The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-09

ing in the house with several children recently
when some one entered wearing hideous mask.
The child screamed, and Selling candle, ran
up stairs. In her fright she ignited her clothes
and died from the burns.
BARONESS OTrILLE BoRNEMIssA, daughter of
the millionaire, Henry De Schosberger has in
stituted proceedings in the Austrian Divorce
Court against her husband Baron BOrnemisSa.
The sole cause for her action is au unconquer
able aversion to her husband, who belongs to
the oldest Austrian nobility. The Baron in
tends coming to America to start farming.
THE Morning Star is1the smallest steamer
which has ever made the run between England
| and the Cape. She was designed by her owner,
Capt. r. Duncan of London and was built at
Leth. She is rs tons. yacht measurement, is of
teak, copper fastened, and is claSSed Al. Her
length is so feet between perpendicuars, over
all 50 feet, with II feet inches depth of hold.
EXTENSIVE USE is now being made in France
of the unique article known as wood wool. con
sisting of extremely thin and slender ShavngS
of wood, that are comparable to paper cut for
packing. 1t weighs some 10 or so per cent. less
than the materials generally used for such pur
pose and its beautiful appearance, ineness and
exceeding cleanness have brought it into great
| favor.
WICHITA, KAN, resorted to a unique measure
to reduce its tramp population, which previ-
| ously seemed incapable of diminution. Two
freight cars were hired, and, after filing them
with the stern opponents of work, they were at
tached to an east bound train, several guards
| going along to prevent the trampS escaping en-
route. The charges on the living load of frelgh
were paid for fifty miles.
| Bob MOODY and his sonn- law, Billy Berrie,
went out hunting recently in Maine, and each
| killed an old buck Moodys deer wouldn't lie
| STILL so the young man came over and emptied
the other barrel of his gun into it, and Went
| back to his own. Mr.. Moody started to cut the
deer's throat, and stuck the knife through, when
| the deer kicked out twice, jumped up and ran,
swan the river, and got away.
THE Chinese authorities were officially nOti-
fed of the last eclipse of the moon, and were in
structed what to do when the event took place.
They were TO wear court dress, beat gongs, and
save the moon from being swallowed up by the
sun as usual as long as the moon was above
the horizon. When she disappeared they were
to make one low obeisance, but need not bother
to save her any longer when she was below the
horizon.
AT the Star Theater, Wolverhampton, on
Boxing Night, crowded audience assembled to
witness the pantomime. 1.-The House that Jack
Built" Miss Sappho, the hero, Jack, was do
ing dance with skipping rope which had
been saturated with an nflammable material
and then ignited, when her dress caught fire.
The shouts of the audience warned her, and
men rushed forward and saved her before
rious injury was done.
SOME of the thirsty mortals of Wichita,
Kan, have concocted a neat scheme for evading
the prohibitory law. An organization, known
as the oklahoma band, with power TO do bust
ness in Wichita. has been chartered Officers
were duly elected, and stock issued at the rate
| of 81 per share. In one corner of the certifi-
| Gates are twenty stars. The holder has the
| tree to the club rooms of the band, which
known as reading rooms Here he presents his
| certificate, calls for what drinks he requires,
| and has the charges punched out on the stars
| in his certificate.
| HooK-swINGING and widow burning in India
| have been abolished; but it is said that in the
| Nizam's dominions there is a caste in which
when any of the members dies flag is attached
| to a bamboo, and the bamboo given to a man to
| hold over the corpse of the deceased. Then
| having retired to a convenient distance the
men of the caste open fire on the flag, probably
| by way of showing distress, and Of helping the
soul of the deceased on its journey to the other
world. 1t sometimes happens that the man
holding the flag is shot, and order has been
issued by the government prohibiting firing at
the flag in future
A BosToN POLICEMAN, hearing that a vacant
house had been entered by thieves, went to in
vestigate. A window was found open aud also
one of the doors, but nothing appeared to be
missing. While looking around the house a
noise as of water escaping was heard. and upon
going into the kitchen, a water pipe was found
to be leaking, and the innocent cause. in the
shape of large white rat, was found near by
been left behind by the last occupants of the
house, and, being thirsty, was knowing enough
to gnaw the hole found in the water pipe. He
was taken to the station house, where he was
fed and made more comfortable
Rosa BoNHEUR has often been commented
upon by her biographers for her male attire.
and the idea commonly obtains that it is her
| usual costume. But in the streets of Paris she
| is large, elderly lady, rather plainly dressed in
| black, her gray hair tucked under a close bon
net; and unless for the peculiar strength of her
| face and her piercing, attentive eyes il would
not be noticed that she differed from any other
! woman in the crowd, except that she wears the
| red ribbon Of the Legion of Honor Years ago
she dressed as boy so as to attract less atten-
| ton from the hangers-on of the stables cattle
yards, and menagerieS which were visited
chiefly by men, and she still wears male attire
at home at work Trousers make her feet an
pear small, and she also wears a wide brim med
felt or straw hat. In this costume she appears
lower in stature, and looks like a remarkably
well preserved middle-aged man.
THERE are some wonderful mountains in the
vicinity of Aimera, India. traveller desert hes
them thus: IAN of these mountains seem TO be
metamorphic, of marble and quartzand fissl,red
sandstone. Often the crests of the hills were
great lodges of quartz, which cleaned in the
hot sun and looked as if they were masses of
ice. The road was ballasted with this stone
and the plains were covered with il I'm broken
"a
sand acres of diamonds. | do not exaggerate
when | say that at one time, for a good many
miles, the eye was panied by the sparkling Of
these quartz or micacous stone. We entered
these mountains and found a most wonderful
formation. As far as my glass would enable
me to see the hills, rising several hundred feet
were q mass Of granite, here broken piled nm
and there in huge natural masses, and ali
waterworn as il a mighty torrent had tumbed
over them for countless millions of years
LIZZIE LINK, a 10-year-old girl Of Mount joy.
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, was discovered
10 be in a comatose condition the other day
while at school. When she entered the school.
room she told playmate that an old woman
had been following her, and was coming in
through the keyhole The child, with her eyes
tightly closed, cried loudly, "Gey week, the
Pennsylvania Dutch for Ego away" When re-
queSted 70 open her eyes she said the old woman
was holding them shut with her fingers Figures
were placed on the blackboard, and, notyit.,-
standing the fact that the girls eyes were
closed. she readily named all of them correctly
WITH the same precision she repeated W rds
which were written upon the blackboard bv the
teacher All questions were answered without
hesitancy. Letters AMI figures were written on
the foor with chalk AT different points and TO
the utter ainazement of those present the Girl
told IN every instance both their location and
character. The water can, basin. bucket and
the wearing apparel of other children in the
school were in turn held above her head and
behind her, and in every instance the nature of
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