The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-30

fruit trees.
A FRENCH manufacturing firm has brought
out new fabric made of the fibre of ramie and
called ramie linen, that is said to combine the
qualities of linen and silk, with double the
strength OF linen.
CONTINENTAL swINDLERs are palming off upon
British agriculturists great bargains in clover
seed that has been treated with sulphur fumes
to give it bright and new look, but that is
really old and worthless
ERNEST HULL of Lyme, Conn, caught a big
striped bass off shore in a novel way. The fish
was floating on the waves. seemingly benumbed
with the cold. Mr.. Hull thrust an oar into its
gills and towed it ashore. 1t weighed Az
pounds.
THIRTY-EIGHr YEARS AGO Mrs. Frank Burnett,
Of Minden, Mich lost pail Of butter in the
well. A few days ago it was determined to dig
the well deeper, and quite an amount o, the but
ter was found 1t is white but still solid, and
the butter favor is plainly discernible.
MISS ELIZABETH ROCKEFELLER who was mar
ried the other day to Charles A. Strong, received
$500 900 from her father as a wedding gift. Fl er
husband is preparing for the Baptist minist ~,
AID when he gets call can feel independe dent
of the people whose duty will be to eSti IN ate his
salary.
JOSEPH F. YOU'VE, of Augusta is the owner Of
one Of the smallest dogs in Maine. He is a cross
between ratter and spaniel both his parents
have been extremely diminutive Though now
months old the little canine weighs but
twenty four ounces, and is lost in the pocket of
an ordinary overcoat.
THE amount OF bullion held at the close Of
last week by the Bank of England the Bank Of
France and the Imperial Bank Of Germany the
three leading banks of Europe, was S471. 642, $50
gold and 1924 S29,6 silver, total Of 1886 Al,
9l5. This compares with SiS5, 325 $40 gold and
S3l1 499 165 silver, total of S7a6 S25, los same
time year ago, a decrease of 1888, 100
DURING 1888 England imported 81 ,41O barrels,
containing 2,4}4, $50 bushels of apples, from this
country, in addition to thousands of tons
brought from various parts of the continent.
England is paying out over $4,000 900 year to
foreign fruit growers, and more than $50, 000,-
600 yearly for imported food products, more
than half of which, it is claimed, could be
easily raised at home.
ALL the slaves used in this country are made
in Indiana, Michigan, Northwes, ern Iowa and
Canada. Indiana turns out about 5000, 900,
Michigan 600,000,OO0, Canada 200 100000. and
Northwestern Ohio makes big third of all the
slaves used in the United States In North
western Ohio there are more slaves made to-
day than ever before. The business has been
doubled within tie last ten years
case Of horse resurrection has come to
light in New6urg, n Y. A horse died, appar-
emily, on Thursday, and was buried beneath a
pile OF rubbish until equine undertaken
could be summoned to remove it to the bone
factory. On Saturday removal was attempted.
rope was fastened to the animal, and on the
first pull it to it's feet and frisked its tail
Now the equine is seen drawing garbage on the
streets.
THOMAS HARRIS, a queer old recluse who re-
Gently died intestate in China St. Clair county,
Michigan, leaving an estate of SIS 900 or $50 OOO
which may possibly escheat to the state. owned
good farm house. but he kept his wool in the
paror, his grain in the bed rooms, and slept on
a wagon box on the kitchen floor, using an old
sail for a cover ct and q couple of sheepskins
for pillow. The judge of probate is trying his
best to find il Harris has any legal heirs, but
with no success thus far
ONE of the American girls who was presented
at the queens drawing-roon was so embar-
raised that she made quite a fdtt1 pas. She
wholly ignored the queen until after she had
saluted the Princess of Wales, when she sud
denly turned around and astonished her ma
1esty by. saying: "Oh. | beg your pardon,
madam" grabbed her royal hand kissed il and
then hurried along the line. The queen, who is
q terrible stickler about m alters of etiquette at
first looked angry. then, catching sight of the
amused smile Of the Princess of Wales she
burst into pleasant laugh and sent the dis
comfited debutante away with few kindly
words,
STATISTICS gathered by the government show
that in India tigers every year cause the death
of nearly 1900 human beings and DESTROY
about 10000 cattle. The man eating tiger,
whose victim is more frequently a woman or a
Cnllu. Is a ID ISL OF peculiar nap It's: usually
aged tiger, no longer able TO catch the deer or
antelope, and perhaps with his teeth half worn
out, declininz conflict with the boar or the buff
falo He therefore lies in wait, amid the long
grass by the path where girls and old women
return from drawing water at the stream or
tank, o. passing from one hamlet TO another,
and If the last of them happens to lag behind
alone, stopping to adjust her dress or STOPPING
TO pick thorn out of her foot, the tiger leaps
FORTH seize her and carries her off, to feast on
her manglet flesh. 1t is seldom that this sneak
,..,n
attack man who carries anything like a
weapon unless the man has provoked the
combat.
A BILL for the better protection Of life and
property by night has been introduced into the
British parliament. 1t proposes that if any one
armed with dangerous weapon or instrument
enters or attempts to enter a dwelling house in
the night with intent to commit a felony he Is
to De guilty Of felony; and, in addition TO any
punishment TO which he is now liable he is to
be liable 70 be sentenced to be p lyateiy whipped
three times. In the case of an offender VINO is
under 10 years OF age, the number of strokes at
each whipping must not exceed twenty FIVE and
the instrument must be birch rod. In the case
or any otner male offender the number of
strokes at each whipping is allowed to 20 up to
nifty. The court must, however, always specify
IN its sentence the number Of strokes to be in
hicted and the instru nent to be used and no
whipping Is 10 take place more than six months
from the assage Of the sentence. For the pur-
poses OF the measure the light" is made 10
until O'Clock in the morning.
The tide seems to have turned against Kha-
lifa Abdullah, the successor OF Mohammed
Ahmed in the title and Office OF mahdi The
defeat which he has suffered at the hands OF
Senoussi the Kordofan sheik, who has always
opposed his pretensions, will do much TO de-
stroy his prestige, which, like that OF his pred
ecessor, depended uniform success. The
battle at Sinan is not the only one in which the
mahdi has met disaster from Senoussi, but 1t is
the one abo It which the most definite accounts
have been given. II Is evident that he can no
longer ma ntain his authority throughout the
great provinces southwest Of Khartoum The
suggestion at once occurs that with the division
OF his forces at Kordofan, in the operations
around Suattm, and in those on the Upper Nile,
near Emin Pasha's stations he will be likely to
withdraw his pressure Agai st the last Unless
Emin has already periShed or been captured,
the difficulties which Khalifa Abdullah is ex-
periencing within 200 miles of Khartoum must
give ground for trusting that Emin's hardest
time is over. The disintegraton OF the vast
power that has been built up i'm Central Africa
under the mahdi and his successor will perhaps
now be in order.