The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-20
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DRUMS were beaten for the first time on the
entrance of Edward III into Calais in 1916.
A BosroN IcEMAN said that usually it cost the
| producer to cut. haul and house ice about 10
| cents a ton. AT 90 cents a ton ice may be cut
| and housed in new icenouse. the cost of the
/ ice included. Some difference between this and
the S14 which ice now cost at retail.
IT is said to cost the Pennsylvania repubIi-
cans 5000 night to bring Ingalls, to that state
| to boom Delamater. After that Pittsburg
speech Col. Quay is probably of the opinion that
| he isn't worth it, And that will be opinion of
| most people, regardless of any speech what
| ever.
| SAYS an eminent physician: So long as men
uncover their heads in theaters halls, ETC., just
| SO long catarrh will be a national ailrneut and
men suffer neuralgia and bronchial affections
| There is no more sense in man removing his
| hat than there is in a woman laying aside her
bonnet.
NEAR RED RIVER PosToFFIcE, Washtenaw
county, Mich, is spring some forty feet back
| from the river which has the peculiar quality Of
petrifying everything over which the water
| flows. Beautiful specimens of petrifed moss
acorns, sticks, ETC.. can be picked up all about
the place.
THE NATURAL RESULT has followed the offer
| by the government of India of rewards for the
| heads OF snakes. The chief commissioner of
| the central provinces reports that the natives
| there are beginning to breed and raise poison
| GUS snakes for the sake OF getting the head
| money offered.
E. L. BRIGHAM Of Worcester, Mass, who has
| made a reputation for himself as a whittier,
| has nearly completed his masterpiece in that
| line 1t is a model of a summer house, stands
about twelve inches high and is about six inches
square 1t was all cut from a block of white
wood nine inches high.
JEREMIAH oDoNovAN RossA's term of en-
forced exile from his native land will expire on
| Jan. next 1t is his determination to see once
more the InniSfail he tried to serve. Rossa it
seems, is poor man; and committee of the
| extreme section of Irish nationalists has been
| formed to relieve him from want.
THERE is a curiosity iu Carrolton, Ala, in the
way of an eyeless mule colt The colt is three
| or four months old. 1t is very well developed
in every other respect, but it has no eyes and no
| place for them. The face where its eyes should
be Is as smooth as its jaws, yet 1t has eve mus
| cles, for the hide contracts regularly as if bat
| ting It's eyes but 1t has no eyes and no eye
| shape
| THE New York Tribune tells of a fastidious
lady who drove to her butchers and told that
Individual that whenever he or his assistants
spoke to her through the telephone they must
wash their hands and put on a coat. 1T is
highly indelicate" she said, ''for you to speak
| to a lady with unclean hands and in your shirt
| sleeves, and unless you cease doing SO l shall
have to trade with the other butcher person"
BISMARCK 10 one of the largest landowners
in Prussia and he carries on successfully at his
| various estates the business of cattle breeding
| dlsCllling spirits brewing and the manufacture
| of yeast. His cattle and geese industries yield
him an annual profit of 81, 500 to $4,000, and the
annual income from his yeast business the
most important item In the ex-chancelor's in.
come is about S34 COO. His jewes pictures and
| plate represent value of $500 900, and his
total income is not far from Sis, 900 year.
Miss BEATRICE POTTER is at present one of
the most famous and talked-of women In Eng
land She is a superbly beautiful women, is of
aristocratic connections and owns a large fort
une in her own right. For several years past
she has been devoted pupil and disciple of
Herbert Spencer. Having read and heard all
manner OF gruesome stores of the horrors en-
dured by women in sweaters shops, she dressed
herself in the odious rags worn by that class
went down into the city, found work. and for
two months lived and labored side by side with
those miserable white slaves of the needle
A STORY which is told about prominent poll
| tician Of Illinois shows what social attentions
were heaped on Col. Cody when he was in Lon
| don. The gentleman from Illinois was in Lon
! don and went to call on Mr.. Phelps the then
| minister, to whom he had . letter of introduc-
| their minister in London ask him for tickets to
| the House of Commons, a certain number of
which he receives. Mr.. Phelps, In the course of
IN. me conversation with the American. expressed
| the House of Commons. as he had already
| promised all that he would receive for tho next
six weeks. my dear SIR, don't bother about II,
/ replied the visitor, Il have already got a lot of
| ahem from Buffalo Bill. ~ Col. Cody had be-
come acquainted with so many members Of
| parliament that he had an almost unlimited sup
ply OF tickets to the House of Commons which
| he distributed with liberal hand among the
| Americans whom he met.
How FEW Of us knox that the stovepipe hat
! which has come to be regarded as quite
foreign, y'know." originated in the United
! States and was introduced into Europe by thar
| lovely old Arcadian Benjamin Franklin. The
old gentleman came to Paris in the spring of
| f790 wearing the simple attire of the Ouakers
distinguishing feature of this was the hat,
which has narrowed and heightened into the
! fashionable plug" of to-day. 1t was low
| crowned and broad-rimmed and presented SO
| quaint an aspect that the Partisan dandies were
disposed 10 make it the butt of their wit Not
| So however, the rest. The leaders of the
| French revolution fancied that hat and they
| forthwith adopted il to be their own. In three
| days time the Franklin hat, as twas
| called was the rage. And from that time
| just 100 years ago-the tile has grown in favor.
| although it is probable that a machin4 more
destructive TO the nair and more useless for
practical purpose was never invented
MRS JAMES BROWN POTTER who has gained
flesh and gold as well as popular triumph in the
| Australias. is on the ocean now with a COM
| pany OF her own, which she hired as a specula-
| ton with part OF the profits of her season in
| OJuuSJ u0lDOuTDe. JUST before sailing for
| Calcutta, where she opeus Oct 1 for a long
season, Mrs. Potter wrote that on the Fourth of
July the Americans gave her great send off at
the Princess theater, which was garlanded with
the stars and stripes and handsome floral pieces
and she was invited to read the declaration of
| Independence at the fete, which, on that dav.
| Conant Griffin, an Amer1can resident in Sydney,
always gives to his country men and women.
Inere are really only two big cities in
Australia Mrs, Potter writes. sMel
bourne is splendid, and sydney is dvinely beau
| tiful; All the other places are, theatrically
| speaking, only two or three night stands l am
putting some of my Australian gold into
! speculation and taking a company of fourteen
| artists and two scene painters up to India
| have had big guara ltee from a syndicate of
| gentlemen in Calcutta. play four nights in
| Ceylon, in Calcutta eight weeks, and thea go
| overland to Bombay, where l play 6 month.
| Then go to Madras, back to Cevlon and back
to sydney. 1t will be the first big theatrical
enterprise ever taken to India, and they call it
American though am the only American in
tue company.
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