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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29
Osman Digna u Born Frenchman.


It may not be generally known tn at Os-
man Digna is q Frenchman by birth, and
was born in the year 1882 in small hotel
in ROuen. His father dying a year or
two after, his mother married an Alexan-
drian merchant in 1887, half French and
half Egyptian, of the name of Osman Dig
ma, who, taking a great fancy to young
O>man (at that time named Alphcnse
NInet), insisted on having his name
changed to his own, and dying in 1912,
left him about $4,000 francs. After the
death of his step-tather he was left to the
guardianship of Ali Khana, kind of half
partner of the elder Osman. A Mussul-
man, who, at the death of Nine. Digna,
in 1874, took young Osman into his house.
His religion at that time, being very much
OF the Christian unattached type, was
soon converted into Accommodation
Ali Khana was q very wealthy man, and
lived in great Oriental pOmp and splendor.
Though intending to be very kind to young
Osman, his kindness was OF very Spar
tan order indeed. He had numerous pro-
fessors for various branches Of learning,
and would often be examined by Ali him.
self, who. if he did not consider that ne
had made progress, would have him
severely basunadOed.
At the age of fifteen he was sent to
Cairo 10 an ex-FIench officer to be taught
the various methods of European war
fare. Capt. Meraie had some fifty boys
residing in his house studying war In all
its branches, two or three of whom have
since become famous, not least among
them being Arab Pasha. 1t is strange,
as illustrating the old saying that ''the
| boy is father to the man." that both Os-
man and Arab distinguished themselves
| as leaders in the mimic battles fought in
| the grounds Of Capt. Meraie, the former
in dashing, swooping kind of way, car
rying everything before him, and the lat
! ter as a tactician. The consequence was
| that rivalry existed between the two.
both having about an equal number OF
! their schoOlfellOws siding with them.
| Osman remained here until his nineteenth
| year, when he was sent by his guardian
to France on matters relating to Ali's
| business.
| In 1865 he Obtained the command of bis
regiment, but shortly afterward, offending
the Khedive, he had 10 leave Egypt, and
had his property cOnfscated. He then
went to Suahin, and entered business as a
ship chandler and coal agent under an as
sumed name; but, while on q hunting ex.
| peditiOn, he was captured by rowing
| band of Arabs, and was sold as slave tC
I the man who at present calls himself the
| Maadi. The MahdI was charmed with
\ his new slave as a man of unboundeO
| learning, and who would be able to train
his numerous supporters in the art o.
war. He gave Osman his daughter IL
marriage, aza has ever since treated hin
! Ike q son.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29
The Chinese Giant to eet Married.

81. LOUIS ou1a0HH SdPtH0ss
at understand you are to be married
Chang. How is itP'
A slight smile passed over Changes
FACET took quite a while to get over it
and blush was just perceptible.
eyes, am to be married, though ex-
pect TO 20 home to China first"
"Who 10 the ladyW
81 would rather not tell her name. She
lives in Kansas City. She is rich, and is
worth over 5000 900. l am worth about
$l5O,0 and 1 think we will not be in
need when our marriage is contaminated.
The lady is large in stature. She is six
feet six inches in height, and her dress
makes her look much larger. She is
an American lady, and lives with
her parents. She first saw me on eX-
hibitfOn, and talked to me long while.
The next day / was sitting in par
lor in hotel, playing on the piano. |
can play nicely on the piano, and would
like you to hear me. Well, was playing
on the piano when heard the lady enter
the room. 1 turned and saw her. she
looked rather timid at first, and said,
Come in, lady; | will not charge you so
cents to hear and see me- She laughed
and acted more at ease. l played many
rieces, which seemed to please her not q
little. Finally j got up and placed one
hand on her shoulder, said she was nice
big woman, and | would like to have her
for my wife. She laughed and ran mer-
rily out of the room. A week later re-
ceiVed a letter from her father asking me
if | really wanted his daughter In mar
rage, and asking me what l intended to
do ii married. l said | wanted his daugh-
ter, and would become tea merchant.
The engagement was then made. will
come to st. Louis, settle down here and
open a tea store"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29
FIGHTER SULLIVAN.

