The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-02

forms. cold draft of air issues continually
from the cavern and congeals the water
AN Elmer COre) paper publishes the following
remarkable story: e c. Stanper, citizen of
! Elmer, has just completed working up fir tree
which grew on his place adjoining town. He
rec lived Sl2 for the bark; built a frame house
l4S3p. feet high, with shed kitchen feet wide
and - feet long; built a wool shed !4X20 feet;
made 30 fence rails 10 feet long; made 334 rail
road Ties and 800 boards inches wide and Feet
long, and IS cords Of wood 4 feet wide and
| teei long, all from one tree, and has part OF
| the tree left"
JOHN JoNKs, a wealthy but eccentric charac-
/ ter living near Kenneth, Chester county, Penn
/ sylvsnia. died few days ago. He was highly
educated and good talker. but, although ric1,
he dressed in the most careless fashion, and his
farm buildings looked like those of poor
| renter rather than the abode of a wealthy land
| holder. He drove about the neighborhood in
an Oh ram-shackle wagon. his head adorned
! with red wiz. around which was 2-inch
! fringe OF snow-white hair, making complete
halo around his head.
GEORGE W. TAYLOR Of Cincinnati learned re-
Gently for the first time that he has been dead
ever since 1861. He was a member of Company
y. Que Hundred and Eighty-third Ohio Volun-
teer Infantry. letter was received from him
at the adjutant generals Office asking for a
certificate of his rvlce in the army On look
ing up his record it was discovered that he had
been carried as dead on the records of the
war department at Washington. According to
this ne died Of his wounds at Franklin, Tenn,
Ia 1864. It viii be Strengthened up.
THE SULTAN OF TURKEY is slathering costly
gifts around among the rulers of Europe with a
reckessnssS Of expense that betokens a desire
on ms part TO 20 snooSS with the winner of the
general war for which the continent seems to
be preparing. The sultan, while he has never
been openly accused If being Unfortunately rich
has one gr at financial advantage over the rest
of us great men. When his wife's bonnet goes
or ont Of IN ha hoy
to pony up for new one. He simply gives her
| away TO somebody add gets for himself a new
| wife ready rugged out. In this way, as it will
/ be re tdlly seen, he manages to lay by a good
| deal OF money for cold day.
Two weeks ago, while engaged in examining
| the public archives at The Hague, Gen. James
| Graut Wilson met with letter addressed to the
| States-General Ct the U tied Netherlands by
| +. Schagen. dated Amsterdam, Nov r 1926
| a nouncng the pu chase Of the island of Man
haitian by the Dutch West India Company for
| the sum of S24 Two days later he found the
| original deed, which a lain unknown for 1863
! years amor & the papers of an ancient Dutch
| family. Gt n. Wilson hopes to be able to pur-
/ chase the deed The discovery was made in the
| course of researches concerning hrs Wilson's
| bayaid ancestors, who came to America in 1917
WIN the last OF the Dutch governors, Peter
! StuyveSant.
The CHINESE are antipodal to us in more ways
| than one Many of their customs are the re-
/
ana drink hot wines. Chinese men hasten TO
put on their hats in the presence of tn Jse whom
they wou honor. They shake their own hands
| instead OF those OF their friends. The family
| names come before their given names In
| emma the old men fly kites and play games
| Mnle the chlldr II stand demurely looking on
mere are many ways in which their manners
| conform to the physical fact that they are on
| one side of the globe while we are on the other:
| tnat when it is nj; t with us it is day with them
| AND now we understand the Chinese women are
| STRIVING 70 make their feet seem larger than
| they really are.
