The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-21
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said, usually terminate with the disiocation of
her jaw.
A NEW YORK Halter says that none of the
so-caled Panama hats are made at Panama.
The best Of them, he explains. come from
! Guyaquil.
y PRIZE FIGHT between youth Of IS aud a
man OF 70 years came off in Dayton, Me-, the
other day. Eleven rounds we're fought, the old
man being knocked out in the last one
a MAN Travelled az the way from Portland,
Ore to New York with $500 in his pocket, for
the purpose of buying green goods He was
arrested before ne got chance to invest.
HENRY LABouoHERE has made another OF his
shocking discoveries about people of rank. He
says that the Prince Imperial of Russia would
De considered an idiot Il he were in humber cir
cumstanceS
THE CENSUS Of the voters Of Baltimore, just
completed by the police department, shows a
total of 90, 267, an increase of 5S78 over last
years census. OF these Is, 800 are white and H.
4SS are colored.
CAROLINE HERscHEI, the discoverer Of eight
comets, and the accomplished partner of her
brothers astronomical labors, never could re-
member the multiplication table and always had
TO carry copy of it about with her.
MOUNT VEsUvIUs serves as a gigantic barome
ter and thermometer for Naples. The direction
in which the smoke from the crater blows indi
Gates unerringly coming change of weather
twenty-four hours in advance Also, the ap
proach of the hot and depressing sirocco.
THE RUSSIAN COURTS are severe in dealing out
punishment for railway accidents The Court
at Odessa has sentenced the local director and
the engineer of the Steam Tramway Company
there to three months Imprisonment and to
pay a compensation of CO. 900 rubes FOR an acct
dent which occurred on the line
IRVING A. EVANS, Boston's most noted young
Napoleon of finance, sometimes known as
Merry is said to look ike the superintendent
of village Sunday school. A few years ago he
was clerk in savings bank but be is now
worth at least $500, 900, and his name is men
toned oftener than any other in the financial
articles of the Boston press.
THERE is an alarming scarcity Of water in
many of the large towns of Great Britain. and
Liverpool and Manchester are threatened with
water famine, In view OF this state of things
IL Is proposed to bring sea water in pipes from
the coast to the inland towns, the sea water TO
he used for baths, closets, watering streets
flushing sewers and extnguishng fires The
scheme meets with much favor
The Copts of Egypt have a very old industry,
that Of artificial egg Matching. There are 700
such establishments within short distance of
Cairo, and the production of chickens from the
ovens reaches 12,O00,00J annually. The season
for incubating lasts through three months in
the early summer. The country people take
fresh eggs to the owners of the ovens and give
two for each newly Matched chick
AT the meeting of the Gaelic Society at Stein
way Hall, New York, an address was delivered
which brought out many curious facUs in connec-
ton with the study of the Gallo tongue The
best Irish drama, it was asserted, was written in
Berlin, and WIS the work of a German The
best treatise on Irish epics was written by a
trenchman, and there is enough Irish literature
extant TO make 1000 volumes of 600 pages
each.
AN EASTERN PAPER tells Of the queer way in
which the town of Orrington, Ne, got its name
The citizens decided upon the name of Orange
town, and SEM their minister to get an act of
incorporation from the Legislature. The clerk
of that body little shaky on orthogra.
ply and thought ''orring" was the proper wav
to spell orange. The pastor loved a joke and
so made no correction, but let the word go as
written.
WALTER BEsANT, who has been investigating
the so-called woman question In England, finds
that there are 100000 more women than men in
the United kingdOm-that is to say 10000 girls
and women who can never marry. He argues
that it is impossible TO find occupation or de
wise maintenance for the mass of educated
girls now growing up. and ventures the unknd
opinion that whatever trade, calling or pro
fession they attempt the great majority of
women are Incompetent ="
INDIANAPOLIS has dime savings and loan
company in connection with one of its churches
that aims to increase the saving tendency
among the poor. II receives any sum down to
1c., though its usual deposit is l0c or upward
One of the prime objects is to benefit poor
people by teaching them how to save. and an
other is to help persons to buy fuel in summer
when it is cheap, for use the following winter
when 1t is dear. Last year was its first and the
experiment proved successful beyond all expec-
tation.
ONE Of the graduates at the Jefferson College
commencement the other day won a wife be-
sides diploma. He had been engaged to be
married for years but his stern father refused
to recoSnize the engagement until the boy was
full-hedged NJ. D. The brides father. who is
wealthy Pennsylvania mine owner, also refused
to permit the young people to correspond but
minated to the young man that a Jefferson
college diploma would be accepted by him as
a title TO the grl. The young man is now happy
and doctor.
GEN N. NJ. W1sEwE1L, who was military
Governor of the District of Columbia under
President Lncoln's administration died in New
York on Thursday morning Gen. Wiseweu
was in the active service previous to his an
pointment to the military GovernorshiD and
was several times severely wounded He was
an eminent civil engineer. built several rail-
roads and was actively interested in many nota
BILE public works. He was the inventor Of oleo
margarine and obtained the first patents for il
He was born in New England.
AT the general election in 1889 Lucy Barber.
OF Rochester, N. Y, and a number of other
women accompanied their husbands TO the
polls and swore in their votes No action was
taken for nearly year. when Mrs Barber was
arrested on charge of Illegally voting. il being
the intention to make hers a test case She
was found guilty and sentenced To one DAYS
Imprisonment i'll the county jail She appeaied
the sentence to the next higher court and
decision was rendered sustaining the convic
ton. Mrs. Barber has not yet served her sen.
tence-
HENRI RocHEroRT predicts that in a year the
Chamber of Deputies will be a Boulaneer
Chamber. Boulanger himself tells Fioaro
reporter that a month ago his highest ambition
was to get back his old portfolio as Ministar ~
War, but now he has his eye on the Presidency
or the republic 1t is idiotic, he says, to cry
out that Boulanger means war Bonlanoer
means peace-sD loug as France is not ATTACKED
why should 1 think of war" the Fi01ro in.
terviewer has him down in his notes as SAVING
when neither France nor GERMANY wishes ~
Prepare to wage 1t. yes; declare 1t, never"
AUNT BECKY" YOUNG, of Des Moines. Ia is
well-known to the veterans of the West. she
belongs to a g. A. r.. Post and attends all the
reunions. When young woman Of 40
widow with two little children she left ber
home in Ithaca, n. Y, to go to the front as a
nurse in field hospitals. She did this work
heroically for three years, receiving So per
month for her services She was the onlv
woman in eight adjoining counties in Western
New York who went in that capacity. MANY
soldiers owe their lives TO her care and all who
know her have the highest respect for her
hQ upofc Of