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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-09

1t is to be questioned whether the advo-
Gates of electricity, as merciful means of
executing criminals, find their expectations
realized in the present Kemmler case. If
the man is al all sensitive he must have suf-
fered the agonies Of death several times al
ready from suspense.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-09

Mr.. jackson. an agent of the British
East African Company, with force of 600
men, has succeeded in reaching the Victoria
Nyanza and establishing several stations
within the limits of the Nasal country.
The English, like the ancient Romans, are
generally the first to COLOMBO new countries,
and, also like the Romans, they establish a
strong, enduring form of government in
uncivilized lands.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-09
Decreasing the Public Debt.
From, the Boston Globe (Dem.l

The public debt statement for April shows
decrease of 8, 636, 90.. During this same month
propositions have been before congress to in
crease our expenses in pensions alone about
$50 10000 year. We are getting out of debt
at terrible rate
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-09

New Orleans now has wonderful boy
pianist" in colored youth named Eddie
Moore The crazs for youthful musical
prodigies does not seem confined to any
race or place,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-09

Criminals are shrewder than jailers.
Ernest Utter, handsome young fellow,
was locked in the Jail at Middletown, N.
Y, a few days ago, on the charge of big
amy. A woman closely yelled called at
the Jail and stated that she was wife No. 2,
and asked permission to see her alleged hus-
band in his cell alone for a few minutes
Her request was granted. The supposed
wife departed in little while. The sheriff
on looking into the bigamist's cell next
morning found that he had wife No. 2 as a
prisoner. She was dressed in the bigamist's
clothes. Tho bigamlst had departed in
wife No. 2's clothes for parts unknown.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-09
CURRENT COMMENT.
An Eminent Fly-gobbler.

From the Providence Journal Ind.l
Murat Halstead is again distinguishing himself
as the most eminent fy-gobbler in the United
States by giving his editorial Endorsement to the
political Characters of Matthew S. Quay and
Thomas c. PlaJt
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-09
A MONTREAL LETTER.

n mONIhEiAL LETTER.
1.-THE True Witness and Chronicle, Montreal
Cam, published Oct. "a, 'SS: We are in receipt
OF letter from one of our well-known citizens,
Mr.. E. Boisvert, who writes that upon recon-
mendation of the most Rev. NJ. Marchand, of
Drummondville, he was induced to use for that
most dreadful of all nervous diseases, FITS, a
few bottles of Pastor KoenIgs Nerve Tonic; and
is glad to say that after having suffered for
eight years is now entirely cured, and heartily
Recommends all sufferers of nervous disease
try this remedy.
Our Pamphlet for sufferers of nervous
diseases will be sent free to any address,
and poor patients can also obtain this med
icine free of charge from US.
This remedy has been prepared by the Re-
verned Pastor kHnig, of Fort Wayne, Ind.
for the past ten years, and is now prepared
under his direction by the
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SOW. Madison, cor. nton St., CHICAGO, ILL.
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-09

If reports are true Speaker Reeds dis
trict isn't a very high-toned one. 1t is said
that it contains three classes of voters, viz. :,
democratic. republican and "purchasable,"
and that in some towns the "purchasable"
voters amount to 25 or so per cent. of the
entire population. The democrats are
ulging the adoption of ballot reform law
to compel honest voting, and if the Austria
liam system is adopted there will probably
be a great difference in the returns from
the First congressional DISTRICT of Mama
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-09

Word comes from across the sea that the
Tanmany chieftain, Richard Croker, is
dying. Perhaps the blow that brother-in-
law McCann gave him has helped to hasten
him toward the grave.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-09

VAN HouTEN's CocoA-"Best and goes
farthest. n-Adu.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-07-25
Cow and Pig Make Friends.

