The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-23
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the present state of these important fisheries,
and copy is to be deposited at the St. Peters
burg Academy of Sciences.
ZEIa. the well-known painter of eastern sub
iects, was alone in his studio the otter day,
and, handling some old armor, tried on a casque
which was part of the set. In some way the
visor fell and the artist found lis head com
pletely shut in He tried in vain to release
himself, and finally was obliged to apply to
locksmith for aid. The same kind of accident
once befell the actor Raphael Felix, the
brother of Rachel
A GLASGOW NEWSPAPER sees quite romance
in the coming marriage between young Mr..
Coats. member of the great Paisley cotton
thread manufacturing company, and Miss
Glars a daughter of one of the firm of equally
famous American thread makers. For years
bitter rivalry existed between tue two houses,
uetil the Scotch firm decided to send an am
bassador to America to make friendly over
lures. He was more than successful, and the
two great houses viii be united by marriage In
June.
BISHOP WHITAKER of Pennsylvania, who has
recently been in Cuba, reports that the Bap-
lists are conducting very successful mission
in Havana. He is quoted as saying that many
hundreds, tired of the exactions of the Roman
Catholic church, are welcoming the simpler
and palmer service furnished by the Baptsts.
Considering Cuba as a field for Protestant
work, it may bo said that the people deSi
Protestant services to that extent that no more
hopeful ground for effort can be found any
where"
RAILWAY BATTALIoNs will be the next addition
to the home forces in England. 1t is stated
that the Great Northern Railway Company has
given general consent to a large number of its
employees. principally engaged in the Kings
Cross establishment and the metropolitan SUI
burban 8 atiOns being enlisted in the Royal
Engineers. in order to form a railway battalion,
and 1t is understood that the movement will be
further extended to other principal stations.
One battalion has been enrolled for some time
at Crewe.
Miss A. A. CRISP, a professional nurse who
had served in South Africa, Egypt, and Turkey,
and who had received the decoration of the
Royal Red Cross from Queen Victoria went to
New Zealand five years ago to take charge of a
hospital. She has just been married to one of
the doctors there, and her wedding gown was
the costume of her profession. while the brides
maids were nineteen nurses ali in uniform.
The crowd at the church was great that a
way had to be forced through for the bride to
reach the altar.
RECENTLY there was sent from Norwich.
Conn, to New York, five two-gallon tin cans
filed with oil of black birch, which was manu-
featured in Bozrah by John Miner. 1t is worth
$50 gallon, and the five cans contained 1873
pounds Of oil, valued at $500, or little over IS
a pound. Black birch trees do not yield oil as
the maple trees run sap. There is work in get
ting the tender twgs, and labor in the process
of extracting the oil. one ton of twigS yields
I
of twigs to yield the 10 gallons. This oil il used
In giving the wintergreen flavor to CONNECTIONS
of all kinds.
THE unfortunate crown prince of Austria
shares the crypt of the Capuchin church at
Vienna with 113 of his ancestors. With three
exceptions, every member of the Hapsburg dy
nasty has been buried there since the Emperor
Matthias died in 1619-these three exceptions
being the Emperor Ferdinand H., buried at
Gratz, the second wife of Leopold l., and the
Empress Amelia, buried in converts. Thus the
crypt contains the remains of II emperOrs
queens, " archduHes, Is expresses, l king of
home, SO archdUcheSSeS, 2 dukes and electoral
princes besides the hearts of expresses, of
Marie Anne OF Portugal and an arcnduchess.
Science says that in an experimental observa-
ton of thirty-eight boys of all classes of So
ciety, and of average health, who had been
using tobacco Tor periods ranging from two
months to two years, twenty-seven showed
severe injury to the constitution and INSULT
cient growth; thirty-two showed the existence
of Irregularities Of the hearts action dis
ordered stomach, cough, and a craving for
alcohol; thirteen had intermittency of the
pulse, and one had consumption. After they
abandoned the of tobacco, within six
months one half were free from all their former
symptoms and the remainder had recovered by
the end OF the year.
PASTOR MCKINNEY, who has charge of
Baptist church in Ansonia, Conn.,, recently
preached against card playing. He was decided
in his opinion that a christian ought not to play
cards, even whist, in which he could sea no
science and land down these five points: l.
Christians should not play cards for amuse-
ment, because it is a waste Of time. 2 They
should not play cards because it dissipates the
mind. 3. They should not play cards because
the example to Others is one that is injurious.
d. They should not play cards because it leads
to gambling: s. They should not play cards
because whist, the christian game, as gen
orally played to-day is gambling.
A REMARKABLE METAL CRUcIFIx has been dis
covered beneath the chancel floor of a church
in the Holderness district of Yorkshire,
England. 1t is of bronze. and the figure is hoI-
lowed out at the back. 1t is inches long and
the stretch of the arms is 519 inches. The feet
are not folded over each other The full drapery
round the waist is fastened with a grdle and
comes down nearly to the feet. The London
Ath enDunl believes the crucifix cannot be later
in date than the twelfth century, and is possibly
much earlier. Metal cruciiiXeS of such a date"
1t adds ARE exceptional; the British museum
contains nothing within two centuries of it, It
seems probable that it is of English make. 1t
has evidently been attached to wood, possibly
to professional cross
THE Safety Vatre gives this record of boiler
explosions during 1888: Total number Of boilers
exploded, 1868; estimated loss to property, 81
100000; estimated loss by stoppage of business
S1,O5O,O0O; number Of employees thrown tempo
rarily out of work, 1000; number Of lives lost
396; number of persons Injured 491 OF boilers
III saw mills and other woodworking establish
ments, there were SO explosions; locomotives
2l; steamships, tugs and other steam vessels, 10;
portable boilers, holsters and agricultural en-
gineS, q; mines, oil wells, GOLFERS Is; paper
mills beacheries, digesters, etc. 10: rolling
mills and iron works. %; distlleries, breweries
dye works, sugar houses and rendering works
81; flour mills and grain elevators, 10; textile
manufactures IL; miscellaneous, p.
A ToULoN. FRANCE, NEWSPAPER printed an
article headed "Oificers and Cads'' that gave
offense to the garrison at that place. and one of
the officers, NJ. Margane called at the office of
the paper and slap ed the face of NJ Pyanet,
the editor. There was a duel, and the editor
was slightly wounded. Another officer tried TO
get on fight with the man who had written
the article, M. Lescudier, but was unable to get
him to the scratch, whereupon the officers com.
posed an article calling all the writer's on tae
paper ours" except the editor who had
fought. This was printed in an opposition
paper, and the "curs'' promptly challenged all
the officers, The colonel put his men under
arrest but they will be free in a fortnight ard
then there will be dozen or more duels, be-
sides two that NJ Lescudier has on with other
writers who criticised his action. Editor Pya-
net has recovered from his wound and superin-
tends the daily drill that his subordlnates are
UNDERGOING preliminary to the beginning of
actual hostilties
THE nature of the fire danger Of all heating
apparatus where flues or pipes are laid through
or near woodwork seems to be Inexperienced
by many who might be supposed to be well in
formed upon such subject. One editorial
writer, addressing an audience OF artisans,