The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-01
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GEORGE GOULD has purchase of Hon Thomas
Cornell OF Kingston. y. Y, a stream Of water
/ IN the Catskils known as Furlouyh Lake 1t is
| vel stocked with trout and DELIGHTFULLY."- sit
! uate1 lie purchase price was 100 The site
| CONSISTS OF about CO. acres, of which the lake
| occupies j.
| HE VACANCY in the solicitor generalship,
| caused By the death OF Judge Chapman has re-
| vlved the efforts of a number of very competent
| asfrants for the office. Pennsylvania has again
| ronne TO the front with Judge Harry White of
| Ihdiana county as a candidate for the place.
| Ohe OF the last acts Of Senator QUAY before his
| departure Tor Florida was TO call the attention
| Oh the Attorney General to Gen Whites papers
on file at the department, and desired ID renew
MS recommendation in his behalf.
JUDGE THOMAS T. BoULDN Of Charlotte
county, Va, owns the plantation on which his
| grandfather and great-grandfather are buried
| and which has been in the family I46 years and
| although he is n years of age, he sleeps in the
| same room he was born in, and upon the same
| Dc 1stead he was born on. Judge Bouldin
| showed the correspondent the spot where sto d
| me caOln which his cestreS, who came from
Maryland, had erected In l744. and the tradition
| IS that she wept because she found no place for
| her gold lace hat.
IHE HIGHT of an olive tree is usually twenty
| teet, but it is sometimes as high as fifty feet,
| and 1t reaches an almost fabulous age. One
| iaIsIy destroyed at Beaueu had q recorded age
| oI hVe centuries and was thirty-sx feet in cir
| conference. The olive tree Is excee iingiy pro-
4 nilc under cultivation; the fruit yields about
20 per cent of its we ght exclusive of kerneD in
l OH. Italy is said TO produce 330O1.000 and
France 7.00). O00 gallons of oil annually The tree
| uoeS not vegetate readily beyond 1000 feet alti-
| tude, or % degrees of latitude.
WASHINGTON SPECIAL to the New York
| World says: when Mrs Harrison was at Deer
| Park she made an arrangement with a farmer
| there TO send to Washington a large tub of
In F.FF s,sa
used in the White House. and the rest is retailed
10 The members of the cabinet, Airs. Harrison
| charging them an advance of five cents a
pound, weighing it with her owl hands, The
outter, however, has not gwen the best salts
faction, and Mrs. Harrison has lost two of her
| customers-Mrs. Blaine and Mrs. Window"
IN Germany railway fiagman at the crossing
| at a small station thought he had the grip
when all the other employees of the road were
| getting leave of absehcs for the same cause,
ana applied to the company's doctor to be eX-
anlned The doctor could not spare the time
10 STOP at such small place, so he teegraphed
/ 10 the hagnan to be standing beside the track
When the train went past, with his tongue out
| ana he would examine him on the fly. The
| tiagman dutifully stood with his tongue out all
the time the train was slowly passing his station
| and the next day the company received from
| passengers dozen complaints of the imperti-
hent conduct of one of its employees at that
| station.
is preserved in glass case beneath the pulpit
| human head The vicar, the Rev Samuel
| hinns, has recently issued a book containing
| details about this cdDot ntOrtultm. IL Is sup
| posed TO be that of the Duke of Suffolk, father
OF Lady Jane Grey, VINO was beheadel in 1854,
| shortly after the exc ;ution of his daughter
| There Is tradition that the eXecuti ner did
not. as was usual in such cases. hold up the
| mead OF the duke to the people, but let it simply
drop into the basket, the SUP POSITION being that
he was brfbed to bring it secretly to the church
and place it in the vault, where it was found by
the Earl of Dartmouth a. This story is doubted
| by former vicar, who writes to say that il is
more probable that the head belongs to some
unknown person of later times"
IT is SAID that the Canadians are stealing
| billions of feet of American lumber from the
| great pine timber belt in Northern Minnesota
| The lumbermen of the region centering abont
| the little British post of Hungry Hall num-
| Der of years ago discovered a way of piling I'D
| immense fortunes. The United States govern
| ment eXactS 10 to 20 per cent. tariff tax from
| the consumer on each 1000 feet of lumber cut
| or manufactured in Canada, while it. allows the
Canadian lumbermen of that section of the
| Dominion bord ring on the Lake of the Woods
70 cut and carry oil fro the unsurvayed tim
/ Der lands of Northern Minnesota millions upon
| millions of feet of pine timber each year prac-
tlcally unmol sted; From 150,000,000 to 200
| oOO,OOJ feet of timber and logs, every foot of
/ which has been cut in Minnesota go past this
/ post and down the Lake of the Woods every
1 year.
