The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-23
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twenty-six coaches running, and yet they car
ried over 100000 passengers during the year
just past. '
AN AUSTRIAN RAILWAY OFFICIAL has invented
a portable telephone for speaking from a rail
way train at any point stopping to the nearest
station,
A CALIFORNIAN named John Fessler has a
quartz mine that has paid him $4,000 in two
years. He does his own xor6, and his only mill
is hand mortar
TIN PEDDLER who travels through Canada
can exhibit forty-one scars where farmers dogs
nave taken hold of him, to ses whether ne was
a dummy or live man.
HE LARGEST BAR of gold ever cast was turned
out at the United States assay office in Helena,
Mont, recently. 1t weighed 500 pounds, and is
worth more than 100000
LORD BRAssEY's London house is lighted by
electric lamps, inclosed in seash lis of the
greatest beauty, whose transparency sheds a
glowing retugence over the whole apartment
NEW YORK POLICE SERGEANT was retired on
pension the other day who had been on the
force twenty, seven years. and in that time had
never lost a day on account of sickness or been
lined Tor misconduct.
NATIVE OF India residing in London Ak
pressed wish lately to send by parcel post to
dropped into the sacred Ganges He was in
formed that unless he could limit the weight of
the parcel to eleven pounds the postoffice could
oIer MIN no facilities, and he sadly withdrew.
The latest kind of thieves that New York has
produced are men who make business of steal
IN toothpcks. They lounge around the cash
Ter desk i'll hotels and restaurants and when
no one Is looking, press their hand on
the toothplcKs, whicn are standing en- up and
pocket. 0-O
-dR' JONES of Cisco, Tex, got the idea that
there were too many rattlesnakes on his farm
Inc other day he quit his blowing and went
cunning Tor them. Under the edge of a large
rock he discovered a nest and began firing at
Ihe re Jules. He kept it up until ne had shot
Iwenty-one large snakes. Scores of young ones
got away.
DURING some maneuvers of the German
cavalry at Breig woman and her little boy got
in fro It of regiment of cuirassiers charging
n full gailop. The leading officer shouted to
her TO lie down, and sh did, lyl e upon her
10Y. Zoe Whole regiment passed over without
nJuring her, every rs. in whose track she Law
having been made to jump over her.
A CURIOUS historical document hangs in the
private Office of Judge John j. German at 2
West Fourteenth street, New York 1t purports
70 De the original commission granted by John
Hancock, President of the United States on
OCT. TO- lT6, to John Paul JONES' the great ma
val hero of the revolution. The signature of
resident Hancock is in his we'll kno An round
hand, and the script of John Paul Jones' name
appears to have been written in the same bold
uand
RARE AND FINE VIOLIN of the great master
Nicolaus Amiti made in 1914, has been found
IN Hartford, Conn. IL is an old work of art and
. OF the style .popularv known as the grand
pattern Inc back and ribs beautifully
wrought in figured sycamore and the ton is Of
4 erri in ,,Ia
graceful, the lines are bea ltifully drawn and
and the varni n is of the rich gold brown and
OF that exqui lite quality of which Ncoaus so
we'll anew the secret. The tone is pure, mel wv
and charming.
Col. BENNETT H. Young of Louisville was a
prisoner at Camp Douglass, near Chicago, dur
ing the civil war. When he went he carried a
small Bible with him, and this was taken from
MIN in prison by James Hickey, a soldier He
priced tn Bible very much, as it had been pre-
Sented to him by his parents when he went out
10 fight for the confederacy Col. Young was
standing at the Phoenix hotel, in Lexington. the
other attern ION, when Private Hic ley advanced
,aluted, and presented the colonel with the
5lble, which he had kept tor over a quarter of a
century.
ACCORDING to a computation just issued by
an eminent statistician. the cost i'll human life
Of the wars of the last thirty-four years has
been 2,253,0O0 souls. The Crimean war cost
10000 men; the Italian war 1850 IS, 200; the
the rthern states 2S0,000. the southern
states $4,000; the Austro Prussan war Is 600:
the Franco -Gernan war-FrIuce 155, 900 Ger
many 5000; the Turco- Russian war $50, 900: the
South African wars 10000; the Afghan war o.
900; the Mexican and Cochin-C ina expeditions
5000, and the Bulgaro-Servian Instruction
$4,000. This list does not include mortality
from sickness.
ONE of the most extraordinary affairs in the
history Of agriculture is reported from HANDLE
don, a few IN. les from Portsmou h En- gland. A
dispute respecting the purchase Of part of an
estate has taken place between the owner and
the SuppoS d purchaser, and the diSD lte has
been before the high court. One result has
been that for some months everything on the
place has been elected. The hay crop was
allowed to remain on the ground untouched
but people in the neighborhood resolved thar
| this should not be the fae of the other crons
There has accordingly been rush on the crops
AS many as eighty persons, men, women and
children, have been counted in a wheat field
| alone, and all helping themselves at pleasure
| One field of about twenty-three acres had pro
| duced splendid crop of wheat, but 1t has un-
| dergone such multilation that a local CORE
spondent, describing it, says the scene is scarcely
redible The corn has been ruthlessly torn or
| cut, in accordance with the fancy or whim of
| the de troJ erS.
]. S. VENT, whose name appeared in bold.
business hand on the register of the Lafayette
| in Philadelphia the other night, has history as
heroes.
| He began life poor, but by dinu of hard work
! finally mastered the medical profession a d
| began to hunt for a suitable place in which to
| swing his Single. This was some thirty wears
| ago The region now known as the m did, q
| anthracite coal feds was Just then in it's in
| fancy, and DR.. Weutz with characters ic
| shrewdness saw the possbiti S of e field
| he located at the town of Eckey. then com
| prising only hotel. sto and few miners
| cottages, and bravely went TO work Old set
| tiers in tn region still tell of his Iony and
| lonely tramps through the woods on b IS way to
| or from t ne nome of patti mi and many rem M
! bin kindly for attendance that he gave
| without reward. His practice grew steadily
| and in a few more years he married the bealIti-
| ful daughter of the coal operator who owned
| most OF the surrounding coeries and still
| later, became the most active member of the
| operating firm. Retiring from the practice of
| his prOfesslol he devoted himself entirely to
| business, and became noted for the lnfinchine
| manner in which he fought for what ne thougnf
| his rights 1t was upon the land of this firm
| that the evictionS which created such a ire
mendous sensation a year or two ago took
place. DR.. Wentz was last nignt accompanied
by his charming wife, who is a recognized
eader in the society of Eastern Pennsylvania
He now lives in q beautiful home at Maunch
CHI INK, but goes to the offices at Eckley at reg
ular intervals.