The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-29
AND BELOW COST.
G. GRAY & SON.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

QUERY addressed to Chicago paper asks
who built the Ark.
THE NIPUoK TrIBE of Indians in Massachu-
sets has become extinct, the last survivor an
old squaw of IS. having died last week. Massa-
chusetts always waged the most unreienting
war against the Indians of any colony or state,
and drove the hardest bargains with them.
A SHIP LOAD of ice arrived in New York from
Norway. 1t is said to be the first consignment
of ice received from Norway for some years.
This load was 9S6 tons. Capt. PonS said that
ice was exceedingly cheap and plentiful in Nor
way, and was selling in England for 80 a ton
A SMART Biddeford (NIe.) boy has gone into
the business of raising eagles. He found three
eagles eggs in a nest in the woods and carried
them home, placing them under hen that had
Just commenced to set. Saturday last the eggs
Matched, and the young eaglets are now doing
well.
DEPUTY SHERIFF GARNER of Flushing, Mich,
recently held an auction, and, among other
things, sold little brown jug of whisky which
he thought was empty, for lOcents. The buyer
got on a roaring drunk, and now his VIE Is
trying to prosecute Garner for selling liquor
without a license.
FANNY WILLIAMS of Columbus, Ind, has COM
pleted a ten-mile grading contract on the Z.
and R road of the Mackay system and has
shipped three carloads of horses and machinery
to Wellington o. where she has another con
Cleveland and Wellington railroad.
A LATE NUMBER of the London Times con-
tanned the following advertisement: Required
TO borrow. the sum of ESQ for an indefinite
period. No security can be offered. ANY lady
| or gentleman granting this favor will greatly
obge, and at the same time greatly surprise,
| the advertiser. Address Marcus"
| AT BLOOMFIELD, IA, on Monday night the
| leading lady of an amateur dramatic company
yk1fax
| ing into her dressing room. using pistol
| loaded with soap. One of the men, named
| Toole was wounded and had her arrested. The
| justice dismissed her aud lectured Toole.
WHILE little girl named Smith was pump
| ing water from well at Shelsburg, Ia, the
platform gave way and she fell to the bottom,
| a distance of twenty feet Rev. Mr.. Melshon
| witnessed the accident and descended into the
we'll and succeeded in rescuing the child. Be-
| yond few slight bruises she escaped INJURY.
| A STRANGE SUICIDE occurred near Clinton. ILL.,,
recently well-dressed man, hailing from
| Chicago, who had told several persons that he
was going to offer himself as sacrifice TO God
| in order to save Chicago and other cities from
| predicted disaster, threw himself in front of a
| train and was crushed almost beyond recognl-
| ton.
In RALEIGH the other day colored man who
| had done some work for the city called at the
| collectors office for his pay. His certificate
| was o. d, and the auditor called to his clerk
| to issue warrant for the colored man, meaning,
| of course, for the amount due, whan. with his
ewes bull ging out, he exclaimed: ''Ror de Lords
| sake boss. don't git warrant for me. | clar
| ter gracious l amt done nuthin.'
Hnruer's Bazaar prints this Composition on
! George Washington, the work of a 9year old
| boy: George Washington the father of
| his country one day he went to his fathers yard
| and cut down tree. What are you doing asked
| his father am trying to tell a lie and cannot
| hon ba
| killed by a man named getto who was jellish of
| him and the no 9 engine house was draped in
| black"
AT INGERsoLL, TEX, Mrs. Page gave birth
| to four children few days since. They weighed
together 1919 pounds; one s, one 5, one AZ, and
| one pounds. Mrs. Page is blonde, 80 years
| old and has had twins three times before this.
| Page is an Englishman, 26 years old, her second
husband. and weighs only rs pounds. When
| informed of the birth of four. he fell across the
bed at his wfe's side threw his heels in the air,
clsspad his legs with both hands, and cried with
! a vail OF despair: Lord God, doctor, what
| shall DOR
BETWEEN Rome and Naples the Red Cross of
Italy has been running a hospital train COM
posed of ten carrages-two for the directing
| personnel, one for the registrar and for
| wounded Officers two for fourteen patients
| sick or wounded of each troop, one for medi-
cines and alimentary stores, one for the culinary
| service one for the assisting personnel, one as
an escort carriage and one as a luggage wagon
| Inspected at various points of the line by
medical experts. it is reported to have fulfilled
its functions admirably.
| SOLOMON LEVINE has brought suit against
Health Inspector Max Levy of Brooklyn to
recover 800 which he alleges is due him as a
| marriage broker for having negotiated the
| union of Dr. Levy and Miss Lillian Marks the
daughter of a New York merchant, and who
| has a large fortune in her own right. They
| were married in the Lexington Avenue Opera
Ir Tau
states that he offered Levine 81 to bring about
| an introduction which should result in a mar
rage but that Levine refused this. and the
| negotiation between them ended there and was
never resumed. Levine claims that his services
were worth $780, and that it was understood he
should receive that sum.
NEARLY ALL OF the Standard Oil millionaires.
says the New York Sun, have followed the lead
of one of the senior members of their trust and
! built magnificent reside ces on the sound. Two
or three of them go to the main office of the
/ Standard OIL Company from their residences
every morning on their yachts, but Mr. FIagler
though he likes sail as well as any of the other.
| mllionaires, still patropiZes the trains Mr.
Flaglers place near Larchmont occupies a
| peninsula. and is one of the most magnificent
! country seats on water front in this country
Just off Mr. Flagler's private dock lies huge
steam yacht, and beside it big lOO-foot
| schooner. Both of the craft are fully manned
| so that whenever the Standard Oil millionaire
likes to take a sail he has only to stroll down
to bis pier and step aboard one of his yachts
| Mr.. Starbuck, whose place is four or five miles
beyond the Flagler house on the sound, rises in
the morning, takes his bath, steps aboard his
| yacht. and breakfasts on his way TO New York
By the time he has finished with his breakfast
and has smoked his CT gar on deck, he is ready
to go to the Office OF the Standard Oil Company
| ana arrange few more twists for the limo
cents. One Of the Roekefellers lives farther up
the coast Of the sound at Greenwich-and his
yacht occasionally INDUCES in race with Mr.
Starbuck's The other Rockefeller comes down
| the Hudson to business on his steam Yacht
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