The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-08
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VISITORS 10 the Eifel tower are charged these
prices for going up in the elevators: To the
nTst platform, francs. second. 3 francs. to the
top. francs. They are allowed to remain as
long as they Ike, but 1t IS already noted that
lie" care TO make protracted STAY.
The operation of having hole bored through
the nose to facilitate breathing, says the New
YORK sun, is very frequently performed nova
days by all sorts Of persons. The college oars
men who have just submitted 70 it are merely
following a current fad Of one school Of doctors
Inc part that IS bored is the cartilage between
the nostrils inside the nose. The hole is bored
oy means OF a sort Of wire drill and the opera
ton IS said not to hurt at all Very many ladies
as well as men have their noses bored The
wound Goes not show. of course.
american Notes and Queries has Instituted
an inquiry among the most eminent scholars Of
the country 10 determine the best word TO ex-
press execution by electricity The answer as
| Iar as received are remarkable for the variety
o. suggestions. Among them are electrophon.
elec-FIclze, electrotony, electrophony thaneIec-
| triz=, thanatelectrize, thanatelectrisis, cleo
tronort electroctOny, electroctasy, fulmen,
electricide, electroponize. electrcthenese cleo
trocutlon, electroed. electrostrike. and finally
| Joltacuss or voltacusS. The last is the sugges-
ton of Bill Nye.
FOUR ambassadors from the Sultan Of Mar
dara, Mohammedan state lying in Central
Africa. south Of the Sahara are about to ap-
pear at the German court, and though they are
Ssld 10 De marveis of intelligence and morality
they are not up to the style of Berlin in the
matter OF dress. That is they are in their right
Inind, but not completely clothed The Ell
9ueJIe OF the German court requires dress
coats, but says nothing about the neither ar
inents, SO the Mandaras are to appear in com
olnatlon OF German dress coats and the
national AFRICAN costume, whatever that
may be.
THE big English locomotive which the Penn
CVi min Dofi
country to test, and which they have found I'M
equal 70 the American engines, was run into in
the Pennsylvania yard in Jersey City on
wednesday by drill engine, and badly dam
aged She was sent to Philadelphia on Thurs
Gay. The EngliShman who was innporred win
the engine TO show the American engineers how
the big machine could make time laws the poor
showing of the locomotive to the heavy trains
II mas been required 10 pull here. He says pull
ing the coaches used in this country is like pull
ing houses.
Rev. j. F. GoUcHER OF the First Methodist
Episcopal church, New York, Sunday intro
duced to the Methodist Episcopal ministers
meeting Rev. Y. Handa Hirosaki, of the Anglo
Saxon Japanese University of Toxic. japan.
lie is the first Methodist Episcopal native Jan
anese minister ordained. He stated that ten
years ago there were only $500 christians in
Japan. Now there are 10000 The public
schools under the new government had in
creased until there are now In Japan 80 900
DuOllC SCuOOlS, university to colleges
and seminaries and As normal schools Rev A,
c. Dixon of the Baptist church visited the meet
ing IN the interest of the convention in October
Col. FORSYTH, one Of the leading raisin pro-
ducers of the United States, has Just returned
to London from a careful inspection of all the
ralsln-growing districts of tue continent, and
says that American raisinS in addition to stpplv-
ing the American market, are destined soon To
take a large share of the London business He
says the phylloxera is constantly diminishing
the best crops OF Spain In an increasing degree,
and that even If they shoud now get a remedy
for II, which is not probable it will be five years
before the Malaga district can recover lis
former position. heavy consignment of Cal
lfornia raisins has been disposed of in London
this season, being the first shipment of the kind
on record.
THERE are three big rocks in the Potomac
just above Georgetown called the Three Sisters,
after three mythical maidens who persisted
there in some romantic way centuries ago
Strangely enough they mark the saddest part
OF that beautiful stretch of river for it is at that
point that boats usually upset and swimmers
usually drown. But strangest of all is the fact
that on the night before such a death the peo-
pie living on the shore hear the Three Sisters
softly Inoaning-a sound distinct from every
other, and never heard save on such occasions
Wednesday night, for example, Just as the
Georgetown clock struck ~, the moaning
sounds came floating ashore from the Three
Sisters, and on Thursday noon a shell capsized
as it passed them and its owner was drowned
Strange, but true.
The following interview, in the Pittsburg Dis
patch. contains probably the last words that the
Inflated borough of Johnstown spoke to the out
side world "At O'Clock in the afternoon
said Electrician Bender of the Western Union.
1.-The girl operator at Johnstown was cheerfully
ticking away that she had to abandon the
Office on the first floor, because the water was
three feet deep there. She said she was writing
from the second story and the water was gain
ing steadily. She was frightened, and said
many houses were flooded. This was evidently
before the dam broke, for our man here said
something encouraging to her, and she was
talking back as only cheerful girl operator
can, when the receivers skilled ears caught a
sound on the wire made by no human hands
The wires had grounded or the house had been
swept away in the food from the lake no one
knows which now. Anyway, at O'CLOCK the
girl was there, and at 1907 we might as well have
asked the grave to answer u"
SAYS the Boston Advertiser: Mrs. Howe has
had four birthday celebrations this year. Col.
Higginson says he never heard of any one hay
ing so many, and he fails to account for it on
any other ground than it is because she has so
well succeeded in eluding the onslaughts of her
many birthdays that Boston is bound to make
her remember this time that she is 20. Mrs
Howe makes her public acknowledgment of tia
honor due her very gracefully. She says: Il
have been brought to realize as perhaps never
before what blessed thing it is to be assured
of having the loving good Will of ones relatives
of ones friends, and, | think may say, of ones
city. That happiness almost overwhems me.
and nothing could increase it, except to be able
to feel that am worthy Of all the things that
have been said about me. But remember how
the Vicar of Wakefield had his wife's portrait
painted, not as she was, but endowed with all
the lovable characteristics which she ought TO
possess: this he had hung on the wall as an in
centve for the improvement of her disposition
And so | shall keep hung on the wall OF nv
memory this hattering birthday picture of nv
self which my kind friends have drawn as a
guide for my own self-improvement.
SIGoURNEY BUTLER of Boston, who retires
from the Office of second comptroller next Mon
day, is the youngest man ever appointed to
that important and prominent position. He
was born in 1857, the year of the great panic.
The late minister to England, Edward J. Phelps.
who was comptroller from October 1851 70
February, 1858, was but 80 years of age when
appointed Butler was 20. He has made a
good officer and bis decisions have been sound
Senator Edmunds has very high opinion of
him Butler is an athlete an expert swimmer.
skillful with the foils crack shot, good horse
man and a splendid oarsman. He can hit a
blow like Friar Tuck, and no man at Harvard in
his day could stand up against him. Theodore
Roosevelt, civil service commissioner was three
years behind Butler. Roosevelt can ride like an
Apache Indian. Sigourney Butler is the only
son of Peter Butler, the leader of the Demo-
cratic party OF Massachusetts, whose appoint
ment to the Boston collectorship was asked for
by every democrat in the Bay state and refused
by Mr.. Cleveland who chose Mr.. SaltonstalI to