The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-26
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Four TRAMPs were arrested at Reading, Pa,
in the midst Of feast at which ice cream,
watermelon, CAKE and other dainties figured,
b ana the tramp VINO provided the layout was
found to nave S2)5 in his clothes.
IT Is SAID that the Princess Louise of Wales
IS 70 receive large number OF costly presents.
The ROthschlds wi give her diamond and
rudy necklace worth S20.0)0, and the present OF
the Shah Of Persia will De even more valuable.
a REMARKABLE WOMAN is Mrs. Susanna Rich
ardson Of Limington, Ne. She is 81 years old,
arises at O'Clock a. N. every day to attend to
ner no duties, ha charge of two cows,
works the butter and does her washing, and can
READ and thread her needle without glasses.
A WHEELING MERCHANT recently received 10
cents by mail from man in Montana, who said
that he had owed him that sum for fourteen
years Inc merchant had forgotten the trans
acton, and 1t was only by gong over his books
snaI ne remembered the man as one OF his
former customers.
\ MAN in Whitneyville, Me-, bought a lot of
rockets which wouldn't go off, and his Fourth
of July a failure But few DAYS later he
put the worthless SHELLS in the cook-Stove with
some kiniling wood and ne had a Fourth of
July ana circus all in one. A patient waiter
Is no IOser-in some cases-but in this affair the
man IoSJ a Sl9 cookStove and teakettle.
CoNNECTICUT's SECRET BALLOT LAW becomes
town meetings and the voting on the prohibitory
amendment, which taxes place on the first
Monday in October. Some OF the Connecticut
oIrlcials ar. considerably exercised at the
thought tnat their state is to be the first in the
east to give practical exemplifcstion OF the
new system.
SIR HENRY LOCK the newly appointed COVER
nor OF Cape Colony, is 62 years of age. His ex-
perlence has been varied. He has been in the
bIltiSn navy, ne mas been III the army, he has
acted as dipiomatist in China and as home sec
retary's private secretary, and he has governed
Tor twenty years he one home rule dependency
In the Irish seattle Isle of Man. His colonial
experience was gained in Victoria.
HE BISHOPS and parsons of the English Estab-
hshment are crying out anathema on the head
of the new Earl of Carlisle who has entirely
closed the chapel at Castle Howard. in West
mOreiand, which was restored at great expense
by former earl and in which services have
been hel regularly for a century The new
earl IS Unitarian and his wife is a Radical
Lhese Facts, especially the latter, account for
the 'sacriIege"
w. c. TUCKER of Bell township Jefferson
county, Pennsylvania, killed eight snakes last
Wednesday with one stroke of a club one of
them bel six, and the others not less than
three teet in length. There were eleven of them
coI9d and twisted together in a knot and in
swlping the mass with big club, eight of them
were made to bite the dust. They were all COM
mon garter snakes, but of unusual size. Mr.
tucker killed seventeen snakes That day.
JAMES WATSON Of 0earfeld county, Pennsyl-
vania, was walking through his field, when an
immense bl icksnake, over fourteen feet long
and more than foot tn ok let Itself down from
Tree Mr.. watson beca ne frgntenel and ran
Tor heIp. When he returned to the place the
reptile had gone. 1t was seen again by some
men when it was crossing public roa1 Some
think 1t might have escape from Barnum's
flood. '@L'~
A BOA CONSTRUCTOR get loose in an animal
store, in Park Row, New York, one day last
week, and swallowed a young ring-tailed
monkey that was chained to box An effort
was made to save tne monkey, but it was in
etectual, the snake having got to- firm a hold
on the sman before assistance came One of
tne attendants, however, cut the collar from
about the monkeys neck as the latter was be-
ing swallowed In att mpting to capture the
snake after it had finished its meal the owner of
lhe establishment was rather badly bitten on
the hand by the serpent.
THERE is an old man in Washington named
Roger Eva IS who claims to have polished the
boots of every President since the time of Jack
son He has been obliged at times to resort to
peculiar devices to accomplish his de igus on
the loes OF new executive Up to a few
weeks ago he la Il not been able to capture
President Harrisons feet, but he met the Presi-
dent one day recently about block from the
wnlte house. The Presidents shoes were dusty,
anu III an AloIduJ EFdnS UdQ MS OOX the
ground, and before Nj. Harrsol had realized
what had happened, had begun to WELD his
brushes vigorously.
one day last week Boston policeman saw a
man lying at full length ON the sidewalk. He
was intoxicated and unconscious Over his
body, however, larg4 aud handsome Nv
toundiand dog stood guard No one could an
proach his PROSTATE master without the animal
emitting savage growl and assuming a most
formidable attitude 1t was fully twenty
minutes before the officer could call the dog off
aud ring for the patrol wagon. Both we're taken
| TO the station and put into the same cell There
| the man W permitted to sleep off his drunk
While the dog allowed no one to 90 near the
| door or attempt to en.er the cell
NOVEL STRIKE is ON in New Haven. The
| proprietor Of a shore resort near the city drew
| the lines about his serv mt girls and forbade
them to be out after 10 clock at night The
girls were not going to stand any mons .nse like
| that this kind of weather. so with one accord
they quit and left Ter employer with Big lot
| OF guests on his hands and no one to do he
work for them. The girls were pretty school
marms from New YORK. who took the situations
for tne fresh air aud the little money rev
brought, ana they were not built on the plan of
Delng oossed oy mean, tyrannical man
PROF EDWARD s. HOLDEN, director of Iicl,
observatory, furnishes interesting facts in re-
gard to the comet discovered by Barnard last
September. He says: 1.-THE comet has now
"a
immense strain and stress in passing that MARI
of its orbit nearest the sun, and it is now show
ing the effect OF these forces in the following
way: It's body Is evidently becoming disinte.
grated and fragments are seen TO be streaming
Denlnd the comet in the form of tail directed
not from, but toward the sun This mass of
matter was measured by Barnard on july 16
ana ms measures Show that its least DOS
slole length is 10000 miles, and its least
possible diameter is $4,000 miles. so
mat fragments which have already broken off
from TINS comet amount to a. least seventy
quadrilllon cubic miles. The comet itself which
is loo 700 600 miles from the earth is still fairly
bright, and were 1t not for the fragments which
are seen to follow it would seem to be in perfect
normal condition, As it is, We know it must have
lost an immense quantity of original substance.
InlS IS an interesting case to astronomers as it
shows the effect of the enormous forces to
which every comet is subject at the time of its
perehehon passage, while the phenomenon
forms an interesting commentary upon the
text that comets, even tae stoutest of them.
must be shortlved things"
THE August number of the Popular Science
Monthly contains an interesting sketch ON
manual training. 1t is by Prof c. H. Hender
son, of the manual training school in Phil
adelphia, and contains this paragraph: at is
believed that the specific purpose of education
is to cultivate character, to induce sound think
ing and to make necessity of scientific in
qury. It's highest end is ethical. OF great
value, but secondary to its supreme purpo e. are
the skill and the information which would
of the school is to prepare for completeness of
pantral thOI ~ in its