The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-23
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younger than he really is. His hair is snow
white and his cheeks are somewhat sunken. but
of 80.
MRS. GERTRUDE OWENS recently exhibited at
gathering of old settlers at Flemingsburg,
KY, wedding dress of white dirnity worn by
an ancestreSs 115 years ago, the fashion OF
Wnlch would astonish the modern bride. An
otner curiosity was a genuine pod auger
Drought to this country in 1779 novel feat
ure Oh the entertainment was the music fur
nlshed by Col. Tom Brown on a Scotch bagpipe
D1oughC mere IN l779. the instrument being over
200 years old
ASA wELL-KNowN PREACHER living near the
Delaware Water Gap, was riding through the
woods, black bear sprang at him from the
thlckeL he was unarmed and three miles from
any mouse He drove his spurs into his horse
ana easlly escaped. Reaching the village store
ne got rife and friend who had a gun Re-
turnlng rapidly over the route the bear rushed
out OF the bushes and desperate fight took
pace The bear, which was finally killed,
weighed $50 pounds.
A FEw-DAYs AGO, laborers engaged in clearing
up the rubbish in Johnstown found the dating
stamp of the ticket Office at Conemaugh The
stamp was set for May 81, 1889. and in the
wreck OF the ticket Office on that fateful day it
mad been carried down In the food and had
LOGGED in the center of the town, about three
miles from the starting point. The stamp has
sylvania railroad, and has been placed among
Ine collection OF relics Of the great flood.
INA VILLAGE in the canton Of tucerne, Switzer-
| land, there is society OF old maids. 1t num-
Ders eighty members, and queer enough it is
under the patronage of the ST. Catharine matri.
monial agency. They perform acts of charity
ana are highly esteemed in their neighboraor1.
Inc municipal council lately presented them
with banner. on which there is the following
| startling inscription: Women are an evil but
they are also blessing. They remind us of the
onions mat make us weep, but that we love all
AN OLD MAN, who appeared to be very needy,
some time ago received permission to keep a
| fruit and notion stand by the court house at
| Los Angeles. Cal. Recently, ohowaver, he ap-
preached money brokeriand sought oppor-
| tunlty loan $4,000. for which he expected to
get IA or 10 per cent interest. This excited sur
PRISE ana led toinquiries, and the result was the
discovery That the old man is worth about $780,
wv most of his property being in Texas His
stano at the court house has bsen given to q
poorer man. 1851
BLOCKS OF FIVE" is the latest fad in puzzles
In box similar to that of the famous Fifteen
Puzzle are twenty-five small squares, colored
red, white, and blue. In the center of the box
is picture of the white house. and the letters
on the blue squares Immediately surrounding it
| form the name Blaine. The puzzle is by NOV
ing the squares to substitute Harrison's name
instead. and the New York World has offered a
Prlze OF 500 to the person who does this in the
shortest time. Just how the decision is to be
| made is not stated.
A RUSSIAN ARCHBISHOP has been speaking his
mind very plainly concerning his countrymen
You never see," he said, IAN intoxicated Jew
| or German, while Russians will fall over the
gin caSk rather than not drain it to its dregs.
Iney are strong In time OF war and great ex-
| cltement, but in peace they sink into helpless
ffxy Of tnI
flnstead or being at the head they ara at the
tail-lnstead OF being above they are below the
other people OF Europe" These remarks have
been received with much disfavor in influential
quarters.
A scHooLBoY in England hit upon a novel
method of obtaining the answer to an arth-
metical problem. He dropped into a grocer's
shop on his way to school, and said he wanted
certain commodities at certain prices. After
exhausting his list, he said: Now if give Won
nai1 sovereign, what change shall | get
backy" The grocer told him, whereupon he
thanked the shopman and turned to go. wait
| for the things" called the grocer, and his dis
gust can be imagined when the ingenious
urcnln told him he was late for school and, as
he hadn't learned his arithmetic lesson. he had
adopted that method of gettiug the sum
| worked for him.
A CURIOUS accident which happened recently
| in Paris points out possible danger in the wear
| ing of combs and bracelets of celIuloid A lit
tie girl sat down before the fire to prepare her
lessons. Her hair was kept back by seuicir-
Gle comb of ceiluloid. AS her head was bent
| forward to the fire this became warm. and sud-
denly burst into flames. The child's hair was
partly burned off and the skin of the head was
so injured that several months after though
the burn was healed, the cicatrix formed a white
patch on which no hair would grow. The burn
ing point Of celluloid is about 1902, and the comb
worn by the girl had attained that heat as il
was held before the fire. .....
THE Sultan of Morocco reads the newspapers
| and subscribes to several published in Turkey.
Egypt, and Tunis. 81 realize he said in a
recent interview with the foreign representa-
tives at Tangier, that the press renders great
| service to commerce and industry. and that
even in politics it is of value where it restricts
its reports to the statement OF accumulated
| facts. When, however, it deals with the policy
or motives OF rulers and statesmen its appre-
Citations are often misleading" OF this en-.
lightened ruler we also learn that, although his
travelling contingent of wives alone amounts 10
seventy five, yet he is up and in the saddle by
| 4 o'clock in the morning. while he shocks the
nervous system of foreign ministers by appoint
| ing o'clock in the morning for bis Official
reception.
| AMosr BEAUTIFUL VEIL has just been made
| for Princess Sophie, to be worn at her wedding.
| The work has been done at the Schlesian lace
| schools OF Slemfeisten, Arnsdorf and Seicorf
under the direction Of Frau Hoppe and Frau
| Noiunolu. LIS uoSl4nS were CHOSEN by The
Empress Frederick from those in the Berlin
| Museum OF Industry. Thirty-fve figures in the
utmost variety of stitch are used in the lace. in
point de venise and point gaze The veil is
more than three yards long and nearly two
yards wide. The edgepf the veil in point gaze
is composed of ITO different parts. More than
/ 2OO Scnleslan WorkWomen have been employed
i on this veil for four months. 1t is to be shown
| for money in the town hail of Schneidebere for
l a few days. together with the bridal veil made
at Hirschberg for Princess Leopold of Prussia
| HERMAN REIcHE. the-wen-known animal i'm
porter Of New York. tried his hand at lion
tanning, with results that lead the Tribune to
/ predict that he will not experiment in the same
| direction for some time. His pupil was a 400
pound lIonesS named "Queenie, and the tanning
process consisted of tying her legs putting iron
| collars on her neck. and leading her around the
| barn every day. Wednesday. Mr.. Reiche. CON
| sidering that she was IN sufficiently docIe
condition, ventured 70 unite her legs, leaving
| the collars on her neckss AS soon as the lioness
| discovered that her legswere free she jumped
for Mr.. Reiche and his assistant, Edward Thiele,
with open mouth, showing an eager willingness
/ to make dainty breakfast of them. Then FOL
| lowed a struggle for life, the iioness swayinp
| from side to side and grabbing wildly with her
| claws at each Of the men. Finally lust az his
| strength was giving way, Mr.. Reiche struck her
| smartly on the back of the neck with piece of
| iron he had in his hand, and she sank TO the
| ground dead, her neck being broken.
THE ACCOUNT of the Forth bridge given at the
workingmen's meeting of the British Associa.
ton is very striking. In effect, the engineers
have stretched SIX horizontal Eiffel towers, at a