The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-27

| Prince George happened TO die without issue
| m cess Louise would. OF course, become helress
to the throne.
FIFTYNIxE PERSONS attempted suicide in Der.
lin during June-more than ever before in one
month. One boy twenty women and thirty
| eight men made up tn number Twenty two
| sought death in the water. fourteen by han gIng,
| twelve through bullets five by poison and two
| by jumping from windows.
tbs ground under an Elm tree on Jackson
! street. Brazil, Ind, was covered with the dead
bodies of English sparrows Friday morning.
| These birds had been in the habit of congregat-
| ing in this tree, and it is supposed at they
were all killed by lightning, their bodies were
| entirely stripped of feathers.
| The people OF San Francisco expect to find
themselves. ere long, at the end of an ocean
! cable, the other end of which will be fastened
| at Hawai-. To lay the wire, which must be
1850 miles long, " il cost, as estimated, Sl,5O0,-
| OC0 and of this sum the Hawaiian government
| and people will furnish third.
| A vEsT-PocKET EDITION of the horse has been
| foaled in Hartford City. Ind. The mother is a
| 2year-old Shetland pony owned by Harry B.
| Smith president of the Exchange bank. The
| colt is inches along the, back, stands 8 hands
| in hight, AM is as lively a cricket. 1t is
| doubtless the smallest horse in the state.
CASE of attempted bribery in order to OBJ
| tain a gold medal has been revealed in the Paris
! exposition. chemist offered the Jurors Of his
| class of exh bits 5000 francs each for an award
| of one His letters were turned over to the
| higher authorities, and he was expelled from
the exposition, with the liability, of course, OF
| being prosecuted by the civil power.
Mrs MooRE of Vaudeville, Mich, went out to
| the spring the other day to see what h r little
| 4year-old boy was crying about and found he
| had been in the water. She said: There
| there! mt cry Earl" but did not realize how
| near she had been to attending a funeral until
| Mr..
| He tootent cwy when l pulled him out"
| Then she felt like crying herself.
| THE packing in the ice machine at a brewery
in Lancaster. Pa. blew out, and 800 pounds of
ammonia escaped A large field of tobacco was
! ruined by the ammonia, all the flowers and
| choice plants in Mr.. Rel ers garden were with
| cred, and it was with great difficulty that ten
| horses were saved. All the residents within 5 0
| feet of the machine were affected by the odor
| of the ammonia, and number were made very
| sick.
THE bottle industry Of the world is very
large one, the quantity produced per day IN the
respective countries being estimated as follows
Great Britain and Ireland, 6,200 gross; Sweden,
| go gross; Norway. 600 gr SIS; Denmark, 800
gross; Germany and Belgium, 30, 80 gross;
| France, 100 gross; Austria, 1000 gross United
| States, $40 gross; Canada l2J gross Australia
| 207 gross; total, 1871 gross. With 300 work
ing days this gives no less than Is 929 900 gross
| per year.
WHEN Lord Beacousfeld succeeded in making
Victori empress a pledge was given that the
| imperial title should never be obtruded into
| British affa rs. 1t should be reserved for bust
| ness connected with India. The queen has
| broken this pledge frequently of late upon
| private documents, but this year, for the first
| time, her message to the lords was signed
| Victoria, R. l." Her message TO the House OF
Commons, though, was signed only Vic
toria, R.
ALTHOUGH Benjamin c. Weeks a carpenter
of Newtown, n. Y, is IS years Old and Susan A.
Simons of Brooklyn is II years old and although
| each had been married twice. they met last
| winter and fell in love, with as much energy as
| though only % years of age. The sequel to
! their meeting their marriage two days ago
! by the Rev. c. p 1rner of the York Street
| Methodist church. They now on q bridal
| trip to Niagara, and will return to home in
| NewtowD.
ONE of the oldest typographical errors er
made IN Boston was made in book published
by the firm Of Croker & Brewster. which has
just been brought to public attention by the
sermons of DR.. Nathaniel EmuSSs the great
| orthodox divine. The Doctor qIoVd the Scrip
| ture text, Cut him down Why cvmbereth he
the ground?' The intelligent compositor put
| it IN type, Cut him down, like cucumber, to
| the ground"
THE finest private collection of pearls in
France belongs to Nile Dosne, sister-in-law of
Thi rs 1t is valued at 1900, 900 francs. Nine
| Thiers her sister. shortly before her death gave
| to the state q pearl necklace worth 10000
| francs Tnis necklace is now in the Theirs
| museum in the Louvre The Duchess dues
who after Mile Dosne, has the finest ieSe,s of
| all French women, pOsS 'Sses u diamond neck
lace valued at 100000 francs. Nine. Henry
| Say has n cklace of white and black pearls
| worth 100000 francs.
| The latest revelations concerning Fevntian
antiquities come through the research of Prof.
Naville of Geneva made at Bubastes. Bubastes
was the sacred city of Bast. the cat-headed
| goddess. 1t was supposed that its great temple
| had entirely disappeared, but NJ. Naylle dis
covered extensive remains of 1t, and striking
| proofs To show that the pyramids of Cheops
| and Chefer must have been in existence at
| least by 800 B. c. or about 5000 wears ago
| The Hyksos, or she pherd kings came from
| Babylon or Mesapotamia in the sd centu
B. G.
THEODORE BENT has Just returned from an
expedition, partly for the British Association
and partly for the British museum His first
| object was the exploration of th' Island of
| Bahrein in the Persian gulf, and the result of
| his explorations there, though continued but
| for fortnight have been most important The
| island, which is only about fifty miles long is
| covered with sepulchral mounds to the nrmbsr
! of some $1,000 Two of these were opened
| from the top. and in each tSo-sto Dried tomb
| was discovered. In the upper chamber the re-
mains seemed to belong to a horse or some
| other sacrificed animal. and in the lower and
| principal cha.nbe the remains were human.
CAPT. TRAvERs of the schooner Hester A.
Seward, from the Bahamas, told Baltimore
| reporter that just before he left the islands on
| July I, the natives captured a shark IS feet
| long. When it was cut OPEN half barrel of
| salt pork found intact in its sto nach be-
| sides number OF other articles which the mon
ster had swallowed. Mr. Miller also had
! shark story. Two months ago the body of
monster shark was washed up on the beach at
| Abaco. ms de the huge mouth was fould a
small barrel 1t was wedged 50 tightly that it
would neither go up nor down. In the barrel,
the head of which S off, was found all the
| food the fish had managed to get inside It's
! teeth The barrel caught all the food, and the
shark starved to death.
A SCHOOL of mossbunkers fleeing for their
| lives from half dozen big sharks was the sight
! tnat int rested boatlosd of returning excur-
siouists on board of a Coney Island steamboat the
| other evening. The novel aud hi hly exciting
| race was first discovered by the watcnful pilot
| v hen the boat turned Morton's Point, who was
| puzzled by the queer actions of the nossbunk-
| ers. They were dartiug here and there and
| leaping out of the water, flashing the sea into
! foam with their tails, AS the boat drew nearer
| the fish, the cause of the commotioa was ca ily
seen. Six big shovel-nosed sharks were IN hot
| pursuit of the terrified mossbnnkers now an
! then catching unlucAy onrs and devourlnS
! them without stopping. The splash of the
boat paddle wheels put finish % the race and
/ frightened No Sha rs