The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-30
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1850 of which are TO be offered to the public at
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THERE is movement on foot in Chicago for
statue of Robert Burns, in Lincoln Park, and
in furtherance of it grand concert will be held
In the auditorium building on the next anniver-
sary OF the poets birth
CITIZENS of st. Louis who were up early the
other morning a rare sight. Two big
fiocks of pelcans passed over the city on their
way south. They flew so low that the pouch
under the lower Ii and throat of each could be
seen The first flock. numbering over 100, few
slowly and in almost an unbrokeu single line.
crossing the river to the Illinois side and dsap-
pearing in the distance. The second flock. fol
lowing close behind, seemed to have lost its
way and circled over the river for ten minutes.
and then the leader suddenly started in bee
line for the southeast and the rest trailed after
him.
FLAGSTAFF, Me-. is an interesting town for
two reasons 1t always has Miles Standsh
among its citizens, and the Standish farm COW
ers the ground where Benedict Arnold ell
camped on his Quebec expedition and where he
erected a flagstaff. from which the place re-
ceved its name. G. w. Standish, one of the
leading men of the town, is the only remaining
son of Niles StandiSh who was the eighth in
direct descent from Miles StandiSh the cautain
OF Plymouth. G. w. Standish's only brother,
Miles, died seven years ago. but he left son
Niles, now - years old, and G. W. has a son
Miles, who is years old.
A GENTLEMAN named Harlow, while spending
few weeks at Troutdale, Ore, met with
singular and painful accident. Some campers
had built fire gravel bar in the river, and
this had communicated to an old tree lying on
the bank and burned the inside completely,
leaving the bark whole. Mr.. Harlow going
down to the river to battle, attempted to walk
on the trunk of the old tree and broke through,
alChting on bed of live Goals 1t is unnsces-
sary to say that he got ont of the fire az soon
as possible, but his feet were very badly burned
and he is laid up from the effects of his piishap
and it will be some time ere he can find any
resting place for the soles of bis feet which will
be comfortable.
The commander of the White Star steamship
Germanic, which arrived in New York recently,
| died of apoplexy on the voyage. Capt Gleadell
| was of English birth and was about Sc years of
| age He had been long in the service of the
| White Star line, and was formerly in command
| of the Celtic. On many occasions he distin-
| gulshed himself by his courage and good sea-
manship, and he received handsome watch
| from the President of the United States for
| saving an American vessel and the lives of her
| crew. Many other testimonials were presented
to him by individuals and associations for SINH
! lar exploits. He was a man of reserved and
| dignifed manners.
AN exciting scene occurred in a menagerie at
Bona, Algeria, while NJ. Pernolet keeper. was
| feeding the crocodiles-numbering seventy. He
sat on the back of the largest crocodile, and
| was in the act of reaching to an attendant for
| piece of meat, when one of the REPTILES an
| preached unobserved and bit him in the
| stomach. shout was raised by the spectators.
| and those around the tank attempted to beat
| away the crocodile, which had begun whirling
Pernolet around, as if to tear him to pieces. In
| struggling the unfortunate man fell into the
midst of the reptiles, and they all then Joined
in the attack UPON him. He was finally rescued,
| and though badly injured his life is not
| thought to be in danger.
WurN. the uoayor of CrhorIaStor W cos,
fenced a white woman the other day to work
seventeen days on the streets, young farmer
arose and offered to take her place, saying that
he would never permit woman to be worked
as a convict on the public streets. The mayor
| accepted his offer, and the man marched
off to the chain gang. He declined to give his
| name, and said that John Smith would do as
well as anything else. He said that he was a
| farm lahorer from some place up the river, and
| that he never saw or heard of the woman in his
| life until he her in the mayor $ court, but
| that his sense of manhood and his respect for
womankind would not permit him to see one of
| the sex scraping the public streets in company
| with tramps and bummers.
SOME of the lunar photographs taken at the
| Lick Observatory in August last were sent to A
A. Common. F. R. s., of London, " no has j st
| acknowledged their receipt. He pronounces
them to be finer than any yet made by any in
strument The particular value Of this verdict lies
| in the fact that MIR. Common is acknowledged
| to be the great 9st living authority astronomi-
| cal Photography, which he has prosecuted
with his foot rejecting telescope with the
! greatest success. He is now constructing
| foot mirror for similar work This instrument
| WILL if successful, be somewhat more powerful
! than the Lick telescope. theoretically speaking
| but, in order to equal its work the new insJru-
! ment must be mounted in a climate as good as
| that Of California.
TN 1872 says the Charlestown (Mass) En-
terpriSe, Charles o. Gage, who is now one
of the directors of the Bunker Hill National
Bank, deposited S13 in the Warren Institution
| for Savings From that time until the present
week the book had never been seen by the bank
| officials, and they naturally supposed that it
| had been lost by the owner. On Wednesday
| Mr. Gage walked into the Warren Institutions
| headquarters and presented the bank book
| with the request that the interest be placed on
| its pages. The accumulated interest amounted
to $50 ~. Mr.. Gage now has to his credit, on
| the deposit of Sl3 made IS years ago, Sl4S 12
| Every one of the trustees who were in Office
| at the time Mr.. Gage made his deposit has
| Joined the great majority
AN ingenious contributor to the Berlin Ne,te
Mtsikzeitung Celebrates the theory that the
! character of a man is to be predicated from the
| special vowel which predominates in his laugh.
ter. For instance, he says, persons in whose
| laughter the letter A Sound dI) Is dominant are
| open, jovial, honest folk. who delight in noise
| and movement. Laughter in E" is an indi-
cation of the phlegmatic and melauchoic
/.
| this is also observable in persons of a naive
| docile. modest or undecided character Laugh
| ter in o." which the writer regards as the
most dignifled of all the laughing tones, is the
mark of noble and bold tempers. The worst of
| all the daughters is that in U, which is the char
| teristic of the misanthropical
MANY OLD cuRIos are brought to this country
| by immigrants. One recently reached Castle
| Garden which the New York Tribune describes
as "a quaint. richly carved chest of black oak.
| Under the keyhole in old-style characters was
| carved on a well-worn oaken strip the date
| 1907, while one of its sides was perforated with
minute worm holes. William Behereus a Ger
man i'm migrant. who had just landed from the
North German LLOYD steamer Fulda, said the
chest had been in his family for 221 years since
| the time when it had been made He refused
| an offer of $50 for it made to him by Captain
| Moore, the landing agent. The man said that
| within the chest was an old Questioned CLOCK
| over $50 years OF age. The chest was checked
| for Monticello Ia, by its owner
MICHAEL T. EvERs. who was charged with the
theft of pair Of gloves in the court of special
sessions. Newark on Monday, admitted his
guilt but pointing to weeping wife and several
wretched children, said he had done so to buy
them bread. Misfortune, he then told had fol
lowed him all his life He had once been shin
wrecked. murder had occurred in the house
in which he lived and he had been locked up for
months as witness; with his family he had
walked from Bristol, Pa, to Jersey City looking
for work. and on one occasion he became 80 dis
hoarteue that he attempted suicide He was