The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-15
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citation dec ded that after Sept. q all yards
shall be closed and no more bricks be made for
the rest OF the season. This will throw over
2O,OO0 men out of a months work.
The JAPANESE books begin where ours end,
the word fms coming where put the title
page; the foot notes are printed at the top Of
! the page. and q ne real sr puts in his marker at
the bottom. TIE bsss rooms OF a Jspa 1ese
! house are always in the hack. and architects,
when building, begin with the roof
A 19-YEAR-oLD GIRL named Emile Kahn.
living in the Memelerstrasse at Berlin, took a
| novel method of committing suicide. She
| walked up and downstairs for seven hours,
| and then the neighbors, thinking her demented,
| attempted to drive her away. She then jumped
| from the second story window. and was so seri-
ousy injured that she died at the hospital.
| DR. JUNKER, who learned in Central Africa to
| relish fried ants, and lived for years on negro
| bill of fare, expresses decided views in his new
| book on the way 10 get along in the Dark Con-
! t'nent. he goes so far as 70 say that in his
opinion the white man who accuStoms himself
TO native food will keep in better health than if
lie enjoyed the best OF European cookery.
THERE is a curious illustration of the ups and
| downs Of life in q workhouse near London,
where one OF the inmates was thu original pro-
| prletor OF noted cattle food which from first
| 30 last must have brought in millions of money.
| The poor fellow commenced his downward
| course with lawsuit which cost $500, 900, and
y.
RAILROAD in Asia Minor from Scutari to
| lsmidt, is 10 be extended to India, and will be
the grand TRANSMISSION line between Europe
and Asia. IL passes near the tomb of Hanni-
oai. Nlcomedia is way station. It crosses
streams on repaired bridges that were built by
Justlnlan and altogether has a right of way
through more ancient history than any other
road on earth.
THERE will be sharp advance in sealskins in
London in 1har llxy
100000 fur seals are captured on the islands of
~: raul and st. George, but this year only 81
wv nave been taken. OF the Behring sea seal
the annual catch usually amounts to 10000 or
5O,OOO, but this year it will not reach 1000.
Dome turr1er in town say they would not be
surprised to see sealskins advance so per cent.
at the London sale.
A HUMAN body half eaten by wild animals
and carrion birds has been discovered in the
Moran mountains. The body is believed to be
mat OF baron Won Strauss, an Austrian noble
man, VINO left Buda Pesth, Hungary, two years
ago, and VINO came to Spokane Falls about five
months since, after having spent his last dollar.
AFTER being reduced to beggary he became de-
spondent and finally announced his intention Of
going into the mountains TO starve
FRAU AUGUSTA ScHEY, who had fled to Langs-
berg with her elder daughter, girl of IS. whom
she loved dearly. to escape the cruelty of her
husband, wealthy painter, dwelling in
hosenthaier strasSe of Berlin drowned her
daughter and herself Thursday. Before leap
ing INTO the water the mother and child wept
bitterly, then kissed and embraced and died,
locked in each others arms having struggled
tercely with the fishermen, who strove to rescue
them.
NJ PozDNEEF, a professor of oriental ian
guages at the University of St. Petersburg, has
discovered in the National Library of Paris
Manchu manuscript which is probably the most
ancient known. 1t consists of 16J leaves of
Chinese papyrus. contained 10 four portfolios of
yellow silk, a circumstance which has led
scholars to believe that it belonged to an i'm
perlal library. The heading on the title page
has been interpreted to mean Book of Words
ana Phrases, compiled by order and during the
sixth year OF the reign of the present Ming
dynasty
AN INTERESTING SPECTACLE hes recently been
seen in the Orkneys. 1t is probably the first of
its kind ever authenticated ia living memory.
A correspondent writes to a cotemporary:
What is said to be mermaid has been seen for
some weeks at stated times at Southside, Deer
ness. 1t is about six TO seven feet in length
with little black head white neck and snow.
white body and two arms. In swimming it ap-
pears just like human being At times it will
come very close lnshore and appear to be sitting
on sunken rock, and will wave aud work its
hands. IL has never been seen entirely out of
water. Many p rsons who doubted its genuine
ness now suppose it to be deformed SEAL
THE SIZE or substance of silk thread 1, usu-
ally estimated by deniers. The ounce troy and
the ounce pois de marc of Lyons, by the latter
of which silk is tested in France and Italv are
equal in weight. but are differently subdivfded
The ounce troy is divided into 20 pennyweights
of a grains each, making 4S0 grains in the
ourc9; the ounce of Lyons pois de marc, is di-
vlded into x drains, which multiplied by %,
equals $40 deniers The deuier is, therefore
ont-sixth less than the grain troy. The Eng
llsh reel is SlS bouts of A Inches and equals 900
yards. The French, 400 ellis, or AIS metres
equals $50 yards. The standard Of silk measure
Is about 400 yards; that length OF single fla
ment from China cocoons will weigh deniers
and from French and Italian 216 A 1O-denier
SILK WILL them be the combined thread of four
or five cocoons.
In THE WINDOW Of a little old-fashioued clock
store on Third avenue, in New York, stand the
solid brass works of a clock that was made nv
r. Luke, In London, England, repair d by F. G.
H. in the year 1877, and repaired the second
time in this city in $780, No other name or
date appears on the movements and while the
time OF its original construction is unknown
the clock has been ticking for more than a cen.
fury. The original case and dial plate have dis
appeared, but the works are contained between
two plates of brass, and the one at the back is
quantity graved with the figure of funeral urn
and large number of fourishes. If the pen
dulum that does the ticking could speak the
story OF all 1t has heard and witnessed in its
travels would make delightful reading and its
history of old New York-the little cluster of
houses below Great Jones street that made M
the metropolis of sixty or seventy years ago.
would charm the antiquarians.
NOVEL COMPETITION is now open to fair
femininity all over the world. The Baroness
Clara Dekler of Tifiis has proclaimed an invi
tatIon to all beautiful women to send their
photographs to her in order that there NAV he
complied an album of beauties living dnrinf,
the last ten years of the nineteenth century p
Five years hence the lists are to be closed and
the multitude of pictures will be referred to a
committee consisting of two sculptors two ar
lists, two poets, two soldiers and one diplomat
and this committee shall determine which nor
traits shall De inserted in the album Engraved
fac-simies of the album will be made and nnt
on SALE but the or ginal album is to pass into
the possesSession of the Ethnographical society
at Moscow for preservation in it's musenn1
None but women of irreproachable Character
Will be admitted to participation In this merry
war, and in every instance will references ha
demanded The lowly social condition of the
would be competitor will not count against her.
the desire is, barring out Objectionable charac-
tiers, to secure specimens of every type of con
temporane GUS feminine beauty
A MASONIC APRON made in England about
three centuries ago, is soon to be put on exhi-
bition in this country. The apron is fourtaen
inches square and is made of white kid On
the top is semi-ctrcular flap on which Charity
Is represented 10 the person of a woman tend |
ing infants. In the center is open Bible, SIR
rounded by the customary Masonic emblems
the square and compass. Both points of the |
latter are hidden, suggestive OF an entered an
prentice apron. On the left side of the apron
is figure with its left arm terminating at the |
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