The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-19
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AN ALUM NINE has been discovered in Utah.
1t yields Sc to 30 per cent. pure alum, which can
be extracted by simply placing the crud mate
rial in boiling water
AT pasadena CAL. on Thursday last. took
! place the funeral of Owen Brown, son of John
! Brown, the abolitonist, and last survivor Of the
/ Harpers Ferry raid.
| AN ITALIAN uamed Antonio Boggie, lately
| keeper of peanut stand at Amsterdam n. Y,
| has fallen heir to fortune of an eighth OF
! S5o0,OOO left by relative IL Italy.
Cats are held in high esteem in Egypt, even
to this day. In one of the Khedive's palaces at
| Cairo there is a free ration distributed every
| day to any cat that may care to apply.
THE great Duke of Wellingtons cooked hat,
military cloak and Hessian boots, which he
wore at the battle of Waterloo are now pre-
| served together by an English collector.
THE HIND BUTTONS used on the coats worn in
America cost $2,320000 a year, and are Of no
earthly account Think of how many bars of
/ soap that money would buy And soap is some
! thing that you feel the direct benefit Of.
TAtzo MvYosuI, the senior judge Of the ap-
peal court of Toxic Japan is visiting America.
| lie viii devote himself to a study of our system
| of laws. There are twenty judges in this court
in Japan and three of them sit together upon
| each case.
CITIZEN of Dubuque went around town
and was arrested and fined s.. Had there been
| a baby in the cart, no law or ordinance could
| have touched him, while he would have been no
! less a nuisance.
| Mrs NEWTON, one of the four women who
| were given the Crimean medal, which Queen
Victoria personally pinned her, is still living
| IN Toronto. She was q nurse in the Crimean
| War and was shot through the knee in a trench
| before t. G Redan
| BIBLIoMANIACs occasionally pay enormous
prices for ancient documents. At recent auc-
ton sale in Boston yellow old pamphlet, pub
| lshed IN 1741 by Rev. John Norton, entitled
| captivity at Canada" brought 1903 A lady
| of Brooklyn, n. Y, was the happy purchaser.
SIG. BLIrz. the genial old Snowman who
| generation ago delighted amusement-lovers
with his feats of ventriloquism and legerde-
/ main, has become a hopeless imbecie through
! successive strokes of paralysis, and will spend
! the remnant of his darkened days in an asylum.
TIE PEOPLES PALACE in London, which pro-
vides social as well as educational advantages
10 the poor and middle classes, is delighting its
| visitors with an immense Arctic fete The
| whole Of the exhibition nail has been fitted up
as an Arctic village with snOW-clzd buildings
| ia which all kinds Of entertainments are held.
LONDON has poor relief society that receives
as contrb buttons garments instead of money.
! Each member is obliged to contribute two
| garments a year. These are disDOsed of in
! various ways by the officers of the society
| Some are sold at low prices TO the poor; some
are given away; and some are kept in stock
| and loaned.
| The man who claims TO be the most celebrated
! horse thief in the world is now under arrest in
| LOrensberg, Kan. His name is Washington
! Waterman and he is IS years of age He
| Acknowledges the theft of 100 horses in kansas
alone, and the authorities of the state are
willing TO admit that he has made off with five
| times that many.
MORE TAXES were paid nto the Virginia treas
| ury il coupons last year than was the case the
| year pCevi us; in fact, more than three times as
many coupons We're received But still money
| enough comes in TO pay the running expenses
o. the state. The only cenJers from which the
| coupons come in considerable amounts are
| Richmond, Petersburg Lynchburg, Alexandria
| and Norfolk.
A coNICAL SIGHT was presented in the Metro
pOlitan opera house in New York a few evenings
| ago. A welldressed Spaniard, accompanied bv
! six yOang and pretty Spanish girls occupied
! seven seats in the orchestra circle. Before the
| curtain rose the entire group fell asleep one
after another and remained asleep for two
| hours. Such an incident is unequaled. Their
seats cost 5 Il.
AMONG the many wonderful sights which are
being organized for the Paris exposition next
! year is al Unprecedented flight of carrier
| pigeons from the Champ de Mars All the
| societies of "COlombaphiles Franchises have
! promised to take part in the affair." and it is
| calculated that over 10000 pigeons will be re.
leased simultaneously for their flight to all parts
| of France and the continent.
TIE QUESTION of carrying on mason work in
! freezing weather has excited a good deal of at
! tention among architects since the publication
| of an official report to the British government
! by a representative in Copenhagen from which
it appeared that brick walls laid in that city
| in winter with perfect success, the only precar-
| ton taken being to use freshly Stacked lime in
! the mortar, so that it may be warm wnen put
! on.
EIGHTEEN STATES in the Union have adopted
| scientific temperance education laws. and CON
| gress has passed law which insures the in
struction Of youth in principles of temperance
i'll the schools of the territories the District of
| Columbia and the military and naval schools
| These results are due to the efforts of the
| Womans Christian Temperance Union. which
dsvoteS much energy time and money to the
work.
CHARLES B. HOLMES of Chicago. who is one of
| the syndicate now owning the Walsh street car
lines of st. Louis, is the president of syndicate
owning all of the street car lines in Indianapo.
| lis is president of the Chicago Railway Com
| pauy. with 1000 cars, and is a well the head of
| another syndicate which owns the street car
| lines of Rock Island, Davenport and Moline, on
the upper mississippi, AMI is und srstood to be
| tie head Of g syndicate which mas lately in
vested nearly o,OO0O0O in cable lines in Los An
| geles Cal He probably controls more street
! world. He began, says the Globe Democrat
the street car business in Chicago in 1873 being
1 tEeU called to the MANAGEMENT of the Chicago
| company He is now 80 years Of age
THOSE who go down to the sea in ships fire.
quently have strange experiences. Any one
who doubts this should re ID the log of the bark
Professor Mohn, which has been on a voyage
from New York to Callao Her log was received
| Saturday by the New York Hydrographic office
! from CallaO and contains the following inter
! estng entry under date of Jan. H. 1888: I'm
latitude l0' 33 min. south, loI tude 4So So min
/ west, passed through patch OF water of dark
| rcd color Of several mites in extent. Hauled
| some on board in bucket and found it to con
| tain millions of small red animals about the
/ size of flea with white spot in front, which
| locked transparent They lad two long feelers
! in from, AMI long tail split in the end and nu-
/ merous feet like a lobster The entire body had
a slight resemblance to that animal in mnia-
ture.
THERE Is SOME TALK" remarks the Portland
| Oregonidn, that an effort to solve the Mormon
! problem may be attempted by the readiust-
ment of the boundary lines of the territories
and that this readiustment will be made an
| incident 10 the admission Of Washing on Idaho
| Montana and Dakota The idea involves the
dismemberment of L tab in such way that the
Mormons and their posses ions will be dis
tributei among three states. For example a
part will be added to Colorado, a part TO Ne
vada ard n part TO Idaho Then Northern
Idaho Will b3 annexed 10 Washington There
seems 10 be probability that the constitution