BostOn's Most Distinguished Citizen
Losing the Confidence OF His Friends.
BOsTOS, March 25.-The occupation of
the pugilist is about gone. The exhibit
tion business was overdone long ago, and
was revived only when John L. Sullivan
proposed to s'turn over a new leaf," do
better and make tour of the world. At
present il is impossible to get license
tor pugilistic or wrestling exhibition
from the Board of Aldermen, and the con-
tests mentioned in the papers from time
70 time take place in club rooms, to
which only limited number of people
are admitted. Sullivan is in Philadelphia
preparing for match with McCaffrey.
Nearly all the old friends he formerly had
In this city have abandoned him because
of his reckless ways, and he has very
little money. His conceit has greatly
diminished, and he rails at those who,
while managing him, saved their money
and are now much better of then he who
made it possible for them to clear thou
sands OF dollars.
His last manager, Pat Sheedy, of Chica-
go, has lost confidence In Sullivan, and
will have nothing more 70 do with him,
but Sullivan says Sheedy and he parted
because the Chicago man looked tor too
much money. When Sneedy was in this
city lew months ago he expressed the
opinion privately that Sullivan was little
short of a brute; that his ma
ture was such as to surely bring him
to grief; that the Boston champion
would die with his OoOts on, and that he
(SheedY) would give 5000 out Of his own
pocket if Sullivan was not shot and killed
during his management of him. Sheedy
also said that Sullivan did not possess the
redeeming quality Of being man of his
word, and that he suggested a back
down from the agreement made with Pad
d Ryan for the settlement of receipts
from their New York exhibition,
1t was Sheedy's intention, had Sulli-
van behaved himself, to take the pugilis-
tic champion on tour through the South
to New Orleans, and later to travel
through Europe with him. "If be doesn't
behave himself" said Sheedy, 81 may not
20 South with him, but if l do accOmpa-
ny him after he has misbehaved, | will
certainly shake him after the engagement
in New Orleans has closed" Sullivan
nov says that be intends gong to Europe
and Australia without Sheedy. The suit
OF his wife for divorce comes up shortly.
and Sullivan will contest, not that be
cares to live with Mrs. Sullivan but he
wants to get control of the baby, John
l.. Su Ivan, Jr., Of whom he has great
homes
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29
PHE MERsEY TUNNEL.
How the Work Of Excavating Under the
Big River ts Coming On.


The inspection of the Mersey tunnel,
says the London Standard, by a large
number Of shareholders and directors
was matter Of great interest yesterday
at Liverpool and Birkenhead. The first
act for such an undertaking was obtained
in 1880, and several additional powers
were subsequently applied for and OBJ
tanned. bGt it was not until 1880 that the
real operations for making the tunnel
were undertaken. Since then the work
has progressed with energy, the solid new
red sandstone rock forming an admirable
material 10 work upon. Perfectly able to
support itself and to endure the opera
lions OF blasting, the tunnel has only re-
quired TO be lined with brick for the pur-
pose of stopping out the percolation OF
water from the bed of the Mersey, at
distance of about thirty feet, beneath
which the tunnel has been perforated.
For the like reasons the physical charac-
ter OF the stone has enabled the portions
OF the tunnel under the streets Of the two
towns TO be carried on without the pur-
chase Of buildings and land, which would
have been needful to cover the effects of
subsidences in the case of ordinary exca-
vatiOn6.
The tunnel is now entirely bricked and
completed from one side of the river to
the other, distance Of 1850 yards. Its
form is that Of depressed oval, and it is
26 feet in width and 81 feet in height, the
invert being nearly equal in form to the
arched portion overhead. The brickwOrk
of blue STAFF rdshire bricks is three feet
In thickness at the invert. Below the
tunnel there is a drainage heading, rum
ming continuously with the tunnel itself,
seven feet in diameter. Into this at fire.
quent intervals the water entering the
tunnel is pumped, and the tunnel Is in
this way kept dry and efficient. On the
Liverpool side there is large sueter-
ranean station, with platforms and pro-
vision for lifts which will be capable of
elevating 240 passengers to the level of
James street in 40 seconds. This station
is 400 feet long, so in width and SO in
height.
When the traffic is worked the tunnel
will be ventilated by two fans, one forty
and the other thirty feet in diameter.
Alongside the tunnel there Is a ventila-
ton heading cut In the solid rock thOus-
and yards long and seven feet four inches
in diameter. On the Birkenhead side
there will be a similar station under
Hamilton street, and thence the tunnel
continues under the London and North
western Railway and Great Western
Railway to the Haymarket. Both ends
of the tunnel railway will ultimately he
brought to The surface and connected with
the main lines proceeding from Liverpool
in ali directions. On the Liverpool side
communication will be made with the
Cheshire lines, and at Birkenhead juno
ton will be formed with the London and
Northwestern Railway and direct CON-
munlcation for the first time opened up
with the Great Western line North
Wales and It's beautiful scenery will be
brought within three-Quarters of an
hours journey of the busy city. When
the approaches are completed the length
of the tunnel railway will exceed four
and a hall miles.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29
AIr. Cleveland Drops into Slang
Philadelphia Telegraph.

