The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-18
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CHINA has just negotiated loan in Hamburg
Of S4OOOO.OOO.
JEwELER suggests that if you ever drop
your watch in water put it into cup of alcohol
or whisky and so save it from rusting
NJ. DE FREYCNET has issued commission to
inquire into the Residences of employing swal-
lows to carry war messages in lieu of carrier
pigeons.
BULL FIGHTING pays. Frascuela, the Spanish
matador. has retired with fortune of $780, 600.
great many shabby Catalonian bulls had to
retire before him.
HENRICK IBsEx, the hero of the latest
literary craze in England, is g. years old and
was educated to be chemist He owes his
dramatic success largely to the friendship and
patronage OF Ole Bull.
MARY ANDERSON is responsible for the popu-
Iarity OF English shoes among American
women Mary's feet are not small but she bad
the courage to abandon French foot-gear for
shoes In which she could walk comfortably.
THE FIRST LOT of ivory that has been imported
into Belgium direct from the Congo Ia been
sold at Antwerp aud realized very high prices
| ranging from IS. I'd. to lis. Al. per pound
mere were l.l39 elephant tusks, weighing 33,20O
| pounds
The HEIR APPARENT to the throne of Japan,
Prince Haree. is lusty and active boy of 10 years
VINO is being brought up in very sensible way.
ne mas plenty of exercise, and while he attends
the nobl-s school is n filled with foolish ideas
| OF MS own rank and importal ce.
THERE IS real estate agent living at Kings
ton, N. Y, who takes gloomy view of life. and
especially of house painters, these days. A few
| days ago he hired an artistic house painter to
| paint house watch be hiss on his list. But
unfortunately he gave the painter the wrong
humoer, SO that 1t was the wrong house which
received beautiful and becoming new coat.
| l a of V
| ana the man who got his house painted for
| nothing is understood to be measurably re-
| signed ..fs5.
ANOTHER EXPEDITION is about to leave Eng
| land in search of sunken treasure. This expe-
| diton, which has the recognition of Lloyds is
to proc ed to the wes5 coast of Africa to at
Tempt TO recover the specie, gold dust and
| ivory, which went wn in the African steamer
| Cambria some twelve years ago. The valu-
| aoes were in the steamers main room and safe,
| and il Is the belief of th1 promoters Of the ex-
pedltlon that the safe is intact with the money,
| etc, inside diver is. reported to have re-
| covered, a few years ago, about $4,000 worth
| OF ivory from the vessel.
A SARATOGA REPORTER espied a couple of
young ladies and two men, one policeman,
searching with lamp along a street there late
| the Other evening. One of the ladies' with q
| trembling voice. st ated that she had visited the
Hathorn spring during the evening and had lost
a pair OF diamond earrings valued at $3.50,
|
| thought she had dropped them on the way. Sue
| had Strengthened up from her stoopi & position
| while speaking, and about to commence
| the search again. AS she pushed back the hair
| above her ear, she ave a little cry of Joy and
| exclaimed: I've found then-in my ears!
Really; hadforgotten that had placed them
| therer'
| PUYALLUP, Washington territory is pro-
| nounced ''Pew-aloop," accent on the second
| syllable. Pu alup was the parent district in
| Washington hop culture The territory has
/ now 5000 acres in hop vines. Hop picking is
| now going on, and g., 90 people, four-fifths of
whom are Indians are thus employed. The
Indians, some Of them, co ne 1000 miles and all
live IN tents. Those who live on Puget sound
come by canoe One dollar boa is paid for
| picking. A box holds 100 pounds. Two boxes
| Gay is an average picking. The grower is
satisfied if he sells at 20 cents q pound For
merly the brewers needed two pounds and a
half to q barrel OF beer. but now they get along
with three-qu rters. The grower calls his land
his hop yard
AMONG the items from Derby in a recent issue
of the Birmingham (Con } Transcript was the
] following: "a young man of IS years arrived
| in town Saturday evidently just from the hills
| Entering into rsaLion with some of the
| gentlemen congre gated in Swift's store he said
that a railroad train was new sight to him
| and the electsic cars were one of the wonders
of the world. The look of awe and amazenleut
| depicted on his face as one hove in sight was
laughable to witness. He took q trip to the
dock and saw his first steamboat, and his sur
| prise and delight Were so genuine that even the
| small boys refrained from guying him. 1t
| hardly seemed possible that a person could
reach the age of Is without beco ming familiar
| with sucn everyday sights, but this young man
had never been away from his native home,
| Goshen, before.
| DETECTIVE relates an interesting story about
cane in tne New York Herald. The stick be-
longed to an eccentric millionaire and wh 9
goin; to Chicago ne drop ed It off the platform
1t apparently wasn't worth more than so cents,
but the man was almost frantic over its loss
and, getting off at the next station telegraphed
| back, Offering SO reward for its return. lie
got the cane. soon after lie and the detective
| met in Chicago. TIE millionaire had the cane
with him, which prompted the detective to ask
| If that thing was as valuable as ever" ''Not
by long sight" was the reply Its worth
$50, though" and taking it by the lumpy head
he pressed his thumb on one of the wood warts
| in a mysterious fumblng waV and the Knotty
head fell back. He then handed tue detective
the stick. 1t had hollow three inches deep
| under the head and the hollow was lined
with velvet. Don't you think l right to
pay S25 for the recovery of cane like that?"
remarked the owner, adding: at will never
| however, be a valuable to me again as it was
when dropped it off the platform, for it then
contained solitaire diamonds worth S25 600
AMONG other interesting things in Prof Max
Mullers Lectures on Language" recently de-
livered to the extension" students at Oxford
| university, WcTe SOLue SCdlUeTeu references to
the influence of language as a political factor
Thus, in the case of Sanskrt, Prof Muller said:
European philologStS studying the anguag
| of the conquered race discovered that the cas-
sic mother tongue of Northern Hindostan was
the elder sister of the Greek, the Latin, the
German and the Celtic languages At the same
time a splendid literature unearthed, VIII CHI
filed the scholars Of Europe with astonishmeut
and delight. The despised Asiatics became not
only tn blood relations, but the teachers and
exemplars of their conquerors Good will
has steadily grown with the fellow
ship of common studies and aims. 1t may
freely be afr uvd at this day that the discov-
cry of the SaDskri4 language and literature has
| been of more value to England in the retention
and increa Sc Of her Indian empire than an arm,
of 100000 men, OF language as a unifying
power Prof akIuller said why was Italy
| united? Bee use the Italian language EN-
bodied Italian nationality. Why was Ger many
united? Because Of Arndt's song, what Is the
Germans Fatherand?' and the answer given
| AS far as sounds the German tongue Way is
Russia so powerful a Center of attraction for
the ayonic Inhabitants of Turkey and Ger
many? Because the Russian language even
though it is hardly unde by Servians,
Croatians and Bulgarians, is known to be most
closely allied"
A STORY comes from Japan of the recovery
of picture painted over 1000 years ago lin $50
A d. by Kanaoka, the father of japanese
pictorial art. 1t represents figure about 2
feet high, every detail being finished with the