The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-27
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blames the township authorities for it. She
broke no bones, but has sued for $4,000 for
damage to her beauty.
MRS. JOHN CROSBY BROWN of New York has
presented her collection of musical Instruments
10 the New York Metropolitan Museum. The
collection contains 2GG specimens and is eSti-
mated as worJh $4,000. 1t contains all sorts of
instruments known both in ancient and modern
times.
NEw wonders are being unearthed every day,
and new and rare one has just turned up in
Paris in the shape of fine bust Of Mime. De
Stael by Canova. 1t was found in a second
hand shop, where it had lain for years. sub
merged under rubbish, with its value all I'M
guessed.
THE bones of nine British officers who fell at
Waterloo, and were burned in the cemetery of
the QUARTER Leopold at Brussels, have at last
been transferred to an English cemetery. The
skeletons are all finely preserved. All were
very tall men. The Old tombstones were set up
over the new graves
IT has cost the city of New York for each
lineal foot of the sea wall now in process of con-
Struction under the supervision of the dock de-
partment 1898 80, and some of it over $4,000
In the twenty eight miles contemplated there
are l4 $40 feet, which, at the rate of-say 81, 400
foot would cost that city the enormous sum
of S206, $4,000.
THE MEDICAL EDITOR of a certain London
paper, wno advocated a vegetarian diet has
undertaken to live for an entire month on moth
ing but whole meal and distilled water. This
meal he grinds himself mixes it with cold dis
titled water into batter and bakeS il for an
hour and half. He allows himself one pound
OF meal and two pintS of water daily.
a DOG belonging to D. r. Dingwall, of Fair
Haven, Conn, aroused the family about II
O'Clock one night recently by persistent bark
ing, and then ran to place about block
away, came back repeated the performance.
and at last induced Mr.. Dingwall to 90 out and
investigate. He found man who had fallen
and hurt himself so that he could not rise.
THE Lancet of London. nclines to the belief
that dancing is less in vogue than formerly. 1t
admits that balls and parties are still We ry gen
eral but so great. it adds, is the complaint that
men care less about them than they did The age,
1t would seem, has grown more practical and
its pleasures have put on a more serious air at
least with number of the less emotional sex.
A CORRESPONDENT writing from Arizona says
that at the time the law was passed making it
an offense for Indians to appear in city minus
their trousers, the red men accepted the decree
with their usual stocism. They would carry
their pant tloons on their arms until they
reached the city limits, whereupon they would
don them. removing the obnoxious garments
when they lett the city
The unexpected discovery in ones ancestral
book shelves of volume worth anything be-
tween e3, 900 and "a 900 must be an experience
as rare as delightful. While clearing the library
Of Hopetoun House for a sale at Sothebys,
some one came upon copy Of the Mazarln or
Gutenberg Bible. Lord Hopetoun did not Know
he had 1t; book collectors and experts did not
know of the existence of the copy.
Boston is shortly to have magnificent new
athletic grounds A syndicate Of capitalists
has purchased the land on the Cambridge side
of the Back bay. The purchase includes ], =
100000 square feet of land. and 1t is the inten-
ton OF the management Law a lalf-mile hi
cycle track and build grand stand, which Will
contain, among OF ler things, parlor, dressing
retiring, and bathrooms and kitchen.
OK Dec. 10 last a straw stack on the farm of
William Howe, in Douglass county, ILL.,, toppled
over burying a number of sheep. His men dug
the animals out the same day, but by accident
they overlooked one, as was discovered this
week, when the straw was removed to the
NOW. The buried sheep came forth after it's
confinement without food water in good
sha e, aud on gal llng its freedom skipped off
to join the flock as lively as if nothing had hap
pened.
PREPARATIONS are being made in the Apollo
gallery at the Louvre for exhibiting the dia-
monds and other gems reserved from the sale
of the crown Jewels These valuable relics of
the monarchial and imperial regimes will be
placed in show cases so arranged that they can
be lowered into fire and burglar proof safes
fastened to the floor of the gallery, which will
b. under the surveillance day and night of
special detail of watchmen.
SOMEBODY at York Beach, Me- has dis
covered that big boulder near there, which
goes by the name of Capt Kidd's rock, is
scanned in a manner to somewhat resemble
hieroglyphics, and has advanced the theory
that it is a sort of war map of the redoubtable
Kidd and that one particular indentation
marks the spot where his gold is buried 1t is
said that a lot of ground will be Gu tivated by
the farmers in that vicinity next spring.
LeLUiSton (Ne) Journal.
THE original eau de cologne is made from
recipe which, according to a writer in the
Leisure Hour, has been known to only ten peo-
pie since it was disc 1vered nearly 200 ears ago
The written copy of it is kept in a crystal COB
let, under triple locks in the room in which the
essential oils are mixed. The casks in which
the perfume is kept are made of cedar wood
from Lebanon, which is stronger than any
other, and does not smell More han 1000 900
bottles are sold annually and of these 10000 go
to one house in London.
OVER S125 in greenbacks was found by st.
Louis saloon keeper in one of the recesses of
his counter The establishment once belonged
to German, now deceased, who made money
hand over fist, - and had habit OF stufting
notes in the recesses of the counter He moved
years ago to the saloon, and when the counter
was being carried from his old place S75)
dropped to the floor The bar is a tine piece of
WORK, and the owner on that account is back
ward about breaking it up, though he thinks
there is more money secreted about it.
FLINDERS PETRIE discovered not long ago in
an ancient Egyptian tomb remains of number
of roses which had been bound into garland
and buried with the dead. Monsieur Crepn has
examined these roses and recently read pa
per relating to them before the Royal Society
of Belgium The nine blossoms he had secured
We're all imperfect, but belonged to the same
species. SO far as he could Judge they re-
sembled most closely a rose cultivated in Abys-
sinia to-day, which is described under the name
of Rosa sancta, as it is grown in the vicinity of
temples.
In these days of cabinet making people some
times forget that there is no such thing as
''cabinet" in our institutions. The council of
secretaries which now meets regularly twice a
week at the white house is only growth of
custom. The President need not consult with
the heads of departments unless he chooses
and whatever advice they may have to offer it
is entirely within the Presidents discretion To
accept or reject. Yet it would probably illus
trate very viz dly what a hold this custom has
obtained were a President to give up holding
cabinet meetings and consult only occasionally
and individually with his heads Of departments
burst of protest would be likely TO occur which
would make things very uncomfortable for the
executive. The halls of congress would prob
ably resound with denunciation of this "mon-
archical' tendency, and the people would re-
sent the apparent usurpation of privilege. And
Notwithstanding this prevalent popular senti-
ment the very institution which is now embodied
in the cabinet. namely, a council of state to the
President, was emphatically rejected in the con-
vention which framed the constitution and not
because the constitution was not deemed the
place for II, but because the very idea of a