The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-20
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in Harbor Springs. Mica. there IS
large and hourishing wood t0othpick in
dustry- White birch is exclusively used
/ IN the manufacture OF the tOOrhpicks, and
aDout i,591ueJ are turned cut daily
One of the most prosperous lumber
merchants of Sangervile. Ne. is now in
an insane asylum because Of lack Of
snow during the past winter. Last fa!l ne
took big contracts 10 cut and deliver lum-
Der, and after cutting it. could not deliver
i because there was no snow. most IN
expected and unsual contingency Disap-
pointment and anxiety did the rest.
A bucolie inventor Of the west, says
New Ideas. has devised a new corn knife.
which fastens TO the shoe and leg SINH
lar 10 telegraph lneman's climbers"
The shoe or foot fits in a frame from
which an upward extending brace is
strapped to the leg. a knife about eight
inches in length is affixed to the frame al
right angles TO the leg and siantlng down
ward. Gathering the stalks IN the hand,
a slight stroke with the foot sewers them
from the hill. BY rhis device both hands
are left free to arrange and tie the
| shocks; and kicking. is found to be
servlceable occupation.
A curious and exceedingly unusual
freak is reported by deer hunter TO For
est and Stream. The hunter was IN Wex-
ford county, Michigan. and got on a deer
tran that had hOOf marks plainly made
by buck. Almost all hunters of deer can
tell buck from doe track. After trail
| ing the deer and getting within a rod of
II the buck leaped out of clump of bush
| and got knocked down with a bullet
through the head. The deer did not have
any horns, although a 2-year-old, and
weighing $50 pounds Further, il never had
| any horns. Does with horns bucks with
three horns, dozens of spikes. and NAL
formed horns. have often been reported
OF Michigan and other American deer. but
| this is the first hOrnless American buck
I n rcrh =
sometimes lack such weapons, but yet are
able TO whip the horned ones.
The little community of Burgsinn n
the Bavarian district of lower Franconia
Will shortly be able TO celebrate the not
| overenviable ter-centenary jubilee of
lawsuit, says the Paris Register. On the
Dist of June. 1896 this community brought
suit at the imperial court, then sitting in
Speyer, against the Barons Won Thungen,
| concerning magnificent oak and beech
forest of nearly 5000 hectares in extent,
/ which may to-day be estimated worth
! about 1000 0G0 marks. and which both par
| ties claim as their own. 1t speaks volumes
! for the indOmitable grit of these peasants.
| who, despite their poverty through three
| long centuries, generation after genera
| ton, managed TO put up among themselves
/ enough money to carry on the suit, and
| who, in view of a recent decree, may ul-
! timately consider themselves the beati
| possidentcs.
! The London Field tells of many cases
where wrens have built several nests only
/ one of which has been occupied. and casts
| about for an explanation. 1t appears from
| what T. NJ. Ward of Sibton, YoXford, Suf-
! folk, says, that it is the male bird that
] builds these unused nests. He also OBJ
/ served that the builder of a nest which
! was never used paused after each bit OF
! nest material was put in place 10 sing in
! a loud voice. The odd nests are complete
! " nntshed to all outward appearance.
| Sundry explanations of this remarkable
! been DpinO
/ the odd nests are put up for the purpose
! OF toollng the parasitical cockatoo, which
| depends on other birds 10 raise its young
put there Is a poetical idea that it is the
| male birds lOneSOmeness that urges him
| to build. few American birds build du-
pHcdte nests, but the matter has not been
! so thoroughly studied by field ornitho.o-
| gists yet to admit of an accurate expla-
| nation of the cause.
The Columbian quarter-dollar IS al
| ready worth $3.50, says the New Orleans
Picayune. decade hence a specimen
of this coin is likely to fetch $40 These
1000 of them were struck. These are not
very many TO go around among 10000 =
600 people. Many of those who possess
them viii hide them away, lose them.
make bangles Of them. and other ways
| dispose of them, SO that a few years
hence only $4,000 Of them VIII he in exis-
tence, perhaps. They are interesting for
several reasons. For one thing, they are
the only coins ever struck or likely to be
struck IN TINS country bearing a crowned
mead. On the diverse is the portrait of
Queen Isabella This. too. Is the only dis
tnctlVely woman's coin ever issued On
ne Boa TYe of ady Pe2rs the ms TPbscrGiP0n
bian half-dollars will never be rare-they
| We're struck by millions. The half-dollar
of 1893 IS worth only its face value to-
| day, while that of 1882 is rare, and will
fetch 70 cents.
Without paying attention to the freaks
of the modern dime museum fasters, -
says the National Druggist which were
4 succeeded by feats of gluttOny almost as
| remarkable as their fasts would have
been had they been entirely above suspi-
| cion of fraud, some very remarkable in
stances of fasting have been recorded
In an earthquake, near Naples some time
| ago, young man was buried in a cellar
by the building in which he was tumbling
in ruins AT least fifteen days elapse d
before he was reached, when he was
found to be still living, and subsequently
recovered and is living to-day or was a
short time ago. Another instance is re-
lated where a number of workmen were
| descending a pit. and a short distance
before they reached the bottom an acct
dent happened to the hosting apparatus.
| AS result they We're buried by the de-
bris. Fourteen days elapsed before they
were reachd, when they were found I'M
conscious but still living. and on being
brought to the top and cared for all recoV-
cred. The secret of the long continuance
of life in this case Is supposed to be
that they We're early rendered unconscious
x
er part of the time that they were
| buried"
The Rev. B. F. Chapman, an aged re-
tired Baptist minister of Andover, Conn,
was one of thirteen children, says the Bos-
ton Herald. He was born on the 18th OF
the month. His wife and three of his chill
dren We're born on the 18th of the month
| When 13 years of age he, with his father
} family, moved from Preston to North
Stonington, and became near neighbors tc
| fGf in Of frfl,
children. During the war he invested 81,
800 IN six per cent. gold bonds, all he had
at the time, and later going to WillimantiC
to increase his investment, he found a
broker who had just $1,000 of the same
kind of bonds, which he purchased. liz
sold the gold interest first paid on his
bonds for 13 per cent premium. When he
came to Andover he applied at the post
office for a box, and found them all rented
but No. 49, which he secured. On his frst
visit to the Baptist church he was seated
, in pew 10 by an usher. and has ever since
held the same pew although the numbers
have all been removed. He further re-
marks that he is now living in one of tho
q -ra toe t.