The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-07
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their lot is not one to be repined at, since the
finest leasur of life can be enjoyed indie
pendentiy Of money.
/ N. JULES SIMON. the eminent French states
man, has quiet dignity. ease. cool head, and
/ the faculty TO stimulate warmth and ge nuine
J emotion. As a speaker ne ste rs clear of decla-
I nation, and can draw at will veins of irony
! and sarcasm which he gently infuses as if in a
/ casual way.
MAT WALTON Of Mononganela City while
! blowing near the spot where Col. Crawford was
| burned at the stake by Indians in 1872, un-
earthed sword. The blade was rusted away,
| but the handle aud guard, being of gold, were
! preserved. On the handle is engraved the name
OF William Crawford.
! The HAGUE MUSEUM has recently acquired the
| tongue Of Jan de Witt and the great toe of his
brother. Cornelius de Witt two statesmen who
we're torn to pieces by an enraged people in
lb'2. N. Cockhuyt OF Leyden, who has pre-
sentnd them 10 the museum, vouches for their
genuinenesS 'as they have both been in our
family since 1872"
THERE is in Ozark, Mo, a remarkable relic Of
the tornado that devastated Marshfield in $780,
The day after the disaster E. S Wilson. black
smith of Ozark, found a black quart bottle
which had been b-nt so that the neck of the
bottle touched the edge of the bottom and vet
the glass was not cracked. Prof. Tice, who
VI tied the scene of the tornado, attributed the
bending of the bottle to electricity. 1t was
found IN the wreck of one of the Marshf1eld
drug stores.
LORD LYTToN, British minister to France, is
curious man, eccentric, self willed and picJur-
esque. Saws recent observer: Lord Lytton
is devoted to vile trousers. He got into the
haoit OF wearing them ia India. They make
ms Feet almost 10 * tiny He is now well. But
the doctors tell him that he must be careful not
to bring on a relapse and to avoid the kind of
warm, crowded, ill-ventilated rooms that in the
9lScharge OF his ambaSSadorlan duties he has to
frequent"
THERE were number of burglaries at Tulare
Clly' Cal, and Tom Egan was arrested and i'm
prlSoned, charged with housebreaking The
next night the door of the Jail was opened and
ne was told to come out He did so and was
confronted by twelve masked men, who took
h lIa 10 grove, put rope around his neck and
Iolu MN 10 pray before he d ed If he wanted to.
| fStn IelI on ms knees and PRAYED so fervently
| mat the wonld-be lynchers re ented took him
back t. the Jail and locked him in again.
President DIAz, during the four years of his
administration in Mexico, has rendered sub
stantlal service by encouraging archaeological
! INV stgation and ta6in measures for the pres
| ervatIon of nclent monuments and historical
| remains The ruins of y, chicaico and the pyra
| mas or IeOtlhuacan have been explored and
Ine searcherS rewar led by many interesting dis
coVerles. An arch8olog ical map of the repub
| nc mas been made and the palaces of Militia in
c'os7d for their preservation, by great wall
HERE are Donahoes and Donahoes in Cali
| lorna Joseph A. Donahoe of Meno PARK has
| offered prizes for the discovery of comets by
| Pacific coast astronomers. j. Meryyn Donahoe
| OF san francisco has offered a purse of s., 900
| IOf prize tight between Jake Kilrain and the
| Australian ne 70, Peter Jackson provided the
contest should take place in San Francisco
| Perhaps the latter offer may also be considered
| an encouragement to astronomical investiga-
| zion, as puglStS are almost certain to see I'M
| known stars during the fight.
j. L. GRANT of Wappling, Conn, calls public
attention to his pigs There are half dozen of
| them and they know more than all the rest of
the pigs in Connecticut. Mr.. Grant was not
aware how smart his pigs were until having
noticed that one of his COWS gave less milk THAI
she was wont to do. he investigated the mys-
terry. He found that the pigs were milking the
COW regularly. They were only s weeks old.
put they are large enough, by standing on their
hlnd legs, TO milk the cow, which is short quite
handlly. The cow does not mind it,
LEWIS MILLER, president of the Lake Chan.
tauqua Society, says that when the society was
first formed its ground was worth about $500 an
acre, an the cottages, together with all build
IngS belonging to the ass Jciation did not
amount to more than $4,000 or $1,000. The
value OF the ChautauQua grounds at present is
about S5OO,O0O and there are yet unsold about
SoO0O worth of lots valued at from $3.50 to $500
each The management intends to erect per
manent buildings in the future The first
| graduating class numbered but 700, the next
year 1900, and this year it is 5000.
SLOWLY the great falls of the Niagara river
are changing in shape, through the eating away
OF the shale rock which I'm lerlies the hard rock
that forms the bed Of the rapids It is almost a
mlfnomer now to speak of the Canadian nor
cl0n OF the great cataract as the Horseshoe
IallS, ana within week this designation has
become more than ever misplaced IN conSe
| quence of the fall of a large section of the he'd
rock IN the very center OF the falls. So much
| rock Tell that an eddy below the falls on the
Canadian side of the river has been narrowed
more than half, aud the little stea ner Maid of
the Mist has less difficulty than before in RIM
ning into the curve Of the falls.
FOURTEEN YEARS AGO Joseph Buchtel saw
little fellow knocked down by a horse. drawing
| a street car in which he was riding in Portland
Ore. The drivers head was turned. and Buch
tel, grabbing the relns with one hand wheeled
the horse away from the child, and with the
other grasped him just as the wheel was about
to crush him. The father, W. C. johnson, was
profuse in thanks, and the affair was apparentlv
forgotten. The child grew and on his 18Th
birthday Mr. Buchtel was invited to Mr.. .John
sons office where he found the family assem-
bled. The boy made a neat speech and handed
his surprised reScuer a gold-headed cane IN.
scribed: From W. Carey Johnson June ~
1899 In memory of brave deed 1873 I owe
You my boys life. The ackn 'wledgment was
little slow in coming, but it got there lust the
same
EVERYBODY speaks Of the Warehouses of
Lorne,n "a the London correspondent of the
Liverpool Mercury, "as the most popular of
princesseS, and one got to understand why from n
sing incident. She caught sight of Mr. Sala
ana cried out with delight, Is not that Mr. SalaS
know him Thinking it would lease the
doyen of our profession to hear of the princecs'
recognition, told him what had happened. In
turn he told me story which hone he will
forgive me for repeating. In Rome lately he
was quietly descending a palace Staircase
groplng his way. his eyesight net being what il
was-when voice cried out. Is not that Mr.
Sala? Yes, madame he replied All. Won do
not know me" Touched by the assumption
That his interviewer was somebody worth know
ing he replied No; ma lame; are you duchess?'
No, but-I'm Princess Louise ."
WRITING from Turin about her brother Gen
Louis kossuth, who is now SO years old. Mime.
Ruttkay says: HE is enjoying not only good
health for one of his age but preserves all the
faculties of his mind. We live here. close to
Turin, in pleasant villa, surrounded by a hand.
some garden, which he planted himself an cuI-
tivated with the greatest care Natural SCIENCE
is one of his favorite studies. Botany occ ,nisd
a great dea of his time as long as be- was ahI4
to climb the Alps. Now he has given it nm INT
has fine collection of plants dried-abo,lt O0l
specimens-which g arranged with the greatest
care. His sons are well situated and have am
pie opportunity to exercise their fine talents
improved by generous educ alton. Francis is
director of the sulphur mi 1es of Cessna in
Tuscany Louis is chief engineer of the Ia
Italia railroad line. Neither is married: their
father does not desire it, pernaps because they
have no opportunity to marry Hungarian