The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-16

mony.
A bill was introduced in the Mime
sofa Legislature making it unlawful
for any person to kiss another unless
ne be able to produce a clean bill of
health.
AS a consequence of the famine
times, Stockholm legislators proposed
a tax upon all persons weighing more
than 125 pounds.
Arthur Van Meter, prominent
merchant of Salt Lake City, suffer-
ed from dropsy, and. after a fast of
forty days, in which he took Moth
ing but water, he found himself cur
ed.
e. C. Jones, a banker of New York.
gave a dinner in honor of Miss Ethel
Barrymore, where the plates for
twelve cost S1,500.
An investigation by the Health
Board of Chicago showed it to have
more men and boys in proportion to
women ard girls than has any other
large city in the world.
William w. Black, head critic in the
Chicago Normal School,, was placed
on trial by the school powers, charg-
ed with the inability to smile.
Edward Miller of Millville, N. j.,
secured a writ of injunction against
his wifes applying for a divorce as a
resident of the state of South Da-
kota.
Shenkberg & Co., at Sioux City
Ia, sought an injunction against a
shoe store to prevent the shoe dealers
from selling twenty-cent coffee at
cents a pound.
Three judges of the Supreme Court
of New York decided that to eat in
the modern quick lunch restaurant
with ones hat on was quite proper.
= ~ al wan hs.x
ing a scholarship valued at SIS stole
two kisses from a pretty coed, and
was expelled from the school, plac-
ing the value of the Oberlin kiss at
$37 so.
Six babies were born in five days
at 1913 La Sale street, Chicago, one girl
weighing seventeen pounds.
Frank Erwin of Chicago, in the at
tempt to escape from constable, ran
through alleys and barns until, in the
attempt to clear the open window of
stuck so tight that two constables
were required to pull him out.
A court in Berlin decided in favor
of a wife suing for divorce on the
strength of the fact that her husband
wears a wig, and that she did not
know it at the time of the ceremony.
Miss Mary Rogers of Pawtucket, r.
l., a graduate of Wellesley and the
new teacher in the high school, knock
ed out the captain of the football team
with a blow on the nose and landed
twice on the eyes of his confederate
who assisted at breaking her in"
The National Dressmakers' Associa-
ton of Chicago condemned the wom-
ans shirt waist.
Through a mistake on the part of
Cook county officials, Mrs. Hetty
Green's tax of 81, 105 on a piece of Cook
county land was paid by a neighbor,
and under the technicalities of the law
Hetty won when the neighbor attempt
ed to recover the amount.
At st. Paul. Mimi, a woman tried
to commit suicide by swallowing six
copper cents, but the method was
found to be too cheap.
New York society opposed to street
flirtations issued small buttons which,
when worn by young women, were to
hold them immune from the attentions
of the masher.
Mrs. James M. Strong of Chicago put
$500 in bills in an openwork stock
ing, and she hasn't found it yet.
In 1892 Mrs. Philip Miller was asked
by her husband to read aloud to him.,
and picking up a third reader at ran
dom she began on story of sword
fishs attack on a whale. by George,
I've got to see that" exclaimed her
spause, and grabbing his hat he went,
leaving her to the prosaic pursuit of a
divorce.
A New York mother was given a
lease for a fiat by representing that
her nine children were lin the ceme-
tery"-where they had been playing all
morning.
]. H. Russell of Bronson, Mich, was
trampled to death by a herd of steers
at the stockyards, due to his pulling
a red bandanna handkerchief from his
pocket as he stood inspecting them.
Muskrats burrowing under the water
works dam at Derby, Conn.,, flooded
the town and caused property loss of
$780, 900.
Adjutant General Corbin looking over
the grounds of the exposition at St.
Louis, was attacked by yellow dog
and fled from the grounds at double
quick.
A yellow mongrel dog, which cap
tured John Kniat, accused of murder
in Chicago, was admitted to Judge
McEwen's court as a witness.
Charles Daniels, a policeman at Cas-
sopolis, Mich, who had gone through
the perils of weapons and of disease
in the Philippine campaign, when walk
ing his beat at night, was struck by
a huge icicle, which fell from the caves
of a building, and killed in his tracks.
Lille Pertle, of Chicago, supposed
to have been suffering for days from
a sore throat, was relieved by a physi-
clan who found metal band from a
piece of candy sticking close to the
root of her tongue.
A young woman near st. Quentin,
France, suddenly awoke after con-
tinuous sleep of twenty years, dying
next day.
While ]. S. Farrier, of Birmingham,
Ala, stood at bank window indorsing
the check with which to pay the prem
ium on a life policy for $4,000 he drop
ped dead Of heart disease.
Mrs. w. T. Richardson, a boarding
house keeper in Detroit, was refused
coal by the clerk in the coal office,
and, getting her change ready, and
drawing a revolver, she held him up
for a receipted bill for a ton of an
thracite at $3.50.
Seventy German poets in Berlin en-
tered into union, refusing to accept
less than 10 cents line for their
rhymes.
Mrs. Lafayette Taylor killed her hus-
band at Monticello, N. Y, cut his
body to pieces with a knife, burned
it in the stove, and fed the ashes to
the chickens.
Hairpins from the heads Of women
passengers in a Columbus (O.) trolley
car saved a carload of belated people
a long walk in the snow after a fuse
had burned out.
Henry Bliss of Chicago was arrested
and locked up because, in inviting
Miss Ida Lee to accompany him to the
theater, he used a revolver to persuade
her.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles dollar, which