The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-07
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IT'S KNOWN that the Chinese, as early as $50
A. D., fastened rockets TO their arrows, that
the latter might be thrown to a greater dis
! lance.
A KESruczIAS in Buffalo has discovered there
the firm Of Irish s English What is considered
especially remarkable about this firm is that
/ Mr. English is an freshman aud DIR. Irish is an
/ Rnglishman.
HERE is an excuse brought one day by a tall,
red haired boy Of L to his teacher: Deere Cir
Pleze to eggcuse Henry for absente Yesterday.
| We made sourkrout, and ne had 70 tromp II
| down Also he had To Help butcher pigs
Respectful yuers, His Pap
| THE HELIGoLASDER has a singular dislike to
being a soldier. either on land or sea- In the
| course of five years. in spite of tempting high
pay only four islanders have entered the Brit
/ ish navy. and one OF these. stricken with home
! sickness, soon left the service.
THE INHABITANTS of Heligoland have a strange
custom on New Years Eve. They then peram-
bulate the street with broken pots and pans.
| which they place before their friends doors, and
| the man who has the largest heap before his
| cottage is considered the most popular.
TIE Sabbatarian element in England has
been greatly shocked by the order of the queen
| that band of music play on Windsor terrace
every Sunday. The queen, following the great
American idea, probably intends to confine the
musical programme strictly to sacred music.
A YOUNG Wisconsin man. A P. Hanson by
name, who is now a resident of Copenhagen,
has made an invention that is likely to inaugu-
rate an era in printing. He calls 1t a color
graph. By it two or three, or even more colors
can be printed on the same paper at one i'm
preston.
MAN wants but little here below" is certainly
the motto of some natives in India. man of
30 being recently examined before magistrate
at Bangalore stated that he earned daily a
quarter or an anna about I'D by bottling
ginger beer, and that he was quite satisfied
with ms wages and position.
IT IS CLAIMED that Pittsburg chemist acct
dentally discovered the way in which black mir
rors were made by the ancients. He made an
artificial obsidian. and in polishing slabs of the
material made his discovery Obsidian is sub
stance peculiar to volcanic countries. 1t looks
ike glass and is of coal black color.
ONE of the letter carriers in Franklin, Pa,
says that the idea of having their mail delivered
is such novelty to some of the people along his
route that, although they probably do not get
letter in month in actual correspondence,
they answer newspaper advertisements and
devise various other plans for the purpose of
receiving something at every delivery.
LARGE numbers of eggs are bought by foreign
agents in the governments of Kharkev Kursk.
Vorenezh, Tchernigov, Orlov. Poltava and in
the settlements of the CoSSacks on the Don
river for transportation into Germany and
Austria. The purchases are made so ener-
getically by the active agents that the prices of
eggs In those parts of Russia have trebed.
OLD NICHOLAS LUNNe of San Francisco, who
died the other day worth SIS, 100000 was, like
Mr.. Barkis, a little near" Some Time ago an
looked very unhappy what is the matter,
Mr., Luning?" he asked. Matter enough"
growled the old mil ionaire. I've got $1,000
lying idle in the bank, because I can't loan it
at anything over 6per cent"
JUST after the war ended the navy department
gave Ericsson a 15-inch shell found among the
ruins of Sumter. 1t had been fred from one of
the monitors. and somehow the fuse had
failed to go off. Ericsson sent it to the King of
Sweden, and the good Oscar placed it in the
great museum at Stockholm, with a fitting and
touching inscription in honor of one of the
most honorod of SwedeS It's there now.
THE IMPORTANCE of the horse breeding indus
try in this country is illustrated by the fact
that single California breeder has recently
deposited S80,000 with his agents in Kentucky
for the purchase of brood mares. OF this sum
about $4,000 has already been expended in
procuring six animals, two of the Mambrino-
Patchen and three of the Wilkes family. Such
prices were almost unknown few years ago.
A RARE HORSE is that of George Booth, sup r
was recently neglected at dinnertime, but went
on an independent foraging expedition. First,
'horsey" raised the lid of the feed box and
dlned to his satisfaction. Then a trip was
made to the bydrant, where he turned on the
water, filed the trough, then turned it off
quaffed to his hearts content and went back to
his stall.
JUDGE SCoRLIcK, a highly respected resident
of the village Of Znaid, Germany, married a
peasant girl, aged IS years, about six months
ago. The Judge is 70 years old. His wife pos
| sessed such surprising beauty that she created
a sensation when she was introduced in society.
| He became tnsanely jealous of her and re
| buked her for fancied errors in her conduct
! the young brides life became UNDESIRABLE, and
| she hanged herself from curtain pole in the
library OF her husbands mansion.
The great Victoria regia, a mammoth species
| of the water lily family, is expected to bloom
In a few days at the conservatory in Allegheny
park, Pittsburg. This plant is found only in
the Amazon river, Brazil. The Allegheny
specimen is growing in a tank forty-eight by
twenty eight feet, in the conservatory. One
plant fills the whole tank. Some of the leaves
are six feet in width. The blossoms are each
about twelve inches in diameter and are ar.
ranged in alternate rows of pink and white
petals.
1--WE may reasonably expect" says the Chi
cago Tribune, ito read in the biography of the
future congressman some such encomium as
biA5. IuI. DAaIh 10 dOlc anu uQonC Q6DaUer.
and is famous for wicked right. In public ar
gument he stands with his feet rather wide
apart, and holds high guard. He seldom at
tempts to knock out an opponent with a punch
preferring to chop him with furnishing left
until he has his victim groggy, when he PUSHES
in and finishes him with a right He stands
punishment well, and is in all other respects
worthy of the suffrages of the people,"
A HOUSE of five stories leaning againt rising
ground, has just been excavated in Pon1peii in
which important frescoes are still in a good
state of preservation. In the principal room is
representation of Belerophon-a youth hold
ing the winged Pegasus with one hand while
with the other he receives the orders from
Proteus, who is seated on a richly decorated
throne. The lower part of the house is divided
into bathrooms The paintings in the fri0i-
darium are specially we'll perserved-a nymnh
riding on a sea horse and a frieze with comic
scene of pigmies fighting birds and crocodiles
in Egypt,
A CERTAIN Capt. Wolman, whose picture gal
lery was destroyed by fire. was indicted for
incendarism before the criminal court of ST
Petersburg. Proofs were produced that he had
fired his house IN order to get the insurance
money. The jury found him guilty and he was
sentenced to Imprisonment at hard labor for
the term of four years. An appeal was made
TO the Senate, who annuled the verdict on the
ground that Wolman stood under the military
authorities and could not be tried in a civil
court. He wasl tried again before the military
court and acquitted. The insurance COMPANY
will consequently have to pay the whole
amount