The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-21
NATURAL FRUIT EIMoRS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AN INTERESTING FACT has just cropped out
! concerning prominent Boston dry goods mer-
chant which is well worth recording and the
example IS no less worthy of emulation. On
dit that when he gets provoked or a little in
dlgnant he says little, but goes off by himself
until he gets over it. But when he gets pretty
mad, thoroughly mad, he goes home, says moth
ing, but goes straight to bed, and he does not
get up again until he feels he is again his anna
Die self.
REPORT comes from Canada that DR.. Selwyn
of. the dominion geological survey has hit upon
a new insulating material in the shape of petro-
Ieum saturated sand, OF which Unreasonable
quantities exist in the Athabasca district
NikOla Tesla. the rising genius in electrical
work, showed at Columbia College, New York
rev days ago, before a brilliant assemblage of
the electrical engineering talent of the country,
that with the high frequencles" of alternating
current he is now using, glass and rubber, which
are considered the best iilsulators are in reality
INFERIOR to others not 30 regarded, such as oil
and wax. e-.
WILLIAM GABLE, who died suddenly last Sat
urday while retiring from a Reading pa base
ball game, was in reality chOked to death by
peanuts. He had eaten large quantity while
witnessing the game. On the road home he
stumbled over an obstruction and fell very VIC
iently to the ground. The shock of the fall
brought some Of thescontents of his stomach
INTO his throat and some of the undigeSted
peanuts entered his windpipe, shutting off his
breath so effectuaiy that he died after terrible
struggles in few minutes The case has ex-
cited great deal OF attention among Pennsyl-
vanla ply sicians.
WHILE excavating on a farm near Temple
HILL New York, few days since, L. L. Frost
found pair of shears that were of sufficient
antique design TO warrant the opinion that they
were used during the encampment of 1888 by
revolutionary soldiers William T. Talmage,
assistant superintendent at Washington head
1Ia A-fv
the tower of victory Monday, unearthed the
copper coin of George II. s reign, bearing date
lI4i which was three years before the head
quarters property was sold to the Hasbroucks,
| from whose family the state purchased it. The
coin is in an excellent state OF preservation
/ Both discoveries will be added to the antiqui-
ties at headquarters.
A TIGREss in the Nagpur district has fond
ness for the employees of the Bengal Nagpur
railway, frequents a tract of country only about
nine square miles in area, and is possessed of
extraordinary cunning and sagacity. This year
up to April she mas killed seven people, besides
woundlDS others. She lives in a rocky and pre-
clDltous spur, in which there IS a heavy bamboo
and other jungle. Several springs of water rise
at tle foot OF the scarps, and there is a cave
winch shows many signs Of being used by her
an her family. a big stone Just outside of the
entrance Is scored deep and long with many
scratches of her claws. In February last, in
broad daylight, she carried off one of a gang of
permanent waymeu from under the eyes of his
companions She had been shot at many times
and her cubs killed, but she got off scratches
TALK about the chance a man has against
roulette, said an old-tme sport to the Cincin-
natl Enquirer the other day, L once had charge
of a wheel in the SWEETEST game ever run in this
town. man, who is probably the best known
and one of the very wealthiest in the city q,
dropped in occasionally. One night he walked
lato the place and said: Il will bet $500 on the
double o. The ball went whiriing around
while he fumbled among lot of bills to get out
the money. He hadn't counted out the $500
when the ball had stopped. He had won, but l,
as quick as lightning, hipped the ball into
other number. just then he succeeded in
counting out the money, and as he looked up he
saw he had lost. He never knew anything
different. If l had not thrown that ball
out Of the double o we would have had TO pay
him Sl60O3, as It paid Sc to IL
JOIN Doe owns farm in New York on the
bank of the Niagara river, and he makes an
| honest penny now and then pasturing COWS for
his ueighbors Richard Roe has also a license
from him TO hitch his row boat on the bank
with incidental right of ingress and egfess
| through the pasture. About week ago
Richard lost his chain and improvised q rope Of
hay With which to moor his boat. Now, Eben-
| eZer Dicks COW, pastured in the lot aforesaid,
( Is fond of hay, and smelling the fragrance of
The extempore rope, she waded into the river,
climbed into the boat, chswed up the rope and
fiOated down the stream over the falls where
1
pulverized en- route to Queenstown. Has
Ebanezer Dck any right Of action for the loss
+ OF his COW If he has. Of whom can he re-
cover? Has Richard Zoe any remedy for the
loss of his boat, and il SO, against whom Will
some one please answer.
Now THE FOLLOWING STORY NAV not be new
1t is very probable that it is not, for it is a
yankee story about a shrewd regular down
east yankee. And every one knows that the
genuine "down-eastN yankee shrewdness was
borne In the first generation of such yankees
says the New y ork Tribune, was practised by
them and has been handed down by them To
tnelr sons, grandsons, and even the third and
fourth generations. etc. But whether this trick
| is original or not-that has nothing TO do with
II, for in this case it illustrates the futIity of
| trying to get the best of a yankee This par
ucular yankee owns farm, and he hired two
new men To NOW one of his hayfields AS he
could not watch them at all, he resolved
to arrange affairs so that instead
OF talking and doing no work the two men
would keep away from each other Here is the
prescription: Farmer says to one man: This
other fellow is deaf as post; can't talk either;
dumb as an oyster. But he's a good man on
bayfield,, Only don't worry him He's sensi-
| tive about his deafness and dumbness, and will
get macder tban hornet if you talk to him.
just let nm alone and he'll show you thing or
Two about moving hay" Then be went to the
other man and gave him the same story The
ewo farm hands went out and worked like Tro.
jams all day Neither dared speak to the other
.hLAu CaCt tIAcu 70 OubstTlD Llo Ot0er. Inc yam
kee farmer smiled benignly when the men quit
work, and could not be made to understand that
be ought to be ashamed Of his lie. He was a
yankee you see.
You donthea much about them, but there
are caunibals in Australia to-day" said DR.. F.
D. Clum to a Kansas City Times reporter.
Strange? Well, not so very when you take
into consideration the character of the coun-
try. The blacks or aborigines still wear breech
nd Thanvr hort ar rnF0n
civilization you will find that the majority of
them wear no apparel of any description. The
Australian black bears about the same relation
TO that country that the American savage does
TO this When you get away from the cities
into the brush YOU will find plenty of them who
would kill you and there is nothing they would
relish better than to make barbecue out of
you, provided that there was no danger of
being caught. Collectively, they have the
greatest fear of the white man, for
they know that he Furnishes severely
consider very good, but, as a rule, they lack the
utensils and means OF making broth When
plump white stranger is captured and killed the
body is carefully prepared. 1t is then bound to
stout green pole, which in turn is supported
at either END, about AZ feet from the earth, by
forked sticks Between the sticks fire is built
and, when the proper number of Goals are made
the green pole, with its choice morsel is put
atop, and il is there permitted to simmer and
roast until II is done to a turn, the man eaters
occasionally sticking their knives into the body
to test the degree of doneness. Cannibalism on
the island, however, is gradually dying out The
blacks are of a very low order Of intelligence.
The Maoris in New Zealand are much more
enlghtened people"