affecting the human race
Mrs. NJ. S. WOLF, of Delaware. o, got
mothers best Christmas present Her son
whom she had mourned as victim OF the war,
returned bone on Christmas morning.
A BooK published in 1892 describes the devil
fish as a fish from 10 to 90 feet long with m.
single horn on either side of the head. The
real monster had not been seen mp to that date
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York World
makes the discovery that the letter A appears
in the name of every President tue country has
had. 1t also figures in the name Of the Prest-
dent-elect.
SKI RUNNING, Scandinavian sport, is becom-
ing popular in Minnesota. The performer slides
down hill on long wood skates, or foot to6og-
gaus and at prepared jolt makes leap INTO
space. Ninety-tve feet is the longest sh-Jump
on record in Norway.
CHARLES W. CooMBs, taxidermist, of Belfast,
Me-, in preparing to mount great horned OWL
found the owls body full Of porcupine quilts.
The flesh was literally packed full of them, as
well as the roof of the mouth. The owl ev.-
IDENTIFY had dined on hedgehog
A RECENT SIGHT on the Norwich, Conn, town
road was lad leisurely riding a 3-year-old
Attorney bull northward. TIE bull had a ring
in his nose, and the boy held the other end OF
rope that was attached to the ring. The novel
steed plodded along as placid as you please.
A COMMUNITY in Nebraska opposed to lynch
ing recently, to teach him lesson, gave des-
perado what might lie termed an introduction
to Judge Lynch. They put rope around his
neck and pulled him into the air few times.
Then he was told to go and never return. He
went.
THEODORE KNAPP of Norwalk, Conn, has in
his restaurant a sea gull that was captured
down the harbor some weeks ago. The bird
seems perfectly contented but it in not wise to
trihe with him. He has very robust appetite,
and will eat two quarts Of clans at a meal and
then call for more. Another queer thing about
the bird is the fact that, after he has eaten two
quarts of clans, you can put his body in quart
measure.
In list of ''the greatest living Englishmen,"
which has heen compiled according to the votes
of the readers of the Saturday Journal Mr..
Gladstone heads the poll with twice as many
votes as has been given to Lord Salisbury, who
stands second. Mr.. Gladstones number was
nearly 10000 Mr.. Irving is between Mr.. Spur
geon and Mr.. Chamberlain, who will be pleased
to learn that he received about 30 900 fewer
votes than the actor.
NEVER SAY AGAIN that the newspaper writer
is not master OF diplomacy. One of the fra
ternity was to write up the history of an old
lady of % up in New Hampshire. He was told
that she had ueve so much as learned her letters.
DID ne burt it right out in print? Not bit OF
it. He merely stared in his finely written arti-
Gle that "she can read the finest print as well as
she ever could" Machiavell may as well re-
sign his laurels. He has no longer any right to
wear them
NITRo-GLYCERTNE bids fair. say the doctors, to
become an important remedy for diseases of
the kidneys; and experiments are now making
in cases Of Bright s disease. Nitro glycerine, Of
a pure quality. Possessing all the explosive
powers of the substance. is prepared in alcohol
(Which removes the explosive quality in the
proportion of one part OF the nitro glycerine to
ninety nine OF alcohol ard is then prepared
with SUGAR or milk in tablets Thus prepared
it is called 'Trintrinn
A COMMUNICATION in the Lewiston (Me) Jour
nal from a deaf young woman who has learned
to talk, asks people not to refer to the Portland
School for the Deaf Deaf and Dumb Asy
lum. The pupils are not dumb, are only deaf
and are sensitive on this point She saws She
adds: No words are so much disliked by the
speaking deaf as the term dumb or mute, when
applied to them, as those terms seem to con
meet them with the animals that cannot articu-
late
HENRY SCOOTER, a st. Louis lad who was kid
mapped three years ago, was restored to his
parents this week, having been found Through
the aid of a newspaper picture of HIM on a
farm near Cairo, III. After being abducted so
the boy states. he was bound out to a brick
ms ar n a 1t-Df-t q boI afta
a fast ride of three days. He afterwards ran
away and engaged with a farmer. who saw the
cut in a st. Louis paper, and thinking it re-
sembled mis- little employe, looked into the
matter.
JOHN EDWARD, an engineer on the Illinois Cen
tral railroad, vino was thought to be going into
consumption, the other night coughed ND a
bOny substance, which, on examination, proved
to be a large double tooth A few weeks ago
Edwards underwent the operation of having
his upper teeth extracted and during the oper-
alton one Of the teeth, without the knowledge
of either the patient or operator, slipped into
his throat, where it caused the racking cough
which was looked upon as an unmistakable sign
OF consumption.
some ONE has been overhaulng the old New
England account books and tax lists and has
found some interesting entries. In 1916 CON
g'eSs, to provide additional revenues, imposed
a tax of S. 100000 on the country of which
S632,541 fell upon Massachusetts, of which Maine
household furniture, plate, pictures. clocks and
watches were taxed For every gold watch
kept for use So duty was paid and for every
silver one 81. the lists for Hancock county
then including Penobscot Pscataquis, and a
part of Waldo, show that only ten persons in
the whole strict owned furniture Of value ex-
ceeding $500 Twelve gold watches were owned
in the district and $50 silver ones.
PERRY J, CHACE, a retired Providence mer-
chant the owner Of many houses and various
other buildings, a widower and a man of so
winters, recently decided that he wanted a
wife, and SO ne asked lady friend Of his if she
knew OF any good woman about his age whom
he might marry. She said That Mrs Sarah Aun
Iilton of Boston was certainly good was 30
years old. aud might possibly wish to marry
III see II she'll let you call On her, said the
friend, and if so will take you there and intro
duce you" When she Mrs Tllton the
widow laughed at the idea, but said Mr.. Chace
might call. At his second call he proposed, at
the third arrangements for the wedding we're
made, and W thin three weeks from the first
call the venerable couple were married and are
now living hap lily in Providence.
SAD AFFAIR is related in a letter from
Sierra Leone. The Tyne (troopshp) had just
arrived, and a party Of sailors were engaged
cleaning her side. They we're on a punt, aud
the deceased, who was dangling his legs over
the side, singing as he did his work. suddenly
disappeared and was lost to view. The other
men ON the punt were about to jump in after
him wnen they saw their comrades hat float to
the surface From this circumstance they ma
turally concluded that the man himself was
coming TO the surface, and they hesitated TO
lump overheard. IL WAS well for thern that thav