The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-22
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ing fourteenth annual reunion Of the Society
/ for the Army Of West Virginia at Parkers-
| burg.
PRoF. ALBERT B. PRESCOTT Of Ann Arbor,
president elect Of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science. is the first repre-
tative Of chemistry honored BY such appoint
ment since 1872
Ara girls orphan asylum at Locie. switzer-
land, large quantities of old postage stamps are
received from charitable persons. An average
OF about ESQ year is made by the sale of the
rare kinds 10 stamp dealers.
BRIDE from Flint, Mich. visited Libby
prison in Chicago, and found her fathers name
cut in a windowsill of the place. c. d. Ford
was the prisoner who thus left his mark in the
place where he spent ten months.
FRIENDS and scientific associates of the great
botsnist. Asa Gray. will find their ideal realized.
according 10 the Boston Trdnscrtpt, in portrait
engraved on wood by Mr.. Virnell, and now
being shown in Eastman Chase's gallery at the
Hub.
A NUMBER of Siax fisherman, near Tunis, were
sitting the other day round fire which they
had kindled on the shore. when suddenly there
was terrible explosion from the heart of the
burning mass, one person being killed and sew
eral seriously wounded. 1t was subsequently
found TO be the explosion of a shell which had
lain under the sand since the Frt nch lombard
ment IN 1881.
IT Is REPORTED that three nails of the true
cross have been fouad in a very singular place.
namely, in the ruins of the theater at Zurich.
which was burned down. They were in a little
ivory casket, of admirable workmanship, to-
gether with manuscript of parchment, and
were bTicked up within little cavity of the
su0Structure. 1t is presumed that these relics
were hidden by monks during the reformation.
HENRY McCABE of Paw Paw. Mich, has
hen which regularly lays colored, hand painted
aqta ~ tad Puf ali
plished the feat of her life Tuesday, when she
sprang a twin soft-shelled egg that resemblei
the Stamese twins, as the two eggs were united
by q liRament of the same material as the shell.
McCabe will put this egg, these eggs, into
an incubator hoping to get Siamese twin
chickens.
THE SULTAN OF LAHORE is black as coal,
| and his idea of feminine beauty is that real
Juliet must not weight less than 400 pounds A
lady who apparently weighed more than that
was presented to him recently, and the sultan
was so enraptured with her corpulent charms
| that he proposed to cover her broad beauty
with diamonds, much to the horror of his treas
urer, who knew that the subsidy of 100000
received from the British government could not
stand such drains.
IT Is SAID that the drop of colored blood in
| the veins of Mile Jeannine Dumas, the only
unmarried daughter of the younger Dumas
shows more conspicuously in her complexion
and features than it does in that of her iustri-
| GUS ldJner, VINO Is only an OctOrOOn, ana C1eCe-
| fore the tinge of color in his children ought to
be imperceptible. The elder sister of Jea mine
became Nine. Lipmann some years ago, and Is
| renowned as being very eccentric and very fond
OF tilrtations. Their mother, who Is still living,
is Russian princess.
THE WIFE of John Beam OF Mitchellville, N.
Y, aged s. years, gave birth to twins on Mon
day evening Her daughter, Mrs. Stratton, who
lives in a neighbOring township presented her
husband with twins the same evening. Mrs.
STATIONS daughter Eva was married year
ago. and lives in Bradford. The friends of Mrs.
Stratton and her mother were not yet through
congratuating them over the interesting natal
coincidence IN their families, when Mrs. STRAIT
ton received a letter from her son-il-law an
nouncing that her daughter had given birth to
twins herself on Monday.
PAT was detailed as sentinel when the Seven
teenth Maine was near Culpepper, says the Lewis
ton Journal. and was told TO be very careful,
and not olet any one or anything fool him. He
took MS place aud all went well until o'clock
the next morning, when he heard the sound of
some one approaching Halt yelled Pat.
"Mno comes there?" THE officer OF the day
responded the ewcomer and gave tbs counter
sign, And faith" says Pat, and what bust
ness has the officer OF the day to be pokin'
around at night? Clear out or I'll put a bullet
hole through ye." And the officer had to clear.
Col. D. B. SICKEIs. ex- minister to Siam, who
has just returned from European tour, relates
that While at Stratford-on-Avon and Kenil-
worth castle he met numbers of Americ ans and
on inquiry was astonished to find that they
were nearly all Chicagoans. Looking over the
register of visitors at Stratford he found very
few residents of St. Louis. only ten or twelve
from Boston, two score or more from New
York, but a perfect deluge of Ciiicagoans II
only attribute it ~ said he Ito the fact that
ChicagoanS must be making money and so are
beginning to enjoy life and take up the study of
the immortal bard and all that sort of thing"
A SINGULAR PHENOMENON was observed few
weeks ago at the farm of j. A. Chase In Sebec
The sun was gradually going down in the west,
and as it approached the horizon, what appeared
to be small cloud was seen nearly under it,
This soon burst into thousands of globular
forms which were brought apparently by the
air current in the direction of Mr.. Chase's farm
building, and were distinctly seen by himself
and the other members of his family. AS they
fell upon the earth or touched other substances
they disappeared in light smoke. While float
ing In the air they exhibited all the brilliant
hues of the prism, or rainbow The children
caught them in their hands. but there was no
residuum.
AS A RESULT Of the peremptory orders sent
out to absent members, says the New York Sun,
they are all slowly getting back to Washington
Some OF them have been away so long thar
they are as strangers to many of their col
leagues This morning a ter roll call Congress-
man Fred Lansing's best eye twinkled when he
espied an unfamiliar figure on the floor. Going
up TO doorkeepar he pointed out the stranger
and said: There's a man over there who has no
right TO the floor. You had better go over and
ask him to leave" So the doorkeeper marched
up to the stranger and said politely: "You will
have to leave the floor, SIR 81 guess not. I'm
smoking, but I'm behind the rail-" replied the
stranger, easily. But you're not allowed
here," persisted the doorkeeper Then
III go into the coat room and smoke
there If that will suit you better" said the
sarcastic stranger. But that will not do at ali
GU have no right to be in here. You're not a |
member" 1.-THE deuce you say! Who do Won
think amp Il don't care who you are: Won
have got to 60" well. that's cool. Don't Won
know am John N. Clancy, representing the
Twenty second New York DISTRICT So the
matter was explained, and Mr.. Clancy settled |
with the joker. who had taken advantage of his |
coleagu.s long absence to put up Job on MIN. |
Another incident of a like kind happened an
hour hour later to the millionaire shpbuilder. |
wheeler of Michigan, who has been in Euroue
and every where else save in his seat When he |
app cared to-day his colleague. Sam Stephen |
son insisted that he would have to be sworn in |
again, an experience from which Mr. Wheeler |
purchased Immunity by campaign lunch to |
the Michigan delegation.
THE NEWS that Bignon, the famous restaurant |
keeper in Paris, has sold out says the Sun. and
retired into private life has brought out a great |
deal or reminiscent talk among Americans who
are IN the habit of going abroad every year. |
Blgnons being the most expensive place in |
europe, II follows naturally that it is the resort
OF Americans abroad. The prices charged at |
Ihe Famous restaurant make the most Wanting
ana ambitious bills of Delmonico's look feeble |