The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-29
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county, H.. has received check for 1000 900
left her BY an uncle who died in Texas.
NOVEL WAY OF raising money to build a
church has been adopted by congregation in
! an Iowa town. They borrowed S120,OO0 and
| gave life insurance on a number OF the mem
oers, which IS to be applied on the debt as fast
a. oedth ensues.
In EUROPE iron Stag is cast into blocks and
used for street pavements and in house build
ing. In Cleveland there is a factory which con,
| verts Il iato mineral wool. II is mass of very
nne nbres filed with CLASSY particles. 1t is soft,
plant and inelastic.
TIE BRITISH MUSEUM has received Chinese
bank note issued from the imperial mint SOC
years before the first use of paper money in
| Europe, showing that the Chinese were prof
Client iii the art of printing long before its in
| ventton by Guttenburg.
THE great cantiIever bridge at the Needles,
Cal. is finished. In its construction 10000, 900
| pounds of steel and iron were used, and the
center span-36o feet--is the longest in the
| world. Three men were killed and % injured
| during the work of building.
JAY HILL 70-year old modern Samson, with
the head of lunatic, but the body of hercules
"a fierce and dangerous fellow, who had been
for fifty stouty chained to the floor of the
! old Hill homestead. Trinity College. n. c.,
| died with his shackles upon him on Wednesday
| last.
| FINLAND PAPER mentions curious stone in
the northern part of that country which serves
| the people instead of a barometer This stone,
| which they call 'Ilmakiur," turns black, or
| b.acklsh gray, when foul weather is approach
| ing; fine weather has the effect of turning it
| almost white.
! SHAKEsPEARE's birthplace at Stratfordupon-
Avon, was visited by 19,414 persons during the
| year just ended by the anniversary of the poets
| birth. These visitors represented thirty nine
nationaiities. The executive council will now
consider the question of opening Shakespeare's
house on Sundays.
In THE cornerstone of a Protestant Episcopal
church, whose erection was begun last week in
Brooklyn. there was placed a Photographic
cylinder, incased in tin, upon which a member
| had spoken, In the name of the congregation,
| message to those who shall at some future time
\ uncover the stone.
| A FAMILY in Dover, N. j., who have long been
missing valuables, were amazed a day or two
| ago to find them in the secret nest of pet
goose. Among the articles which the bird had
! appropriated were Two gold thimbles, tortoise
shell comb. scarf pins, spools of sewing silk,
| silver lace and Waterbury watch.
| One of the best paid stenographers in Wash
| lngton is President Harrison's secretary who
| receives 1880 a year. Washington is para
| disc for shorthand writer's, for it is said that
there is hardly room among the thousands in
| the government departments that has not one
The state department at Washington has re-
| ceived a report from the consul at Mannheim,
Germany upon the workings of the accident in
surance societies of Germany known as trade
societies. They include over 8, 500, 600 members
workmen. enrolled or insured against accident,
and paid 10 parties for injuries in 1888 over
$500, 900 marks
| AT the beginning of the year it was estimated
that about 5000, 100000 was invested in the cleo
| trical industries The telegraph companies had
S12O, 100000; telephone. $4,000, 600; electric
| lightning and power companies, 100000, 900:
electrical supply com panies, $780, 900 900. There
is no doubt that another year will show 81 ,000,-
| O,OOO invested in electrical industries.
| THERE is trouble in the First Congregational
church in Lockport, N. Y, over a refusal to
| admit candidates to membership unless they
! promised to abstain from dancing card playing
| and theater going. The result was the with
draWal OF seventy i've prominent members, in
Guiding good share of the wealth of the
church, and the formation of a new church.
IT is SAID that the common cowcatcher at
tachment to locomotives is about the only arti-
Gle of universal use that has never been patented
Its inventor was d. B. Davies of Columbus who
found his model IN the pillow. Red lights on the
rear of trains it is further said was adopted at
the suggestion of the late Mrs. Swisshelm after
a railway accident, in which she had narrow
escape.
NEW YORK CITY has found out, after three
years trial, that milk inspectors really inspect.
| The president of the health board of that city
reports that the quality of the milk sold in 1889
| improved 46 per cent. over that of 1883 and 81
per cent. over that of 1887. The amount of
| milk brought into the city increased from 1885,
52S 400 quarts in 1887 to 243 07 $50 in 1889 and of
cream from 4, Az, go quarts to 5,436,6S0.
A FEW DAYS AGO three families of Finlanders
settled on farms in the northern part of Beadle
| county, South Dakota. In one of the families
| there are nineteen children, in another seven
| teen, and in the third nine, the parents of the
| last family having been married but ten years
These families will soon be Joined by four
| others, all relatives. numbering forty-six per-
sons, making a total of ninety seven persons i'll
nine families
The WIFE of Ignacio Martinez, a poor laboring
| Mexican, who lives at Puente, Los Angeles
county, Cal, gave birth last week to male trip
| lets. whose total weight was twenty-three
pounds. The mother and her three babies are
all in good condition and the father is happy.
The couple have been married twenty-five
years, and Mrs. Martinez is only thirty nine
| years of age. She has given birth to fourteen
| children in all. Four of them were twins.
LAST WEEK Judge Hare of Philadelphia sem
fenced John McManus to. death. Notwith
standing the fact that he has been on the bench
| thirty years the judge has sentenced but two
| men to be hanged, and the most singular thing
| about the matter is that both men quarreled
| over the same woman which led to the murders.
| Jealousy for this woman was the motive for
| both murders, and, with one of her victims in
| the grave and the other sentenced to the gal
| lows. the creature goes back to her haunts of
vice and lulq1lty.
AT MYERsDALE, Somerset county, Pa. is a
| family hard to match. Edward Deal the
| father. is 90 years old. reads without glasses
| and labors at his trade, that of a miller The
| mother is several years his junior, reads with
| out glasses, and can pass any of her girls on
| the road. The children were all born and
| reared on farm in Somerset county. The sons
| have all mastered the trade of the father but
| four of them are engaged in milling The old
est member of the family was is years of age
| when the youngest was born. so at that time
| time there were eighteen places at the table
| daily, without company.
| that PECULIAR RELIGIOUS DENOMINATION, the
Drunkards, have been holding a love feast at
| Reading, Pa Among the ceremonies they OBJ
| serve is that of washing each others feet. One
| brother knelt down and washed both feet of
| three or four brothers sitting on a bench in a
| row, while another brother, grit with towel
| followed, and wiped the feet. The women, all
of whom wore white lace caps. washed each
others feet in the same way, while an appropri-
| ate hymn was being sung. Loaves of bread
| and tin dishes containing soup made of rice and
beef having been placed on the table, all the
| members partook of the Lords supper
The West Indies brig Lutzburg has arrived in
| Bangor, Me-, for ice. She was built in Germany