The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-31
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and in playing with the child the chain was so
wound about its throat that it was almost
strangled when the mother got back.
THE man who claims to be the youngest war
veteran in the country is Charles L. Stone of
Philadelphia. He was IA years of age when he
carried a gun at the battle of Gettysburg. At
that battle he was wounded in the left arm by a
rifle ball, Part of the funny bone" had to be
cut away, and he says that his appreciation of a
joke is not as vivid as 1t should be. But he still
has the humerus of his right arm. That ought
| to help him good deal in keeping up with
| American wit.
THE TRAMPs out in Ohio have hit upon a new
and as yet very successful begging scheme.
| One enters house, saying he has been looking
| Tor work all the morning, but has not succeeded
| IN nndlng any, and offers TO buy few slices of
| bread and butter When he receives it he
| searches in his coat to find the money. Much
| 10 MS apparent amazement. he discovers that
| IL has fallen out of hole iii his pocket, and he
offers to return the food. His offer is never &C.
| cepted, and he gets good meal, besides lots of
| sympathy for his loss.
| JULES FERRY, who was the author of the law
against the religious orders, recently visited the
Grand Chartreuse. After tasting the favorite
| nquorthe fallen statesman was taken round the
Duldlng. large map attracted his notice, and
| NJ. Ferry asked what it represented. That -
| said the abbott, 'iS our beautiful monastery
near Parkminster, in Sussex. England has been
kind enough to shelter and welcome lis since we
| wore banshed by herd of politicians who call
| themselves lovers of liberty" NJ Ferry STAN
| mered and blushed, and, although he had
| promised to lunch at the monastery hurried
| away
AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN. who has just been
nominated as parliamentary candidate on the
uuionist-liberal ticket for the county of Selkirk
| is the only son of the TT. Hon. Joseph Cham
berlain, NJ. p, we'll known in this country as the
| negotlater of the fisheries treaty. Austen
| Chamberlain is an exceedingly bright young fell
| gnaTi0l q n rob
| During his long stay at Berlin he was fire.
| quent guest at the family dinners Of the great
chancellor. fluent speaker, with much of his
| fathers sound common sense and all of his
| straightforwardness, the young man is certain
to make his mark in British politics.
New YORK WOMAN writes DO the Commercial
Advertiser congratulating northern girls that
| they have at last awakened to the use of water
| melon juice as a cosmetic. Their sisters in the
| south have for generations, she adds beautified
| their compilations by the aid of the melon.
After long drive, sail, or any summer out
ing, nothing is so soothing to the face and hands
| as the water from both the pulp and rind. The
| first, crushed by dainty hands and rubbed on
the face takes off all sunburn, while the appli-
| cation of the cool white pulp next to the red
| meat removes the sickness and gives soft
| ness to the skin of the melon bather that can
| obtained from nothing else This is natures
| own cosmetic"
The United States consul at Beyrout reports
that a few months ago a party of Germans,
| under the patronage of their government, began
| excavations in mound at the foot of the
| Amanus "a mountain two days journey south
| of Marash, in the Villayet of Aleppo) and have
discovered some fifty blocks of black basalt
with bas-reefs of men and animals, constitut-
ing the basement story of large palace. These
sculptures bear unmstakable characteristics of
Hittite art, but no Httite inscriptions have yet
been found. In the court of the palace was dis
covered colossal statue Of SardanapaluS Gov
cred with Assyrian cuneiform inscriptions The
aTeC tj hair
vations in eager expectation of more important
discoveries.
A DISPATCH from Newburyport says that "a
seal hunt on the coast of Massachusetts was
the novel sport in which large party engaged.
The hunters were successful too, killing more
than forty of the amphibans. The legislature
last winter placed bounty of 81 per tail on
seals, which are supposed to destroy large
quantities of young fish. Forty fifty young
men determined to try their skill at the sport.
Wire fencing was stretched across the mouth of
Mud Creek at high tide, just before the seals
were ready TO leave. The plan was successful.
seal could easily carry away sucn a slight
obstacle but he is very suspicious. At no time
while the hunt was in progress did one of the
seals approach near enough to the wire to
touch it. The hunting party set out in small
I boats armed with rifles and guns Holt a
hundred seals wer, found penned in the creek
TAKING TUE CUSHION" is a quaint old Span
ish court custom still practicod in Madrid The
Spain,' with the right to sit in the royal pres
| ence by PERMISSION of the king and queen, and
recently Queen Christina solemnly followed the
prescribed form in order to admit several young
ladies about the court to the higher rank. All
| the lady grandees of the court assembled in one
of the state departments, each holding a large
! cushion In the centre of the room were large
arm chair and low stool. Queen Christina en-
tered with her suite, took the armchair, and re-
quested the ladies to sit down their cushions.
| Then the candidates for grandeeship were in
| troduced one by one: each was attended by
| sponsor and made low reverences to the queen
| and every grandee in turn. The queen next in
| viUed the candidate to sit on the stool at her
| feet--arranged as more convenient than q
cushion-spoke q few words and allowed the
lady to kiss her hand before rising to give place
to the next new conner, The new grandee then
retired and sat down upon cushion within the
charmed circle of the ladies'
SPECIES of Partisan DR.. Jekyll has been I'M
masked at Auteuil. The person went down to
that pleasant suburb and racing rendezvous
some days ago. He hired rooms in a very
secluded villa on the borders of the Bots, and,
reports a Paris dispatch ''shut himself I'D in it,
after having provisiOned himself in the town
He stuffed up the key holes of the doors pasted
white paper on the insideS of his window panes
and surrounded himself with as much mystery
and secrecy as did the hypochondriac Mr. Hyde
or the strange ledger who took apartments
| in the mansion of Sampson and Sally Brass.
| His neighbors-1uSt as Semi-provincial Subur-
ban people will do-Sell to gossiplng, and all
sort of theories. vague and .vapory in detail,
| were constructed TO account for the problemati.
cal attitude of the stranger. The police were at
| last appealed to, and having burst in the door
| OF the 'Jekyll of Auteuil' they discovered that
| he was inoculatng three Inflated terriers with
| his own blood, in order to ascertain if a bite
| which he had at one time received from a dog
was likely to prove fatal He was also he con
| tended, experimenting in the interests of
humanity, in order to enable every man to be-
come his own PaSteur."
GEORGE AND WELDON GRossMITH the English
actors, are doing clever piece of conjuring
business this summer before parlor audiences
One appears as a conjurer, and the other, both
being disguised, arranges to be selected from
the audience to be operated upon. The CON
jurer then announces that he will do the great
burnt handkerchief" trick. He borrows a
handkerchief from the victim and burns hole
knocks the top Of the crown out with his fist.
The victims tie is next taken Off, and the
burned handkerchief, done up in a wad is tied
about with this. BY this time the victim is very
uneasy indeed, and inclined to be indignant
but the conJurer assures him that it is part of
the trick. The crownless hat is then placed
over the tied-up handkerchief and mysterious
ncantations said, after which the conjurer tells
the victim to lift out the handkerchief and unite
it, and that he will find that the burned spot
has disappeared. The victim finds, on the con
trary that there Is hole Ia the handkerchief
through which he can put his head, and forth
with loses his temper and az Saults the coniurer
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