| The food consumed on one of the large
! steamships from New York to Liverpool was as
| follows: Nine thousand five hundred pounds Of
| neeI, Avn pounds of mutton, 900 pounds of
| la NO, pounds of veal 150 pounds of pork
| l40 pounds of picked legs of pork GOO pounds
| OF cOrned tongue, 700 mounds of cArnad beef
| 2OJO pounds of fresl fish, 20 pounds of calves
| Ieet, Is pounds Of calves heads $50 fowls. $40
I sprln chickens 120 ducks. so turkeys, so geese
| 90 SQUADS, 800 tins of sardnes 800 plovers 175
| pounds OF sausages. 1900 pounds of ham 500
| pounds OF bacon, 10000 eggs, 2 900 quarts of
milk, zoe pounds OF butter, 40 pounds of coffee
81 pounds of tea, 500 pounds OF sugar, 100
| jars of jam and jelly SO bottles of pickles 56
bottles OF sauces, 20 barrels of apples "A boxes
OF lemons, 10 boxes Of oranges, tons of pota-
toes, 81 barrels of -four
THE conference of the Canterbury diocese
| evolved several interesting features of discus
teach with effect must study the world as il
! existed without Christ, aud read more broadly
| and deeply. Upon Canon Westcott's declare
| tlOn OF tne cturch'S DUTY to promote Deaca
NlScount Cranorook asked whether they could
| pc quite sure that state Of peace might not
aIter all be NOR angerous a degrading
! thng for nation than war? He was not S ire
| that the selfShness and the apathy produced by
| d long period OF peace might not bring evils as
| great to a nation those of the battlefield
| mere was more vice and vic ledneSS in one of
| taelr large towns than occurred in a bqttle or
| probably in war The result of the d iScu sion
| was resolution passed, with one dissentip
| voice: That the President be requested to con
| sldef whether 1t is desirable to provide that an
annual day be appointed r special prayer that
| II might please God to give to all nations unity
| peace and concord" Gambling, which every
| body condemned, was defined by Arch leac0n
Smith as tie ''risking of sums larger than
| man could afford to lose on venture over which
| ne could exercise little or no control"
SINCE Proctor Knott won the junior cham
! pion and the futurity stakes he has shared hon
ors with john L. Sullivan as a citizen of the
world In the west particularly his fame is
kept upon the tongues of men 1t IS reported
from Louisville that Sam Bryant will sell the
| great geldng Of his partner, George Scoggan
at the close the Saratoga meeting where the
| ness, as Bryant fOndly dis ingus les hin,
| Will try conclusions with Salvador in the onnri
| bus STAKES This news will be questioned by
! those who know Mrs. Sam Bryant She is
! Proctor knOtts godmother She named him
! after the h -ntucky statesman and her wishes
| IN regard TO the horse have always b. an carried
| out. She is the tinaLcier of the firm Of 1NIrs
| Bryant and husband She .es the fhinki1o
| the planning and the executing Mrs Rrv
| ant will sell Proctor Knott if she wants
| TO, but she is as fond of the horse
! as her husband, and sentiment may
! control her actions. When Proctor Knott
! won the tuturity part of that rich purse wrnt
| to buy Mrs. Bryant a pair of diamond earrings
! and, although they were bou Eht at second hand
| from well-knOwn expire fighter who secured
! them IN George Law S famous grand free diStri
button, they are beautiful and Mrs BRYANT fa.is
kindly to the horse for winning them for her
| If Scuggan does buy him h. will nav n good
round SUM for him. When Proctor Knott vas
pulled double at Nashville to let his stable coro
! panlon, Come-tO-Taw, win the S2OpO San,
Bryant shouted to the admiring crowd. HIS
| the finest horse that ever looked throurh
bride Losing both the Kentucky and the
chicago derbles has not shaken his faith He is
stu r ady to proclaim Proctor Knott the
nObltst work Of horses. ~
The struggle between the high church and
low church parties a point of fundamental
importance has come to a rest for the time. For
long period it has been the desire of the Ritu-
lists to obtain the creation of a court for tine
determination of religious questions. which
should be more in accord with their IDEAS than
tie one in existence now. At present DISPUTES
arising from the church go to the courts of
law These said Canon Gregory in the de-