The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Lefy at Lexington N.Y. Is TIC P9Sul4oI LAstAaP
ton: The inn Of some travellers going up 10
Jerusalem"
AT CHIsANBA. AFRICA. the young people have
asked the missionary to raise flag Saturday
evenings, that they may know that the next
day IS Sunday, and come to the meetings
a COMPANY has been formed in New York to
rent ont steamer chairs for 81 Tor trip across
| the ocean. The chairs are supplied with little
tables designed to hold a late, tumbler and
! bottle. and several thousand OF them are now
in use.
! THE English crown is made up Of diamonds,
rubies, sapphires pearls and emeralds, set in
silver aud gold bands. It weighs SO ounces and
| penny weights, troy In II there are 5,40S
! diamonds, 273 pearls. rubies Il sapphires and
| II emeralds.
TIE APACHE INDIAN, when he gets new plug
hat, cuts out the top, and lets his raven locks
float out and dangle all around. At this the
paleface cachinnates and makes many funny
remarks. But did any paleface ever see bald
| headed Apache?
WHILE English bank directors are forbidding
their clerks to marry on less salary than $3.50,
the tinanciers of Vienna are pursuing policy
which Is the very reverse. They are dismisSing
their single employees and retaining only those
who are married.
CHILD was born 70 Mrs. George Buckles OF
Lima, O., with six toes on each foot. The
popularity is the doubling of each little toe
Inc little fellow Is healthy and lively. The
mother has six toes, and her mother also had
the same popularity.
SYNDICATE of American capitalists and
British bankers has been formed to buy up gas
works in the principal American cities. All the
capital stock has been taken and the company
VIII soon be tioated. Sir Julian Goldsmid NJ p,
is chairman OF the company.
The KING OF SWEDEN recently received a
drafted for military service begging his mai
esty 10 release him and let him join his rela-
tives in America, who had lust sent him a
passage ticket. The king did So
WALLACE SALISBURY, JR, of Little York,
Cortland county, New York. has been annoyed
for some time by strange and unaccountable
noises about the house II was the source of
much annoyance and mystery until he tore off
some clapboards near the caves and found
family of 107 bats
A FUNERAL was in progress at Kicking Grove
church, near Nashville, Mo, the other day
when lightning struck barbed wire fence to
whlcn many horses were tied Twenty-one
were Knocked to the ground and four killed
Mrs. Robert Rigire, in the church. was shocked
lnsensible and badly burned about the face.
The SHORTEST WILL ever placed on record in
Franklin county, Pennsylvania is that of Judge
kimmell of Chambersburg. II reads as follows:
i VIII, bequeath and devise to my wife, P.
Jane kmmell who has been faithful and true,
al my estate whatsoever and whereSoever,
she to pay my debts and execute the will She
is not to file an inventory or settle an &C
count
YOUNG ALDERNEY COW on the farm of John
Barger in Seal township o., recently gave
birth to twin calves which present the charac.
teristics of two different breeds One il a deem
red In color and has all the marks of a short
horn. The other is black and resembles a
Holstein. They are regarded as a very strange
freak OF nature among stockmen in that
vicinity.
AN OLD FARMER and hunter on Robinson fork
of Buffalo river, Nicholas county, West Vir-
ginia, with his nephew, while hunting in the
mountain forests few days ago came on the
trail OF pack of wolves. The men traced the
animals TO a den in thu rocks. They followed
The brutes into the cave and captured seven
young wolves. Inc men realized $40 for their
capture.
CHICAGO is a good deal of a town considered
from the point of view of quantity Measured
on a north and south line it is "a miles long.
Measured on the line Of its greatest extension
east and west ID is 1919 miles wide II contains
ia square miles, or 111,260 acres. 1t has 81
wards, varying in extent from to Is square
miles each, the latter figure being reached by
Ward 80, in which the buffalo is said to be not
wholly extinct.
The PEOPLE of Schuylerville, n. Y, peacefully
permitted the local electric railway company to
plant its poles in their streets, and even in their
front yards, but when it dug a hole in the came
terry and set up pole there there was a CON
sensus of opinion that it had gone Just trifie
too far. Accordingly the church bell was rung,
the people assembled, the offending pole was
cut down and guard set over it to see that il
was not again planted.
To THOSE who suffer much from tender feet in
consequence of excessive walking or standing
for long periods, the following treatment will
be acceptable: Battle the feet before retiring
at night in strong solution of salt water, to
which should be added a liberal ouantitv Of
saleratus Dry the feet thoroughly and use a
smooth piece of putnice to remove any particles
OF roughness that may appear. Repeat the
operation the following morning.
CASES OF lead poisoning among the Jacquard
weavers in Swiss factory were traced to the
dust from leaden weights which are used nv
the weaverS to carry the threads of their warn
After the varnish has been rubbed off from the
weights the lead begins to wear away and falls
in fine particles among the dust on the floor In
some cases the dust was as much 1886 per
cent. lead, and even when the utmost care had
been taken, 8 or 10 per cent. of lead was found
in it.
GoTTLIEB SEIFERT of Terre Haute died few
days ago under peculiar circumstances, On
June ne was slightly injured by a runaway
accident and dog licked bruise on his bonS
while it was still fresh. While he continual at
work his condition grew worse and finally he
was confined to his bed, the SYMPTOMS indicat
ing nyuTOpnOOa IeCanuS, or IOCk1aw, He Slf-
fered untold agony. There is belief that his
death was due to absorption of saliva while The
dog was licking his injured hand.
ONE of the marvels of electricity, and one of
the most striking of the Edison exhibits at the
Paris exposition, was the little instrumant
which enables the operator to sign check 100
miles distant. The writing to be transmitted
is impressed on soft paper with an Ordinary
stylus. This is mounted on a cylinder which
as it revoveS, makes and breaks the current
by means of the varying intentions on the
the paper. At the receiving end of the wire a
similar cylinder, moving in accurate synchron
ism with the other, receives the current on a
chemically prepared paper on which it tran
scrbes the signatures in black letters on white
ground
A FIREMAN electric hand lamp is being intro
duced in England. The battery and lamp are
contained in a copper case similar to a fire.
mans ordinary lamp, and fitted with handle
for convenience in carrying. Very powerful
parabOlic refiectors are provided and the lamn
which has a duration of from two to three
hours, after which it can be easily recharped
forms an important adjunct in the outfit of a
fire brigade. The lamp is also suitable for use
in mines, gas works, gunpowder and chemical
factories The advantages claimed for IL are
portability, facility in charging. capability of
resting the battery when the light is NOT re-
quired, and extreme safety.
PERSONS who live near the Baptist church in
Pennington, n. j., saw a strange sight during a
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