The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
THERE will be liquor license this year in
Scituate, Mass. for tn first time in fifty years.
Last year the vote of the town was: Yes 81, no
"a. This year. under the Australian ballot. the
vote was: Yes 81, no 49,
THERE is trouble in a church at Racine, Wis,
Mrs. Albrecht was expelled for making faces at
the pastor, Rev. H. C. Hanso1, and for snoring
! during the sermon. She has brought sui
against the trustee who escorted her from the
| pew TO the door.
| LANSING (hIIcH) MAN applied for a warrant
against hiwself for assault and battery. He
said he had been in fight, and he wanted to
get himself convicted and fined, because the
| fellow that he licked wouldn't be able to atteod
| TO the case for some time, and he wanted 1t of
his mind
MANY NAMES Of materials in common use
have queer origins. Nickel was first obtained
as a metal from Germany over a century ago.
but the ore had be n previously known to the
miners as Kupfernickel or old Nick's copper
! because, although it looked like copper ore.
they could obtain no copper from it.
THE first Goddess of Freedom to whom tenn
pie was erected at Rome was repres snted as a
| Roman matron robed in white, holding in one
hand broken scepter and in the other pike
surmounted by cap. At her feet lay cat. an
animal that Is an enemy TO all restraint. The
cap alluded to the Roman custom of putting
one on the head OF slave when freed
CURIOUS INSTRUMENT of writing exists in
Dunkirk, Ind. 1t appears that two early lovers
failed, for some reason unexplained. to marry.
| but married Others. Lately, a written agree
| melt has been signed up, IN secrecy, providing
| for their future marriage to each other. in the
| event they survive their present companions
| The contract further provides liquidated dam
| age OF $4,000 upon failure of contract, pro-
vided
| IF AN ARAB WOMAN who has lost her husband
decides to marry again, she visits the grave of
| her husband the night before her second mar
| rage and prays HIM not to be offended. AS
| however. she feels that he will'be offended. she
| takes with her donkey laden with two goat
skins filed wi b water. The prayer ended, she
| proceeds to pour the water on the grave to keep
the first husband cool under the circum stances
| about to take place. and having well saturated
| him, departs.
ENGINEER DILLON Of the Danvile, Macksville
and Southwestern railroad dreamed, Tuesday
| night, that large rock had fallen on his road
near Leatherwood creek, North Carolina, and
that his engine having come in contact with it,
was broken to pieces. The dream so impressed
MN That ne declined TO make his usual trip over
| the road the next mOrnina until he had tele-
| gra he'd to ascertain if there was anything the
| matter at Ieatherwood creek. The message
| was flashed back that huge rock had fallen on
tne track within few feet of the identical
place dreamed about, and that, although hands
| had been working all night to remove IL, the
| track was still obstructed.
In ANSWER to questions with regard to eating
and speaking, says Col Ingersoll think that
public dinners are generally too long and too
| far apart, and that the average speeches are too
long and not far enough apart; that most of the
| speeches are little too heavy, 50 far as manner
Is concerned, and little too light in the matter
| think it is a mistake to put tue best speakers
last on the list. for the purpose OF holding the
audience for the worst. l take this occasion,
however, to state that this is not always done. At
the dinner of the Manhattan Athletic Club it was
the other way-dr. DApew spoEe firsta In my
opinion, the less speaking and the more eating
the better. You ASK if | can suggest any inn
provenent in the programme of the average
public dinner | think ! can. | think they
would be far more enjoyable if the women and
men dlned together. Inca think there would
be little more talking and a It'll 9
| less tlppllng-more wit and less wine
not quite so heavy, and a good deal happier.
And besides all this, each man would have some
body on whom he could rely to take him home:
THE British ship Cockermouth came in Just
forty eight hours behind the Lorton, which left
Liverpool the same day, according to a recent
dispatch from Astoria, Wash. The two vessels
came down the English channel side by side by
side and went into the Atlantic together. The
| second day out they lost sight of each other and
| did not come together again until the evening
| OF the day they crossed the equator. The fol-
lowing morning the Cockermouth was out of
| sight and was not seen again until latitude 22o
| south was reached. Here the two vessels drew
| in together and began a 40days' neck-and-neck
race. They went through the roaring forties'
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side, and forty days were never farther than
one mile apart. On Sunday Capt. Steele and
family would go aboard the Cockermouuh
spend the day, and the following Sunday the
visit would be returned by Capt McAdam and
wife of the Cockermouth For nearly six
weeks this novel and pleasant excursion was
carried on. each vessel steadily holding its own
and the officers watching every move of their
| friendly rivals. If the Lorton let out reef in
the topsail the Cockermouth followed suit; if
the Ctckermouth' s yards were hauled round to
the wind the LOTIONS were in the same posi-
ton aninstant later, and so it went through all
the time they were in company
HENRY CUMMINGS LAMAR, who was recently
drowned at Augusta, comes from the ceIe-
brated southern family bearing that ngme, and
was nephew of Associate Justice Lamar. He
was graduate from Princeton in 1886. While
at Princeton young Lamar made phenomenal
record as football player and he was regarded
as the most brilliant college player that ever
represented Princeton on the football field. His
performance in the fall OF 1885, wnen he won
the compionship for Princeton in the famous
contest with Yals at New Haven, brought La
mar an almost national reputation, and ali the
| honors that Princeton could lavish upon him.
Lamars achievement in this game has never
been equaed before or since. Ten minutes be-
fore the close OF ths game which was to decide
whether Yale or Princeton should be the cham
Plons, Lamar, who was playing half back for
| Princeton, secured the ball on kick from Yae
at the fifteen-yard line. In an instant he started
on his long dash over the field. aud began his
attempt to pass through the entire Yale eleven
each one of whom endeavored to bar his
pro sreSs. Dodging here and there with the pc
| culiar Snake-liKe motion which won for him
many q touchdown, passing man after man
VINO with arms outstretched sought to detain
MIN, on past sbig Peters, the ever vgiiant
Beecher, the feet Watkinson on past Stage and
Gill, aud other famous Yale athletes flew Young
Lamar with the ball snugly tucked under his
arm, his eyes set on the goal line, and his col
lege mates wildly cheering his marvellous run.
| Finally, the run was ended. Lamar had won his
touchdown, the goal was kicked, the score
made 8 to 8 in Princeton's favor, and the cham.
pionship for 'S5 won to Princeton by the almost
miraculous work Of "TilIy" as he was
atfectonately called. Lamar was always a
great favorite at college. both by reason Of his
athletic attachments and his social Qualities.
Hundreds of college men and friends viii regret
to hear that a life so full of promise has been
cut of in such a sad and uuimely way,