The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


The great Armstrong shipbuilding
yards of England have just turned out
the most remarkable vessel afoat 1t is
giant ice crusher to be used in keeping
open the trade routes of the Baltic sea
in winter. Ice-crushing boats are used in
several of the harbors on the great lakes
in this country, but they are insignificant
when compared in size and power to this
giant.
An American soldier and a native cab
man were killed by coming in contact with
a fallen electric wire in Honolulu the
other day. An inquest developed the fact
that the interior of the wooden insulating
pin by which the wire was supported had
been eaten away by ants, and the thin
shell which remained had given way under
the stress of a wind storm.
With a very few exceptions, all the
great industries and branches of commerce
in Germany show a phenomenal expansion
during the last decade. For example, the
tonnage of steamships belonging to Ham
burg, which in 1873 was So ,173, was in 1879
4S1, 500. Those belonging 10 Bremen in
creased in the same time from 65,070 10
226,G00, while the tonnage of sailing vessels
belonging to these two ports has since
risen over 60 per cent.
"A London magician, Maskelyne, who
has given entertainments many years in
Egyptian hail. kept up an offer of $500
reward for a duplicate of his box, which a
man gets in and out of mysteriously. A
clever mechanic solved the problem and
demanded the money, but Maskelyne re-
fused to pay as he claimed that, though
this box did the work of his, the mechan-
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his own in court, however and the jury
rendered a verdict against him.
M. S. Prime of California is a rather
remarkable person in that he is the presi-
dent, secretary and treasurer, board of
directors and manager of the Paso de
Roblas Street Railway Company. He is
also the driver and conductor of the single
car run on the road and is perfectly hap
by when the outfit brings him $3.50 day.
The road three miles in length, runs from
the railroad station to a locally famous
mud bath and Mr. Prime traded a house
and lot in Alameda county for the whole
outfit.
Forty sheep belonging to William
Arndt gathered under a maple tree in Van
Vert county, Ohio, and among them were
eighteen black ones. A binding flash of
in the midst of the flock and killed all the
black sheep, leaving the white ones I'M
hurt. Each dead sheep had a round hole
in the back of its neck, as if from a pistol
ball, and around it the wool was burned
away This remarkable happening fur
nished several weeks text for exhorters
in nelghboring churches.
The natives Of Kottiar are in the habit
of digging every year in the summer, the
dry banks of the Vergel river for fish,
which they dig out by hundreds just as
they would potatoes. The mud Jumps are
broken open and the fish, perhaps eight
or ten inches long, will always be found
alive and often frlsky, as if just removed
from it's supposedly native element-the
water. In the dry bed of severa. African
rivers similar practice is often pursued.
A kind of mud fish buries itself whilst the
bottom is still moist. and remains there
all the summer, waking up when the rains
commence again.
An elderly man who calls himself
Judge Milton and 1.-THE Promised Shi-
lob" has again made his appearance in
the Wakefield district, England. The old
man contends that he is entitled 20 the
mansion on the Wakefield and Bradford
road at Carr Gate, built by the late
followers of Joanna Southcott. The claim
ant who is a working carpenter, has fire.
quently crossed the Atlantic to enforce his
claim, and on some OF his visits he has
| trespassed on the property, been given into
custody, sent to prison and deprived Of
flowing beard, which seemed to be a great
source of trouble to him.
1t is a common custom among the
native traders of India to do business un-
| der the name of some distinguished An.
| glo-Indian soldier or statesman, and such
! firms as ''HaVelock & Co, ;" "E,lgin & Co"
! and "Outram & Co." are quite numerous
| Even the name of Viceroy-elect Curzon
has already been utilized. Recently a Mr.
! Greenwood protested against the use Of
| his name by firm with which he is NOT
connected, and the High Court readily
! granted him an injunction. On the next
| day the judge. having occasion to pass the
| shop, was astonished to find that the name
of Greenwood. had been erased from the
| sign and his own substituted.
Andrew Levi of Brockton has a fun
grown cow with five legs. The animal ap-
peared to be a cross between the buffalo
and the ordinary cow Heavy tufts of
| hair between the horns give it the appear-
horns are the distinguishing marks he
tween the two breeds of quadrupeds. The
extra legs projects from above the left
hind leg, and is nearly, If not quite, three
feet long. 1t hangs limp but is not bone
| less, and the owner states that at times
! the animal will move the limb. At the
| place of jointure there is an extremely
| large and soft bunch. The hoof is pecuI-
! lar. 1t is not cloven, and is nearly nine
! inches long, tapering to point and being
| harder than the ordinary hoof The en-
! tire leg is more the color of that of a
moose than of buffalo or COW. The front
J hoofs are also peculiar. They are divided
al! right, but are extra long and overlap
a little The animal is years old.
A college professor tells an interest
ing story of animal intelligence The pro-
fessor recently took into his family fine
fox terrier not quite fun grown, and CON
sequently possessed of good deal of mis-
chievousness. A few days ago the profess