The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-28
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his waist pand measures % inches.
The oldest wooden vessel afoat Is said TO be
the schooner Polly of Owls Head Me. She
was built at Amesbury, Mass, 10 1904.
THE annual death rate Of this country is
shown by recent figures 70 be 10 to the 600
In England the average is 20 and in Germany 20.
A FLOWER. that is alternately red, white and
blue, according TO the time of day, is reported
TO have been found on the Isthmus Of Tehuan-
tepec.
THE oldest book in the Berlin royal library is
Chinese volume, Po-ku-tu-lu. printed from
wood types in 1908, Of great beauty and well
preserved.
THERE is young woman living at Newton.
Kan, who enjoys the distinction of being
named for pet boa-constrictor owned by
friend of her parents.
A DOCTOR says man meter 80 centimeters
Is feet II inches should weigh 50 kilometers,
or 16O pounds. That is just as many kilograms
as he measures centimeters in height.
A COUPLE of bulky and thoughtless oxen made
dive for window full of green house plants in
they could be headed off the sidewalk and win
dow were smashed TO small pieces.
The Presidency of the United States is the
highest gift in the power of the people, but the
President has the power to make still higher
one. he can appoint the postmaster at Min
eral Point, Col, twelve feet above the sea.
The SUPREME COURT of Mississippi has de-
cided that wine made in that state from grapes
grown there may be sold in the state even in
prohibitory counties The laws of the state en-
courage the manufacturer OF native wines.
OLD FURNITURE still sells extremely well. In
Paris recently two Louis XIV. cabinets, orna-
mented with ancient Sevres porcelain. brought
$4,000 francs, a Louis XIV. chest of drawers
1900 francs. and jardiniere in old Sevres por-
ceain 4, 600 francs.
HARRIS CLOTH, made on the islands of the
coast of Scotland was first introduced to Lon
| doners from motives of benevolence by per
| sons interested in its poverty stricken repre-
sentatives, but it is the leading cloth of the
season for tailormade dresses.
AT A DINNER, by the Last Mans Club" in
| Philadelphia, two candles we're unlighted, sig
| nifyiDg the death of two members. Plates,
knives and glasses were laid for the dead and
the sorbet box was miniature package in
| scribed, THE Last Mans Elixir of Life
JUDGE BARTON of Big Prairie Newaygo
county, Michigan, had been supervisor of his
township for thirty consecutive years until the
| election last week. Then his democratic op-
ponent got just as many votes as he did. and
whea they drew cuts for it the democrat won.
FEW LUCKY PERSONS have heard the phono-
| graph perform in a way that would astonish the
general public. The Gladstone cylinder is ex-
hibited only on rare occasions and to dis
| tlngulshed guests. 1t is already an extremely
valuable cord, and at Gladstone's death it will
probably be worth $1,000.
Four CHINESE GIRLS of ill-fame, in San Fran
cisco, for a while eluded pursuing officers in a
novel way. Twice in quick succession they
| were placed in broad sings hanging from wind
lasses, and hosted to higher houses than those
| from which they were escaping A swarm of
| Chinese manned the windlass, and aided in their
| flight.
SOME EXPERIMENTS by Prof. Haeckel of Mar
| settles show that kola is drug of eXtraordi-
nary powers of stimulation The colonel of a
regiment at Perpignan, dosed with kola, made
the assent of the Canyon mountain, 8, 137 feet,
and felt quite fresh after his climb, which lasted
twelve hours he only halted once, and for
| twenty minutes, and ate nothing.
A HARTFORD HARDWARE merchant named Hill
| is responsible for the invention of the American
| lawn mower He sent number of the clumsy
| English mowers to a Philadelphia man and
overcharged him 70 ceuts for boxing. The
Philadelphia refused to pay for them, and sat
down and invented a lawn mower of his own,
| which has driven out the English continuance.
CHARLES JOHN GAY, an English cartman,
| after good record of fourteen years, has just
been sent to prison for month for stealing two
oranges, worth penny, from some goods he
was carting for large firm of lawmakers. The
court Solemnly announced that the gravity of
the ofense did not lie in the value of the goods
but In the breach OF trust toward an employer.
| THE RAGE for decoration grows in New York.
Wealthy families leasing expensive apartments
| often put many thousands ofudollars upon the
walls: tenant with five years lease in the
Dakota flats has spent S., 900 in decorating the
walls of his apartment. One of the tenants of
| the Navarro flats spent 5000 in interior deco
rations. The University Club has spent many
| thousands of dollars upon a leased house.
| AN AMUSING INCIDENT is told by a traveller
| who recantlv arrival from ENGLAND man
was arrested for being intoxicated who gave
| his occup alton as that of q worm eater. The
magistrate, demanding an explanation of
the term, was informed that the man was en-
| ployed at Atwood Rogers, the London an
tique furniture manufacturers to fire shot at
the furniture and give it a worm-eaten appear
ance.
| CAPT. HILL of NJ aine once got IS ton for
! taking a cargo of ice from Boston to New Or
| leans, his ship carrying about 300 tons 1t
| was 10 midsummer, the supply had given out
| and the cholera was raging there fearfully.
| This was about 1883. Capt. Hill was in that
| city for several months during this epidemic
when the dead bodies could not be buried but
| had to be burned, and when the death rate for
| three months reached the terrible figures of
| 5000 victims.
RESIDING WITHIN six miles of each other two
| Atlanta women have long been friends and
| neighbors, but only the othr day in conversa-
| ton was it developed that they were exactly
| CnS same age, anu were born
| Monday night, on the same day of the month
| and about the same hours. Mrs. Stroud was
| born in North Carolina on Monday night
| Feb. 21, 1903, and Mrs. Mullins first saw
the light in South Carolina on Monday night
| Feb. u, 1903
! THERE is DOG in Chester, (Pa) which will
| never walk when there is chance to jump on
a street car and ride. He is black Newfound-
land. Much of his time is spent at the stables
Although his home is only two squares away he
never walks to it, but waits for a car going that
way, on which he Jumps He often goes off on
a pleasure trip riding to the different sections
of the city on different cars, always sitting on
the curbStone until the car he wants comes
along, showing remarkable intelligence in al
lowing to pass him those cars which branch off
in directions contrary TO the one he wishes to
take.
FRIEND and admirer of Keey the motor
man, has this to say about the mysterious al.
| legged invention: ut costs nothing more, after
the machinery is made, than the vibratory con-
cordant impulse which associates it with the
| polar stream. The twanging of taut string
| the agitation OF a tuning fork, as associated
with the resonating condition of the sympa-
thetic transmitter, is all that is necessary TO in
duce the connective link, and to produce this
| costless motive power. As long as the trans
mitter is in sympathy with the sympathetic
current of the triune polar stream, the action
of the sympathetic instrument or engine con-
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