The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-05
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VIVA DUCKS can go l20 lower and come out on
| top
IT is just century since the first fuchsia was
introduced into Europe. Since that time tIav-
| elers in the mountains of tropical America have
| discovered numerous varieties and brought
back specimens Now there fifty distinct
| species known.
VERY new and very French idea is the din
ing room wholly separate from the house.
reached through covered passageway and all
over glass, and so shaped and finished that it
can be turned into tent upon the very smallest
provocation of fine weather.
THE American Pet Dog Club, of New York,
which was founded about year ago, has gone
to court to restrain several gentlemen from Civ
ing their club the same title. Among the mem-
beers OF the club are Mrs. Henry E. Abbey, Mrs
Dion Boucicault, Mrs. Frank Leslie and the Bar
onesS Blanc.
A LAWSUIT in New York has developed the
fact that after the owner of a lot in Cypress
Hills cemetery has buried deceased member of
his own family in it he is absolutely forbidden
by a law under which the cemetary'is incorpo-
rated. TO ever transfer sell the lot outside of
his family"
ALL the states elect congressman on Nov. 6,
except Oregon, which elected June g. and Yer
mcnt, which elected Sept l. and Maine which
elected Sept. 10. The electors for President will
meet at their several state CAPITALS on Wednes-
day Dec. 5, and cast their ballots for President
duu VICE PRESIDENT.
Miss WHEELocK, of Milwaukee founder of
the first purchasing agency of the west, is
among the busiest of women For now her
business is such that each day she and her
agents buy and ship tons of goods, and in addi-
ton she teaches whist class, and has had in
TWO years or less 1893 pupils
DAVID JENNINGS is the latest perpetual motion
lunatic. He lives in Lyons, N Y, aud COM
menced with youth, health and fortune twenty
years ago to develop his insane idea. He has
spent his intellect, his youth and $50 600 and is
precisely as near making something out of moth
ing as he was when he started
Two JAPANESE GENTLEMEN now in Chicago
are on their return from England, where they
have been examining and purchasing machinery
for cotton and woollen mills. They expect to
employ about 500 persons in their mills While
IN England one of them was made member of
the institution of Mechanical Engineering
BUILDING BLOCKS made of cornccb form the
object of new Italian patent. The cobs are
pressed by machinery into forms similar to
brlcks, and held together by wire They are
made water-tight by soaking with tar. These
mouids are very light and strong. Their
brlck and they can never get damp.
SENATOR DAWES celebrated his 7ad
birthday at Pittsfield, Mass Tuesday afternoon.
His friends sent him profusion of flowers. and
one lady sent him large birthday cake sur
rounded by seventy-two chrysanthemums The
senior senator, who has been in one or the other
branch OF congress for thirty years, is in excel
lent health. and does not appear as old as he is
by ten years, The congratulations he received
were very hearty.
AT st. Mandrler, near Todon, a sarcophagus
has been discovered with silver plate on which
are engraved the words: ''Sagittaveras Tu
Dominic, cor meum caritate tua" Above this
inscription is also engraved heart transpierced
with two arrows and there is bishop kneeling
and holding in either hand his inter and his
crOZier. The tomb is supposed to he that of 81
Fiavier, who IN 504, established with his friend
Mandrier. hermitage in the peninsula with
whom he was maSsacred by the Visigoths in
sig.
The official report as to the production of
sugar in France during the last three wears
since the new legislation relating to refneries
went into operation, shows that the first effect
OF this legislation was to reduce the number of
refineries, which fell from 4S3 in 1884 to 44o in
1885, TO Alb in 1856, and to 391 last year, while
the quantity of sugar refined was 21S 90 tons in
1885, 263,071 tons in 1886 and 4440OO tons last
year. Under the former method of refining the
beet root did not yield more than 516 per cent.
OF sugar, but this proportion has now been in
creased to nearly per cent.
KANSAS CITY ooNFEcTIoNER says that 'it is
safe to bet that nobody can eat 80 cents worth
of candy. | saw it tried the other day. Two
young fellows came in one of whom bet that
he could do it. He started on what he thought
were the most expensive candies, and missed it.
The candies he selected were made prncinaIIv
for show. He went from one kind to another
filling his stomach with all kinds of mixtures
When he had eaten 30 cents worth he began TO
show his disgust: At As cents worth he stuck
He had bet 81 he could eat so cents worth of
candy, but he paid it rather than eat the last
cents worth
HOUSEHOLD MAGAZINE tells that the thimble
was first the thumb-bell, because worn on the
thumb-then the thumbe, which sank gradually
into tn 'lble-and that up to recent period it
was mao only in brass or iron Now in addi-
ton to troSe metals, they are made from gold
silver, iv"ry, horn, glass and steel, and even
occasional y pearl, especially in China where
pearl thimbles bound, and tipped with gold are
much liked by wealthy ladies'. But the most
magnificent one of all is that which was first
ever seen in Siam in shape of a golden lotus
bud and studded with diamonds to form the
name of the young queen to whom it was a
bridal gift from the king.
FISHING by artificial light is not new thing
but the way some fishermen along the coast of
Maine are using the electric light is new. The
old way is to plunge an incandescent lamn into
the water the connection being made with
some source of electricity on board the fishing
vessel, and the mains to the lamp often get fon1
of the fishing tackle or the cable of the vessel
destroying its usefulness Now a Frenchm3n
has adopted a better way by adopting a lamp
worked by primary battery, the whole of
which can be thrown overheard and regained
when the trip is ended. The battery consists of
six Bu:sen cells, in which, however. chronic
acid is placed instead of nitric acid formerly
used. The cells are connected in tension with
a twelve volt Edison lamp The success of the
experiments lately had presages the general
adoption by the coast fishermen of this new
discovery.
A CURIOUS DISCOVERY has been made at Liant
wit, in Glamorganshire. of remains of large
Roman villa and a military station, the area of
the buildings being two acres This in itself"
writes London correspondent, sis important
because II hitherto was not known that the
Romans had military depot so far south of
the Via Julia; but more strikngiS the discovery
on the teSSellnted pavement of the great hail OF
forty-one skeletons of men and women iunbled
together they would be if they had fallen in
a massc ere some being crushed under the bones
of her ies. From the position of the bodies 1t is
evident that there was a slaughter of the in
mates after the villa had been sacked and so
broken down as to ad nit horsemen. The theory
Of the archRologSts is that the remains relate
to one of the masSacres by the Irish pirates who
devastated the south of Wales in the fifth cen
tury."
So strong was the attachment of a BROOKLYN
family for pet canary which recently died that |
they determined, 30 the story goes, to give the |
bird elaborate burial. Accordingly a regu. |
lar coffin manufacturer was employed to make |
pretty and costly casket for the DECEASED |
soDgster, and the remains were deposited in il |
tenderly az If they had been those Of a hIi- |
man being. The casket was then taken IN Go |
Haverstraw, N. Y, accompanied by several |
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