The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

/ FRENCH FATHERs are usually very careful in
the selection of husbands for their daughters.
but NJ. Gallot. a worthy commission agent OF
I Paris, is an exception TO this rule. Nile Cabot
1 his daughter. being manageable he asked nj
family physician, DR.. Ribot, to find a hush and
! for the young lady. The physician introduced
colleague, DR.. fauqnier, on the scene, and
this person married Nile Gallot who had a
dowry OF $500. Shortly after the ceremony
taulquIer began TO borrow large sums from
MS Iatner-in-iaw, who, suspecting that some
tang was wrong made Inquiries and found
that mis- son-inlaw was only a chemists assist
ant who had no right TO the title of doctor NJ
Gallot accordingly obtained a divorce for his
| daughter and prosecuted the two medical per-
sons for swinding.
THE WIDOW DE GRoor OF Brooklyn was to
marry Edgar Hopkinson on July 81, last tut on
July 30 she up and died Edgar was inconsolable
for time, but he rallied and filed for probate
the copy OF a will which he alleges was made by
the widow several months before her death.
Inc original viii, rs says, was destroyed By
Mrs DE Groot's brother because it devised all
OF the property of which the deceased died DOS
seSSed to her husband, cutting off the relatives
with few dollars. AS the property at stake is
worth about $4,000, it will be readily under
stood that the relatives intend to make a deter
mined nght, and as Edgar Hopkinson is young
man without means, he TOO, will strive with ali
nus might TO have the will made in his favor
Edgar's pent-up feelings.
Ass
named The is II years old, and recently dis.
covered that some unseen power is present
with her on all occasions, and she is able to
make things interesting for her enemies
whenever Daisy stands something is certain to
ran, and the falling is not the result of any
voluntary effort on her part. The first demon
stration was the falling of a sideboard, and
immediately afterward a water bucket fell
upon shelf. The girls mother realized at once
mat the house was haunted, and she moved
nj faff. II R-lI-.
are almost crazy. Great crowds congregate
daily at the house to see the peculiar exhibit
tlon, but not even the savants-and there are
savants in Sumter, S. C.,-can tell the source
whence the funny business emanates.
Cora WELSH is dashing blonde, IL years old.
whose home is at Keyser, W. Va, where her
father is a prominent lawyer. Cora has been
visiting in Cumberland, Md, recently and had a
mighty good time. Monday evening she was
out making some purchases and in an off hand
glrllsh way, rendered $40 bill in payment for
some Christmas presents Intended for the loved
ones at home. The merchant looked at the bill
anu then eyed the girl He hesitated and STAN
mered and the girl grew nervous Then the
merchant sent out for an officer and the girl
was arrested charged with trying to pass a coun-
terfelt. The bill was a rank one and the Young
lady Is in jail, where she spends her time pro-
testing her innocence and bemoaning her fate
some OF the best lawyers in the state have been
retained for the girls Defense ana there is a
great big probability that Miss Welsh is actually
Innocent.
A SINGULAR TRADITIONAL USAGE was carried out
at Lisbon after the funeral of the late king. At
three principal places in the city platforms
were erected covered with black CLOTH A pro-
ceSslon passed from one place to the other. The
chlet municipal officers of the city and the chief
personageS or the late royal household, all clad
In deep mourning, formed the procession, which
was preceded and followed by cavalry in
mourning, the colors draped with black
pituitary bands accompanied the march. and
four, shields, on which were painted the
royal arms, were borne aloft on long slaves A
multitude of people, all dressed in mourning,
were present. Arrived at the platform all the
principal persons took their places upon it, and
one OF the shield bearers advancing to the front
cried out in chanting Tone Weep o Portu-
guese, for your king Dom Luis l. is dead" He
then dashed the shield to the ground with such
violence that it was shattered This ceremony
was repeated at the other platforms. Then the
procession moved to the church of Santo An
tonic da Sc, where solemn requiem service was
held During the whole ceremony all the bells
OF the city tolled
ONE of the most remarkable monuments in
America is in San Luis Obispo county, Southern
California. A great rock rises $50 feet above
the plain of Carissa, and in the distance looks
rugged and forbidding. On near approach it is
seen 70 have on It's eastern side an opening
twenty-five feet broad, which leads into an
inner temple or court, with level floor 225 feet
long and l25 feet broad at its widest part The
ceiling is 60 to 100 feet high This great
natural cathedral is a wonder to geolo-
glsts, but 1t is more wonderful to archie
oiogists. It was evidently used by prehis-
toric men as temple of worship or a capitol Of
government. On the walls are paintings in red
white and black, doubtless having a meaning
suns, forts, spears, men, and animals The
colors are apparently as bright as when laid on
The wonder was discovered by Franciscan mis-
slonarles one hundred years ago, and there has
"a in ire
or by whom the walls were decorated no one
knows. The Indian tribes had no traditions
concerning the work, and regarded it with su-
perstltious reverence.
| AN INTERESTING DISCOVERY is thus told of in a
letter from Center Bartlett, N. H, published in
| the Boston Journal: "a new old Man of the
| Mountain has just been discovered in the
| mountain region Of Livermore by ]. NJ. Jerow.
an artist of Portland, Me, who has been TAX
| ing Photographic views of the picturesque
| scenes near Sawyer's river. The most curious
circumstance of the discovery is the fact that
| the artist who took the view of the gigantic
| crag from which the huge stone profile
or man stands out in welldefined
lines did not discover the statuesque
| head until it was pointed out to
| him by George Payne, who happened to take
| up the photograph. The likeness to a ggan tic
| human face which the picture displayed to the
eyes of the aStonished artist as soon as his at
tention was directed to it by Mr.. Payne was SO
| strikingly accurate that an excursion was at
| once made to the spot whence the picture was
taken, and then for the first time the stern
| features of the Hermit of the Gulch' were re-
vealed to mortal eyes. 1t is such palpabIe
sembance of the human face that the dullest
eye cannot fail to discern every feature OF a
well-defined profile"
GEN. SIR j. LINToRN SIMMONS, the special en-
voy Of the British government to the pope.
drove to the vatican in carriage and pair on
| the occasion of the presentation of his creden-
| tials the other day. This was necessary. as
otherwise he would not have been admitted to
| the vatican courtyard Only two persons enioy
| the singular privilege of driving in with a one
horse vehicle, one of whom is the commissary
general of the holy inquisition, and the other,
the Prussian ambassador accredited to the holy
see. The latter's privilege owes its origin
| to rather an interesting circumstance
A certain Prussian ambassador some years
ago drove up one day in a sngie-horse carriage
| and presented himself for admission at the i'm
mense gate of the vatican, leading into the
courtyard; but in pursuance of their orders he
was peremptorily refused admission except on
foot, by the Swiss guard, who are notorious for
their literal observance of orders. Being forced
to yield, he complained with some bitterness TO
Cardinal Antonellt, then secretary Of state to
Plus X, who said he would refer the matter to
his holiness Plus TX, who ever had a bon mot
ready and adapted for every occasion, upon
hearing of the incident, Immediately gave or
ders that henceforth his excellency the Prussian
ambassador was to be allowed admittance cum
quocumque quddrupede.
81 ONCE lived in Wisconsin, said a Phadel-
phian the other day. Il was clerk on an Indian
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