The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-27
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Or this years graduating class at Princeton
80 viii. il is said, become lawyers, q ministers,
i4doctors. p business men ana newspaper
men
EzrEssIvE iron and steel works are to be
erected at Vallejo, Cal It is stated that Sl0-
OOo,0O0 have been subsc ibed for this purpose by
syndicate Of English capitalists
BEGeAEY has been reduced to an art as wen
as profession In Rome Ina recent case be-
fore the police an old man Admitted that he had
as many as fifty lies in daily use-81
COLLEGE JOURNALISM iourishss at Harvsri.
and its graduates and Undergraduates also keep
the daily newspapers Of Boston, partcularlf
the sunday pap. rs supplied with college news.
The BRITISH NURSES ASSOCIATION has been
formed, where trained nurses shall be regis
tered OF the 1900 now estimated to be in
England, nearly 1850 have joined the associa-
ton.
In one small lake IN Cuba containing about
200 acres an American recently counted 107
aigators all fat, contented and healthy. and
States.
ADoLPH STRUrHERs. of Hancock county. O..
is bound to keep cool this summer. He has in
vented fan to be placed in his hat, which is
pockets.
WHILE James Brokers was bidding at an
auction sale in Williamsport. Pa, few days
since, the stone pavement on which he stood
spit IN two, and he fell into the cellar The fall
| killed him.
The greatest snuf-taking country in the
world is France, though it shows decline in
the habit In 1863 the consumption was IL 600
| QUO p funds, or seven ounces per head Now it
| is five ounces.
The care fox takes of her cubs can be seen
from list of provisions found together about
| an earth" Ie comprised 10 rabbits, 20 rats, 2
| pheasants, wild duck, 2 fowls l snipe. wood
COCKS. ~ moles; total, 20 head.
MAN who lives near Piatt, Sullivan county.
pennsylvania, cltims to have scheme whereby
he can manufacture shoes with movable soles
| so that when one sole wears out the oil one car
| De replaced with a new one without any tr uble
HE old Planters house in ST. Louis, which
gained historical interest from illusions in Dick
ems American Notes. and from whose front
| oalconY Andrew johnson made one Of the
| speeches that are said TO have led to his i'm
peachment, is to be torn down.
The anti-Chinese agitation in foreign coun-
tries seems to find its counterpart within the
Chinese empire Itself. where. according to a
| I1entsln correspondent, one province objects to
tne influx OF Chin Sc from another province in
much the same way as California and Australia
OBJECT to Chinese from all provinces
DURING the last fifteen years the postal reve-
nues Of the government have lust about
doubled, or in one-half the time in which popu-
| atlon mas doubled For the current fiscal year
they are estimate at $50, 600 600; in 1885, when
| the population of the United states was So 9OO-
| OOO, the postal revenues were S42, 500 OOO Now
the population is estimated at So 100000.
STATE GeoLoeIsT GEORGE H Cook of New
brunswick, n. j., reports a number of interest
ing discoveries in fossils recently made Be-
mn TrSrfa
| mains Of prehistoric days, several fossil fishes
have been discovered at Boonton, and in a quar-
ry az BelevIlle, two skeletons of an animal great
| ly resembling the horned toad of the western
plains.
"a GREAT many people still firmly believe the
old notion that friction on the head stimulates
the intellect. 4" said barber the other day. as
| he strapped his razor with commemorative air
| Il know several lawyers who Just before they
| are 10 make a plea Invariably have their crowns
vigorously rubbed They say that it not only
| brghtens up their ideas, but gives greater
power OF concentration upon single thought"
FRANCE claims the honor Of utilizing higher
water pressure than that recently put in opera.
ton in the Chollar shaft on the Comstock lode.
| in Nevada. At Brignoud, III miles from the
| valley of Gresivaudad. near Grenoble a turbine
| 9feet 10 inches in diameter was put in opera
tion in the year 1875. utilizing head of 1858
| feet. 1t is still working, and gives force of
| l,500-horse power, with flow of seventy-five
| gallons OF water per second.
LAST WEEK the postofice in Alma, Me-, was re-
moved from its old place in P. B. Jones' build
ing to the store of F. L. Weeks. The next
morning Driver Perham of the Alma and Carl
ner stage. left his horses for moment at the
new office, when they started, called round at
the old postofhce, waited moment. and then
| started off at a quick dash down the street 10
connect with the morning train at Wiscasset
They were overtaken and captured about half a
mile below the village
IN digging the foundations for a new building
| in Rome there was found marble sarcophagus
bearing the name of Creperela Triphena, with
the Id still firmly fastened with rivets of iron
imbedded In lead. Inside was the skeleton of a
| woman, upon which was found pair of gold
earrings gold necklace large and elegant
gold brooch, thick gold ring. a ring composed
of two gold circles, a long amber spiral pm two
COMBS of lockwood, a silver box and few other
OBJECTS
ACCORDING to the latest educational report
of 1884 only l,4G6,9ls OF 1900. 900 children in
the Russian empire attended schools. About so
per cent, therefore, of young Russia receives no
instruction at ALL In sixty governments there
Is only one school for secondary instruction to
every IS 600 boys and p 900 girls Only Ga ner
cent. of the boys of any age TO attend a public
hign school can be accommodated. For girls
the number of such schools is even more insie-
nifcant The schoolmaster cannot be said to
be abroad in Russia yet.
ALTHOUGH John L. Sullivan wears a large
SHOE he has not large foot for so heavy a
man. 1t is very manly, natural uniform foot.
His fighting snoe is a No. 10. The high instan
measures 9S4; low instep 9lb, and the bali Oh
The seam measur IA, aud the ankle 916 On
the shoes the spikes are placed one on the heel
one on the outside of the ball. and one a little
back of the big toe. The shoes which he will
wear N his fight with Kilrain are made of fine
French calfskin. The heel is fat and low. and
the whole shoe is as near the exact shape OF rha
natural foot as possible. His dress was made on
No. last.
OLD TAUNTON. ENGLAND, sent her greetings to
the New England Taunton, but they were not re-
Gel ed in time for the latter's 250th anniversary
celebration. The missive is one of the most
aborate communcat ons ever seen in the CITY
The letters are hand-pa nted upon tnin parch
ment in old STYLE Illuminated script. The whole
is surrounded by illuminated scroworR and at
the top Is a water-color sketch of Taunton Cas-
tie, and below is O. o d ST. alary's church. On
one side of Q castle is the CO At of arms OF the
town, and on the other 81 lie is huge crossed
| by what seems to be a beer barrel peraaps
hint at the GROWING industry of Taunton The
large red seal of Taunton borough appears in
| the lower right hand corner 1t will be framed
| In good stout frame Of old English oak taken
from St. Marys church at the time of its last
| renovation, and which viii arrive in the city in
few days
MRS FRANK LESLIE, in an essay on beaux
published in the New York World, says: But
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