The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-10
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E. A. MUNsEaL, young lawyer of Fort Scott,
KAN swallowed a pin on Aug. %. II gave him
n trouble until Sunday week, when he com
! plained of pains in the stomach. The following
| TUESDAY lie was taken seriously i'll with perit)-
! niTls, and Sunday morning he died.
A MAJ in d small New England village hes
just beed brought up before his church for n
couraSiug tine uss of profaUe language. lie
owns doS which be has named Damage, "
and of course all the young people III the village
naturally call the dog Dam to the great
scandal and annoyance of the church pillars
especially as t &c dog always answers to lam. v
LAWRENCE BARRETr's daughter, Gertrude,
who is to marry Joseph Anderson brother of
| Mary, is 20 years of age. a brunette, with blue
eyes, and OF medium hight. she speaks French
and German and is highly accomplished. Bar
! rett 5 eldest daughter married Baron Roe der, a
| Stuttgart banker, anu the youngest is still I'M
| marrieI.
| HONDURAS has not much of a reput ltiou 10
| enterprise, but it manages to keep abreast of
| the times III some Respects Women in that
| country have just been granted the right to
| compound prescriptions and practice pharmacy
! IN general, with the one condition that they
| pass the examination required of male drug
| giSts.
| n. CEEvREUL, the aged French scientist
reached his ICED birthday last Tuesday. 1t is
| probable Ii at he will not live through the
| winter, as lis strength is rapidly failing. He
| spends the greater part of his time IN bed,
| though he goes out driving Oh pleasant days.
| ParisIan students WHO called on him few days
| ago We're not allowed 10 see iim but were re
| ceived by his son, charming youth Of II.
THE last Bostonian and the biggest is the Ley
| land freight steamer of that name which is the
| largest freight steamer atioat having an over
| all length Of All feet. and actual capacity ct
! 5000 tons, with engines requiring twelve fur
! naces and about forty tons of coal day. The
! initial trip from tue Liverpool dock to the
| hoo3ac Tunnel line dock in Boston was made in
! tea DAYS and five hours.
ARUBuR MEYER, editor of LIE Gaulois, Paris.
is said to have declared in his youth: II shall be
| a gentleman of society. | shall force my way
| into the most carefully guarded drawing rooms.
| | shall be the equal of princes l shall kiss the
| hands of ducheSses. / shall be on intimate
| terms WITH the greatest houses o. the Faubourg
| st. German. In word, shall be the Beau
| Brummel OF the Jews" He realized his amb-
| ton.
| THE Andaman Islanders shave almost the en-
| tire surface of the scalp as thoroughly as the
| imperfect implements at their command will
! allow them Formerly they used chips of
broken flint for this purpose, but since the ar
| rival of Europeans upon their islands they &C n
| indulge in the luxury of a shave with piece of
| broken bottle glass 1t is said that wife takes
| peculiar pleasure in shaving the head of her
| husband.
|
express between Edinburgh and Loldon has re-
! vived memories OF the old inhabitants as to En-
gllsn ralroading forty years ago, and one of
| these says that ne remember when the train
| for Edinburgh was started by bugle playing
| I'D be Butterfly TIL passenger cars were
as much like stage coaches as possbe the bag
! gage was carried piled up on top, and the guards
| sat like drivers Oh top also.
| A TROUT weighing Is pounds and 2 ounces is
alleged to have been caught short time ago in
the English river Itchen, near Winchester It
| measured 30 inches in length 81 inches In cir
| conference and was not landed until two hours
| after II was hooked. The bait was a live min
| now The monster is said to have haunted the
| stream for years. The catch was made by a
\ laborer near Turpin, VINO sold il for So. It is
| being stuffed for preservation.
Elk CONGRESSMAN HARVEY WArTERsoS, Henry
Watterson's venerable father, has been paying
visit to Mrs. Polk at Nashville. He remem-
| bers hearing her husband speak when the future
| President made his first run for congress He
| tells the Nashville reporters that his son. the
| colonel is good ten years older than he is.
| When James K Polk was elected governor in
| 1889 this same Jolly and wonderfully well pre-
| served old gentleman succeeded him in the
| House of Representatives.
| CIRCUMSTANCES often favor even elopers and
such proved the case lately in England. when
| the mother of the girl telegraphed the police
| authorities at Bolton to arrest her child who
| was a passenger on a train that would pass
| there She mentioned the girls lameness that
| the police might easily identity her C'urously
| enough there turned out TO be two lame girl
passengers and the wrong one was arrested
The other passed on and got married.
SwARMs OF BEES swQoped down on a confec-
| toners stand in a bishop Auckland (Eng)
market, and ate ravenously of the sweetmeats
| exposed. The owner of the candy had to desist
| glad to do so without bodily harm, and several
OF his neighborS were forced to follow suit: in
fact. business all around was suspended until
| the intruders voluntarily departed. 1t is sup
| posed shat the cold and inclement season had
| deprived the bees of their ordinary source of
sustenance, and That they were driven by famine
from the country into the town.
IL PARIS the big shops that keep everything
are driving the small dealers out of business.
Recently large stock of fine white goods put
out in front of one Of these large places was
| found on several successive days to have been
ruined by being :, altered all over with some
| black fluid. watch was set, and after some
| time it was found that the damage was done hy
| small dealer Of the neighborhood who re-
venged himself for his loss of trade by walking
! by the big store and squirting ink from a con,
| cealed syringe as he passed.
MAN who styles himself doctor. and repre-
sens himself as connected with mythical eve
and gar infrmary in New York has been sell
ing large numbers of what he calls electrical
| spectacles,' to persons in cities and towns of
| New Jersey. lie gets deposit of 81 on each
! pair (wuich he values modeStly ut SO eachl to
| guarantee their re.u n after they have affected
a cure, which, he says will follow tea miuutci'
| use of them every day for shorl time ne
| d. esnt gllarait se his own return, however and
in time the victim can see without the aid of
the glasses, Il a Le or she is out 81 lie a %
cent pair of speetaces.
No MORE dramatic scene can be imagined than
that witnessed in Newark, n. j. the other even
ing mailman held his wife by the heels
hanging from third-story window. and the
| woman. head downward and expecting TO he
dropped to death every instant, chung desper-
| atey to an infant IL her arms and filled the air
| with shrakS. Some men entered the house and
by instantaneous understanding two of them
crepJ softly behind the iunatic aud seized the
| woInan's feet, while others struck down and
| secured the man The woman was then care
| fully drawn back, still: holding her infant. and
both lives were saved. But it is feared that
the shock has unsettled the poor wonan's rea-
| son.
In consequence OF the increasing number of
| accidents to tourists in the Alps, the Austrian
govern ment has addressed a circular TO the
officials in the Alpine provinces instructing
J them to exert their influence toward the pro
| motion OF any measures tending TO diminish the
! number of such casualties They are urzed 10
| encourage the development of the guide system
! and TO eudeavor to secure a reduction in the
! charges Of the guides. They are also called
| upon to assist the Alpine Club in the work of
| making roads and erecting lodges on the noun
| tans. The circular points to the necessity of
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