The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

At IS ceats an hour. and during the job set the
{ clock bach IN hour. TIE trick as discovered
Z and the mean Womans husband paid the proper
amount. declaring tlat he had been known as
mean man himself, but t1is beat any OF his per
fcrmanceS-
Tar the daughters OF Eve do not possess a
monopoly Of curiosity is pretty well sustained
by a circumstance which recently occurred
near B.o:kton. Mass some oo's were piaylns
with a turtle. one Of the swapping species. when
ore young lad thrust out MS tongue 70 see
Whether it would bite The turtle promptly
carried out its part OF the programme. u oelng
found necessary Co forcibly remove its hold
from the lads tongue, which was quite severely
bitten.
Az ENGLISH CYCLIsr has solved the problem
OF how to deal with dogs that snap at the feet
OF wheelmen. When starting on ride, says
the London Telegram, W. day Downs OF
/ Birmingham carries several big torpedoes, such
[ as the boys Use on Fourth Of July. As t1e dog
PUSHES uD barking AMI swapping, Mr. Downs
casts Il torD-dO directly under the animal The
EXPLOSION aud the sting of the sand with the
burn of the powder successfully cures the dog
Of the desire to attack any more wheels If
every wleelman will thus provide against these
ANNA the roads will soon be free OF them.
DANIEL Parsons. who resides at Gloucester,
/ Mass, mas a curiosity in the shape of hen
| which has adopted litter of five XII tens The
kittens have but just reached The opeu-eyes
period and will follow the hen around the yard,
she diligently scratching meanwhile for the fes
| tive worm or bug as the case may be, which
| she tenders them food would her
| chicks When the kittens begin to cry, the hen
will tuck them under her wings, where they rest
| perfectly contented. Not being endowed by
nature with the means of feeding her charges,
| it has been found necessary to capture the hen
and ii i her up while the motaer cat attends to
her business in this line. At all other times she
has full sway. being valiant even 10 blows in the
protection of the children of her adoption
THE most remarkable canal in the world is the
one between Worsey and St helena, in North
England IL is sixteen miles long and under
ground from end to end In Lancashire the
coal mines very extensive half the Juntry
| being undermined. Many years ago the man
| ayers of the DIXIE OF Bridgewaters estates
| thought they could save money by transporting
| the coal underground instead of on the surface,
! therefore the canal was constructed. and the
mines connected and drained at the same time.
| Ordinary canal boats are used, the power being
FURNISHED by men. Tne tunnel arch over the
canal is provided with cross pieces. and the men
who do the work of propulsion lie on their backs
| on the loads OF coal, and push with their feet
| against the cross bars on the roof.
THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH at West Troy,
| n. Y, was the scene of a shameful and sacri-
legious disturbance during the services recently.
| the pastor, the Rev A NJ. Prentice. was in the
pulpit preaching his Sunday evening discourse,
| when sudde iy a noise was heard in the vicin
| ity of his large chair, Immediately behind the
pulpit. Then. with jump, a skeleton APP
| peared with dangerous arms and legs, directly
| over tue chair, having come from below instead
| of above as would be imagined of one appear
| ing in a house of worship. The congregation
were dumofoundei, some screaming and others
laughing. Mr.. Prentice continued his discourse
without further interruption. Investigation
| showed the skeleton to be of paper neatly and
| correctly arranged, and was evidently the
work of boys. They could enter the basement
by a side door, and, having the skeleton ar
| ranged with a cord fastened to the chair. the
latter was thrown down stairs, and at the same
| time the skeleton appeared.
A MEMORIAL to the late Prince Imperial of
France has recently been erected in the Cath
Ole church, Chisledurst where his remains
| rested before their removal to the mausoleum
| at Marlborough. The memorial consists of
canopied wall tomb designed in fifteenth
century Gothic to harmonic with the church in
| which it is placed. IL occupies a site at the
ives ern end of the north wall, and is mainly
constructed OF Caen stone. The tomb itself is
| raised upon step, and has frontal enriched
with tracery irclosing the imperial cipher, and
bearing 10 its center the following Inscription:
| To the pous, noble and chivarous Louis
Napoleon. Prince Imperial of France. who fell
10 Englands cause on June l, 1879. This monu
ment is erected by his faithful servant and
friend, the RI. Rev. Mgr. Goddard, rector of
this parish" Upon the tomb slab rests re-
cumbeut figure of the prince of life size ia
| white alabaster. He is attired in the uniform
of the royal artillery, worn in his fatal cam
paign in Zululand, and is wrapped in his mil
itary cloak
YoozNY KRAY of Tambov, Russia, reports the
following interesting story: In the streets OF
Koziova there goes about a mendicant who is
| the very impersonation of ruined wealth He
is a ragged, half-naked elderly man stepped in
dirt and bent with age and privation. He gal
| a livelihood by what the common Russian ca lis
performing feats for the uncultured. These
feats consist in swallowing live worms or flies,
| walking on all fours with his face turned up
ward, hopping aOout in a circle and singing
popular dtties For all this he gets small coins
fn.a ot16a And
| was millionaire once upon a time He is
native of Moscow, where, about forty years ago,
he inherited from his father large factory,
| several houses and over 1850 900 roubles in
ready money. But by some vicisstudes he lost
all his possessions and became a beggar He
has still very rich relatives in Moscow but they
will do nothing for him, He at times thinks of
his fallen greatness and tells ow he has man
| aged to waste his immense fortune But on
! such occasions he is extremely pa thetic, even
| to the vulgar who assemble 20 see his 'feats. -
NJ. PAUL BALMA of Cette is confident he has
found a specific against cholera Everybody it
appears should sit for so many hours in shirt
saturated with paraffine! By such means those
| who are attacked by cholera will be cured; and
| as for those who are sound, why prevention,
we all know, is better than cure. Nor does NJ
| Balma preach what he does not practice for he
has actually eXperimented upon himself with
the happiest results. He admits that his specific
has its drawbacks. The CO atact of the oil with
the ska produces intense irritation which he is
| ready TO account TOT on scientific principles
The manifestation is due it appears to certain
microbes who object to being dlspc ssessed and
| who maintain what French writer's call
| 'struggle-for-lifer The governments of Eng
land. France aud Spain have been made ac
qualnted with NJ. Balma's discovery but I'D to
the present Lord Salisbury alone has con.
descended to acknowledge receipt of the in
| timation. Our foreign secretary did not com
nit himself however, so far as to approve of
| NJ Balma's suggestion that the wearfny of the
paraffine shirt should be made compulsory on
the Arabs among whom the cholera is raging
| in Mecca
| A RELIGIOUS FIGHT worthy of the early mid
die ages came near taking place in the govern
ment of ViatSa, Russia. There an image of
the Virgin Mary in the village of Ikhta, which
attracts a great many pilgrims, and conse-
| quently contributes large income to the
parish. But the village of Matvinoora Claims
| the ownership OF that image because it was first
revealed to a member of their community
The quarrel on this subject between the two
| villages lasted for some time. At last the
peasants of Matvinoora obtained from the gov
eminent authorities judgment in their favor
They repaired IN procession to Ikhta to trans
port the image to their parish church All the
| members of the parish, about q 900 persons
| the clergy at their head, formed the PROCESSION
| But the members of the Ishta parish were de-
| termined not to yield the sacred object
| which had been so long in their possession
They locled the church and assembled in tie
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