The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

rear fowls, according 90 oiflcial returns, Is
So. 10000 francs. Of which 15a.5Oo, 900 francs
represent the value OF the 1lesh and 1s3, COO
| francs that Of the eggs
| CRANBERRY PICKING has become so much an
established industry among the Cape Ood
| children that it is proposed to arrange the
school terms so that there VIII be no session
| during the cranberry season
A SCIENTIST COMPUTES that with the aid of .
machine CONSTRUCTED on the principle of the
boring, drilling and pumping apparatus OF the
| mosquito, hole could be bored 10 the centre
| Of the earth in less than day
GoTrFRIED LAWRENCE of Greenwood was
struck by lightning Monday afternoon and in
stantly killed The queer fact in connection
til his death is tnat he was sitting between
| two other men, and neither of these men were
| injured IN the least.
THE BODY of Eddie Fisher lies buried beneath
the sands in Torch lake. Mich. Search for the
body proved unsuccessful, for the Calumet &
Hecla stamp mills discharge into the lake in
three days enough sand to cover an acre two
feet deep, and his little body is there buried for
ever.
Hon. J. S. RIBKEY of Milton, Ore, invited
minister to dine with him last Sunday. For the
feast he killed Shanghai fowl, and gave it to
his wife to make ready She found the follow
ing arti les in its craw: A kingbOlt, Ink OF
10 ychain. piece of steel four inches long and a
cleyis.
BILL MOORE, farmer of Atchison, Kan,
wanted to dig well, so he plowed lot of land
aud planted it in cats. Every day he watched
The oats, Oh 'erving the sp It's that showed the
greatest moisture. FINALLY he selected spot
and sank q well. At "A feet he had fine stream
of water.
THE EYES of insects are immovable. and many
of them seem cut into a multitude of facets.
like the facets of diamond. Each of these
facets IS supposed TO possess the powers OF q
true eye. Lenenboeck counted 3,l6l of them IN
the cornea of a beetle, and over 5000 in that of
common horsehy.
A MAN of Mott. Col. went on a fearful spree
last week. AS soon as he sobered up he went
to a logging camp and was put to work. In
handling his first log he disturbed large rat
tier that struck his fangs deep into the man
wrist. The poison did not circulate in the arm,
but The snake died in a few minutes.
IT is RATHER an unusual sight to see itinerant
printers travelling horseback. but couple of the
craft, Pollard and Binckley by name, passed
through Elko Saturday morning by that
method, en- route from Salt Lake City to san
Francisco They were well equipped for the
journey, and seem to be enjoying the trip.
AT THE Gen. Grant cottage at Mount Nc
Gregor. is kept a register of visitors, and among
those who have within the past few days af-
fixed their signmanual may be seen globetrot-
tiers from England, Scotland. Sweden, Bel
GUM, Egypt, France, Germany, Hungary,
Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Southern Africa.
DAIRY WHITLEY is fortunate Ann Arbor col
ored man who had saved up $50 in the course of
| his life. The other day he wanted to see now
| it would seem to have it all in his pocket at
| once, and was walking along with the air OF
real millionaire until he discovered his pocket
had no bottom, and his life's savings had been
| lost.
THE RATS are recklessy roaming around the
rustic regions of Ferrara, Italy. consuming the
| harvest before It is gathered and making the
| prospect for the farmers peculiarly dismal. In
some places the peasantry have taken to eating
the rodents, and have found them eXceuent
| food. Damages, amounting to $500 are re-
ported from one district.
OF ALL the vegetables which furnish nourish-
ment to man, the banana is the most prolific,
single cluster often contains 100 to $50 pods,
and weighs from 60 to 50 pounds. 1t
is said that 100 square yards of land will pro-
duce 4,OOO pounds weight of fruit, while the
same area will rarely produce more than 80
pounds weight of wheat so pounds of pota-
| toes.
| THE OTHER DAY A. Strachan, music seller. of
Galashels, N B., received an unsigned letter
written in red ink. containing the following:
| sir: Seven years ago | stole a concertina
from your workshop which was getting re-
| paired. Some time ago | Joined the Salvation
army. and Christ has pardoned all my sins |
| think it ri yht should let you know. May God
| bless you, and meet me in heaven"
HERE is little story from Switzerland, tie
moral OF which is that married people must
! not quarrel. In September 1885, the village of
| Eglisan was set on fire and five houses were
| burned down. One Sunday few weeks ago
| the landlord of an inn at Schifflande had a
| qnarrel with his wife. and she denounced him
in the face of his customers as the author of the
| fire. He is now i'll prison awaiting trial.
THE number of foreign yachts, both steam
and sailing, which cross the Atlantic is increas-
ing annually, and it is a common thing to see
the American flag flying at their peak or stern
Flagstaff the day after their arrival. There is a
popular impression that foreign-built vessels
twO-thirds of them are of American manufact-
ure, but investigation shows this to be mis-
| take,
RENTING CLOCKS is a new business in New
Haven Over 1900 clocks of this kind have
| been placed already in that city at a rental of
| 30 cents a month. In some cases where the
| time of operatives In a factory demands careful
| adjustment an employe of the company visits
the place daily and regulates the clock so far
as may be necessary. Ordinarily the clocks arr
wound once in six days. and the company at
| tends to that
B. S. STAPLES of Belfast, Me-, has on exhibi-
ton at the Phoenix house stable a steer calf
with Ave legs. The fifth one starts from the
nigh hind gambrel joint and branches down
with a perfect foot, upon which he steps the
|
| freak of nature the calf is beauty being only
six months old, and weighing 6l5 pounds His
| glrth ID feet 9inches. He was raised by Free
J man Atwood of Monroe and will be exhibited
at the Bangor fair next week.
A RANCHaAN living on the Satsop, Col. missed
| three head of cattle, and, noticing a consrega-
ton of buzzards a short distance away. pro-
| ceeded to make an investigation and found all
| three OF the animals lying dead. their bones All
broken, their horns knocked Off scarcely anv
| hair left on them. and the ground around them,
| all torn up with elk tracks. Apparently a hand
| OF elkS had come up and attacked them in an
| opening and hooked and butted them down and
| paved and stamped them to death
REGULARLY every six months the treasury de-
partment receives either a $50 or $50 bill which.
from all appearances, instead of being made
| from plate, is executed entirely with a Den.
| The work is of very high order and several
times these bills have deded detection ard passed
| on their tour of circulation unhindered The
counterfeiter seems to be genius who yearns
for notorety, as he could make his living nv his
penmansnip. The culprit has not vet hean
captured, although efforts have been made n
/ find him, and it is believed that he has had the
| pleasure of viewing his handiwork in a little
frame which hangs on the walls of the treasury
| building.
| The resignation of two sons of the late Field
Marshal Won Manteufel the first statthalter Of
Alsace- Lorraine, from the German army has
caused considerable gossip in official circles in
| he IF