The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-06
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IN LONDON last week 1899 births and 500
deaths were registered, the annual death rate
| being 49, per 1000. The death rate in % large
/ towns averaged 21.3 per 1000.
! THE BIG HOTEL at Rockaway Beach is doomed.
| the owners having decided to tear it down and
sell it. The land on which it stands will then
be divided into small building lots and sold.
| IN the recent village election at Two Harbors,
| MINI, the vote for T. A. Bury and Nels Suther-
land for recorder resulted in a tie whereupon
| the candidates Tipped pennies for the position,
! the former winning.
AN OHIO MAN found in his family Bible a
| check on the old Farmers and Mechanics Bank
of Steubenville, dated Dec 10. 1892! There are
| many valuable things in the Bible if its posses
| scr would only search the book.
| GLASS FURNITURE is manufactured especially
! for India, where the rajahs like glittering and
| snowy rooms. Glass bedsteads and chairs huge
| glass sideboards and other articles of domestic
use are made to suit oriental taste.
A REvIvAIsT at Tama, Ia, recently asked all
of the congregation who paid their debts to
rise All rose but an editor, who explained
that he didn't pay his debts because the rest of
the congregation owed him on subscriptions.
A WHALE and her calf were washed ashore at
Santa Barbara, Cal, during a recent storm.
The discoveries rugged up a windlass and hauled
the carcasses on the beach and will fry out the
rels.
QUEEN VICTORIA, believing the electric light
too strong for her eyes, objects to its general
use at Windsor Castle. The corridor only is
Illuminated by electricity, but few of the
drawing rooms and the dining hall viii be in a
short time.
IF knock three times on the coffin lid dur
ing the church service you must let me out,
said James Daley of Providence, as he was
nan rtnrr ne fha Afh 1A. .l-l.-
waited and listened but James did not signal
and the burial went on. If he forgot it the
fault was his own.
NOVEL proceeding in law was begun at Her
man. Mimi, Saturday. 81. H Schram wealthy
farmer, leased his homestead to Alexander
Weir it being stipulated In the lease that all the
increase by live stock on the farm should be
| equally. divided between the lessor and lessee
Before Schram could remove from the place his
wife gave birth to son. Weir now claims that
by virtue OF his lease he is entitled to onehalf
| of the baby, and has instituted proceedings to
prevent It's removal
PORTER at the Arlington house, New Haven,
Monday evening, found Spaniard in the pri-
vate room of the proprietor, S. Z. Bickford.
| Bickfords trunk was broken open and the
| contents scattered about the room. The porter
| took the Spaniard down stairs, but Bickford
| thought that he was playing an April fool joke
! on the man and released him. Upon investiga-
| ton Bedford learned that bond for 81 100 and
| a bank book had been stolen. No trace of the
| thief could be found
DR.. S. L. BUTLER of Louisville. KY, has a
| white mockrg bird that is remarkable not only
for its rarity, but for the fact that it succeeded
| in killing half-grown rat which entered its
| cage the other afternoon. The rat evidently in
tended to make supper of the bird, but the
latter knew thing or two itself, and, bouncing
| upon the bold intruder, pecked its eyes out.
Having it at this advantage, the bird pecked it
to death, and when the doctor returned soon
after, the dead rat was found on the floor of the
cage. DR.. Butler says ne believes it to be the
only white hooking bird in the country.
AROMATIC STORY connected with a young
| Frenchman of Fall River has just been brought
| to Ii hit. His name is Tancred Roussel and he
| was left an orphan in Canada at the age of 10
| years. He had a brother who left home twenty
| one years ago-two years before Tancred was
| born-and consequently the latter never knew
| of his whereabouts. Some time ago Tancred
went from Fall River to Bristol R. l., to work
| as nasons apprentice, ami one day entered
| into conversation with fellow employed about
| his former home in Canada When he told the
| workman his name and the circumstances of Ills
| life, the latter replied that he knew of another
| orphan surnamed ROussel, immensely rich, who
resided in British Columbia, Canada, and sug-
| gested that he might be tue brother whom
Iancred had mentioned his only relative
| Tancred had doubt of ever being able to find
his brother, but finally induced to send a
letter to British Columbia. to inquire about the
matter He received reply asking him to give
| the names Of his father and mother as proof
| of his identity. The names were right and the
| two brothers have been united.
Nor yet 30 years of age, Prince Alexander of
| Battenberg has experienced all the dark DAYS
| and crossings in life that any young man can
ever hope to carry. A soldier of fortune he
| passed from the Prussan to the Russian ranks
and without friends and few prospects, was so
! sweetly smiled upon by Dame Fortune that by
and by he sat on throne of his own in a for
| eign land. or course the Bulgarian crown
was not exactly an ideal one to wear but
| for person whose most ambitious dream
coJld never have been more than to retire
| at the end of his career as a general, to pass
his old days in some German castle home on
half pay, 1t was a good deal However in a
| few short years. after tasting the sweets Of
| power, the grand captain of heroically ljned
oattlefelds learned the ingratitude of a De Die
and found his royal joys exhausted. Next ne
knew the distress of exile; then he picked I'D
acquaintance with the delightful temper and
| sarcasm of an English queen, and finally at the
house OF kinsman in Dafmstadt, met an opera
singer of the third rank and fell in love With
a little more patience, perhaps, he might have
been the brOther-in-law of a mi ghty monarch
but he had had enough Of the vanities of this
world, and wished to choose for a wife a good
little creature with whom to lead q TRANQUIL
and quiet life hereafter
DURING ex-Pres:dent Cieveland's recent visit
to Havana he was shown marked attention by
Capt. n. Salamanca. The freedom of the
CITY was JeuueTeu 10 MIN ana the captain gen
erals palace placed at his disposal Mr. Cleve-
land, however declined the last named honor
| and secured quarters, as has already been an
nOunced, with ex- Secretary Bayard, Gov Fitz-
hugh Lee and others of his party at one of tie
hotels. On the day before leaving the island
Mr., Cleveland and Mr.. Bayard were entertained
at dinner at the palace by Gen Salamanca
After dinner Gen. Salamanca invited his guests
to accompany him to the Albisu theater where
the distinguished party, occupying one of the
proscenlum boxes. we've the center of attrlc.
tion to the overf1Owing house. In the box
beside Gen Salamanca, Mr.. Cleveland Mr.
Blyard and Gov. Lee, were Col. Plan, of lori,
railway, steamship and express fame; Consul
General Mecant and the Spanish admiral the
vice captain general and the civil governor
The star OF the evening was Senorita Amelia
Rodriguez, a noted singer and dancer who was
warmly applauded by the visitors In contrast
to the cordial welcome just extended to Mr.
Cleveland were the perfunctory cou ties es
shown Gen. Grant on his visit to Havana after
his last term of office had expired On that
occasion Gen. Banco, who was then captain
general, left the city during Gen Grants occu-
pancy of the palace and went to the country
and as soon as Gen. Grant left for the country
be returned to the palace.
MOVEMENT will soon be initiated in Wash
ington city for the removal Of the remains OF
Gen. Henry Lee, Light Horse Harry" of the
revolution, from the resting place in Georgia to
Christ church yard in Alexandra, Va There
is also proposal to remove from Arlington the
remains of George Washington Parke GUSTS,