The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

WAR Is considered the finest and largest
melon patch in Warwick. r. l.. is lighted oV
lanterns through the night. and guarded by an
armed watchman-
/ STEELE MAckAYE has gone into the real estate
business Us a side speculation in DAKOTA
( town. His excuse is that be has a friend Who
desires 10 N Ike him millionaire
A FAMILY in Parksrsburg, W Va, have oeen
losing meats so often from the vel, where they
were PUT to keep cool and fresh. that last We
they So; a watch and found the thleI 10 DC
blacz snake several feet long
Amonstrous brass casting was successfully
run at a foun iry in Pittson. Pa, the other day
II is pump chamber weighing 5000 pounds
Il took three men nearly q month TO build the
mold, ald the material cost Sf.5tr
A REMARKABLE PROCEEDING is reported from
Oh csyo, where father-Jacob Lanfieid-was
arrested for not taking out . license for thea
ter. which his children ran IN the callar, cnarg
ing five pins admission. He was arrested on
warrant sworn out by policeman
The COMING ELECTION is likely to be the last
one in which Maine will choose four congress
men. Its gain in population has been so small
in the past ten years tcat any increase IN tne
ratio of representation which stands much
chance of adoption will cut its list OF members
| in the House down to three.
DIR. LEONARD j. GORDON, president OF the
Jersey City board of health, has made sug-
gestion that all telegraph poles on which live
electric wires are strung be painted red tnat
the public may be able 20 distinguish them
Dr. Gordon viii bring the subject up for dis
cussion at the next meeting Of the board.
GERTRUDE BuTHE, Co years old, arrived in New
! York on the steamship Ems from Bremen Tues
day and told the clerk who registered her at the
Barge Office that she was searching for nus
band She is only feet inches in hight. She
| claims TO re wealthy. and exhibited $50 70 the
| registry clerk. The woman said SIZE had trav-
| eled nearly around the world looking for hus
| band, but thus far had failed TO find suitable
| mate.
A FEW DAYS SINCE a party Of gentlemen and
ladies were walking in the cemetery, and,
glancing at an adjacent lot, they saw sight
which has only been seen In savage and halt
| civilized lands, says the Hudson Journal The
| sight referred to was that of a young girl
| hitched to a cultivator like horse, and driven
| by an apology of man, who. when the poor
| girl fatered in the WORK, would urge her on by
! threats and curses.
| A MAINE CONTEMPORARY notes that of the two
| gifts which the Indian has made to modern
| civilization the birch canoe ana the snow shoe
| the canoe appears to be passing away, owing
| to the scarcity of material. The Passamaquod-
| dies are now compelled to go away under the
sha low Of Katahdin to find bircaes of sufficient
| size to furnish the material for building. and
are themselves substituting canvas, which costs
less and will bear rougher handling.
THE London correspondent of the Chicago
NelcS makes this statement: The Duke of
| Edinburgh thrifty soul9 went all the way from
| London to Edinburgh last spring to open the ex.
| hibiuon, and after his return he sent in bill of
| expenses for the exhibition people to pay.
| Among other items was charge of $1,000 for a
special train. Whe' eupOn it was reno 1state1
that the duke did not travel in special train.
| That's true, - said the duke, but | was en-
titled to one; and even if | didn't take it, you
should be willing to pay me the cost Of one"
ACCORDING to reports from the principal
states north of the Ohio river it appears that
the potato crop this season will be almost a
failure. The Chicag1 Tribune says that,
averaging the probable yield in these states it
will be the smallest ever known in one season.
In some parts the failure is almost complete,
in others the yield Is fair but nowhere above
the average. The surplus will be small, hence
prices higher, though the unfavorable season
| precudeS the raising of any superior quality.
| Ia many places there will not be enough for
| home consumption"
ENTERPRISE of the most modern variety has
at last struck the ancient profession of surgeon
dentists Recent visitors to the crowded sec.
tions about Fourteenth and Sixth avenues could
not help noticing huge dentists sign that is
like pillar of fire by night What it proclaims
can be CLEANED from the following information
told in the minor announcements of the same
place: open all night. No time lost. Nomore
suffering the fortunes of the damned waiting
for daylight and the dentist. Orders for new
teeth or repairs to old ones left at night finished
next morning"
THE RESIDENTS of Dyer street, Saco, are
pulling, says the Kennebec Journal lover a
strange phenomenon recently noticed at the
home of Lawyer George T. Haley. About II
O'Clock at night dark cloud was seen to ap-
parenty descend from the sky aud settle upon
the roof the hous4. There was a flash of fire
| and then VOlumaS nf SDonka roIlad frop,
the roof Those who were witnesses began to
cry fire. bnt before the alarm had spread the
smoke had cleared away and the house was
seen to be all right. A dozen responsible par
| ties say they saw the queer spectacle"
THE FOLLOWING STORY is told of a young man
in Elizabeth, n. j.: He is said to be quite a
maSher, and on recent Sunday wore quite an
elegant new suit of white flannel He forgot to
take off big blue tag stitched on the back of
the coat, and on which was marSed the size
together with the price OF the garment The
gallant marched into church, and, as usual
took conspicuous seat way up in front Nc
sooner had those behind him caught glance
| OF the taS on the coat than general litter ran
through the churcn, and the young man. dur.
| ing the rest OF the service, was more an OBJ.
| JeCt of interest than the officiating clergyman
| None of his acquaintance was charitable enough
to call his attention to the matter, and he
walked home from church with the unsigbtly
tag still attached to his coa-."
| 1dE QUONOCHOUIANG MAID VINO Oagged q
shark weighing 200 pounds has been eclipsed by
a coupl of South Stamford, (Conn) bows. not
In the amount of pluck displayed but in the
size of the booty. The sharI the boys captured
weighed 400 pounds and this is said to Do the
way they caught the big fellow: 1T was at
Ware Island, near Pine Island, and tho bows
were out with boat and seine. Suddenly well
up in the coarse sedge Of the island they saw
! monster fish of some sort They did not try
the seine business on him-that was useless
But they SO managed with boat and bushes
that the big fish seemed afraid to try to reach
deeper water, and the falling tide dnally left
nm aground. Then the boys out with lack
knives and went at the fish in regular harDoon
style, and soon had him i'll such shape that he
wouldn't kick. They towed their prlze to the
old steamboat dock at Watcrside, where it was
put on exhibition. The fish was Just thirteeu
feet long" $3.50 WA
HERE is still new field for electric lights
says special dispatch to the st Louis Globe
Democrat from Little Rock, Ark: DR.. jaime,
Bryson, one OF the largest planters in the state
Is enthusiastic over what he thinks TO he The
most practicable and effective method for d.
stroylng the fly that deposits the boil worm seg
he says that coal oil lamps are too much troubIs
ana II taxes too much labor to give them ths
proper attention. 1t is his opinion that eYtsn
slve planters would find it to their adyants "a r.
put 4 an electric motor, and use electric lishts
scattered at proper distances over the c,Sttar
held. The doctor calculates that he loses tror
SI,ooO TO 5000 every year from worms. It will
cost ABOUT $1,000 TO put in an electric n,otor q,
his plantation, with lines, lamps and fnII eor; Va
Inents for destroying every moth miller . nd
insect winch may hatch out during a season
ana ne proposes to be a pion ser and bring tbf
eieCtrlc motor INTO general use by putting i,