The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-16
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! among them. The captain at once re u9su W
| take them, and upon iuQUring where they were
procured, was informed that it WIS a native
custom to visit battlefield and dig IN the
! trenches for the remains of the waite men.
! Notwithstanding all pr acautious taken the cap
tain fears that many human bones were mixed
up with the others in loading
SERGEANT HAMLYN of the Honorable Artil-
lery company of London, which recently visited
Boston, is quoted as saying. after being pre-
sented to Miss Ames at the reception gwen by
her father. Gov. Ames: IF Miss AmcS were
driving in Hyde park. every man would take off
his hat to her, so perfect Is her resemblance to
her highnesS the Princess of Wales. 1t is SAID
that another Boston woman, Mrs Clara Ersk-
| inc Clement, when in London a few years ago,
was again and again mistaken for the Queen,
whom she so much resembles that she mas been
described as "a sort of refined Queen Victoria.
IT has been reported that some workmen
while tearing down building on New Bond
street in London discovered u roll of canvas
which turned out to be a rortrait of the Duchess
of Devonshire, which was cut out Of its frame
in May, 1876, and disappeared under mysterious
circumstances Messrs. Agnew had purchased
the picture for 10000 about three weeks be-
fore the theft took place. and the only tioingS
they had received of it since then was a letter
from this country, in which the writer offered
to restore the portrait for stipulated sum.
Inquiries made have not yet verifi ID the report.
A SPECIAL from Kansas City, dated July 9.
says: ct. X. Bowen, so years old, speeches.
and helpless from paralysis was passenger on
a Santa Fee railroad train which arrived here at
10 O'Clock last night, accompanied by his son,
As the son was assisting his father from the
train, rough looking man pnOned mis- arms,
while two of his companions, all passengers on
the train, robbed the defcnSeess old man of
1920 all the money he possessed. The depot
platform was crowded, but nobody knew of the
robbery until the brutal trio broke through the
crowd and ran The son shouted but the noise
Of escaping steam drowned his voice The rob
bers have not been captured.
VIRTUE is not always its own sole reward
During the March blizzard Norman Tanner, of
Fair Haven, Conn, went back and forth many
times carrying hot coffee and provisions from
his home to the passengers snow bound upon
The Shore Line train, and, being one Of natures
gentlemen, refused money for his good offers
to fellow creatures IN distress. Upon july 1
there came to him a fine, gold headed cane,
made from wood of the Powhatan- Commodore
Perry flagship, wherewith he opened the Japa-
neSe portS-and along with it a letter Of warm
thanks from those he had served. which closes
with the hope that if need ever came to him he
would find friend as ready and helpful as he
had shown himself to be
EIGHT YEARS AGO r C. Parsons 0uarreled
with his relatives in Indiana about property,
and went to New Mexico, vowing that he
would not return to his old home until he was
worth a much money as all his relatives put
together. He became a mining prospect or
with poor success until year ago, when he
| discovered and opened a splendid mine near
| White Oaks He received an offer of 100000
| for BALI interest in the property and refused
! it. Then $4,000 was offered him for a half in
| terest. This he also refused, saying that he
must have S5O0,000 in order that he might re-
| turn to Indiana. He couldn't get the $500 COO
and so, therefore, killed himself dying without
| a cent in his pockets. The mine which will
readily sell for 500, 600 will go to the Indiana
relatives with whom he quareled.
1--WE OFTEN HEAR" says the Boston Tran
| script, ''of people being buried at the spot
where they were born. This is a figure of
speech, of course, and means merely that they
are buried in the town where they were born
! or at most in the old graveyard on the hill inst
| beyond the homestead where the first breath OF
| life was drawn. In the case of the late Sidney
| Howard Gay, however, the phrase meant some
| thing more than even this. Mr.. Gay was actu-
| ally buried in the spot of earth above which he
| was born Some years ago the residence at the
| Gay homestead in bingham was burned down.
and, as the the old bingham cemetery was at
| that time in need of more room, the Gay estate
was purchased and added to the burial ground.
And it so happened that the lot in which Sidney
| Howard Gay was buried occupied the site of the
| old homestead"
NEAR the city farm in Lewiston, Me-, is a
| curious pet and a stranger adoption A philoso
pher finds in it proof of the brotherhood of all
creatures that live. A few weeks ago the
| family dog brought in a baby mink, its eyes
! hardly open-a helpless creature so unOffenSiye
! that the dog would not harm it, At that time
the family cat was in the joys of recent mater
unity, and her family was still in darkness The
little girl of the house bethought herself to put
| the mink in with the kittens, and after q few
| objections the cat accepted the addition to her
| family and has since carefully tended nurse1
and reared it. The kittens ard the mink are ali
| wide awake now and it is hard to tell which is
the happiest The odd-loolling little animal
plays as gleefully as the rest, rolling over the
| floor, capering gamboling. jumping and in all
respects enjoying life. 1t is not evident either.
that the cat has any less regard for it than for
any of the kittens.
IT is not from America, but from France that
the colossal proposal comes for preparing a cat
alogue of 100000 of stars This bold concep-
ton emanates from DR.. Gill. whose astronomi-
cal observations at the cape and elsewhere have
produced some notable results. and who has nut
| forth his scheme for star catalogue on this
gigantic scale in the organ of the bureau of the
permanent International committee for the exc
| cution of Photographic map of the heavens
| Dr. Gill cOntemplates the establishment of a
central Office under the direction of n chief with
| assistant secretaries, and staff of m&aSIIrprs
and computers. The work, it is calculated
| would occupy twenty-five years Admiral
| Mouchez. who defends the proposal against
| some rather fierce opposition which it has pro-
| voked, says that astronomers estimate the aver
| age cost of observing and calculating each star
| at 10f. 1t follows that the proposed cata opue
| would cost 2O0O0,OOOt, or 100000
THE following is from the Medical Press. The
question has often been asked as to what con.
| stitutes the greatest pleasure and who is the
happiest man, but it is obviously one that does
not admit Of solution The intensity Of the
| pieasurable sensation is a matter of tempera-
! ment ana surroundings, but, other things being
| equal, the hapDieSt man is he who possess : the
| greatest sensibllity the most powerful magma
| ton the strongest will and the least number of
| preJudlceS. The men are rare who can by an
EFFORT of the Will, arrest the oscillations of sOr-
| row and allow only chords Of pleasure to vibrate.
| Pleasure Is the mode of sensation never the sen
| satlon itself, and it is not a paradox but an
| incontestible physiological truth TO say that no
! pleasure exists which is essentially or necessa.
| riy a pleasure. The ideal of perfection in
| humanity would b. to efface pain from the list
| of sensations, and TO give all men tn. maximum
number of pleasures. All the rest, as the pbi.
| losopher said, is but dream and vapor
| SUDDEN FoRGETFULNEss is not an unusual thing
| in the pulpit. Aubrey, the antiquary, says that
when he was freshman at college, he heard
| DR.. SanderSon, bishop of Lincoln, well-known
| for his work Nine Cases of Conscience " break
| down in the mi idle of the Lord's PRAYER Even
| the great French preacher MaSsillon once
| stopped in the middle of n sermon from a de-
| feet Of memory; and MaSsillon himself recorded
| that the same thing happened through excess
| OF apprehension to two other preachers whom
| he went TO hear in different parts OF the sam.
| day. Another French preacher stopped in the
| middle OF a sermon and was unable to proceed
| The pause was, however got over iugeniouslv
| Friends. said he, II had forgot to saw that n
! person much afflicted is recommended to your
immediate prayers. lie meant himself. lie
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