A peculiar case of brute attachment
came under the notice of Miss Freddie
Lehman not long since. A little stray
pig about as big as bar of soap. that
had become lost from it's mother, took
up with one of Miss Lehman's mich
cows, and the COW and the pig became.
wonderfully attached to each other.
The pig sucked the COW as if she were
its own mother, and the COW fondled the
pig as if it were her own calf. Neither
could be separated from the other, and
they seemed perfectly miserable when
apart for only few moments. The lit
tie pig foraged for the COW, and would
often slip in the stable where the horses
were feeding and, stealing their proven
der, carry it out to its adopted mother;
and the COW would swing to any morsel
it knew the pig would like, and carry it
to her little foster child. The two.
formed themselves into society for
mutual protection and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT,
and they prospered and grew fat in their
happiness. But dark day came. Mr..
Piggie grew up and got fat, and Miss
Lehman sold it to the butcher. The cow
Immediately began to pine, and lost her
appetite. And the COW still continues
to mourn her loss, and her ewes wear a
peculiar sad and pathetic OPPRESSION
Albany News and Advertiser
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-07-25
What Papa Could Afford.

1t not infrequently happens that ply
sicians base their advice to patients, at
least in part, upon the latter's financial
condition. A case in point. A friend
tells me that his daughter consulted a
physician the other day, and the latter.
having satisfied himself as to the diff
Guilty, suggested a trip to the Yosemite.
But my father can not afford that, {"
said the young lady. SIN that case, q"
the doctor replied, TASK him to buy you
pony and village cart and take long
drive every day." II am afraid" said
his patient, shat papa could not afford
that either" The doctor was equal to
the occasion. ''Then take a good long
ride in an open horse-car every day." he
said; sit will do you just as much good. ~
My friends daughter is now engaged in
exploring the suburbs by open street.
cars and is improving rapidly under this
treatment" which costs just ten cents
lailY.-Boston Post.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-07-25
GERMAN PROFESSORS.
They Are Amazingly Profound But Dry a
Sahara Desert Sand.

They Are Amazingly Profound But Dry as
Sahara Desert Sand.
| The reputation of German scholars
for thoroughness and patient, laborious
! research is proverbial, and no one who
| is we'll informed doubts that Germany
has more professors who are authorities
in the different departments of knowl-
edge than any other country, but it does
not always follow that the most learned
! men are the best teachers, and until
student has reached an advanced stage
he will often get better instruction from
teacher shade less proficient and
more practical. Some of these profess
sors are attractive and eloquent lee
turers, some are quite the reverse, and
for dry, tedious, untintelligible, utter
ly dispiriting lecture commend me to a
German professor who speaks fourteen
Oriental languages and can't tell hawk
from hand-saw. 1t is we'll to speak of
the lore that is to be acquired in the
clustered shades of these ancient uni
versities, but let the student once enter
a dingy, poorly-lighted, chilly room
some winter evening at five o'clock and
listen to professor, who for half an
hour, with mumbling, indistinct articu-
lation and double-tracked, suspension
bridge sentences, explains the theory of
abnormal Latin roots of the third con-
jugation, and, like Bob Acres, he will
feel his courage oozing out. The Ger
man students are more thorough than
American because it lies in their nature
to undertake less and do it better A
German is like locomotive, powerful
machine as long as it is on the track,
but perfectly helpless when once off,
while an American will either founder
back or find another track. Some of the
Germans are prodigious scholars, and
seem to have laid the whole kingdom of
learning under tribute, but for general
intelligence, practical faculty and
knowledge of current events 1 think
American students are superior. I'm
less one can read German fiuently and
understands it when spoken, the first
year after coming abroad will have to
be largely devoted to learning the Ian
guage. The marked superiority of Ger
many is in the professional depar tments
of law and medicine. With us a young
man who has not even decent common
school education, takes two short terms
of five months each in medicine, and is
let loose on the community as doctor.
An office boy of equally brilliant &C.
ouirements dusts out lawyers Office
and does errands, takes two terms in
night law school, and is shortly ad.
mitted to practice. such an open dis.
grace to both professions is not tolerated
here. A doctor or lawyer here has
spent several years in elementary
schools, four years in college, and from
four to five years in professional study.
If he is not a gentleman and scholar
ne has at least had chance to be, and
mis- actual requirements and preparation
for his work are far superior to those Of
the young professional man in America.
-Artur Woodcock, in Chicago Journal
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-07-25

