The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-25
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SENATOR TELLER Is passionately I'D OF dow-
ers. He has beautiful garden
Miss FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE is Aonhrmed
invalid She is nearly 20 years old
TIE CHINESE are said to endure CHI ges of
climate better than any other race.
A. T. STEWART started life with s2J1oO A
good sum of money for those times.
Mrs MARSHALL o. ROBERTS HOUSE ! New
York was the first to have an elevator.
TWENTY MILLION acres of land in the lifted
States are held by foreigners. it is stated
MoSrIcELLo IA, celebrated the shuttin9up
of the original package saloons by ringing hlI
the church bells.
WHEN the railway across Siberia is completd
it is estimated that the tour Of the world in fly
days will be feasible
ROLLER SKATES were first patented by LonA
don fruterer named Tyers in 1923, and his patti
tern had one line of wheels.
WonKxEN have drilled to depth of nearly
1,100 feet for water at Cavalry Cottage, Wis,
and have not yet been rewarded.
A CHICAGO CIGAR MAN is authority for the
statement that the better class of smokers are
returning to the pipe for comfort.
BEFORE marriage the wife of the late Gen.
Barrios was named Gonna Francisco Apaucia
vel Vescuciadiayo de Quesaltenango.
The government telegraph service of Great
Britain transmits, it is said, on the average,
1,5SS, go words day to newspapers alone.
WILD sweet potato. found growing near
Paulsboro, n. j., measured twenty inches in
circumference, and weighed l2l5 pounds, it is
said
OF $1,000 guesses of the weight of big cake
OF soap on exhibit in Detroit only four. strange
to say, were correct. The weight was l,I22
pounds.
IT is EXPECTED that the number of bodies
cremated in Milan will soon average one a day,
as nearly z. 900 bodies have been crenated there
during the last thirteen years
HAMILTON AIDE, an Anglo-Greek author and
a kinsman of Mrs. Henry NJ. Stanley, will &C
company the party on its American tour, prob
ably to act as its historiographer.
A NANTUCKET PAPER publishes notice of the
marriage of Mr.. Lacious Black Eagle and Miss
Mary Ann Canoe. 1t is presumed that the bride
is a descendant of Old Tippecanoe
AMONG the candidates fer United States SEN
ator in Wyoming is ex-Congressman Downey
who will be remembered as the great original
poetic contributor to the Congressional Record
THE LIFE Of Jefferson Davis by his widow,
is about to be published, and an edition of
almost $4,000 copies. it is stated, will be re-
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stands.
A FRENCH ooULIsT advises people who per
sist in reading in bed to battle their eyes with a
weak salt-and-water solution before going to
sleep Plt1lch's famous advice would be better
still-"Dont."
ONE postmaster in Georgia is now firm be-
lever in the saying that stitch in time saves
nine" There was a hole in the roof of his
office, and rain getting through stuck together
about 500 worth of stamps
THE monumental statue of Gen. Lafayette,
recently presented to this country by the French
people, will not be erected opposite the White
house in Washington, as at first proposed, but
near the treasury, at Pennsylvania avenue and
Fifteenth street.
A BARNEvALD dome county Wis., man
swallowed large darning needle and went to
doctor to have it removed. The doctor made
him sneeze, and on the third attempt the needle
appeared and stuck itself into pin cushion on
the Doctors table.
JULIA BRINK, medical writer of some note
has received from the British Medical Associa.
ton of London 300 to defray the expense of
publishing physiological treatise on the nutri-
ton Of the muscles. DR.. Brink is the first wo-
man to be thus honored.
For 10 years to come no man, woman, or
child will write the current date without using
the figure 9;for ninstee1 year during that period
two nipes must be written OF the people now
living, 1t Is safe 20 say that not one will ever
write the date OF his or her own time without
using a 9.
PIUTE BRAVE walked into the Colfax Sentinel
office the other day to see the paper printed.
he was In full dress, with feather and linen
buster. The foreman asked Afraid -to-wash-
yourtace why he was not in the hop field He
said: Me no like pickum hops, too much stickum
hands, Ny woman gets 81 rs day"
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mena, who was sentenced to exile for the out
RACES perpetrated by him upon christians in
that province, and who escaped from custody
some time ago, has been capture fifty sev en-
miles from Constantinople. He broke one of
bis legs in attempting to escape from the police.
JUSTIN MCCARTHY tells of his rejected manu-
scripts, which, one after another he flung into
a top drawer above his head. When the tide of
his fortunes turned, and the same editors asked
for manuscripts who had formerly declined
them, he took sweet revenge. He gave those
editors no new manuscript, but with long
forked stick poked old ones from the lofty
drawer and sent them just as they were to
publication.
VICE PRESIDENT MORTON stopped at his
Shoreha n hotel in Washington on "Wednesday
to inspect some Improvements that are being
made. He had occasion to ascend in an eIeva.
tor that was carrying brick and mortar, He
made the ascent in safety, but on the down
trip cloud of mortar fell from the top of the
pullulng, completely covering the Vice Presi-
dents faultless suit of clothes So completely
was he beSpattered that he was compelled to
call cab and be driven home for another suit
CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER went over to Balti-
more Tuesday. The chief justice telegraph ed
to United States Marshal Airey Monday night
that he would come to Baltimore the following
DAY. The marshal drove to Union station to
meet the distinguished visitor He arrived by
the lo;O5 train, and he was SO distinguished
looking that the marshal singled him out of the
group of strangers whom the train deposited on
the platform. He wore silk hat, from which
fell his gray hair in long, wavy strands to his
small but well-shaped shoulders. A pair of
steel-rimmed eyeglasses were adjusted to the
bridge of large nose. The eyes behind the
glasses were gray and bright. Below the
glasses and of the same graceful curve was a
gray moustache.
FASHION in hair dyeing has, it seems declared
at last against the auburn and bright gold
treSses with which we have been lately familiar
These tints, as well as the pale ''bleached''
straw hue, are no longer to be worn and a
much darker shade, called in the secret circles
of the trade itself by the unpoetical term
mahogany" is the latest degree. 1t is pro-
duced by subtle mixture in which henna PLAYS
leading part; but the dyeing process is long
and tedious. However, that cannot much mat
ter TO the ladies who once embark upon hair
dyeing, since they have continually to submit
themselves to its repetition as fresh hair grows
The prophets of these mysteries assure us that
the time is coming when natural brown
will be the favorite tone. If it be true there
fore, that real blonde hair is becoming extinct
this will insure fashion to every one
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