The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-28
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| 50,000.000 gallons
TIE Prince of Wales was so delighted with
the Hungarian national dance, the Csardas that
he has resolved to transplant it to British SOIL
and IL Will be introduced at fashionable balls
| the c)ming season.
THE st. Louis Mercantile Library, which was
founded in 1916, has just had completed new
building at cost of nearly S4OO,0oo The read
ing room is said to be the finest, I'll ough not the
| largest, in America.
THE winter in Washington promises to he a
brilliant one. Five cabinet houses will be open
during the season, with the probability of a
| rosebud party at the house of the Attorney Gen
eral to introduce his pretty daughter.
Mrs. HARRISON is the authority for the state
ment that the President elect is blood relation
of the Hon. Jefferson Davis of Mississippl The
Harrison and Davis families lived near each
| other in Virginia, and there were several inter
| marriages.
Mrs. SMITH of Grand Rapids, Mich, was
recently severely injured by the sudden closing
of folding bed which she was reclining
| She was completely shut in by the bed, and it
| became necessary to pry it apart before she
| could be released.
| THERE is bootblack in the New York city
| hall who is quite a curiosity. He has one arm
| off below the elbow and wears a wooden limb
| strapped tightly to the stump. To this wooden
| arm liz fastened a brush and he uses IL as
| -
| manning.
Mrs, LAMADRID, of 1-cent lunch stand fame
| proposes to give /, 500 New York newsboys
Thanksgiving dinner Mrs. Frank Leslie will
| help Mrs. Lamadrid wait on the boys. They
| boiled ham, three kinds of vegetables, mince
| pie, cake, fruit and coffee.
| New YORK COMPANY has obtained of tbs
| Dominican government valuable concessions
and large subsidy for building 100 miles of
railroad between San Domingo city and the
| City of Azua. 1t is very healthful country
along the line of the road, and the intention is
| to boom it as winter resort.
| INDIANS in the United States last year cult
waited 227, 265 acres of le nd and raised 724.95s
bushels of wheat, 934972 bushels of corn, 512 1877
| bushels of oats and barley, 52i.O10 bushels of
vegetables, and 101 1928 tons of hay They also
| owned 35S, 334 horses and mules II 401 head of
| CATTLE ~. AL swine and 4, III ,273 sheep.
UPWARD of 100000 wreaths were placed on
| the graves of the Vienna Central Cemetery dur
| ing recent week. These wreaths are saved
| and sold at auction, the iron and brass wire in
| them being smelted and manufactured into
| wire. This wire of the dead" as it is called
represents an average value Of $4,000 forms a
| year.
TIE labor vote in the United States will
hardly exceed 10000. From official returns.
Streeter, the union labor candidate for President
| received $500 votes in Wisconsin a. 500 in Mch;'
gan. 10, coo in Missouri IS 900 in Kansas, % 900
| in Texas, 5000 in Arkansas, and 26CO in In
| diana The vote in the other states was very
| light.
APPARENTLY, there is no giving way in the
| purpose of wealthy residents of New York to
| maintain the reputation of the Metronolitan
| opera house as prosperous temple of art. The
| opera box owned by her grace the Duchess of
| Marlborough, was lately sold for $1,000 which
is understood be $500 above the price orig
| nally paid.
Tar rt IF
| the invitation of the United States to send a
representative to the American International
| Congress, that will meet in Washington on Oct
| 2, 1889, the principal object of which is to dis
cuss the most feasible method of reaching an
| American customs union. and some other inter
national mercantile combinations
Lieut.. Col. E. H. Manningham Butler a very
well known officer in the British army, and So
! cety generally, was killed the other night at
| Woolwch. He had been to London and was
| returning. 1t is supposed that he had fallen
| asleep. and on awakening left the railway car
| riage by the wrong door. He stepped upon the
| track and was cut to pieces by passing train.
THERE is much disappointment among Cana
| dian contractors over the award by the govern
| ment of the Gallops rapids contract, am ounting
| to $500, 900, and the Saulte Ste Marie canal CON
| tract. S1,250,0O0, to a syndicate composed
| largely of United States contractors. 1t is said
| bill will be introduced in parliament excluding
American contractors from constructing gov
eminent works in Canada.
A RECENT English invention is corrugated
| rollei steel wagon tire for use in towns where
street cars run The object of the invention is
| to assist the wheel to get out OF the tramlire,
and thus avoid skidding of the wheels and the
wrenching of the vehicles and horses. The in
vention consists of what may. perhaps be de
! scribed as a series of sloping projections on
| each side of the feoes of the wheel.
| THE great oil fields of New York and Pennsyl-
vania are becoming rapidly exhausted. The
former supply OF 10000 barrels day has fall en-
| off to 1900 barrels a day The wonderful
| Bradford field. of Pennsy vania, that has pro
duced 10 000, 900 barrels of oil, is now practi-
4 cally dry. About 500 rev wells are now being
1 sunk in Pennsy lyana, Ohio aud West Virginia
| in the hope of finding new oil basins.
AT THE marriage of Dr. William May and
| Miss Amy Draper in New York last week, the
| groom went against the usual custom by having
| number of married men for ushers. When
| expostueted with, he very simply aud seriously
explained They are my best friends. Can I
| not have them around me now, because tley
| have already done what am crazy to dor''
And it was very fashionable wedding, too
THE VISIT of the Emperor William to Rome
and Naples cost King Humbert and the Italian
government upward OF ECO, 900. This includes
| the expenses of the naval and military reviews.
| The alterations in the Quirinal and the decora-
| ton and furnishing of the emperors rooms cost
| tNO)0. The Queen of Italy has commanded
| that the rooms occupied by the German en-
peror at the Quirinal snail remain in exactly the
| state in which he left them.
| The people of Memphis. Tenn, had a lively
| experience the other day when q circus visited
| their town. The show was attached for debt
| and two lions, gorilla, a camel and several
| trick horses were levied upon. During the pro-
| ceedings in court the gorilla got loose and ran
| out into the street. where he scattered the
| pedestrians right and left. He finally took pos
session of livery stable and held it against all
| corners until a visiting cowboy captured him
| with q lasso.
| TIE Brooklyn Eagle recently declared that its
| city had the eighth wonder of the world in the
| person of ON Irshman who has lived there for
| twenty years, and who refuses to register and
! vote because, he says, he Is foreigner and has
no right to interfere in American politics Since
| then the Eagle has received letter from a man
| who signs himself AN Englishman in his ssth
| year, and who says: The writer of this has
lived in America fifty six years, and has never
voted, being OF the opinion that it would be for
the interest of foreiga ers, well as natives il
| the voting was left entirely TO the latter"
The United States supreme court practically
| evaded the question raised by Pittsburg yes.
| sci owner who claimed the right to sell liulor
| on his boat without license from the state of
1 Pennsylvania. His claim was that liquor being
an article of commerce, and his boat engaged in
interstate commerce, congress alone had the
exclusive right to regulate its sale on the boat
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