Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-16
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vi DOHHOI W any place OF duluseueAt-
MISS FRANCES LORD of England, says that
the best paving matter to write in London Is
religious tracts. Twenty-Five dollars for
one or a lew hundred words is the usual price
paid,
THE Chinese code of morality does not say:
wives, obey your husbands" but "WIves,
respect your husbands" This. it will be seen,
is very much more difficult of compliance
than the first version.
DoN'F blame and censure those unfortunate
peoples who are forever talking and Dragging
about their lineage and distinguished ante
cedents. 1t is the only thing in many cases
that they have TO be proud OF and 10 Drag
about.
THE Bouapartists of the Jerome group are
thinking of adopting Prince Louis Bonaparte,
younger brother of Prince Victor. as the heir
apparent to Prince Napoleon, because he has
been dutiful son, has open and engaging
manners likely to render him popular ana
resembles more distinctly than Prince Victor
MS lllustrlOus great uncle.
HAM WEST, being intoxicated, was ar
rested and locked up in the Luling tTexl
Jail the other evening. During the night some
one broke open he Jail door and stole the
sleeping prisoners money and watch. West
was round all right IN the morning, but he
severely blames the town authorities for the
poor protection they furnish their prisoners
eign steamships running between the United
states and various ports in Europe. Some of
these cost not more than $25O,OO0, and others
cost as much 81. 500 900 each, so that rough
estimate would put the capital invested at
not less than 100000, 900. In these vessels
there Is a total of not less than 10000 officers
and men constantly employed.
A LEADING JAPANESE FIRM of importers
will close their Boston branch Immediately
because, as they say, Japanese hand made
bronze and hand-painted porcelain ware
cannot compee with cheap German, French
and Connecticut limitations. They state,
moreover, that a lot of cheap stuff is now
made in Japan to satisfy the big dry goods
and job lot trade, and that they will not
handle the trash.
THE town of Everett, Mass, in an econom-
ical mood voted that the horses of the fire de-
partment should earn their hay and oats by
working on the highway between fires, in
stead of loafng in the engine house. SO, the
other day, when an alarm of fire was rung
in, they were nearly mile from the engine
house, drawing gravel cart. By the time
they had got back to the house and had drawn
the engine to the scene OF the ire, the build
ing had burned down.
ENGINEER SQUIREs, of the Western and At
lantic railroad, says that while speeding
along through Georgia the other day at forty
five miles an hour he saw dog on the track
wagglng his tail at his master, who stood
leaning up against wire fence swapping his
fingers and calling to the dog TO get off the
track. Before the dog really knew what it
was all about the locomotive struck him and
flung him against his master with such force
that he was doubled up and knocked through
the fence. The man was not hurt much. The
dog was killed.
THE memorial to Highland Mary has taken
definite shape 1t appears the proposal origl-
mated with the Glasgow Cowal Society. who
erection of a memorial to Highland Mary at
her birthplace, Dunoon. in GoWal. The site
they have offered-the rocky ridge at the Cas-
tie Hill, between the road and the seals very
prominent and the memorial, when erected,
will be seen from great distance, and all the
Clyde steamers VIII pass WITHIN stones
throw of it. The subject and the site alike
demand handsome structure.
THE triple qualification of the conjolnt
Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons of Edin-
burgh and Glasgow has just been obtained by
two ladies-ATiss J. Mead and Miss e. Little
wood. This is the first time that women have
been placed on the MEDICAL Register by
Scotch diploma. Five ladies also presented
themselves for the October prelim nary ex-
animation IN arts in Edinburgh and all passed
successfully in all the su bjects they undertook
Nine ladies have also just graduated at the
Roy al University Of ireland, one OF them
Miss Mary STRENGTHENING carried off first
class exhibition at the degree examination.
THE other day young man and young
woman applied to Rev. George s. Bell, pastor
| of the Presbyterian Church in Wrightsville,
Pa, to he made man and wife. They pre-
sented a legal certificate from the Clerk Of
Lancaster County Court. under the ms rrlaRe
license act, But as Mr.. Bell lives in Wrights-
vile, York county. Lancaster county GER
tifcate could not be recognized. The next
best thing to do W as to go on the long bridge
which spans the Susquehanna river between
Wrightsvllle and Columbia. far enough TO the
east to get into Lancaster county. They
started for the bridge, followed by a crowd of
witnesses, and. having entered far enough
the marriage ceremony was performed.
THE field for women physicians in India ap-
pears to be widening. Lord Dufferin has ap-
pointed DR.. Marion Fairweather to take
charge Of the Agra Womeu's Medical College
at which there are sixty-fve native students.
She will also take charge of the department.
OF obstetrics. general clinics for women ana
children, acute surgery and superlntend the
general hospital for women. 1t goes without
saying that DR.. Fairweather is a woman OF
unusual ability. Six years of miss
work in India was in her case followed by q
course in Bellevue Hospital, New York from
which she was graduated trained nurse
Subsequently she berame a student in the
Chicago Medical College, from which she was
graduated with honors. She now gives up
lucrative practice for her work in the East
A PLAIN Puritan of Boston, who has been
travelling III lfINOlous Europe, mas THIS to
about solemn subject: II was amused with
some verv old stained glass windows which
admit a dim, religious light at the Milan
Cathedral and are supposed to illustrate
scenes in the Old esiament. 1t NAV NOT
have been reyerential, but | had to laugh TO
see Cain, in pair of green pantaoons kill
ing Abel, who was dressed in short Jacket
Of yellow stuff. i regretted to see that Eve.
when driven out of Eden by the archanRei
with the flaming sword, WAS so frivolous as to
array herself for the occasion in q purple
overskirt, cut very decollettc, while Adam
wore a blue hat anu pink ribbons There
may be authority Tor these represen atiops-T
do not know-but they were a surprise to
me-"
HELEN HUNTS monument is not the piled
stone which covers her grave in the noun
tains. 1t is the Ramona school for Indian
girls at santa Fe, New Mexico, founded in
honor Of the woman whose imprisoned story
OF 'Ramoua" woke the nation to a sense of
the merciless wrongs done by the Argonants
to the Indians OF California. For 200 wears
the Apaches, in all respects the cogeners in
the south Of the terrible Sioux in the north.
held at bay the soldiers Of Spain, Mexico and
the United States. With what skill and
ferocity they fought; how they marched
without water food or rest: how terribly
they struck. and swiftly disappeared; how
their Insignificant number kept one of our
great Territories unpeopled and shut our
bravest DrospectOrs and miners out from one
of the richest mineral areas of the continent
the people of the United States too we'll
know There was fitness in the thought N