The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-27
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The GERxAS MINT has issued coin in memory
Of the late emperor It is of the form TYNE
Encircling the head is the inscription. Ger
many Will never forget its Fritz" the reverse
side bears the words, Learn to suffer without
complaining and the date of his maiesty's
death, June Is, ISIS.
DR.. MEADE Of Cincinnati left his horse united.
and it ran away. The doctor sent messages all
over town, and had about given up all hope of
ever seeing his rig again when he was called 70
the telephone. He recognized the voice of his
aHlanced, and was rejoced to learn that the
animal was standing patiently in front of her
residence.
An ancient and remarkable clock has been
recently set up in the reading room of the
municipal library at Rouen, France. A single
s "inuins Keeps II running fourteen years and
some odd mouths. IL was constructed in 1852
underwent alterations in 1916 was bought by
the city of Kouen in 1898. and has been recently
repaired and set going
CHRISTIAN REID, the North Carolina novelist.
Is described as a tall blonde, with beautifully
shaped head. She is the daughter of Col
flsher' confederate officer, who was killed
carry IN tine war. Fort Fisher was named after
Nun The novelist has been Mrs Tiernan since
last December. She has published nothing
since she married. She is refined graceful
cultured, an ultra southerner and a Jealous
Catholic.
THERE is certain firm of subscription book
publishers in Cincinnati that has an agent who
recently took a most wonderful number of
orders. II can't explain it" said one of the
nrm, except on the theory that he mesmerizes
them know that | delivered the books to the
parties and while they all acknowledged the
genuineness of the signatures, they claimed not
10 he able TO remember the least thing about
giving the ORDER
ONE of the chief attractions at the Fat Stock
Show at Chicago is the trotting dog from Kan
sas City, an Irish setter called Doc Weighing
| 50 pounds. Thursday night be beat the buck
! SKIN pony three times around the ring. The
spectators were most enthusiastic over the per-
forinance of the Irish setter, and members of
| the turf congress declared that no such novelty
nad ever been seen before. When little Willie
Ketchum, the dogs owner and driver cut sharp
! III ON the turns be held the lines like thorough
horseman. the buckskin pony trotted one-half
mile in 1888.
JOHN JAMES MAGo is Guatamalan million
ARE, who lives nine months of the year in Paris.
Fifteen years ago he was British vice consul at
san jose Guatemala and poor man. One
Gay drunken native communicate ordered
nun lOO iashes as punishment for a fancied
insult. Inc British government ordered Guate-
mala TO pay $500 for every lash The money
was paid, and Mage was made a comparatively
rlch man IN one day. AS he had more coin than
any one in the country then, President Barrios
came one of the largest coffee planters and also
secured the exclusive franchise for building
docks in the ports. His fortune now is est
mated at S5,00O,000.
Two HUNDRED THOUSAND GRAY TROUT have
been caught in deep water near Beaufort. N.
c., with hook and line in two weeks. The scenes
there are unprecedented, and remind travellers
OF those on the banks of Newfoundland The
boats are out day and night, and hundreds of
them have gathered there, some from distant
points. Everybody fishes-rich and Door high
ana low. white aud black. The average weight
of the fish is three pounds, and the water
where they are caught is some sixty feet deem
The fishing, so unprecedented, has practically
become the sole employment as well as amuse-
ment. and these are flush" times at both More
head City and Beaufort. Money is more
abundant than at any time since 1865.
A PHILADELPHIA REPORTER was so determined
to go on the second trial trip Of the Baltimore
that he hid in one of the coal bunkers, where
he remained for hours. The Cramps were in
formed that he was on board aud made an in
effectual search for him. AS the fog was
very heavy, the Baltimore did not start at the
appointed time, but her engines were started
while she was still tied to the wharf and kent
running for four hours. At the end of that
time the reporter concluded he must be far
enough down the river, so he came out from his
place of concealment and was chchagrined to
| find he was still at the wharf. He was enter
| tanned at luncheon, however before he was
en1OVlnp
| the accidental defeat Of his enterprising pur-
pose.
AN ODD INCIDENT occurred at the dinner given
| the other night in Washington to the members
of the maritime conference. The ice cream was
served in individual moldS of varied form By
a chance the dish served to the representative
from China represented q Chinese lady in n
ridiculous posture. When the delegate saw It
his face flushed little and there was some fear
on the part OF those who noticed it that he had
been offended He held the spoon in his hand
for a moment and there was an awkward 81
| lence in his immediate neighborhood Then he
Immediately cut the ice lady's head off and put
it in his mouth. You are not gallant re-
marked his neighbor. to relieve the situation by
pleasantly. That's the way do them in
China" replied the delegate from Confucius
and no one could tell whether he was Offended
or not.
IT is BAD ENOUGH to have double going ND
and down the earth, even if he behaves himself
| If he happens to be an eminent parsonage you
are constantly Inundated by the dsappoint-
ment your identity discloses. but when that
double is a scalawag, commits forgery and gets
into the penitentary, the matter ceases to be q
joke. This IS tbe vicariOus sacrifice thrust upon
young David Wolf, of New York He was ar
rested for forgery, convicted, and sentenced to
six years in Sing Sing This was in January
A little later his double William Goss, was con
victed of half dozen crimes, and sent to the
state reformatOry. The father of young GoSs
learning of the sentence passed on Wolf for his
sons crime has induced the boy to confess On
the strength of GoSs' confession. Wolf will
probably be set free or granted a new trial
These young men, who were strangers to one
another, were said not only to look alike, but to
resemble each other so strongly that Identified
ton was extremely difficult.
The REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT of sinking q
deep shaft through treacherous grounds by
means of first freezing the earth has been ac-
compllshed at the Chaplin mine, in the upper
Michigan peninsula, by the Poetsch process
The contract was to freeze, excavate and curb
up rectangular shaft 1516yl616 feet and
100 feet deep. This was done by first putting
down the freezing pipes feet apart, in a circle
30 feet In diameter, to the depth proposed to be
reached by the shaft The pipes were connected
containing about IS per cent. of calcium chic
ride The brine was frozen to a point below
zero by means Of an ice machine, and in forty
days a frozen wall of ice, earth and stone was
formed 10 feet thick. the excavation, in the
inca tine. had been going on, and seventy DAYS
from the commencement it was com pleted to
the ledge 100 feet down, in spite of some diff
Guilty from the percolation CT water near the
bottom, which was stopped by freezing IA
cept for this ingenious method, the sinking of
the shaft would it seems, have been practically
impossible, on account of the great inflow of
water.
hood of Sterling, n. J., via the New York Trib-
une. A farmer there had in his employ a col
ored lad who was inordinately fond of milk
fresh from its fount. For time the soil tiler
was at a loss to account for the sudden and
continuous dwindling Of the supply from his
choicest Attorneys and Jerseys, but at length
no hat wa hair frap cfo