The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-19
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| each year of his life on every birthday He
was recently II, and ate that number Of eggs
on that day.
/ The regulation step in European armies is
longest in the German army and shortest in the
/ Russian. The Belgian march is the slowest-11O
| steps to the minute.
A BURLINGTON Qa.) man who had been re-
porter, editor, sheriff and chief of police bv
turns, was bdnkoed out of $1,000 the other day
by very shallow devics.
AN UNUSUAL NUMBER of wolves is reported
along the line of the Northwestern railroad in
| Dakota, and they are so bold that they hesitate
about getting out Of the way OF trains
1T IS CLAIMED that there are 5000 tailors in
and near Boston out of work because as al
legged, the local clothing manufacturers send
| their goods to New York city to be made up by
the cheap labor of the tenement house districts
| STATEN ISLAND man counts his coffin among
his household effect. He spent two weeks con-
strncting it, and he now uses it as a sort Of
| wardrobe, keeping it in the entry close to an
| old-fashioned clock that looks good deal like
a companion burial casket.
ACCORDING to financial contemporary the
Russian government has accepted the PROPOSE.
ton made by company, recently formed in st.
| petersburg for the construction of a canal to
| connect the Black sea with the Sea of Azof
| The canal will be Ill versts long, and will af-
tord passage to steamers drawing not more
| than 10 feet.
/ MISS FABIAN, devoted little English woman,
\ passed through New York recently on her way
to the Sandwich Islands, where she is going as
volunteer nurse to the leper colony at Molokai
she knows that she can never come back to her
friends, but she felt that duty called her to that
terrible spot and she followed its call with per-
tect cheerfulness.
The North British Mail imparts this very
valuable information: Affianced young ladies
IN the United States have originated novel
method of announcing their betrothal. They
send their friends photograph of their left
nand, with the engagement ring prominently
displayed. Some girls present their fiance with
a copy of the hand deliberately framed in ivory
and silver.
LEADING CLERGYMAN of Louisville was sud
denly called away, and a substitute preached to
his congregation. The substitute had no ser
mon ready, and he used one of the regular min
ister's manuscripts. The tracings on the mar
gin kept him smiling all through a deep and
serious discourse, much to the wonder of the
congregation. Among other notes ''bite
lip bitterly, extreme agitation, '''pious smile
and loud, ringing voice"
The american Manufacturer prints an arti
Gle calling attention to the waste of natural gas
which is going on in some districts where the
illuminant has been discovered in abundance
and devoted to practical uses. The article
gives figures gathered from a certain number OF
factories in Pittsburg, and the tables show that
from 25 to 35 per cent of the whole amount OF
| natural gas cons med III these eStaOl ShmentS is
wasted, either through the use of defective ap-
paratus or the careleSsness of operatives,
''SNAP" QUIGLEY the hermit who had been
living in a near Stratford, Conn, for some
time past, was turned out of his dreary abode a
short time ago. 1t seems that so many persons
visited him from motives of idle curiosity that
the property surrounding the cave became a
sort of diSorderly picnic ground, and it was con
sequently deemed best to get rid of him, and SO
abate the nuisance When Quigley was ordered
to vacate he removed from the cave broken
chair and piece of carpet and soon disap-
peared into the neighborng woods.
| In April, 1868, Fred II. Wooworth of Water
| bury, aged % disappeared. Nothing was heard
l of him, and it was supposed he had committed
Nsuicide or had beea foully dealt with, and a
Aarge sum of money was expended in trying to
lhnd his BODY. A few days ago Woolworth'
friends received a letter poStmarked Australia,
! sad, on opening it, discovered that it was from
fed. He SAID that since leaving Waterbury ne
nd led a somewhat adventuresome life. He
vat to Australia, where, few years ago, he
| pushased a gold mine, supposed to be worth
" less for S25, and q day or two later discovered
goldsufhcient to make him rich.
Bsoldest pieces of wrought iron now know
are Irobably the sickle blade found by Belzon
! Under the base of a sphinx in Karnac, neal
Theees; the blade found by Col Vyse imbeddeC
in the masonry of the great pyramids; the por
ton or acrosscut saw exhumed at Nimrod by
Mr., Laygfd-all of which are now in the British
museum wrought bar of Damascus stee
was presented by King Porus to Alexander tht
Great ami the razor steel of Bhina for mani
centuries has surpassed all European steel il
temper and durability of edge. The Hindoot
r appear to have made wrought iron directly
. from the one. without passing it through uht
r furnace, from time inn emoral and elaborately
q wrought masses of iron are still round In India
q which date from the early centuries of tht
r christian era,
| TryrT Tor IN Of fLa V -
Commercial 4iuerttser thus concludes lettel
about the great Irish leader: The one solid, sub
stantial fact which stands out clearly is the
2 great and commanding position of Mr.. Parnen
! He has won al along the line ever since he flrs
entered parliament fourteen years ago. He ha;
beaten his enemies at every point. he has rid
| himself of bis false friends he has replaced
sporadic Irish rsings by definite constitutions
| policy, he has been the one man in the chaos OF
British politics who has seen his way and
, | marched to his object with firm, unfa lterinp
: ! steps can rernember the time when he was
laughed at, and that not very long ago To-day
he is the most powerful ard probably the most
respected public man in England. AS he and
/, | Michael Davitt emerged from the law courts on
Thursday, they wore received by the enormous
: crowd with thupdars of applause. Fitting
: ! merit to brave men who, having suffered in an
: unusual decree from calumy and intrigue, are
= now seeing the frutOn of their hopes and are
: admired by millions Of Englishmen as well as
; by their own compatriots in every quarter OF
+; | the globe.
= A DISPATCH from Salem, Mass, dated March
IL, says: zone of the most despera e attempts
: to escape from reformatory institution or
record took place today at the Plummer Farm
: school. The boys who undertook to escape
l were Thomas Kennedy, 16 years OF age; Patrick
Hurlihey. is years aud John Sullivan, II years
This noon after dinng they stole suits of clothes
| which they exchanged for their uniforms and
| letta Finding their retreat toward town cut off
they went down TO the Willows where gather
Il ing some planks and old tin bers they hastily
I built a raft and put ont from shore with only
I two fence rails for oars. A southwest gale WIS
i / blowing aud the rait soon began to break up,
S ! but Huriihey lay down ACROSS the raft and held
r / il together, while tue others navigated BY al
t most a miracle they were saved from going TO
} sea and effected landing on the north shore
, below Hospital Point and. getting a ride,
a started for Gloucester intending TO ship as fish.
/ ernen. Word was teephoned all along shore
! to look out for them, and Marshal Start and
two newspaper men started out for Manchester.
where the lads were found m custody of Chief
| Haskell. who had caught them at Magnolia
} | They were returned 70 Salem"
7 THE BRITISH PEACE SOCIETY has issued the
J | following memorial "Ove- and over again
1 John Bull (who, by the way, IS one OF the most
= timorous animals in the world has. in a Git of
, panic, given his ministers carte blanche TO i'm
3 | pose heavy taxation for an Increase of Arma-
e | ments; aud what has beer the upshotp The
2 taxes have been diverted by WHOLESALE. into all
q manner of waste, eXtravag ance and incompe-
| tence. The only certainty uas baAn thot "a, orc