The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

-Lynnfeld, town not a great ways
from Boston, and frequently reached by
train. has no doctor. no lawyer no police
| man, no fireman.
A systematic inspection of all the fac
tories of Connecticut will be made this
| summer to see that children under 10 years
of age are not employed
Three men in Lowell, Mass, who were
caught giving brides to city official for a
| municipal franchise will pay a fine of $500
each and pass one year in prison.
"A memorial window to the members of
the One Hundred and Thirty second Regi-
ment, who fell at Antietam, will be placed
in Holy Trinity Lutheran church, Sharps.
burg, Md.
An American lady went into chemi-
lists shop in Nice and asked for a bottle
Of the finest perfume sold there She was
informed that the price of the best scent
was $25 an ounce.
Any good blacksmith can make a
horseshoe, but few are such adopts as a
Dover (dd) man, who recently made a
tiny one, perfect in every respect, weigh
ing but five grains.
The once popular and fashionable
game Of croquet is being revived in Eng
land Not only is the game much played
IN private circles, but important matches
are announced for some time to come.
The bicycle can't be downed. One of
two passengers on the Sandy Hook boat
that carried Fourth of July crowd from
New York laid a wager with the other that
there were more than 1900 bicycles aboard
A deck hand counted 322
The women of South Gardiner Ne.
are believers in the efficacy of the Kelley
cure. and are raising a fund for submit
ting such of their inebriated citizens to
the tender mercies of one of these insti-
tutlons as they can persuade to go.
In Boston law went into effect two
weeks ago forbidding women to wear big
hats in the theaters. It's enforcement will
| be made one of the conditions on which
licenses will be granted to the theaters.
and 1T will be incumbent on the manage
ment to enforce the ordinance.
Following closely upon the Schubert
centenary comes the completion of the
! huge definition edition of his works, pub
ished by Breitkopt & Haertel of Leipsic,
| the Oldest and greatest music publishing
house in the world. There are forty VOL
umes, including 1,014 compositions
In the tomb of James A. Garfield is a
cash register. which rings up a ticket for
| every visitor, showing that a dime has
! been paid to the association for the priv
| ilege of viewing the monument erected to
| the martyr President, says the New York
| Press. Cleveland, o., has two great mon
| uments and an unenviable notoriety hangs
| around each. When Gen. Garfield was
! buried in Lake View cemetery the people
! of the nation set out to raise $4,000 to
| build monument worthy of his memory.
| AT the time of the dedication of the monu-
| ment $4,000 of the fund was lacking. The
| dehcit was raised by the nation and the
| monument was left clear of debt From
the cash register $4,000 a year is extracted.
! But the thrifty association has another
| source of profit. Inside the tomb is a
counter where relics of the dead President
are sold. Here can be bought at a bar
gain bits of the marble of which the tomb
is built and pictures of the monument and
| the man. From the sale table $500 year
| is cleared.
-One of the most remarkable stories
of escapes from death, and as exciting a
tale of adventure as has been heard for
| many years, is related by Peter Pinpiere
a young farmer and hunter in Canada,
who has just arrived here, says a Cariou
| (me) dispatch to the New York Journal
He tells of covering a distance of thirty
miles an hour, and this is how he did 1t:
Friday forenoon Pinpiere left home at
the head of a party of young farmers for
a days hunt an eagles nest on the ton
of Wally mountain, eight miles away, be-
ing the objective point of the expedition.
The two parent birds were captured after
hard struggle and securely tied claw
to claw The rope holding the birds was
| passed to Peter. who carried them out
4 N a laval olTr s.Ek
| and sat down on the cord to hold the
birds still. Suddenly the eagles screamed
and spread their wings and started off
with Pinpiere clinging to the rope. For
thirty miles they carried him, when the
young farmers hands gave out and he
dropped to the ground. Pinpiere was un.
hurt, but badly shaken up. 1t may be
added that Pinpiere's imagination is fair
| ly active.
Old Mike Desem who lives in Ken
sington, can claim as odd calling as any
man in America, says the PHILADELPHIA
| Record. Mike has been a well known
character along the river front for several
generations, and his peculiar WAYS and
| queer looks have made him famous in
kensington. His ostensble means of living
IS the sale of driftwood that he picks up
in the river, but Mike will tell you that by
far his creates income is derived from the
dead bodies he gets floating in the river.
Mike has been engaged in this work for
sixty years, being now nearly 80 years
old, and he explains his method of work
as follows: In a rowboat he stations him
self at point in the river near Washing
ton park for each tide. experience having
| taught him that a certain current there
will bring anything within his reach. He
picks up anything of value that comes
along but 1t is when the swift tide brings
corpse within his grasp that he puts off
for the city at full speed. Since the first
| OF the year he has secured seven such
prizes, and his record since starting runs
up into the hundreds. He has preserved a
description of each one. and says that In
out Few cases has he failed to get a large
reward when the friends of the deceased
| were found
S. V. Han of Dunkirk, N. Y. has
learned that tosds like bees. Every
night" says Mr.. Hall, according to the
I Chicago Chronicle, when | have gone