The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-24
ITEMS OF INTERESr.

| sin asyiurns-
Az ApaIachicola Fia-) resident killed rat
that weighed ~ pounds
ArRorTIxG RACE for oxen, single and double,
| will b. a conspicuous feature Of the Cheboygan
| CMichJ county fair.
JAMES Robinson, a millionaire OF Paoenix
! Ari is attending nj ;ht school in order that he
may learn TO read and write.
4 THE MAYOR of Boston receives from tho West
End Street Railway Company 500 tickets
| weekly for charitable purposes.
RELIC HUNTERS are paying faucy prices to the
hair dresser OF the lite Cardinal Newman for
/ cuttings Of the great diVine's hair.
j. H. SALMON Is Brunswick Csfich) an
| tiquarian He has valuable collection OF
/ coins ranging from IS B. G. to 1922 A. D.
| HENRY WALKER OF waylonza. Fla, is the
owner OF pig that has six feet and twenty
four toes, while neighbor has one with only
| two feet.
II IRELAND recently young woman bather
was attacked by a jelly fish and so severely
| stung that at last accounts she was in preca-
| rous condition.
! TIE explanation of the peculiar density of
thunder clouds is said to lie in the fact that the
vapor is partially condensed into drops by the
| electrical action.
As EARLY as 1883 Bristol and Exeter broad
gauge locomotive. carrying light load and
running on falling grade developed a speed
| OF eighty miles an hour.
CENSUS of fruit bearing trees has been
| taken in Los Angeles county by Messrs. Mitch
ell and Smith who devoted three months to the
work They report the total number at &c, 365-
S75.
New HAVEN GENTLEMAN has a couple of
tame wasps They have built a nest 10 his par
Tor and live undisturbed and undisturbing This
Is the third season the insects have occupied the
same quarters.
The GOLD MEDAL awarded Michigan for her
educational exhibit at the Melbourne Aus
tralia, exposition in 1888 has just been received
at Lansing. tits of Australian gold, and weighs
nearly two ounces.
DAVID FULLER, one of the clerks in the office
OF the United States consul general in Paris,
mulatto, has been connected with the Office for
more than thirty years. and is said to be a
painter OF considerable talent
SENATOR HEARST and W. l. Scott are said to
have won enough money with their respective
stables during the last season to pay their cam
paign expenses for the next five years. Per
maps 1t is for this that they are turrmen.
INcANDEscENr LAMPS placedHnear the ceiling
will cause it to backsn, contrary 10 general be-
lief; The blackening is not due to unconsumed
carbon, but TO a current OF hot air which de-
posts black particles on contact with cold
| surface.
FRUIT STAND in Palatka, Fla, sells for a
nickel all the cocoanuts that a person can
take away in his pockets. Several, who thought
they saw good thing in this tried it and lost
their nickel The nuts had the shells on and
would not 90 ia any pocket,
A SHARP FAKIR recently worked" several
Michigan towns. His plan was to buy a number
of cakes of ordinary soap at 5 cents cake out
or which. by means OF cartridge SHE'LL he
punched eighteen sticks of his superior shay
ing soap" These he sold for cents a stick.
For SOME TIME the little town of La Grande
Ore, has been infested with tough characters.
One day last week the people decided to clean
the town, and they made raid on the saloons
The roundup included four faro banks four
poker games, VIII 39 OF fortune and chuck
a-luck lay out,
BIG MOOSE made its appearance in Levant,
Me. citizen who forgot it was close time and
Selling his rife shot the animal in a neighbours
yard. has lust paid the fine of $00 IL was quite
costly sport for him, but he consoled himself
with the thought that a moose doesn't walk up
10 the muzzle OF gun every day.
IT is not generally known that excessive pal
pltation of the heart cGn be promptly stopped
by bending double, with the head downward
ana the g. ms pendant. so that temporary
gestlon or the upper part of the body is pro
duced II the breath be held at the same time
the effect of this action is FASTENED.
j. D. SMITH Is a crippled tax collector of
Charleston, Me. So great is the sympathy of
his neighbors for him that although he's unable
TO move about the taxpayers all help him to
perform his duties III effective manner, and
men nave been known to actually take him in
tdelr arms and carry him to where he could at
tach their property
AS BELFAST LADY was combing her hair in a
room in the second-story, a little bird flew in at
the open window and alighting on a washbowl
which contained water, proceeded TO take a
oatn. When 1t had completed its ablutionS in
bird fashion, it shook off the superfiuous mois-
ture and flew out of the window paying no at
tention TO the occupant of the room.
THERE is a conductoron Cincinnati street
car who was recently appointed, who is heir to
an estate in England valued at $15O000. The
young man visited the home of his ancestors
some time ago and arranged to convert the
property into cash. While awaiting the money
ne is putting In his time manipulating the bell
punch IL is said he has arranged with some of
the stockholders of the railroad company to in
vest his money in the company.
DURING King Humhert's late visit to Brescia.
while visiting the mandatory Of Signori Mus
sato and Cerasi, he perceived an old man deco
rated with the silver medal for military valor
The king babe him approach, and on learning
that he had fought by his sids against the Aus
TRANS in 1856, when the battalion of the Forty
ninth formed square and repulsed three charges
of the Austrian cavalry, he shook hands heart
lily with him and took down his name
WHATEVER vanity or selfshness clings to
human nature the horse-car conductor is sure
to have the opportunity of sampling it, sooner
or later. One of them on Springfield Mass
line asked a clergyman if his large sized bow
was years old, whereupon the dominic waxei
wrathy, and, after handing ont a second ticket
proceeded to read the conductor a lecture ON
the wickedness of asking such questions be-
cause they must of necessity tempt people
to lie.
THE city of Berlin, Wis, boasts of number
ing among its population one of the oldest peo-
pie in the country. The lady. Mrs. Pose Wood
worth, was born in the state of Maine in the
year 17SS, so that she is now 1902 years old. She
is feeling better now than she did two wears
ago retains all her mental faculties and doc
tors inform her that she will live for ten years
longer: She has seen every President OF the
United States elected, and remembers we'll the
day when George Washington died.
"a FEW MILES from Shawneetown on the
Illinois bank of the river" says the Chicago
Tribune, Stands dilapidated building. and on
it are the words Sellers Landing 1t was for
wears owned by one Eckel Sellers who was the
ORIGINAL Mulberry Sellers of Marx Twain's
book and John 7. Raymond's play This Col
Eckel Sellers lived here for long time and
was noted for his eccentricities. He rambled
up and down the Ohio and Mississippi and here
1t was Mark Twain met him The