The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-02

we'll represented in their ranks These societies
have direct membership of 500 900. The larg
| est is the Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
with membership of 100000. Then follows the
missionary. the peace, the suffrage organiza-
| tons and philanthropic and educational soci-
cites. Twelve of these national organizations
| have Joined with the national council, which
was formed to unite all the women societies of
! the nation into one great and powerful league.
| ENGLAND, says the Toronto Globe, pays
| $40,O 900 a year for foreign fruit. At the
! same time English fruit is believed to be so
much better than foreign that Canadian and
| American apples are sold marked as best
| English and bring double prices when SO
| marked. The landlord question lies at the root
| of the decline of English fruit growing. The
planting of young trees which will not be Of
| much value for five or six years Is not specu
| lation that commends itself to either landlord
\ or tenant.
| WYOMING JURY has found verdict In favor
of territorial pioneer who sold an eastern
| capitalist a ranch and bunch of cattle said to
number $780, only 300 of which could be found
| on the roundup. The verdict indorses the
| book account" system of determining the
| number of cattle a range without tallying.
| The defense was that the hard winter accounted
/ for the loss of the missing cattle. This book
| account system has been accountable for the
| failure of great many eastern and foreign
| capitalists and syndcates who have invested in
western cattle rauches.
Mas. CLEVELAND evidently is a great believer
in the healthfulness of open air, for the
l tica Herald tells that she is never known to
spend an entire day indoors, not even in the
| most Indictment weather. If she does not drive
her team of ponies d short spin about the upper
part of Washington, in all probability she is
driven in the victoria behind the celebrated presi-
dental team of bays down into the shopping
| district to partake of that mysterious amuse-
| Misunderstanding shop counters-whch can
| never he appreciated by men. If she is not
| driving, she can surely be found walking about
| in the big white lot behind the executive man
| sion, accompanied by the dogs Kay and Hector.
BERRY, the executioner after the recent hang
| ing at Worcester, England, visited Kiddermin-
| lister, where, the Central Nelcs says, he was
| feted in a remarkable manner. He visited sew
| eral public houses, and at one was induced to
make speech to a large number of persons.
| He spoke of various executions carried out by
him, and mOralized upon his public calling. He
freely distributed his visiting cards bearing his
name and profession as public executioner"
One publican offered him five pounds to lecture
in the evening his public duties. He con-
by a considerable number of persons, members
of the corporation were introduced to him, and
ne held quite levee at one hostelry
An IDEA of the density of London fogs can be
had from the following, clipped from the Tit
tie Tattle'' column in a late issue of the Pail
Mall Gazette: Yesterday S fog was simply hor-
riole in patches. At Queens road, Bayswater,
az OsOJ . ClOCh, L Hdu 10 DlTe g BOY WIN q IAN
tern to find me a hanson which was buried in
fog in the middle of a roadway My cabby had
to walk leading his horse with his lantern in his
hand close to the curbStone almost as far as
| the Marble Arch. Even then he often got on
the pavement The sound of the voices Of those
| lost in the fog, the ghostly glare of the hanson
| lamps, which seemed strangely far apart, and
| the tar-away simmer of the gas lamps, made
| the frosty fog of last night thing to dream Of
not to tell.
THE principality of Liechtenstein, which
Prince John H. offered as a refuge to the pope
in case the latter should abandon Rome, is
| semi-independent mountainous territory lying
| between the Vorarlberg, the Rhine, and the
| Canton of Grisons. 1t covers about ninety
| square miles, and has a population of little
| u der 10000. The capital is Vaduz. 1t is very
| fertile. The revenue amounts to 410,400 a year
and it has national debt of $500. Liechten-
| stein boasts an army of fifty men, which was
modified in the war of 1865, and it is standing
| joke among Austrian officers that the princ-
pality is still at war with Prussia, as that king
dom forgot TO conclude a separate peace with
| Liechtenseln when it signed the peace of
| Prague with Austria.
| THE plant from which the Chinese and Japan
| ese obtain the tea is called by botansts Thea
| bohea. 1t is small evergreen tree or shrub
| closely allied to the camelia indeed one of the
| latter, called warratah, is also said to furnish a
| certain class of tea. The bush of the genuine
| tea plant grows from three TO six feet high
| bushy, branches numerous, leafy. The young
| shoots. tnely-silky are evergreen The flowers
arc. whte and not unlike the myrtle but longer
| and usually two together; the anthers and
| stigma are yellow; in flower in August and
| september in its native country. IL was first
| introduced into British gardens in 1868 The
| black and green teas, as we obtain them, de.
| pend for their color upon the process Of drying
| Very young leaves and shoots give the finest
| tea.
THE shocking death Of Bertha Baumgartner,
a tanner of wild beasts, is reported from Hohen-
muth, IN Bohemia. During a public perform
ance in a strolng menagerle she entered an
| empty cage, and the door of an adjoining cage
| was then opened TO let lion aud a Bengal
| tiger enter. The lion walked in quietly, but the
tiger ferociOus beast which had three times
| wounded its keepers, crouched ia the doorway
| and showed temper, The girl lost nerve cried
for hell, and slipped. As she did so the tiger made
| a spring for her and after terribly decorating
| her, tossed her body about the cage. Half
| the audience ran to the doors in horror while
| the attendants tried to beat off the tiger by
| poking hot irons into the cage But the girl
was dead long before the animal was driven
| away.
ABOUT year ago there was something like an
instruction in the Isle Of Lewis on the western
coast of Scotland growing out OF an attempt
of Lady Matheson to collect impossible rents
| from the tenants of her estate on the island
| The crofters successfully resisted the evicting
| force, and Lady Matheson had to appeal TO the
! courts for further power TO deal with so rebel
nous uoh'EeuJ paying tenants. In the mean
| time the tenants appealed 10 the crofter com.
| mission court TO reduce the rentals A decision
has just been rendered on this appeal The
| commission has reduced the rentals * per cent
| and has cut down Sl2,1l0 Of arrears claimed by
| the landlady 70 81, sos. The decision is a com
| plete justif alton of the crofters rebell.o and
| a sweeping condemnation of Lady Matheson
who is, by the way, the daughter of a crofter.
ADELtSA PATHS remarkable preservation Of
her beauty rs leading the gossipers to compare
her with Ninon de rEnclos, the famous beauty
OF the last century who at 90 enslaved the
| grandsons Of the men who loved her in her
/ youth. One who saw Patti the other day in
! Paris could see no visible change no mark of
/ the past ten OF fifteen years upon her. She was
| still as slim and rounded, still without a gray
| hair 10 her head or wrinkle upon her There
| had not come under her chin that small break
| in the contour Of the throat, which Is the first
| knell Of dead youthfuness Her hair lay ia
| rich, plentiful black locks about a brow where
/ not one line was TO be seen Her eyes were
clear and bright as a childs. her cheeks smooth
ana pipk, her teeth snowy aud faultless, aud
the delicate lines OF her figure just what they
l were a score Of years back