The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-29
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o-@-S-4fs IAAc Tie french academy, OF forty
iInmOrtals, whose mission IT shall be TO preserve
the purity Of the German language
TIE KING OF THR wARaAnAyeAs. an Ana.
tralian tribe. died last month in the Adelaide
hospital He was boy Of 70. six feet SIX inches
IL higot. and had Tor several years been c-I,ife
10 an employer named Lindsay TO whom n.
vas muc3 attached. When ne became king
| Last year he refused TO take his royal rank
The GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. through Prof. Vt. Fl
| Holmes, has recently made some most i'm
! portant discoveries of Indian relics, lust west
| Of Washington. on what is known as Pinev
Branch HUI The fud appears t. be the re-
mains OF an Indian workshop for the mann
| iaclure Of implements. weapons, etc. The spot
mas Deem eXc2YaLeC and implements have been
/ found clear TO the bed rock. The discovery is
consl2ered 20 be OF the greatest Importance to
| archaolO lists.
| IRE Hale ZoUAvEs, a crack organization of
young men Of Kansas City, gave a compli-
nentary reception and drill in honor of Con
gresham and Mrs. John c. Tarsney recently.
Al the close OF the drill t1e congressman ca led
npo1 tnirty two of the young men To stand 10
line before him. and was about to address them,
"ueh slrs- 1arsney, who, by the way. is hand
some lady under middle age stepred forward
ana IN regular succession kissed eacn one OF the
young men. Not one objected TO the salute.
HE TOTAL COAL CONSUMPTION of the world is
SAID to amount to upward of 1000, 900 cwt. per
hour. OF this quantity about 10000 cwt are
required per hour in order to beat the boilers
Tor stationary and marine engines, locomotives
&c. Inc production OF pig iron absOrbs 100000
c"t- and that of other metals 5000 cwt. per
hour The average hourly consumption of
household coal is reckoned at 10000 cwt, but
the total production is estimated at 30, 900
c"t. 70 oS0OO,OOO cwt. per diem, so there is a
considerable margin
WHETHER the Norsemen really discovered and
settled New England in the eleventh century or
not Prof. Eben Norton Horsford of Cambridge
VIII have it so. He has just erected at his own
expense massive tower az Waltham. Mass TO
mark what he believes is without doubt the site
OF the ancient city of Norumbega. This old
stronghold the professor located as the place
where the Norselnen stayed d long time before
they abandoned it on account of the hostility of
the ''SkraelingS.H as the natives of the region
are called IN the old SagaS.
WALTER HAYNES of Brimfeld. Mass, who be
came centenarian Tuesday, is certainly a re-
markable man He comes of a Iong-liyed
family. and has never required the services of
a physician. he still reads the newspapers
though he thinks the type is getting bad or else
ms siEht is beginning 10 fail as q carpenter he
helped to build the first block erected in SYRIA
cuse, y. y, and alone excavated a quarter sec
ton of twenty-six rods of the Erie canal He
never used liquor or tobacco and attributes his
| long life TO boiled victuals' and johnny
cake
THERE Is rich family of the name Of Lofting
| in England, whose fortune was founded by the
| thimble. The first ever seen in England was
made IN London less than 200 years ago by a
metal worker named John Lofting The use.
| tulness of the article commended it at once to
an VINO used the needle, and Lofting acquired a
large fortune The implement was then called
| the thumb bell, it being worn on the thumb
when IN use, and its shape suggesting the rest
I OF the name ms clumsy mode Of utilizing it
was soon changed, however, but the name
| sottened into ''thimble,' remains
4 CuA
| has been keeper and tanner of crows some
forty years, never being without one or more OF
| these birds. Fanny his present pet, has been
with him two years. She warns herself for
| hours by the smithy fire, chatters while he is
| hammering on the anvil, and when he is shoeing
a horse is sure to stand at the beasts heels
Recently horse put his foot on Fanny and
pinned her down till she was as fiat as board
She was laid on the hearth apparently dead but
an hour afterward she shook herself up into
shape again and began chattering as usual
| though IN very squaily and melancholy tone
which lasted for week or more
A DONKEY shot a man in Bridgeport, Conn,
the other night. The donkey belonged to
| Bartholmew's Equine Aggregation, and his
| bushes was to fire pistol by pulling a trigger
with his teeth. In this instance the donkey
| fired cannon which it was intended that one
of the trained horses should discharge. The
stage manager had his back toward the
ordnance, and, the charge and wadding strik-
upon the head of Herr Strut of the orchestra
The stage manager was severely hurt and the
performances temporarily paralyzed. The don
key, after bombardng the manager trotted to
the footlightS and looked complacently down on
the confusion.
Victor PoIssANT, a young electrician of Onna
ha has very ingenious way of killing rats.
AS he has been practicing this method of cleo |
trocution at intervals for the past three years
ne may be fairly credited with having antci- |
pated the New York scientists who are now puz-
zllng themselves and the rest of mankind as to |
the proDrlety Of sending Mr.. Kemmler out of |
the world by the overhead wire system The |
prying rodent is caught in an ordinary oval trap |
the bottom of which is covered with TIN. Mr. |
PoisSant has small dynamo of his own mann |
facture. One wire, connected with the dynamo. |
Is fastened to the tin lining of the trap and |
another is thrust into the prisoners cell The |
well-kuown propensity of a Gagged rat to do |
battle asserts itself, and he seizes the wire he
tween his teeth In SO doing he makes the mis-
take OF his life; The circuit is completed, his |
Jaws close on the wire with a death grip and |
without squeak, and almost without a culver.
he passes into state of eternal desuetude.
A CURIOUS CASE has come up in one of the |
law courts of Chicago which involves a cues
ton as to whether court of law can recognize
the proceeds of a prize lottery ticket as legal
property. Eugene Rowlson of Grand Haven
Mich, invested in Mexican lottery ticket 1t |
drew $4,000. News of the drawing did not |
reach Grand Haven until after RowlSon's death |
Jacob Baar, his partner, forwarded the ticket
to Wells, Fargo e Co., Chicago who collected
the money, but were enjoined from paying it TO |
Baar at the instance of Rowlson's heirs. who
put in their claim. On the one hand it is con |
tended that the court should dismiss the claim
under the Illinois statute which makes dealing
in lotteries Illegal on the other that the statute
of Illinois can only control citizens of that state
and cannot injuriousiy affect the rights and in
terests of residents in other states. The court
held the question to be a grave and interesting
one, and directed the filing of BRIEFS There IS
no difficulty in guessing now into whose pock
cts good share of that money is eventually
going.
VERY FEW PERSONS can truthfully say that
that their destiny has been decided by the
drawing Of a straw. Edward Spangenburg.
one of the most successful of the younger at
torneys of Cincinnati owes much Of the good
things that have come to him to such an atuar-
entity trivial circumstance. The time was inst
at the close of the war. Mr.. Spangenberg and
his brother had done service under the stars
and stripes and with their father found them
selves in Denver, then small place. good
opening was found for one of the bows ont
which was to stay there was the question
Neither had profession So the good father
prepared two strawS and, covering them in his |
fingers, babe each son to pull one Young
Edward drew the short one and was oblioed re |