The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-11
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day 50 cents.
Preside DEL NoRrE, Mexican town Of some
1000 inhabitants, is said to be without any resi-
dent physician.
ACCORDING to recent work on longevity
published in Norway the average duration of
life in that country is IS. 80 years for men, and
5l.3 for women.
AN ACCOMPLISHED gander in Opelousas, La,
turns the cistern faucet with his bill, and when
the water begins to flow sits down under the
stream and takes a bath.
A SHOWER OF WORMS. it is reported, fell near
San Andreas station, in Santa Cruz county,
California, last week 1.-THE worms resembled
the grub, were white in color and had red eyes.
They were new species to the residents"
THE STATEMENT is made that at least seventy
letters day miscarry because of the similarity
Of the names of Oswego and Owego. For this
reason each town wants the other TO change its
name.
The COLLECTION Of autographs begun by Fer
dinand ]. Dreer OF Philadelphia over forty years
ago, and now comprising more than 8 900 letters,
has been presented to the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania.
DURING the first fourteen months of Pres
ident Harrison's administration $500 nomina-
tons have been confirmed. In the same time
the Senate approved of but 2, 200 of Mr.. Cleve-
H. B. MORSE, who has been an official in the
Chinese services for nearly twenty years, and
who now on a visit to his home in Boston, says
that the average consumption of opium in
emma is about an ounce per capita for each
adult indivdal. :. o.
The Iowa State University, which secured IFS
pounds of the meteors that fell some years ago
at kiowa, Kan, appears to make speciality of
nieteors. Prof Nipcheli, geologist at that
university, has organized an expedition to go In
search OF one that fell in Iowa recently.
STANLEY says his one aim now is to get away
from the crowds; not because he does not wish
to see them, but because they prevent him from
doing any work. He told an artist at Cannes:
III you were to offer me 81 900 could not sit
down and let you sketch me; am too busy
In one industry Norfolk has a monopoly 1t
Is the mart of the peanut. This humble and oft
derided tuber cuts a considerable figure in the
sum OF Norfolks commerce. There is peanut
exchange doing business of about $3.50 900 per
annum, and the business of sorting cleaning
and shipping is in the hands of three leading
nrms The peanut sometimes called by the
native the ..goober," is grown in five nearby
counties The process of winnowing and sort
ing into grades employs q great many negroes,
mostly girls, who sing with great gusto as they
work
Now that H. b Clafiin has started it, =" said
well-known stock operator, I'VE shall I'M
doubleday have re yular rush of firms consoli-
dating their business on a stock company basis.
The boom began in England with the Guinness
brewery precisely as the FL. B. Claflin company
started it here. craze set in, and now the
stockholders are appealing to the courts and
cllmong out OF the small commercial companies
with as much fervor as they got in. The success
of nearly all of these big dry goods houses
breweries and manufactures can be traced to
| one mans brains. If the stockholders leave the
right man to control they are all right, but in
nine cases out of ten the schemers and revolu
tionists get hold of the majority of the stock,
| and the brainy man of the concern is driven
| out. Then the step of the lawyer is heard
coming up the stairs
From study of IL, 600 cases. extending over
period of twelve years, DIR. ]. F. Burns states in
the New York Medical Journal that death
| occurs seemingly without any particular predi-
| lection for any certain hour, and that the num-
| DER or deaths for each hour is very evenly pro-
| portioned. considering the large number of
cases taken and the time covered The only
very positive conclusions the author has form ID
from the figures a that the idea that more
| deaths take place in the early morning hours is
| an erroneous one; (2) if stimulants are to be
| pushed in disease during these hours the prac-
| tice must be justified upon some other ground
than to avert the possibility OF danger supposed
TO be very probable at this p9riod; 81 that the
vitality of an individual in disease is not regu-
| lated by the same influences or subject to the
same laws that govern the vitality of healthy
human being, the normal equilibrium main
cal states being altered.
LADY COLIN CAMpRE1's DECISION to 20 on
| the stage" said the English agent of a we'll
known theatrical firm in New York, was a very
wise one. The people who are ridiculing her
forget or ignorant of the fact that she is one
| OF the most beautiful women in England. Her
| beauty is not of the Mrs. Langtry type, but
| rather OF the order of the women of Spain She
has dark eyes, the BLACKLIST hair conceivable.
and Is OF the brunette type Her face is prettily
| moulded, but what her success as beauty will
| especially hang upon is her figure She is quite
six feet tall, and all of her life she has been an
| enthusiastic athlete. Sic fences, rides, rows
and is adept at every sport known to women in
| England. This means good deal for English
women are even invading the cricket field
| nowadays. Lady Colin had always affected to
| desplse the stage, but her success as novelist
has not been such as to warrant her devoting
her time to that. and she naturally looks toward
| a more lucrative profession. Her husband is
| pensioned by his family, and is living in OBJ
security In enc of the garrison posts of India.
| He is one of the most unpopular men in his re-
| markaby unpopular family"
| ''THE power of the President of the United
States, even such President as Harrison, who
has assistant presidents in so many directions, :"
SAID keen observer yesterday. sis much
| greater than many citizens suppose. Now
! thousands firmly believe scores of thousands
| of people are waiting all the middle
west for proclamation from President Harrison
|
settlement. There are a great many
| people right here in New York
wno are watching. the dispatches
/ from Washington with the keenest interest
| They have agents or representatives out on the
| Dakota frontier ready TO go in and get the best
| that is to be had as as the President gives
| the word The proclamation, it is believed
4 will certainly be issued this spring This is the
| last of the great Indian reservations. It les
| Just east Of the Black Hills, and when opened
| will be contained about equally in North and
| South Dakota. AThe arabic fertile land in it, as
| l AIN informed.is as great as the state of Con
| necticut in areas Three railroad companies
| and thousands of boomers are waiting to race
| in when the signal is flashed. Some of us fear
| there may be fa7ortes who will receive the tip
| in advance.
THE COMMODORE of one of the Atlantic lines.
who has for many years been a great admirer
| of Stanley, had a personal interview with the
explorer just before his ship left England last
week. In speaking of it he sal that he expert
: enced great shock at the change in the ex-
| plorer's manner Il don't know that it is ex-
actly a change either" said the commodore
! thoughtfully, 'as all of Stanley's friends were
| impressed by his utter Indifference to things in
| general long before he started on his last fri
| can tour, but think few of us expected to find
him so thoroughly hardened and hopelessly in
| different. Absolutely nothing interests him
except the heart of Africa. He does not com
| plain of i'll health but the elasticity of his ma
| ture has departed. He never laughs and when
| he smiles it is apparently with painful effort
His thor ugh mastery of ayprvthinp thatr taa