The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-11
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fine polish. Al least TINS is the yarn tnaJ cOuleS
from old Missouri.
A STATEMENT has been made recently that
Novelist Howells has the plates of his books
made in Edinburgh because he can get the work
done cheaper there. IT appears that Mr.. HowellS
motive is not economy, but mainly to secure an
English copyright. At the present time several
Boston firms are making plates for English pub
fishers.
THE city of Boston has appropriated $4,000
to try a system of manual training in the public
schools 1t is TO be tested in twelve grammar
schools, six for boys and six for girls, and the
result win have an important influence on the
future of industrial education. The test is TO be
so systematic that there can be no doubt OF It's
success
DowN in Harper county, Kansas, a county
seat election was held some time ago, in which
Harper came out ahead by 300 votes. The citi-
zenS of Anthony, the competing town, have
organized Winchester Rifle Club of 100 mem
bers and declare their intention to contest the
election Kansas is not Southern, not a Dem
ocratc State.
JUDGE ZEPHANIAH w BUNcE. Of st. Clair
county, Michigan. was born in Connecticut On
Nov H. 1881 When he was 80 years old he went
West and grew up with the country. 1t is said
that at one time he knew personally every white
man In Michigan. His home is now in Detroit,
and he is apparently as clear headed as ever, ana
by no means feeble.
IT is SAID that the big cattle ranches of the
far West and Southwest are breaking up. A
year ago the Nobrara Land and Cattle Com
pany, which has become bankrupt, refused
81 1000 for its property. Instead or the Dig
companies swallowing the little ones IL is
thought that the tendency is toward the break
ing up of the big ranches into smaller ones.
For several years billiard Brewins, blind
man of Indianapolis, and his wife have been de-
pendent on charity for support. She was the
adopted child of rich Pennsylvanians, who;
when she married a poor young man, would
have nothing to do with her. The other day
she heard that her foster parents had died, leav-
ing her estate valued at nearly 81, 100000
A BUFFALO IN. " PROTECTIVE COMMITTEE
has collected altogether nearly $4,000 owed
poor women. 1t was mainly an aggregate of
small sums due female wage earners, and was
the work of the Womans Educational and In
dustrial Union. which defends with the advice
of able lawyers the rights of weak and friend
less members of the sex whenever assailed.
THE new Berlin school for the study of Orien-
| tai languages has rs students, forty Of whom
are preparing for the diplomatic and colonial
service. There are about as many who expect
to be teachers and naturaliStS or explorers, the
remainder being merchants clerks. The Arabic
and Chinese classes are most numerouSly at
tended, the Japanese and Turkish coming
next.
AUGUSTUS ARTHUR PERCIvAL, keeper Of the
town hall of Chelsea, London, was arrested for
breaking up political meeting in the hall by
turning the hose on it. The defense was that
the meeting was turbulent that he had to
take that course to keep he hall from being de-
strOyed. The floor, 1t was testified, was half an
| inch deep with water before the stream from
| the hose drove the crowd out.
THE Iowa Agricultural College at its late com
| mencement graduated class of forty-three
young ladies and gentlemen who will enter in
dustrial and professional callings as follows:
Nine farmers and horticultnristS, twelve veteri-
narians, six civil engineers, three mechanical
| engineers, three lawyers, three teachers, two
| chemists one pharmacist. one dentist, one ply
stefan and one general business man.
A CORRESPONDENT writing from Russia says
that in the dining room of one of the large cafes
| of Moscow there is a pool of fresh water in
which fish of various kinds and sizes swim about.
Any patron of the restaurant who may wish
| course of fish for his dinner goes to the pool,
| picks out the particular fish which strikes his
| fancy, and in a jfy the waiter has captured it
with dip net and sent it out to the chef.
| THEY tell in Dover, Me-, that two strong tenn
! perance women one day came upon man lying
drunk by the roadside, while his wife sat by his
side knitting She had been walking home with
| him when he collapsed. One of the ladies asked
the faithful wife: What would become of him
| if he should die in this conditiong" II declare, -
said the knitter, Il don't know what his destiny
| would be in the future, but he seems to be hav-
| ing good time now"
In New York city, during the year, there we're
| filed 2,126 plans for 1855 buildings, the actual
cost being S66 522, 800 or about 100000 in ex-
| cess of last years operations. This does not
include in the total cost some of the above plans
| upon which the architects failed to record the
| estimated cost. and others which announce that
| the buildings are to be erected by days work
| These defective plans will doubtless raise the
| figures for the entire year to S67 100000.
NILE. ALICE of Paris, when the officers of
| the law recently carried off all her furniture to
satisfy the demands of creditors. rescued from
| their hands pair of huzzarS boots and an Of
1 ficer's uniform that were in their plumber, and
| refused to give them up or say To whom they
| belonged. Taken to court, she persisted in her
| refusal to disclose the name of her military
! lover, saying that she would not bring into OBJ
! loquy i'll these days of scandal an officer of the
| French army" The court reserved its decision
| and she kept the clothes
PETER BENNETT, the Plymouth miser, who
was robbed of $4,000 the other day, came hon
estly by his love of boarding His mother is
said to have been professional beggar and to
| have tramped over New England, taking espe-
cial care to visit the towns in in which the diff
| ferent State Legislatures were in session. Once
| at Augusta, Me, she told such pitful tale of
| the poverty OF her sick son, who had mine
small children, and nary a pertaty in the pot =
| that new member headed a subscription list
with s., and succeeded in getting 500 more
| from his fellows At her death she left about
| $4,000 most of which she willed to Peters
wife.
| ONE DAY last week, says the Kosciusko Miss J
Messenger, a demented negro boy, about II
| years of age, wandered away from his home in
| the country and reached Kosciusko. The Meth
| odist steeple now being finished, 100 feet high
| first excited his wonder. and he made bee line
| for it. When first seen by the workmen he had
| climbed upward on the steeple to a dizzy height
] near 100 feet from the earth. with a bucket on
| his arm. The men below yelled to him to come
| down. His answer, I'm gwine to heaven and
| kerry God some butter" somewhat SURPRISED
| them. An Irshman, with commendable pres
ence of mind, halooed to him that he had gone
| up wrong, come down and go up the other
| side, which advice brought the would be angel
| to solid earth, where he was kept.
The Bolivian government has given to an
American the exclusive right to navigate the
| river DeSaguadero by steam Lake Titicaca is 49,
800 feet above the sea, and the river DesagIardero
| is it's only outlet. The river issues from the
| southern extremity of the lake, and flows
| through the mountains 1870 miles t. Lake Aul.
| logas, which is little lower than Titicaca and
| has no outlet at all II appears that the bust
| ness of working the ancient mines in that coun
| try has been developed, and it is perhaps to
| bring to market ores from such mines farther
| in the Andes that the right to use steam on the
| Desag1iadero is desired The beginning of the
| river is a hundred miles or so distant from the
| railroad terminus, but little steamers brought
/ piecemea over the mountains have long been
| running on Titicaca.
THOUGH the appearance of artificial precious
|