The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-28
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| called an 'agitating' tour.
AN ENGLISH CLERGYMAN was recently fined
thirty-one shillings for cruelty to his infant
daughter. The child cried, and the reverend
brute took it from the nurse into another room
and slapped it for quarter Of an hour
THE EwPERoR OF AUSTRIA and the imperial
family have gone to Gastein till the end of the
/ month, when the emperor viii 80 to Ischl. and
the empress with Princess Valerie to kreuth
| in Bavaria. The unfavOrable ri rOrs re gard
| ing the health of the empress are unfOunded
DURISc trial for libel near Udina, Austria,
the defendant, upon being sentenced, drew a
| revolver and shot dead the woman who had
| made the compliant against him. He then at
tempted to commit suicide, but his pistol missed
fire, and seeing the confusion which he Ia /
created, he concluded to try to escape instead,
and did so successfully.
The expansion of Russian grain expectation
in 1888 is something wonderful. The shipments
amounted to 114,9O2OOO chetworts in 1897 8S.
! 1sT02010 in 1857, and 10, 352 OG0 in 1886. The
| chetWort is 5G bushels. This is 662 9S $40
! bushels. which is more than double the cere Il el-
| ports in 1877 or any recent average. 1t is 4
! gain of 81 pr cent in a year and 200 per cent
! in two years
| Mas. SUSAN ToPE, wife of farmer of Devon
shire, Eng. while driving ont with her husband,
| was struck accidentally Just below the left eye
with the lash Of tie whip and n slight wound
IT,
a few days afterward Mrs. Topes face gan
to swell, and subsequently small knot Of cord
was removed from the wound. Lockjaw set in.
and she dicd in short time
ENGLISH BErroRs are being asked to make
their wagers for the Derby of 1898 on the basis
Of the confidence alleged to have been worked
out by q wel-knoWn turfman that the winner
OF the Derby in a year that ends with eight
always has eight letters in his nQme In 1888
Ayrshire. with eight letters. whose dam was
Portland, eight letters. ridden by F. Barrett,
eight letters, was the winner
In a lecture on Protection of Buildings from
Lighting published in the jour al Of the So
ciety Of Ayts, Prof. Oliver J. Lodge says speak
ing of thunder storm energy Given the
whole area of cloud facing the earth, and its
height when on the point of discharging 1t
every point and you have the number of cubic
miles OF strained dieiectric and on approxima-
tiOn to the energy Of the storm ut the rate Of
7O,O0JOJo foot tons per cubic mile.
WHEN Miss Ailsa Craig" the daughter of
Ellen Terry, recently made her debut in England
in an amateur clarity performance, the bills
announced thar Ellen Terry would also appear
The encouragement attracted large crowd
Miss Ferry did appear, as a servant. and was
welcomed with storm of applause She
simply handed a letter to one Of the characters
on the age, said three words, and vanished.
and the audience thinks it was sold.
THE first iron made in New Jersey was at a
| place just south of Trenton, from the limonite
or bog ore that abound, in that section and the
first foremaSteT Gov Lewis Norris. who
came 10 Monmouth fro % Barbados before the
year 1880. When the Revo u,ion came on. the
iron men had grown skillftl enough to make
cannon ana shells for the COntlneutalS, also big
shallow pans in which to evaporate sea water
and supply salt when the foreign article was
cut off.
FRANCE is surprised at the operation of its
new divorce law. The first year such thing
divorce recognized by the low there
were l,spO granted, the second year 1000. and
the third year 4jO0. Sixty women demand
divorce for every forty men. and in more than
half the cases that come before the courts there
are no children. There are four divorces for
every 900 marriages in France now, and in
Paris the rate is forty seven for every 900
marriages.
FIVE PERsoSs were imprisoned by the cavng
in Of a wall at a quarry at Chancelade, near
Perigeux, France. recently, and there were no
means at hand to rescue them. To find out where
| they were shaft II inches in diameter was
bored, down which was slid tube, near the end
| Of which WIS small camera surrounded by a
battery Of electric lights. With this apparatus
n number of negatives were taken and the
effect OF the disaster shown even to the faces
of two cOrpses. 1t was thus known that the
men were dead and that effort 20 succor them
would be useless.
THE naval cadets at Annapolis have invented
what is called the smile drill for the benefit of
| their lower class men. The upper class man
| holds up one finger aDd the poor lower class
man must smile just little. Up goes another
finger and the smile must broaden; still another
and It is wider than before. At last all the
fingers up. and the grin is stretched as far
as grin can I've. This rather painful situation
can be prolonged until the cruel upper class
man Is tired of seeing toe other fellow smile
Then he closes his hand and the smile must in
stantly cease Prompt obedience is the essence
Of the smile drill, as of every other.
BY the provisions of the will of the late Hiram
Sibcy, of Rochester, his estate, valued at about
ten Millions will be divided mainly among
women Mis-. Sbley gets the testators resi-.
dence valued az 500 600, with an allowance of
$4,000 year. Two nieces. Mrs. Smith and Mas
Atkinson, get $4,000 in cash when Of age Cor
nell University gets SOGO0 and two nephevs
get land upon which thcy have been living The
residue is to be divided among Mrs Siblev n
daughter named Mrs Averll Hiram W Sibley
son. and Hobart r. Atkinson, a sOn-in-law
according 10 the law Of descent. The testator's
son-in law, AvefiH is forever excluded from
participating in the division or management of
the estate, as he was not liked by Mr.. Sbey.
THE work Of gliding the dome Of the Massa
chusetts state house viii, according 10 the con-
tractor. occupy fifteen men about forty DAYS Of
nine hours each. The dome, he says from
pineapple peak 10 base must be Thoroughly
cleaned, and every particle Of Kilt and verdiyrjs
removed as well, and all rnugh spots made
surface viii be polished TO the smoothncsS of
glass, and then given n coating Of size over
winch will b" layer of yellow paint When
this has partially set, the surface VIII be ready
for tue giiders. Two hundred and forty packs
Of % carat <. I'd ipat viii he required Thi, j.,
within one carat o.: pure gold the whole weigh
ing about thr"" ana "a half pounds troy weight
EacI package coutalus twenty four books com
posed N tissue paper. between the leaves of
which are t"enty sJects Of gold each sheet
being about }sS2 inches or a little over az
square inches. go thin are these sheets thai
1919 Of them piled one upon tho other makes
only an incn in hight
Cot. JAMES KINEALi, Triiilis. Ark: "Within
the next ten years venture the prediction that
Arkansas wines viii be on the tables Of all the
epicures Of this country. Nowhere else In the
republic. rot even iG California have they beeu
able 20 ac'limatze the French and the Rhine
grapes rs "" have. Rave drunk Mt home in
Geyille a ciIrrt which was grown within ten
miles II our village and wrich I would d.fv
your best vivcurs 10 distinguish from q comet
year Margaux. the Arkansas wet. wines are
equally good 10 their way, and there is q ppcu-
liar taste 10 them. q tang II the soil wricb is to
me their greatest charm. n. culture In Arkan
Sis i- ness departure bur you viii see that
our vineyard, will soon b. heard from II your
northern palal"s have not forgotten their
cunning one thing That our people yh0 nre in
This Industry are doing. which | think rs wise
j. that they nre noi trying ~ get up cheap imi.
tniipus % foreign wines Tgey no not cali their
red wines clar"ts nor their Wh,te wine, s1u-
trrn"s. but they give them good p,d- fashioned
Arkansas MINES. which shpH whore they came,
r5u and winch goa thicrRoaus VIII know