The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-11
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next stale election
IL LIGHTING PARIS all machinery, wires and
apparatus employed must be exclusively of
French manufacture.
The AUTHORITIES in Aristook county, Maine,
say that the lumbermen kill ten deer to every
one brought down by the sportsmen.
Col. JERox NAPOLEON BoNAPARTE's villa
at Newport l.. was entered by thieves Mon
day, and quantity Of wines and spirits stolen
ANOTHER BELLED BUzzARD, making the second
since Dec. 15 has been captured near Paris, KY
On the bell was engraved M K. White, Gar
retsburg, 1912.
IL the Passaic county New Jersey courts
Friday Judge Hopper sentenced Washington
Wheeler to state prison for six years for send
ing his little children out to beg and cruelty
beating them when they returned empty
handed.
For the supper to be served at the inaugura-
ton ball in Washington there will be provided
q. 900 raw oysters, 10000 stewed oysters, 5000
chicken croquettes, 5000 sweetbread pates, 300
gallons of terrapin, and other articles of food
In proportion.
A CoRoNER's JURY in New Rochelle. n Y,
after an investigation into the death of an in
FAINT reached the conclusion that the child
came to its death. Jan. q, 1889. through the
ignorance of its mother and her husband, from
causes unknown to the jury"
A BURGLAR in Wheeling, West Virginia, who
awoke one of the sleepers in house he was
ransacking, wasn't unnerved in the least by the
query, WHO'S there ?" He replied, Never
mind, you've been dreaming" and then con
tinued his search for valuables.
INSIGNIA of the British Knights of Bath, here
tofore made Of gold and extremely costly and
paid for out of the British treasury are a thing
of the past. Hereafter these insignia are to be
made of silver gilt. and BY contract at a
Birmingham shop in large patches.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO a couple were mar
ried in Brockton, Mass, and lived together for
five years. Then they separated and for twenty
years have not lived together, but they have not
been divorced. The odd thing about it IL that
every Sunday night he calls on his wife and
spends the evening with her
THE French Reuue des Colonies reports that
from plant called Kanaff, which grows in the
summer on the shores of the Caspian, NJ 0.
luxembourg, chemist, has obtained admir-
able textile matter, which is SOFT elastic. tough
and silky, and which can be bleached chemically
without losing these properties. The resistance
of this new material is said to be far greater
than that of hemp, while its specific weight is
much less
NJ. MAsPERo, the Egyptologist recently
brought back from Egypt royal mummy. The
case had to be opened at Marseilles by the Gus
tom house officer. Being told it contained q
Pharaoh the officer looked up Pharaoh in the
tariff, but as it was not to be found he decided
that Pharaohs, being an article of which there
was no mention should b. taxed according to
the highest scale. So NJ. Maspero was made to
pay as for dried fish.
As RESULT of the mild winter it is said there
is glut of eggs in the New York market The
moderate weather has persuaded the hens all
over the country to commence laying much
earlier than usual. Some old dealers believe
that there will be a scare ty of eggs later in the
summer They believe IN the theory that a hen
lays certain number of eggs in year, and if
she lays more in an early warm season she Will
lay fewer later on, or stop altogether.
LIZZIE HUMPHREYS s-year-old child of Pitts
burg, reached Boston a few mornings ago en-
route to her grandmother in wonson, Me. She
was travelling alone, and as she sat in a high
chair in the depot restaurant eating she at
tracted the attention of kind hearted Boston
doctor. He spoke to the little traveller and
learning that she was an orphan and of her
distant destination, sought out an officer of a
chart able institution and had Lizzie well cared
for until the departure of her train in the even
ing.
REV DR.. HAYGooD says: There is an impress
sion up north that the only education the negro
is getting is from the funds contributed bv
northern philanthropists to certain colleges and
schools in the south. | once said to a northern
bishop after hearing him make an address on
this subject. that the south expended in her
system of common schools for the education Of
the negro many times the amount contributed
by northern people to a few southern schools
He replied that he had never thought of the
matter in that light before. and that the sugges-
ton was a revelation to him."
THERE are in Servia a small body of Christ
ians called Nazarenes. They have an ancient
history, being descendants of a very early body
of Christian disciples. They are, as they have
always been, opposed to war, and therefore to
military service, considering such unlawful
from the CHRISTIAN standpoint. According to a
letter, which has just found 10 way to some
friends in England, for avowing these opinions
and for for certain resistance offered to the law
OF the land, TIVE We men and seven women have
been sentenced to terms of Imprisonment vary
ing from three to sixteen months.
THE Melbourne Ar0us reports that horrible
affair occurred at Hawkesbury Bridge Sydney.
New South Wales, during December. Mr. Rv-
land. OF Messrs. Ryland aud Morse. sub-con-
tractors for the erection OF the superstructllre
of the bridge, was walking along the top OF
one Of the spans when he missed his footing
and fell some fifty feet into the water below
AS he was falling a huge shark was observed
Immediately below, and the unfortunate man
had scarcely reached the water when the mon
ster seized him, and both disappeared under
water, which at once became tinged with
blood
ACCORDING to the Uhldnds Wochenschrift, the
total consumption Of tobacco in Europe may be
put down at an average of pa pounds to each
inhabitant In the Netherlands the proportion
is a little over pounds to each inhabitant, in
Austro-Hungary S8 pounds, in Denmark 81
pounds in Switzerland 33 POUNDS, in Belgium
SO pounds, in Germany pounds in Norway
90 pounds, in France 81 pounds, in Sweden
nearly pounds in Spain IL pounds in Great
Britain and Ireland "a pounds in italy 1 25
pounds and in Russia 12 pounds In the United
States the proportion is greater than that of
any European country except Holland; il
amounts to AZ pounds per inhabitant.
A RATHER SINGULAR CoINCIDENC occurred in
the pension Office on Canal street, New York,
the other day. 1t was the usual quarterly pay
day for the veterans, relates the World and
over 100 were drawn up in line awaiting their
turn at the window. In the row were three men
whose appearar ce denoted that their soldier
life during the war had been anything but pleas
ant. Tae three were in success ion, and when
the first reached the paying teller's window he
answered 10 the name of Wilkes Tbi, did not
occasion much surprise TO those who stood
near, but when the second man answered to the
name of Booth there WAS a great deal of
anxious staring at the two men. But the climax
was reached when the third man stepped e. the
window, and in answer to the clerk said his
walked out of the office they were the cynosure
OF every eye in the room.
A BUSINESS firm IN Portland. Ore, prints the
following notice in the Oregonidn: We would
like to inform the gentlemen Of the light
fingered persuasion, as our safe has now been
drilled four times, that we never leave a cent in
II, as we deposit all money taken in after 3
p. m with a firm in this city. We would be
quite willing TO give the parties in question the
combination OF the safe to save them the
trouble of drilling any mora holea novu