The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-21
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ese pay more attention to personal cleanliness
than any other people in the world. High and
low battle all over at least once a day and
sometimes oftener.
EXPERIMENTS prove that the Atlantic break
ers have force of three tons TO the square
foot: thus a surface of only two square yards
sustains blow from a heavy Atlantic breaker
equal to fifty-four tons
PHOTOGRAPHS Of seventy eight old couples
and the same number of pictures If brothers
and sisters Of a similar age are said 10 show
that tn former are more like one another IN
appearance than the brothers and sisters
AT THE MEETING of the national council OF
education one of the speakers said that not
twenty-five years hence he expected t. see boys
and young men knocking for admission into
Nassar and other young ladies' seminaries.
THE locomotive telephone signal enables two
trains approaching each other to communicate
by closing the circuit when two miles apart
The ringing of gong warns the engineers,
who can converse with each other over the tele-
phone
The biggest plate glass factory in the world is
soon to be established at Irwin, this state, on
the Pennsylvania railroad, by a syndicate of
English and American capitalists. VIII CHI
it is reported, has cap tai of $4,000 900 at its
disposal
AN EXAMINATION of the scales used by the ice
dealers in Holyoke showed that one was short
anywhere from fifteen 10 twenty pounds, and
another was short half pound in five pounds.
None of those examined were found to over
weigh the fractional part of an inch.
A NEW AUBURN (ME) MAN took q novel way of
advertising the other day. He managed to
catch large snipe and placed him in his store
window among a lot of gaudy docking fire
works, with placard about his neck bearing
the fol owing inscription: "A genuine Austral-
ian duck"
MAGGIE RICHARDSON. aged 9, OF Brown county,
Indiana, ran away from home. determined to
see the worlds fair, which her infantile imagi-
nation pictured already under way The first
day she walked fifteen miles, finding shelter at
night in q farmers house, then she boarded a
train for Indianapolis. This led to hsr deten-
ton and ret urn.
IT may be a surprise to many to learn that
statistics prove the sea to be safer to live on
than land. The death rate of sailors in the
British merchant marine is under IL per thous-
| and; the loss of life by shipwreck is about a
quarter of this; in fact, there more lives
| lost among miners from accident than among
sailors, and many more among railway en-
| ployeS.
| AT FORT MADISON, IA, reside probably the
oldest twins in the United States Mrs Eliza
| be h Grescom Campton and Mrs. Sophia 3.
| Hilderbrandt. They were born in Baltimore,
| January, 1906, and they are consequently over
| 81 years of age. They are very spry old ladies,
| and still very skiltul at fine needlework. Their
| grandmother, Mrs. Betsy Ross, made the first
| American flag.
| SETH Low, the new president of Columbia
| College, has no respect for rule that does not
| provide for a contingency. A young man not
| Overburdenet with wealth last fall entered the
| law school, paying what was for him quite
! fee. After attending two three lectures,
| business exigencies forbade his continuance at
study. He applied to the treasurer for a rebate
| on his cash payment, only to meet with delay
| and hear rule recited against such demand.
| Then he dropped President Low a line. Within
| four hours the postoffice brought a courteous
| reply and check.
| PERSONS living in Henrico county, Virginia.
| about four miles below the city, between the
! Creighton aud Nine-nile roads, are very much
| excited over a man who has been seen proving
| about the country with a chain around his neck
| and legs. The fellow is tall and heavily built
| and is supposed to be an escaped prisoner A
| few days ago the man in chains entered the
| yard of Grace Reynolds, a colored woman, who
| seeing him approaching the house, grabbed up
| her infant child and IAN to a neightor's house
| The screams of the frightened woman caused
| the intruder to make tracks for the woods
Citizens living in that vicinity will take steps to
| capture the fellow.
| A PoRTLY CENT EMAN was seated in one of the
East river ferryboats the other day trying to
light pipe says the New York Times street
| arab of diminutive size sat beside him and be-
| hind his elbow, twisted up his lips and gently
| waited soft breezes that effectually extn
| gushed the matches, and the porty gentleman
continued to light As match after match went
out the portly gentleman got more exaSperated
and the small boy, effectually concealed by the
| large proportions of his neighbor, got happier
| The gentleman looked around at last, and then
| there an explosion. But the small boy was
| live small boy and he vanished before any
| wrath could reach him.
| THERE was real live scout at the Palmer
House yesterday, says the Chicago Herald. To
| look at him, however, no one would guess that
he is one of the most noted men that the Indian
| Territory has ever held. Wherever the name of
| Jack S;ilwell is mentioned within the borders of
the territory it always carries with il the deem
est respect Jack bears the distinction of hay-
ing been scout and deputy United States mar
shall IN the territory for longer period than
any other man. He has made more arrests
than the whole of the army down there, and if
he notched his Winchester for every man that
has gone down before it on his own confession
there would be sixteen marks there all how
ever, won while doing his duty as an officer of
the law. He can converse with any Indian
| alive, and while the noble savageS have a very
| striking regard for his aim and his rifle vet no
| one exists who has their confidence and good
| will TO q greater extent.
| A PRIVATE LETTER from Ithaca to a we'll
| known New York lawyer relates some astonish-
ing facts as TO the fees eminent counsel are to
receive in the Fiske- McGraw will case. United
| States Senator George f. Edmunds' charge for
| arguing the case in the supreme court of the
| United States is $4,000: Judge Edwin Country
| mans bill for legal S rvlceS for the defendants
| is $4,000; S B. Halliday's bill for the same is
| S25, 600. The Surrogate up there has ordered
| these charges to be paid out of the estate in
dispute instead of partly by Cornell University
| for which, well as for the estate these high
| priced counsel appeared From his order Prof
| Fiske's counsel have appealed. But the
| most astonishing thing in this letter is this:
| Among The legacieS paid by the executor. ex-
| Justice Boardman of the supreme court is one
to himself of SIS, 000-not I'D lieu of his fees bat
| cs token of Mrs. Jennie McGraw Fiske's good
| will. By law the executor is entitled to charge
per cent. on all legacies paid out by him
| Judge Boardman-who, as executor of John
| McGraws will, well as of that of Jennie
McGraw Fiske will get not less than 300 OOO-
| is actually shown by his accounts to have
| charged the estate $3.50, or per cent, for pay
| ing to himself as egatee from him self as eye
cutor his legacy of SIS, coo.
| THE sale of southern watermelons at auction
has become an established business in Chicago
| The enterprising firm which undertook the
business at first met with opposition from the
| trade but everything is now working smoothly
| In the last three weeks 124 carloads were auc-
toned off at an average of $500 per carload
a price highly satisfactory to the shipper The
methods OF sale are simple. Every evening a
catalogue is made up of receipts on hand run
| ming fifteen to twenty cars at the different
! depots or freight yards in Chicago and the
| trade is notified of such sale At 80 O'Clock n
M on the day of the sale the auction firm
! provides stages and couveyances to meet the
trade and take the buyers to the place of sale