tried to raise my hand to my brow, but
could not move it. The strain was ter
rible. 1t was agony. 1t seemed that
must die even before the express
dashed upon me.
just then, annie he changing of the
bell and the thuld of the train, the
great, Cyclopean eye of the engine shot
full upon .-,e, binding lie with the
glare. My head swan and my senses
left me. But was dimly conscious in
the awful din of hoarse shout, sue
cesSion of brillian lighted windows,
passing 50 rapidly as to seem to blend
into one sheet flame, then-oDlivion.
When | came to my senses l found
myself in an express car, recovering my
self at the rate of fifty miles an hour.
One of the train men, whom l at once
recognized, was sprinkling my face with
water.
Before speaking 1 looked down at my
feet. To my surprise they were both
there, though one was minus a shoe and
began to pain me. | was soon able to
sit up and give an account of myself, so
Far as | knew, concluding with an in
quiry as to how badly my foot was hurt
by the train.
At this there was general smile.
Speak out" said l, didn't tffef train
run over me?" "Pll tell you all about
it," said the conductor, who had just
come in. when our engineer got a
little past l., he saw man lying
close to the crossing, and thinking he
must be either killed or injured, we ran
back the train to pick him up. As to
running over you, we couldn't have done
that without some inconvenience. You
were not on the main line at ALL but on
a side-tr close beside it. We cut off
your boot in second or two, took you
along with us, and here you are"
l understood at once. l had had all
my excitement and mental suffering for
nothing. There was nothing to do but
to put short face on the matter, and
laugh with the rest 1 thanked them
all warmly, you may be sure, for their
kindness.
Then followed many "reminiscences of
adventures on the rail, some similar to
what had befallen me, in which the
poor fellows had not got off so easily. I
reached home early in the morning.
My sprained ankle laid me by for a
month, after which took up my daily
duties as usual.
And now when cross railway track,
l can not help but recall with a
shudder that dark. starless night
when reason tottereG on it's throne,
when, with the full expectation of being
crushed beneath the fast express, lay
PROSTATE and helpless, firmly held by
the heels. S. Cairns, in Yankee
Rlade
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-07-25
Her Duel with the Doctor,

An extraordinary duel is reported to
have taken place in Vienna. A few
days ago girl, aged nineteen, chal-
lenged young doctor, who had offended
one of her friends and refused to apollo
gize. He was challenged in the usual
way by two seconds, student and an
officer of reserves, and when he ridiculed
the idea the girl threatened to horse
whip him publicly. The challenge was
then accepted, and a meeting with Sec
onds and doctors took place in hired
room in Vienna suburb. All the rules
for duel with swords were strictly OBJ
served. The doctor first acted on the
defensive, but was soon obliged to fight
in earnest and left off after the second
round with wound in the left side.
which was declared not to be dangerous.
The girl, Croatian educated in South
America, is said by the seconds to be
the best fencer they ever saw After
wounding her adversary she left the
place without casting another look at
him. Vienna Tagblatt.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-07-25
A BLAME FOOL.


Blame fool:-Wall, mebbe so, but, then, he
want all alone,
For theys lots o. folks thought death song
wot's found Their life groan;
An thet's wot happent Joey Thorne, an eff he
war fool,
They's plenty others left 18th US upon the ole
foOt-Stooi'
She KEN up from the city for to what she called
"enjoy
The bewtchus rooral scenery, an let the breezes
toy
An wanton with her ringlets, an q lot O.
mush like that,
WITCH p'raps soun'S gran an pikcherskew, but
Icall-wall, darn fiat.
But Joe was kind O. dreamy like, an all tibet
sort O. bosh,
les sort O. soaked right inter him, an made
him think, b'gosh!
She was wingess angel, 18th voice like gold
ing harps-
An all tnet kind O. truck sheliedo out by all them
Shaikspere sharps.
An so when they was any drives or walks it
happent that,
Fool-like, Joe would hang around an have a
little chat:
An then they'd start together, an while Joeud
go to fetch
A bunch o. water lilies she'd set on rock an
Sketch"
aroun' an talk
About the dangerous lily an the rose an hol
lyhawk,"
1.-THE hummin' O. the drowsy bees" an 'twit-
term O. the jay
An Kaleidoscope O. nature" and the "dyin'
orb O. day."
An so things KEEP on jes' this way till summer'd
passed, an Joe
KEN to the house the night afore the day she
he'd to go,
An when they was alone, he said he'd hev to
IBID good-by
An then stopped short and bit his lip, an tried
to shade his eye
guess the light fiared up too bright, an thet's
what make Joe blink;
He allus wuz that ncrviS- like, an alluS had,
think,
Some trouble bout his eye sight-but he braced
right up an told
Well, you know jes' how it is yerself-the story
that's so old!
An Carrie-wel she kind O smiled, an reached
an TUX his hand,
An spoke about her visit, and tole Joe to I'M
Thet she joyed her trip to Rosevale an that eff
at any day
He'd need a friend-but Joe turned round, an
stared, an walked away.
An So one day Joe disappeared an lef note
behind,
A-sayin eff they missed him, they need on'y
look an find
Him sleepin' in the water-fer tibet he he'd
"on'y gone
Fer to fetch bunch of lilies from the old &C.
customed pondn'
An thets wot happent Joey Thorne, an eff he
war a fool
Theys plenty others left 18th US upon the ole
footstool!
*. c. Tapley, in Jury.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-07-25

