The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-05
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/ NIAA A1ttc1 o-AlCo CONFINES TO Afford
astonishing proof Of the carisssneSs Of tha
American people Letters containing sts,r-
photographs and drafts are droppef into fhs
s4oI u1sealed- and q number OF CHICAGO u.eopIA
have been 50 intent On securing the worlds fair
Tor thar city that they have mailed letters vi n,
no stamp on but the world : fair stickers
FRENCH anlnosity asaiost the Germans b,b.
bled mp vigorously az the recent election of a
successor TO the late Baron de Witt4 the foreign
! associate OF the institute Prof Momsen rhe
historian OF Rome, and Prof. Curtius. the histo-
nan or Greece both Beriiners. were the Compel
lnz c2ndtdates. Both were pretty ssarchinx Iv
dIscusSel, from an essentially French stand
point and at last Currius was elected.
TIE JOURNAL Bohemia OF Prague. announces
that in the Official genealogy of the imperial
house. to be published in the new year. the
name or the archduke, John Salvador will no
longer appear. The former erchduke will. by
| order OF the emperor, heoceforth bear the name
OF Herr Johann Ortiz. The BerlfBer Taoebldft
70 enter shipbuilding yard in that capital
WIrH team composed of a black and a roam.
and top buggy, P. Moyett, resident of San
Francisco. left that city last September en- route
| Tor New YORK One hundred and twenty DAYS
| o. steady travel, at an average OF thirty miles
| Gay, Drought MIN 70 81. Louis. From that d ace
| ne went on slower, taxing more time at each
| stopping place. hr. MoYett will winter in
Foughkeepse, and 20 to New York early next
| spring.
HE other day at Jackson, Mich dog chased
a mouse, aud the frightened little animal ran
| up telegraph pole, and then started out on a
| wire for the next pole. 100 feet distant. The
| wire swung gaily in the breeze, but the tremb-
| ing traveller hung on and reached the next sta
| tiOn in about an hour He descended the
| pole, and when he reached the base he was SO
| tired that he allowed himself to be picked up by
| a spectator.
The POWER of one of the greatest political
figures OF the day, perhaps of all time, is said
70 be on the wane. The Empress Dowager of
| Snlna mas been snorn OF her prestige by the re-
| Delhous independence of the young emperor
! de refused TO see the bride which she forced
! upon him, aud has been issuing vigorous de.
| crees on ms own account. He has been censur-
ln the Old ministers right and left, particularly
Chang Chi Tang.
YOUNG man of Warsaw ordered dress su;t
from tailor, who agreed to deliver it on Ger.
| tain day. The latter failed and hence a curious
| lawsuit The plaintiff alleged that he had ar
ranged TO go TO an evening party at which he
hed resolved to offer his hand 10 the daughter
OF the house. Because of the failure of his dress
| coat he could not go. but his rival went. pro
| posed, ana was accepted, and the plaintiff con
| bride. -O''
| The secretary of the Bath CMe) Board of
Trade E. Greenleaf, gives, in a comprehensive
way, an idea Of the extent of the ship building
| industry in his city for over 100 years and als)
4 the estimates for the present year. From 1871
70 lSSg there were built in Bath 3,32S vessels OF
1 all kinds, with total tonnage of I26. las. $50
! This list embraces 50 steamers 800 ships 253
oarks, 6i3 briggs, 1852 schooners. 15J sloops and
barges. The estimate for 1889 is ships
| steamers, bark, % schooners, barge, and
34,Si1. - --' "''-' 81 "Se' 's"'' 'oHH''se u
AN Lion IN. " MAN has invented pancake
| machine which threatens to revolutionize the
/ present way of making that article of diet The
| batter IS placed in what may be termed hopper
on top OF the small machine, which is placed on
| the breakfast table. When cakes are wanted
| the machine, which works by a spring is set in
motion, and the batter passes between two very
| highly polished rollers, heated very hot by a
spirit lamp. The cakes are thus rolled off and
| cut in the required shape by a sharp knife and
| thrown upon the plate which is held ready TO
| receive them
TRAVELLERS in India sometimes have strange
bedfellows. A first-class passenger, by a slow
passenger train running between Howrah and
| Assensole, was disagrseably surprised to find
| on waking from saHnd sleep that something
cold had come in contact with his hand On
| looking at the hand, what was his horror to
| ind that underneath it was a cobra Az the
| snake was asleep, and had not coiled itself
| around the hand the gentleman sprang I'D and
l managed to evade its bite. How it got into the
| carriage is one of those mysteries no one can
| unravel. 1t may have effected an entrance
while the carriage was in the siding at Howrah
and quietly ensconced itself behind the cushions
| OF the carriage seat
| The FACT that large numbers of birds are
drawn TO their death by the electric light on
| the Liberty statue has often been commented
1 on. 1t appears that the Eiffel Tower is espop-
| sible for similar destruction A few nights
| since a large flock of iarks which was passing
over Paris, attracted by the electric light in the
phare of the Eiffel tower. threw Itself in a com
| pact mass on the windows of NJ Eiffes apart
| ment With THEM weiltknown obstnacy the
| poor birds struck themselves furiously against
| the glasses of the phare and fell stupefied all
| around The man IN charge of the light cap
| tured large number The next morning the
| gardeners employed in tbs exhibition found a
number of the birds in the small lakes at the
| foot of the tower.
THE LATEST London wrinkle in the way of in
| surance is a scheme to insure against burglary.
A private, residence with the whole of the con-
tents of the house insured against loss only)
| for 62 cents year. When the contents are in
sured against both loss and damage done bv
burglars it costs about rs cents year. Articles
specially insured, like jewelry and plate cost
extra. The company agrees to pay the amount
insured within thirty days after the loss is
proved, subject to the provision that there is no
claim on the policy if the whole loss on any one
occasion does not amount to IS, or that the
robbery has not been committed by any mem
Der of the household or a servant therein Ons
of the most astonishing things about this com
pany is that it is doing good business.
A PLAGUE OF RATS is reported in the vicinity
of Galesburg, I'll. Some farms are reported to
be honeycombed with their holes. The general
direction of the army is to the south, and can
be traced by their burrows. Occasionally there
occurs a rat-killing bee, which furnishes rare
sport for men and dogs S. r. Swanson at
tended such an event last week He says that
crib was torn down, the boards meanwhile
being made iuto tight board fence completely
encrcling the crib. The floor was then re-
moved and the fun began. The ground was
alive with rats and 1000 were reported killed
A similar experience had by Mr.. Coolidge,
a farmer living west of the city. Hundreds of
the rodents were killed. At Oneida three car
loads of broomcorn were riddled. Where the
rats all come from the grangers deem a
mystery.
In A LITTLE TOWN near Chicago there is
school house close to the tracks of trunk line
railroad The consequence of this juxtaposition
of the two things is one that would never occur
to any but the boyish mind. The boys got up
game which consisted in their seeing which
one should be the last to jump across the track
III front of the express train that passes there
at fifty miles hour just after school lets out
The game has already cost at least three lives |
The other day railroad employee went to the
mother of one of the boys to tell her what her
son doing. She told him she could take |
| care of her own children and wanted no inter- |
ference by tattletales she gave him scolding |
he will never forget. One reason why he viii |