The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| CHIMNEY, 10 FEET above sea level, while piece
| of basalt, sixty-two pounds weight. was lodred
Cd the roof of his house, 10 feet from the sea
| RUSTY NAIL is a priced relic in the museum
at Houlton, Me-. academy. It is one of the nails
| used in building the sea wall at Louisburg
| Is nearly $50 years old, and comes from the
| center of the struggle which determined
| whether France or England should control North
4 America.
| THE PIEEs PEAK RAILWAY, reaching from
Manitou 10 the top of the peak, over A. 600 feei
| high, is to be lighted by electricity frora or.
end 10 the other a distance of about ten Esszns
| Inc grade has been completed, and the Re nd
| will be open for travel il is SAID, on or xAout
| June l.
DIR. LUcIEN HOWE says blindness has in
| creased in the state OF New York during the
past five years thirteen times as fast as the
| population; and the state charities commits
SlOnerS state that the excess in the increase of
the insane in the state over the increase in it
population for the last nine years has been
more than A per cent These figures are most
startling, especially when it is considered that
| the modes OF treating the eyes and brain are
supposed to have been so much improved of
| late years
VIRGINIA is thus far the only known state
| which boasts of hen dentists. Some time since
the Page County Courier published an account
of hen there angrily flying at farmer and
pulling out one of his teeth. George f. Heath,
l WIZ lives III I1daOFtF county, states that
Saturday morning he went to his hennery and
attempted 70 take hen off her roost, when she
| new at his faces pecked him in his mouth and
took out a tooth which had been troubling Mr.
Heath for some time. and which ne inten led
| having extracted. This is the second hen
dentist in Virginia.
j. ). MANLY is new conner at Flint, Mich,
| and the following story is told of him: year
ago Manly, then resident of ST. Louis was
dying of consumption. One day the family
dog, valuable greyhound, made his way to
the SICK mans bed and licked his face and
! handS. Manly was too weak to drive him off
ana 1t S mighty lucky that he was, for, contrary
10 the predictions of the doctors, Manly beg an
TO Improve The poor dog, however, had alb
Sorbed the disease, and the animal is now in
the last stages of consumption while MANLY is
as we'll ana strong as he was IN early manhood
Photographs of tAe dog before and after tax
ing the consumption would add to the vvidness
OF tins story; but Manly vouches for it word for
word.
MARRIAGE AND GEOGRAPHY have no very obvi-
Gus connection; but the ingenious maidens of
Paris are complaining that they cannot get
married by reason of geographical difficulties.
When the Opera Comique, which was burned
DOWN down some time ago, was in the Rue
tavart. it was a favorite marriage market
dammas with blooming daughters were wont
10 arrange meetings with eligible gentlemen
during the eGtr' dctes, and many we're the
| matches that were thus arranged The tenn
porary Opera COmiQue is in the inaccessible
Place du Chateet, and potential sonS-in.Ia,y
utterly decline to go to such an outlanGish
plauce Hence there is an agitation for the re.
building of the theater in the moro fashion
able Place Boieldieu.
AN INTERESTING STORY is told of the manner
in which the celebrated Russian physician. DR.
Botkin. who has just died in the South of
France, lost the intimate friendship of the late
car, which he had possessed for MANY Years
lt aDD2arS that fhrOnrb a
present emperor. DR.. Botkin remained day and
night at the patients bedside. Alexander IL
asked the doctor to choose something with
which he might recompense him. Dr. Bctkiu
replied, Your maj eSty, do not want ANYTHING
but bessech yon TO have mercy on Tchernich-
eysky" Che socialist author who died a few
weeks ago. and who had been banishad to
Slberla( The car turned away without saying
word, out next day DR.. Botkin received ths
ST. Vladimir order and 100 ODD rubles Tchernich-
evsky remaining where he was.
FEW WEEKS AGO T. W. Martin of Elizabeth
| Pa, lost a plain gold ring winch he valued
| highly, and for which he made most diligspt
search Some notices were posted, and a sharp
lookout was kept for the ring wherever it was
| thought likely to be found. But it was not
| found until this week, ana then it was in a most
unexpected place. One of bis horses became
| lame, and III examining its foot Mr. MARTIN was
surprised and pleased to fad h lost ring srr1OIy
| fitted around ons of cGlks of the horses shoe
I
some time. 1t was worked of with a little
| difficulty, and was not muca the worse for It's
unusual experience. Mr.. Martin supposes that
the ring cropped from his finger in the stable,
AMI that the horse SET MS foot down GA ir so as
TO drive 1t firmly on IN the manner found.
| ONE THING which harnesses Americans in Eng
| land perhaps more than anything else is that
| they have so frequently to pay for something
| which should be supplied free, and supplied
| freely The performance at the theaters is a.
familiar illustration. The latest story of re-
turning Travellers however, has to do with the
| lights in the underground railroad cars The
passenger can turn one on and read his paper il
| he puts penny in the slot. If he grudpes the
penny ne cannot have the illumination. The
hight IS arranged in deep box just back of the
passengers mead. 1t IS an electric light and
will only illuminate the paper or book immedi-
ately In front of it, and will only illuminate it
for fifteen minutes. AT the end of that time, if
a second penny does not co ne in the,light 0oas
out. In this way the radiance remains ffxad
although obviously the passengers pockets
grow lighter all the time. The mechanism at
tached to the light is of course. very ingenious.
but the whole affair suggests thankf illness to
travellers on the elevated railroad
NEW YoRK daily journal gives the follow
ing singular accidents, among others. said to
be taken at random from recent records of some
accident insurance companies: James Moran. a
Cincinnati drug clerk, wound up a big auto
matte advertising device in front of the shop.
An immense steel spring stored the motive
power Something broke There was a pro
diglouS whirring and then the whole machine
flew into d thousand pieces. Mr.. Moran lost a
rev hngers.-A piece of fat pork caught fire
in an oven and blazed out into the
room. A small boy threw on water, and
the hot grease was scattered over him
burning him badly. He bolted for the
door, and fell over his little brother VINO was
knocked senseless. The father Fastening to
the scene, fell down stairs and was rendered I'M
conscious. The fire went Out-A commercial
traveller 10 Omaha was walking from the rail
road station TO his hotel in gale of wind AS
he turned the corner an English sparrow struck
him in the face Its bill pierced his eyebalI
and ruined his sight.-A New York brok er's
clerk lay in bed very late one Sunday morni NO
and the ceiling fell on him.-The TraveIarl7
Company paid an ex-governor of Ohio $50 for
the loss of toe-nail.
IT'S CURIOUS THING" says New York no.
liceman, that big dogs always go with small
people, and small dogs are invariably attached
to men and women of unusual stature. We
have regular procession of dogs ins'the park
here, particularly on Sunday mornings, and az
they are brought in on strings it is easy to iden
tify master and beast. have been observing
years, and when see a man can pretty well
tell the sort OF dog that belongs to him Once
III while am thrown, as | was last Sunday
when small, delicate and melancholy man
came dropping along by the wall Juggling away
at big chain which he had in his hand He
looked like Clergyman and | made IN INV
mind that he had very small Skye terrier or a
mongrel rat terrier with a blue ribbon around
its neck The wall is high enough to see a
and Shoulders UnY L-r0,