The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-04
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| CoHoEs, y. y. the chief seat of the knit goods
industry, reports that 65 per cent. Of its mills
are Idle, and beg rs to sigh for free wool.
! STEEL RAILS have grown in weight from Sc
pounds to the yard TO 30 and 100 and it is proba
bic that in time they will be even heavier.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIVE co1LIERIrs are now
| open in In ia, which, among them, mined nearly
| 400 600 tons Of coal in 1886 II is not so very
long since the chief Indian government geolo
gst SAID that he was prev AIRED to eat all the coal
! that was ever found in India.
or VoS BULow Labouchere tells this story:
He was walking one day in Berlin when he met
man with whom he had formerly been on
somewhat intimate terms, but whose acQuain-
lance he was DESTROYS of dropping. The quon-
| dam friend at once accosted him. How do you
| do, Won Bulow? delightei to see you? Now I'll
bet that YOU don't remember my. name:''
| You've won the bet" replied Won Bulow, and.
turning on his heel he walked off in the opposite
direction.
A WOODEN COFFIN has been discovered in the
crypt Of the parish church of Linares in Spain
| bearing the following strange inscription:
| Herein lies the pretended corpse of II ancisco
Pizarro.' 1t was found to contain a corpse
which had been carefully "mummified" and
which was clothed in garment of violet cloth.
The countenance is said to be remarkably like
the portraits of Pizarro, and it has a pointed
beard like hs. One of the hands was detached,
posed upon the breast.
THE town Of Havre de Grace, Nd, has real
live ghost. Recently it followed a city council
man, and when The councilman turned around
to ask 1t what 1t wanted it drew a knife and
threatened to carve him into several pieces. The
councilman started home and made the best
run OF his life. Several other persons allege
that they have seen the ghost. 1t haunts the
section around the Salvation ARMY barracks
and has caused 30 much excitement that the
boys and young men of the town have all armed
themselves with revolverS.
AS two nuns belonging to the convent at st.
Joseph, Beauce, in Quebec, were walking down
! the road there few DAYS ago, with one of their
lit e girl charges, a young man engaged in
coastlng came down slide at full speed, and
would have run down and probably killed the
little girl but for the heroic action of one of the
nuns, who threw herself before the child to
shield her with her own body. The poor nun
was shockingly injured. one of her eyes being
| orn out Of the socket, in addition to the other
| serious hurts which she received.
JoHE LESTER MURPHY, the private telegrapher
Of Queen Victoria, relates that, on the occasion
| of Emperor Fredercks death, her majesty and
| q secretary entered Murphy's room at Windsor
Victoria began to dictate message to the dead
kasers widow, but the secretary failed to IN
derstand her. She finally became impatient,
and said in German to the operator: Murphy,
I'll dictate this to you. You seem to be the only
man of sense in the house" Considering that
His Royal Highness the Prince OF Wales and
bis Highness Prince Battenberg were at Wind
just then, it doesn't seem strange that Muir
ply feels himself highly hOnored.
A LONDON fashion journal says that there is
in that city a fashionable boarding school
where young women are taught to enter and get
out of a carriage. vehicle with proper pedal
arrange nents for this sort of exercise. which
determines lady's breeding and social position
Is kept in the back yard of the educational
establishment, and the carriage classes are put
through the most arduous training The infor-
nation is alO given that another accomplish
ment peculiar to this gilt-edgsd academy is
| learning to eat asparagus. oran es. grapes and
other juicy and unmanageable viands in a style
that shall represent the perfection of table
manners"
Miss BELLE MACARTHUR, aged 90, of Hawley-
vile, Conn, has peculiar malady which puts
her in q state of suspended animation for sew
eral days, although her general health is good
The attacks are occasional, and the young
woman has warning of their coming She
su denly loses all her will power, her power of
speech and the control Of her muscles. She is
in fact, to all appearances dead, and life can be
detected only by placing a mirror to her lips to
eaten the moisture of her respiration While
in this state her senses bee me more acute
Her hearing is especially sensitive and she
says the agony of knowing all that goes on
about one without any power of demonstration
is terrible.
A NUMBER of Irwin Pa boys were frightened
| almost to death by seeing what they declare to
! be a ghost near that town the other night
| They say they a woman running along the
| top of the bank and then sud ienly Jump into
| the cut. As the distance from the top of the
| cut to tn bottom is about thirty feet, they
| rushed up expecting to find the mangled re
| mains Of dead woman. but on arriving at the
! spot She had nysteriOusly disappeared. Then
| a scare Of such huge dimensions took posses
| sion Of them that every ones hat rose several
/ l.. l..-s
was the cry, ard out they did get, making more
steps TO the minute and fewer to the mile than
| ever were made in that locality.
IT has hitherto been the rule in Japan that
all persons visiting governmental offices must
alght from their horses or vehicles at the outer
gate, unless they of sontn rank This relic
! of feudal times, the Japan H1H says, has now
| been abolished. Tue cabinet has announced
| that henceforth the question Of where visitor
] is to alight shall be left to the convenience of
| the several departments The change, though
| tritng in itself, is naturally hailed with much
| satisfaction. The Jill ShimDO puts the case in
a nutshell when it says that every japanese
| should be free to go where be pleases, whether
| on foot, on horseback in a iil,I1kishd, or in a
carriage, and that to limit the enjoyment of
| this right to officials of s0nin rank and upward
| is an understandable interference with the lib
| erty OF the subject
IN Vienna DR.. Roth and Prof Reuss have de-
vised an instrument for illuminating from the
! outside some of the cavities of the body. such
as the larynx and nose. The instrument is a
well-poliShed glass rod, to one end Of which a
| small electric incan1escent lamp is attached
| The light of the lamp is reflected equally
| through the whole glass rod to its other end,
which is placed on the skin OF the throat in the
| case of larYngOScOpical examination being
required. Then the interior of the larynx be-
comes Illuminated sufficiently for laryngoscopy
IL this luminous glass rod is applied TO the
scerotic, the interior OF thu eyeball can be
examined in the same way as by using an oph-
thalmOscope As the glass rod remains cold il
the natural and artificial cayities.-English
Mechanic.
IT Is STATED that the result thus far Of using
dogs as messengers and sentinels in the Ger
man srmy has proved most successful. They
have now been in training for year, and have
made wonderful progress. The kind found to
be most suitable for this work are the shep-
herd dogs. The plan adopted IS to train each
dog 10 regard one Of t0e soldiers as his master
tn conduct Of his training being in this mans
hands. Nuen on duty the animals are kept
with the senttnels and their natural intelligence
aids tue N speedily understanding and adapt
Ing themselves to the work As an instance OF
VIVA; these dogs can do, on one occasion sol
der taking dog from the sentinel went off to
r-connotre. After making his observations he
wrote two reports giving one to a Uh an
mounted on fast horse, and paced the other
IN casket tied to the dogs neck. The latter
reached the sentinel first When il is consd-
cred how much smaller an object dog is than
solder for an enemy's fire, and bow il can
run close t. the ground, it is not unlikely that
dogs may be important auxlliaries.