tried onca more to release myself,
but my foot was held fast as ever. I
was convinced that further effort was
useless. So, having laid my body as far
as possible from the rails, abandoned
myself to logged despair.
Again the shrill whistle sounded out
upon the midnight air, this time nearer
and more distinct. They were whistling
fer the station, and in hundred sec
onds would be upon me.
Nearer and nearer flew the train. I
heard the singing of the rails, and shud-
dered. The sound of the monsters an
proach was swelling from growl to a
mad roar. Had been on straight line
of track, the powerful headlight might
hove revealed me to the engineer, and
been the instrument of my 'escue. But
l was pinned to the track just around
sharp curve, a hill between me and the
train, and, if seen at all, it would be too
late to stop.
The ground began to tremble. Then
a deafening, soul-piercing shrek
seemed to freeze my very blood in its
veins. 1 became as one paralyzed.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-07-25
VALUE OF BANANAS.
When Ripe They Are Among the Most
Wholesome of Fruits.

Wholesome of Fruits.
The value of bananas as food is not
generally appreciated. Ripe bananas
are among the most wholesome of foods
and their nutritive value is very high.
affording all the elements necessary to
life. According to table of relative food
values, it appears that a pound of ba-
nanas is almost equal to pound of lean
beef. In fact the bananas are much bet
ter for their proportionate elements
are perfect while in lean beef there is
an excess of the heterogeneous elements
which must be carried off as waste
while there is a lack of the carbonaceons
elements. Travellers in South America
tell us that the laborers who gather the
gum from the India rubber trees subsist
entirely upon bananas. Their routes
lead them over mountains and deep into
valleys, through almost impene ira BILE
thickets, bearing upon their shoulders
an increasing load until it often aggre-
gates one hundred and fifty pounds
The people in and around Quito live
almost entirely upon bananas. 1t may
seem rather surprising, but an acre OF
land, we'll utilized in raising bananas,
will sustain more people than if devoted
to any other product. OF course the
bananas which reach our market are
quite inferior to those fully ripened
upon their native soil; still, if selected
with care, they will be found very
wholesome and relishable. DR.. j. II.
kellogg.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-07-25

indignant excitement At that time
was reporter on a prominent daily,
and, in response to a sensational bulle-
tin from our local correspondent at
l., was sent on by the chief to fur
nish long special dispatch of the case
for the morning edition. l left the city
at dusk, and reached my destination
seventy miles away, between nine and
ten o'clock.
1t is unnecessary to enter into any de-
tails of the murder here. Suffice it to
say that after some trouble and more
delay, secured a very successful report,
and at eleven o'clock it had begun spin
ming over the wires.
WAS small country place where
the midnight trains did not stop; but
before leaving the telegraph Office l
learned from the operator, who was a
genial fellow-do not stare-that by
hiring horse at the village, which was
mile from the station and reached in
the daytim by stage, ] could be driven
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-07-25
ORIGIN OF THE WAKE.
English Festivals Which Have Been Held
tor Many Centuries.