| JOHN MYLCHREEsr of Middletown. Conn. is a
l queer chap, and as adroit in some ways as he is
| defective physically. John is 10 years old and
/ has no arms; he never had any. He makes his
l feet do the chores ordinarily intrIsted 70 tho
| hands by other folks, and he does some feats
/ that would be notable if done by persons who
/ have hands as well as feet. For instance, being
| fond of horses, he has learned to drive them
eXpertly, and he mauipulateS the reins entirely
/ with his toes. He Tolls back on the wagon seat
/ gathers up the lines deity with his toes, sings
out 'G' lang" and ratteS away, cracking his
| whip and having a grand time. The reins he
| holds in the flexible toes of his left foot the
| whip in the cluster of right foot toes, and he
plies the lash if necessary, and saws the lines if
| the steeds cut up, and goes through town at
| rafting gait with the skill of an accomplished
| and two-handed whip.
| THE VERY LATEST FAD which has Travelled
| about the country in the wake of the celebrated
| English Psychologist has struck Boston with
full force. As explained by the Advertiser:
| this is the adoption, by ladies' of FASH on. of
| Egyptian costumes az their afternoon teas
| These costumes are modelled after the man
/ ner of the times of the Pharaohs One of them
worn by beautiful brunette is described as of
| soft, brown silk, with long. flowing sleeves and
| yoke embroidered in silver. This petticoat is of
| striped Syrian silk, in rose color and silver.
| with wide sash of the same colors. The
/ slashings of the outer gown show Innings of
| Egyptian red. Over the shoulders hangs a
brown gauze veil, embroidered in silver. Slip
| pers in rose velvet, embroidered in silver and
| seed pearls, flesh-colored stockings a brow
| pendant of dull gold and an antique n .cklace
OF cornelian and silver, complete tne costume
| These gowns will no doubt be all the rage be-
| fore the season is over"
! FRANK A PADDOCK, a prominent LAWYER of
| Glens Falls n. Y, died on Wednesday last.
aged CO years His death was the result of a
! singular hallucination. Three years ago while
| Mr.. Paddock was at his country seat in Delhi.
De aware county. be one dav read Rider Hap-
| CARDS romance, ALLAN Quatermam - The in
| cidentS narrated ID the book made such vivid
| impression upon his imagination that that
| night he dreamed that he was in the sea swim.
| ming away from reptiles. He thought he saw
his brother standing on a rock stretching ont
Lis arms to save him, and imagined that he ha 1
to dive to save himself from some APPROACHING
| monster So real was the dream that he roS,
| to his feet and Owed out of bed striking his
head on the floor with such force as to cause
| severe injury. Paralysis subsequently SET in
| as the result of it, and although he returned ia
| the practice of the law later he never fully re-
covered from the nervous shock occasioned by-
| his dream, and to which his death is drectlv
| traceable.
Mr.. FRANK r. MOONEY, of Chlcothe Mo.
had an experience in the Quaker City, where
he was staying few days recently. that he will
not soon forget: when reached Philadel-
| phIa on Wednesday night" said Mr. Mooney
| II had written several letters and about ii
| o'clock thought l would take a walk down
Chestnut street and finish nv cigar I walked