The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-29
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Uluutn- OF Tue mortgage. Ibis Will De uODS
with appropriate ceremonies, and the ashes viii
be placed in vase for preservation in the
church.
LIZ PARTS of Brooklyn the excellent custom
has been adopted Of placing on street lamps
the numbers OF the houses nearest to which they
stand This is a great convenience to people
VINO are searching for certain number In the
dark OF the evening, since the general methods
OF displaying house numbers are far from
satisfactory. The idea is not new having been
adopted in New York at least ten years ago
WILLIAM II. by the grace Of God German en-
peror and King of Prussia has been laying
down the precise degree of divinity that doth
hedge king who is likewise al emperor. When
he goes anywhere in state he is 10 nave salute
OF thirty-three guns, half squadron of cavalry
is TO ride in front and another half behind his
carriage, aud the officer in charge is to curvet
at the right hind wheel of the imperial carriage.
Seperate honors are arranged for the empress,
Tor relgning German princelings, and for heirs
to foreign thrones. ~
The CRUISER PHAEToN attached to the Brit
ISL Mediterr anean squadron, appears to be
giving great satisfaction to the British ad
miralty The Phaeton has recently put into
Malta, having steamed since leaving the island
last May, nearly II. 200 miles. Much of this was
run at nigh speed varying from twelve to
seventeen knots an hour. the Phaeton is the
vessel that earned such an unenviable notoriety
Ia tue early days of her commission by the fire.
quen5 and total collapses Of her machinery in
the endeavor to get a successful full-power
trial
A YOUNG MAN in Bowdoinham, Me-, recently
set box-trap beside brook for the purpose
of catching a mink he had seen in the vicinity
many times. He baited the spindle of the trap
with meat. Soon after he had SET the trap a
heayy rain set in, which caused the brook to
rise over the ground where the trap was placed.
After the water had subsidized somewhat he
went to look after the trap, and found it was
still where he had set it, but it was sprung,
thinking he had caught the mink he caretally
peeked in, but instead of a mink he found
trout about fourteen inches long.
An OLD MAN in New York has been earning
good income the past few weeks going about
among the residences of the fashionable quar-
ter mending toys. Every year in the nurseries
OF the rich there is an accumulation of broken
and discarded toys that their little owners at
the approach of Christmas carefully sort out
and put aside for the old toy member. Glue, a
few tacks and bit of fresh varnish do wonders
for them, and they are sent to the nurseries,
asylums or homes for the children of the poor.
me OLD man appears regularly, and his GUS
toners wait for him every year.
THE Topeka, Kan, Capital, a republcan paper
edited by white men, insists that there was no
exhibition of color prejudice at the recent cleo
ton in that city. when negro candidate for
county clerk narrowly escaped defeat. while his
white associates on the ticket secured large ma
JorlcieS The Anlertcon Citizen, a republican
paper edited by black men. has analyzed the fig
ures, and shown that deductiug the colored
vote from the total vote cast for the colored
candidate, there remained only "12 per cent.
cast by the white republicans''-in other
words, that seven out of eight white republicans
refused to support the negro.
THE aristocratic town of Salem, Mass 9 is
stirred up over the discovery of "Girls' In
vincible League" formed for the purpose of
committing deviltries, and with membership
| OF four of the most beautiful daughters of the
most ariStocratic families in that staid old burg
Inc league climbed church steepies and hung
out flags on the lightning rods, tempered with
water meters, disarranged the church organ
| pipes, and committed sundry other heinous
crimes aud mlsdemeanors. Other atrocious acts
were planned and would have been conSum-
mated had not the evil one tempted the girls to
write their names in a hymn-book. by which
means they were discovered and made to con-
feSs
| The ACCOUNTS of the Washington centennial
at New York have at last been audited and a
| balance Of S4,741 90 stands to the credit of the
committee. The statement shows total fund
\ in hand of Si70, 492 to start with, made up as
| follows: State appropriation, S., 1000; city ap
preparation, $4,000; private subscriptions, S52-
! 492 out of which the disbursements we're $685.
| $50 81, leaving balance as above. The ball and
banquet account shows an expenditure of $751;
94l 90, to meet which were receipts from tickets
| SS3,207 "a, less amount advanced by Mr.. Bowen
/ on account OF TICKETS distributed by the eXeCu-
tive committee with interest, $3.50 90, leaving
| a deficiency of 921 436 IS, which was paid in
| cash on settlement.
| In A LECTURE to G girls assemblage not long
| ago Prof. Ames of Columbia college said that
in some parts of India the lily is actually used
| as an article of diet. 1t has been found by the
botanists to be a highly nutritious article of
food, being peculiarly rich in heterogeneous COM
l pounds. The poor Indian, who evidently 'con-
A-fA tEA
1 of view. either eats them as a vegetable or
| kneads them with dough and makes them into
cakes. In either form they are declared to af-
ford most substantial and nourishing re-
accused of Living on lilies" would certainly
have been enabled to return the laugh
against their tormentors if they
had known the culinary attributes OF
| their cherished flower. Mark the re-
| suit of the professors information. At q
| stylish luncheon recently given by enterpris-
ing belle stewed lilies were one of the novel
dishes. They tasted like an amalgam of spinach
and cabbage, and were not very dainty, but
they are bound to have vogue for awhile any
| how.
THERE was startling departure from the
conventional at a wedding celebrated in
| Oneonta, N. Y, the other night, the bride
| groom, and parson being residents of that town
The Powhattan tribe of the Order of Red Men
| which has its camp there, had been giving an
| amateur theatrical entertainment for the graf
ifcation of their friends and the public lat the
| opera house When the regular performance
had ended the curtain was rung up for a SUD-
Elementary spectacle. The scene was that OF
| an Indian camp, with tent and forest acces
| series. In the foreground, and in becoming at
| titudes, were Conductor Joseph Bedford of the
Albany and Susquehanna railroad. and Mrs
| Rose Bessey, handsome young widow of the
| brunett type, both in Indian costume and re-
| splendent with feather headdresses CAV blanket:
| bead-embroidered moccasins and fringed leg
| gins. The Rev. E. A. Wilson of the Free Baptist
| church entered upon the scene, and neatly tieC
| the nuptial knot. Then the curtain fell upor
the principal figures, posed in a blaze of coored
lights, to the strains of a wedding march by the
orchestra.
A NEW YORK PAPER says from New England
comes the special governess with her very white
hands and very prim attire to teach the
children the real court of St. James accent. She
demands $50 month, a private sitting room
| breakfast and lunch, and the difference of the
| housemaids. She gets a catalogue Of the last
| salon and the first academy all the London De-
| rodicals approved by the house of Mari
| borough, and attends the children to the art re
] captions and chamber concerts given through
| the season. Instead of feeding the child's i'm
| agination with Hans Christian Andersen
aud Grimm, she employs the methods
used by the poet laureate and opens the Greek
| mythology and the beautiful legends of the
| Rhine to the heirs and heireSses of Murray Hill
| Next to governesses and companions proper
| the most numerous of the special attendants
| who bow to the aristocracy of money are the
| middle-aged women who take charge of lunch
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