The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
ADAKoTA PAPER tells the latest corn story.
It says a farmer raised ! 900 bushels of popcorn
and stored 1t In barn. The barn caught fire.
the corn BEGAN to pop, and filled ten acre field
An old mare in neighboring pasture had de-
fective eyesght, saw the corn, Thought it was
snow, and lay down and froze to death.
WILLIAM H., the new King of Wurtemberg, is
man Of simple domestic tastes, with no liking
for the display and gayety that characterized
the court while the late king was alive. But
charlotte, the new queen, is only 81 and il NAV
be that sne will influence the king 10 furnish
the people with entertainments The king s
daughter by his first wife, the Princess Pauline,
is the only child of the royal pair, but by the
sale law IN force in Wurtemberg her sex for
bids her TO inherit the throne.
TRUTH is often stranger than fiction. An old
soldier at Water town, s. D.. left his faucet run
ming into an iron sink and went to bed A cold
wave came down aud froze the water as it fell
so that it sounded like bullets striking the iron
sink. The soldier dreamed that it was charge
OF infantry, and took the sound for the rattle
CT musketry. While in somnambulistic state
he charged bayonets out of the second story
window and fell on top of a column of water
from the arteslan well. This tossed him up
twenty Five feet into the air, where the whole
column of water froze stiff, leaving him on top
The neighbors were obliged to cut him down
with axes.
MUCH SYMPATHY is felt for the young Pennsyl-
vania sailor, Matt Pruyn, whose father, DuForest
Pruyn, the mate of the schooner Foster. was
drowned recently in Lake Erie, off Port Col
borne The boy says THAI when his father fell
overheard. In calm seas, his cries could be heard
for some time, but no boat was lowered and the
tug towing the schoo er was not stopped for
moment. The boy declares that the sight of
his father going overheard and the heartlessness
OF the crew of the schooner almost drove him
TO suicide. Complaint was made at the Erie Gus
tom house and an investigation will be ordered
n aIc md
telegram saying that his mother was dying in
Centerville. Washington county, and he is in a
state bordering on distraction.
IT IS STATED that one winter when the Ken.
lucky legislature was in e deadlock and had
passed a sleepless night in session, the morn
ing found them III an obstinate and ugly mood
| All efforts to adjourn were severely put down.
| Soon after the breakfast hour arrived member
| from the Big Sandy country went to one of the
| treplaces in the ancient hall and laid on the
hickory Goals piece of bacon that he had
| found in pocket sandwich. The appetiZing
| odor gradually filled the room; the sizzling was
cheerful sound suggesting home, ease and
| comfort. The members began to stir con-
| fusedly in their chairs. TIE hostile sides looked
| at each other sheepishly and wistfully. They
| couldn't help smiling and at last broke into
| laugh. An adjournment was moved by several
and carried unanimously. They say politics is
| swayed by phrases, but bit of Kentucky bacon
| did the business this time.
FANCY a woman OF about 80 years Of age, OF
medium hight. dark brown hair and black eyes
that pierce and sparkle. She is Of full figure
| and huTries along with the determination of one
who has mission to perform. She is dressed
| In light colored WOODEN dress and wears a
jaunty hat that sets off to advantage one of the
| most perfect faces have ever seen-rounded
| with soft pink and white skin, two roguish
| dimples perfect mouth. red lips and rows of
perfect teeth. milky white Fancy such
woman as that with low musical voice and
| most gracious manners you will have pretty
! fair idea of the late Horace Greeley's only sur
wing daughter, Gabrielle, now the wife of Rev
| DR.. Frank Clendennin. Her days are spent in
| doing good in helping the weak, in nursing the
sick--a pretty Lady Bountiful, who never tires,
and who never tells of the good she Is doing, so
| quietly does she work. She greatly aids her
husband in his church work and is very devout
Although she does not live In New York city
| she spends much of her time there. Her life is
| given up to life's grand work of helping others
THE Chicago young lady who may desire to
| put an adoring swain to the test might request
him to step into Madison street grocery and
| buy her some Strawberries. She might add
| that he had better hurry up, or there will be
| no berries TO purchase. There the first crop of
= Florida strawberries for this season are on ex-
| hibition. They look somewhat out Of place
| like lambs in bleak December. Nesting in tinY
| boxes, away from the sunlight and the SUI
| shine, it is positively cruel to expose them for
| sale on drear November day. "Popu-
lar tastes must be- respected and
| porter for the Inter Ocean. These little
| pint boz es sell at rs cents-in the season, in
| May or thereabouts you can buy Strawberries
/ at 8 or cents quart. 1t is another proof of
| the popularity of the peoples taste, this craze
| after Strawberries when they rare and un-
| common. Why, we cannot keep pace with the
1 demand, Notwithstanding that the price se ems
4 prohibitive Those berries,' he explained. as
| he handed few tiny ones to the reporter ARE
| almost havorless. They are like precocious
| children, the Characteristic qualities of the
| natural and seasonable berry are absent. Yet
people will buy them because they are rarity -
| AS he was speaking three boxes were wrapped
| in paper. They were carried away by a gentle
| man who was accompanied by a young lady
| with blue sparrow with pink eyes in her hat.
| She-the lady, not the spsrrow-has probably
eaten the berries by this time.
TIE TEA DISTRICT in Water street is haunted
by a very odd sort of broken-down old man. saws
the New York Commercial AdUeYtiser AT first
| sight he impresses you a one of those who have
| Joined the ranks or shabby genteel through
| looking upon numerous liquors of various
| colors too frequently. But upon closer exapi-
nation it is discovered that the ensanguined OPP
| tic and rubcund nose of him who strolleth in
| alcoholic by-wayS are missing, though upon all
| other points the resemblance is perfect Cow
1 per once referred to tea as a beverage that
| cheered without inebriating, but the old man
| in question is a striking exception to Mr. Cow
pers rule Given sufficient quantity of young
hyson or green tea, and he will develop
! an attack of mixed feet that a pro-
=, fessional absorber Of hard liquor would have
| difficulty in reproducing He was once q tea
| tsster-one of those fellows who can tell the
| growth condition aud worth of u grade of tea
| by slipping spoonful of it. They never swal-
| low these samples, for in the course OF a day
| they mount up to quart or so of the strongest
| kind of tea, and are invariably expectorated.
| The old man developed fondness for the liquid
1 and took to swallowing his samples. One day
1 he had a fit of the nerves that scared everybody
out of the Office and lost him his position. Since
| then ne has been going on tea rackets with great
regularity. and the quantity that he can dispose
| of at a sitting is astounding. His nervous sye-
/ TEN is a complete wreck. and from pre- sent ap-
| pearances 1t isn't likely that he will live upon