The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-06
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pectedly at Deer Island, Ne, recently. An i'm
| promptu reunion was held, it being the first
| Time the family had been together for forty
years.
AFTER thorough discussion on Thursday.
the Dentists Joint Association in session at Lou
isville came TO the general conclusion that I'LL.
ing of lead IN the root of a tooth is al efHectual
| cure for aoscesS.
The richest mine in Australia and perhaps in
the world is the Mount Morgan in Queensland.
It is variousy estimated as worth from R12,
| G0VuJt TO 70, 100000. An offer of fl9OO0,OOO
! for 1t was refused
| CONGRESSMAN ANDERSON, Of Iowa, the repub-
ican who voted for the Mills bill, announces
that he will DE an independent candidate for
| re-electi on, and his platform, he says is his
| record IN the iiftieth congress.
AMONG the marriage licenses taken out in
| Boston on Tuesday was one by Gong Tong, a
! Chinaman, who is to wed Bangor girl, said to
| De or unusually prepossesSing appearance. Both
| The parties are y years Of age.
The house occupied by Darwin, in Edinburgh,
| while he was a student at the university, is TO be
| marked by commemorative tablet Paris is
marking IN TIE way half dozen made
historical by artists and others.
AMONG the silver and copper coins found
during the excavations in progress on the Yale
| campus are Meslican silver shilling of 1873, an
! English penny Of 1913 a Jersey penny of 1887,
and American coins of 1887 and 1889.
Mr.. GLADSTONE says he can hold out no hope
that he Will be able to take part in any political
work after the settlement of the Irish question.
His one aim in life is to secure home rule for
Heahu' mat DONE he believes his public work
| will be ended.
GUY DE MAuPAssANT is at present visiting the
French prisons for the purpose of gathering the
materials for new novel, in which he will
study The development Of the thought of q crime
| up 70 tue moment OF Its execution In soul agi-
tsted by the instincts of murder.
BILL in the English parliament proposes to
compel the sellers of foreign meat to announce
that fact by conspicuous placsrd on their shop
or stall, the idea being that people are deceived
| INTO buying foreign meat for the English article
as they are into purchasing oleomargarine for
butter.
Mas. STANFORD the wife of the rich senator
from California, has endowed another 81 600
bed, making eight in ALL in different charitable
institutions in Washington. She has endowed
| some sixty five such beds ia California, and
probably 100 more in different parts of the
| country.
| AN eminent English authority on the subject
| expresses the opinion that a combination of
French and English cooking forms the most
| perfect of all cuisines, ana advises that women
| should compose their menus with an Intelligent
lntermlxture of the various dishes produced by
| the two countries.
THE first prize for the violin competition of
the conservatoire in Paris this year, Viotti's
| Twenty ninth Concerto in mi minor bsing chosen
| for performance was won by young lady IS
years of age, Mile, Dantln. a young woman
| and young man both received a. second prize
The concerto was played twenty eight times
| SEVERAL PRACTICAL JOKE. boys-bound a
lad hand and foot to tree in a woods on the
suburbs of Pittsburg and then left him. After
| ward he was found and released by strangers,
| TO whom he told the above story Warrants
! for the arrest of the ''joKersn have been issued
| at the lnStigatOn of the lads father.
A DIR. JOHN JONAH and his wife, who are said
to be members of a tribe Of Dakota Indians,
want to settle in New Haven, Conn They claim
| that the city ought TO assist them to some ex-
| tent, and that the race who appropriated the
| land formerly occupied by the red men are
| obliged by law to provide for all Indians who
| demand their rights"
EDWARD BRANDT, tightrope walker attached
| to a travelling circus, met with a serious though
not fatal accident at St. Paul Mimi AS he
| was about to descen after giving a free exhibit
| ton on q wire stretched across Eighth street
the wire broke and precpitated him to the
pavement Glow. Brandt was Immediately
/ picked up and taken to a hospital where it was
found that two of his ribs were broken.
THE members of the Honorable Artillery Com
pany Of London, who recently visited this coun-
| try, have formed "Twenty-one Club" limited
to tdOse who Represented the regiment abroad
The object OF the clnb is to perpetuate the
| friendship now existing between the company
| aud the Old Guard of New York aud the Ancient
and Honorable Artillery Company of Massa-
| chusetts.
A MAN living in the shade of the Catskiu
| mountains has entered upon a new branch of
business. He heard that well water could he
| purified with lime, and so he empted a bushel
| and half into his well and felt blssful and
hor QUIT Int hsA,.e 80
| ness of the season, there only three feet of
water I'm the we'll, and ever since his experiment
he has been selling a good article of whitewash
| to his neghbors at two buckets for a cent and
| walking a mile and half to the creek for drink
| ing water for his family.
! The Italian government is stated to have sent
al envoy to Osborne to ascertain on what con.
| ditions the ex-Empress Eugene would consent
to lend her presence to the wedding of the Duke
| OF Aosta and Princess Letitia, the lighter of
| Prince Bonaparte. Eugene, iJ is reported, in
| sists upon having place of honor accorded TO
| her at the ceremony above that of the Queen of
Italy. The court went so far as to offer her the
place destined for the mother of Queen Marghe.
| rita. the Duchess Of Genoa. Her absence would
| be the more keenly felt at the court because of
the munifcent wedding gifts she has bestowed
| on the bride.
! FAvoRITE EXERCISE of the English critic is
the sitting down on" some volume Of VERSE
by some halfbaked American 'poet''-a book
| to which no critic in this country would think
| Of giving space, and which i, merely froth
washed up by the waves of every publishing
season. The English critic often manages to
| convey subtle Impression that such book is
all that one can justly expect from an American
writer. The Loidon literary weeklies have
amused themselves in this absurd way several
| times in the last six months.
TIE Marquis os Lorne says in the Septemher
Forum that TO those who look upon the United
Stats from p European standpoint, it appears
that there is far more of real sovereignty in the
! hands of the President than there is in the
| hands Of any of the kings who in Europe gov.
! crn by means of limitations of the Engl!sh CON
| stituton. That constitution makes the sovor
! eign reign, but does not allow him or her TO
| govern III modified forms this is the sgme in
| Italy in Sweden and Norway, In Belgium and
| Spain. IL Is the same in the republic of France
| Only in Russia, aud to a less extent in Germany
| does the monarch Immediately sway the desti,
MES of his people"
| Mss LOOMS of Willimantc, went to Hart.
| ford, Conn, TO see an occulist. and also TO de
/ DOsit S3D0 in bank After Ian wing ha Ho,,o L.,