The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-11
NATURAL FRUIT FLKVoRS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| ALASKA is not so bad country as il might be-
A party that were recently engaged in fixing
the boundary line on the British border found
| grasses six feet high along the Yukon and Por-
| cupine. which latter extends many miles above
| the Arctic circle. There were also salmon
| berries. bluebsrries currants and raspberries
| in profusion, and hundreds of acres of cram
| berries.
A LITTLE 10year old girl came down to break
fast few morning ago, says the Buffalo
| Courier, in a great furry of excitement. She
| said she had had dream the night before
such funny dream" She dream riddle. "
| OF course all were anxious to know what it was
| She said: What is the difference between a
sailor and a lendsman?" After a good laugh
the child'S mother asked her il she dreamed the
| answer also She replied that she did, and i'm
| medi6tely told the answer given in her funny
| dream: The one sails the seas, the other sees
the sailsp' What do the psychologists say?
MAURICE BERNHARDT the divine Sarah's son,
who is travelling with his wife in this country.
does not look like 'cigaratte athlete" as he
has been described. He IS rather handsome
specimen of the Frenchmah, with tall, wiry
| physique, clear olive complexion and a small,
dark mustache He resembles his mother in
the prominence ofshis features. and is an ex
quiSite in dress. His wife, the daughter of a
Russian princess, is a petite brunette, not es
pecially city, but possessed of beautiful dark
eyes and black hair. She has well developed
figure and a graceful carriage.
CURIOUS INCIDENT in proof of the super
| stition of the race course came out in CONVEX
sation at Hamline the other afternoon A small
Minnesota grasshopper alighted upon the shoul-
der of the beautiful wife of a we'll known patron
OF sports OF New Orleans, as she stepped from
the railway train at the far grounds lady
friend made au attempt to brush away the
diminutive coleopterus spretus but her hand
was stayed by the fair southerner, who said
quietly; Let him alone He's my mascot. II
can keep him shall win today And sure
enough the little fellow chung TO her clothing
the whole afternoon. The lady wagered stead
| lily on the races in small amounts, and won $50
on the first three events, a large part of it on
Polemus.
A TEACHER was giving a lesson on the human
body TO a bright class of 6-year-olds. She be-
gan by asking about the school-house. says the
| Youths Companion. then let them tell some
thing about the houses they lived in. Then she
told them that God had made little house for
each OF us alone. They quickly understood
and eyes were shining and hands raised. "Oh,
| Miss NJ, that house wears clothes, cried one.
! And it's shingled with hairl" cried another.
The windows are the eyes" said dear little
| Lenore., Mamma says she can look right into
| my heartthrough my eyes" 1.-THE door is the
| the mouth, - cried round little fellow. putting
| his fingers between his rosy lips. Little Willie
jumped quite out Of his seat with the sudden
ness of his idea: And the nose is the porch
over the door and the buttons on my coat are
| the steps up to the front door,"
| DURING Bishop Newmans missionary trip
| around the world, while ago he spent some
| time in India. One day a lot of native pastors
! were called together to hear the bishops views
| on the best methods OF carrying on evangelical
| work. Native converts, according to the mis-
! sionaries are apt to think they know Just what
| to do and are perfectly qualified to get along
! without advice. Bishop Newman began his
I talk, but was constantly interrupted by the ma
tive brethren, who jumped up one after another
to remark that they thought this or that would
be preferable. Now, look here" finally ex-
claimed the bishop, losing his patience little,
| IF of think conduct fhic
ing better than / can, will you please rise ~
There was silence for moment as the bishop
glanced around the room. Then four of the
brethren gravely rose and waited to be counted.
THIRTY SEVEN YEARS AGO Yankee fishing
skipper Solomon Marshall Of Vinahaven, Me,
courted Deborah Sholes. pretty maiden living
at Upper Port La Tour, n. S. Whom he left
her one autumn to go home be brought lock
of her golden hair to keep him company
through the long winter. Before long Capt.
Marshall heard that Deborah was receiving the
attentions of q Bluenose gallant, and in his
anger he bored hole in a white birch tree, put
the lock OF hair in the cavity and drove a pine
plug in after 10. He married Deborah in tri
umph, however the next summer and broug ht
her home. He died.a few years later, his wife
married again in Lockport, n. s., aud the lock
Of hair entirely forgotten until last week,
when man who was chopping up a white birch
tree for firewood laid bare Ahe golden tress,
which was covered with three inches of solid
wood.
JANE THURsToN of Portland, Me-, a somewhat
eccentric and avaricious maiden lady who claims
to own and run the United States, is seldom
heard from nowadays but there are lots of
other amusing people in Maine among them
| several who must be lineal descendants of the
| original man who wanted the earth The Skill
lings heirs. of whom there is a small army claim
Monument square, Portland, as part OF their
birthTight which got lost in the shuttle. They
win not get the square, but they're after it, and
that seems to please them as much as if they
EaA H.. as y,
engaged counsel to prosecute their claims to a
considerable part of the city of Augusta and a
Gardiner man now rises to announce his owner
ship to large part of Oxford county. Besides
these hopeful individuals there are dozens of
others looking for fortunes varying from 81, 600
900 to 214O00.000 from ancestral estates in Eng
land, Germany, and other distant parts of the
world. The claimants realize only the Joys of
anticipation, but the lawyers are getting gener-
Gus fees in spot cash.
To ADD to the continued miseries inflicted
upon them by the continued rains, English
farmers are now pestered with another inflic-
ton. In Lincolnshire. Cambridgeshire and Nor
folk counties the insect known as the mustard
bug is making sad ravages among certain of
the crops. At Deeping a field of mustard was
found TO be badly infested aud as soon as the
crop was cut down the bugs were to be seen
crossing the road in extraordinary numbers. In
their progress they devoured everything in the
gardens and then made their way into the
houses from which they were swept out in
] thousands. From other quarters the statement
is made that much damage has been done by
the army worm, which owes its name TO the
fact that its movements are made with all the
regularity which is characteristic of q military
advance. Apparently the wet weather, which
has been experienced not only in this country
multiplication Of these insect pests. In the
| champagne country phylloxera is PLAYING
havoc with the vines, the preventive measures
which have been adopted having had little
4 results.