A story is told of very deaf Philadel-
phian who called on Mr.. Cleveland soon
after the election. He had heard about
the influence Mr.. German, of Baltimore,
had over Mr.. Cleveland, and be called to
warn him against ''that crowd" He
went into details TO show him what hard
lot the BaltimOreans were, and appeared
to know them all intimately. The Gov
ernOr listened with all his ears, OCCASION
ally yelling "Yesp' or Mop into the horn
of the VISITORS ear trumpet, and never
suggesting that he had had about enough
of it. Presently Col. Lamont, who had
been sympathiZing with his chief, had
occasion to leave the room. As be passed
in the rear of the Governor his EXceilency
still seemed intent on the old mans re-
cital, never taking his eyes from his face,
but as the private secretary got directly
behind him be heard the familiar voice
say in wearisome aside: "Dan, this is
the worst racket ever struck" But
the visitor was innocent Of all suspicion,
and Cleveland listened patiently TIL ne
nnisheds
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29
Inventor or the Weather Map
Cincinnati Ea0utrev.


Nearly every body in town knows Frank
Armstrong. the commission merchant,
hut there are comparatively few who are
aware OF the fact that he is the man who
made the first weather map. IL was In
1868, when Mr.. Armstrong held prOmi-
nent position in the local Office of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, that
he put the idea, which had been discussed
by himself, George T. Williams and
Wylie Smith, to a practical test.
The map was traced upon a square
Of copper, and the original is now
in the possession of the United
States Signal Service authorities in Wash
ingtOn. After time, for the benefit Of
certain subscribers. manifold copies of
the map were made, and. then htho-
graph was prepared. Mr.. Armstrong
tried TO get the Western Union Telegraph
Company in New York TO take the METER
up, but they wouldn't do it, and he finally
sold it to n. ID. Rogers. make any money
out Of it, Mr.. Armstrong; asked an En-
guirer man yesterday. SCOT $50, when
might just as well have received 100000.
The government to-day is using the same
map, with but few changes, theirs being
a little more elaborate, of course"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29
LuOK AT THE CREOLEs.
Crowds Gather to See Them-The Type
of Creole Beauty.

Crowds Gather to See Them-The Type
of Creole Beauty.
Before the Creole women, says q New
Orleans letter to the Baltimore american,
all the other attractions Of the Crescent
City fade away. No better time than last
night, and few better places than the
Washington Artillery Hall could have
been chosen TO view them at an advan-
tage. These are the women who have
caused duels, inspired poetry, elevate
manners, made men happy or miserable.
and fixed for themselves a place in his
torv. Many of their best and all of their
most fashionable representatives were
there. They waited in their carriages on
side streets until the beautiful pageant
of Menus had passed, and then they pro
ceeded to the hall, the nominal Occa-
sion being the reception of R. K, where peO-
pie from every State in the Union and
IRON nearly every country under the sun
had come TO see them. They were all
chaperOned, Of course; for French and
Spanish ideas on the subject are firmly
fixed here. over 1000 people stood in tue
street to look at the ladies as they arriN ed
and entered the hall. They began to ar
rive about O'Clock, ana an hour later
there was a tremendous jam of people at
the door, so that the ticket takers were
compelled for a time TO refuse admlttance
TO some of the late arrivals. The capacity
Of the hall for dancing is about 1000. but
the number of people in the plac at one
time was nearly 5000, making it impOss
Bile TO form sets. But few Of the guests
had come TO dance. The native peope
came chiefly to be present.
ed to Rex, and tie stran-
gers came for the purpose already
mentioned. Sons of the ladies turned
away from the place without entering at
all. rather than have the discomfort OF
being In the great crowd. American girls,
natives Of New Orleans, were there, OF
course, and they had pre-eminently the
charm that belongs to Southern women;
but their beauty was the beauty OF
the individual, and not like that
of the Creoles--the beauty OF
class. 1t is because of their attractions
as a class that the feminine CreOles are
famous. Any one OF hundred in the
great assembly might have been selected
as a type; and, briefly, their Characters
tics are dark brown or black hair, brown
eyes, intensely brilliant, a clear, soft,
bright compassionate least in young peo-
pie, and a form which ThOrwaldsen would
have chosen of all others for his Venus.
But this is not all. They have voices that
would make flute sound harsh, with
slight accent something more than agree
able TO persons living farther North. And
in conduct, although as gentle as the
breeze from the Gulf, they have latent
spirit which, when occasion requires,
transforms them into herOines. They ap-
peared like this to the stranger at the re-
ceptlOn last night, but they are seen at
their best in their homes, for home means
something TO them like strong family ties.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29
A FEMININE WILLIAM TELL.
a Marvellous Lass on the Pacific sIop

