The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-06

| various parts of the country, and he has mar
RED them all within the past ten years.
A COWBOY named Charles Morris was bitten
| on the nose six weeks ago by a skunk,
| while lying asleep in camp. near Prescott, A.
| T., and few days since died in great agony of
| hydrophobia.
A SIGN displayed by a Boston firm reads:
This store will be closed from Thursday, July
| 8, until Monday. July :. to allow the boss and
| the boys to gambol on the green and to dip
| their feet in the salt sea spray"
A PRIZE of S1G0 was offered by the Washing
on Post to the person guessing nearest the
population of that city, and remarkable to say
! three persons hit exactly the number, 229, 796
| They have agreed to divide the money.
ROBERT GUNYoN, 70 years old. of Milwaukee,
didn't let his advanced age deter him last week
| from diving into river at Mount Clemens,
Mich, and rescuing the Lad VINO was drowning
| IL is said that he was the only person Of the
| crowd on the bank watching the boy drown who
| dldn Z lose his head.
A FARMER near st. Louis has nest of owls in
his barn and they keep it free from rats and mice
The birds lay up provisions at night for the
next day. The farmer marked the bodies OF the
mice he found by cutting off one foot with a
pair of scissors. AT night all the marked mice
would be gone. ane thd next morning there
would be fresh supply.
OREGON CRY has darkey bootblack who has
| seen the world In 1S4s, he says, he landed in
Constantinople steward on an American
clipper. He went a short distance into the In-
terror, met Boston man he knew, who was
keeping public house, and made S75 exhibit
ing himself TO the natives, that were aStonished
at the sight of a colored man.
The small letter 'i' was formerly written
without the dot over it. The dot was intro
duced in the fourteenth century to distinguish
- from e" in hasty and indistinct writing.
The letter ~ was formerly used where ''j'' is
now employed-the distinction between the two
having been introduced by Dutch writer's in
comparatively modern times.
PATSY MITCHELL of Thompsonville, Mass,
promised that he would never drink another
drop of liquor las long as he had hair on his
head" When his thirst became ungoyernable
he sold his bushy head of hair to Bob Grumpy,
barber, for pint of gin. and when his hair
was removed with razor and the gin in his
possession he went off and got drunk.
THE government of Morocco lately sent ten
Arab horses of the purest and finest blood as
gift to the king of BeIzium. When they
reached Brussels King Leopold was not greatly
struck by their beauty and, on an investigation
being made, it turned out that the original ami
mails had been sold by some INSCRIPTIONS off.
clal, and that Inferior ones had been Substi-
tuted.
THERE was pathetic scene in a New York
elevated train. drunken man, leading a little
6-year- old boy, stumbled into the rear car After
finding seats he gradually leaned further and
further over until he fell asleep with his head
on the chlld's lap, and every few minutes the
little fellow, wide awake at midnight, would
tug away at his fathers coat and say, please
SIT up, papa"
SAYS dispatch from Sidney, O.: Something
remarkable happened here to a COW. There
were two large trees close together on the edge
of clover field A fence touched either tree
but the gap had no fence. The COW squeezed
into the gap, and without passing through
began to browse. She soon began to swell with
gas generated by the green clover and to get
her out one of the trees had to be cut"
LAST WINTER Human Foote ascertained that
it would cost him Sl5 to fill his icehouse with
ice, therefore he filled it with damp snow. we'll
trodden down, at a cost of 81 25 The snow has
kept very well and half of it yet remains OF
course he cannot the snow in his refrigerator
and ice pitcher, but be places meat, fish, milk,
butter, etc. on the snow in the icehouse and
such articles keep as well as they would on ice
The Downeville (Cal) Messenger has the fol-
lowing: Between this place and the Red Oak
mine is a strip of about 100 yards in width of
red snow. On the surface the color is not so
plain as below the surface, but 1t is plain
enough to enable one to trace the color strip
some distance both ways from where the trail
crosses it. Dig down ten inches and the sides
OF the depression appear about the color Of
red ink.
AN ATTEMPT is being made to introduce per
fumed gloves. This notion, it will be remem-
bered by good historians, is borrowed from the
toilet of Catherine de Medcis. In the glove
stores replicas of the gauntlets worn by Ninon
de fEaclos Lady Montague, Maria Antoinette
and Josephine Beauharnais which ''lSings lipped
and trembled kissing" are to be seen. The per
fumed kid has the odor of sandalwood about it
which is most pleasing to the senses
CAPT ROBERT SrAPLINs, lobster fisherman
of Stonington, Conn, caught in one of his pots.
just outside of Fishers Island, Saturday, lob
ster with yellow and red spots of the brightest
hue all over its body. The lobster was viewed
by men who have been engaged in the capture
of Holsters their entire life, but none had ever
before seen anything similar. 1t weighed about
one and ha pounds and the spots were regf-
lar in size and shape Not only was the body
decorated, but the claws and legs were as
speckled as turkeys egg.
ONE of the features of military drill in the
Russian army is the training of soldiers to
swim in battalions at the same time using their
weapons. At the recent annual military ma
neuvers in the presence of the car, a fine
exhibition OF proficiency was given in this
direction. A large force of infantry swan
across a lake in full marching order, with the
help Of faScineS made of reeds or rrshes or in
tiated sneepSkins. At the same time they kept
up a lively fire on the boat of a supposed enemy
who were disputing their passage
A SHORT TIME SINCE prominent physician of
St. Helena, Cal, received from the east some
new medicine that was intended for a patient
In order to test its strength the doctor injected
a little of il into his own arm. The effect was
sudden and startling. His arm began to swell
to large proportions, and other alarming symp-
toms appeared of the worst kind of blood pois-
oning. He called in his brother physicians. and
they in turn sent to San Francisco for a third
and for some days and nights they stood watch
over the unfortunate patient. At present he is
out Of danger, but it will be weeks before he
can leave the ROOM
A THOROUGHLY reliable gentleman informs a
correspondent that he saw near Scottsville.
Va, two small snakes deliberately engaged in
swallowing each other, goodly portion OF each
snake having been taken into the stomach Of
the other. This reminds US of the old farmer
who saw large bullfrog basking in the sun on
the bank of his milpond. A large water moe
casin commenced to swallow his frogshp by
taking in his legs Meanwhile the frog began
the same process by taking in the tail of the
snake. The swallowing process, the story goes
continued until the reptile and the frog swal-
lowed each other and both disappeared from
view
H. A MARTIN of Bennington, VT, has started a
somewhat novel enterprise He has secured a
large tract of land right above Bennington in a.
woodland valley, erected a hotel and a number
of cottages, furnished. There are numerous
trout streams and large lake, plentifuly
stocked; in it any one can angle by paving SO
much per pound for the pr catches Up on the
mountain about one mile there is another large
lake on which has been established hatchery
from which the lake will be thoroughly stocked