The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

railway through wear and rust
| The chestnut aud walnut crops in Connecticut
Will be the smallest in years this season The
| month Of Septem 'er has passed without a hard
| frost, and the chestnut harvest is rom days
| 70 TWO weeks later than usual The belt OF ter
| ritory from the Connecticut river westward is
| generally the most productive of cuestnuts.
| ms year, however. there Will not be half
| crop
| The CHAPERoNEs Of Paris have struck. Cases
| are on record where as much as fifteen hours
| OF consecutive duty mas been the lot of a chap
eFonlns motner, AMI the natural result is
| revolt The affair is being conducted in ady-
| Ike manner, and it is mop d will pass over
| quietif. the plan of ca Ipaign is for ladies
| with daughters to gently but firmly hand over
| tner waicn-dog duties to tdeir husbands.
| DAUGHTER" wrote Mme de Sevigne in a
famous phrase, ''go and II your daughter that
| her dauS hter's little girl is crying" There
| family at Roscotf, in France, in which such
remark would be appropriate, since there are
| lVe generations OF it alive at tn moment.
me Oldest member of the famili is a great
eatgrandfnother or %, and the youngest
small descendant aged month. They all went
| 20 cnurch 20 ether the other day when the new
| est generation was chriStened.
For MONTH PAST the people in the eastern
part Of Mclean county, Illinois, have been ter
| rorized by strange wild animal which they
| thought to be a panther T 10 animal killed a
would attack larger ami ais. 1t was of a f. rO-
| clous allure, and the farmers were greatly
alarmed at its presence. Tney organized hunt
aug parties. and after several chaSes succeeded
| IN kllllng 1t. Its S lin was presented the
| Wesleyan University museum, and the animal
proves 10 have BEEN a Canadian lynx 1t was
OF DARK brown color, and weighed about 100
| pounds.
| IHE ONLY JAcK-RABBIT FARM in the country, so
iar as known, Is situated on fiat alkali section
/ q N Tt nd iachr
| TaooltS are the property of a coursing asSocia-
| ton, which will not sell rabbit to any one else,
| ana which depends on its farm for the supply
| or h lres tsken to other cities in park coursin
| events. year ago the prof -ctors of this novel
| farm had only about thirty jack rabbits, which
| had Tor tue most part been purchased when
young from farmer boys who had found them.
Io-da :, owing to accretions from similar sources
| ana to the very rapid multiplication of the
| Species there are between 200 and 300 full
| grown Jacks on the farm and the question of
| supply may be fairly said to be settled.
zone of the youngest, if not the youngest
female principal of a public school in New
| York, says Mr.. John P Faure, sis Miss Mary
| Plerson, no has just organized the Female
| Senior Evening School at No. 239 East Housuon
| street: 10 may seem a startling truth, but
| trutl 1t is neverthe eSs that liSS Persons is
| the only school of the kind II young women in
| all at vast area east tue Bowery and south
| or tfty-Seventh street. There are thousands
ana no sands of girls in that part o. the city
| VINO work for their living. and whose only oppor-
| tunlty for fitting themselves to preside over an
Int lSent no ne is offered in this Institution
| Tree. woman who devotes the best years of
her youthful life to helping her less happy sisters
| is surely entitled to have ner hands upheld uy all
| men,"
HE BASS VOL is the most expensive of all
musical instruments to its owner. It's first cost
| Is not the greatest ex ense. II is so large and
| awkward to carry around that it is continually
| getting injured By accidents which would t
N nnFo nI,rNHwx
| may SICK hole IN it by dancing agar ISL it in
| room. or 1t may be Knocked a. ainSt somethin =
while carrying it around. Ills most frequently
| injured on street cars while tue musician is
| wing 1t to the place where he has to play
| After man has had an instrument for long
| time lie comes T. look upon it actually wort
al the m lIey that 1t has cost him, aud In this
way BASS Vol is yaluei at 81 900 or SO by its
| owner. musician who sued a railroad co -
| pany for $4,000 for yiol lost in an accident
| actually got $4,000.
