The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-18
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leges. These hitherto august institutions that
/ have permitted only the squarest of square
| dances are now countenancing castanets,
breakdowns, and fandangoes. At the gala day
| as sailor lads, boarded fern trimmed craft and
danced to songs sung by classmates.
THE lobster is greatly in dread of thunder, and
when the peals are very loud numbers of them
drop their claws and swim away for deeper
| water. Amy great fright may also induce them
| 70 drop their claws But new claws begin at
once to grow. and in a short time are as large
as the old ones, and covered with hard shells
The lobster often drops its shell, when it hides
until the new shell is hard enough to pro-
| tect it.
HARRIET, the eldest sister of Miss Georgia
Kilbourne the bride to be of Gen. SchofieId,
also chose for a husband one who had crossed
the hilltop of life She married Hiram Barney
OF New York, collector of customs under Lin
coin. She was p, he r. The couple live at
kingSoridge and have several children. There
is third Hiss Kibourne, the handsomest and
most fascinating Of the sisters, who never loses
an opportunity of expressing her preference for
elderly" men over younger" ones which is
PROBABLY the strongest guarantee that she will
never marry one.
YOUNG woRKINGMAN in Dubuque Ia,
bought g colored shirt. In tearing off the tag
he discovered a note therein requesting the
purchaser to correspond with the maker of the
shirt IN a New Jersey misunderstanding town.
She said she was working for starvation wages,
ana hoped TO find home and a husband,
when she would be happy. He wrote to her
was pleased with her replies, went to New Jer.
sey and married her. Three weeks after they
were united for life she received letter from
England. the home of her ancestors, contain
ing draft for 8i. 900, and a notification of the
fact that she was sole heiress to fortune of
over &1500o0
A YEAR and half ago Clarence j. Hunt of
Worcester, Mass, a brakeman on tho Boston
and Providence road, rescued a woman who had
FALLEN under moving car and probably saved
her llfe. She thanked him profuselY, and took
his name and address. The woman was Mrs
Mack Hopkins Searle. Later Mr.. Hunt met
MIR. Searle on the train on which he was brake
ing AS result Mr.. Hunt has lately come
into possession of grocery store in Mathuen,
suburb OF Lawrence, with horses wagons
and all the other things necessary and a fur
nished house. the gift of Mr.. and Mrs Seare.
Besides this Mr.. Searle, who owns great deal
OF property in Methuen, has put Mr.. Hunt in
charge of it,
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES has said that there
is nothing in the world tenderer than the pity
that nd-hearted young girl has for young
man who feels lonely. Perhaps this was the
sentiment that moved a certain young lady of
Plttsourg to marry certain baker also of Pitts
burg, who had, a few days before. been com-
PEELED to make an assignment. in fact, the
marriage notice appeared in the same paper
with the notice of the failure. OF course her
pAIJ uluSL nave D66n OF a substantial as Well as
sentimental nature. She, in his bankrupt
condition. doubtless paid for the license, the
wedding garments, the minister's fee, and the
household goods, together with fowery motto
is the slave who pays" His creditors are
seeking for moral to this tale.
The Belfast CMe) Age has story teller who
either coins or digs up a lot of curious yarns.
One of his latest has Belfast stage driver for
ltS leadlng character. He had gone about five
miles from his starting point when he discovered
that one OF the mail bags was missing, and
turned about to find it. After driving back a
mile or more he met a team driven by a young
lady who had the mail bag which she had
found and was carrying along for him. He of
course was profuse in his expressions of graft
tude and drove off. Several days later when
near the place where he lost the mail bag he
discovered small pig wandering about, evil
IDENTIFY lost. He picked The little animal Up and
placed 1t in his wagon. lie had gone ABOUT two
miles when he met again the lady of the mail
bag adventure driving to ward him. She asked
him If he had seen pig which she had lost, and
was much gratifed at his producing it.
THE Intelligent compositor' does not often
perpetrate more benefcent blunder than was
committed in Brooklyn the other day. the out
come of which was the reconciliation
Of husband and wife who had
become seriously estranged. After
the man betook himself to a newspaper office,
where he wrote an advertisement stating that
he would not be responsible for his wife's
debts Desiring two insertions of it, he wrote
over it; For two days" When the lad" ap-
peared, it announced that for two days only he
would not be responsible as aforesaid. The
wife saw it OF course and was so greatly struck
by its comical aspect that she forthwith sought
her irate husband, and in a short time they
peacefully buried the Ratchet. All on account
of printers stupid mistake. Truly he builded
better than he knew, and was Instrumental in
causing the wrath of man to eventuate in
domestic harmony.
WILLIAM LINGow, one of the most prominent
farmers of Western Kansas, was arrested lately
at Van Buren,, Ark, as a bigamist Lingow
seems to have been leading a double life for
some years. Nearly twenty years ago he mar
ried girl named Mary Henry in Kansas City,
Mo-, and now, after she has borne him eleven
children, comes the discovery that he had when
he married her. and still has, another wife, with
whom he has been in the habit OF spending part
OF each year in Arkansas, where he was SUM-
posed to have gone for his health The two
wives would probably have remained ignorant
OF the situation had it not been for the curiosity
of the sheriff OF Crowford county, Ark, from
whom the sheriff of this county received a let
ter to-day, asking about Lingow, and telling OF
the existence OF the wife whom he had deserted
twenty five years ago, but with whom he had
been spending portion of each year for some
years past After consultation with wife No
Pit was decided to have Lingow arrested, and
this has been done.
Mrs. PRISCILLA RANDOLPH, who lives with her
family on the old Randolph homestead near
Mount Horeb, N. twas the victim of peculiar
accident last week that barely missed having
fatal results. She returned Sunday morning
from visit to Washington, where she had been
on railroad excursion. AS gift for her chill
dren she brought home five-pound box of
candy which she bought on Pennsylvania ave-
nue. Every one in the family was samplinz
the candy. Mrs. Randolph's teeth struck some
thing hard in the bon-bon she was eating and
instantly there was a loud explosion Her front
teeth we're blown out and her cheek was torn
open SO that 1t hung by a shred doctor
sewed up her torn and bleeding face and picked
from the wounds small particles of copper
From this it is supposed that in some way
small cartridge had fallen into the candy when
1t was IN a plastic state and had been over
looked. The doctor said that the explosion
fortunately was toward the outside. Had it
gone toward her throat Mrs. Randolph would
have been killed instantly.
''THE practice of chewing wooden toothpicks
is more dangerous than most chewers i'm
agine, said a physician to Louisville Com
mercidl reporter. NEARLY everybody that uses
wooden toothpick of the kind that the ordi-
nary restaurants supply keeps it in his mouth
after 1t has performed its only legitimate func-
ton. One may see people on the streets every
day with toothpckS in their mouths an hour
after meals have been eaten. When these
toothpicks have been chewed they split into
small, fine slivers. and, although the che wer
max not be aware of the fact he swallows
greater or less number of these minute
needle-like particles. When they get into