The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-25
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( was in apparent good health. exc d. for q bail
/ on has NECK. Friday night the boil broke. ani
/ the little fellow died within a few hours Ply
! sicians are mystifed over the case.
AT last Venice is to be made subject of nu
nicipal improvement. She is going to have new
boulevards or new canals laid through her after
/ the manner Of the new boulevards of Paris and
there Is Tremendous hubbub of alarm among
| been.
WRITER in the United Service 9fdoazins
says that the stones used for scrIbbing the
decks OF ships are called holy stones BEGAN a
| the work Was generally done on Sunday. But
a writer IN the CturchmGn says that they were
so-cale becauSe those who used them had To
/ go down on their knees to do their work
TIE AFGHAN AMEER's method of vengeance
on his rebel prisoners is pretty highly devel-
/ oped One batch, numbe ing 800, were put to
ueatl three day Ole of the trio was always
| hanged dressed in yellow and green another
was dressed in black and blown from a gun
anu the third was dressed in red and cut up
with sword ~
IHE LARGEST COUNTY in the United States is
custer county. Montana, which contains &c, OCO
| square miles, being larger in extent than the
ateS 9r Nerm Mt, Mass lchusetts, Connecticut
DelaWar ami Rhode Island. One-tenth of our
| present population could find means of liveli-
mood IN this one COUNTY and then it would no,
DC so populous as Belgium.
| ROANOKE COLLEGE at Salem, Va. opened its
| thirty-seventh session last week, and among
the students enrolled are seven from the Cloc-
taw nation in the Indian Territor two Jap
| sheSe auc one Mexican. The boys from ,Japan
| -hldel tukuoka an Toyojiro ierashima sons
| OIL DISTINGUISHED officers of the Japanese empire
were at Roanoke last Sc sion, and were so
well pleased that they have returned.
| PROBABLY one railroad ticket never carried a
larger party out OF Maine than did one sold in
Saco Tuesday. and everything was fair and
aboye-board. The party consisted of a young
| woman and her seven children, whose ages
| ranged from to years When the tami V
were arranged, with the lady, the baby, twins
ABOUT years old, and another child on one
| seat, ana the oldest child, another pair OF
! tWins and some miscellaneous baggage oppo-
site them the5 formed interesting group
Inc children were all clean and well-behaved
The recent order of the British admiralty,
directing that all the subsidized merchant
| steamers intended for use in time Of war shall
| strip themselves of YARDS has been complied
| with, acc )rdng to the New York Times by all
! the subsidized vessels sailing out of that Dort
| vessels OF other nations. too, ore accepting
| tne new ORDER OF things, and all appearances
| point to tAe doing away with spars of ali de
| scriptions aboard the great liners The vessels
| entering New York coming under the recent
order Of tue British admiralty belong to the
| WHITE Star, Gunard and Inman lines -
| NJ. Hermann Fol reports to the Paris Acad-
| envy OF Sciences the result of his recent re-
| searches in the depths of the Mediterranean 20
determine how far daylight pen strates His
| operations were carried on in water of remark
| abie cleornes', between Corsica and the shores
OF the Apes Maritimes at distance of eighteen
geoSrapiical mules from the nsa est la ld He
used gelauno-bromide plates, exposed during
ten minutes, whereby he found the II nit OF
| daylight in those waters to be at a depth of
LOIS feet. This Is 327 feet short of the limit
assigned to daylight in the Mediterranean by
PetRTSAu
| ago.
EVERYTHING in the country of the river Chat.
in Central Asia, is described by Gabriel Bouva-
lot as covered with salt. 1t is seen in the walls
OF the houses and on the banks of the rivers.
and the water one drinks is very salt Travel
| ing saltpeter makers go in summer from place
TO place wherever they can find materials to
work upon. Their mode of operation is a rough
| AMI ready one. Holes in the earth serve as v3ts
and boilers, ana below these are placed ovens
Abundance OF orushwood suppl. materials for
| The fires. The workers collect from the snrface
| OF tie earth heaps OF C mpost of salt and
animal manure. This is soaked for twenty four
hours In water, then filtered. and then boiled
for twenty-four hours. cleanse and placed in
the sun. so that the water may evapoi a e. An
ordinary workman can make about fifty pounds
IN DAY, and this he sells at the rate of a penny
pound. Inc workmen appear contented WITH
their lot. O I'd the ndustry is preserved in their
families for generations.
]. NJ. HUBERT writes from Oxford
to the London SDectdt r: Thirty wears
ago l was staying at langley, near
Chippenham, with lady who was work
ing large screen, on which she depicted in
raised work las it was then called a life-sized
cat or cushion. The host, sportsman now
dead, was much struck with the similarity 10
life of cat, 50 he fetch his dog (alas! like
too many of the speces). q c at-hater The ami
nal made a dead set at the (vooD cat and but
lor the master ciutchlag him by the collar the
into
related this tale lately in Oxford ami nv hearer
| told me that friend in the Bevin yton road had
Just painted ort on fire screen. AMI her cat
new at IT. My own do :, 'Scara noueh "a pat
OF the Duke of Albany'S in his Undergraduates
days. di-liked being washed AMI when showed
him a large Graphtc picture OF child scrub
bling fox-terrier 10 tub, he Turned his herd
away ruefuly, and would not look at his brother
in adversely"
"CoNNoIssEURs who pride themselves on their
ability to detect authorizations in olive Oil and
VINO even fancy they can tell where their favor
lite brand of table oil is grown by the col r.
consistency and taste, ought to read. :, said an
oil importer yesterday, what the United States
consul at Nice, the great exp orting depot saws
or the difficulty OF telling the true from tie
false Consul Hathaway estimates the oil
product OF his department at 10000 900 barrels
per annum, much of it coming from Tuscany
Naples. and even Corsica In spite of the layssi
penalties ainst adulterati1n, cotton seed oil
and oil OF seSamum are mixed with the olive
in a test tube .80S6 grains of dried aibumen
add 30.S64 grains OF nitric acid and as much oil
Apply heat and the boiling process will mix the
contents the tube. If the oil be genuine the
con ents of the tube will be yellow with a
feeole greeniSh tint, but if there is so mucl as
per cent. admixture the'coor will be an
amber yellow. But, pshaw Who would take
that much trouble with his table oily
IT WAS TOUCHING STORY which the late Lord
Shaftesbury told Of some of the greatest roughs
in the East End of London. A young clergyman
in one of the most wretched parishes had asked
his advice as to how to deal with tn terrible hui
man vice and misery OF the place Lord
Shaftesoury had counseled him TO begin by
establishing ragged school, and had at the
same u ne furns ed the necessary funds. The
school met with immediate success, but it was
impossible, in spite of all the wears efforts 10
induce the people to come to church and th.
young clergyman finally resolved to meet them
by preaching in the open air. He selected one
OF the worst courts. and mad the benches from
the school taken there for his hear
ers to sit upon, but was dlsmayed when he came
upon the scene to see the front row occupiol
by number of the most notorious roughs of
the neighhoThood. VINO, ne thought had come
to break up the services. To his surprise now
ever. q. erything went of quietly, and Wien ne
services were over he stepped up to the leader
of the gang, told him he Ia not expected to
see him there, though he was very glad to vel
come him. and asked what had brought III n
The man said: We'll. sir, you've been very
God - IL l. l.