| REMARKABLE MISTAKE was made at the open
| ing of the industrial far at Toronto. Sir job "A
| A. Macdonald mad made mis- opening speech OF
congra al ,tIon, and before ca linz upon him TO
| press an electric button starting the machinery
| President Wi brow invited QUE or two otne
| speakers to deliver addresses One of item
was John L'yS, member of the provincial
parliament for Toronto. He advanced to the
front and laid his heavy white hat right on top
OF the electric button. Instantly there was
| shrieking OF whistles, and the machinery In the
Il
| laughter, and after much gesticulation and
| running about the managers stopped the pro-
ceedlng, and the machinery was started by Sir
John and Lady Macdonald.
| ORLANDO Brown of Wa erford Conn, had
been moving roadside weeds and athirst he
| went to drink at a waysde we'll The well was
dank ami dark I'd slippery, and overgrown
with tareS, and as Orlando stoo ped to let bis
| oucket do vn stupid adder thrust its head
| from acrevice IN lie sion curbIng ana Kissed at
l a n ava .Ol.t e.
| new FRO n beneath hi n, and he slid down the
shaft, taking the adder along with him The
water cl sed over him with kissing BUBBLES and
| plalntive plu TX. Orlan 10 wasn't gone long.
| He came up suffering and wrathful, and the
| sight Of the adder, wdich mad betrayed him into
| the ell, gliding across the wat r into the wall
| did not aid to appease his anger. He mads u
grasp for the ssrpe 1t, but he didn't get hi n, and
| thoughtful ly he climbed out of 40 vel He
was so ireful that he went away without
| drinking
AT FULBEcK, near Grantham, England, there
has just passed away most eccentric charac-
| ter. He went to Australia some TWENTY-FIVE
years ago, and returned home in 1885 with a
| large fortune, which he began spending very
| freely. He purchased valuable articles, and
| invariably destroyed tnem A gold watch was
snasnel up tne moment it was bought, the
| PACK OF silver watch was wrencled off so as
| 10 DE more convenient for winding up, the straw
4 was taken out of a new mattress for pig bed
| dlnS, springs taken out of new easy chair
| ~
| broken up and thrown way, bread bur ed daily
in the fire. legs of mutton and sdes of bacon
were buried in the garden, valua 10 plants and
| trees wers bought alI ch Jpped up He Quilt a
| greenhouse and Knocked it to pieces little
| pig that refuse to be driven up stairs where a
| bed had been prepared for it VITA gieAi care
| had its career led by blow on the he I'd
with hammer. He died poor MANN fact
| pauper-and was bur ed b., the parish
NEWS has been received in Francisco from
! ALASKA, by stea amer, that Joe Tuckded, a trader.
! returned to Point Barrow Aug. 5, from years
exploration in Eastern Alaska. He went in a
whaleboat to HerSche Islam , W lich he de-
scribes as para iise for he hunter in the sprint
| lie found the natives a friendly an / primitive
| peopll, who had never tasted LIQUOR They
were powerful In n, avera ging five and :. half
feet In hight, and were nomadic, hving on
| game and berries. He says That tive ty miles
| from the east he found dense spruce forests
and lowlands GOV red with rank growth of
| willow and marsh gra s. At the mouth of the
Mackenzie river h. found the fresh water had
caused tn ice to melt, and formed a large
| open body of water that abounded in suring
with seals and white whales. The Point Barrow
relief station is completed but traders are com
| planning because Capt. Borden the keeper
| brought up large stock of DDS on the reve-
nue. cutter Bear, with which he proposed to
trade with tie Indians. AS other dealers paw
heavy freight on their goods, they propose to
com lain to the gov rnment.
THE mysterious but effectual way in which
so many institutions absolutely dependent on
public CHARITY are maintained in New York is"
a wa I'M If