Marvellous Lass on the Pacific slope.
Miss Lillian F. Smith, the phenomenal
rifle shot, says the San Francisco ChrOnt-
Gle, is plump little maiden of Is years.
She is about five feet in height and sturdy
in build. Her face is remarkably pleas
ant, round and smiling, and lightened up
with pair of Jwinkling, deep gray eyes.
She gives one the impression that she is
frOlicsome lass, who would never willing
ly or knowingly hurt a living creature,
rather than a young woman who has
killed wildcats, squirrels, cOttOn-tail and
jack rabbits by the score, and quails, red
heads, mallards and young ducks by the
thousand. At an early age Miss Lillian
displayed a remarkable propensity to kill
all that came within her reach, and at
years of age she manufactured for herself
a bow gun, with which she slaughtered
all the little birds about the house.
show did you me to be a sh0tp
asked a Chronicle reporter Of her the
other day.
81 really don't know. 1t came natural
to me. / have brother who is rather a
good pigeon shot. Perhaps that induced
me to emulate him, and that may be the
reason. Oh, no, never have been out of
this State. l was born up in COleville,
Mono county, and when / was quite
small we moved down TO the San Joaquin
menced shooting. No, am not a wing
shot and l don't like to shoot, because
am afraid it will iDjure my rife shooting,
though, of course, 1 sometimes shoot at
pigeons, as l did the other day at BIRDS
Point. You know / made some u hat of
good score il Sacramento last October at
the Agricultural Park. l smashed "a
clay pigeons out of 100. They were sprung
from the fourth notch.D
Have you tried to get up any
matchesT'
Haven't If" answered the ambitious
shot with lively emphasis. 81 have chal-
lenged every bOdy-Carver, BOgardus and
the rest of them-and they won't take any
notice of girl. declare it's too bad. l
have not tried to get up a match in town.
Your paper said was anxious to arrans g
a match with JacOby; but Jacoby won't
shoot. No one WILL" and the appearance
of something like a pout was plainly Visi-
bic on the disappointed face.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29
FORECASTS FOR GIRLS.
How Wishes May be Fulfilled or Loves
Tale FOretold,


Perhaps your affections are still Olsen
gagged, says Belgrd, ia, but you wish to be-
stow them on one who will return like fer
like. In this case there are plenty of
wishing chairs, wishing gates, ETC., scat
tered through the country. a wish
breathed near them, and kept secret, will
sooner or later have its fultilment.
There is no need to travel to the Lake
country or to Finchale Priory, near Dur
ham (wheTe there is a wishing chair; if
you see piece OF old iron or horseshoe on
your path take it up, spit on 1t and throw
il over yOIr LETT shoulder, framing wish
at the same time. Keep this wish a Sc
cret, and il Will come TO pass in due time.
Ii you meet piehald horse nothing can
be more lucky. Utter your wish, and
whatever it NAV be you Will have it be-
fore the week be out.
In Cleveland the following method of
divining whether girl will be married or
not IS resOrted to: Take a tumbler of
water from a stream which runs south
ward, borrow the wedding-ring of some
gude-wife and suspend 1t by hair of your
head over the glass of water. holding the
hair between the finger and thumb. If
the ring bit against the side of the glass,
the holder will die an old maid if it turn
quickly round, she will be married once;
if slowly, twice. Should the ring strike
the side of the glass more than three
times after the holder has pronounced the
name of her lover, there will be lengthy
cOurtship, and nothing mOre-''she will
be cOurted to dead" as they say in Lin
cOlnshire; if less frequently, the affair
will be broken off; ana ifthere is no strik-
ing at all, it will never come on.
IL you look at the first new moon Of the
year through a silk handkerchief which
has never been washed, as many moons
as you see through it (the threads multi
plying the visiOn), SO many years must
lass before your marriage.
Would you ascertain the color of your
future husbands hair? Follow the prac-
tice of the German girls. Between the
hours of IL and II at night on st. An
drew's eve a maiden must stand at the
house door, take hold of the latch, and
say three times: "Gentle love, il thou
lowest me show myself" She must then
open the door quickly and make rapid
grasp through it into the darkness, when
she will find in her hand a lock of her flu
tuFp his hands hair
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29
NO APPLE-sA>s FOR SAMUEL
Farmer TiId~n Loses Two Choice Bar
rels While ~Itepipg Heavily.

