The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-20
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the King of Belgium has devised the ingenious
scheme of sending the Sultan a complete rail
way train with lot of rails, as present
The sum of SIN, OGo has been returned to the
Congregational Union in the last thirty -four
years by churches which were aided in the
erection of houses of worship by this noble
society. There are now so unhouSed conSre-
cations that are appealing for aid.
An EXPRESS MESSENGER on the ST. Paul mel
with a painful and peculiar accident at Ripon,
Wis, recently He had a gold ring on one Of
his fingers and as he attempted to swing him
self from the car to the ground the ring caught
in the door in such a manner as to pull the nnger
completely Oft,
PRoF. ST. Andrews, of the Central Expert
mental Farm of Canada, proposes trying some
experiment with hardy variety of tea grown
in Japan, and which, 1t IS hoped, may prove
successful in the Dominion, as the northern
part of Japan has q climate about as cold as
that of the Ottawa valley.
SUrToN the desperate creature who was
hanged in Oakland, Cal. last week. had pre-
sentiment the day before his death that lie was
| destined to win in lottery. He bought two
tickets, therefore, and gave them TO certain
friends who had shown him kindness in his last
hours. The tickets did not pay a cent.
Two STARTLING, not to say romantic, events
have transpired at Vassar College since the
opening of the present school year. Oneyoung
lady, who was passing herself off as being stu
in the market, was discovered to have been
married for some time. Another far damSel
Tell into the college lake and was rescued by
handsome artist who was riding by:
A RUBBER BALL, two inches smaller than the
pipe was placed in one end of new natural
| gas moin in McKeesport, and five pounds
| dressure suddenly turned on. The ball turned
| several sharp corners, passed through two L
| joints up six feet to the top of the regulator
and landed at the other end Of the main, mile
| distant, in forty-fve seconds, actual time.
a RUSSIAN GENERAL has created great sen
sation in Europe by furnishing an elaborate
| scheme for the construction of a railway
| through Siberia to the Pacific ocean, 1t is in
! tended to 20 by the shortest possible cut from
| the Urals to the Pacific ocean The total cost
Of the road Is estimated at 500. 10000, which,
| it is believed can be readily raised IN Russia
| itself.
IN the District Court at Waco, Tex, Andrew
Miller. negro preacher, charged with the theft
| of a cow when brought for trial, wished to open
| the court with prayer. The Judge requested the
| Sheriff to take the prisoner to the Judges pri-
vate office and let him pray After prayer the
! prisoner was convicted of theft, as charged in
the indictment, aud given two years in the
penitentiary.
| THE New York sun has information that the
one great social fortress in Europe which old
! prejudices have hitherto kept shut against the
| the Jews the Austrian court, has finally capitu-
| lated Baron and BARONESS Albert Rothschild
| have been declared HQHGh{q, or capable OF
| being received at court, and consequently. in
Vienna and in all Austria there is no longer any
| official barrier to prevent the entry of Hebrews
into the fashionable and aristocratic circles.
REV. CHARLES HERR. pastor of the Bergen
Avenue Presbyterian Church, of Jersey City, is
| said to have lost between el5OOO0 and $500 600
| by the failure of Alfred Sidmau, of the sus-
! pended Stock Exchange firm Of Timpson & Co.,
| New York The failure was due TO losses in a
! wheat deal, but the friends of Mr.. Herr assert
! that he did not enter into the speculation, but
merely put his money in the firm as capital. He
offered his resignation pastor, but his congre-
| CATION refused to accept it.
| CHARLES PRATT's gift to the people of Brook
| Ign of the free use of the reading and Ii
brary of the new Pratt Institute on Reyerson
/ street was made last week The library con
tains about 1900 Volumes and half as many
more are to he added this year. 1t has been
| chosen with unusual care. The reading room
! will contain some 800 encyclopedias and other
| works of reference; 125 standard English and
| American periodicals, and few newspapers.
This is the first free library in the city.
PROF. F. S JAMES, of Philadelphia, is organic
ing local Academy of Political and Social
Science, taking for model, partially, the
| French Academy of Political Science" The
P,ess, in speaking Of, the. enterprise. says:
| with the multitude of societies there is none
| here which fills just the space such body
| would. collecting library, publishing transac-
tons and giving permanency and direction to
| the deSultOry study in progress on this subject
| in and out of the university"
| A CURIOUS SUIT was brought before an Alder
man in Reading. Pa, the other day. John
| Sheetz sued man named Vented to recover
| 10c. which he aimed was due him from the de-
| PENDANT. Sbeetz had sold Vented a crock of
| apple butter, and claimed that Vented had re-
| fused to return the crock, according to agree
ment. Tue plaintiff swore that crock was
| worth from &c. to 10C.. while in Wenrzel's opin-
| ion it only worth from &c to Sc, The
| Alderman cave judgment in favor of She4tz for
| lOc, and the costs, amounting to several dol
| lars.
Mrs. DORA WISE Of Eaton county, Michigan,
who recently celebrated her 9Sth birthday ami
versary. was born at Livingston Manor near Hud-
son. N. Y. in 1889. and moved to Michigan in
1S48, at which time she walked all the way from
Toledo, carrying child in her arms Mrs Wise
had nine daughters eight of whom are living
and who were present at the anniversary Their
combined age, with that of their mother
reaches the large total of $50 years. Beside the
eight daughters. the old lady has 50 grandchil-
dren. no great grandchildren and II great-great
grandchildren.
The northern oil basin known as Bradford
field which lies in the upper part of Mexican
county, Pennsylvania, and a small portion of
Cattaraugus county, New York, has produced
down to the close of 1887 10000 600 barrels of
crude petroleum, or 6,9G4 100000 gallons. The
! field commenced producing oil in 1868 but little
was done in the way of development until 1875,
when the Butts well. near Tarfoot marked the
pening of the Bradford field The production
the year 1870 was about $4,000 barrels. The
l'Xt year It was increased to 3S0, 900 barrels and
in 1914 20 l,420O 900 barrels.
The Central cemetery of Vienna is intended
to become for the capital of Austria what the
Pere Lachaise is for Paris. A number of great
men that iourished in Vienna have already
been buried there and in spring the remains of
the great musicians Mozart Beethoven Scbu
bert and Chuck. will be transferred TO the Spot
selected for them In time that place will he r
grove of monuments of great geniuseS The
Vienna Anthropologc Society has asked Der.
mission to take advantage of he time between
the diSinterment and reinterment of these men
for examining their skulls, and in order to have
the research made as infinitely as possible n
committee of practical men has already been
appointed for 1t, namely: Drs. TIL Meynert C.
Toldt, L. kundrat and Weisbach.
THERE is a grim monument erected in the
Atchison lKan) public cemetery, placed there
by Mrs Richard Harris who still resides in the
city with her two children, and who seems to
have wished to make the peculiar death of her
husband lesson to all young men who might
visit the place of burial. The monument as de.
scribed by a correspondent, is a dullred granite
shaft, broad at the base and tapering toward
the top and stands on a slope some Fifty feet
back from the main road, The image of a
snake, about as large as a mans arm, is wound
about it from the base to the apex. On the four