The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-28
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tons rom Europe, where they are coinnlon
I wild plants.
DURING the last two years the Italian army
has been increased by q. 900 men, 200 field guns
and 5000 cavalry. Never was the army so nu-
| merOus OF powerfully organized as AZ IDresent
! uh1er tue attempt to keep up with Germany's
| military step.
A SMITH COUNTY (Kansas) girl won $50 the
other day by husking and cribbing sixty bushels
/ OF corn IN five hours. There's no use talking a
| girl who can hUsk corn that fast has no bust
! ness TO be single with so many men waiting to
| be supported.
| IN the first nine months Of last year England
consumed H. lS. al gallons of wine, IS 253. 251
| gallons of spirits and 1ss51s1S gallons of
beer. In this year she has consumed /. sos 29s
gallons OF vine, s.734, POI gallons of spirits and
| p, 920, 903 gallons Of beer.
SOMETHING like the miracle of the loaves and
IFS hes was recently performed at Oakland, BIe.
| The managers Of a church supper pre- pared for
] seFenty-hye guests, but had an unexpected
| crowd and made their supplies spread to the
| entertainment of l25 people
IT IS SINGULAR that 60 per cent. of the West
Point cadets fail on mental examination. The
plan of competitive examinations for their ap-
polhImenE IS general, yet more fail after APP
( polntment than when their selection was left to
the Judgment of the members of congress.
| The Empress Augusta has caused monu-
nent, consisting of a white marble cross, on a
Gothic pedestal, more than forty feet high, to
De erected at Allmansdorf, near the Island Of
hamau. In memory OF the frequent visits of the
late Emperor William to that delightful spot.
The PARIS ALMANAos are always funny,
| whether designed to be 50 or not One of them
for 1890 contains fine portrait of ex- President
! Cleveland, and labels it IN Harrison, le nou-
veau President des Etats Unis' and uses an
equally good and equally large portrait of Thur
man for m. Morton, lie nouveau Vice Presi-
dent
The LATEST DEVELOPMENT of the electric light
| Is likely to prove of great use for vehicular
| traffic. A small incandescent globe and refiec-
! tor are placed on the forehead of a horse. in
sulated wires are carried along its body to
small battery slowed in the trailing vehicle.
! Inc current is turned on at pleasure, and an
unmistakabe blaze of light illumines the
murky surroundings.
IT is hoped that the discovery which has been
| made in Trenton in relation to the heating of
| pottery kilns may result advantageousy TO an
industry which has made marked progress in
TINS country. BY superheating the air before
II enters the kiln it is claimed that perfect com
| bustion may be obtained The new method
| economies coal, and largely reduces the time
required for firing kiln.
- FIRM of ready-made clothiers Of Leeds,
| England, is building factory in which about
| 800 sewing machines will be employed as we'll
4 tS Iilt u6CeSSdTy NUMBER OF cutting machines
| to keep these going. All these will be operated
| by electric motors, it having been found on
| calculating the relative cost, that it will be
| more economical to fit up the building in this
way than to furnish it with shafting and all the
necessary adjuncts.
WGNDHAM, NE, folks are laughing at a newlvz
| married man of that town who went to Port
| land shopping, taking the bride with him, but
VINO had forgot her when he started for home
and had nearly reached Windham before the
uneasy consciousness that he had forgotten
something finally resolved itself into the reali-
| zatlOn of the fact that it was his wife who was
| left behind. An absent-mnded Lewiston youth
had a similar experience few years ago. only
| he didn't remember the missing lady until
somebody at home asked why she hadn't re-
turned.
A BEAR has been making havoc with sheep in
| Burlington, Me-, having killed several in that
vlcinltyr Three traps have been set for bruin,
but he seems to have a preference thus far for
Keeping out OF them. He may have had
previous experience with traps similar to tina
/ OF an old bear killed there a year ago He
would take the bait from the trap every time it
was oalted, but could not be induced to put
his foot into it." Finally rifle was set for him
and he was killed by it, Then the reason for
his caution was apparent for it was found that
| he had lost paw in former tuss Ell with
| trap.
| SPECIAL DISPATCH to the New York World
| says: At the last session of York County Lodge
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| siding officer called attention to the fact that
| an astonishing amount of Jamaica ginger was
| being sold for drinking purposes, not only by
| druggists, but by the grocers in every little
| hamlet. 1t was demonstrated that some makes
| OF ginger contain as much 80 per cent. of
| alcohol County Attorney Burbank who is a
| leading good templar, said in open session that
tne SAFE was IN violation OF the prohibitory law,
| and advised that proof of sale be brought be-
| fore the grand jury at the January term of the
| supreme court at Saco.
THE following scheme for keeping live Holsters
has been started by man in Southport: A
! large cove has been purchased and damned UP
so that it forms salt water lake. When the
| Holsters are brought from the fishermen they
are put into this lake and kept until later in the
| season, when fewer of the fish are caught and
the price is higher. The dam is so built that a
| gate can be raised and the water let out and in
| again with the tide thus having pure sea water
| at all times in the cove. AS many as 5000
| Holsters can be kept in this place at q time
| When the owner wants to get lot he raises the
gate at low tide, let's the water run out. and
| then picks up all that he wants
Rosa BoNHEUR, the great animal painter,
! wears t1e cross of the Legion of Honor and NJ.
| Rene Peyro her brother-in-law, now tells us
| how the distinction was gained. The empres,
asked for it for the artist, but the request could
| not be granted. The cross had never been
| given to womanfand the ministers protested
| against precedent. But the empress bided
| her time till the following year when during
| the absence of the emperor in Algeria she
| acted as regent. One morning a servant bur-
| redly entered Rosa Bonheurs studio with the
| announcement that the empress was below In
| another minute she was In the studio borrowing
| pin from one of her ladies. The empress then
| kissed the artist, who, glancing down, saw the
| cross of the Legion of Honneur pinned on her
| breast.
| FRIDAY NIGHT a party of young men near
| Rockport, on the Indiana shore, went coon
| hunting, taking with them their guns. About
II O'Clock their dogs trailed an animal which
| turned upon them and put them to flight. The
| hunters came up, and catching a glimpse of
the animals form in the imperfect light CON
| Guided that 1t was a panther. One of them
| fired upon the beast, which fled with howl of
pain. With the aid of their dogs they followed
| and in about an hour overlook the strange ami
| NAL, which turned for the purpose of showing
fight, but volley from their rifles stretched il
| dead. The animal proved to be female tiger
| about three-fourths grown. 1t is supposed that
| it had been in the neighborhood for about a
| year, for the farmers had been suffering that
| long from depredations committed by some
| large animal upon their sheep, pigs and chick
| ems, and attributed their loss to panther. The
| tiger probably escaped from a circus.
| HAS it ever occurred to you that architecture
in civilization has been largely directed by nat
| ural causes, that is. has been governed by the
| material with which men were obliged to
work?" Such was the question put to me the
| other day by J. g. Patterson, who built the new
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