The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-18
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IA DEWEY Of Can bridge, Mich. is undoubt-
Ell y tie Oldest sta e driver and mail contractor
in the state. he is eighty, and drove a stage
out Of Detroit sixty years ago
FExALE SLAVES are st Il given to the Sultan in
old-time ronp An exquisltely beautiful girl of
10, "a Georgian, that his aunt sent to him. was
taken TO the Yidiz Kiosk in gilt COO b escorted
by trooJ Of gigantic eunuchs.
ONE OF the largest forests in the world stands
on ice 1t is situated between U.-I ami the
okhotsk sea. 4 well was recently dug il this
region when IL was found thai at depth of ZIG
meters the ground was stall frozen
TIE TRACT is;ri5utor who handed tract on
the sin Of dancing TO a soldier who had lost
both legs has a rival. To fruit peddler who is
without ha IDS a New Haven distrIbutO-
gave tract bearing warnings against card
paying, says the Palladium o that city. The
act rested on TIE basket hanging from the
vendors neck an ,, by attracting atten ion, ma
teriaily increased his sales
The BAcHELLER SYxpicArz. P. o. Box 2545,
Sew York city. offers $3.50 as prize for the best
pictorial story. with as little verbal assistance
as possible, consisting of not more than tn
pictures tIr newspaper repro uctlon 10 single,
or 1ve for double column. hr. W. Lewis
Fraser, art manager of the Cent? q Magazine,
will be the judge The closing date Will be
Nov. = ARTISTS can learn further particulars
by addressing the firm. Drawings worthy
or returned.
CALIFORNIA, though the second state in the
union as to area, is the twenty fourth as to
population Twenty of its towns rave more
than 5 900 Inhabitants. seven more than 1000
and three more than sc, COO; San Francisco, the
metropolis having about 80 900 In its mum
Der of newspapers it ranks twelfth Only seven
states have larger number of papers printing
more than :5,0j0 copies, and only five states
equal 1t in number of da lies; one paper in
a -faYVrnf 20
proportion is one TO twelve New y DIRK, Phla-
delpha and Chicago are the sole cities that ex-
coed San Francisco in the numosr of papers
having lily sale of more Il an 25 900 copies
One fourth of all the dailies are published in
the chief town The Chronicle. which began
twenty five years ago as a small theatric pro
gramme, is credited withtte argest circulation,
and is much the most profitable of any daily in
California, which is thoroughly a reading state.
THE intrepid Col D. R. Anthony of Leaven-
worth, Kan, says the New York World is a
living example Of a cross examiner who did
not, on one occasion at least, SHINE with great
efulgence. AS president pro tenn. of the board
OF police commissioners Col. Anthony was cross
examining witness. and asked, among other
tnings, why the witness had rot permitted him
10 examine certain chez <boo1 on certain
occasion. To be frank" replied the witness,
Il was afraid if you got your hands on that
cneckoook you would, steal it YOU did the
oaHot-ooxes few years ago" Referring to
the proceedings Col. Anthony's paper says:
LOi auJuOuy conducted JDe cross examination
or the witness, putting the questions to him in
a clear and forcibe manner and cornering him
at every turn" 1t woull seem at this distance
tnat the witness deserves compliment for the
equally clear and forCl0le manner in which he
replied to Col. Antaony's questions. And yet
the colonel's newspaper does not accord him
even this small courtesy.
THE ADMISSION of Wyoming to statehood re-
calls the pioneer days of woman oficeholding
IN that unique civilization. Hester Morris was
Cne nrSt woman appointed Justice of the
peace in the United States. In those rough
pioneer tim=s the bowie knife and pistol oftener
settled disputes than did q court of Justice
Mrs. Morris was a tall, Elzabetnian type Of
woman, with as rugged features and as brusque
method OF expression as has been attributed
70 the English queen Her first case in 4
wyoming court concerned a quarrel between
two young men who were brought before her
armed with bowie-hniveS and pistols. She had
known them Ice their hoyhood. and in spite
OF me TACT that scene had tee expected on
her first appearance few words of m )therly
ADVICE TO those who had known her kindness,
and native little mother Wit carried he day
After TINT there W Is no more trouble She was
partlcu ar terror to c rtain class of evil
doors. Men who had been arrested for beating
their wives or for general drunk II disturbances
of the peace invariably pleaded not to be
brought up before ''Old Judge Morris They
wanted to be tried by men.
EXCESSIVE SMOKING of cigarettes drove 90
year-old William Fitzgerald, a Chicago lad in
sane. ne is one OF a score or more young men
Who yearly reach the detention hospital on thu
cigarette route Fit fitzgerald developed into a paper
pipe flend year ago and has since Consumed
from three to a dozen boxes of cigarettes per
day. When not engaged in smoking he was hard
at work chewing tobacco. his mind began to
totter on its throne last week, and when the
police took him to the detention hospital be
was little better than idiot. Fitzgerald has
acted badly sinca his supply of cigarettes was
cut off. Recently, while walking in the cor
ridor, he violently attacked another patient
lntlctlng injuries which will lay
him up for a month at least The in
furiated young man then grappled with al
attendant named Mahoney. One of the attend
ants fingers terribly mangled between
Fltzgerald's teeth. The crazy youth was locked
up in cell, but managed to break out in
short time afterwards. He was again captured
and this time was put in stronger cell Dr.
Egbert. who has the caSs in charge, says that
Fitzgeralds system is so thoroughly saturated
with cigarette poison that he smells as if h.
bad just escaped from an o Jun Joint Fitz-
gerald's case IS only one of about twenty five
similar ones that come to Dr. Egbert's attention
every year. The doctor says that insanity
among cigarette smokers is growing to an
alarming extent, and that at the present time
the evil is responsible for nearly 2 per cent of
all the cases he andes. Fitzgerald is still con
fined in cell, and he will not be releas ID until
he shows some signs of improvement.