The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A foreign paper says that a woman
in Germany the other day had 10 be sworn
twelve hundred times in suit IN which
! her deceased husbands estate was IN
VOlved. This took three whole sittnSs
Of the tribunal, but she won the suit.
There was a family reunion in Ken
lucky the other day al which were pres
ent man IS years old who weighed only
siNty-three pounds, baby two years old
that weighed ninety-siX and One-half
rounds and a Woman with twelve toes
and fourteen fingers.
There is a singular and rather ingeni-
Gus medical custom among the Shakers
when one of the fraternity has taken cold.
Her companions set TO work to make her
angry by saying disagreeable things till
she bushes with Indignation. Then, her
/ blood being heated, she will be able 10
throw of the chill with which she has been
suffering. Modern society might welcome
such golden opportunity as this some
times.
Among other things that can be ac-
quired for money in these practical times,
says Madame a London publication. it
seems that laughter-the art of Laughing
musically, as feminine novelists express
it-may be included. A well known favo-
lite in society, who is remarkably plain in
appearance, but is noted for her soft,
pleasing little laugh, confessed that she
took lessons from an actor, learning the
mechanism of forced laughter.
Frank Howard, an r-year-old boy of
Jamaica, Vt, amused the people there
as well as himself, by driving through
the street a liliputian team. consisting
OF pair OF last springs calves, with yoke
and sled of his own make TO match. He
recently carried four bushels of corn go
ing to mill. He put his team in his faith
eT'S barn and went to school and at night
took his team and grist and went home.
his team Is under perfect control
The Hull House Settlement of Chicago
is about to establish a circulating picture
| gallery The scheme is very simple; the
! pictures are framed, and are to be cir
| culated just as are books from a library;
any one picture may be retained for two
| weeks, with the privilege of renewal. 1t
| is said that the pictures most in demand
in the Hull House collection are the Par
| adise" of Fra Angelica, the Sistine Ma
| donna and other works of a devotional
| character
Fish City. which belongs to the state
| of Michigan, is a peculiar place, with
watery flavor; has no existence in sum-
| mer but is a busy place in winter is not
| built on land and yet has nothing to do
| with boats, says the New York Tribune
! The ice of Saginaw Bay is used as a foun-
| dalton for the city every winter, and the
| town is occupied by men and their fami-
| lies, who catch, clean and pack white
| fish and lake trout for the market. 1t is
! built in the same cove every winter, the
| houses being constructed of rough pine
| boards 1t had population of nearly
| 5000 in the winter of 1894, nearly twice
I season
the population has taken another jump
| forward.
"A Charlottesville (Va.) correspondent
of the Philadelphia Record writes: Capt.
| j. Killebrew has just visited Albemarle
| county to see about the apples the Queen
! OF England eats, which are not to be OBJ
| tanned anywhere except in Albemarle and
| Nelson counties. Fifteen years ago an En-
| glish gentleman travelling in Virginia had
| his attention directed to the Albemarie
| nlPa 10
| a barrel of them to Queen Victoria. Every
| years since an order for six barrels comes
| to grower, who has his orchards be-
| tween Charlottesville and Alton, on top
| of the Blue Ridge mountains. The apples
for the queen, are specially packed in
| polished barrels, with a small United
| States flag and an English jack painted
on the top.
The wood used in the hold of a vessel
to keep barrels and hogsheads from roll
| ing out of position, known as "dunnage. g"
| is generally good for fuel, but there are
exceptions. \ Portland man was offered
a quantity of this stuff recently, but was
| advised not to take it, as it would not be
| worth the tSouble. 1t has been used for
| dunnage for barrels of kerosene and the
barrels of leaking oil had completely sat
urated it, but this, strange as it may APP
| pear, rendered the wood almost unfit for
| use. 1t would burn so sullenly or soggily
that little heat would be given forth The
| reason, as explained by the Transcript
OF that city is that the volatile, inflamma-
wood, and leaves only clogging, incom-
bustible substance.
The temples of India are to be lighted
with electricity, says the New York Tri-
| bune the example having been set by the
| great shrine of silva, at Kochicaddie, near
Mutwal, in Ceylon, and is to be speedily
| followed by the equally vast and ancient
| foundation OF the Natukotta, in the same
| island. In no long time others will adopt
the same improvement till all the holy
| nj nf 10 10
| that by pressing a button they can be in
| Stantly illuminated. like a modern hotel
or theater. The innovation is enough to
make silva and Nishnu and even the great
Brahma himself, gasp and stare. There
are some 100000 gods in the Hindoo pan-
theon, more or less and they are entitled
to degree of surprise at the introduce
tiOn to their Shrines of q. miracle surpas-
sing any of their own. The old cressets
or bitumen and hickering lamps of per-
fumed oil, which shown around them age
after age since the days of Sesostris and
ScylaX, gave way finally to PENNSYLVANIA
petroleum and Illuminating gas now sub
stituted by the nimbler and more radiant
flame bright enough to purge the temples
OF their shadowy gods and spread the
glow of a more wholesome and rational
faith around their affairs.
One of the queerest relics of a bygone
age yet unearthed in Montana was found
short time ago near Bannock, and is
now in the possession of Jules Guvaz of
Medicie Lodge, says the MINNEAPOLIS
Journal. The relic was found by placer
miners sixteen feet below the surface and
is the petrified remnant of an animal that
raised its young, fought it's battles and
| lived its life thousands of years ago when
Montana was covered by a sea which is
not recorded upon the maps of the present
day, and had climate probably similar to
that of Africa. Mr.. Guyaz is a graduate
Of the celebrated Jardin des Plants of
Paris, and is naturalist of ability. To
the find he attaches considerable irpor-
lance. 1t is apparently the head and up
per jaw of a variety of the sea horse. and
is about IS inches long from the point of
the nose to the top of the head. About
midway along the nose is a large lumn
several inchess long and as many high.
The eyes are set very far back toward the
base of the head. No sign of nostrils an
pears, indicating that the animal to which
the head belonged was distinctly of the
amphtbia class. The teeth are small and
perfect, extending entirely around the
mouth to the back of the jaws. In the
center of several of the teeth perfect crys-
tails are formed, fact of considerable i'm
portance from the scientific standpoint.
The entire piece is perfectly petrihed