The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-19
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A New YORK firm sends Goldfish balls to
France, England. Scotland, South America
! Turkey and Greece.
Two YUMA (CAI-) INDIANS, who INDUCED too
freely in fire water, were, at the instance of
their Chief given thirteen laShes each with a
larat.
| OLD BOOTS and shoes, steamed to pulp, are
now cow arted into the soft, stamped, orna
mental leather SO popular for artistic book
binding.
| GRocERs AND BUTCHERS in Newark decided
this week to discontinue the practice of making
| Christmas and New Years presents to their
| customers.
ONE OF the latest advances in electrical illumi-
nation is the lighting of the London omnibuses
with electricity, the battery to be under the
| seat of the driver.
| AQUAFoRr1s, applied to the surface of steel,
produces black spot; on iron the metal re-
mains clean. The slightest vein of iron or steel
can readily be detected by this method.
IT requires 1,4OO thcknesses of gold leaf to
equal sheet of thin paper, and $50, 900 to form
an inch. 1t is said that one establishment in
CINCINNATI, each year, beats out q 900 gold dol
| lars into gold leaf.
| OFFICIAL returns make it appear that eight
months export of cattle. coal, cotton, beef,
| lard and lumber increased largely in 1888 over
| 1887. but those of wheat, corn, -four. cotton
| goods, bacon, oleomargarine and tobacco de-
clined. The shipments of agricultural nipple
| mentS were practically stationary.
| The MACHINES which are in the hotel corridors
in Philadelphia and New York, where you drop
nickel in the slot and get your life insured for
| one day, have thus far been called on to pay
| only two policies. They were taken out by
| man who was going from New York to Bridge
port and fell off horse car shortly after he
secured his policies. Two companies are jointly
| interested in this business. The policies are
issued by an English company, which is said to
have 81, 500 900 to pay for losses, and the boxes
| are owned by an American company The bust
ness is said to be increasing.
| PUND1TA RAMABAI, the Hindoo woman who
came to the United States two years ago to
| raise money to build college for the education
| of Indian women, has returned to her home
| with upward of $50, coo. She was accompanied
by DIR. Emma Ryder, who will have charge OF
| the womens hospital connected with the college
and will lecture in the regular college course
| Ramabai owes her success in this country to the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union, which
| is the best equipped organization in the country,
having local societies in every town.
NEW PERSIAN INDUSTRY is the manufacture
of boar frost glass, which is covered with
| feathery patterns resembling those naturally
produced upon window panes in cold weather
The glass is first given ground surface, either
by the sand-blast or the ordinary method, and
| Is then coated with soft varnish. The varnish
contracts strongly in drying, taking with it the
particles of glass to which it adheres and this
| reproduces very accurately the branching crys-
tai of frostwork. A single coat gives delicate
effect, and several coats yield bold design.
| JOHN OLEARY, mere boy, with the aid of
his sister and younger brother, drove a burglar
| from their home in Glen's Falls, n. Y. a few
| nights hgo. The thief awakened the lad, who
| instantly jumped from his bed and grappled
| with the intruder. His sister soon appeared
and in few econds the brother clme to the
| rescue. The trio attacked the burglar from all
sides, and it was only after hard struggle that
he managed to escape. Young Leary works on
| a canal, and had just returned home with his
| summers wages, which it is supposed the thief
| was after
| INSCRIPTION on a tombstone in burying-
| ground on the island of Jamaica: Here lieth
the body of Lewis Gladly, Esq, who died Sept
| %. 1879, aged 80 years. He was born at Mont
pellier, in France, which place he left for his
religion, and settled in this island, where in the
| great earthq uake in the year 1892 he was swal-
lowed up, and by the great providence of God,
| by second shock, was thrown out into the sea.
| where he continued swimming till he was taken
| up by boat, and miraculously preserved. He
afterward lived in great reputation and was
| universally lamented"
AUGUsTIN DAILY has an idea of having sub
| scription nights at his New York theater, and it
| is generally conceded that it will pay. Once
his idea has been put in practice it will be i'm
possible for outsiders to get into the theater on
| Tuesday nights. The prices are to be doubled
| and the seats subscribed for for the season.
| The manager acts on the well-known theory
| that society is always rabidly anxious to DO that
which is impossible. Once it is established that
| only limited number of people can get into
| the theater on Tuesday night, there will be
| rush by the outsiders to join the favored pro-
| cesson,
THE DOG of Henry Page, veteran hunter.
| who lives In East Wallingford, Conn. got on the
| track of coon and afterward freed the little
| hair ad TO tho
| ground by Page maize for an adjacent pond.
| plunged in and began swimming for the opposite
| shore. The dog follow ed, and catching the coon
! about midway in tie stream, battle ensued. 1t
| lasted for many minutes, and at the conclusion
| the dog with the lfeless coon in its mouth
struck out for shore, but, becoming exhausted,
dropped its vanqushed antagonist on reaching
| shallow water. The next day Page so the story
| goes, grapped for the coon, and when brought
! to the surface a mud turtle was clinging to it.
| FROM a reading of Darwin's biography an
| Englishman has compiled the following list of
authors and books which Darwin mentions as
having given him the most pleasure and stimu-
lus Thomsons Seasons" Byron, Scott.
| Shakespeare. The Wonders of the World"
| Whites ''Selborne," Reynolds "Discourses'"
| Humboldt's personal Narrative" Herschel's
| Introduction to the Study of Natural Philoso-
| ply" Wordsworth, Coleridge, Miton's Para
| disc Lost" Gray, Shelley, Scott's novels, Miss
Austen, Mrs. Gaskel, George Eliots 'silas
was Whites 'Selborne" that first set him to
| watch the habits OF birds, and Humboldt and
| Herschel who first stirred UP in me a burning
| zeal to add even the most humble contribution
| TO the noble structure of natural science"
| THERE was shown the other day in the office
at the police bureau of Philadelphia, a small
| derruger pistol which is believed to be the one
| that John Wilkes Booth used on the night of
| Lincoln's assassination IL is about four inches
| long, is ornamented with silver and shoots a
| half inch ball. On small silver plate attached
| to the butt are inscribed the words, ~. Wilkes
| Booth" According to its possessor. the weapon
| was picked up in Ford's theater by a stage car
| penter, by whom il was given TO the late George
| Goodwin of the Walnut street theater The
widow of Mr. Goodwin gave it to Solicitor
| Plowman, whose son is the owner now Mr.
| Plowman says that he wrote TO the Army and
j Navy museum at Washington and asked the d.
rectors if anything known of the where
| abouts of the pistol that slew Lincoln The re-
| ply stated that although the museum had the
| bullet found in Lincon's body the pistol had
never been found.
THE Boston WOMEN, as a rule, have small
hands. The glove dealers say this and they
are in position to know. The Boston woman
| is also very neutrality-suspicious. is mider
word than the glove clerks use-about how
| their hand is fitted IL is said by those in n
| position to know that feminine human nature
/ is nowhere better shown than at a glove coun-
| so hand are not always satisfactory as 10
| back to the ears of the patient woman who
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