The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-17
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! yum 70 De sung by the choir to lively tune.
with the remark Perhaps it NAV serve to
wake the congregation up and it did
THERE are 5000 women telegraph operators in
England earning anywhere from $500 to 81 goo
| year. The to egraph being a branch of the
| clv service in England it is necessary for them
| TO pass competitive examination before en-
| ploymehtl Is given tnsm.
WE'LL KNOWN Bath Me, society bells is at
present encamped in the woods near Eustis, en-
| 1oylng excellent cunning, in company with rea-
ives. She Is quite successful sport and
writes to friend ia Bath that she is going to
shoot bear before she comes home.
A YOUNG MAN of Albany, n y, who brides
himself on his ability to do queer things. now
astonishes his friends by tossing I'D grape.
! ana as 1t comes down, cutting it exactly in two
| WIN one stroke of his razor. 1t took him over
hVe weeks to learn the trick. and it cost him the
enc or one of his fingers before he succeeded
SIR LYON PLAyFAIR says that during seven
| Teen years service as member of parliament he
| came in contact with the most eminent medical
men OF England, and he put the question 90
| HoSt OF them: ID you, in your extensive
| l,ractlce. ever know patient who was afraid to
| No "
CURIOUS paper by an English organist upon
| Melody in Speech" asserts that COW moos in
| perfect fifth and octave or tenth: a dog berks
III NTH or fourth: a donkey brays in a perfect
| octave; horse neighs in descent on the chro-
| matte scale Each person has a Fundamental
Key IN which he generally speaks but which he
oI'rn trahsllo eS IN SYN athy with other voices
| or "nen h IS excited.
| NEAR the soda springs of Ashland. Ore. Their,
is sprlts which ernitS gas SO poisonous as to
XIII whatever may breath it, and it is said that
uh9re IS almost constantly ring OF birds
! sha%eS, lizards and small deer lying dead about
II; me same deadlinesS is claimed for spring
somewhere IN Idaho. and in both it is thought
| that concentrated form of carbonic acid gas
! is the active agent of destruction.
THE Presidents writing desk, a Washington
letter says, is made Of oak from the British ship
| ReSolute, which was rescued in the Arctic
OCEAN, thoroughly rebuilt by the United states
| government and sent to England. This is not
| & last card. The British government took ont
| some OF the oak in the original frame work OF
! tae SNIP and had superb desk male, which all
| tae Presidents of the United States have used
| since
NOVEL WATCH is being manufactured
| 5y the Waltham Watch Comrany. The
case plates are of Brazilian peb-
bic, or rock crystal. Holes ere drilled
| IN the crystal plates for the various screws and
re1 a the pyots are set il rubies and sapph
| lres, ana the plates are held apart by sapphire
| pillars The dial is a skeleton of gold Dia-
mondS mark he hours and ruoes the minute.
| Inc watch is of course transparent
The second blue" lobster taken in Connect-
cut waters was caught last week by the Wilcox
brothers, lobstermen, of Mystic. The lobster
was OF q beautiful bright blue hue and at
tracted mnch attention. At about the same
time the WilcoXes took monster lobster in a
trap on the West Ground in the ocean, that
turned the scales at Ii pounds one claw weigh
ing 31a pounds. A few months ago a prent
island.
FISHING in Alaska is good, if a Canadian gen.
tleman recently visiting there tells the truth.
He says that at Tongass Narrows he saw
creek so crowded with salmon that the surface
was actually hlackened with their backs and
dorSal fins. In some places they were crowded 81
closely that they could hardly move aud could
oe picked out OF the wat-r by hand. At can
nlng establishment he saw 5000 fish lust taken
waiting treatment, and in one case one draught
OF seine brought to shore 800 salmon.
a RICH MERCHANT of Tartar Bazardjik while
travelling some time ago captured by
band OF origands They held him prisoner until
they obtained from his family the following,
raus pm: six Martini rifles with ammunition
80 pairs or shOeS, as many shirts. ornamented
with the finest Russian embroidery: 81 pai,,s of
stockings of the best quality IS cakes of scented
soap, all equal quantity of ivory combs three
dozen. less one, of ivory cigarette holders a
large quantity of tobacco and CT sarettes and a
neatly assorted stock of cognac vermouth bit.
tiers and cheese.
CITIZEN Of Roselle, n j. is the owner of a
wonderful Tabby cat. He has devoted a great
deal of time to the education of the animal
and pussy shows degree of intelligence that
astonshes the natives The cat will wink with
IFS right or left eye as commanded bv her
master, beat time with one of her paws when
he sings selections from the German opera and
PICK out the queen in a pack of cards He is
now trying to teacn rabby to NEW Home
Sweet Home, while he plays the accompani-
ment on his violin. but he fears his efforts ia
this direction will not be successful
THE religious meetings of the modern Quaker
do not differ materially from those of other de
nominations. They have abandoned the most
OF their old customs. A Brunswick Me gen
tleman remembers attending a Quaker meeting
In that town sixty years, ago and thus describes
the service: The preacher arose and said:
There is balm in Gilead repeating the same
three times, and soon after sat down, keeping
silence for about half an hour, when he declared
the meeting closed and the audience dispersed
There was more pith in this discourse than
there is In many longer sermons nowadays
NEARLY half a century ago the fee exacted bv
the Dean of Westminster for the admission of
Bacon's monument to the Earl of Chatham was |
$500. Since that time the same system of ex
tortion has gone on. although Westminster Ar |
hey is in theory place where the bust of the |
poorest peasant can find niche, provided he
was genius whom his country admired IL |
appears that sculptors are willing to paw this |
fee in order to enter their work in the museum
OF Englsnd's departed heroes The last case of |
the kind excited so much public disgust that the |
chapter abated good deal from its first charge
MANY YEARS AGO there lived in Brunswick |
Me-. prosperous old quaker farmer named |
Jones, whose conscience troubled him if he took |
any moro Of his neighbours money than he con. |
sidered q fair equivalent for whatever he sold |
He fixed one price for his butter and never
would take any more, no matter what the state
of the market might be. One morning his son |
Thomas was sent to the village with a not Of |
butter, which he sold for Is cents a pound On
his return he gave his father the proceeds of |
his sale. The old gentleman sent lin immed. |
ately back to the purchaser to refund cents a |
pound.
IT Is told Of a book publisher Of Toronto that
he wrote to an American author whose book he
proposed to republish. offering him / cent a
copy If the author would furnish the stereotype
plates. The author replied that he wanted 10
cents a copy. whereupon the Canadian wrote
that he would rather make new plates and that
the book would b. out about Sept 3. The au-
thor kept quiet until Sept. and then wrote to
the Canadian publisher saying that he ought
perhaps TO tell him that the book be proposed
10 pirate had been copyrighted IN England AS
the English copyright holds in Canada the To-
routo man has a set of plates that he will sea
cheaply.
OCCASIONALLY narrowing accounts of the suf
rerings of survivors of shpwrecks are published.
and it makes ones blood run cold TO hear OF
people out for days in open boat with only
two crackers aud a bucket OF water to a man.
and as the days pass by and no friendly sail
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