The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| BLACK ICE CREAM is new fad 1t Is celored
by the addition of charcoal and the juice of
Turkish prunes
NJ L. DUReN of Milo, Me-, is hale and hearty
at four score. and for SO years he has not tasted
Of tea or coffee.
An ASTORIA MAN is rs years of age and a CAPT
talist. and is willing TO run a mile race with
any man Of his age for purse of $4,000.
-Four WEEKS AGO Samuel johnson of South
Lyon, Mich, died. aged IS years. Last week
his widow followed, dying of broken heart.
The Maine Savings Bank in Portland has a25
unknown depositors, Of which number twenty
six have not troubled their deposits since 1850.
Quill TooTHPIcKs, as a rule. are imported
from France. The largest factory in the world
is near Paris, where 10000. 900 are annually pro-
duced.
A PENNILEss SCOTCH IMMIGRANT accidentally
stumbled upon a rich brother in New York the
| other day whom he had not seen for thirty
seven years.
ScoTcHMEN banqueting in London are now
1 entertained with music Of real northern bag
| pipes played into a monograph and sent to
London by express.
WILKIE COLLINS manuscripts, which are to
be sold at auction next month, include nearly
every novel that he wrote and also several
manuscripts of Dickens.
c. S. NICHOLS, editor of the Salt Lake Times,
| thinks the Mormons are gradually deserving
Utah and that before long there will be only
few of them left in the territory.
WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS DENTIST is said to
have small boy sit in his Office and yell at the
top of his lungs occasionally. IL lends an air
OF business to the establishment.
A MAINE YOUNG WOMAN who was asked the
place OF her nativity replied that she wasn't
born anywhere in particular, as she was the
daughter of Methodist minister.
AN Ansonia Comm druggist has an electric
oell IN cabinet containing poisons. When the
door opens the bell rings, reminding the com
FOUNDER that he is handling poisons.
ERNEST RENAN, the French philosopher, in
dulges in a hobby of not riding in vehicles of
any kind, preferring to walk, although his
health Is feeble, and stout cane is necessary to
support him.
AN English naval officer has invented a pneu-
matte hne-throwing gun, very light and port
able, waich fires hollow shell, bearing the
cord to wrecked vessel or into burning build
ings on dry land.
BATH, Me-, is building what Is expected to be
the largest wooden sailing ship in the world.
She will be 285 feet long on the keel, will be
three-decker, and will carry four masts. She
Will register about $500 tons.
WHEN PRESIDENT GARFIELD was dying he ate
peach and the pit thereof he gave to Grand
Rapids man, who placed it near the Grand
haplds and Indiana general Office. IL grew and
mas developed into blossom-ccvered tree.
MOUNTAIN SLIDE at Dixon's Bar, fifty miles
from Waverville, Cal. completely damned the
Trinity river. Near San Jose the water rose to
the door or house 300 feet above the river.
The river is gradually cutting new channel.
ROCK as large as goose egg was cut from
the jaw of Carrollton, Mo-, horse. Tho forma-
ton began about ten years ago and has been
gradually growing all the time. DR.. Edward
Yates pronounces IL creature, whatever that is.
NoRRIsTowN CLERGYMAN gave his congrega-
ton surprise last Sunday. Instead of a prosy
sermon ne read rhymed discourse in 119
stanzas after the manner OF Tennyson's SIN
Memoriam,' poem which can be divided into
number of excellent sermons.
AMBROSE HILL, farmer living near Columbia,
Pa, turned up a stone with his hands and found
under it four full-grown copperheads and three
olacksnak S, all of which ne killed after a lively
fight. Farmer Hill formerly believed in leaving
no stone unturned, but he doesn't now.
The HEAD of Belfast, Me-, household or.
dered some phosphate for his lawn. and the
honest man who deliver the goods, seeing no
one about the place and DESTROYS of putting the
bags where no one would discover them,
stood them up in the hall and left them
there.
TURNER'S PICTURE of Sheerness Harbor was
bought by Agner, the London dealer, at the sale
of the Wells collection. for 7,45O guineas, and
Immediately resold at ten per cent. advance.
Thus a canvas which Turner himself valued at
g100 has finally found an owner at over 5000
guineas.
MONUMENTS have now been completed over
the burial places of the English, French and
Italian troups killed in the Crimea during the
war OF 16o45. Russia's memorials over her
fallen soldiers on the same plains are on a
grander SCALE as she continues to hold the fort
Sebastopol.
The TOTAL QUANTITY OF champagne forwarded
from the champagne districts for the year end
ing March 81 amounted to 80 S24, 97I bottles, be.
ing an increase of 766, 4S7 bottles compared with
1889. Present stocks in casks and bottles equal
about 1O9, SIS, $50 bottles, or quite five years
consumption.
THERE is on exhibition in Keokuk, Ia, the
pattern of the inscle of pair of shoes made at
Kahoka for girl living at Rainbow, Mo. The
girl for whom the shoes were made is only II
years old, and is Z feet inches in hight, and
weighs 235 pounds. The insole measures 1871
inches i'll length.
AN INSTANCE of canine sagacity is reported
from Corrina, Me. John Henry Young, of that
town, has dog (coliie) that one day recently
crept up behind crow which was sitting on a
low fence gave jump. made one bite and the
crow was dead, with the head bitten Off, all
ready for the town treasurer.
WILLIAM GoFF, farmer in the vicinity of st.
Louis, Mich, sent his wife to market and he
went into the fields to pillow. About noon the
goo wife returned aud explained to her hus-
band that it was Sunday. Neither had remem-
bered the day of the week until Mrs. Golf found
st. Louis people going to church.
j. D. Blossom of Fall River recently lost a
pocket-book containing eight or nine thousand
dollars in mill stocks, checks and notes, and
$3.50 in money. He advertised reward of StOO
for the wallet and its contents. and has re-
ceived from Providence an envelope containing
all the property except $3.50 cash.
FOSTER Qa.) letter to the Globe Democrat
says Jim White owns patch of ground near
this place. The surrounding forest abounds in
wild turkeys and in the spring old Jim spends
most of his time hunting their nests, and occa-
sionay capturing the birds alive This he
accompishes in a novel manner by chloroform-
ing them"
THOSE INTERESTED in condolences NAV find
food for reflection in the fact that on one page
of a Chicago Sunday paper was an announce
ment that Writ Dexter and his wife would sail
for Europe on another page he was announced
of the pail bearers at the funeral of
Judge Drummond. and on still another page his
own death was announced.
NEW COLONIAL COINAGE is being str1,ck in