The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-09
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PETRIFIED WOOD has be. III found in large guam
titles in the Hoosac mountains, near Pinto,
Eureka county, Nevada. The specimens are
oak and pitch pine.
ANOTHER Massachusetts schooner-the Henry
Dentists to engage in haliout fishing on the
| Pacihc coast Her catches" will be shipped
overland to Boston.
LORD TENNysoN has for the last six months
been i'll with rheumatic govt. He is now very
| old man, and has outlived his days of both
| physical and mental vigor.
EMERsos's GRAVE at Concord. Mass, is marked
by large boulder of pink quartz which serves
for headstone. No chisel has ever touched
IL, and 1t stands just as it came from the
| quarry.
The engagement is announced of Miss Louise
Glyn, religious editor of the New York Herald,
to George Mcintyre, of the financial depart
ment Of TIE same paper. Their marriage will
occur early this winter.
EMIL RENoUF, the French painter, has nearly
completed his huge canvas showing the Brook
Ign bridge and looking down the river which
AFTER being displayed at the Eden Musee, VIII
appear at the Paris International Exposition of
next year.
THAT must be very old rose bush which is
growing against church wall in Heldershem
Germany, if tradition does not exaggerate It's
antiquity. Eight hundred sears ago, it is re-
iated Bishop Hepilo caused trellis to be erected
TO support it,
j. .. A. WARD is now engaged upon statues
OF two great Americans-Horace Greeley and
Henry Ward Beecher The Beecher statue is to
stand in Prospect park, Brooklyn and one of
the minor figures attached to the pedestal will
be that of d yoliHg negreSs laying d palm leaf
at Mr.. Beecher'sfeet
THE famous public library in Boston has an
endowment of Sl.000,0o0. and the Newberry Ii
brary in Chicago will have S!,Ooe, 900 These
are now considered the foremost strictly public
libraries of the country. The Tilden library in
New York will have over 81 900 700 to it's credit
II 1t is ever established.
N. L. THIEBLIN, formerly Paris correspondent
of the Herald, and afterward writer for the
Sun over the signature of 'Rigolo, died in Ne y
Nork thursday morning, aged 81 years He was
Russian by birth, and was originally educated
to the military profession. At the s-ige of Sc
bastapool he commanded a battery of forty
pieces of artillery.
The curious fact has been demonstrated by
Sir john Lubbock that certain kinds of ants are
unable to exist without keeping other ants as
slaves, though why this is SO hs has not found
out. On removing the slaves from the nest of
nfty Slave-holding ants, he found that the latter
Immediately commenced to die or and were
speedily TT diced in number to six. When the
slaves were returned the mortality ceased.
THERE was recently discovered in a North
Carolina prehistoric mound a skeleton lying
upon its face with the head resting on a large
eashell. The inner surface was engraved with
strange characters. Around the neck were
large beads made of sea. Shells and around
eacn wrist was bracelet composed of cooper
and shell alternating. Near the right hand
was an iron implement ike chisel or punch.
VERY odd dining organization in Philadel-
phia is known as the Ishrnaelites. The apart
ment in which the feast is held is always dec
GRATED in the oriental fashion some of the feat
ures introduced being very luxurious aad strik-
ing During each season there is Muezzin
who presides and rules the feast and who also
delivers mock prayer aud has a peculiar song.
All wear turbans or fez caps, with long robes
and ornaments around their neckS.
DR.. DUNN1NG laughs at a Joke that befell his
friend, Rev. Edward Everett Hale, not long ago
Dr. Hale was m liking one of his long pedestrian
tours through a rural region, and Lecame very
hungry. Calling at the door OF q farm house
he asked the woman if she would let him have
something to eat She looked over his tall and
robust figure, aGd then answered in a slightly
contemptuouS tone: Yes, I'll give you some
thing to eat, but a mau as big and strong and
as able to work as you are ought to be ashamed
of tramping and begging around the country"
"a BosToN PUBLISHER, says Arlo Bates in
the Book Buyer, remarked the other dey upon
a whimsical popularity OF Eugene Field, the
chicago 0UlnOrlSL, WHICH QferS large DOSSlDlli-
| ties to the compounder of humorous para
| graphs. MIR. Field keeps upon his desk an
| assortment of bottles containing ink OF differ
| ent hues, each provided with his p TT cular pen,
| and it is his whim to- change from one to
| another whenever his tricky spirit moves him.
| so that the general appearance of his com :
| pleted manuscripts is strongly suggestive of
JoSeph'S coat of many colOrs. The possibility
of adapting the color of ones ink to the senti-
| ments flowing from his pen, of inditing pessi-
mistic sentiment in indigo sarcastic gibe in
virulent green, nihiliStic paragraph in the red
sacred to anarchy. and so on through the list of
| shades, might, on the whole, have an inspiring
| effect upon writer's susceptible to outward CON
ditions"
PROF. CHANDLER ROBERTS estimates the
weight of the smoke cloud which daily hangs
over London at about so tons of solid carbon,
| and $50 tons of carbon in the form of hydro
carbon and carbonic oxide gases. Calculated
from the average result of tests made BY toe
smoke abatement committee, the value of coal
wasted from domestic CRATES reaches, uuon the
annual consumption of 5000, 900 people to
f2, PSI, 500. The cost of carriage on this wasted
coal is calculated to be EGGS, $50 while the
passage of a large number of horses through
the streets in drawing it adds considerably to
the cost of street cleaning and repairing
There is also the cost of taking away the extra
ashes, 843, 900 year. Summing it all up the
direct and indirect cost o. the wasted coalis It
down at t2, 500, OOO plus the additional loss
from the damage done TO property caused by
the smoky atmosphere, estimated by Mr. Chad
wick at f2, 000. 000-the whole amounting to
G4,600.000 or SO 000,0O
REGARDING the handwriting of some well.
known literary men in England a writer in the
Pail Mall Gazette says: The editor of the
Times writes particularly good and legible
hand That voluninous writer for the press
| Andrew Lang writes peculiar hand but by no
| means an illegible one. Frederick Greenwood's
| handwriting is rather agreeable than otherwise
| John Morley's-t adapt the well known song
| is all right when you know it, Sir Edwin
| Arnold's is all right even when you do not Mr.
| Labouchere lis little difficult, certainly. T. 2
| O'Connor's is not very scholarly, but IL 10 easy
| to read. II the inquiry were rxtended from ed
| itors to writers In general, the result would
| be no less credtable TO the trade Matthew
| Arnold's handwriting was 'luciditv' itself Mr.
| Ruskin's is rs pretty as the prose it writes MIR
| Swinbnrne's is curiousy schoolboyish, but COM
pletely egible. Nor, indeed, In the " hole range
of our eminent men can think of any whose
handwriting is downright illegible except Mr.
Goschen and Sir Frederick Leighton"
NoxIoUs INSECTS are more numerous and de.
structive now than they were fifty years ago
Where nature has chance TO work out her
laws all animals from the highest to the low.
est, do not increase beyond proper limits Even
man himself is no exception to this great law
and 1t is felt all along the line Some species
will increase enormously while others almost
entirely disappear Now, as insects are far
more numerous than all the higher animals IL
follows that II some unforeseen event takes
place that favors great increase of some nox-
ious species, man is sure to be a great sufferer
And this state of things is exactly what's tax