The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-15

They Range From n Garbage Bin to
works of a Public Clock.

From 1It-BltS.
A few days since, at Romford, man
who declared that he was the king of
Greece entered the parish church, and,
having tied his boots and socks to the al
tar rail, mounted into the pulpit, where
he was subsequently discovered sleeping
peacefully
The congregation of the Bible Christian
Church, Mount Lofty, near Adelaide, was
astonished to hear the sound of snoring
evidently coming from beneath the floor
Upon a search being instituted an old man
was discovered. Although he stated that
he had only been there for a short while,
1t was evident that he had occupied this
strange bedchamber for a very considera-
bes time, some of those present stating
that they had noticed him at nightfall in
the neighborhood of the church for the
last three or four years.
One Mason, a young Frenchman who
had spent a somewhat too enjoyable even
ing, unable to find his own domicile, rang
at a house In the Rue Piquet and demand
ed a lodging of the concierge. Upon being
Indignantly refused by this functionary he
proceeded to accommodate himself to cir
cumstances, for, seeing a dustbin i'm the
courtyard, he promptly Invested himself
of his clothing and went to sleep among
the malodOrouS garbage. Eventually ne
was persuaded to exchange this couch for
a plank bed at the police station, whence
i'm the morning he was permitted to depart.
At an inquest held at the Hackney Cor
oner's Court in December, 1897, respecting
the death of Henry Halsall, 1t was stated
i'm evidence that the deceased had, with
the permission of a cab-proprietor for
whom he did odd jobs, for ten years used
a four-wheeled cab as his sleeping apart
ment A few old sacks had suhiced for
bedclothes, and a piece of board for his
pillow.
Edward Stewart, an Ormskrk laborer,
had to pay dearly for his peculiar lodg-
ing. One Saturday evening, at ll:N
o'clock Police Constable Ball was sur
prised to hear the market place clock
strike Y, and, after a brief interval,
O'clock On turning aside TO ascertain the
cause, he found the door of the clock tower
open, and, on ascending the stairs, Stew
art curled up among the works, indulging
in a sleep that resulted in months i'm
prisonment.
A rich Lancashire merchant, who owes
his present opulence entirely 10 his own
exertions, has constructed an extraordinary
bedroom. When a lad he was employed
by small Manchester shopkeeper as err
rand boy, his fare being OF the scantest
and his bed a "shake-down" beneath the
counter. In memory of these early strug-
giles. he has caused one of mis- rooms to
be turned into an exact fac-simile of this
shop, and beneath the counterfeit count
err, on a hard mattress, and covered with
the coarsest of sheets, he nightly rests.
The bedroom of another gentleman who
owes his position TO success in the liquor
trade, has been fashioned to represent the
interior of a large cask; while a certain
retired undertaken. living in a northern
suburb, has his sleeping apartment COM
petely paneled with the trappiugs Of his
late lugubrious calling.
Perhaps. however the most extraordi-
nary bedroom in existence is that owned
by a certain Herr Lenbach, a native OF
Bavaria. This gentleman has constructed
within the body Of huge elephant-a tro-
ply OF HIS prowess as a sportsman--a small
room, to which, when the hour for sleep
arrives, he nightly ascends.
The Welded State.-.He Is welded %