The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-10
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attached 10 him, has been caught OF the coast
of Or. gon.
AT An EQUALITY Of age the male is generally
heavier than the female, except toward tie age
OF p when the average weight IN both sexes is
about the same.
WEsr VIRGINIAN recently veneered q black
oak log with walnut bark AID sold it to = con-
fiding Cincinnatian as genuine black walnut
log, and got sos for it.
TIE LARGEST sAw-MILL in the world Is at
Christiana i. Norway. and is owned by one
man. 1t runs thirty-sx gang saws. From rty
TO fifty ships load at one time at its docks. The
same man owns two large -four mills. The lum-
Der yard of this mill extends more tnan q mile.
THE CENTENNIAL of the discovery Of coal in
Pennsylvania will be celebrated in September
next year. 1t was a hunter named Philip
Ginter who made the discovery on MaUcl Crees
Mountain, in Carbon county, and therefore the
proposed monument will be dedicated IN his
memory.
A LADY o. Bio nen, Me, parrot and also
cat nameI Shay She has taught the parrot
TO spell cat cat, dog dog, aud a few such
word and the other day Poly electrified the
hous hold b. spelling very louily and plaioly
cat and then pronouucing 1t ''Shag. Per
haps Polly can't think.
AS TEE LAW of Aberdeen required it, a cab
driver Was prosecuted. convicted and fined five
shillings or three days Imprisonment for smok-
ing pipe Oh his cab not wlile driving a fare.
but while he was standing on the 10 Ikout for
one. by the municipal law and regulations OF
Aberdeen the smoking of a pipe by cab-drlver
is a criminal of Ease.
OF ALL the queer losses lately reported, one of
the most exaspera;ing must have been that of
Wilton, Ne, woman who went berrying the
other day and just before she really to
start for home lost the ten-quart pail of rasp-
berries thar she had so laborously filled. An
hours search failed to bring to light the missing
pail and shs mad to go home without it.
THE PRIZE of 10000 francs offered by the
French academy for some certain test of death,
looking to the prevention of being buried alive,
was given to physician, who announces that
on holding the nand of the supposed dead per
son 10 strong light, if living scarlet is seen
where the fingers touch. showing that the blood
continues to circulate, there being no scarlet
when the subject is really dead.
SAMUEL ELLIOTT of Newbury claims to have
devised an apparatus by the adoption of which
the smoke nuisance will cease 20 exist The
process removes from the products OF combus-
ton all the black carbonaceous matter of coal
smoke, and a remarkable and important thing
Is the entire absence of sulphur in any form
after the dense volumes of smoke generally seen
issuing from chimney shafts have been forced
into the ''annlhilator."
Mas. THos. A. ScoTT's residence in Philadel-
phia is one of the largest private dwellings in
the United States. 1t contains as many rooms
as a gooi-slzed hotel. These are all under the
supervision of young man. who goes about with
so many keys to.a broad girdle around his waist
that the tradesmen who visit the house call him
st. Peter. There are seventeen bathrooms
in the house. Mrs. SCOTS husband the
president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany for many years before his death
AT A WINDOW at an open window especially
| in a severe electrical storm, you can get a re-
served sest. for danger, or for fatal shock,
usually. If you want safe place in q severe
thunderstorm. shut the windoS down and then
| keep away from it. When you can count ten
| between the fash and the roll 1t is somewhat
safer to look out through the glass at the superb
| spectacle. An electric storm fine show
| when you can enjoy it with safety, but when it
| is crackli directly overhead neither tree
! nor an open window are good places for the
| sight.
JAY GOULD has brother in st. Louis named
Abraham Gould, the burden of whose life is
his relationship He is the purchasing agent of
| the Missouri Pacific railway on a moderate
| salary, and he complains that ne cannot go a v
where without hearing somebody whisper.
| There goes Jay Gould's brother If he steps
| into a barroom with friend to take quiet
| drink Mr.. Goud says that all the rest of the
| people in the saloon have to be introduced to
| him. and ask him questions about his brother,
| and such conduct makes him weary; he wishes
| they wouldn't do it. Abraham is a larger man
| than Jay, with heavy leonine head a solid
| jaw and bright eyes. He looks if he were
| the smarter; but appearances are often de
| ceitful
The story of a singular tragedy comes from
Saint Ouen, in France. A young Italian named
| Delaroso deceived Virginia del Grecos under
! promise of marriage, and then refused to marry
| her. The girls relatives held Q family council
| and resolved to compel the young mau to marry
her or to die. Two uncles procured revolvers
| and went out in search of him. Delaroso was
asked to meet Del Grecos and did So The
meeting took place in the street. Are you
going to marry Virginia or not?' said one of
her uncles. DelaroSo refused to answer, where
upon the uncle raised the revolver saying
Yes or no. Marriage death" The young
Italian tried to put Off answering The two
uncles then fired at him, and he fell to the
| ground with three bullets in his head and four
in his breast Virginia and her sister watched
the murder from short distance with COM
pete composure. Nor were the murderers per
turbed when the body of the slain man was
borne past them to the police station, and after
ward when they were confronted with the
corpse by the commissary of police. During
this scene Virginia said that Delarosa had no
| right to live The Italians in Saint Ouen ap
plaud the deed and maintain that in their coun-
try the murder of Delaroso would be considered
an act of retribution.
| The YOUNG GRANDSON of the famous ex-Sena-
tor Nye of Nevada, and nephew of the equally
famous Bill Nye of Laramie city and New York,
was few days ago app inted a page in the
| Senate. He is very popular with the other
| pages in the chamber and WITH nearly all of the
| senator's. One of them, however, Mr. Coloutt
| of Georgia. rather thinks the new page has done
| him al injury. Soon after the boy had taken
the oath TO support the constitution and to de-
| fend his country against all enemies foreign
| and domestic, he was called upon to do an
| errand for Sena or Wade Hampton, who told
| him to get a bottle of Congress water and
| a sandwich for him at the restaurant AMI place
them in the cloak room for him. the page
| made slight mistake in the order, and took
the articles of refreShment into the Senate
| chamber and put them unintentionally on the
! desk of Mr.. Colquitt where they remained for
| some time the cause of much comment. Sens-
| tor Colquitt is ardent prohibitiohist and was
| greatly shocked when he entered the chamber
| to find his desk adorned with a long-necked
black bottle and a sandwich covered with nap
| kin. At first he was disposed to think some Of
| his colleagues had been playing practical
| joke. When he learned the facts he gave young
| Nye lecture and warned him to bs careful
| hereafter to distinguish between prohibition
| senator and one VINO is in favor of original
| packages.
! LONG ISLAND, from Brooklyn to Sag Harbor.
is interested in the visitation of a new insect
which made its appearance few weeks ago
| and has ever since puzzled the Oldest inhab-
| liant of the island. The insect closely re-
! sembes mosquito, and, doubt, would have
| been called by that name but for the numerous
! boarding houses on the island that seriously
| state there are no mosquitoes in that locality.
| Not knowing any other name for them the
| natives call the new visitors fuzbills from the
| fact that they nave bills that are covered by
tiny hairs. This is about the only mark OF dis
similarity from the mosquito that the fuzbill
possesses. In shape, size. color and movements