The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-17
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now that haven't the hops.
The German feet is already so important that
il stands a: 139 vesse's in a French estimate OF
effective naval forces which gives only I9i to
France. ItAly comes before it WITH 15e vessels.
Russia before Italy with lsj, and England before
all Of item witt 3S3.
Is San Francisco DR.. Connolly has cause1 a
young lady's arrest for disturbing the Ieace g"
She lives on the floor above his Office and the
ground of her offending y that. while she is an
Invete-ate piano-player, the physician denies
that sne Is musician
PsoF. MoLLzR of Clr,sruhs has made some
interesting observations on clouds The highest
clouds. cirrus and cirro-stratus. rise on an aver
age to hight OF nearly 10000 feet. The middle
clouds keep at from 1000 to o O0J feet IN
hight. while the lower clouds reach to between
5000 and 200 feet.
President AND NINE CARSoT recently visited
Rosa Bonheur in her chalet of By, near Fon-
tainebleau. They were shown her late studies
and s&etches, and found her genius has not
SUFFERED eclipse, although she now works but
little. See has made fortune In her art, a nd
lives at her ease. taKing much pleasure in her
park, where she keeps a number of lions wheps,
buffalo, deer, bea- and other animals.
WHILE he was in Vienna, the Emperor of Ger
many was lodged in the chateau of S,boea-
brunn, which is the usual summer residence #
the imperial family. His bedroom vas the very
one in which the Duke of Reichstadt, the son of
Napolean Bonaparte. us ID to sleep. and it was
the same in which he, as the young King of
Rome, or Napoleon Ill, as he was called
breathed his last with his mother, Marie Louise
sitting at his sdside.
A Boston GIRL, whose verses were always
declined with thanks hit upon a unique
scheme for having them published She would
send line or verse from one of her poems to
the query column of some paper and ask from
what poem such line came, the name of the
DOam A ole
rhymster, would send the querist's own poem
to the paper, with the desired information and,
OF course, it would appear in print. The queris
would do the same for her friend, " and so on
until, between them, they had most of their
enusions printed.
On THE LAST CRUISE of the New York nj o.
boat Edmund Blunt, when il was seventy miles
southeast OF Sandy Hook lightship, a carrier
pigeon settled on the foremost rigging. The
ooatkeeper climbed up aud brought the weary
traveller to the deck wnerB he was given drink
Of water aud saucerful of hot bread and milk,
and then tucked awav to rest in q box half full
OF sort flannel rags. T ere is nothing about tins
bird to identify it but silver band about one
leg, on which is engraved 27-29 H.. and the pilots
nave become so fond OF their find that they
nope nobody will turn up as its owner.
A CURIOUS EXAMPLE of the fascination exerted
by the hint of buried treasure comes from
Genoa. The descendants of doge named DIT
razzo nave discovered documents which point to
the hiding in the St. Miche i rampant of the
ducal sword belonging to the doge, and MANY
boxes containing mere triie of Sis, 600 OCO in
gold pieces of Genoa. The government has
oeen sufficiently impressed to give permission
Tor the demolition of the rampant If the gold
Is found 80 per cent. goes into the national
treasurysaDd 20 per cent. TO the treasure-seeke s.
Tee ministry of the fine arts gets any works
OF art, and the ministry of war any arms ana
weapons. s.u.
ALMOST in the exact geographical center of
wyoming is a mountain of solid hematite iron
ore, with 600 feet Of it above ground, more than
a mile wide, and over two miles in length Be-
sides the ircn. the mountain contains a bed of
ignite coal large enough to warm the entire
world for century, a dozen dried up lakes of
soua, where the soda is deposited to depth of
over 80 feet sore of the lakes being over 500
acres in exteut. In a mountain adjoining there
Is a petroleum basin larger than those of Penn
sylvanla and West Virginia combined. Out of
some OF the springs pure r9ctifled coal oil is trick
ling at the rate of twenty to thirty barrels per
DAY. wonderful country, indeed.
The LARGEST patriotic contribution made by
one man to the union army is thought to have
been made by Charles Brandon of Moundsville.
w. va, VINO sent seventeen sons out of q
family OF thirty-five children all sons Mr.
Brandon died the other day, when - ne inter
esting facts came out regarding his success as a
parent. He was married three times. His first
wife best him with two sons, the second wife
with eighteen and the third, whom he married
ON"@o
third Mrs. Brandon was the youngest of six-
teen children, and when she married her hus-
band he was 7S years of age. Mr.. Brandon
lived to be &c. and was in average GOOD health
within short time of his death
THERE were some goodnewspaper bulls during
the session-all of the genuine Irish breed, saws
the st. James Gazette. Mr. Donal Sullivan in.
PRODUCED to the House one from an Irish paper
IL was in the form of an advertisement for a
laoorer and boy, and concluded thus: with
nr fVEn rs .<NI D.
Irishman writing in the Tunes on the late Baron
Dowse concluded his eulogium: "a great Irish
man has passed away. God grant that many as
great. and VINO shall as wisely love their
country, may follow him." Dublin paper
heard that the health of Mr.. Parnell has
latterly taken very serious turn, and that
fears of his recovery are entertained by his
friends" Several English papers onoted this
without detecting the bull. A Cork paper in
describing an interval of peace in a stormy pub
lie meeting, said: For some time great calm
ragged"
THERE is not a man in America or the world
at large who absolutely owns and controls and
has registered In his own name as many stocks
as Jay Gould. 1t is no exaygeration to say that
he draws more revenue from his invested CAPT.
tai than does any other living SOUL In order
that some idea may be had of his wealth it is
simply necessary TO take three of his stocks:
Manhattan, OF which he owns and has regis
tered 100000, Missouri Pacific S12. 100000
and Western Union S25, 900 900. or these three.
independent OF his vast number of bonds and
other dividend paying securities, he draws for
DIVIDENDS over S2,OOO.O00 a year. His income
from other sources, of course, amounts to four
or five times as much. 1t will bs readily sem
that he cannot commences to use for his own
personal uses even q small part of the interest
which the dividend money alone would WELD
he must reinvest it. and he does reinvest it. It
is safe to say that he takes this money as the
dividend periods come around and buys other
securities. His holdings show that he is buIlisn
upon the properties with which his name ia
Identified, because he owns not less than q
quarter interest in cash. and in some cases a
half interest. These facts are not known, of
course, to the world.
ACCORDING to medieval legend, there was an
entrance to purgatory in cave on the Island
OF Lough Derg, Ireland. This was widely known
as the Purgatory of st. Patrick because it
was to that saint that Christ revealed its EXIST
ence, informing him that anyone might 90 down
into it who had the courage, and it would he for
him as If be had passed through purgatorv
after death st. Patrick is said to have huiIt n
monastery above the entrance and to have So
cured the way to the pit with a strono, iron
gate Inc lame or the place was largely due To
poem by Henry of Saltery Q15S) which de,
scribed the adventures OF Sir Oywayne Miles
who had taken the opportunity of expiating his
Crimes ana saw many wonderful sights in
course OF his pilgrimage to Patrick's Purgatorv
me poem was translated into nearly ali the
languages OF Europe, a1d is even believed 10 |
have furnished Dante with hint for mis- great
WORK. Otner visit to this island purgatory are |
i 49, ueu q. iaIe intervals tew visitors pub
heard during their visits t. .l5 neither world |
all or which bore q striking rasaro n. noa 49,