The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-14
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ANOTHER INFANT PIANIST has been discovered.
This one is but years old. HIS name is Raoul
| KOczal ski and be has captured St. Petersburg,
| Were the newspapers speak in extravaganza
terms of his execution of works of Chopin
Dox ALFONSO King of Spain, is now some
thirty months old. His nurse is peasant.
few day. since he queen desired to show him
TO n visitor, but she approached the royal
nursery the royal nurse stood at the door.
| You cannot enter, the king sleeps. Royal
etiquette required the withdrawal of the royal
mother.
Much distress prevails in the Chinese prov
inces Of Yangtze and Anhui. A native paper
reports that many hundreds OF thousands of
people are in a condition bordering starva-
ton and that the Chinese authorities, being I'M
able to supply the great demand for food, have
appealed for ASST lance, lot only to their own
countrymen, but foreigner as well.
IL GERMANY, after a girl graduates, she is
sent into the country to the house of some
notable housewife, where she remains year,
learning the most approved methods OF house
hold work Some towns have started schools
for this work, notably Hamburg In England
there is a training college for English house
wives at "Goodrest," near Kenilworth.
FRANK SHANNON of Philadelphia has been re-
warded for saving the life OF a hyena. One of
tho hyenas at the Quaker City Geological Gar
dens recently swallowed bone Shannon en-
tered the cage. thrust his arm down the hyena's
throat and extracted the bone. The Womans
Branch Of the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals has given Shannon gold
| medal
THE ACCOUNTS Of Mr.. Bright have not been so
satisfactory for the last few days. He has felt
the changes Of temperature very much. and
/ b s enforced idleneSs is very irkSome now that
he is beginning TO feel stronger. His lung is
not yet we'll and the east wind affects it. Should
he continue to improve, and the weather change
for the better. he will be moved south as soon
as possible.
A REM ARxABLY COOL HEADED MAN is James
Purless of Sacramento, Cal Last week by the
breaking of scaffolding around building he
was tearingItown, he was thrown into the cellar.
Several of his bones were broken and pro-
truded from the flesh, but notwithstanding he
continued smoking, and quietly directed the
men in their work of clearing away the rubbish
which held him prisoner.
THERE is water wheel in use at Bowdoin-
ham, Me-. which is probably the only one of its
kind in existence. 1t is q feet in diameter, with
foot of its rim out of water at high tide; the
spokeS are wide and set dagonally, like the
vanes of a windmill 1t turns eighteen hours of
the day by tide power, running one way with
the flow, the other with the ebb. With 1 foot
fall of the tide this wheel gives about fifty horse
power.
THE number of cattle returned for taxation in
1897 from the nine states and territories in
which stock raising is the leading industry was
| nearly 1900 900 In 1881 the same states and
territories returned 100000 heal of cattle
| These figures snow how rapid has been the rate
OF increase in the production of cattle within
less than decade 1t is estimated that if the
returns from the same district for 1888 were
completed they would approximate q, 100000.
TIE Emperor of China has presented his bride
elect with two beautiful mirrors for her attir-
ing room. They are of massive foreign glass,
over 6 feet long and feet broad, set in rose
| wood, in frames feet high with flowers carved
in relief. The pedestals for holding them are
also adorned with figures of foliage. animals,
| birds. etc. Each mirror and each frame took
eight men to carry 1t, and they were conveyed
from the palace to the house of the brides
father.
THE Countess de la Rance (Ouida) has given
up writing novels and taken to her prayers,
aud the London Trutt says: Miss Braddon
will be happy now that her bette aoir is out of
the field. If ever two women hated each ether.
these rival romanci5ts do cordially Ouida
calls Braddon that person, and Braddon calls
Ouida that woman with the accent on the
WOO! When Maxwell Miss Braddons Irish
husband wants to take rise out of the misses
as he puts it, he calls Nine. de la Rance, "a fl ue
woman, bcdad, with a rowiin eye in her head.
Then there is trouble
AN ENTERPRIsISG sToREKEEPER of Kennebec.
Me, has what he terms "a prize candle" burn
ing in his window. The candle is protected
from draught of air by a screen, and is kept
constantly snuffed 1t was lighted at o'cIock
hours just 615 inches burned away. As the
candle is 44nches in length at this rate il will
last about six days and a half. There have been
1857 guesses as to the time which the candle
would burn, ranging from seventeen seconds to
sixty one we ks. By far the greater part of the
gucsses are less than 100 hours.
ADMIRAL GREEN and the officers Of the flag
ship Lancaster, now at Nice, held on Tuesday
evening last the most successful fete ever given
by an American naval detachment in Europea n
VI fFter "a bad haar
by the jolly tars. The flags of all nations
slung together made brilliant awning, and the
upper deck was hung round with garlands OF
evergreens. The capstan was hidden under a
mass of flowers, and amidships a fountain
played gently to the more lively music of the
ships band. who were stationed close by. Eight
hundred invitations had been issued and fully
| |Oo persons responded. All the fashionable
colonies in Nice, the English American French
Russian, Austrian, Italian and German sent
some of their best known members.
STORIES about Balzac are now being told. in
spred by the proposed Balzac monument. One
relates that Baron James Rothschiid once, when
BalZac was obliged to 90 to Austria advanced
him 5000 francs and gave him letter OF rec
ommendatiou to his nephew in Vienna The
letter was unsealed and BalZac read it, Find
never took it to the nephew. When he got
back to Paris he went to see Baron Rothschild
'Wel,' SAID the latter, have you seen NV
nephew? Balzac proudly said that ne had
baron; have you got it with youf" Yes par
bleu; here it is" observe this little hero
glyphic below the signature; it would have
open't credit OF IS 900 francs for You at the
Vienna firm" Balzac had nothing to say
Two young ladies Of Canton, Ne, have started
TO raise funds for a town hall by means of the
depora6.e progress.ve-letter scheme. That is
each writes two letters asking for ten cen Isl
herself sends ten cents to the central treasury
and asks each recipient OF n lstter 70 follow her
example until the series has reached the fl
teenth stage. a friend OF these enthusiastic
young parsons remarks That tho plan seems
simple, but the young ladies' will raise enough
Tor a handsome building by these insignificant
contributions which one Of the gvers will
miss. But how about the postage biiY Uncle
sam will be the gailer by the sum OF S20l7 r.
which the writer's Of these letters will have to
| spend for postage before they get through and
then there are the manufacturers of paper and
| envelopes TO rejoice with the rest. How much
VIII the building cost wnen il is done?
AN interesting dramatic relic has just been
loaned TO the British museum by the University
OF Utrecht, consisting of a representation Of
theater in the time of Shakespeare II con.
tanned three galleries. one above tue otL err with
tiled roof above the top one, but open to the
| sky In the center. The stage is supp 1rted on
wooden posts, painted like marble, so that il
might deceive the most sagacio 81 IL ia be-
| heved 10 have been renewable, so that the am.
phitheRter might be free whenever IL was
wanted for bull or bear batting. The green
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