The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-12

/ AFTER George Shafter of Natchez had made
legal affidavit that on Dec. "a, 1898, the cur
| rent of the Mississippi rive flowed I'D stream
| for an hour, half dozen parties went at it and
proved that he was drunk all that day.
A New BEDFORD MAN had his nose broken be-
cause he said he had seen a whale ninety feet
long The man who broke it for him had never
even been to sea, but he had his idea how long
whale ought to be.
ABOUT three years ago Miss Kate Coyne, a
Cincinnati artist, painted for a Topeka (Kan }
gentleman picture of his deceased son. He
took great fancy to the lady. and the story
now comes along that he had died and left her
$4,000,
A COUNCIL BLUFFS coRoNERs JURY the other
day brought in the following verdict: I'VE And
that the deceased came to his death by being
crushed under sand bank, and we therefore
recommend that a commissioner of sand banks
be appointed"
A NURSERY in Danbury, Conn, has a most
peculiar roof in fact, it is quite improbable that
there is another ono like it in the state It is
comp sed entirely from Photographic gatives.
The greenhouse is entirely rooted by these
negatives, which bear tae likenesSes of all man
ner of people, Old men long since forgotten,
pretty girls, dozens of babies and many others.
II must be queer sensation to LOOK through
the roof at the sun.
An inmate Of the penitentiary at Salem, Ore,
cut OF his hand In order to get a spell of idle
ness On his way to the penitentiary few
weeks ago he told the officer that lie did not in
tend working while in jail. He assigned to
the foundry, and on the first day burnt his foot
AtUerward he asserted that he was sick, and
when this was found not to lie the case he
mutlated himself, He used a Ratchet, and
made two blows at the hand before he accom-
plIsled his purpose. The penitentiary d. cto
says the man is not insane
In a school district in London there were
maay parents who reported no children in their
families. In order to find Just how many chill.
dren were thus being kept from school, tn e
school authorities got two monkeys, dressed
them gayly, put them in q wagon in which there
was brass band and started through the dis
trict. At once crowds of children appeared
and followed the wagon. which drove to g.
neigGbJrlng park. when the school officers went
among the children distributing candies AMI
getting their names and add ieSseS Thy thus
found tAat over sixty parents Kept their chill
dren from school; and a. result of the mon
keys, the brass band and the candy about 200
little boys aud girls have been set at study.
TIE annual review of the American whale
fishery shows that there are now 1G6 whaling
We ssels owned in this country Of which twenty
are laid up at home. Prices for the products
except wAaieoone, have been low, and the right
whaling in the Arctic ocean, where most whale
| bone is taken, is becoming more and more
| popular, 50 that now about half tire total ton
mage Of whaling vessels is employed in that
| branch of the service. In the Arctic last sum
mer there were forty seven wha leTs a slight in
crease from the year before but their avera ye
catch was only ab nut half that Of 1887. OF the
American whalerS now in service siXty-three
are owned in New Bedford, twenty three in San
Francisco, eight in ProvincetOwn, four in Edgar
town, three in Boston, three in New London,
and two IL Stonington
A PAPER on "Tae Amount and Incidence Of
Imperial Taxation in Different Countries" by
J, S. Jeans, was read some days ago, in Lon
don before the Royal Statistical Society Mr.
Jeans described in very general terms the
sources Of revenue of m 0St of the countries Of
the world, and gave figures showing the great
increase during the last twenty years in the
amount levied by taxation upon their peoples
He pointed ut that this increase was mainly
due to increased eXpend ture for war purposes
ana sad: The present annual expenditure in
, Europe for war purposes. including armies, ma
vieS and interest debt, is over $50 0 o. 900
Der annum. Thirty years ago the same expen-
d ture was not more than 100000 annually.
Nothing can justify such an utter waste of re
sources. What is there % show for it No sin
gle nat on is one whit the happier, the better or
the more secure. We have at thi, moment
nearly 100000 Of men under arms in Europe
Add what these men ought to earn producers
taking the moderate average of $50 per man
per annum, about 50 000,0 OJ sterling in ALTO
the war expenditure already stated and we
have total waste of 43O, 900 per annum"
A PARAGRAPH lately went the round of the
English papers stating that an officer who had
been made a bankrupt for debts amounting to
f80O had Unexpectedly received from an old
brother officer check for the amount and that
the bankruptcy had consequently been annued
Tie story. when told in full looks says the Lon
don correspondent of the Sic feld Teieqydph
more Ike romance than reality. The officer
who was In trouble was a major general and
the gentleman who has befriende him was also
an officer. Years ago the two officers were in
the same regiment, and became friends. But it
happened that on one occasion they Quarreied
and the enlargement lasted a considerable
time. One Christmas, however, the general
received from the other gentleman an envelope
containing simple little Christmas card-a bird
with an olive branch in its beak. The general
kept this fora year and the following Christmas
sent it in the same way back to his friend He
also kept it till the next Christmas, and then
once more returned it to the general. For thirty
years this tex n of renewed friendship has been
going backwards and forwards, aud last Christ
mas it happened to be the generals turn t.
send it.. In the worry, caused by the turn his
affairs had taken, ne forgot all about the card
until. two or three days after Christmas it was
come upon accidentally by his wife. She put it
IN an envelope, but instead of sending it in the
usual way enclosed a note explaining WHY il
had been overlook ed, with newspaper cutting
referring to the bankruptcy Promptly there
came in reply ChecS for 81 900 with the init
NATION that as the sender had just come into a
large fortune he was only too pleased to come
TO his friend s rescue, and that in future he in
tended to keep the olive branch as his most
CHERISHED possession.
DAVID PULsIFER of Boston has recently found
among the old state archives the following let
ter written by Gen. Lafayette to the president
Of the Boston town council. 1t shows that the
great Frenchman had not then entirely mas
tered the English language, but his heart was
all right:
On board of the Alliance 9Th January 177ss
Sir
Nothing Could give me greater honor and
pleasanter Satisfaction than the letter the hon
orable the Council Of this safe have been
Pleased TO send me for the American Minister
al Nersallies-Such marks OF theyr approbat lion
have excited in me, all the feelings of pleasure
and Gratitude my heart Is capable of beg
Sir, you would present them MY Most Respect
full thanks and the assurances of MY eternal
veneration for them and the warmest zeal for
the state thew now Represent
this State / learn to love since | began to
know America, and hear of the happy Devotion
IN which they we're then Beginning to play 30
Noble part-the heroic and almost incredible
exertons which FOLLOWED the first resistance to
tyranny, the vrtuous principles and that pre-
cious Republican spirit which ever have and
docs yet more animate its inha bitants, have TN
spir d mo with such love and generation for
thN az lenght free state, that / desire to be
Rank among It's most devoted servants.
has exoellency the president OF the Council OF
MaShaShushet bay, pardon me, Sir. If ] Can't
Restrain the Assurances of an Affection my
heart feels so well, and not to take up longer
the precious instants of the Council. I Will
schortiy end in presenting to them and to you
the assurances OF the highest Respect have the
honor to be with