The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-09
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received for beer licenses in England last year,
and as an indication of where the profits go, 1t
Is announced that Lord Lansdowne has just
sold three of his finest pictures, two Rembrandts
and Cuyp, for S250,000, to Sir Arthur GUM
ness, who has made his money in brewing beer
COLORADO confidently expects to become a
great manufacturing and wool-growing state
Its coal production last year was 1791, 735 tons.
This year 1t will be greater, and much of it will
be turned into coke. The wool clip of 1887 was
about 5000 900 pounds This year it will be
over l2,OO0OOO. AT present every pound is
shipped outside the state for the purposes of
manufacture.
THE French census reported 1870 persons who
were 100 years old or over, but NJ Levasseur
who has been investigating the matter. reports
TO the academy of sciences that 81 of these were
only believed" to be so by their relatives. and
that there were only 16 whose age could be
proven to be over 100 years by authentic docu-
ments. He estimates that there are not over so
centennarians in the country.
UNDER the name of John Kenwood there has
just died in the penitentiary at Nashville, Tenn,
| while serving three wears for robbery, a man
| who is credibly stated to have been the younger
| son of an English nobleman and brother-in-law
| of high Canadian official, who throughout his
trial. spent money like water in the endeavor to
save him from punishment. His real name is
known only to the governor and will not be
| divulged.
MAN in New York last Monday night went
into cigar store and insisted that the wooden
| female figure in front of the shop was his wife.
He was arrested for drunkenness and baied out
next morning. His real wife, who secured him
upon his release, expressed her intention of
showing MIN when she got him home that there
was some difference between herself and a
wooden Indian, if it broke every broomstick in
the house to convince him.
DR.. PORTUGALoFF OF RUSSIA claims that
drunkenness may be cured by simultaneous
| injections of strychnine, in the proportion of
one grain to 200 drops of water five drops to be
injected every twenty-four hours for eight or
ten consecutive days. The patient will find
according to Dr. PortuGaloff, that 1.-THE first
attempt to resume drinking will produce such
painful and nauseating sensations that he will
turn away from the liquor in disgust"
THE total revenue derived by the British gov
| eminent from working the telegraph lines of
the United Kingdom during the fifteen years
since it took possession of them, has fallen
short OF the working expenses and the per
cent. on the amount paid for their purchase by
f3 0e4, 900, or about $4,000, 900 Last year the
deficiency was f47l 800, which is more than it
was any previous year. 1t is proposed to raise
the rates charged to newspapers, which, it is
said entail an annual loss of 81 100000.
THE count of Paris has grown thin and bent
in his English exile. Although only 80 next
| month, his hair is beginning to turn gray and
his face is tagged and drawn. His close appli-
cation to work is said to be seriously compro-
| missing his health. The count is writing a book
| upon labor and social problems. The countess
appears to bear up under exile better than her
| husband. Her natural gayety has in no wise
| changad, and she continues in England the same
| active life she led at the Chateau d'Eu.
A WATCH DIAL now being made at the Walt
| ham works has, it is said, instead of the twelve
| Roman numerals on the dial, twelve small sill
| houette figures. One O'Clock is represented by
young woman with babe IN her arms At 2
O'Clock the child Is larger at 1t is in short
clothes. and so goes on until at o'clock the
babe is a schoolboy and the woman disappears
At 9 he wears a college gown and mortar board,
and at 10 he is parting from the woman at her
deathbed. At il he is q midde-aged man, and
at 12 is old and decrept
DUTCH BULB GROWERS having come to the
conclusion that the sale OF cut blooms of
hyacinths and tulips, which at one time were
sent to the London markets in immense
quantities from the bulb fields of Holland in
terfered with the { affic in bulbs. they have
formed an association, the members switch
agree not to sell the flowers of these plants A
boycott is established against members of the
association who infringe its rules. More than
| 1000 bulb growers have already Joined this
| organization, it is reported
| A LADY of Augusta. Me-, recently gave her
| youngest an orange in his carriage. AS she
| went by store she happened to think of some
| articles she wanted. and went in, taking the
child with her. After making her purchases
/
| set out for home When she arrived at the gate
| the thought that she had forgotten something
| flashed through her mind and she remembered
| that it was the baby. She made quick time in
| her return to the store where she found the
| young hopeful fast asleep on the counter
| THERE is a slight unpleasantness in the United
| States senate at present. 1t arises from the
| fact that Senator Reagan fell asleep during
| Senator Saulshurys delivery of his speech on
| the fisheries treaty. Senator Reagan denies
| that he lost consciousness, though Senators
ingalls, ard Vance testify that he actually
snored. At all events Senator Salisbury is
much hurt for his speech was really worth hear
| ing, and he does not feel inclined to deliver it
| again solely for the Texans benefit There has
| been an extremely soporific atmosphere about
| the senate chamber of late.
| WITHIN living memory Hyde Park QIondon)
says the London World, was surrounded by
a wall on which the advertiser of the day dis
played himself Il believe it was backing that
in those times made the world weary, and the
little bit of wall remaining at the north of
Kensington gardens has just been removed and
replaced with ratings by special remission of
the queen, as one of her maiesty's Jubilee
benefactions. The favor was asked principally
on behalf of palace court, the four acres OBJ
posite the gardens, which are to be covered
with beautiful houses in the prevalent taste and
color.
NINE PATHS castle at Craig-y-Nos, Wales, is
advertised for sale. The reason given by the
diva for this is the fact that she is being
robbed right and left by her neighbors They
overwhelm her with appeals for aims, and while
she is searching in her purse for the where
withal to satisfy these demands the applicants
pocket her choicest bits of brio a brac or books
The park about the castle is overrun with
poachcrS, and even the crops about the place
are being cut and carried off at night Patti
announces, by the way, that she will sing i'm
Egypt at about Christmas time, under the man
agement Of Mr.. Abbey, and go thence to Con-
stantinople.
In speaking in the Critic of the late f. p.
Roe, the noveliest, Julian Hawthorne says: HE
knew the human heart. his own was SO human
and so great; and the vast success of his stories
however technical critics may have questioned
il, was within his de scrts because it was based
on this fact. No one could have had an humber
opinion of Roes art than he had; but an
author who believes that good is stronger than
evil and that q sinner may turn from bis
wckedness and live and who embodies these
convictions in his stories, without a trace of
cant or faint of insincerity-such an author and
man deserves a success infinitely wider and
more permanent than that of the skilfullest
literary mechanic: and it is to the credit of our
nation that he has it,"
BATTLE between a cat and dog took place
on the revenue cutter Chandler the other day.
The cat was black one, Weighing about nine
pounds, the dog being twice her size. While