The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-30
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recsive frequently fatal injuries. Several
J championship races OF the pigeons are said to
| nave been intersered with in t1is way.
/ 4 CURIOUS PHENOMENON is reported from
Bstoum, on the shores of the Black sea. During
/ a complete calm the sea is said to have sud
denly receded from the shore, leaving it bare to
{ depth OF ten fathOmS The water of the port
/ rushed out TO sea, tearing many Of the ships
IRON their anchorage. AMI causing great
/ amount of damage. After a short time the sea
; resumed its usual level.
| ANDREW CARNEGIE visited Enoch Pratt .at
Baltimore the other day. Mr. Pratt says: An
drew Carnegie is the jolliest man alive Mr..
/ carnegie said when he met Nr. Pratt In Pitts
! burg recently: II am astounded to see you.
! thought TO see man over six feet high" To
| this Mr.. Pratt responded: And am also
| astOunde1 to see you l expected to see man
over six feet high" Messrs. Pratt and Car negie
are about the same hight and size, MIR. Carneg lie
| beng somewhat stouter
~ NEW FEATURE in prison discipline" writes
an Elmira, IN. " correspondent, twas inaugu-
rated at the reformatory Thursday night,
| when one of the finest and most complete gym
| naSiums in the state was opened. The gynna-
SUM IS in O separate building 40 feet long and
100 feet wide. 1t is equipped with all the most
/ approved apparatus for physical culture with
Russian and Turkish baths attached. and is in
every respect q model. The reformatory has
| instituted many new features in prison disci-
plne, and the erection Of this elegant structure
I .
| idea that to develop the mind one must develop
| the body"
A. Z. BURBoN of the United States fish COM
mission schooner Grampus, which is lying at
| Gloucester, Mass, has just had a terrible ex-
| perience He went ashore at Gloucester, leav-
| ing his dory at the wharf, ami during his ab-
Sence the oars were stolen; he did not discover
| the loss until after he hal pushed the dory
/ from the wharf, intending to return to his yes
/ sell His cries for assistance we're unhelrd and
| northeast gale carried his dory out to sea,
| where he was exposed to the cold for about
/ fifteen hours before being picked up by the
! crew of a pilot boat When found he was living
( apparently dead in the bottom of the dory
! but little care.quickly. brought him aronnd all
right.
| Few PEOPLE have any idea of the resources
| of the great Hudson bay. According to the
Seattle (Washington) Press its shores are the
| haants of the musk OK, the moose, the reindeer,
| tha red deer, the white bear aud his black
| brother, the otter, the beaver, the mink the
| black fox, also the silver, gray and white vare-
ties ana other valuable fur bearing animals. Its
4 waters t5eming with the most valuable
varieties of water mammals and fish. "In some
| parts of the bay and in the straits the shores of
the islands are swarming with walrus. 1t has
| been reported by Professor Bell that one island
| on the east coast was found TO be thickly strewn
/ with the ivory tusks OF the walrus The tuSks
| are valuable though the chief value of the wal
rus lies in the hide, which weighs on an average
1
| pound"
TIE new crematory furnace founded on Aug.
| 70 last at the cemetery Of Perela- Chaise Paris,
had, up to Dec 81 last, effected 735 cremations
| OF this number, IS only were at the request of
the relatives; 1873 collins containing remains of
| human bodies from tne hospital services we're
! destroyed. and 2i7 still-born children from the
maternity charities were disposed of. The new
| furnace is an apparatus based on the system of
| Sieme IS. 1t possesses considerable advantages
| over the other model The cost of cremation is
| much reduced by the substitution of COKE for
| wood fuel. The expense has diminished from
| IS francs to francs. With the old apparatus
| it required. on an average. an hour and three
| quarters to cremate the body Of adult; with
| the present one, from an hour to an hour and a
| quarter suffices It is thought that, before
long. the operation may bs completed in three.
| quarters OF an hour
Dr.. HOLMES in his gossip Over the Teacups in
| the current issue of the Atlantic Monthly is
severe in his criticism of 1.-The monstrosities
| which have been allowed to deform our beauti-
| full public grounds, referring to the statues in
Boston. Tle doctor says: zone hardly knows
| which to groan over most sadly-the tearing
| down of old monuments, the Smelling of the
| Parthenon, the overthrow of the pillared tenn
| plts of Rome, and in a humber way the dessruc-
| tion of the old Hancock house, or the erection
| of monuments which are to be a perpetual eye
sore to ourselves and our descendants" The
dissertation, indeed has gone so far that bill is
now pending n the legislature for the creation of
| fine art commission composed of experts who
shall approve of all statues and public monu-
| mentS before they can be put up in Boston III the
| future. And yet it was the mugwump Boston
| Herald which had the gall Oh a recent occasion
to assail the artistic accomplishments in the
| way of Statuary with which Chicago has
adorned her public PARKS
A WEDDING JOURNEY was begun under peculiar
circumstances near Hartford, Conn, Friday.
John Burrows, the groom, owns farm on the
| .0nn u Fr,1a
the bride, kept house for her father in his little
! home on the mountain top. Friday they were
| married at the home of the bride. They had
| arranged to take short brida! trip. There is q
| little railway station at the foot of the noun
tain, mile or so away. This they resolved to
reach BIZ coastinG down the mountain on hand
| sled All went well until about half the descent
had been accomp. ished. Then John suddenly
up the road The road was narrow On
one side lowered an overhanging mass
OF rock on the other SIDE was tn, the brink of a
precipice forty feet in hight. There was little
| time to think. The Sled was travelling at light
| ming speed. and the driver of the oxen seem ed
not to see it. John hurriedly whispered word
| of courage to his bride. and, just before meet
ing the approaching team, suddenly turned the
course Of the Sled aud they went flying over
the precipice. The landing was made in several
feet of yielding snow, and no serious harm re-
suited. Friends from above hurried to the
rescue, and The pair, together with their carpet
bags. were dug out and once more started on
reached safely and the couple continued their
journey.
TIE DEATH OF Gen. Schenck takes from the
capital one of the most striking of its od-time
public men. His career dates back to 1890.
when he began to study law with Tom Corwin,
and he has been in the thick Of affairs ever
since. During the past two generations there
has been scarcely public man whom he has
not known more or leSs' intimately. and if his
personal "reminiscences could have beea gath
cred together they would have filed mora space
than Blaine's Twenty Years of Congress ="
During the past decade Gen. Schenck has
lived verv quietly at Washington He
owned big brick house with brown
store front on Thomas Circle and lust
next door to where Secretary Rusk now
lives, and he lived rather retired life, associ
| atng with such men as Gen. Sheridan Chief
Justice Waite, James G. Blaine and the other
famous Of his old-time friends. He was a man
who never forgot friend, and he bound thoss
who knew him TO him with hooks of steel He
seldom appeared in public, and the last time 1
remember seeing him at the captol was on the
occasion of the ceremonies celebrating the com
pletion cf the Washington monument At this
time he seemed to be in perfect health and l
have been repeatedly struck during recent years
by his resemblance to Gen. Grant He has
grown much like Grant as he grew older and
he had the same cast of features the same
reddish brown beard and good deal of the
figure of the great commander.