The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Gov PESNoYER Of Oregon came near not hav-
ing the pleasure Of seeing President Harrison at
4 all When the train bearing the latter reached
| Salem the governor was still at the state house
| there having been some delay in the arrival Of
his carriage. But ten minutes later the vehicle
was being furiously driven toward the railway
station. Had he taken five minutes more be
would have been too late.
AN Atchison (Kan) woman has been in
formed that she cannot live two years She has.
! therefore, resolved on making the most of her
time, aud has entered upon a career of merry
making and gaiety. Another doctor informs
ner tnat II she VIII saw OF on high living and
her former good health. The gay life strikes
her fancy. and she accepts the death warrant
/ OF doctor No. I.
MEDICAL DIRECTOR WALES has furnished
Health Officer Townshend Of Washington, D.
| c.. with report on an examination of the
blood" oranges recently submitted, in which
| he says: The oranges are naturally stained no
| artificial coloring of any kind having been used.
| The small spot on the side is fungus and not a
| puucture. IL is impossible to stain an orange
| by injecting an artificial ffnid into tbe fr-it
| either before or after plucking il from the
| tree
AT THE DRUG STORE Of J. NJ Sprague in st
Paul, Mimi, there is a thrifty fy tres four
years old and perhaps I'VE feet high. which
came up spontaneously in q tub which con-
| O1lnttl an OicdnQer. Inc ONLY way IN which its
! voluntary appearance is accounted for is that
1t grew from seeds of figs which rad been fed to
canary whose cage hung over the tub But
tne most perplexing part of the problem rests
on the TACT that the figs were preserved. Will
seeds of preserved figs retain their terminating
| properties: Sometimes, perhaps.
A CURIOUS RELIC of the war is in possession of
| Charles F. Gillet of Cleveland, who values it
| highly, says the Union Veterdn of that civ.
IL is the honorable discharge of faithful dog,
owned oy Mr. Gillet.s father, the animal having
| served for three years in Battery H, Independ-
| ent regiment, Pennsylvania Light Artillery
| The discharge recftes that Jack Puppy (brindle)
! Is Waterman" in Capt. Z. H. Nevin's com
psny, that he was enlisted Jan. 81, 1852 for
three years. and was discharged June TO- 1865,
| at Camp Barry, District of Columbia, by reason
| OF expiration OF term. He was born, according
| to THIS record, at Alexandria Va aud was
years old at the time of the discharge; with a
| yellow complexion and brown eyes and was by
occupation when enrolled "a fighter" The dis
charge is duly signed by E. H. .Nevins, Jr.,
captain commanding battery, and by l. \. Tor
renee, mastering officer, lieutenant Second
| United States artillery.
"a GREAT DEAL has been said and written
especially in the way of democratic criticism, -
| said Congressman Cannon, of Illinois, while at
| the Pslace hotel San Francisco about Score
tary blalne.s great wealth, and think it can be
| safely said that the amount reported is greatly
| Ia excess of that which he actually possesses
| 1t is true that Mr. Blaine is a wealthy man, but
million would probably more than cover his
| entire estate. l have been informed by those in
a position to know his circumstances that he
| came out of the campaign of 1884 actually i'm
| povtriShed, anu at one time was compelled to
| borrow from his friends. II was soon after that
however, that he wrote his Twenty Years of
congress- aud IL is no secret that he Melted
| $4,000 on that transaction. This gave him
| sum for investment that enabled him, through
| the advice of friends, to make number of for
| tunate deals His mining speculations in Colo
| RADIO have proved perfect bonanzas, and he has
done well In coal and iron lands in West Vir-
GINA. Altogether Mr.. Blaine is a shrewd fpan-
cier, in edition to his other mental Quail
incations, but his wealth has never been more
than one tenth of the amount attributed to him
by his democratic critics"
No TWO MEMBERS of congress are more init.
mate than Benton McMillin of Tennessee and
| Amos j. Cummings of New York But they are
now stronger friends than ever. Last week
something happened that brought this about
The two congressman went iuto New York IN
town resort and were entertaining number of
their friends with stories of congressional life
FINALLY Mr.. McAiliin, in one of his stories men
TONED the name OF his native town in Kentucky.
| Mr.. Cummings interrupted: Il remember a
| family named McMillin in that town. 1T must
| have been my father, said hcMlliin, and in an
| swer TO the question whether his father sub
scribed to the Christian Worker he replied in
| the affirmative. 4 can remember the taper
| we'll" he said, ''and my father used to look
eagerly forward to its arrival. Mr.. Cummings
| then told his companion that his father had
| been editor and proprietor of that paper
when l was little boy" ne said Il used to
| address the wrappers for the QUITO town sub
! scr1bers. well remember writing your fathers
| name" And remember tearing those wrap
| pers for my father" said Mr.. McMillin, and
| there was vigorous handshaking, and in his
| high glee over his discovery Mr. McMllin gave
| to Mr.. Cummings a hickory stick, once the
| property OF Andrew jackson.
GENUINELY WITTY STORIES too, are rare Wen
dell Phillips declares that there are but twenty
five original witty stories in existence, and that
| all the others founded upon or borrowed
| from these. He tells us that the story of the
man who was writing letter follows: my
dear friend, should tell you more if there were
| not an impudent fellow looking over my shout
| der and reading every word''-"You lie, sir I
| have not read word you have written"-comes
| from Egypt, and is $50 years older than the
| New Testament. So with the story of the man
! who said, Il would have been a very handsome
! fellow if they had not changed me in the era
die Take the lrishman," says Mr.. Phillips
| who carried around brick specimen of
| the house he had to sell; take the Irishman who
| shut mis- eyes and looked into the glass to see
| how he would look when he was dead; take the
| lriShman who bought a crow, alleging that
| crows were reported to hive two hundred years
and he was going to set out and try it; take the
| lrishman VINO met friend who said to him
why, sir, heard you were dead Well saws
the man, 1 suppose you see l am not % no. )
says he, / would rather believe the man who
told me thaa you any day. Well all these are
UreeKs score or more OF them or a parallel
character come from Athens"
ANNIE JENNER, a 17-year- old girl of New Or
leans, has solved the problem Of existence for
herself in very comfortable way, and her sue.
cess is full of suggestions to other women who
are asking themselves the narrowing question:
What shall 90 to make a living!n Annie
and two others. a crippled girl of 10 and boy
of ~, were left orphans few months ago with
nothing but a little cottage near a great rail
road station that they could call their own
A ME was deeply anxious to keep the children
together, and it was while bordering the
problem the suggestion came. The crippled
sister, whose fingers were very skillful, whose
| taste was good, was set at work with old flower
baskets OF fruit baskets ornamenting them with
| pretty knots of ribbon or Frightening them IN
with cheap dyes Annie filed the baskets with
| the daintiest and most attractive OF lunches
laid in the folds of Japanese napkin and with
tidy bouquet OF flowers in the corner; and the
little brother sold them down at the depot, bas-
kets and all, to the tired and hungry people on
the through trains What a revelation those
lunches were to the travelling public who had
been accustomed to the rough and unsightly
fare of railroad eating houses Why il
was appetizng to look at them The
baskets sold so rapidly that Willie could
not carry down enough to supply the demand.
First he had an extra boy to help him, then two