The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-19
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| duu Tie JOuAe
RUSSELL SAGE has loaned the Brooklyn Tab
ernacle trustees S125,OOO. bat WIS careful to
| exact ample security.
/ A LAD OF SEVEN, in Morristown, " J., was
| choked to death Sunday by o peanut shell
which lodged in his windpipe.
OSE POLICE COURT in New York in three hours
on Monday disposed of 100 cases-an average of
a minute aud q halt to each case.
IN SEAR-Y every foreign country may be
| found oonisS OF old soldiers who are on Uncle
| Sans pension list. Germany alone has 500 of
them, Great Britain AIS and Switzerland 90.
NINE. CLERXoNT is dead at St. Martin near
Montreal at the age Of 81. She was married at
the age Of ID, aud had seventeen Children, las
grandchildren and 2S6 great grandchildren. OF
her descendants 300 are living.
CAT out in Ohio has a pronounced fondness
for hunting, and since May IS according to a
record kept by her owner has caught and taken
nome AZ RABBITS qualls, 80 mice, rats, spar
rows, yellow hammer. flying squirrel, vel
low bir1. larks, wrens and turtle doves.
SCHEME for electric lighting all the large
towns of Saxony by means of great cables con-
| nectsd with the coal pits of the Pla 1ensgruud
Is OF foot, AID is said to be watched with deep
interest in Berlin the first scheme of this Hi nd
| which is successful in any part of the world
will doubtless lie followed by many others.
The CHIEF INDUSTRY Of Zanzibar and Pemba
is Glove growing. The tree was introduced in
1870. and the harvest of the present year IS ex-
| pected to be 1900 900 pounds, at an average
| local value of 10 cents a pound. 10-year old
| tree is capable OF yielding twenty pounds of
cloves; trees of 20 years often yield upward Of
| 100 pounds.
GOOD AND CHEAP PROTECTOR against
destructive insects which attack small garden
! plants, according to a gardening Journal is to
/ pace bottoinless flower pots over the plants
| admitting light and air from above, but exclnd
| ing the depredators at the sides short piece
| of pipe tile several inches in diam ter answers
| the same purpose as we'll.
RENTING CLOCKS is a new business in New
| York. Over 1900 clocks of this kind have been
| placed already in that city at a rental of IS
cents month. In some cases where the time
of operatives in a factory demands careful ad-
place daily and regulates the clock so far as
may be neces Sary. Ordinarily the clocks are
wound once in SIX days. and the company at
tends to that.
SOME of the troops of San Salvador have a
fantastic uniform. "A few wore sandals, i"
writes one who saw them, ''but the most of
them were blref 0oted. Tney had huge straw
hats with red bands on them. Most of them
wore overall suits trimmed with red braid;
others were dressed in go as-you- please fashion
with all manner of uniform. Every man in the
company hat big revolver strapped around
his waist Some Of them carried rifles and
musketS.
F. HOLSTER of New York enjoyed an unusual
experience Monday night. He is an agent of
the Retail Grocsrs' Union. and at a meeting of
that body motion was made to raise his salary
from SIS t 500 month. Then Mr. Holster
arose and declared that he had no knowledge
tnat such motion was TO be made. and that he
was satisfied with his present pay, and that he
didn't want an increase. The union thereupon,
with great unauimity, resolved to respect Mr.
Holsten's wishes.
STEEL TRINKETs are likely 10 be the rage next
winter. An artificer of steel jewelry named LIE
Long has made hit with coronets, brooches.
n c ilaces and garlands of steel beads mixed
with artificial pearls The false pearls are to
the steel what cream Is TO overdrawn tea They
soften 1t, and are not pretentious. Visitors to
the exhibition of Industrial art at the Palais de
llnduStrie can see these elegant brooches in
steel and sham pearls at prices varying from 10
francs to 90 francs. There is a garland of wild
roses priced at 800 francs. 1t is meant to be
worn at a fancy ball by a lady impersonating an
iron queen.
A TRAIN DE LUXE for the Emperor Of Russia
has been ordered from the South of France
Railway Company. This train, which is to be
delivered with the utmost dispatch, will consist
OF lusga re vans and saloon, dining and sleeping
carriages. IL is not likely that It is intended for
immediate use, for in that case a second set of
carriages similar in every respect would have
been ordered, as the car is always preceded or
followed on MS railway journeys by dummy
tram, the risk OF dynamite accident being
thus reduced by oue-half. Probably however
the second train will be- copied in Russia from
the French model,
IT HAS BEEN REPORTED that Florence Blvtbe
the young girl who a San Francisco court de-
cided was entitled to inherit the S40)oO01 lett
by Inomas Blythe, was negotiating for the
purchase OF the late Hall McAllster's beautiful
country nome, Mlramoute, Just across the bay
from San Francisco. The place was built nv
Mr. McAllister out of a $4,000 fee which ne
received from the Southern Pacific Company in
tne Cotton case Now it is said that his widow
is trying 10 make match between her nephew.
The son OF Butler McAllster, and the successful |
Blythe claimant. This attempt has causad
much comment because of Florence Blythe's |
DUBIOUS orlgln, and the fact that the youth |
selected is the nephew of Ward McAllister of |
New York.
For THE FIRST TIME in the history Of Luzerne
county, Pennsylvania, a woman has been
appointed an officer of the courts Miss
Estehe Roll who has been for the
past few months in the office of Attor
ney L. NJ. Mic 1ols as stenographer and tvps-
writer, was, on the petition of about twenty |
prominent lawyers appointed a standing com
missioner to take testimony. The petition to |
appoint woman to sucl a position was 80 un-
usual that Judge Rice looked a trifie puzzled as
ne glanced over the papers. This is rather |
,s Nia ne re- marked Yes replied Attor-
pediment To- IT," Judge Rice evidently looked |
at it in that light. aud he made the appoint- |
ulehC ana Mss Roll was sworn in.
The BEAUTIFUL little mackerel gulls. which |
few years since were so plentiful in Maine !
bays and estlaries, have entirely dissapeared |
anu are now never seen The cause which eff
fected this was the demand for plumaee for tina |
decoration OF the fall and winter boz, net 81 |
exact ng was this That taxidermists established |
branches near the supply. that thew might
prepare the skins of these and other birds &c
soon as killed For the mackerel gull they maid
~ Genus each, price so remuner th e to p,ofps-
sonai gunners Jnat these birds were IN he short
space or two years prac tically extrernnated
All OF the Snlpe family were also in great da
mand; even the little oxeye did not escape for
q Single order was placed for 600 900 oft besa
at cents each to fl an English Contract
DR. F. j. WILKE. who is ct the head of the
humane socety's work at Oshkosh. is in Mil
waukee to secure legal advice upon peculiar
point. lew days ago Mr.. Marshall Harris a
former president of the humane society, and a |
very wealthy citizen of Oshkosh, was gathered |
TO ms fathers. He was the owner for manv
years OF fine family horse that was a NOT ara
Is good, healthy animal, Notwithstanding ire
age In his will Mr.. Harris says that inside az
Iorty-elght hours after his death the horse is To
be taken out and shot, this strange and annar- d
emily illegal stipulation being inserted in tn 4
uocunent because he always feared that after Ii
ms oeatn the horse would not be treated we'll in Il
MS old age. DR.. Wilke has thus far nreventad |
the strange and fanatical request from being |
carried out, and proposes to see if the law ca1e |
not save the animals life. oN'A
A CORRESPONDENT writes to the Y;ctox;,n
Electrical Tele9rdphic Journal as follows: IL