The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-20
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TIE Missouri commandery of the Loyal
Legion intends establishing a military museum
IN ST; Louis A fund of $4,000 has been raised
for the purpose.
ELEVEN MILLION EGGS were imported into this
country from Canada last year, and the Boston
Transcript thinks that if any of them are left
over they will be useful in case OF retaliation.
The first locomotive built in this country was
chrstened Best Friend" and Henry G. Ra-
worth, the man who first ran it, is still living
Even the early triumphs of steam under control
are not very old.
LUTHER R. MARSH. who was so effectively
done in oil by Raphael and medium who is
now in Jail, has paid $500 for a typewriter
! copy OF the recent trial in which he was one of
! the central figures
IT is an ordinary thing. says the Philadelphia
| Times, to see two and three ladies going home
from the theater in group all in full dress.
| with wraps, but without Uonnets They never
think of being molested.
ACCORDING to official statistics there were
2641 avalanches last winter in Tyro and Vonar
| berg. The number of human lives lost was SO.
| and about 500 beasts we're killed. Many hundred
| buildings were destroyed.
The Queenslanders propose using heroic
methods for the disbursement of Chinese i'm
migration Mongolians entering the colony lille
| gally are to be imprisoned for life if the queen
| gives her assent to the law.
NEW YORK ocULIsr, who travelled about
the city for week on tour of observation,
encountered 200 people, who were doing ex
| actly what he would recommend a person to do
to destroy his eyesight in a couple of years.
| THE cannery proprietors of British Columbia
| have arranged to introduce large number of
| crotter fishermen from England next season to
| take the place of Indians and Chinese. There
| VIII De l2O families, or about 600 souls in all
| TuTp
| New York, of the par value of 500, we're re-
Gently sold at from 80, 800 to So, sos each. These
| shares pay about $50 per cent. per annum on
| their par value. Importers and Ira iers' Bank
STOCK par $780, sold for S409.
A MARRIAGE TRUST is the latest in combines.
One of these banefu organizations has been
started in New Albany Ind. 1t is intended to
| Iacilltate metrimOny FOR clipping couples from
| kentucky by providing the speediest ways of
performing the wedding ceremony.
IT TOOK twenty-eight men two weeks, working
night and day, to hang the Verestchagin war
| pictures in the American Art Galleries. The
| great size OF Il canvases made the trouble
| mere is one @JX2S feet, and the others are
| nearly as large. The pictures are only for exhi-
| bltion aud will not be sold.
| MARY FITZGERALD, who, it is said, has spent
forty years of her life in prison, was arrested in
| New York this week, on the charge of pocket
| picking. The New York Press believes she is
i
| her life of crime covernga-perioi of sixty-nine
years She.began stealing when II years of age
| SAYS an English papor: The first inventor of
| the sewing machine turns out not to be Howe
| but man named Thomas Saint, who took out
| his patent in 1850 sixty years before Howe pro-
duced his machine. machine made according
to Saint specification is now being exhibited 1T
The exhibition of sewing machines and domestic
appliances at the Royal Agricultural Hall,
ishngton
OF the worlds refracting telescopes nine have
apertures exceeding 20 inches viz: Lick
observatory, California, Sc inches: Pulkova.
Russia, 30; Na,e college, 2S; Litirow, Vienna,
q; University Of Virginia IS; Washington naval
observatory, Is; Gateshead, England, .;
England. 81. Six of these Instruments are the
work of the American firm of Avian Clark &
Sons.
IT'S feast or famine at times even with
The rain supply. The farmers around Saginaw.
Mich, can bear evidence to this The land
Whereabouts having become terribly parched the
soil tlerS united in PRAYER for ram The rain
came shortly after, and continued as long as
the most exacting farmer deSired-and so much
longer that some of the farmers were tempted
to again go on their knees and ask that the rain
should cease.
UNDER the operation of a commendable
| Jaw" observes the New York Times, the price
| Of gas in London has fallen steadily Two
weeks ago the directors OF the Gasght and
metropolitan companies, resolved to reduce the
price on Jan. to 81 cents per 1.ol0. AT the
same time this company is paying dividends OF
about 10 per cent. The law permits the com
panies to raise their dividends in return for a
reduction of the price to consumers"
THE News and the Journal of Chicago con
tinue their war against cigarettes. The Neus
has had number of cigarettes of popular
brands analysed. The smokers were stripped
Of every distinguishing mark each brand put
rnt.A b,,- fba IA
with letter, and the whole lot then handed
over to a well-known chemist. He found that
the cigarettes submitted were generally made
OF tobacco 'lnperfectly fermented,' and that
nearly all had an unnatural proportion of in
soluble ash, that several kinds were stepped in
an injurious substance, and were impregnated
with dirt in varying proportions.
The first cotton ever raised in New Jersey is
now on exhibition on the farm of William
Baker, in Lower Alloway Creek township. Salem
county. The seed was sent to him by his son
John, who owns a farm near Lake Charles Cal
casieu county, La. Mr.. Baker was urged to try
the experiment OF planting cotton seed in Jer
sey soil. and has been more successful than he
anticipated. He gave the seed little or no at
tention, allowing them to grow up at random
The cotton bolls were smaller than those Grown
in the south, but the quality good. He will
make another experiment and give some atten-
tion to the seed and cane with a view OF testing
the practcability of raising cotton on New
Jersey soil
eral communications in the newspapers re-
Gently, Charles J. Page of 81 Devonshire street.
Boston, writes to the Herald of that city: Il
am led to make public for the first time a most
remarkable fact which occurred two Years ago |
in the home of Mr.. John +. Eldridge formerly |
in the rubber business, on School street, Boston
Mr. Eldridge and myself had been in the habit
of playing a game of whist partners having
for our opponents Mrs Eldrilge and my wife |
On the occasion referred to Mrs. Eldrdge shut. |
fled the cards, my wife cut the pack and lie |
dealt. To my astoniShment found held the |
entire sequence of diamonds. AT that moment |
my wife, who is rather impulsve, threw the |
cards on the table, declaring she would not |
play such hand. She held the entire sequence
of hearts My partner then showed his hand, |
exhibiting tho entire sequence of trumps |
(spades) leaving, of course, the entire sequence |
of clubs in the hands of his wife,
THE following little incident. which happened |
in an agricultural village in Germany. shows |
that the belief in wchcraft is still deeply rooted
even in civilized countries: A farmer lost sew |
eral head of cattle within a few months |
and his family agreed that this could |
only be the result of witchcraft, exercised by a |
neighbor with whom they we're not on friendly |
terms. miller from the vicinity, far-famed |
for his power over evil spirits, was consulted, |
and ordered the doors to be painted with a Ger, |
tain ointment. The evildoer he said would he /
the first person to enter thereafter. and could |