The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-07
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then, but he usually takes his tobacco in the
| form Of cigarettes.
PECULIAR cover for wine bottle is of silver
and lizard skin, and is made in two parts on
hinges. The case has also handle with which
I ID facilitate pouring the liquid
HERR johann STRAUSS declares officially that
the story that he intends to alter the tempo of
the waltz to an cisddnte cOnsDiodoi is a complete
mistake. The ideo, he SAYS never has occurred
and never would occur TO him.
SOME ONE has figured that there are in Den
yer, Col. thirty-one millionaires whose aggre-
gate wealth is SAG, 100000 and thirty i've semi
miliionaires, whose wealth aggregates ST., 800
| wv making in all 10000, owned by sixty
six men.
ALL the firstclass race tracks employ adoctor
by the year, or rather the season. They pay
liberal price, from $40 day and upward and
| expect him 10 report for duty half hour be-
| fore the races begin. and to remain ON hand till
| all the visitors have left
| IT Is SAID that large proportion of the
plumes worn by the ladies who attend the
| queens drawing rooms are hired from a shop
whlcn makes business of renting out plumes.
| Inc feathers are worth from 81 to SO, and the
| rent OF them Is SO so for each occasion
! The RHEUMATISM from which Queen Victoria
is suffering, which has become chronic, has
caused acontraction OF the muscles of the leg
| IL does not impair her general health, and she
| looks well. but every one admits, who sees her,
that she has aged much in the last two years.
The rat plague in Lincolnshire continues in
| spite OF the enormous destruction of the ami.
| mals by the farmers during the past few months
| One farmer, who scatters poisoned barley about
| MS yards every night, gathered in one day a
| crop of 300 rats Three hundred rats were
| Killed from one stack of grain in another place.
| CLEVELAND JUDGE refused to nsturalize
| foreign-born applicant because he had never
/ no1 ~
| ana Tor what length of time United States
| senator was cleo ed. Said the Judge: Can
| man he supposed TO be attached to the princi-
| pies OF our constitution if he has never
| read it,"
NEGOTIATIONS are going on for transferring
| the two great pictures by Rubens from the Ant
| werp cathedral to the new Antwerp museum
| The pictures, which the property of the
| state, are said to be gradually perishing. Their
| exhibition brings to the church about %, 900
| francs year, for the loss of which some com
pensation will have to BE- offered.
W. W. HANwoRrH trackman on the Balti-
mere and Ohio railroad, and residing at Paw
Paw, w. Va, was robbed of 81, 800 short time
| ago Mrs Hanworth confesses to having stolen
Inc moaey for the purpose of clipping with
| young railroad workman. She turned over SEQ
| to her husband, and it is supposed that her
| lover has the remainder of the Doodle.
| THE WOMAN REPORTER who is trying to get ad-
mission to the press gallery OF the House of
| Commons has got so far along as statement
| by the speaker that there is no law to prevent
| her being admitted there. Il was coupled how
ever, with the remark that as there was also
| no law TO admit her there il might be Just as
| present.
| Mrs. r. A. WESTON, of Ala media. Cal, had a
narrow escape from suffocation. She was play
| ing with a pet canary, and pushed the birds
mead into her mouth. Just then she grew hyS-
/ tercal and shut her teeth together, so as to
| strangle the bird. Her daughter pulled the
canary and severed its head, which got into
| Mrs. Weston's gullet. She was black in the face
| when the obstruction was removed.
| THE most interesting feature of the Washing
ton medical museum is said to be a pair of
| shattered skulls They look as though they had
lnterfered In locomotive collision. They
originally belonged to a couple of plucky
agreed to night duel with their heads aud the
| survivor take the girl. Neither of them remem-
bered anything after the first butt
The THREE LOCOMOTIVES that went over a 60.
| foot bank near Cape Horn Mills, on the Central
| Pacific road, some weeks ago, have not been
recovered. Carloads of coal cinders are being
brought up from the shops at Sacramento to be
used as bedding TO support the Necessary APP
paratus for handling the engines, as the ground
is so full of water that other material can be
obtained that will serve the purpose so well.
The EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA has caused her wed
vestments for the Church of st. Matthew. in
Pesth. The dress was of white brocade with
silver threads, embroidered all over with beau
tiful garlandS of roses in silver. Her bridal
wreath encircles an embroidered picture of the
Virgin, which is to be hung up in the Loretto
chapel of the same church, which the empress
selects for her devotions. The vestments will
be used for the service in honor of the Virgin
Mary in May.
RARE CURIOSITY is owned by a lady of
Phoenix, r. l. 1t is a Hartz mountain canary.
| which, il is asserted can talk. It was brought
| to its present home about the same time a
| young par OF was purchased. The two birds
have been in their cages side by side always
The parrot has caught some of the singing
notes Of the canary, and the canary has learned
to enunciate plainly from the parrot. 1t has
learned thus far only two sentences: Sweet
| little dcky bird and 20, poor Billy" which it
speaks with startling distnctness."
A KINDLY FACED MAN at a Kansas City street
crossing tapped a passing gentleman AMI asked
him if he had lost $40 gold piece. The gen
tleman looked at the coin and said he had. The
old man drew out a note book and took the
name and address of the loser, and turned
away. Well" said the other, do you want it
all as reward?' 20. di not find one." said
| the benevolent old man, but it struck me that
in large city like this there must be great
deal of money lost. and upon inquiry | find that
you are the thirty-frst man who has lost $40
gold piece this morning.
PHOTOGRAPHY properly dates from 1910" re-
marked frOI. Henry W. Farnum IN q recent
facetous lecture, although several disco veries
were made in the art before this time Still,
everything can be shown to be old, and pro
| pose to show that the Photographic art was
practiced by Egyptians 1000 b. G. This great
pyramid must have beena photographic labora
tory. 1t contains dark room and the diction-
airy defines dark room a place in which
| Photographic plates are developed. Hence the
| Egyptians must have been photographers
| Cheops, the builder of this pyramid was proba
bly, the first amateur Photographer
THE other day in East Java, says the North
| China Netcs, a band of contrabanl opium
! dealers passing through jungle saw two tigers
| following them. They lost not a moment in
| Fastening their steps, but the least nimble of
them found the beasts of prey at his heels when
he Spied tiger trap. He crept into it with the
! forbidden freight on his back. The trap shut
| the closer for the heavy weight, and, when
| danger no longer threatened the dealer he at
tempted to lift up the door of the trap but all
| bis efforts proved unavailng. Next day the
| settlers came to have look at the trap and re-
ioiced TO see it closed, thinking tiger had been
| caught Their joy knew no bounds when the
| prize proved to be smnggler with thirty cat
| ties of opium.
THERE are multitudes Of interesting historic
relics of the later Pizarro period in Lima. The
old city walls have disappeared but MANY
bu M NUO in rnoIa