The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


copy Of the original edition of Shakespeare
sonnets.
EZRA LEEcH, q farmer in Mississippi, dis.
covered $4,000 in gold while ditching in field
a few days ago.
A DRUGGIST in Chicago says that two-thirds OF
the prescriptions given by physicians are as
harmless as bubbles.
THERE is great demand for metal furniture
OF all kinds Australia on account of the
rayages Of the white ant.
| NJ l. DURGIN of Milo, Me-. has not tasted tea
or coffee for sixtythree years. He has now
reached four score AMI ten, and is still hale and
| hearty.
GRAND RAPIDS PAPER says there are many
counties in Northern Michigan without single
church, and thousands of people growing up
heathens.
/ IHE LARGEST BEER BARREL in this country is
an attraction in a ST. Louis saloon. 1t is % feet
high, p feet wide, and has a capacity of 81, :
400 gallons.
Mrs. JANE KIRKwooD of Eaton, Ind, is So
years old, the mother of IA children. grand
mother of IS children and great grandmother
| OF 81 children.
An INTERESTING RELIC of the pioneer days of
California in the shape of $50 slug is in the
possession of S. S. Coin. San Francisco Jew
| eler. He values it at S125.
| LITTLE FRED GEBHARDT, a truant pupil at the
Davenport school, New Haven. Conn, was so
| severely whipped by PRINCIPAL Lewis that it
brought on epilepsy and he died.
| The PRINCE OF WALES recently ordered an
Administer carpet made in one solid piece, with
| twenty-seven irregular projections. When it
| went down it fitted like the paper on the wall
AN OVID MAN got mad at his horse fourteen
| years ago and has kept 1t inside dark stall
ever since, refusing 20 let anybody see the
animal or TO permit it to get sniff of fresh air
| WHEN in the course of a few years the new
trans-RuSsian railroad is completed, the globe
trotter may be able to accomplish his Journey
In thirty-eight days. The world will then seem
| small, indeed.
BROOKLYN BRIDGE has almost treblei its
receipts since it was opened in May, 1888 The
| receipts for the first year amounted to S402, 93s
| The receipts for the year ending June /, 1890,
reached S., 07S, S47 o.
| THE sad monotony of life in Saccarappa
| Me.) undertaker's room was varied last week.
when man walked in aud wanted to make
| arrangements for his own funeral, saying that
| he contemplated suicide.
R. H. DUSTIN of Tunbridge Vt, has book
that is nearly 200 years old. it having been
| printed in Boston lat the corner of the Prison
| lane in 1891. It is The Life of the Renowned
! John Elliot" by Cotton Iiather.
| Nor SINCE 1876 have the internal revenue col
lections reached suca high figures as those cur
| rently reported. The aggregate for the month
| or May Commissioner Mason reports at SIC S37 =
772, an increase over all recent month records
| The increase extends TO every object of taxa
| tlon except oleomargarine. aud is held by the
commissioner as indicating a season of general
prosperity.
IT is ESTIMATED that more than 90 600. 09O
| cigars are manufactured every day in the
| United States alone, and this enormous number
| requires in the reighborhood of 100000 boxes
| Tor their keeping As result, there are over
| 2CO factories IN the country turning these boxes
| out The wood from which these boxes are
made comes from Mexico, Central America,
| and the West Indies. The manufacturers buy
| the wood IN large, heavy logs, and cut it up to
| suit themselves. Some of the cheaper grades
| of boxes are made from poplar cut in the west
! which Is afterwards stained to initiate the real
cedar. But the only real good wood for the
| purpose Is the cedar which comes from the
countries named
| DR.. W. B. SPENCER of San Francisco has pre-
sented bill of $3.50 for professional services
during the last sickness of William Lockerman
| the Frutvale miser, who died recently leaving
| an estate valued at 539, 600 He considers his
| services valued at 500 visit. The items of
the bill are instructive TO those who are contem-
plating death, leaving a reasonably large estate
| TO cover the physicians bill: Nineteen visits at
500 per visit, $1,000; 100 hours night detention
| at $40 each, 81, 800; medicines furnished $40:
| operation Jan. 16, $500; operation two times a
day for five days, at $40 each, 5000; total 361O;
paid on account, 500. The bill has been cut
down by the public administrator to ST. 100 and
| the doctors claim will be contested for over
| that sum.
| 7. j. BENTON of Dent county, Missouri, gives
the weight of his fathers family as follows:
IAN of our family except father, who is 50
! years old, are stout. Father weighs leo pounds
Tom weighs 1856, Elijah 240, Henry 800 Sweeney
| and | | told mi
| total weight for the five brothers of 376
| pounds, a pretty heavy load for one horse to
pull up hill" Many stories are told of Mr..
| Benton's powers. On one occasion while he
was marshal of Salem two big. bury six-footers
| attempted to rule or ruin the Iowa. defying the
| officers and challenging any one to arrest them
Mr.. Benton took the obSteperous couple, one
| under each arm, and carried them to Jail, their
| legs and arms plowing around in the air with
the industry of new and entirely idiotic species
of windmill
A PART of the face, with teeth. of an ante
| diluvian monster was observed recently pro-
| jecting from the side of bluff on the Smoky
| Hill river, where considerable soil has been
washed away by the high water and party of
| citizens proceeded to follow up the indication
with knives and picks. The pelvic bones and
part of the hind limb OF liodon dyspelor were
laid bare, and afterward the entire skeleton
the massive tell stretched away into the bluff,
and has not as yet been fully excavaued Judg-
ing from the displacement of the parts of the
skeleton, the carcass had been dragged hither
and thither by sharks and other rapacoIs
animals while lying III the bottom of the ere
taceous sea, which once extended over this re-
gion. The skeleton has been donated to the
state museum at Topeka.
A CURIOUS CASE was tried the other day in the
supreme court of Rhode Island. The Fifth
National Bank loaned 5000 to produce
dealer named AiSerson, taking as security 392
cases of eggs stored with the Providence Ware
house Company. Alsersou used the eggs from
time to time, but replaced those taken by other
eggs, so that there were always 1872 cases in the
warehouse Finally he failed. paying cents on
the dollar, and the bank looked for its security
the eggs. When the bank finally sent for the
eggs they were worthless. and the board of
health ordered them buried, which was done
Now the bank sues the warehouse COMPANY for
S., 900, claiming that they agreed to keep the
eggs safe, and the company claims that they
did keep the eggs safe, not shell being broken
but they could not prevent them from spelling?
For SIX YEARS Greece has been searching for
an executioner. The Office is looked on with
peculiar adherence in that country. and the
present difficulty is no new development, The
last capital execution occurred in 1851 also after
a long wait for an individual who was willing to
perform it. A man named MESSENGER who had
killed his wife, offered to serve the state as
executioner for a pardon, and he guillotined
seventeen murdererS, the accumulation of five
years dearth Of an eXecutioner. There are now
hve murderers awaiting the penalty in Athens
and eleven Others in the rest of Greece. They