The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-07
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viii work on a building where Chinese help in
employed.
LEWIS B. HAxLIS Of Kennebec. Me-, has
copy Of book, Travels of Philosopher"
dated 1871, which, he claims is the first book
/ printed IN Augusta.
a YEAR AGO two Dawson CIich.) men went TO
court over an SIS item. The case has finally
| been decided by the supreme court, and the
costs have been an even $500.
The Swedish Oyster Culture Company is try
| ing TO acclimatize American oysters from Con-
necticut on the coast of the province of Bahus.
Tie young oysters seem to thrive well.
MAINE CONTEMPORARY tells about a small
Swedish boy who arrived on the train at Bal
fast one day last week. He could not make
himself understood. but had a note which
| stated; See that this boy is landed in Belfast
| all right If any trouble happens TO him notify
/ T. B. Thayer, North Searsport.
BIDDEFoRD, Me-, MAN who hustled about
and gathered together large crowd of fellow
citizens and lantern TO assist in searching the
| gutter TOR $ gold piece, which he was under
| the impression he had lost. was much chagrined
when the coin was found TO be bright new
copper and the gold piece was found safely
stored away In his pocket.
| TIE Bridgeport, Conn. Suicide Club appears
/ TO have about run its race. One by one, in &C.
| cordance with their vows the members have
| taken their own lives At the last meeting only
| tie president and secretary were present. Since
| that the latter has cut his own throat. II is
understood that the president contemplates
following his cheerful example before the year
/ is out.
New WORKERS are on the throes Of their vernal
migrations, and the moving van and the ire
moval sign in the shop windows are the most
| conspicuous features of street life mo rea-
sonable offer refused, - This is our last day
here. I'VE move tomorrow" are character
lstic placards in scores of stores on Second and
| Third and Eighth and Ninth avenues. Business
on Sixth and Fifth avenues is bit more stable
| of location.
A GRAND ORGAN is being built at Crema for
the sanctuary of Vale di Pompei. It is called
a poyphonic organ, and is to be ready to be
| put in its place on April s. The chief -cbsrac-
teristic OF the instrument is the perfect imita-
ton which IL can produce OF almost the whole
orchestra especially of the strings and the wood
| wind 1t has three keyboards, each with sixty
| four notes, thirty-four pedals and 900 pipes,
| divided into forty registers.
THE GREAT CHIMNEY recently built at Fall
River, Mass, which is $40 feet in hight, will be
| far surpassed by one now under construction at
The Imperial foundry at Halsbrucke, near
| Freiburg, in Saxony, which is intended to carry
| the noxous gases from the furnaces TO such
hl ;ht as to prevent any Inconvenience to the
surrounding country. twill be 45s feet high,
with an interior diameter of 1854 feet. The
chimney is built entirely of brick.
AN OLD WYOMING HUNTER. interviewed by the
| Chicago Tribune, estimates that there are not
over 500 buffalo on the globe now. There are
less than 100 wild bisons, about 200 in captivity
and 2OC in Yellowstone park. Nearly all of the
wild ones have been located. Twenty-Five are
known TO be in Texas, twenty in Colorado.
twenty-six in Wyoming and Montana, and tif-
teen in Dakota. The big herd said to exist in
the British possessions is but myth
THE PINE WOODS of Mississippi belong to
whom?" asked lumber king at the Fifth
Avenue yesterday. ITO Mississippians, you
suppose, no doubt. But there are pine barons
and pine barrens both out in Michigan, and in
consequence of the latter the former have begun
to buy up all the timber they can find anywhere
for sals. They already control Michigan COM
mercially and politically. When they get
state or two more into their hands they will be
able to form a polical lumber trust. These
men now control the timber interest of Missis
sippi, but they have let's it politics alone so far
They have also bought heavily of pine lands in
Georgia and Alabama. Gen. Alger and his
friends have gone in largely for similar invest
ments on the Pacific slope. Alger now owns
the biggest tract of redwood land on the coast"
THE FIRST GLASS FACTORY in what is now the
United States was erected in the year 1909 near
jamestown, Va, and the second followed in the
same colony twelve years later. In 1889 some
acres of ground were granted to glassmen in
Salem, Mass. The first glass factory in Penn
| sylvania was built near Philadelphia in 1858,
| under the directions of William Penn but it
did not prove successful. The first west of the
Alieghanies was set up by Albert Gallatin and
his associates, in 1885, at New Geneva, on the
Monongahela river. A small factory was estab-
lished on the Ohio river, near Pittsburg, in 1890
and another in 1875. The earlier attempt failed,
but the last was quite successful. In 1910 there
were but twenty-five glass factories, with an
output of less than 81, 5000 900 annually. At the
present time there are hundreds of factories
which yearly put over Sl00, 600 900 worth of
glassware on the markets.
In PRUSSIA there is an old custom. On
Easter morning colored eggs are hidden about
the house The children look for them, and
keep whatever they find. At the court this has
always been made the opportunity for merry
making. This year the emperor invited Moltke
to be present. The imperial family drove to
Belleview, villa surrounded by gardens, and
there the emperor and the empress hid the eggs
in the bushes, and under the flowers, and in all
sorts of out-of-the-way places. The children
looked for them in great glee. Finally the EN-
press brought out basketful, designed espe-
cially for Mnltke, and highly ornamented. She
hid them in the most absurd places, and the
old general hunted them up. sometimes on his
hands and knees, until he had his whole basket
full. The Berlin promenaders were astohished
to see the celebrated general field marshal drive
home on Easter morning in an open barouche,
with basket of Easter eggs on the seat beside
him.
A GOOD STORY comes from the pension office
time ago claimant for pension submitted an
affidavit from a physician at Duluth, testifying
to his disability, and to the fact that it was the
result of his service during the war. few
days ago the case came up when letter was
written to the postmaster of Duluth asking
whether the doctor a regular practitioner
and q man of truth and veracity. The reply
came yesterday, in which the postmaster said
that he had spent his entire life with he physi
clan in question: and believed him to be man
of good character. During his youth unlike
George Washington, he had told some false
hoods, but had been soundly whipped for them,
and had learned BETTER therefore, in his old age
he was able to stick to facts as well as any citi
zen, Then he signed his name, which was the
same as that of the physician and it appears
that the postmaster and the physician are one
and the same person.
Ice of the Grand Banks receives good share
of attention in the current report of the hy-
geographic office. There has been an unusually
easterly movement of ice. so that bergs are
constantly reported as far east as the thirty
fifth meridian. The quantity of ice is very
great, it is pointed out, one vessel passing 40
bergs. while the size of the floating masses is
enormous. Already there have been twenty
serious accidents resulting from the bergs and
two vessels have been lost. There is little
doubt says the report. that many of the beres
to the eastward are brought down by a some
what abnormal extension of the Labrador cur
rent. Another explanation for the prevalence
of this ice that its mass is SO great that the
usual melting effect of the warm water to the