Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-03
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the Louisville Exposition grounds have
been put in place.
SALVADOR convicts are chained in
pairs. and are sent out TO seek work. If
they cannot earn or beg their food they
must starve.
4 CANADIAN paper demands, Why, If
a man wishes 10 marry his wite's sister.
didn't he marry her at frst:" As
though he could marry two first.
To ANY ONE but a New Englander the
following from the Tewksbury evidence is
unintelligible: 4 don't know but San
born heard it. and don't know as he did"
4 CLUB Of hundred members was Or
ganized in Pottsyille, Penn, TO introduce
knee-breeches. When the small-clothes
came none Of the hundred dared wear
them.
THE BRITISH steamship Carlisle from
the sea Of Marmora IS unloading 800
tons Of chrome ore at Baltimore, the
largest cargo Of the kind ever received
there.
AN EDUCATIONAL CONVENTION is TO
be held in Louisville, September 1921,
during the exposition, to consider the sub
iect Of popular education in the South,
and all the State Governors have been in
yited.
DURING the recent storm at Ashbury
Park, New Jersey, lady saw her hus-
band upset from a skiff in the surf. She
promptly waded out till the water was up
to her chin and brought her unhappy
mate ashore.
The STANDS Of the brewers in the Cork
exhibition are imposing. Some are Or
nate bars. and others are like arbOrs. Ono
Of the latter is matched with bottle en-
velOpes and keeps its doors open and its
brew on free tap.
THE OLD furniture and family portraits
at Scriyelsby Court. England, for genera
tions the seat Of the Kings Champions,
are advertised To be sold by the order of
the executors Of Mrs. DymOke. The
estate is valued at 80, 600 a year.
CHICAGO declines to do without Sunday
evening dramatic entertainment. Nc
Wicker. the father-in-law Of Edwin Booth.
set the example Of keeping his theatre
closed on Sundays, but has given up the
effort on finding that public opinion was
against him.
IL a TRIAL before a Livingston Oak. !
Justice in which a man was charged
with swindling another at cards. the
court played a game with gambler pres
ent, and demonstrated that it was posi-
BILE for a man 10 have high. low and jack
and take the game.
a NEW WAY Of turning a penny" has
recently been developed in Boston. A
rogue takes an English penny, plates it
with silver, and then passes it in the
evening for a half dollar coin. which it
much resembles. Several parties nave
been neatly victimiZed in this way.
SURGEON says in a recent sermon:
''The body Of a child will not be a child's
body in heaven: it will be fully developed.
Mothers viii not consent TO have heaven
stripped OF babies Editors who pay for
that sort Of stuff and print il, cannot have
inspected the goods before buying.
BIBLICAL STUDENTS are manifesting
great interest in a recent report from
England that the Palestine exploration
fund has recovered from a BedOuin tribe
east Of the Jordan pieces Of skin contain
ing portions Of Deuteronomy and the com
mandments made about 500 years before
Christ.
A TANK filed with pink water lilies
from Cape Cod attracted much attention
in a Philadelphia florists store last week.
They were displayed by the side Of some
night-blOoming lilies from Africa and
some genuine Egyptian lotus flowers, but
their beauty outshOne that Of their exotic
neighbOrs.
Mexico belongs to the Postal Union. so
that a letter can be sent thence to almost
any part Of the world for five cents. But
domestic postage presents the anomaly Of
being much higher 4 new law. reducing
postage. goes into effect in September, but
it viii still cost ten cents TO mail do
nestle letter.
An INvIDIOUs Philadelphia correspon-
dent writes as follows about LOuiseille:
s'Gamblng is plainly the most important
business Of this city. 1t gives character
10 five or six Of the choicest squares in
the commercial part Of the town. and ex-
ceeds any other branch Of trade in volume
Of transactions
A PRISONER in a Franklin county
Kansas jail is utilizing a queer secret.
He claims TO know where was buried
$4,000 long ago by an Indian trader. for
which the people whereabouts are wildly
digging, but viii not give away his infor-
nation because he hopes through it to
gam his freedom.
ACCORDING to a 1t. Louis cigar dealer
the day of the meerschaum is past. TO
day." he adds, Il have little sale for meer-
schaum pipes or cigar holders. Cigar
cites. too. are going out of fashion. 4
year ago | sold a box Of Sweet CapOral
and Old Judge cigarettes a day. Now /
don't sell half a box. | have here 475 diff
ferent brands of cigars. 1 can't say which
is the most popular. The dearest brand Is
that cigar YOU see wrapped in tin foil. 1t is
imported from Havana direct, and sells
right along for 80 cents straight. Rail-
road managers, plumbers and hotel clerks
buy Them
BELLE HARRIS is heroine and martyr
in the eyes Of the MormOns. She is con-
fined in the penitentiary, near Salt Lake
City, where she is daily visited by men
and women high in the church, who con-
tinually eXhOTt her TO hold firm, and not
betray her savior into the hands Of the
Gentiles. In the Mormon belief wOman's
husband is her only savior, and she can
not be raised after death except through
him. Bellies case is a test one under the
Edmunds law. Several years ago a saint
named Clarence Merrill took her for his
third wife. She has borne two children,
whose paternity has never been ques-
toned. Merrill is being prosecuted for
pOlygamy. Belle Harris was summoned
as a witness. "Were you ever married"'
She refused to answer questions as to her
marriage. Consequently she was adj
judged guilty Of contempt Of court. and
sentenced to pay a fine Of $25, also to be
imprisoned until she should become