The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-30
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should lose my crown before lost my life. y
WILLIAM l. SCOTT Of Erie. Pa, is building
mausoleum for the Scott family at cost OF
about $4,000. The edihce will be of granite
VIII stand over fifty feet high and will De built
IN Gothic style. II will be shaped like a Greek
cross and will have a rotunda large enough for
funeral asseTnblages.
DR. MCGLYSS's choice for pope, as he ex-
pressed it in a recent lecture. would be young
man OF about 35 years Of age who could think
IN English The doctor, il is asserted, would
nave no difficulty in finding candidates pos
sesslng both these qualifications who would re
| only too glad TO fill the position.
LADY passing down the Strand in London
few days ago perceived a Notwithstanding
man with his eyes fixed longingly on parcel of
sausages frizzing il the window of a well known
cheap vender OF these deicacies the while a
fragrant steam crept from the door every time
II was opened The lady approached the man
anu tlInldly pressed a sixpence into mis- hand
he turned round, flung the coin on the ground
and angrily exclaimed: who are ye who ex
Pect me to pay for sighting and shifting the
1000! Inc lazy b,uShsd and fed. The man
continued his culinary observations.
The ORIENT EXPRESS TRAIN, running between
Paris and Vienna, seldom has an applicant on
Fridays for the thirteenth compartment of the
Ladies Pullman sleeping car The cars are
| always reserved beforehand. but the numbered
tickets are only distributed at the last moment.
IN spite OF this precaution, however, No. 10 of
the ladies' tickets on that day of the week is
almost invariably returned; and the train,
although otherwise crowded has to travel with
one berth empty. Ladies have got so far that
they VIII dare No. ID alone or Friday alone, but
the two together they cannot swallow
DUELLING still flourishes furiously in CONT
mental Europe, and the Hungarians appear to
gather in the largest crops in the fields of honor.
The largest contract on record in this business
was recently undertaken in Pesth by Count
victor Orssltch. He challenged forty gentle
men and mobiles to mortal combat because they
crluc1sed rather severely some statements of
MS made IN a club room. One of his invited
victims was Count Francois Esterhazy, a gen
bleman with no less than seventy duels and six
dead men upon his conscience. He positively
refused TO be counted among the proposed
cdddrreS, and gave no reason for the refusal
IL Is fair TO suppose that he has retired from
the field.
The DISADVANTAGE arising from the lack of
uniformity between the divorce law of the sew
eral states and territories is not merely
theoretical matter, as Edward Tucker of, Chi
cago has, to his cost, found out. The first Mrs
Tucker was divorced from him in Kansas The
second Mrs. Tucker was severed from him by a
court IN Utah. Immediately on his marriage
with the third Mrs. Tucker, Mrs. Tucker No 2
VINO had discovered that the Utah divorce was
no good, had him arrested for bigamy and sent
to prison for three years Now he has discov-
cred that the Kansas divorce from No 1 was
void on account of some informality and he is
at present bewdered as to whether he has not
an action against somebody for false imprison-
ment.
THERE is just one way to knock out the
tramp beggars who are SO plentiful on the
streets, and who think that a gentleman with a
LADY on his arm is their special prey" says a
Philadelphia club man who is in the social
SWIM They are sure to tackle you when you
are IN company with lady because they mag
will BsAc
OF generosity rather than appear to her as a
niggard. When the fellow pushes up against
you with an application for charity, tell him in
the promptest fashion that Won are broke yoIIr-
self and ask him if he can't lend YOU a quarter
That will break him all up. and he will drop you
as quickly as ii you had drawn a gun on him
II Is nlnety,nine chances out of a hundred that
the lady Will applaud you for your ready wit
and you can explain the circumstances to her
over The supper table"
AN IMPRESSION prevails in England that
Prince Albert Victor of Wales will never return
alive from India. 1t Is well-known that he has
from the very outset been extremely averse to
making the trip and that he has regarded his
Indian Odyssey with the most gloomy fore
bodlngs. The news, therefore, that on the very
first day of his arrival in Bombay the elephant
on which he was riding stumbled and fell and
that at a later hour ON the same afternoon the
horses which he was driving bolted, and
smashed his carriage to pieces, has been re-
celved with much uneaSiness in London II is
true that the prince escaped on each occasion
with nothing beyond few scratches and q se-
we're shaking; but the fact remains that the two
accidents on the same day are regarded by the
superstitiOus as an exceedingly ominous be-
ginning to the Indian tour of England's future
king.
STORY comes from Boston about George
Francis Train, which says that soon after Mr..
Train was released from imprisonment there
the other day, being in one of his most eccentric
he ed l.:
in the corridors of one of the big hotels by
proclalming in stentorian tones that he was the
biggest fool in America. After repeating this
statement several times and finding no one to
contradict him, he offered 10 bet considerable
sum that he knew what he was talking about
and that what he said was true. At this a bet
ting man, who had not taken any notice of the
speaker at first, elbowed his way through the
little knot of listeners, and, evidently not know
ing the face and figure of the sage of Madison
square, about whom he had read good deal
in the newspapers, said, Look here, stranger.
III take that bet, provided you're not George
Francis Train"
MANY STRANGERS have been specializing on the
cost of the Paris expedition. 1t amounts to ST.
100000; but when to this is added the various
amounts expended by the French ministerial
department from the funds placed at their dis
posal for the purpose of entertaining foreign
guests and for other incidental outlays, and
those by foreign governments and individual
exhibitions the total, according to a rough esti-
mate OF the department of public works can
not fall far short of $50, 0O6, OOO The expense
of the glittering exhibition on the Champs de
Mars in money was large, and so was its cost in
life and limb. 1t is calculated that during the
construction $50 men were treated for injuries
or for illness resulting from exposure; 300
workmen hurt their legs; 260 received severe in
juries to their eyes from projecting timbers or
bars of iron; ia were scalded or severely
burned, and so had their fingers cut off. The
deaths from falls are put down at the modest
figure of "a; but it is believed that they were far
more numerous.
A GENTLEMAN who has just returned from the
west met the late chief steward of the white
house in Chicago and expressed surprise that
he had left Mr.. Harrison's service. The stew
ard said that he had done so because Mr. Har-
rison S table did not require the services of a
steward, and practically he had nothing in the
world to do. More than this, he didn't think
the connection was adding at all to his reputa-
ton. Mr.. Harrison said that he didn't like to
have him go and was willing to add $500 a year
to his salary, but this was not a sufficient in
ducement. Before there was any talk of his
leaving, however, he had a conversation with
Mrs. Harrison and complained of the way in
which he was limited in the buying of supplies.
and she told him that an economical pol CIV
would be continued in the White House to the
end of the four years. She asserted very frankly
that Mr. Harrison and herself proposed to save
every dollar that they could so that
when they returned to Indianapolis it would
not be necessary for her husband to resume the
practice of law.