The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-07
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| dressed loafer, who getting the child's conf1-
| dence. cody drew scissors from his pocket and
| cut Of the gold buttons on the little ones dress
The thief was arrested
AT NEUEYDoRF. PRUSSIA, the lightning fired
the gable end OF q barn where pair of storks
had built their nest for years The flames soon
caught the nest in which the brood was scream
| ing but the mother stork, refusing TO leave.
| spread her wings over the young ones and was
| burned alive
TEE medsal men of Vienna have been thrown
into panic by the discovery that for months
! they have been allowing dry goods CLERK 70
treat patients in the city hospital. He got his
| position by means OF forged diplomas. During
| the cay he sold ribbons, and at night he at
| tended his ward. He had never studied medi-
| cine and is supposed to be responsible for any
| number of deaths.
The New Haven Musical Union has gone out
| of existence IN a curious way. The bylaws pro-
| vided that if the dues were not regularly paid
the members should be expelled at the end of
three months; no one was allowed TO resign. 1t
| was soon discovered that poor music ans could
! get as good pay as good ones. s.. in order 10
escape the talented ones shirked their dues and
were expelled. Result, general collapse.
THE FRANCISCAN MONKS have recently opened
their first Canadian monastery in Montreal
These monks live entirely by aims and are
| allowed to touch no money. If victualS are not
supplied, they go forth and beg. They preach
penance and conversion, and their principal &C.
| cupation is prayer, meditation and peuance.
| Their doors are always open to the poor. and
| with them the MONKS share such as they have
| themselves.
For some days past the clay diggers in Brown
& Clark's brickyard at Grand Rapids, have
| been bothered by wet ground. While at work
| yesterday vein OF water was struck that fairly
gushed from the ground, overhowing every
! thing. Since then 1t has been flowing at the
| rate of 50 900 barrels an hour, and the Grand
| Rapids people think they have struck it rich
| The water is cold and pure and the supply seems
| lneXhaustiJle.
| The EXTRAORDINARY FEAT of telegraphing be-
tween st. Petersburg AMI Boulogne. distance
of 2,4e5 miles, has recently been accomplished.
according to the foreign papers. AS messages
| nave long since been exchanged between the
two Portands, Maine and Oregon, over about
4OOO miles of wire, what is there extraordinary
| in telegraphing 2, 465 miles? unless indeed the
message started in Russian and landed in Flem-
lsh, for instance.
AN ALBINo OR WHITE LION was born recently
in John Robinson's circus. at Deer Lodge, Mont.
There is not spot or blemish to mar its i'm
maculate color white lion has never before
been boaSte1 of. though albinos among men,
women, birds and some animals are common
enough. Robinson has received many tele
grams of generalization over his good fortune
and it is said that Washington scientist will
soon start for the west to examine the new
conner
The remains of the bones of 230 French sol
| ders, who died at Berlin of the wounds or in
jures received in the i'll fated Russian campaign
of 1912, were moved into new grave few days
| ago. When they were first buried they were all
| put In one large grave. Some years later Prus-
| STA wanted the spac. for a new barracks and the
| remains were moved to q more convenient place
| Now another new barracks is to be built above
| their second resting place, and once again they
| have had TO move on.
| THERE are more ducks in the Chinese empire
says an authority, than in all the world outside
| of it, They are kept by the Celestials on every
| farm, on the private roads, on the public roads
on the streets of cities. and on all the lakes,
| ponds rivers, streams and brooks in the coun-
| try. Every Chinese boat also contains a batch
| of them. There are innumeFable Matching es-
| adjustments all through the empire. m any of
| which are said to turn out about &C, 900 young
! ducks every year. Sailed and smoked duck
| ana ducks eggs constitute two OF the most
| common and important articles of diet in China
CYRUS BOOKER who killed himself near Sagi-
nav a few days ago. left this bit of CHASTITY CON
| ISOLATION to his parents: Dear Father and Mother
| i am tired to life. IL has lost its charms for
me. have nothing to live for. no one to care
| for, and no one cares for me. Therefore, shall
seek rest in the grave Don't say it was foolish
to commit such an act, for you know not my
| heart aud you not competent to Judge
| Don't say he was insane, for my mind is as clear
as yours. Don't mourn for me. Ishall be much
better off, and prefer suicides grave rather
than life of misery. Forget and forgive your
unhappy son, Cyrus
CHICKEN THIEVES raided the hen roost of
farmer near Bellville n. Y, early the other
morning. Just after the there's got to work
! heavy log in front of the coops dropped and ex
| ploded big torpedo. The farmer was up and
after the two thieves in a few seconds He
chased them to the Second river. They jumped
| i'll and started to swim across, and he followed
| In the middle of the stream he caught one of the
men. The other swan back and hit him in the
| face. Stunned for a moment he released his
| man and sank. When he came to the surface
| he had recovered from the blow, but the fuci-
| tives were beyond reach.
The Norwich Bulletin has come across the
following sign, which it wants deciphered:
! tAPANHILD
FOR rs NALAD
SOADIDLLAR
| Now this looks to like a cobbler's sign. and
must read follows: Shoes (understood)
| tapped and heeled for rs (cents) nailed; sewei
| one dollar" The shoemaker in question seems
to have been very moderate in bis prices and
probably did good business. Although not a
scholar he caught the knsck, Willingly or 9th
| erwise, which many advertisers pride them
selves on-of catching the pubic's eye with
something startling, absurd or homogeneous
SEVERAL MONTHS AGO a chewing gum factory