The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-14
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CoLDwATER, MICH, has an 'old bachelor girl
club"
JOHN McDARBY Of Salmon Falls, Mass, has
double teeth ali around.
SIGN on a street IN Philadelphis reads:
Goal oil, wood, milk and other notions.
MEDAL won by De Soto. the discoverer Of
the Mississippi river, will be exhibited at the
worlds fair.
ALLEN MILTON BROWNING Of Huntingdon. W.
Va Is 90 years DID, has been married six times
and has sixty-seven children.
JOHN ALLER of Pittsburg was bitten by dog
in 1877. Each year since, on the anniversary of
the biting, he has been seized with terrible
spasms.
The SOUTH KENsINGToN MUSEUM. London, re-
Gently paid $50 (S4OO) yard for some lace
manufactured In the south of Ireland It is
said that this is the highest price on record, and
that the lace is of the Rost exquisite workman
ship. The lace will be exhibited at the worlds
fair.
THE OLDEST CHURCH in the United States Is the
Church of San Miguel, erected at Santa Fe, N.
M seventy five years before the landing of
the pilgrims on Plymouth Rock, twenty years
before the founding of st. Augustine, Fla,
and fifty three years after the landing Of
Columbus.
SUPERSTITION sometimes brings the laugh
upon itself. To the jewel expert at Tiffany's,
New York a lady brought a set Of opals to sell
Her family had suffered miSfortunes, and she
was sure those additionally unlucky jewels
were to blame. The expert found tho opals
to be limitations
ANDREW H. BURKE. who has just been renom-
mated for governor by the republicans Of North
Dakota, was once a New York newsboY. He
was a homeless, barefocted orphan when he Sc
cured his first situation as errand boy, thirty-
five auO and saved = 90
OFT west before he was 20. He is prosperous
and popular, and the first governor of lis
adopted state. He once sad taat since he
10 years old he had not had 81 Of assistance
from any man
Mr. WHEELER, a shipbuilder at Bay City,
! Mich, is about to try an interesting experiment
which, if successful may be put TO practical use
in many ways MIR. Wheeler has built light
ship for Fenwick Island which, with its equip
ment, draws too much water to pass through
the st. Lawrence canals to its destination. The
attempt will be made to reduce the draught by
buoying the vessel up with air bags as 1t passes
through the shoal water. -Four II these bags,
each capable of sustaining twenty tons in the
water will be used.
THOMAS HAMILTON of Kansas says singing
sands found in many parts of the United
States, but squeaking sands are not So CO nmon
there is only one place in this country W er,
tle squeaklng sand Is found, and that is u nall
pain in South Colorado The singing nd
emts a musical sound only when dry, and loses
this property on being damDened. Ths squeak
ing sand, on the oil her hand, is silent when dry
AID squeaks best and loudest when moistened.
The sound IL gives forth is by no means loud,
but somewhat resembles the squeakin9 of an
arm chair. 1t sounds when rubbed between the
fingers or placed in a small bag and violently
struck, but the cause or the sound is mystery.
TIE GAvEL used by Vice President Morton in
closing the Arst session of the Senate of tbs
Fifty second congress is one OF some historic
intar p-t, II
Gen. Washington planted six trees at Mount
Vernon, which were named after six disEin-
gushed heroes of the revolutionary waF The
wood used in the head Of the gavel was taken
from one of these historic trees-a magnolia
and the handle was made from q box wood tree
named in honor OF La ayette- This gavel was
made by Lieut. Bradley of the capitol police
and is a fine piece OF workmanship. The gavel
was presented by Lieut. Bradley TO the John
Brown Fort Company, and 1t will be placed
among the collections of relics in their exhibi-
tion building, which has just been completed 10
Chicago.
ABOUT YEAR AGO the Humane Society of De-
troit placed large number of little tubs about
the streets of the city, to be kept filed with
water for dogs, and the Detroit nee Press saws
that the good results are apparent Next
summer" says officer of the society I'VE
will have $50 Of the tubs out have not heard
OF a single mad dog since we put the tubs in
the streets, and do not believe there would be
any trothlng animals running and swapping on
the streets if the dogs had all the water they
wanted. A great many people make a mis-
take about dogs in this particular. In the ex-
tremely hot weather dogs eat very little, but
they want lots Of water, aud will go almost any
distance to get it. II everybody owning dog
would sep pan of water in his back yard and
renew it daily his dog would never go mad
Why. dogs come here for drink from every
direction AMI there are over a dozen of them
that call my regular customers"
SEVERAL WRITER'S, among them the emine
Samuel de Champlain, tell awful stories of the
work Of a supernatural monster that formerly
Inhabited the islands of the BAY of Chaleur.
To the Indians of the Chaleur region this terri
bic being, which always appeared in the form of
woman, was known as the "gou-gou " AS
printed the word is usually divided, as In the
headlines and pronounced with a quick cultural
sound, not wholly unlike the "goo-goo" of a
baby This monstrous Amazooian, the legend
tells u.s. lived on human flesh. She caught In
dams by the dozens and slowed them away in
pouches at her hips, the pouches being large
enough. so an old Indian told Champlain, TO
hold 80 ponies" Hundreds of the Indians
living around the bay declared to both Willis
aud Champlsin that they had often seen the
horrd monster step from island to island, and
that her head wa" higher than a cloud ""From
what they say" Champlain writes, II should
say that Chaleur is the dwelling place OF some
devil that torments them in the above named
manner"