The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-23
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| Caledonia. Machinery to bore down 1900 feet
/ mas been provided.
REPORTS from the great tobacco counties ir
Western North Carolina show that at least
onethird OF the plants in the beds have been
| killed by the cold weather
TIN FIELDS which are sal / to promise vast re-
turns have been opened at Gippsland, in the
colony OF Australia, and an English company
has been formed to work them.
THE mayor of New Orleans recommends that
gambling should be licensed in that city and
made 10 contribute to the finances of the city
| or to the charitable institutions
Boston has a Volapuk class OF about 100
members. who in seven lessons aud in seven
weeks have obtained very fair knowledge of
proved.
THE CAR OF RUSSIA has issued an edict abol-
ishing the German co lrs theater in St. Peters
burg. French company viii succeed to the
vacancy This will start another war scare,
probably.
HERE are some old Maryland names found in
a Baltimore paper: Toadvine, Whip, Traveller,
Ramsburg. Billingslea, Earlonger, Yinglins,
GreSay' Prettyman, Goodn.alson, Jory and
RoUhTocS
JEwELER of Rockford, Wash recently pre-
sented the public school with clock This was
followed by a more expensive one by rival
1eweler, and by the time the enthusiasm had
Suoslded every room in the school had a CLOCK.
THE JEWISH POPULATION of Palestine has in
creased wonderfully in the last five years. In
17il Palestine had only 5000 Jews: in 1888 there
were 10000, and in the end of 1858 over 70 900
were reported to be dwelling in and around the
Holy Land.
ROBERT BROWNING is the first poet whose
voics lives after death. Science achieved that
Immortality for him. He spoke once into a
pnono graph and Browning's living voice can
9e heard by those yet UNBORN if the little cylin-
der is preserved.
On APRIL an electric mail service will be set
In operation between Buenos Ayres and Monte
video: The two cities. about $50 miles apart,
rave been connected by u double line of wires.
Inc tiny mail boxes will be slipped slong these
wires with lightning rapidity.
The RELIGIOUS CRANK in Oakland. CAL, who
has been preaching tie destruction of the cities
on San Francisco bay by a great tidal wave on
April a. has been sent to hospital for Tie in
sane lie had induced several persons to sell
their property, in order to be ready for the
deluge.
The BRIDGE over the Firth of Forth cost the
lives Of fifty-six workmen during the seven
years of its construction. The bridge en- zine ers
however, insist that this it a remarkably good
showing, and perhaps it is considering the ma
lure OF the WORK and d11ger involved in its
erection.
TIE AMERICAN STAGE has received well.
deserved compliment from Europe Photo
graphs and models of tn, scenes Of The
Grand Duchess ~ as presented at the New York
Cash no, wi soon be sent by request to Eu-
ropean managers, who have asked permission
to duplicate them.
DR. FARRAR is frequently seen on Broadway,
New York. He has probably inflicted more
| IT.
IS the famous surgeon who invented the system
OIL regulating aud IN wing teeth now employed
by every dentist. He is as interested in his pro-
fession as when tyro.
a Prominent SOCIETY LADY Of New York has
just returned from Europe with beautiful pair
of cut glass one pound dumb bells in her trunk
This is said to be the latest within of aristocratic
athletic Englishwomen. They are made in sizes
from four ounces to two pounds and are as
clear as Japanese crystal
A CURIOUS SIGHT met the eyes of those who
| passed through the capitol grounds at Washing
ton the other morning. Thousands of worms of
all SIZES covered the walks. Some people thought
there had been q shower of worms, but none
were visible except on the walks BY the after.
| noon they had ali disappeared.
ST. PETERSBURG TAILoRs got up a scheme for
publishing in the newspapers the names of all
| their customers who refused to pay their bills,
| but the government forbade it, Now they &C
| compllsh the same object by putting up a large
blackboard in the reception room of their
shops on which they coatk the names of the
chief delnquents and the amounts of their bills.
1T IS CURIOUS says Col. Higginson in the
| Christian Union, ito see how the social falsi-
ties of English society tell on educa ted English
| men SO surely as they grow old enough to shed
the generous impulses of youth. 1t was in vain
! that rennySon wrote Clara We're de We're and
| FrCude The Nemesis of Faith and Ruskin
| Modern Painters, and Swinburne the Song in
| Time of ORDER let them once reach middle life
| and they are all stanch tories and accent
dukes and now Huxley follows in their train. -
| New YORK TRUCK DRIVER tells of gentle
man who every morning for six months past has
| ridden down town with him on his truck 'He
| Is wealthy man, too-head of a big firm
| says the driver 80, no; he didn't ride on my
| truck to save car fare because he gave me
| Christmas present that must have cost money
| enough to pay car fare every morning for a
| couple of years He told me that he was
| troubled greatly with dyspepsia, AMI that the
| shaking up he received during the ride down
| town did him a great deal of good
IT Is DECLARED by a recent traveller that the
people of Naples no longer deserve the reputa-
| rion of being the LATEST on earth, 1T have
| spoken, he says. Nv it'll architects engineers.
| and other employers of labor. who ali testify
| to the Willingness of the Neapolitan to WORK
It is, moreover, sef-evdent in the hundred diff
ferent street industries which supply half the
population with a means of livelihood The
Neapolitan laborer and artisan are not only
wiling, bat they work well, with Intelligence
being IN re tractabe than the Frenchmen and
not so slow of understanding as the Germans"
AT THE Docs GRoTTo, one of the curiosities
maintained near Rojo, Italy, there is a cave, the
lower part of which is said to be filed with
deadly gas, so that while man can walk about
unframed, dog breathing the lower air is
asphy xiated. To prove it they have dog called
Columbia that is taken into the cave whenever
visitor appears and that, after snort time,
seems overcome by the alleged gas and has to
be carried out and resuScitated in the fresh air
The dog is SO well trained that Whenever she
sees stranger approaching she gets up and
trots off to the cave to get her asphyxiation.
This happens many times day. but the dog
seems none the worse for it.
AT ST. MALo, FRANCE, a few days ago. be-
tween and O'Clock in the afternoon, many
perfectly repu able and sober inhabitants saw.
three suns all in row little above the western
horizon The sky was very clear at the time
The central one, which was the genuine article
shone with unwonted brilliancy while from its
supporters darted rays of all the prisnatlc
colorS. At the same moment a rainbow made
its appearance at some little distance but up
side dOw1, with its convex side toward the hor-
zen. The phenomenon which lasted some
time. was witnessed by a number of the inhab.
itants as well by the passe lgers on board the
steamer Alliance which arrived at Jersey at
nightfall. 1t was sketched by some of the
passengers. Not long ago phenomenon of q
similar kind was witnessed at another MORT in