The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-04
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county. He began it last fall for the skins He
/ has $50 pets now aud this month being their
| breeding time, he will shortly have 1000. lie
/ handles them with impunity from stencil and
they are as docile as kittens.
NEWS from the Celestial Kingdom makes it
known that a governor of one OF the Chinese
| provinces has forbidden the Young men in his
| province to wear gorgeously coored and en-
! broldered garments, a praetice which he says is
| foolish and unmanly, and he gives the warning
to fathers, elder brothers and teachers that
/ they VIII be held responsible for any display
OF remarkable clothing on the part of wouldbe
dudes.
ELwELL CHICK of San Francisco, white
headed, wrinkled old forty MINER by occupa =
ton carpenter, is a strong believer in dreams
ami presentiment. So strong, indeed, that he
has constructe an elegant coffin, which he
firmly thinks he will be called upon to fill on
Oct. - next. He also has had the inscription
| klwell Chick, aged 20 years" placed upon it,
| although he lacks over month of three score
and nineteen.
TIE TRIBEEof Creek Indians have Just con-
cluded their great sun dance three miles from
| Glasgow, Mont. The barbarous method of
| making braves was a feature Two incisions
are made IN the breast and sharp stick thrust
through them, to which a rope is attached and
| the ends tied to a high post. The Indian then
dances and sings until the flesh tears out, and
ne IS declared brave. If he fiinches during
the ordeal he is declared a squaw man, and
| dresses and works thereafter like squaw.
--THE RUSSIAN MOBILES are rushing to bank
ruptcy in great numbers. The credit bank for
lending money to them on mortgage of their
land, established by the government two or
thre9 years ago has now no less than 1900
estates which will have to be sold by public
auction at the end of this year for non-pay-
ment OF interest on loans. The question is,
VINO Will buy this enormous amount of prop
erty! III neither the bank nor the government
mill h. . IL
ruined by in institution which was established
by the government for their special help.
ELECTRICITY is playing quite an important
part among the surgeons nowadays" said the
surgeon in charge of a New York hospital last
evening, One OF the lnnumerable develop
ments of electricity is its growing usefulness in
surgical operations. They are now manufac-
turing spectacles, which are lighted by small
electric lamp, so ARA ged as to send a beam of
cool light on the part to be examined. TIE
spectacles ar said to have proved a success
and 1t may not be many months before every
surgeon in the country viii be provided with a
pair
The champion absent minded man lives in
Kingston, n. Y. The other evening he was de-
| sirous to see a man on business who resides not
| far from his own home. He started out on this
! errand, and walked around several blocks i'm
mersed in profound thought. BY the merest
| accident in his wanderings he cam to his own
| residence. He paused in front of his own house
| and rang the door bell He had evidently still
retained the original purpose in starting out,
Tor, when his son answered the ring, he calmly
| inquired of the lad whether his father was at
| home.
A LONDON SHOEMAKER has invented boot to
make small people appear tall TIE invention
is an old and ingenious one. Instead of lacking
six inches on TO PERSONS heel a pair of en-
tirely false feet, made OF cork is put into the
shoes. When the wearer gets into them, he or
n incl Af
Of course in this invention the original foot is
made to combine with the cork one under the
leather IN SUCH manner that the line of dem
arkatiOn is not perceptibe. The Siza of the foot
is sacrificed it is true, and larger boot is nee
essary with the cork elevator than would be
the case naturally.
CONGRESSMAN ROSWELL P. FLOWER, who is
summering at Eagle lake. near Kingston. Ont
upon his return to New York, it is said, will pre-
sent to Tammany Hall the already lannon's
eagle he shot day or two ago, and which is
said to be the largest ever killed in Canada It
measures feet from tip to tip, and is fair
specimen of the bald-headed American bird of
freedom. MIR, Flower bagged his game while
out hunting with party of friends il the woods
surrounding Eagle lake, an althou several
of the party brought their rifles to ar on the
immense bird the congress man fred first kill.
lug it Instantly. The bird has been sent to a
taxidermist.
EDWARD KENNEDY, employed on the Samuels
farm, in Widsor, Conn.,, has unearthed in one of
his fields an ancient silver coin bearing the
colonial stamp of Massachusetts. 1t is bright
and the date and lnscrption are as plain as yer
On one side is the word Massachusetts" with a
tree in the center, and on the other New e p
land. 1862, W. (shill!ngs) The coin is one of the
rarest OF the colonial pieces. AT the time il
was struck the cDlonists had but little coin he.
cause they had to send their money to England
to buy supplies. Trade was carried on by bar
ter, wampum, Indian corn aud even bullets
NnTf. -
Finally, in 1862, the Massachusetts Legislature
authorize the coming of Pine Tree sbilIings
like that found by Kennedy.
SINCE Chicago recently succeeded in extend
ing its limits question has arisen as to what
should be done with its farming lands. One of
| its newspapers, the Herald, suggests the ad
dition to the existing city government of a new
Departmental department of agriculture II
is OF the opinion that man could easily be
| found in Chicago to take charge of such a de-
partment. Some of the farming lands within
the city limits, according to the Herald are
lying waste and might be reclaimed under n
wise management, while the cultivation of the
rest is for the most part of the crudest descrip-
ton. There are men in Chicago growing acre,
of thrifty cabbages, who yet know nothing Of
the chemical ingredients OF that valuable vege-
table. There are farmers in that city that don't
know the difference between mari and nhos
phate, and some dairymen who und .rstand
their business so little as to leave half an inch
VI iHuu dI Cue DoItOm OF a quart of milk. All
this, the Herald thinks, a city department of
agriculture would correct and improve.
WILLIAM THAw of Pittsburg, whose body WAS
recently brought home for burial on the Citv of
Paris, of which he is said to have been n mart
owner, was one of the last of the older sci or
men who made the Pennsylvania railroad the
model of the world for solidity and smoothness
of structure and strength of management The
new blood in y ennsy" doesn't seem at all
tile vice president, is as well known in New
York as in Philadelphia. He is self-made and
began the world as an humble emDloye of the
company in which he is now such q power
Another, and one of the brightest and ablest of
the younger set is William A Patton assistant
to the president under the Roberts regime and
not at all unlikely TO be presi lent himse f Pat
ton was local agent of the company at Will
iamsp ort, Pa. He is yet a young man, but he
holds already the position from which George
B. Roberts stepped into the presidency Par
ton is tall, slender, suav-. tactfu a thinker
and manager of the sort "PennSyn always holds
on TO when once discovered.
The Chicago InterO Ocean thus describes a
Chinese wedding in that city: 1T was a solemn
but strange wedding. The parties to the CON.
tract were Moy Sing, disciple of Confncus
and Miss Ida wagner. a conely German o;-I
from Streator. The ceremony was performed T.,
room richly hung in oriental trappinas naer
Hip Lungs tel, at 8 O'Clock Tuesday aftar
noon. There W re present a score or moro
Chinese, a few Of whom had wives of Angio-
Saxon blood. All were in holiday attir. on1
when TIE marital knot WINS tied there WINS a
general rejoicing. the rit were prononncaI
after the manner set forth in the statuta booI,a