The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-12
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waist one day last week-the COW ran away, and
trampled and dragged him to death.
Oh a little boat house on the North river this
sign is displayed: ''Sandworms and all summer
drinks for sale" And nea= the loot of Wall
street, New York, sign with the following
legend may be seen: Umbrella Hospital
AN EXPLORING PARTY sent out by the Seattle
Press to Alaska six months ago has returned.
| They report having suffered terribly during the
| found rich country and evidence of ancient
inhabitants.
The TRAIN which recently carried the EN-
1 peror of Japan to Nagova made, it is said the
best record ever reported over a Japanese road.
II traversed the distance OF 226 miles, between
TOKYO and Nagoya, in 915 hours, including
| stoppageS.
The BRITISH PosToFFIcE, which in 1910 dis
| tributed 75,0O0,O0O of letters per aunum, now
distributes 1000 zoo, 900, exclusive of postal
cards, newspapers, etc. In London alone the
number OF letters posted and delivered an
nually is $50 100000.
| The SEATS of the summer carsI manufactured
at the Pullman shops for the Pennsylvania rail
road are upholstered in a white or olive hair
| fabric, originated and used exclusively by the
Pullman Company. The material is cool and
very pleasant for summer use.
A NEW DIsINFEcTANT has made its appearance
under the name of Thiocamph. 1t is a combi-
! nation of camphor with sulphurous acid, con
| tanning over sixty times its volume of sulphur
rous acid gas. which, upon its exposure in a
warm room, is gradually evolved.
MONSTER CRAB was landed in net from q
wharf in San Diego recently by L. c. Bragg
The body measured sixteen inches across
wnlle the spread of the nippers was thirty-sx
| inches This giant crustacean was ornamented
with barnacles of five years growth.
YOUNG CoLoRED GIRL of Hiawatha who is
very i'll, and who does not expect to recover,
had herself carried to the African Methodist
church, OF WHICH she is r ember, and after
the services called all of her friends around her
and asked them to meet her in heaven.
BENJAMIN MOORE, who died some time ago at
his home in Spencer county, Ind, was probably
at his death the oldest man in the state. Two
months lengthenlng of his life would have
| brought him to the Tooth mile post of his earthly
pilgrimage. AT 1903 he walked five miles to the
election precinct to vote.
The GREATEST FIRM of builders in Vienna.
| Honus Lang, have suspended. They claim
assets of 6,500,000 FORMS and mortgages of
100000 orins, also other note debts of 600 900
| f1orlns. Depreciation of real estate is claimed
| to be the cause. Vienna has been building
madly for some years past
SEVERAL YEARS AGO a Richmond CIe) man
refused to allow the Maine Central railroad to
| put a foot on what he supposed was his land
pute, but several rods more belonged to the
road, and when the line fence was built it took
OFF slice of the citizens doorstep.
A STATISTICAL ENTHUSIAST has calcu atsd
| that pianist in playing a certain presto.
| played 5,595 notes in four minutes. The striking
| OF each note involved two movements of the
niger and one movement each of the elbow
wrist and arm. From this it is calculated that
seventy two voluntary movements were made
| per second.
| The NUMBER of persons killed and injured in
| railway accidents in the United States in the
| year ended June 30, 1889. was: Killed, 1923: in
| Jured, $500. OF the number killed 972 were
employees, 80 were passengers and 3544 were
denomlnated other persons OF the injured
3O,020 were employees, 2146 were passengers and
t'55 were other persons.
Over 1000 Africans are now at work on The
| Congo railroad. On April u two miles of it had
been completed. This portion be yins at Matadi.
winch is at Inc western end of the road ninety
miles from the sea The principal difTiculties
lie in the building of the first ten miles, before
the level plateau of the Congo hills is reache d.
twenty-five Europeans superintend the work
IN THE RHENIsH PROVINCES lives an artist
without hands and arms. Adam Siepen, who has
completed beautiful painting by means of
| his right foot. He has remarkable talent and
| can write or paint with his foot as well as any
| one usually does with the hand Much walking
however, Injuries his delicacy of TOUCH and SO
last picture received prize at the Dusseldorf
exhibition.
A TALENTED young actor of the Paris Odeop
had served his legal term in the reserve, and
passed his officsr's examination. When he
presented himself for his commission he re-
| ceived, instead, his dentssioe, with the ex-
PLANTATION that his profession was incompatible
with an officers grade in the militia. All the
| Paris journals raised row about it. The name
| OF the actor is Numa.
NEW FRENCH CLOCK contains novel appli
cation Of the magnet. The clock is shaped like
| a tambourine, with circle of flowers PAINTED
on its head. Around the circle two bees crawl
| the larger one requiring twelve hours to com
piete It's circuit, while the smaller one makes it
every hour. Different flowers represent the
| hours. and the bees, which are Of iron are
moved by two magnets behind the head of the
tambourine.
| OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION of the sonnets of
Shakespeare, published by George Daniel of
London in 1909, there are but two perfect comics
known. One of these s in the British musl1em
for the other IS. 900 was paid but a short time
ago. AS the book is very small, only 7x4 inches
and weighing less than ten ounces, it was fg-
ured that at that rate each ounce of the precious
| volume brought $500, many times its own
weight in gold.
VICTOR BoULEr, poor workman at Keene-
vile, n Y, has made a lucky find The path
! from his house to the gate had worn down SO
| One morning he took a crowbar and began pry.
| ing them up. He found that they we're cobie-
| stones that had been driven into the ground
| forming a circle. Beneath them was large fat
stone. His curiosity was excited, and he pried
| up the latter, when he discovered beneath it a
| brass kettle full of money, but whether gold or
| silver is not stated
! A WIFE was sold for shilling recently by
| German workman in Silesia, though the loving
| husband stipulated that she was to return to
him in two years. A year after the bargain was
| struck the workman summoned the purchaser
to pay fifteen ShillingS for the set of false teeth
which his wife was wearing and which he had
| forgotten to include in the contract Her mr.
| chaser objected and called in the police who
| formally sanctioned the original bargain and
disallowed the first husbands claim
AND now afelow in Alexandria, Egypt. thinks
he has the skeleton and ashes of Cleopatra
under his thumb, and he wants to sell the re-
mains to the Chicago exposition for S6OOyO
His name is Alexander Tagliafero He has
sent to the officers of the fair photograph of a
sarcophagus which he alleges is that OF Cleo
patra. The sarcophagus was recently discov-
cred in Caesars camp. near Alexandria by
psychologists When it was opened the con
tents were in ashes. with the exception of the
skeleton, which was we'll preserved
SEVERAL YEARS AGO William A. Walters was
buried in Stone Chapel cemetery in Huntingdon
county, Maryland In 1855 the body was ex
humed for the purpose of removing it to Will
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