The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-14
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year, with two charming residences, which
are kept up free Of expense to the governor as
wen as numerous perquisites, and the post Is
tenable for five years.
The Gar Of Russia has uttered an edict for
bidding applause in the theaters Of St Peters
burg. 1t interferes with his slumbers during an
after dinner performance, and is apt TO confuse
the dancing OF the ballet.
A SEATTLE CONTRACTOR tried to get TWENTY-FIVE
men to work one day last week. A police officer
took him to a saloon where over forty idle men
were lounglng about. Out of the entire number
only four expressed q willingness to labor.
MADAME PATTI has given orders to have built
for her on her estate at Craig-y-nos, Wales. the
prettlest private theatre in the world AIthou gb
II WIN seat only about $50 people, it will be as
complete IN all Its details as the largest opera
house. 1t will be finished next soring. and
Henry Irving viii dedicate it,
The PHILATELIsTEN CLUB OF VIENNA is arrany-
ing for an International postage stamp exposi-
ton there next year. The year 1890 was chosen
because 1t will then be Just fifty years since
stamps were introduced forty wears since thev
came into use in Austria, and ten years since
the cIuo was founded. The exhibition will
take place in the Austrian Industrial museum
a committee OF five is organizing it.
The FRENCH PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY. De
Millefeurs recently exhibited before a meeting
OF Partisan scientists several bricks of petrol
Gum WHICH Lo has discovered now TO SOllQlfV by
an original process. The petroleum bricks are
hard enough to be handled without incon-
Tenlence yet soft enough to be cut with a stout
knife. They burned slowly when touched with
lighted match. Millefeurs says they are non
explosive and inexpensive
RUSSIA is quietly using every peaceable means
TO strengthen her influence in central Asia.
According to Russian dailies the Khan of Khiya.
Ssade, has been invited to pass the first few
weeks OF next year at st. Petersburg court in
m tory
possibility of his refusal. The Emir of Bokhara
also has found it expekient to consent to let his
son JOIN the corps of pages at the cars court
The young sprig of oriental royalty will be taken
TO 81. petersburg by special embassy in Jan
uary.
ONE feature of the French republic seems to
have been the thinning out of the coulisses of
the opera. They have lost all their old-time
spendor and they are no longer the rendezvous
Tor statesmen and men of fashion. The ballet
dancers also have become more reserved In
stead OF congregating in the foyer de Ia ddnse
they stay in their dressing rooms where they
receive few very particular friends. Those
who are Still addicted to the colisses are called
tontpiHs. The tonapS1ts are rather second class
goDlnleur.
NJ. lola describes his mode of working thus:
Il am as regular as clockwork Every morning
write four pages of manuscript, no more, no
less. That makes about 500 words and is all |
can do IN day and do it we'll AS / take a year
for each one of my novels, you see have plenty
OF time at that rate OF course large part of
my work mas been done before / take I'D the
pen, and what write the first times goes to the
printers with few erasures. No, never dictate
put write every line of nay books with my own
| hand, like this UOuez-0ous."
The NAMING OF VESSELS of the navy is regu-
lated by law. Vessels of the first class are re-
CURED to be named after states those of the Sec
ond after rivers those of the third after the prip
and hnee Of ftaf I'll
the President may direct. The law is not always
observed as closely as thought to be, but in the
main 1t governs naval nomenclature to-day.
me Hrst act bearing on this subject was passed
IN 1919, and was subsequently, amended by that
OF 1858, to bring it in harmony with the changes
wrought by steam navigation.
Two EXTRAORDINARY CASES of somnoIency
are exciting Berlin. brother and sister have
suddenly been attacked with the disease. 1t
began with the elder, the boy who is aged Il.
and few months afterward the sister was
seized Whlle playing and in school they sud
denly IAN asleep; also, while walking, standing
or speaking, so that they do not finish their
sentences. On recovering consciousness they
continue with what they were doing when they
dozed off. For instance, in the street thew
continue to walk on, and always arrive at their
destination.
VAsHTI is beautiful Persian cat living in
East Fifty ninth street, New York a great pet
and until within a week queen of the mansion
visitor came, bringing parrot. vashti saw
ana immediately felt hungering desire for
parrot flesh. She approached and prepared for
spring, when she heard in amazernent the
sound as OF human voice issuing from the
cage and her ears were shocked with torrent
OF oaths such as had never before been heard in
that wellregulated household The Mortified
cat fled from the room, which she has never
since been induced to enter.
ACCORDING to the best London authority the
secret of King Milan's submission to the Re-
gents of Servia lies in the fact that not onlv
does he depend on the Servians for his INCOME
but he owes nearly $1,o00.000 and his creditors
nave become clamorous King Milans settle
ment in Paris will quickly be followed bv his
marriage with Madame Christics. the about-to-
be divorced wife of his former secretary by
whom he has been most completely enslaved and
as she is clever woman, full of tact and fiuesse
ana with great force OF character, it may safely
be predicted that she will rule him firmly.
THE TERM johnnie" which was originally
coined in London, is now very generally used in
New York to describe the peculiar class of
pallid youngster who hang around stage doors
and frequent burlesque theaters. The distinc-
ton between johnnie and a dude seems to be
that the former has money, while nothing is
needed to equip the latter but siver-headed
stick, cigarette, considerably i'll health and n
vapid smile. The Johnnie is also an improves
ment on the dude to the extent that he has an
object In life beyond cigarette smoking ever,
if that object is only the worship of a stage di-
vnity Ga
Roscoe WH1TccMB of Waldo, Me-, has shep-
herd dog which he prizes highly. One day last
week colt that was fastened by halter got
his feet through the stall and fell in such n
manner that he was choking to death The
dog was in the barn, saw the trouble and run
ming to the house, caught Mrs. Whitcomb by
the dress and attempted to pull her out of
doors. The dog would run toward the barn
and then catch Mrs. Whitcomb by her clothes
She finally went to the barn, arriving lust in
time to same the colt. Mr. Whitcomb said he
had been offered 500 for the colt and he feels
very grateful toward the dog for saving the
animals life.
The OBSERVATORY AT PICKING is the Oldest in
the world, having been founded in 1879 by Kubla
Khan the first Emperor of the Mogul dynasty.
There still in it three of the first instruments
of observation. These were used for the obser-
walton of Halleys comet, in 1738 and may also
be used when, twenty-five years hence this
comet again appears. The oldest observatory
in Europe is THAT founded by King Frederick
III. of Denmark, on the island of Hveen in the
Sound and when the famous astronomer Tycho
Brahe carried out his celebrated observations
among others, that of the bright" star in Cas-
siopeia. The Paris observatory was established
in 1871, and that of Greenwich three years
later.
CHARLES KELLOGG recently shot very pecu-
liar-looking bird near his grist mill on the out
skirts of Great Darlington, Mass. No one
seemed to know to what species it belonged.
and it wes sent to a naturalist in Boston, who
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