The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-19
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CONN. took 10 the woods and thereafter refused
all food.
AS TOKEN Of their esteem and admiration Of
NJ. Jules Simon. many Of his colleagues Of the
French Academy presented to him recently a
metal, bearing one sid his efflgy aud on the
other female fiSure symbolizing the genius of
Liherte."
GENTLEMAN in Philadelphia has received a
letter from lldy residing on the Allegheny
river, about 100 lies from Johnstown. viii, h
says that the river was covered with debris
from the foo I, and among the various articles
recovered was little cradle, in which was a
living baby.
Ma SENsEslAS of Mechanicsburg, Pa, heard
something fall few nights ago, but gave the
sound no heed, Next morning he found that
the bottom OF his cellar hal literally dropped
out and that the gable end of the house had
SUNK, and was in danger of falling. An under
| ground stream had caused tn sink.
TWIN GIRLS, weighing together only five
| pounds. eleven ounces, we're born in New York
few days ago. The smaller one weighed two
pounds, eight ounces. The attending physci IN,
IN ms rep TT to the bureau of vital statistics,
said that 1.-THE babies wer healthy, possessed of
| good lungs and pleasant in appearance"
MALE BEAUTY SHOW is to be opened in vi
emma. and the decisions are to be made by'a
jury of women. Four prizes will be awarded:
OF the nnest mousrache, the third to MIN who
mas the largest nose, and Re fourth to the COM
peLltor having the least hair on his head.
The Esquimaux of the Hudsons straits are in
the habit of making offerings of vari, u ar
ticlss to spirits and scraps of food, powder and
shots, tobacco and the like are to be found on
the graves of their dead But they are anxious
to conciliate all the known Supernatural
powers as we'll as the unknown, and there
fore, they made similar offerings to the beacon
IN the shape or man recently erected IN that
region.
HE Greek government has received informa-
ton that band of brigands under Staphytos
made their appearance last month in some of
the villages at Etolia, and that the peasants
al been giving shelter to them, as the chief
Staphytos. is the terror of Eolia, and they were
AFRAID OF his vengeance il the attempts to arrest
MIN proved unsuccessful. The government has
given orders for strengthening the military
forces in the district
THE PROJECT of a through Siberian railway is
still the subject OF two commissions and three
| sub-commissions. There is much discussion on
| the que 'tion of choosing the northern or SOUTH
ern route, the latter being virtually continue
/ u N the 1ranScaspian "a marc md Tashkend
| railway through Semip Il Atiack, Kopal Ku.dia
and as far as possible along.ths Chinese frontier
| A Moscow authority says that the northern
| route mas oeen decided upon, and that the line
VIII be begun in $780,
1 A@hONAhO OEAhBORN duQ Jennie MaylOfd OF
New Haven, Conn, were married last Novem-
Der, and on their wedding day, just as they were
leaving the church after the ceremony thew
were confronted by a coffin containing the re-
| mains OF young man who had died of rheuma-
tlsm The bride turned pale, and, with many
other persons, deemed it an omen of bad luck
| Tor herself and her husband. Searborn was
stricken with rheumatism'four weeks after his
marriage, and has been confined to his bed ever
since. DE is now so crippled and helpless that
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his wife attribute all their misfortune to meet
ing that corpse on their marriage day.
A DISPATCH from Newburg, n Y, dated
June II, says: within ninety days four mem
beers of the Cameron family have died, two of
them almost simultaneously. In March A M
Cameron OF the house of Arnold. Constable &
Co., New York, died. Some three weeks ago
his eldest son, John G., died suddenly at his
Hayerstraw home. Last evening W. F. Cam
eron, a brother OF A. NJ, and prominent citi-
zen OF Newburg, died after brief Illness This
morning dispatch received from Wash ngton
vile said lat NJ S. Lucreta Tuthill a sister of
w. 4. Cameron, 80 years of age, had died
almost at the same hour as her brother She
had been Ill but a short time, having suffered
two paralytic strokes.
AN odd case Of friendship was DEVELOPED dur.
| ing the examination OF applicants for positions
on the Washington police force. Three big,
| fne-looking soldiers cam togeLh..r TO be ex.
| amined. One OF, them acted as spokesman and
| said when they went TO police Headquarters to
nls their applications that they applied with
| the erstandins that il one OF the three was
not appointed, neither of the other two would
accept an appointment They were all dis
charged from the company they served in at
| about the same time and had decided not to he
| separated. II one of them the spokesman
said. failed to get an appointment to the police
force, all tlree of them would re-enlist in the
a my for the sa g of remaining together
AT A RECENT MEETING of the Royal Scottish
Society of Arts, A. D. Mackenzie read an eoi
tome of a paper prepared by him on the Risk
of fire from steam and hot water pipes.' The
result of experiments made by him was that
| under ordinary circumstances, wood, wool
cotton, paper and such like substances would
not fire under or even at the boiling point OF
mercury $500; and very probably th5 tempera-
ture at " w n they y would ignite readily was
he was aole to get on a hi Oh pressure hot water
pile was 5000, and he got that only by very hard
firing and by loading the safety valve The
| usual high pressure apparatus sci lom reached
| 1000, and, theref re, he conc uded that under
ordinary circumstances those pipes could not
orgi ate a tire. member of the society said
| their nests IN close proximity to the pipes, and
us collected quantities. of highly cornbustible
material from winch fires might originate.
THE AMERICAN LIFT in the Eiffel tower, at
Paris, was subjected to a final test before hand
ing it over for public use. The lift, which con-
| sists of Two apartments, one above the other
| weighs / 1000 kilogrammes, and loaded with
| 1000 kilogranmes of lead-tlat is TO saw weieyh
| ing 400 kilogIammes-was raised to a consid-
cradle nj Sht. There it was fastened W tn ordi.
| nary ropes, and this done it was detached from
| the caol-s of steel wire with which il Wa
| worked. What was to be done was to cut the
ropes aid allow the lift to ia / so as to ascer-
tain whether, if the steel cables we're to give
| way. tae breaks would work properly ana SIM
port the lift. Two carpenters, armed with
great hatchets, had assembled to the lift and
Were ready to cut the cabl IS on a signal There
was great anxiety. The signal was given. a
blow cut tne rope and the enormous machine
began TO fl !. Every one was startled; but in
| its downward course the lift began to move
| more slowi e, it swa}ed for moment from left
| TO right, stuck on The Urea and stopped There
was General cheering. Not pane OF glass in
tue lift had been broken or C acked A power
| tul arm seemed to have caught the lift in its
| de- cent and to have stopped 1t without snock
at a hight OF ten meters above the ground.
A swINDLER has been operating in New York.
and not without success, as this paragraph from
an article in the Times of that city shows.
| Thanks to the generous protection of the
| tariff the farmer began as he removed the
rags and displayed a lot of punches of grass
| Il have been able to develop and cultivate the
| renowned musk plInt. Only 10 cents a bunch
| for this beautiful and fragrant plant Then he
| took out uuncn after bun h, and handed them
to the assembly, adding, Put them in water
and they will send out roots Then pl mt them
| In earth, and every bunch viii rapidly grow
into large bush and ill al this neighborhood