The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-03
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THERE is a woman in Atchison so stuck on
the town that she prefers to work on the rock
| pile rather than leave the place.
a CHARLOTTE N. c. CLERGYMAN wears IN
| doubleday tire largest shoes in this country. The
size is % and each shoe is 2Oxs inc es-
AT AN EQUALITY of age the male is generally
| heavier than the female, except toward the age
Of u, when the average weight in both sexes is
| about the same.
THE board of education in Columbus, o. has
| decided that hereafter there shall be no differ
ence in the salaries paid to men and women
| who are teachers in the public schools.
SOME woRKNEN. while executing repairs in
Westminster Abbey, discovered an aperture
| which led to a mysterious cell built in the wall.
| IN which were relics, including a branch for
| two candles.
| CAPT. PEToENDREIeH of the British ship Loeb
| Elk, at Philadelphia asserts that on July 2 he
passed an is and of ice four miles long and
| eighty feet high This is the largest iceberg
ever reported
| SEVEN THOUSAND PERSONS have been employed
in getting out Mr.. Stanley's new book, and
more than 900 tons of paper have already been
used IN England. The English edition alone
required 240 tons of paper.
THE West End hotel at Long Branch has over
900 guests this season. This hotel, which threw
crusade galnst them is the most prosperous
hotel on The Atlantic coast.
SPARRows in Springfield, Mass, are not easily
discouraged. They build nests in the electric
light globes, and, though the nests are destroyed
about every second day by linemen, the birds
return and build them again.
ABOUT two months ago a tract of 200 acres
of land in Scranton, Pa was sold to some coal
operators for $4,000. Since then an extensive
al ba=
| property and it is valued at 100000
CURIOUS METHOD of suicide was adopted by
Newark, O., man, who. placing saber in the
ground, point upward. threw his weight on il
| with the intention of piercing the heart. The
attempt, however, failed, the blade striking a
| rib.
IL rs SAID to be not at all unlikely that the
| mouse. in which President Lincoln died will fol-
| low Libby prison to Chicago a western syndi-
| cate having made offer for it. The inten-
ton is to put it on exhibition during the worlds
| fair.
The biggest thing in the way of the organza-
ton Of female labor that has yet been at
| tempted, is now being pushed forward by the
Melbourne Trades Hall Council. Il is nothing
| but monster union of servants barmaids and
mattresses.
| Surprising that you wished to walk through
| the streets and lanes and alleys of London, and
were able to arrange your trip SO that you
never traversed the same one twice you would
! have to walk ten miles every day for nine years
| before your journey would be completed.
AN amateur scientific student at Wakefield,
Mass, planted a potato in little dirt on top of
factory, forty feet from the ground to see if
| the potato beetle would find the plant 1t has
| found it, and the Boston 1rdnscript saws that
! now the amateur wants to know whether the
| beetle is bird or a fly.
cARRIER-P1GEoN sent out from the United
States training ship jamestown by Lieut.. Ross,
| bearing a message to Mrs. Ross of Annapolis
! and which algnted on board the schooner
| Fleur de Lis, July II, twenty seven miles from
| No man s-Land, and was taken to Gloucester
Mass. was received by Mrs. Ross on Tuesday
| b. express
THE TERRACE of the British House of Com
mons has become favorite resort of the wives
and daughters of the members and their
! friends. Every fine afternoon it is gay with tea
| parties, aCd In nisters and members relieve the
dunn of debates by pleasant talks aud quiet
nlrtatlonS on the terrace. One OF the signs of
the times is the large increase of lady visitors at
| the House.
THE ELEVATOR in modern big buildings has
only one drawback-the sickness it causes when
the car is suddenly stopped. Elevator sickness
| is caused by ehe same law that throws a per-
| son TO the ground when he gets off moving car
| in the wrong way All this comes from the
| fact that all parts of the body are not stopped
at the same moment of time If the body, as a
| the feet, tn re will be no sickness This can be
done by placing the head and shoulders against
| the car frame.
| A SINGULAR PHENOMENON is described in a
| Scotch journal. A particular species of willow
| tree was in flower and attached to these bios
| SONS (Th ch resemble an od-fashioned bottle
| brush were large number of the big black
| bumblebees with which every schoolboy is
familiar. They remained whole day slipping
the extract or juice, and then dropped help
| hQrIlv anl fO
| next morning were almost dead from exposure.
| One was observed to Climb vertical board of a
! few inches, aud, when near the top, to throw out
| his lie IS and fall backward, after the manner of
| the ordinary inebriate.
An EFFORT is being made to build I'D the oys-
| ter industry along the South Carolina coast
| and TO that end Congressman Elliott has pre-
| vailed upon the fish commissioner and the
| superintendent of the coast survey to make a
| survey of the oyster beds in the vicinity of
| Charleston, Weniiaw bay and Beaufort, The
idea is to locate the beds and determine the
| quantity and quality of the oysters, with view
| to establishing a market and improving the
| canning industry. 1t is said that oysters are
| becoming abundant along the North and South
| Carolina coasts, and South, Carolinians are
| anxious to build 10 the trade and enter into
| competition with Baltimore as an oyster-pack-
| ing center. ~
| CAPT. NICHOLAS COSTELLO, Of Haverhiu
Mass, is dead. He was in mis- 1OSth year, and
until within a few weeks ago had full control
of his facilities. He was a native of Ireland
| and came to this country in the gang of labor.
ers imported to lay the Boston and Lowell rail.
! road. He afterward, in 1892 worked on the
| Boston and Maine. Jan. 10, 1889 he celebrated
| hi 1O6th birthday with reception at the Globe
| rink Haverhill, that was attended by a large
| crowd. He had been democrat as long as the
| party had exist ID. His Photographs received a
| wide circulation the oldest democrat in the
| )untry, and he received letters of congratula
| ton from eX-President Cleveland and a numDer
| of leading democrats. He was never married
| He leaves two sisters, who are also near the
| century mark.
THERE is great excitement among the labor.
ing classes of Naples The families of two
workmen had fallen into deadly enmity and.
| with their relatives, belabored each other AT
| street corners whenever they CHANGED to meet
| At last the feud grew deadlier knives were
used, and in one of the broils the father of one
| tribe fell dead. stabbed to the heart While all
| stood arount in great CONSERVATION a sister of
| the dead man suggested to set on the event
| IN the lottery" The Smorfa was pro
| duced. This is a little book which ex
! plains dreams, and translates every nos
| sible occurrence into numbers that ons can set
| IN the lottery. so the number value Of the mnr.
| der as found, the Madonna invoked and four
numbers set In the STATE lottery Fortune
| favored the enterprise. In the last drawing,
| they won prize OF $1,000 francs. which places
the family of the deceased at once in good cir
cumstances. And all the working peopIe Of
Naples are excited over it, and envy the forth
nate winners.
ACCORDING to the sixteenth volunoa IF .ho