The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE Fayette City (Pa.) Neics contains the fol-
lowing unique advertisement: rs. G. Sanforth,
undertaken, eighteen years experience In
that time have buried over 1000 persons My
motto Is Live and Let Live Good goods and
low prices TO every one. "
A LOCAL PAPER tells Of 9 remarkable union
funeral that took place the other day at Black
River Falls. Pa. Three different families met
at the Lutheran church at the same hour, each
with dead relative, and none Of tho families
related. One sermon was preached for them all
and then the procession was formed with the
heerses, mourners and friends following in
discriminatory.
A WATCH is composed Of ninety eight pieces
and over 1000 operations are used In its manu-
facture. tt takes s0s.OO0 Of the small screws
which are used 10 weigh a pound. The hair
spring is a strip Of steel about 91b inches long,
IL coo inch wide and A-!0.000 inch thick.
Dol ,OO0 part OF an inch difference in the thick
ness of the strip makes q difference in the run
ming Of watch Of about six minutes an hour.
A HEBREW junk dealer in Winnipeg, Mani
toba, is very sad indeed. The other day he in
weighed a green Englishman into his place and
sold him an old muzzle loading gun for 81. The
purchaser took his prize away and proceeded
to clean il, but found that the barrels were
stopped up with, as he thought, old paper. He
took IL to q gunsmith to have il cleaned aud
stood wondering by while the smith took from
the barrels sos in good bank bills. When the
vented from committing suicide.
The custom of raising the hat to woman
arose in the days of chivalry and knight err
and fourteenth centuries, when a youths great
object was to be admitted to the order OF
knighthood, one Of the qualifications for which
position was Tenderness and RnIlantry
toward women. Each woman in those days,
had her chosen knight, prepared to do battle on
her behalf, who on entering the lists would raise
TO her his helmet as a mark Of respect and ODE
dlence to her commands and it gradually be-
came mark of respect and Difference to raise
the hat to all women.
PEOPLE who sit out the debates in the upper
chamber of congress notice a wonderful differ
ence in the enuucation and language flow of
senators, says the Washington Post 1t is quite
as pronounced as the difference in their person
allties. For instance, when Senator Daniels of
Virginia gets warmed up to his work and strings
out on misty moonoeams and dewy glades and
purling brooklets and star sheen, etc, il makes
a stenographer loll his head on one side and
stick out his tongue to stay ten words behind
him. On the contrary, every word from SEN
ator George drops with the slow and ponderous
kerplunk OF stone In the water 1t seems to
be carefully weighed, turned around three on
four times, and then let fall into space with an
exact idea OF where it will land. 1t is a very
easy matter to take him" verbatim In long
hand and it is probable that he Is the only pub
| lie speaker in the United States Of such DELHI
Grafton.
IT is common practice among lions TO hunt
| In company. says the Youths Companion. A
| friend of mine In South America had peculiar
example OF this. His friend V. had wounded a
bull buffalo, which had retreated within the
forest. The two hunters carefully followed the
| blood-track, but after q short advance were
startled by succession Of loud roars which
betokened lions close at hand There could be
| little doubt that the wounded buffalo had been
attacked. Therefore, with proper precaution,
| they approached the spot until an exciting
scene presented itself suddenly ON the other
side OF large fallen tree, which happily con-
Three lions were engaged in life and-deatn
| combat with the gallant old bull, who
made a desperate defense, first knocking
over one Of lhis enemies. then goring another
to the ground, and exhibiting a strength which
appeared sufficient TO defeat the combination,
Suddenly the buffalo fell dead. This was the
result OF the original wound, as the ride bullet
had passed through the lungs The lions were
not aware OF this and began to quarrel among
themselves about their imagined victory. One
huge beast reared to half its length and placed
its fore paws upon the body of the PROSTATE
buffalo, while at the head and the hind Quarters
an angry lion clutched the dead body 10 its
spreading paws and gPowled at the possessor
OF the center. This formed grand picture
within only few yards distance, but two rifle
shots stretched two lions rolling upon the
ground, and the third bounded into the thick
covert and disappeared
WITHOUT expressing any opinion as to the
guilt or innocence Of Mr.. Hampton, flshmonger,
who was charged recently with stealing a
lady's umbrella by the agency of his dog, SAYS
the London Gazette. we fear that there can be
little doubt the dog was guilty. The evidence
OF the prosecutrix was to the effect that she
was carrying an umbrella in her hand when a
liver-colored retriever came up, seized the UNI
brella, shook il out Of her gresp and ran off
The culprit's after demeanor was also strongly
suggestive of guilt. Though not placed in the
dock, as Mr. Biron thought he should have been.
his piteous bowls from the prisoners waiting
room, in which he was confined, were doubtless
Significant OF an uneasy conscience. Not for
the first time have we heard of these felonious
developments on the part of the canine creation.
Indeed, we might almost adopt a celebrat ed
quotation and say that crime has
leagued the footsteps of the dog !"
that this was not the drst time that A
dog had been charged with umbrella stealing
Our readers will remember also the story OF the
dirty dog which would roll itself in the mud and
then besmear the boots Of the passer by, and
which was at length discovered to be the prop
erty Of neighboring bootbleck. Then there
was the dog mentioned by Edgar Allan Poe in
one Of ais essays This dogs master had given
hostages to fortune in the shape of l. o. JJ's
For some time previous TO the stated dav of
payment he practiced his dog in a new trick A
small slip Of paper was dipped in something
that the dogs soul loved, and 1t was encouraged
TO snatch and devour the curious tidbit AT
length arrived the hour and the creditor. He
produced the |. .. u, the dog believed 10 to be
the usual delicacy. seized 1t and swallowed il:
and the debtor regretted that, as no evidence OF
his obligation was forthcoming, he must reluct-
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