The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-20
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mits have been granted fer 1,s45 new buildings
that will cost S6,69e,oOl
1T is a curious coincidence that the representa-
tive sons of Bismarck and Gladstone should
bear the name of Herbert"
Mrs. MARY w1eASs, the wife Of Cole county
Mousouri farmer, fell from chair while clean
ing ceiling and broke her neck.
AT TIE ELECTION Of school boards in Sweden
at the close of 1889. the first occasion on which
women were eligible for election, seven were re-
turned.
TIE work of rebuilding unfortunate Johrs-
town has been going on at q rapid rate, but
there is shortage yet. it is said, of over 1000
houses.
TIE OLIVE TREE lives TO a great age. One
lately destroyed at Beaulieu had record of
five centuries and was thirty-six feet in circum
ference.
A PRIZE of $500 was offered for the best de-
sign for soldiers monument IN Iowa. 1t has
been awarded 10 a woman, Mrs, Harriet A.
Ketchnm.
MARY c. HAIL BALDWIN of Chicago claims
that she is descendant of Shakespeare, and is
preparing genealogy OF the family in proof of
her claim.
FIFTY ACRES of sugar cane has been planted
! at whittier, Los Angeles county, and a small
sugar plant has been ordered to experiment in
starting a new industry,
A RUSSIAN LADY proposes, in the columns of a
Russian swspaper, that the women of Russia
and France should join in forming a corps of
amazons to fight the amazons of Dahomey.
THE English government has been redeeming
at their nominal va.ue the old gold coins that
have become short weight through much use,
with the idea of getting them out of circulation.
In BUENos AYREs an opera box for sixty
nights costs 81, 900 Coal for range or fireplace
is from S3S to $40 per ton. You may go to the
circus for So 90. Shoes are worth from $40
70 Sl2.
THE EMPRESS EUGENE still keeps the hat
which the emperor wore on the occasion of
Orslni's unsuccessful attempt. 1t is riddled
throug n with small holes hardly bigger Than
pin thrusts.
I'm ORDER to obtain small, delicate hands,
when in repose let them dangle at your side, -
says Miss JenneSs. Holding ones hands up
makes the veins swell and induces large, coarse
development"
A SUMNER COTTAGE built by a New York
millionaire is of hemlock logs hewn on three
sides with the barx left on the fourth side.
A veranda is constructed on three sides of hem
lock logs IN the rongh.
NJ. BARTHoLDI has mounted In his apartment
two relics of the Liberty statute on Bedoe's
Island One is the cast of the goddess finger
over six feet long, the other, q cast of one of
her ears, about five feet in length.
TEosE who take an interest in condolences
may find something suggestive in the remark
of Gov. Miller of North Dakota. He says that,
since the lottery bill was killed, no more SIS, 900
prizes have been drawn in Dakota.
A FLOWER that is alternately red, white and
blue, according to the time of day, has been
found on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. 1t is
Just too late. The golden-rod has the certificate
| of election as the national flower.
THE estimated value of the total display OF
diamonds at the Paris exposition was about
| SiO.O0000O The wonder of the display was
| model of the Elffel tower three and one-haIf
| feet high, composed entirely of diamonds.
| WILLIAM BLACK S new novel is to be called
''Stand Fast, Craig Royston,' and the charac-
| tiers will include several Scotch persons and two
| representatives of the United States The novel
| will appear serialy in This country and Eng
| land.
The DISCOVERY Of a lode of uranium at the
| Union Mines Cornwall, was announced sew
eral months ago. This is believed to be the only
known lode of that metal in the world, as it had
| previously been found only in isolated pockets
| and patches.
| SOLDIERS from Fort Lowell recently pene.
| trated the extensive cave near Mountain
| Springs, Ari., for more than mile without
| coming in sight of the end. According to the
| Tucson Gazette the cave has never been thor
| oughly explored.
JOSEPHINE BEDARD, the French girl who it
| was claimed has tasted for nearly eight years.
and who has been critically i'll for some weeks
| past at her home in Tiuwick Quebec, is now re-
| covering, and since her illness has been blessed
| with vigorous appetite
| AMONG the recent shop attractions are prettily
embroidered pongee silk sachets containing a
| new kind of satchet powder made of Italian
orris root, the fragrant violet odor of which is
| said to be much stronger than either the Amer
| lean or the French sachet powders.
| IT Is SAID that a large proportion of the
| plumes worn by the ladies who attend the
! queens drawing rooms are hired from shop
| which makes business of renting out plumes.
| The feathers are worth from 81 to $40, and the
| rent of them is 81 so on each occasion.
ENCOURAGED by the success of the Forth
bridge French engineers have formed a syndi-
cate to build a bridge over the Bosphorus
| between Roumeli and Anadoh Hissar The plan
| has length Of 800 meters, which is to be in a
| single span, or half again the length of the
| longest span in the Forth bridge.
| BENJAMIN DARLING, who died in the city
asylum at Woonsocket. R. l. last week at the
| age or 81, invented JD6 revolver type OF pistol
| half century ago. He manu- factured the
| arms at Woousocket, but they failed as bust.
| ness venture in his hands. 1t is the same prin-
| ciple which made Samuel Colt of Hartford a
| rich man.
JAMES HINES has had rather lively expert
ence on his squatter's claim in Arkansas He
was warned off, but decided not to go, and he
| held out for three years. During that time he
| was shot at thirty three times, wounded four
| times, had his cabin set on fire twice, his wife
| was driven TO suicide, and his boy ran away.
| ana at last the man grew weary and hanged
| himself.
tbs ORIGINAL FLAG of England was the ban
ner of st. George l. e.. white with red cross,
which, on April IL, 1905, three years after James
| |. assembled the throne, was Incorporated with
| the banner of Scotland--a blue flag with a dag.
| onal white cross. This combination was named
| the Union Jack" in alusion to the union with
| Scotland. and the word jack is probably a cor
rupJion OF Jacobus, Jacques or James
| IT WOULD be singular if the first long-distancs
electric road should be established in faraway
| Russia Such a thing however, seems more
than probable, for project is now on foot to
| connect St. Petersburg with Archangel a dis
| lance of SEQ miles, by an electric railway The
| enterprise, with which the name of Siemens is
| connected, is backed by Archangel interests.
| and the estimated cost of the road incl,d;n =,