The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-30
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moor. incredible as II may seem, be was not
| injured.
The citizens of Dion boast that they have
the Oldest poplar in France, but just how old it
is no one knows. 1t is 1872 feet high as feet in
circumference at the base and % feet in clrcum-
| ference IS feet from the base.
| The reported discoveryof a genuine Rubens
at Jamaica Plain, Mass. will awaken interest in
art circles. The picture derives its entire beauty
| from the picturesque curves in the date, 1921. "
on the BACK OF the canvas. Literally, the paint
| ing ought TO cut quite figure in the world.
The recent cold snap. according to dispatch
from Lockport, n. Y, has been practically
| ruinous to apples" in that section At many
| farms apples stored in barns piled up under
trees and barreled, but not headed, have been
| frozen.
MOVEMENT is on foot so it is stated, to hold
| meeting of American engineering societies in
| Europe next year. The civil engineers, the
| mlDing engineers and the mechanical engineers
or the United States have been approached and
| IL is likely that, after the ground has been
| sounded, the enterprise will come up officially
| before the American societies.
| THERE has died in Florida, Orange county. N
y. William Coe, Familiarity known as "Old
| Judge" faithful negro servant of the Seward
| family, who is believed to have reached the age
| OF lOl years. He became house servant for
| Judge Samuel S. Seward when he was about 81
| years old. He soon afterwards married AUNT
| moe who was the nurse, in infancy, of the
| Hon. William H. Seward
Mrs. BLANCHE BERa,who died recently in
| Chicago had peculiar horror of being buried
| alive, and her body was taken to St Louis for
| cremation. in accordance with oft-expressed
visa She had made her husband promise that
/ as soOn as she was thought to be dead bell
| should be attached to her body so that the
slightest movement would give an alarm. This
was done, the bel being fastened by wires to her
| right wrist.
The MEMBERS of Jobbers ands Manufacturers
Union of Iowa have pledged themselves to pre-
! pay freight charges on all goods shipped and
Send bills of same to the railroad commission
erS. so that suits can be instituted at once
against railroads for violation of the law fixing
| maximum rates. The penalty fer each viola
ton by the railroads is 5000, sand railroad au-
| thorities are said TO regard this new movement
| with alarm.
IN SUIT before the supreme court OF
Nebraska for the recovery of usurious interest
| from ma ional hank it was decided that state
| courts of record have jurisdiction. and that
| where usllrious interest 10 taken from the face
| OF a note by national bank it can recover only
The race OF the note, less the lIsuriOuS interest,
and that, where usurons interest has been paid
| in advance, the borrower can recover double the
| amount of interest so paid.
| THE ANNIVERSARY of the natal day of the late
| Emperor Frederick suggests the curious circum-
stance that. although this year has seen three
| German emperors, not one Of them has cele-
| DRAFTED his birthday as emperor during 1893.
Kaiser Wilhelm died twelve days before his 91st
| birthday; the late monarch within four months
| of the completion of his 57th year; while the
| Emperor William II. celebrated his goth birth
| day on Jan. q, when he WIS yet Prince William
| OF Prussia.
| DR.. DEFoNTAINE, of the Creuzot steel works
| has described an affection which he calls cleo.
| trio SunstrOke, to which the workingmen in that
| factory are subject. The electric furnace,
which is essentially an arc-lght of 100 600 can
| die power, produces upon the workmen all the
| symptoms of sunStroke. Although protected
by dark glasses the retna of the eye is painfully
| affected the sight is very considerably dis
| turbed, copious discharge of tears is kept up,
headache and sleep!essnesS are engendered, and
| the skin of the face cells off.
| SARA BERNHARDT has been playing in Vienna
and for the first time in her life has come in
| contact with the public censor. In '"Tosca" she
| was not allowed to place the cruciffx on the
| breast of Mario and in Theodore" it was
| forbidden that the emperor should be addressed
| as majesty, which sounds like the rules which
| used to be enforced at the court of the mikado.
| Sara Bernhardt also made The acquaintance of
| the Viennese income tax collector. who taxed
| her for SIX months income, although she was
| in Vienna only fortnight, and seized 5000
| marks of her money at the box office when she
| refused to pay.
IT is UNDERSTOOD in Hartford that Col lib
bits shrewd politician. who may be nomi-
| mated for governor by the republicans in 1890,
will support movement for a constitutional
amendment that shall put an end TO the cleo
| lion OF minority candidates in Connecticut
Since 1873 the legislature has given the Office of
governor TO several republicans who had
ceived less votes than their democratic oppo-
nents. Four years ago Gov. Waller had a con
siderable plurality but the prize was given to
the republican candidate This year Judge
Morris received 1900 more votes than Mr.
Buckley, but the latter will be elected by the
| legislature, which is republican.
SENATOR STANFORD is busily engaged at Pao
| Alto, Cal, in experimenting the work on the
| new Stanford university buildings. He hoped to
| have the university ready for opening next
| May on the anniversary OF his dead sons 2lst
| birthday, but as this is impossible, owing to de-
lays in building, ample time will be given for all
| preparation, and it will be at least eighteen
months before the doors are opened to students
| The faculty have not been selected, but If Gen
Francis A. Walker will accept. the position. lie
vii! be the president. Higher salaries viii be
paid than al any other American college, but
the cost of living and the tuition for students
will be reduced to $50 per year.
NEVADA is a splendid illustration of a rotten
borough state. 1t was brought into the Union
for a partisan purpose, and with insufficient
population. Its present mission is to provide
seats in the United States Senate for San Fran
cisco milliouareS OF the bonanza tyne and
assure q republican ma iorty in the Senate In
1880 Nevada cast a total of about 1900 votes
In 1884 the vote fell to i2l7I. At the recent
election it was somewhere in the neighborhood
of 10000, thus showing a steady diminution in
population. There is little hope of a change for
the better in a state whose resources are ex-
hausted 1t probably never will be able to sus-
tain population of over $1,000 or G0,O00
Is the Palais Royal Paris a sign reads:
"Macaroni not baked sooner ready" and in the
Rue ST. Honore an attempt is made to attract
foreign custom by the statement Hear to
cut Off hare ia English fashion" At the Mon
tesoucu bath we are Informed that las for the
brotheS. liquid or any breakfast, and, in one
word, all other things relatives to the service
of the battles, the Persons will be so good as to
direct themselves TO the servant bathers who
will satisfy them with the greatest attention.
The public is invited not to search to displace
the StIckets and swan necks in order TO forbear
the accidents which may result of u.s. in not call
ing the servant bathers to his aid. The servant
batherS, in consequence of having no wages
desire the bathers do not forget them.'
THE death of the Grand Sachem of the
Tuscarora Indian nation, located on the re-
servation in Niagara county, N. Y, has been
made public through the following document
issued by John f. Pound, counsel for the tribe:
Zone day last week the Great Spirit called 10
happy hunting ground William Printup, Grand
Sachem OF the Tuscaroras who has seen 76
winters come and go among the braves of this
Nation on their ancestral home in this county
The Nation mourns its loss. for he who has
now answered the Great Spirits call was brave
in action when young and strong, and wise in
counsel as years Of experience had added TO his