The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-15
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tried on a bridge in Hanover and a street in
Berlin
A S. CLoUGH Of Prescott, Ari.. drives team
Of mules that are 80 and IS years old. They are
stlll good workers.
AN ATTEMPT is to be made to import live cattle
into France from Buenos Ayres They are TO
be landed at Havre.
DOWNING STREET. London. where the govern
ment Offices are situated, was named after an
American from Salem Mass.
Rev BERNARD KELLEY, pension agent at To-
peka, says that his Office disburses more money
than any other in the Uuited States.
ELEVEN THOUSAND MEN are now at work
cutting the Manchester ship canal. The con-
tracts already let aggregate 100000.
T. C. HENRY will begin soon with 5000 men to
dig canal fifty feet wide, reaching from the
Arkansas river in Pueblo to the Kansas state
| line, nearly 20 miles.
OLYMPIA, the London building where Barnum
has been showing, has been leased by number
| of Americans. who will turn it into a skating
| rink after ne leaves it.
THE London authorities have put stop to
the holding Of lotteries for the benefit of chart
table institutions, which have heretofore been
winked at when quietly conducted.
AN INDICATION Of the spread of English as a
language is given by the fact that it has just
| been chosen for use in the recording of import
| ant treaty engagements between Russia and
| China
MARYLAND has received an interesting relic. a
sword presented by the state to Lieut.. Joseph
| Cross for his gallant conduct as an officer dur
| ing the war of 1872. Lieut.. Cross on board
the war snip Constitution in her three memoir
aole battles, first with the Guerrero, next with
1 Cne Java and then with the Cyane and Levant.
| THERE is terrific Tow going on at the Theater
Franchise, and though the management is doing
| all 1t can to keep it dark rumors of it keep
| leaking out TIE other actors are disgusted
tuat Coquelln has been taken back. They say
| that he is so intoeraby conceited with himself
mat 1t Is impossible tor taem to play with him.
! PORTRAIT of President Cleveland is soon
to be hung in the white house. The picture will
cost $1,000, and will be paid for by money pro-
Vided by congress in the official estimates for
| the executive branch of the government. This
| is the first time that such an item has been en-
| oodled Ia the treasury estimates for the fiscal
year.
| THERE is no country like France for starting
| journals. During 1899 no less than $50 new
| newspapers were brought out of which not one
| remains IN lie. On the other hand. the Peit
| journal now claims circulation of 1,0s5, 900
| copies During the same periot there were
printed in France over 1900 new books, in
| Guiding ZOO new musical pieces
| CAPT WILLIAM TRyoN OF New London, Conn,
who followed the sea for forty years, says there
| are now only eighty eight American vessels,
| sail and steam. in the whale fishery. Twenty
| years ago New London alone had 100 vessels in
| IN the whaling trade, but now only seven sail
| from that port. our whalers have been whaled
out OF the trade, somehow, it appears.
| New York STATE is asking the payment of
| $4,000 collateral inheritance tax from the ex-
ecutors of the will of the late W. H. Vanderbilt
| He LETT about S1,000,0O0 to charitable institu-
tons, and. as the various legacies have been
| paid by the executors, their attorneys claim
that they are. therefore, relieved from liability
| Papers will be submitted in the case in about
two weeks.
| SEVERAL of the French journals are preparing
to give brilliant reception to Capt. Trvier. the
African explorer, who has done Just what Stan.
| ley did, but with infinitely less means. He
| crossed the same track in about half the time,
and was accompanied only by three followers
one white and two blacks. He is expected in
| Paris from Bordeaux, where he found his father
| dead, in the course OF the week.
| ALL ATTEMPTS to effect reconciliation be-
tween the artists have failed, so that Paris will
| have twoS salons this year. The old Artists
Association will retain possession of the Palais
| de I'Industrie, in the Champs Elysees while the
| new Societe Rationale deS Beaux Arts will hold
| its exhibition in the fine arts pavilion of the
| Champ de Mars. The old salon will ope its
doors to the public on May l and the new sa-
| Ion on May -.
| ALEXANDRIA Ill. has recently issued an order
directing that in future members of the impe-
| rial family are to wear only Russian mate rails,
l made up by Russian hands. This order has
| created much dismay at Paris, as both the en-
| press and grand duchesseS have hitherto been
| accustomed to purchase all of their dresses in
| that city. The czarna moreover has staff of
twenty French dressmakers permanently en-
| ployed at st. Petersburg.
| THE largest American sailing ship afloat is the
| Rappahannocl, launched at Bath, Me-, JAN g.
The vessel is 2S7 feet in length, and has gross
tonnage of 3,lS5 tons. When loaded she will
draw tWenty-eight feet of water President
| Harrison was guest of the owner, Mr.. Sewall
| when the vessel was building last summer, and
after his return to Washington sent to the owuer
| his photograph, with the following autograph
inscription upon it: May every voyage of the
| ship Rappahannock be prosperous BENJAMIN
| Harrison" The vessel will load at Philadelphia
| for Japan with 125, 900 cases of oil.
OF THE THIRTY-FIvE WIDOWS drawing pensions
| from the government in consequence of service
| by their husbands in the revolutionary war. the
Oldest is Mrs. Nancy Rains of Knoxville Tenn
widow of John Rains. She is now in her gSth
\ year. By virtue of her pre-eminence in point
OF age over the other revolutionary pensioners
her rate was increased recently by special act
| of congress to $50 per month which amount
| she is now drawing. None of the revolutionary
soldiers are now alive and only a few widows
| OF the youngest of them survive and these
| married doubtless quite young, in comparison
| with their husbands.
| A YOUNG STRANGER, with the external indica-
| tions of piety made his appearance in Milwau-
kee few days ago and at once proceeded To
| establish Intimate relations with the Yonnf-
| Mems Christian Association. He said he came
| from St. Paul, and he went by the name of
| James Anderson. One day he Informed Secre-
| tary Willis that he wanted TO cash draft. and
| being stranger in that city he asked the secre-
/ tary to go to the bank and identify him Sec
| rotary Willis accordin .ly accompanied him tc,
tie Pankinton bank and identified him os
James Anderson, and on the strength of his
| Identification Anderson cashed a draft for 500
| Tine draft has since been found to be bogus AND
/ Anderson has departed for some other field OF
| CHRISTIAN activity
THERE is a man in Biddeford Me-. who il ia
claimed, has passed through more dangers IN
| injured during the past few days than any other
! citizen of Maine. The first mishap was in his
| barn. He was getting ready to take a hay rack
| from the high beams. and stepped into the rack
when something gave way and the whole thing
came down into the floor. Then he went ont on
| the ice with team, and was the hero of an ey
citing tip-over Not content with these exne
riences. he got on load of hay on the marsh
and started for home The next thing h knaw
he was under the hay and the whole was going
rapidly toward the open river, propelled bv the
wind. Once more his lucky star was in the 40
cendant, and though the hay went in. the
owner succeeded in being left out His nryt
adventure is anxiousy awaited by his friends.
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