The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

caught at West Goshen, Pa, last week
PORTSMOUTH (O.) MAN has weu-develon.d
apple growing on an ordinary grapevine. the
result of sKillful grating.
THERE Is a real John Doe in Aechinson- who
works in a section gang during the week and
who breaches on Sunday.
The OLDEST INHABITASr found by the census
enumeration, J. Spllman. in Marietta, Pa. is
Nancy Gresham, 1l6 years old
BosroS has an 1i-year-old heroine-Lizzie
Murphy, who last week jumped overheard and
saved cai!d OF 3 from drowning.
TEE GREAT ELM felled in Medfield. Mass, las.
week was something ike 200 years old. 1t
measured twenty feet in crcu inference.
A CHINESE GARDENER rented zoo acres in Los
Angeles county. California. and set out toma-
toes. He will clear so, COO for the crop.
PERHAPS the youngest mother il the country
lives at Chapel Hill. S. c. She is not a years of
age and has beea married nearly year.
A DoYLEsTowN, Pa, miss visiting Norristown
got up to look out Of the window a few nights
ago and poked her head through pane of plate
glass.
The great exhibition held in London in 1851
was attended by 6,039, 1876 persons. and left
profit of e213, S05. 1t remained opsn from May
till Oct II.
A SUN of $3.50 has been collected by Amer-
can ladies for the furtherance of the higher
medical education of women at the Johns Hop
kins University.
SOME practical but inartistic German has
made up compound of sugar and condensed
milk and tea, from which cup of tea can be
had by simply pouring on boiling water.
CARRIAGE WHEELS are now being made from
cold rolled steel. The spokes are tubular and
adjustable The wheel is so put together that
any part can be replaced without taking off the
tire or felloe.
AN OFFICE has been opened in Paris where the
mpecunious nobility may consult list Of eligi-
bic American maids, widows and divorce
with Intor nation in regarc to the amount OF
their fortunes.
A JAPANESE PAPER states that at Kanawaza a
family of SIX generations lives. The Oldest is
said to be 1872 years of age, and to be great
great great grandmother, her husband, aged $780,
also being alive.
THERE is a fourishing Japanese club in New
York, of which nearly every native of Japan in
the city is a member. The president is the
present vice consul, Teijiro Kito. VINO is IS years
old and married.
Philadelphia bar, who died last Tuesday, came
of very distinguished family and one which
was conspicuously identified with the early his
tory of the country.
The GREATEST MARVEL in telegraphy is said to
be the synchronous multiplex and instrument by
means of which six messages can be trans
nltted upon one WIRE either all from one station
or IN opposite directions.
The SEARCH for the $40, 900 600 which was in
the hold of the British sloop-of-war De Braak,
which sank on May 25 1875, is still proceeding.
The treasure lies so newhere at the bottom of
the sea at Cape Henlopen.
CpA prIr T.crcO,- x-aar ia Iod of Ao-I
boro, Mass, last week picked up pocketbook
containing $4,000 in gold certificates and
checks He found the owner-a sea captain
soon after, and. returning the pocketbook to
him, was handsomely re Sarded.
JoHN FEES of Medaryville. Ind. was struck by
lightning a few days ago every bone in his body
being bro en-. Downey Knots, sitting on the
wagon seat beside him. escaped unhurt and so
oil the horses Fess was driving, but a dog trot-
ting under the wagon was killed.
HERE is the latest thing in wedding announce
ments: Smith-Brown.-He is 25 and she is 90
He is feet inch and she is 5 feet II inches.
He weighs l56 pounds and she weighs 120. He
is fond OF fat and she Is fond of lean He is a
democrat and she is republican. They both
belong to the Presbyterian Church They have
always been meant for each other Par uobis-
cum.
THE SHELL Of the crab and lobster owes its
blush gray color to the superpostlon of two
pigments or coloring matters, which have been
isolated-a red pigment and a b ue one. As
long as these two pigments exist simultaneously
the crust ceans remain gray. But the blue
pigmen is fugitive, and sometimes under the
influence of disease, 1t is destroyed, and crabs
are 10 und with portions of their shell more or
| less reddish. When the crustaceans are i'm
mersed in boiling water the blue pigment Is
cut irely destroyed, and the red pigment which
is very stable, appears alone in all It's oriiancy.
| THE Holy TRINITY CEMETERY in Brooklyn is a
| modest burying ground, in which there are the
| graves of about 5000 dec ased Catholics. 1t
4 is a rule of the cemetery that the monuments
| shall be Of one pattern, so that the eau be no
| the graves of the poor. The monuments are
| all of wood or galvanized iron, made in
| imitation of gray granite The monuments are
| Surmounted with crosses decorated with the
| figures of the cruciflX and lamb These crosses
are for the most part of lead. 1t was discovered
| a few days ago that fully 500 monuments have
been despo d of their crosses. the thieves evil
! IDENTIFY intending to sell the lead to junk shops
| An investigation has been instituted.
| SOCIETY in Lincoln, Neb is somewhat
| stirred up over the sensational situation in
| which John Schultz, handsome and wealthy
druggist, finds himself. Several DAYS ago it
was an lounced by Schultz that he had marie l
| Mrs Bedford, charming widow employed at
| the Bond hotel, and lie publicly introduced her
| as his wife. The lady was congratulated by all
| her friends on her remarkab lucky capture
Schultz announced to-day that the marriage
| was all joke and hoax, but the lady will not
| listen to this. She admits that there was no
marriage ceremony, but since he has publicly
acknowledged her as his wife the act constI-
"a q m rria and cha y;