The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-07
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reIHdiheu several days before discovered. Last
week, While the house was being repaired, five
eggs supposed to have been laid fifty years ago.
were found where the hen had been imprisoned.
Unpopular lecturers will leave Rays Crossing
on the programme when they hear of this.
THE first iron made in New Jersey was at q
place just south of Trenton from the limonite
or bog ore that abounds in that section. and the
first forgemaster was Gov Lewis Morris, who
came to Monmouth from Barbados before the
year 1880 When the revolution came on the
iron men had grown skillful enough to make
| cannon and shells for the Contnentas. also bis
| shallow pans in which to evaporate sea waite
and supply salt when the foreign article was Gu
Off
| The steamship Etruria, which made the voy
| age between Queenstown and Sandy Hook il
| June, in days, hour and IS minutes, has ar
| rived at New York after another quick trip
| which occupied days, hours and Is minutes
and the weather was not favorable for fast sail
| ing either. She encountered head winds anC
! frequent gales, and Capt. Cook, her commander
| is confident that, under more favorab BILE circum
stances, she would have eclipsed the June rec
ord and reduced the time to six days.
DANIEL GREENLEAF THOMPSON, who has beer
chosen to succeed Mr.. Palmer as president OF
the Nineteenth Century club, filed the same
position with tact and ability in the winter of
1886 81, when Mr.. Palmer was in Europe He
IS lawyer, about 40 years of age, and shared
Mr. Palmers views in many respects, while
hardly so much an extremist in some lines of
thought He stands high in his profession, and
is one of the best read and most widely Guilt
waited members of the New York bar,
THE coolest spot on earth where regular
thermometrical observations have been made,
extending over a considerable space of time, is
Sald TO ne Verkhoyansk, place In Eastern ST.
IBERIA, situated in latitude 871So at an elevation
OF $50 feet above the sea The record of four
years gives the following averages for the tenn
perature of the different months: January
-o8o; February, -4d'; March, ---32o; April,
50; May 32o; June, 490; July, 80; August.
44o; September 800: October, DO; November,
-4O'; December. $50.
ABOUT MONTH AGO." says the Partisan cor
respondent of the New York Times, three
Austrian employees on railroad, going from
beioVa INTO ROumelia, were carried off in full
daylight by a band of brigands. The authori-
ties did not dare take any steps for their re-
covery, knowing that such vigOr would be i'm
mediate and instant death to the victims Diplo-
matte negotiations were commenced and the
hnal sum has been stipulated 20, 000f each. and
the privilege of keeping all the money, jewels
ana valuable papers captured. At the same time
Baron Hrsch and others Of this city will foot
the bill One of the unfortunate men has now
been through the same experience for third
Time, and he seems to en- joy it."
THE prince of Wales has been formally in
stalled as grand prior Of the Order of the Hos
pital of St John of Jerusalem in England, which
was Incorporated under that title by royal
to be the sovereign head and patron. The or
der has for many years been known to the Brit
lsh public as philanthropic body of high stand
ing, and more especially during the past few
years, from the extensive operations OF its am
0ulance department, Familiarity known as the
St John ambulance association. 1t is said that
the whole scheme of its operations is, as far as
possible, by adaptation to the requirements of
modern times, the perpetuation of the no sptal-
Ter work of the famous Order of st. John of
Jerusalem.
THE MARCHIoNEss OF VARELA has been muir
dered in sensational manner in Madrid
Neighbors heard cries and groans coming from
her flat in house in the center of the city, but
some time elapsed before the police were sum
moned. They found the countess living dead
with several stabs on her face and neck and
with her skirts on fire and her legs badly
burned The assassin had poured petroleum on
her clothing and set it on fire. In the kitchen
was the servant girl, bound, but uuhurt, and
large bulldog. The servant SAID the ASA ssin
had knocked her down and stunned her. The
dead woman's jewellery was upon her person,
and no money or valuable papers were missing
No one seems to have thought of suspecting the
servant of the crime.
RECENTLY, Capt. Newall Gray discovered. a
little distance from Capt. A. w. Gray's wharf,
at Boothbay. Me-, the big fin of an ocean sun
fish. He speedily transferred himself to a row.
boat and in a little time caught the fellow by
his nose with his boat hook The skin was so
tough he could not penetrate it, and after a
hard fight the fish escaped. He was probably
600 pounds In weight. This fish is peculiar in
being little but head, and two immense fins
about where the neck should be, and the most
of the body is wanting. They float la lily on
the surface, and take the name from basking
in the sun. Their food is jelly fish, SO abundant
on the Maine coast The livers are very large
and yield large quantity of OIL which COM
mands high price as a remedy for sprains and
burns.
ONE of the strangest clubs in the world has
Just been organized in Mexico. 1t is composed
of journalists who have been imprisoned for
political offences; and the reptive standing of
length of the sentences they have served, or
rather of the periods during which they hav,
languished in jail; for unless the government of
Mexico is grossly libeled the formality of a
trial is commonly dispensed with in the case of
editors who have abused the privilege of free
speech. In determining a members relative
position in the new association the severity of
hts experience of prison life is taken into &C
count; and this sometimes modified his stand
ing. giving him higher rank than others who
have served longer, but under less distressing
conditions
A CITIZEN of Glenn's Falls, N. Y, in writing
to the New York Tribune about the employ
ment of electricity as a substitute for hanging
criminals asks why the same agency lis not
applied to the brute creatures as well, that
undergo day by day the most horrible agones
to furnish the vlands for Stomachs Is
there any reason for knocking a heavy animal
in the brain with an ak to stun 1t or cutting it
by the neck to bleed slowly to death. If science
offers the more kindly and humane means in
one OF its newly discovered agents And how
many blows and cuts go past their aim and
must be repeated before the animal succumbs
The horrible butchery of animals as executed
to-day must appeal to every feeling man as an
appalling barbarism among the humane and
benevolent tendencies of our century"
SALMON, it is reported, are likely to become
extinct in the lyme England. An inquiry into
the matter recently instituted at Tyne
mouth and at public meeting the following
figures regarding the annual take of salmon in
the Tyne were furnished; 1870. $4,000: 1873,
5000; 1873, 4800J 1881, $1,000; 1886, IS, 900;
1897, $1,000. The chairman said the decrease
arose from one or more of five causes-namely,
everlasting, improper fishing, river pollution.
obstruction TO the passing of the fish, or the
ton. such as the otter, pike or birds. None of
these quite account for the diminution of fish
The deep dredging has increased the volume of
pure sea water in the river, and so diminished
pollution. The natural elements OF destruction
have not increased and the fishermen stoutly
protest that there has been no over fishing"
THE LoUNGER" writes in the Critic: 1.-THE
question has often been asked Can manuscripts
be insured? / have heard it said, with great
positveness. that they cannot, but see by an
interview with one of the Centurys editorial
staff, printed in the EUeniilg Telegram, that
they have certain amount of insurable value
If a manuscript is destroyed for which the
editor has paid $500, the author is asked to re-
write 1t, il he has the notes or can remember
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