The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-02
NATURAL FRUIT FLENoRS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

An OLD WIDOW LADY named Martin, originally
from Toul, and daughter of former mayor Of
that town, has died at Vincennes under rather
peculiar circumstances. She was a person il
independent circumstances, and was thought tC
De possessed or large fortune. A few days age
her nelghOors missed her, and when the com
missary of police was sent for she was found
dead from heart disease. Among her papers q
will was discovered by which she leaves all her
property, estimated at 200. 900 francs, to her ma
tive city. She has left 200 francs for the eX.
penses Of her funeral at Nincennes, but with the
express condition that she is to be buried las
far as possible from her late husband
An ENTHUSIAST on the subject states that each
head of clover contains about sixty distinct
flower tubes and each of these contains sugar
not to exceed the five hundredth part of grain,
The proboscis of the honey bee must therefore
be inserted into 500 clover tubes before one grain
of sugar can be obtained. There are 1000 grains
In a pound, and as honey contains three-fourths
OF its weight of dry sugar. each pound of clover
honey would represent the insertion of the pro-
boscis iuto 2,5OO,0O0 clover heads.
A BALTIMORE FREAK is a frog of good size and
trif1e light in color. but apparently not differ
ent from any other frog The freakishness
developed when his frOgship was worried,
wneh, instead OF hopping of or giving utterance
TO the deep, sonorous note usually heard from
frogs, he simply opened his mouth and cried.
The frog IS nothing il not human. and suggests
both in tone and volume a bad, peevish child
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continued even after the annoyance ceases.
A SNAKE, with marked climbing ability,
mounted a high grape vine in Waterbury.
Conn, and then entering a bedroom window
that was open managed in some unaccountabe
way TO get into a bird cage that was suspended
from the ceiling. There were two canaries IN
the cage, and one OF them the reptile had eaten
scene. The other poor bird lay in a stupor on
the bottom of the cage. The snake epdeavered
TO escape on hearing the noise of the footsteps,
but it didn't succeed, and was dispatched. 1t
measured, il is said, several feet.
A P1ucKY and independent girl is Miss Eliza
beth More of Edgeworth, Pa, says the Buffalo
Commercial With her own hands she recently
built neat little cottage, laying the founda-
tons, pastering the walls of the different rooms
and performing all the carpenter work TO a
builders taste. To do this she found it neces
sary to don male attire, and young girl friend
helped her over the hardest part of the work
Miss More is said to be pretty as she is ener-
getic She was once a protege of Jane Gray
Swisshelm, and the lessons that stern champion
of woman's rights taught her apparently have
not been forgotten.
JOIN S1LvERLY bought half pound of pow
der, pair of shoes and a new tin pan in Moul
ton this week, says the Mobile Register. He
put the powder and shoes in the pan on hi.
| wagon and started home, but before he haC
| gone two blocks from where he had made the
| purchase the powder exploded, burning hin
| terribly. His hat was blown ten feet high, hi.
clothes burned almost entirely from his body
and his face and arms burned as black as ne
gro's. There were only two persons on the
wagon, neither of whom smoked or had
match about his person. The conclusion is thai
the powder was ignited from the rays of tht
| sun, concentrated TO a focus by the tin pan
The sun shining very holly, and being
thrown against the paper containing the pow
der by the bright inner side of the new tin
| must have set the paper on fire.
WHISPERS are going out of style again, anC
in the future clean-shaven faces only will bt
popular. For two years, says the st. Louii
! Globe. Democrat, every man who could raise q
mustache and whiskers did so, because it was
all the rage. Now it's the proper thing e. shave
every bit of hair from the face and let the hail
grow long and fall over the collar IL you car
tram IL to do Full faces are not going to be
fashionable in the future. and professional
| massueses are doing a prosperous business IN
training the skin and flesh on the face to look
fabby and peaked The object is to look a
| intellectual as possible, and with Ratchet face
| the hair brushed back from the forehead anC
falling over the coat collar the effect des red il
obtained. The fad originated in New York and
| is gong to be craze in few weeks. 1t is moi
known who is responsible for it.
THE GANGPLANK had been hauled in. the pilot.
bell had rung, and the Danish steamer Vinsing
SOC was churning the water dozen feet from
| the bulwark at RIddarholmon on its way up the
| lake when a woman was seen racing down the
| hill for the landing, with skirts flying wildly
| about her. AS she ran she waved small bun
| die above her head and shouted. between heI
gasps for breath: stop the boat, Mrs Holm
berg, stop the boat" Il can't; go away,
shouted back the captain, and the open water
between the boat and the shore grew wider
The woman stopped on the landing. exhausted
We'll, then, go on" she yelled with her expir
ing breath, go on without Mrs. Holmberg'
fare have it here" The steamer went on
while one Of the convulSed spectators volun
teered to throw the money, which was knotted
in handkerchief, to its deck. He threw it way
over the vessel on the other side where it sank
with PUNK. Mrs. Holmberg did not appear
If she was aboard she might justly claim that
her fare had been rendered, at least, if not col
lected.
The sect of Illuminated Apostles has been
| increasing considerably in Spain. They claim
| to have power to heal the sick by prayer and
the application of cold water. Some OF them
were recently arrested in Madrid, but were sub
sequently discharged. Several of them then
called upon the local authorities and asked
that their sect be officially recognized as a
legally constituted association The spokes-
man of the party, venerable looking man with
long white beard, said that they derived their
doctrines from the writings of the Evangelists,
and were Christian apostles. All they asked
| was to be allowed to preach their doctrines
| and to cure the sick. Have you any diploma
emitting you to practice medicineg" asked the
| governor. The old apostle replied that he had
a divine diploma that could net be questioned
and that was better than any diploma that a
| human being could give. He would give an in
stance of a cure that they had made, and how
| they practiced on an old woman who had the
| smslpox and was given up by the regular ply
| sicians The apostles took her in hand, prayed
| over her, told her and her relatives to trust in
| God, TO make her drink plenty of water eat
| well and roll her up in wet sheets. And the old
woman got well. The apostles added that they
had established congregations of their sect in
| thirty six provinces. The governor did not
think it proper to give permission to men to
practice medicine who rolled up smallpox