The wake is the popular English
equi valent for the ecclesiastical term
vigil. The wake" or ''revel' of a
country parish was of old the day OF
the week, and, afterward, the day Of
the year, on which the church had been
dedicated. On these occasions the popu.
lation gave themselves up to wholesale
revelry, and the people disported them.
selves in all kinds of games and athletic
exercises. These amusements occasion,
ally drew together large crowds, and
the large crowds attracted the legion OF
hawkers and merchants, until the
"wake," or dedication festival, degen.
Grated into common fair without any
religious elements in it.
To remedy some of the more glaring
evils, Edward l., in 1885, passed statute
forbidding them to be held in church
yards; and in 144s Henry VI. enacted
that no display of wares and merchan.
disc should be allowed on the great
festivals of the church. A further at
tempt was made to regulate them in
1886 by Henry VIII. who appointed that
the wake" should be held in every
parish on the same day, the first Sun
day in October, but this was never gem
orally observed. In the Book Of
Sports" of Charles /. wakes" are ex.
pressly mentioned among the feasts
which should be observed, and though
the custom since the Restoration has
gradually declined, it still holds good
in some rural parishes.
A "lyke" or 'liche wake" is watch.
ing of corpse all night by the de-
ceased persons friends. 1t is now dis
used except in parts of Ireland. New
castle (Eng.l Chronicle
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-07-25

i UTTERED SHREK AFTER SHREK.
to - Junction, eight miles beyond,
board the train there, and be in the city
at daylight.
determined to act on this sugges-
ton, and after few further inquiries
set off toward the village. The moon
had gone down. and thick clouds COW
cred the sky. 1t was as dark as pitch
Not a leaf stirred. 1t seemed as though
the night were holding its breath, pre-
monitory symptoms of lachrymal out
burst of rain. did not mind the gloom,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-07-25
HELD BY THE HEEL.
An Awful Nights Adventure on a
Railroad Track.

I was a few years
ago on a dark
summer n i G h t
that the advent
ure l am about
to relate befell
me.
u h re h a d
been a tragedy
at l., t h e
ire umStanceS
of which were
so horrible and
cruel that when
t h Q particulars
were given t o
t h e public all
N e W England
was aroused to
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-15
IN THE SWIM.
There is no Halfway Ground i'll New
York Life - You Either
Sink Or Swim.
How Once Famous People Tread the Streets
Unrscognized-Clu Life, HOwit Dill
fers From that of London

Correspondence Of the Gazette.
NEW YORK, March l0.-In city ike
New York, life is a continual attack.
Every day the great army moves Tor
ward, and those who drop out Of the
ranks are Immediately forgotten. There
is no room and no time for sentiment.
Great editors, great doctors, great law
yers, great fnanciers who ten years ago
dropped out of the ranks are now forgot
ten. But not only are the dead forgot
ten, the living are, too. Unless man
retains his place in the ranks and takes
part in the conflict from day to day. he
ceases to have any hold upon public at
tention. A stroll on Broadway any day
will prove this. Men once famous, fiat
tered and feted wander along without
greeting or even a nod Of recognition.
There goes a once famous sculptor whose
name is as well known in London, Paris
and Rome as it is in this city. and yet no
hand is reached out 10 grasp his, no voice
calls out friendly good day. Connected
by marriage with one Of the leading fam
lilies of New York, It's younger members
don Il even know him by sight. He has
dropped out of the ranks. RumOr saith
that too free indulgence of the cup,
his downfall. Others say "No, he
has simply dropped out Of the ranks,
that's all,'' There goes a judge once q
chief justice of one of the higher courts;
already forgotten. Shorn of his power,
lawyers who once bent the hinges Of the
knee to him now take no note of his
passing. Strange 70 say, the famous
women are much less in clined to drop
out of the ranks.
She who just went by was Washing
ton beauty forty years ago and refuses to
be forgotten, and by charging a small
fee for admission to her salon she keeps
her name in the papers. How the fee is
collected? Simply by reading her "rec-
elections once a week to the crowd
that calls. Some pay and some don't
To the ''new people, who are trying to
get into the upper ten thousand such
things are very useful. They buy $50
worth of the tickets and this distinguished
Washington belle of forty years ago hon
ors them by accepting an invitation to
dine. This fact gets into the society
news. 1t is worth all they paid for it.
The distinguished Washington belle of
forty years ago has a very aristooratio
name.
Among the new men in the swim is one
who bids fair to loom into a municipal
character as pronounced as Berry Wall.
He is a dude, and nothing apparently
has any effect on him. Probably no man
who has ever escaped a position in a
dime museum as a living curiosity IS
quite so fat for his height as Mr.. Bates.