rels White sleeping Heavily.
Mr.. Samuel J. Tilden, the sage specu-
lator Of Gramercy Park, says rhe New
York Journal, was sprS ly walking about
his farm at Yonkers yesterday morning
with a dOuble-barrelled shotgun. The
night before some people crawled through
the window of his smOke-hOuse, and stole
two barrels OF apples for sauce which
Farmer Tilden had locked up there for
safety. Mr.. Tilden was sound asleep at
the time, having done a hard DAYS
plOughing, and did not hear the maraud-
ers as they were making away with his
apples. 1, is supposed that Farmer Til
denis dog was chlorofOrmed, as one Of Mr..
Tllden's speeches, in which il is believed
hottie of chlorOiorm was wrapped up,
was found lying under the nose of the AMI
NAL.
There is no clew to the thieves. The
foot tracks, however. correspond to those
Of a Democratic heller who used to Gene
To the YOnkers farm last summer to urge
Mr.. TIlden to run for the Presidency.
Some say that the outrage serves Mr..
Tilden right Tor having apples when his
neighbors had none.
Mr.. Tilden intends to sit up nights
with his remaining nine barrels of apples
and guard them with his shotgun.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29

collapsed do not know. 1t broke with
out warning, and caught even the enter
prising real estate men Of Belknap ard
Thompson's Falls 50 suddenly that they
were unable to save little more than their
necks- some of them having a desperate
burned down.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29

Mr.J. B. Franz, proprietor of the St.
James Hotel, Mansfield, o., is in luck on
account Of the purchase of ticket in the
Louisiana State Lottery. Several weeks
since MIR. Franz, who has previously
drawn small sums in the lottery. invested
in one whole ticket and five one-tfth tick
cts, paving $40 tor the same. Yesterday
FEB. 10) the drawing took place and Mr..
Franz received a telegram notifying him
that his whole ticket had drawn $1,000 in
cash, which sum Is subject TO his order
Mans eld ( 0hfo) LS1erot, FEB. IL.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29
TEE TRIP or THE BILL.

Fron Northern tide
To bayou wide
With homage meet
The old bell greeti
Uncovered stand
Through all the land
while chimes peal out
Its royal route!
Ring. BALTIMORE
THy Ches'p axe shore
b. nObler guest
Wa never prrst.
with loyal pride
Swell free End wide
Thy chorus grand
MY MARY laud!"
King. W shingtani
The bell tina won
Triumphant fame
On fr, cd lm's name
Waits at thy gate
IN sovereign state.
with anthem sweet
Columbia greet.
hing, Richm Ond. ringi
warm tribute bring,
10 lniOn Ol
Where patriots bold
% preston spurned
With words tn { burned
From SumteF's strand
To PlymOuth's sand.
Atlanta. ring,
Proud steeples swing
With wclcome note
From braZel throat
The bell "a ute
Whose lips, nov mute,
Babe tyrants cpWer
To freedoms power.
Ring. New Orleansi
Fair queen Of queens,
The centuries share
Inv reverend prayer.
God guard the bell
Which rang - well
Our natl MS birth
And AannOOd's worth.
-EGlLIcs Bruce. "a HaFDsr's Bear.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29

HERAr. the centre of threatened hostlli les
in the East, has for years past teen the gate
through which Manchester cOttOns and rali-
ware have poured into Central Asia TO crowd
out Russian goods. 10000 900 worth CT such
wares pass ug yearly through Bnkhara alone.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29

of the virtues Of the GREAT GEORGIA
BLOOD REMEDY are the facts that it is
prepared according 10 the original formula
used in Houston county over fifty years
ago, and that It never falls to effect q
cure. ASK your druggist for Il.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29

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