The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-18
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OF Boston are making arrangements to provide
music for their guests at dinner, and in one or
Two cases this innovation has already been in
troduced-
| IRE LATEST BRITISH ANNEXATION consists of
Humphrey and Rleson Islands, in the South
Pacific. They form part of the Manihiki group
and lie north of Cook and the Society Islands,
and to the northeast of Samoa
INCERTAIS DISTRICTS Of Washington the street
numbers are badly mixed up. It is said that
when the colored people move. as they fire.
quently do, they generally take the door number
Win them and put it on their new house.
TIE PORTUGUESE give all their sovereigns
special titles supposed to be indicative of their
dominant characteristics. Thus there have
oeen Dom John the Restorer (of the BraganZa
nne), Alfonso the Victorious, Pedro the Re
fedro the Unfortunate. The estimable king
Good.
THERE is an organization of amateur sports
| men at Mohnsville, Pa, in Cumru township,
known as the Silver Leaf Hunting Club. who
make speciality of capturing polecats with
hounds. So tar this season they have caught 20
polecats, ID raccoons and possums, besides
hal1 dozen ground hogs. The skins OF the
polecats are very valuable. and the club are
making good thing in the curing and sale of
| them.
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United States bonds to an Adrian Mich. banker
last week which they had been ignorantly
hoardlng since the second year after the war
and until the cashier told them they had been
called IN in lSl 4, they supposed the bonds had
been bearing interest all the while Then the
bank man consoled them with the Statement
that the interest on So 900 for IS years at 8 DER
cent. would have amounted to 5000 if the bonds
had been cashed and the money mt into the
bank.
AN IMPRESSIVE LESSON for the United States
comes from South Africa. where no rain has fall
len for year, and there is much suffering from
want OF water. Prof. Seeley, the American
geologlst, who has just made tour of the coun-
Try, says the same cause that ruined Egypt,
Mesopotamia and India. once the most fertile
countries in the world is at work in South Az
RIGA 1t is the destruction of the timber and the
sa ne cause that turned those countries into des
ertS' Is producing the same effect in South At
r1ca. IL is at work in the United States, and we
snail see destructive effects from it before MANY
years.
MISS WAY, an elderly lady, living alone at
| Salem, Conn.,, cIeverly baff1ed gang of thieves
| who invaded her house few nights ago She
was writing near a window when a shotgun
was thrust through the pane of glass; and
| voices demanded her money. She seized the
gun, but it was soon taken from her She then
blew out the light, FASTENED to the room where
ner money was kept, in an old valse, carried it
70 the cellar, and, quietly escaping through a
hatchway, hurried across the fields. while the
ROBBERS were vainly searching the house for her
wealth
GEORGE COVE, of Leach's Flats, Pa, routed
a rabbit out of a faIlow on his place the other
| day, intending to fire at it after il had RIM a
snort distance. Just as he went to pull the
| trigger large hawk darted down, captured the
| rabbit and attempted to rise. The rabbit
Squealed and struggled 70 free ITSELF while the
nawk lighted claws and got good hold
When the hawk had got about fifteen feet from
4 the ground with its prey Mr. Cove fred II
| dropped like stone and died in a moment The
RABBIT was dead, too, although none of the shot
| had hit it. ssTsCt
PATTI, the divine singer, receives the largest
wages ever paid TO an artist. human or divine.
Sne is paid $500 every night she sings in the
Albert Hall in London. Even with this
ana the expenditure of 81, 900 for each concert
her managers are able to show a profit of from
S2,OUO to $4,000 per night. Patti has earned by
her own exertions more money than anv fve
women that ever lived on the face of this earth
her receipts since she began singing in public
IWenty -ilve years ago, cannot be much short of
S2,VSVuUV' ana sne mas several years of profta-
Die farewelling ahead of her
APEcuLIAR SCENE was witnessed the other
evening in Paris The horses which passed
| along the boulevard at the top of the Rue Louis
lie Grand seemed seized with vertigo, iumpinD
about like sheep. The disorder soon became s0
great that the police officials had to ston the
tratIlc ON the street: The cause of the trouble
was then discovered. One of the electric ca hles
placed under the thoroughfare and leading to
a lamp-poSt had become dsarranged and
coming in contact with the damp wooden pave,
ment the horses, in passing over it. received a
shock. Some of the company's workmen were
soon on the spot, and restored things to Their
normal condition. The next morning, however.
slight shocks, it is stated, were experienced at
the same place. -f-u.
HARTFORD. Conn, is somewhat stirred I'D
over the contest between the LIQUOR dealers and
a not r~ho Last
commissioners to cut the number of saloon
licenses in Hartford from 230 down to 100 and
especially to refuse licenses for liquor selling in
groceries. The liauor men, including the
brewers and large wholesalers, have decided to
get even by Withdrawing their patronage from
the slgners, who were mostly business and pro
fessional men, Already leading coal mer-
chant has been notified by brewer who used
1900 tons annually, to send him no mere coal
and 1000 worth of fire Insurance. business has
been taken away from single insurance firm
some OF the petitioners are backing down
while others say they will stand by their guns
ACCORDING TO the chef of the Grand hotel i n
London, the French and the Russians under
stand the art OF eating better than any other
nation. By way of illustration the chef fold this
story: "Bouillibaisse is famous MarseIaiae
dish OF fish, garlic and all manner of curious
ingredients, which you may be sure is seldom
asked for in London hotel. One day we had
a Russian gentleman among our guests and he
asked for dish of Bouiilibaisse. | made it He
| ate 1t. is it right, sr?' asked the waiter. IT
wants something In the Mediterranean is a
certain shell fish, which is always used in m NJ
ing the dish and which l not upnaturallv did
not possess. Not one person in a thousand
would have noticed the difference. Yon see
the Russians palate recognized even the nI-
anceS."
STORY Of a strange combat comes from
Fishkill Duchess county, N. Y. A gray eagle
which had its nest in the Fishkin Mountains.
has been seen to alight several times in tbe
asylum grounds, presumably in search of prev
A great flock OF crows had chosen that Locality
as feeding ground and resting place. and they
evidently looked upon the advent of the eagie
as an intrusion. The crows apparently decided
to give the majestic bird to understand that it
was poachng, At any rate it is a fact that n
dozen or more of the crows attacked the eagle
while it was soarinZ over Rogers field, and mt
it to flight. The battle lasted half an h0urnr
more. The crows which did not participate
kept circlng around and around the corn.
batants and cawing necessarily. The fight was
witnessed by several persons, who ickad I'M
many blood-stained feathers from the ground.
STATIsTIcIANs needing additional data on
longevity will do well to take look at Sandy
Spring, Nd, before going elsewhere. The viii
lage makes up In time what it lacks in numbers
as the population, consisting mainly of Ouakers
is less than 100 The Penn family is regarded
fair representative of these persistent ljyers
of whom Mary lived to be 100, Edward 104
Lizzie 103 and Joseph 101. Joshua lived to "a
and 10 mouths, second Mary was SO, and a