The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-26

! distance the hide presents a woody appearance
| and the animal looks as though nature had
| given him the wool of sheep through mistake.
| A sPIRITUALIsTIc MEDIUM in New Hampshire
| has added another to the numerous wrong
| guesses of people in her business She declared
that the body of a missing Hampton Falls n
| H., farmer was in a hole in the river but this
! week it found at the top of a tree. He
| chained himself to the tree and then committed
| suicide
SINGULAR EXHIBITION has been held at
| Meiningen. 1t consisted of $50 newspapers CON
tanning articles upon the death of the Emperor
| William J. representing no fewer than fifty four
| languages, among which, of course, all the
| European, with their dialects, We're represented
but Bengal, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese and
| Hawaiian might also be found.
| ENGLISH JOURNALS report the death at
Brighton workhouse of a woman who had been
| an inmate since July Is, 1885. She was II years
| old when she entered, and went by the Sobri-
qltet Of Dummy" She was noted for her VIC
| lent temper, and for a long time classed as
| OF unsound mind. She had accumulated
| chiefly in cOppers, So, which will go to the
| parish treasurer
| Boston PAPER, which some time ago spoke
Off set of trpets in that city as the only case
| in which all the children had arrived at matu-
| rlty has since received letters showing that at
least three other sets of triplets reached the
| same period in life Among those referred to
| are the Litchfeds-Hubbard, Polly and Lin
| cOln-who were born in Sctuate, Mass, and
| lived to an average age of 80 years.
A RICH FIND-almost 81, 900 in gold bank notes
and silver-was made in bag of oats by store
| keeper Of Brentwood England He returned
| the treasure to the poor farmer from whom he
| bought the oats, and was rewarded with a
! Du. hel of grain and the promise of a rabbit.
| The soil tiller's mother (sbe died few months
! ago. was miser and is thought to have made
a hiding place of the bag, which had long been
stored in her sons granary.
! THE commission appointed by the French
Senate to study the consumption of alcohol in
France. SAYS in it's report that the recent dis
| eases of the vine, such as phyloxera. have pro
| duced complete revolution IN the drinking
| customs of the French, spirits having taken the
! place of wine. Consequently there has been
! great increase Of insanity suicide and Grimm
| atty. In NOrmande and other northern divis-
| IONS there is public house for every sixty-two
| inhabitants.
LITTLE BOY living in Rondout, N. Y, was
attacked with severe cold last week, which
| brought on a fever, and he was booked by the
| family physician for long illness. His thirst.
| however. gave him a craving for oranges, and
| his mother INDUCED his appetite till he had
| swallowed four very large ones. The next
| morning the fever was gone, &nd the little fell
| low was prancing about the house in good
| spirits This was three days ago. The cold re-
| mains, but the fever has not returned.
A DISPATCH from Detroit says: new method
| of helping an early closing movement was put
in operation at Red Jacket a large copper min
| ing town in the Lake Superior region. All the
| business men agreed t. close their stores at s
O'Clock except Yalowstein & Sons. The first
| night the new order of things was put in opera
| ton 100 clerks entered YalOwStein's store each
| smoking cheap cigar and began looking over
| goods. They soon cleared the store of all the
lady customers. They attempted no violence
| made no noise simply smoked them out. The
| clerks say they will keep it up.
|
! 6-yearold boy, the son of grocer in that city.
after suffering from earache for several days,
| was suddenly relieved in a peculiar way Some
| thing seemed to burst in his ear when out came
a small cherry stone that had partially split and
| terminated. the Sprout sticking out plainly II
| was recollected then that the boy had been
| playing with some comrades last August, and
| that they had smeared each others faces with
| wild cherries, mashed up in their hands The
stone had been forced into the boys ear re-
| naming for months without disturbing him
| until it began TO swell, preparatory to sprout-
| ing.
| MAN who was condemned to death for muir
der, short time ago, and is at present confined
| in the prison at Ratibor, having resolved to
| commit suicide by starvation, is, says Vienna
| correspondent, being fed by force twice every
| twenty-four hours. The meauS employed to
| feed him are the following: In presence of the
| prison doctor, screw is with difficulty driven
| in between his teeth and his mouth is kent omen
| by small wooden wedges. An india Rubber tube
! is then put down his throat, and he is made TO
| take a sufficient quantity of milk Cruel TO keen
| him alive He sturdly resists the operation
| during the progress Of which he has to be
| bound hand and foot.
SOLOMON ENGLAND of Pocahontas county.
West Virginia, went hunting for bear one day
| last week. He came upon one rather suddenly
! in narrow mountain pathway, and there was
! mutual surprise, from which bruin recovered
| first. Bruin made for the hunter, and the hun
ftarl r1fa
| he climbed just in time to escape having a hug
| ging match with the bear. The bear kept guard
| for several hours, and ENGLAND, becoming
| afraid that it would be an all night lob, began
| yelling for friend who started out on the hunt
| with him, who finally heard the calls for assist
| ance. He dispatched bruln with two or three
| balls from his Winchester, and England slid
down off the tree. The bear weighed $50
| pounds.
| LAST WEEK a st. John Indian named Solomon
Paul who lives on Indian Islands, Me-, startled
! his neighbors b. rushing in among them as
| though 10000 demons were pursuing him. Ac-
cording to his story he was sitting alone eating
his supper, as usual when the door was sud
denly swung open with a bang. and simultane-
ously with it he heard the most awful hubbub
IN the room overhead and on the stairs, as
| though a ton Of chains were being hurled in
every direction. As soon as he could collect his
scattered senses from the awful fright be made
a mad rush for the open air and couldn't be
induced to enter the house again till some OF his
friends volunteered to stay with him. He has
no idea what 1t was that caused IT, and his
nerves are very much shattered over it,
NEW SCHEME of card kilograms is being
tried in Hungary for use in districts having a
postoffice, but without Geographic service
Cards are sold AZ the postoiiice at the price OF
IS kreutzer for five words, excess to be paid for
by additional postage stamps, to be affixed at
the corner The telegram can be put in any
letter box, and is forward d TO the nearest tele-
graph Office, and from there it is dispatched
without further delay or charge. 1t is not SO
generally known to the public as it might be
that in England kilograms can be posted at any
pillar box and will be sent on TO the nearest
telegraph Office. Some such scheme Of special
forms TOR this purpose in the shape Of card tel
egrams. might render this OF greater prGctic Il
utility, and the example of Hungary Is worthy
OF the attention OF the pOstofiice authorities.
CINCINNATI has the champion absent minded
man. A gentleman living in the suburbs went
in store on Walnut street to make few pur
chases. The only light in the store was a
candle standing on the counter near the money
drawer After making his purchases he handed
the proprietor NIL. and, after returning him
the change, the proprietor walked to the rear
or the store to arrange something when sud
denly he was left in the dark. He started to-
ward the counter, and. cropping around on It,
found, not the candle, but the change. IL
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