The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Az INTENSE SNAKE. with head as large as
an ordinary sized bulldog is frightening the
! natives on the ridge near MillwOod Pa. II is
said to have been seen by quite number OF
/ persons, all Of whom drink the same brand.
FRzD LoRESTz, a Marshal county, West Vir-
+ giniaj, farmer, was moving field of clover the
! other day with a machine mower, and when he
finished h. found that the mower had slaught-
] cred eleven cOpperhead snakes and two black
i snakes. Several Of the poisonous coppers were
/ over two feet in length.
| RATrLEsNAKE AZ feet long was killed on
/ James Hardys farm at Irishtown, near Dun
! bar Pa, by three men recently The snake
/ had charmed a ground squirrel which 1t was
about 10 seize when Refers famous dog Tray
/ discovered It and IL erfered with its sport. the
! dog would have made snort wo of the snake
| but was prevented by the men. The RATHER
| was three inches in diameter and had SIX
: rattles
| WHILE lecturing recently before the Royal
| Institute Of British Architects on the great
bathing establishments of ancient Rome. the
| Architect AitchiSon Created a sensation by as
sorting that at its OFigI4i ssfe famous Pantheon
was no other thans0he saxf.atfng room or idcOnt-
cum Of the estaplisbmena dor baths erected by
Agrippa. tn statement aroused great opposi-
ton, notwithstandlngfth es strtng case made IN
Its favor. -
A NAN named o. Ferrie, at Bellaire, Mich,
and he is a little fhAtohet sort of
man, says that his turkey gobbler
Strayed on among : the byways of
his farm and was missing for several days.
| Wnen found he was conteatedly sitting astri lie
some hen eggs, from the nest of whicl he had
driven tie Old men. The old gobbler had been
given full swing, and the world awaits the result
OF his nursing. -f Jos
A QUARTER OF A MILLION is to be asked from
congress for a monument in Paramount park,
Philadelphia, to Commemorate the constitution
10. q
sh al Ia 'e toe main point being the $3.50, 900.
Local contributions are to swell this res pectable
sum. As Philadeiphians have a weakness for
herman sculptors who produce pedantic and
tasteIess monuments the chances for good
thing are slight. a.r ..
A MAMMOTH rattlesnake, measuring fourteen
feet in length, was killed near Little Rock, Ark
by fisherman named j. A Van Horton When
discovered the snake was coied around small
sycamore tree, and the fisherman killed it by a
Ddiet through the head. The thickness of the
reptile was between four and five inches, and
there were thrtytSO rattles on its tail. When
cut open three young rabbits and sixty
guinea eggs were found inside.
CHARLES bartlett lad of burlington, n. j..
saw bald eagle and fired at it. He only sue
ceeded in slightly wounding it, and as
oo arose and dr0pP vent to bo the 9a4dd
the boy and began an attack upon him The
bird Tough vciously with talons and beak, fly
ing at him and endeavoring to gouge out his
eyes In the struggle, tnat lasted several min
uteS. Bartlett could with difficulty free his cloth
lag from the long, sharp talons of the bird
fnally he released himselt and ran sufficiently
lar away to shoot another charge at it. This
time he kilei the aerial monster, which meas
ured SIX feet from tip to tip of wings
The absorbing question for discussion among
the employees at the Short Line depot in Louis
vile is whether or not bobtail dog can swim
Monday night several of the employes went in
oathing III tue river, and, on coming out, und
oootall dog sitting on the bank watching their
antics, evidently with great interest. The idea
| occurred to some of them to throw the auinal
into the water and see him SWIM out. as il is
| generally understood that any dog can swim
| Bul TINS particular dog could not for he sank
Tx stone as soon as he hit the water Now
his fortunate PUG had only o e eve and it
IS stu mOoted question among the men
whether its inability to swim was due to the
want OF an eye or the want of a tail.
IT is announced on excellent authority that
before she begins her next season Miss Maggie
Mtclell will be the wife of her well-known
leading man, Charles Abbott. Miss Mitchell. it
will be msmbered, secured a divorce quite
recently from her husband Hank" Paddock
and IS now in Hamburg visiting her daughter
tanchon. Her company for the coming tour
was eng lged by Mr.. Abb ut, and all telegram
TO Miss Mitchell were answered by that ge tie
man. much 10 the dissatisfaction of many of
the telegraphers. Mr.. Abbott is at present at
l4Du% DldiCll, at Hiss lnlGcuellS home In that
resort. Mr. Abbott has been m smber of Miss
Agtchels company for long time 1t is said
that he and Mr.. Paddock were never on very
good terms.
FIVE MEDALS OF HONOR were awarded at the
Universal Exposition to British exhibitors. The
painters Alma-Tadena AMI Henry Moore. the
sculptors Alfred Gilbert aud Frederick Leighton
and the etcher Seymour Ha1el. The same
Complaints are made in London as in New
! York. Some artists abstained entirely: Others
sent only small ami unrepresentative works
| under misapprehenSion with regard 10 the wall
| space. The Pail Mall Gaz9tfe hints that the
| British honor medalists feel their own honors
| furnished by being placed beside such artists as
sig Boldinl OF Italy and Mr.. Melchers of Amer
| lca Inc latter IS promising young artist ont
| ne mas Tor soma years exhibited at the salon
| where his pictures have never even won the
Official acknowledgment of any jury
WEEPING PEACH TREE is one of the curiosi
ties Of Denison, Tex. 1t is visited by many
| persons daily. At times perfect mist or spray
| surrounds it. number of superstitious per
| sons think that spirits operate upon the fra
| leading Spiritual st visited the tree last sun.
uay, ana thought that seance would explain
tne mystery The negroes attach con
siderable significance to the name of
| the variety of the peach which ia
| known as the Robert E. Lee The most igno
| rant declare that the spirit of the ad confed-
crate chle tain IS operating upon the tree
| After dark they give the neighborhood a wide
berth. James Wallace, a negro who has been
afflicted with infiammatory rheumatism for the
past two years and bed-rldden most of the
time, was impressed that the fluid from the
tree would effect cure. He was sponged with
the huid and said he felt much relieved
WILL the coming man drink ice yater9 The
contemporaneous man uses large quantity Of
1t IN spite OF Dr. Hammond's pkilippic, and it is
interesting to note that the opinion of the doc.
tors and druggists of Boston is decidedly favor.
able to the beverage. The Boston GLabe aslred
thirty elgnt doctors what they thought of II
Sixteen pronounced it very beneficial: twelve
agreed that it was very good if not taken 70 ex'
cess three were non-commi tai and only sevso
OF the thirty advised that it sbouId he lot
alone. The druggists did still better nv his
popular drink Fony-six of them we're i,tar'
viewed; twenty six OF them regarded il a. var
beneficial; none reported that it onp-ht 10 hs
left alone HE the ether twenty certifed that
1t was very beneficial. a. 1t looks from this as If
prohibition amendment aimed at ice wstar
stands no chance of beng engraf ed nnon ,ba
constitution of Massachusstts for the prasent
In ia t, zee water has probaoly come to stav
the country OVER " soy
THE selectioh- IL MIl Chamberlain as chair
man of the farewell dinner to Mr.. and Mrs
Kendall in England, telalls the fact that the
member for West Birmingham was o,oo -