The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-13
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nave spent three days IN the top of a pine tree
without food or water. He climbed I'D ninety
feet to get to an eagles nest. 1t was a Norway
! pine, with very smooth bark. and he used
| clmoers similar to those used by telegraph
hnemen. When he got to the nest he had taken
SICK and dared not descend for fear of falling
he made resting place for himself and man
aged to hang on until his gddiness left him
when he descended.
IN An ADDRESS 10 a workingmen's orxaniza-
ton Mr.. Gladstone said recently: at was moi
| extravagant to say that although there were
| but 100000 people in the thirteen American
colonles at the time of the American revolt, yet
from among those 1000, 600 of people there pro
| ceeded at that epoch a group OF statesmen that
| might defy the whole history of the world to
oeat them in any one state and at any one
| perlod or time. Such were the consequences OF
well-regulated and masculine freedom"
JAMES A. MCCARTNEY of Philadelphia ex-
hlolts two remarkably large pears. They grew
at Grants Pass, Southern Oregon, and were ex-
hlolted at the Portland (Ore) exhibition, where
Mr. Mccartney obtained them. third pear,
ootalned at the same time, spoiled on the jour
| ney east. The combined weight of the three
| was nearly nine pounds The larger one shown
| yesterday weighed three pounds two ounces
ana measured in circumference eighteen inches
one way and twenty inches the other. The
smaller pear was two pounds eight ounces in
| weight.
| oEVENTEEN PUBLISHING HOUSES are negotiating
with William ]. Florence for the right to pub
| Hsh MS memoirs, which will come out probably
before Joe Jefersons are finished in the Gem
| thfy. Florence has had peculiarly advanta-
geouS opportunities for seeing at their best the
poUpiS y. tnls ana preceding generation who
we're pest worth seeing on two continents. His
| Innd OF anecdotes is large, and his enjoyment
| Oh other peoples anecdoteS-a rare thing in a
ffac99nteur|s undeniable and unaffected Bel
Iord, clarke a Co. owed Florence some money
on account OF his Florence Fables" when they
climbed the fiume
AN OLD FARMER in the Granite state one Sun
Jay morning started to wind up his great silver
WaIch and found that the key was filed with
art. Being unable to dig the latter out with
PIN, the farmer drilled hole in the key and
WIN a single breath blew all the dust out Then
ne sab down to think and within a month had
patented that hole. To-day in Lebanon, n Fl.
Inere Is large factory running by electric
power wherein are manufactured daily thou
sanas OF watch keys of every possible size
snape and design. Each oneaof these KEYS CON
Jams the hole which has been patented by the
farmer. The latter has already made a for
| tune. ~
FREDERICK A. LovEcRAFr, secretary and
| treasurer of the American Jockey Club, saws
that the days of racing asa sport are ended at
least for the present, fnF the vicinity of New
York. The peopledon 'ttare about seeing races
any more, ana the only use they seem to serve
Is 10 De found IN vthe. opportunities thus fur
hsned Tor betting IT people, therefore, can
go INTO pool rooms round the corner from their
PAGES or business, they won't go to the track
But even under thehes Dc9nditions the number
OF people who go to races is limited, and when
TINS number is diviued up tho management of
t Sne race tracks In the same neighnorhood are
bound to lose money.
SOCIETY GOSSIP is to the effect that il the en-
gagement reported as having been entered into
between old John Jacob Aston and the dashins
Mrs. Bowler, of Cincinnati does not eliminate
Id matrlmony, it will be because Mrs. Bowler
wlthdraws from the proposed alliance Since
Ine engagement was announced people who
KNOW DOM Mr.. Astor and Mrs. Bowler have
been brushing up their memories, and they re-
member more of Mr.. Astor's devoted attentions
IMAM possibly they noticed at the time the at
tentIons were being offered. Both Mr. Aston
and Mrs. Bowler are soiourning on the other
SIDE at present. and their friends declare thew
have heard nothing from them
A New YORK MAN said the other day that he
knew Miss Caldwell's father intimately we'll
and that he died at the Clarendon hotel In that
city. He made the interesting statement that
Miss Caldwells wealth is absurdly exaggerated
anu ne doubts s very much whether she Is worth
more than $4,000, and her offer to settle
01o'OUO year on her prospective husband was
enc or extraordinary generosity Other peonIe
VINO know MISS Caldwell say that if she was
generous on this occasion It was something en-
tlrely unprecedented in, her career She ia
described rs being almost as thrifty as Mrs
Hetty Green herself, and it is believed that she
down in Washington because she wa, SO
directed to do in her fathers will and had no
choice in the matter whatever.
THEODORE KEsT of Boston has lust returned
from an outing near Mount Tom. He is a nat
uralist, and brought back several fine speci
mems. Among the things he got in the woods
were eight big rattles and nearly two gallons of
the side of the mountain, he says it was his
custom to build bonfire outside his tent previ
Gus to going to bed. One morning he went ont
ana round nve large snakes coiled up at con-
Venlent distance from the fire. warming them
selves by the embers. He killed them and tried
them out for the OIL After that he found Ave
or six more enjoying themselves in similar
manner, and slew them He thinks il he had
staid long enough he would have depopulated
the mountain Of snakes. Though a man of
learning. MI. Kent isa firm believer in the Ell
cacy Of Of, rattlesnske lfoIthe cure of lameness
A NEW Chinese club house at CHICAGO bos
been the sceneof a genuine Oriental revel. All
night long the Celestial tom.toms gave ont
their awful music. and all night long the high.
caste Cinnamon sat at their tables covared
with white crepe cloth, eating and drinking and
making merry at their hosts expense Sur
rounded oy sllken draperies and scented woods
OF their eastern empire, they sat on Chinese
carpets, and by the light of 500 Chinese tapers
ate the dried fish and shrimp the sea- moss
soup, and preserved fruits from the fiowery
fashion, and warmed up the banquet on the
choice wine of Sing Lee Wah. All this feast
was to celebrate the birth of son in the home
of Charley Lee. 1t is needless to saw that there
were no women present. Mrs. Lee, who was a
bright Irish girl, is said to have adapted her
self to Oriental customs without useless pro-
test
IT is CURIOUS to observe how actors unconsci
ously initiate one another after they have been
associated in the same piece any great length
of time, says the New York Sun Miss Ada
Rehan's imtators in Days theater include all
of the younger women who play with her
They initiate her drawing way of speaking
her curious walk and the manner of holdin1
the head. Ellen Terry exerts similar influence
over the women Of Mr. Irving's COMPANY. and
one of the most interesting studies in the |
Madison Square Company concerns Mrs
Phillips unconscious imitation of Stoddard' s
painful and studied style. Henry Miller's ac |
cent is about the only demerit to his acting He |
ends his sentences with an upward and paIntive
wall after the manner of camp meeting ex-
horter. Two or three of the younger actors
fell into the same vice, and it required the |
strongest efforts of the stage manager to break
them of the habit.
A wELL-KNowN BUSINESS MAN remarked ves-
terday, says the New York Sun, that Tohn
Jacob Aston and Secretary Bayard probably
had reasons Of their own for marrying which
the papers did not flttingly represent. INV
brother was married twice. he said "apd
though he aroused some comment hv hic socon5 |