The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-03
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injurious drug.
The Argentine REPUBLIC is endeayoring to
place a S12 90 per cent. loan in London to
defray the expense Of proposed cable between
Buenos Ayres and France.
Mr.. KERR of Yakima county, Washington.
assent to Japan for large quantity or tea
cuttings lie intends to see what can be done
with that plant in his own country.
I PARIS THIEF stole the horse out of the
shafts of cab while the driver slept, and
mounting it. was ridin, of and would have got
away II passing citizen had not awakened tn 2
driver.
CAT in MillviIle. \. J., finds pleasure in
swimming and often catches fish in shallow
water with its paws ut has baen known to
swim ia pursuit of dock rat clear across the
river
LOUIS ScHLOss, who has oustad young Jim
Flood from the control of the great Nevada
bank. is known as the sealskin monarch of the
Faclnc lie is at the heal of the Alaska Com
1nercial Company.
The cANNERY of Armour & Co. has a capacity
of putting up in ons day 225 0OJ pounds of
corne1 beef, $4,000 pounds of fresh boiled beef,
10000 lunch tongues, 1000 OK tongues and
multitude OF minor products.
THE most noted figure at the Putnam house
at Palatka. Fla. is Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher.
who has spent the past three seasons in that
city: She is beginning to show her age. Though
her Fair is as white as snow, Mrs. Bsecher's
activity Is quite remarkable.
The FARMERS ALLIANCE of the United States
have concluded TO establish the Alliances Agri
cultural Works at Iron Gate, Allegheny county,
Virgini,. The WORKS win employ from 800 to
5Ol nands. and their products will go to every
sub-aliance in the country, representing q 0O0,-
600 members.
THERE are to-day royal and imperial orders
in the world. with prodigious assortment of
collars, crosses, stars. AMI other fancy insignia
laid up for the tickling of human ambition
The oldest Is ST. Andrews order. first instituted
IN England in ISL, disused afterward, and re-
established in 1910.
LATE ADyIcEs form Australia state that the
ravages of rust on the wheat crop have been
more severe than was at first Anticipated 1t is
estimated that in South Australia the loss to the
farmers amounts to at least FL 100000, IN Vic
toria to between 100000 and 100000 and in
New South Wales to nearly $500, co.,
The man who runs the passenger elevator at
the ST. Louis custom house is Gen. J. H. Coates,
who won his way from the station of private to
that of brevet brigadier general during the civil
war. 1t is stated that his salary Las been cut
down from S720 to $500 year and the official
who did ii was formerly tine captain of one of
the regiments under his command
BISHOP RIDLEY. who recently arrived in Lon
don from his district in Vancouver's Island
brought TO the queen gift OF 800 from the
chief of the tribe among whom he had been at
work The chief offered it in such a a way that
the bishop could not refuse it without giving
him dire offense, but he is as afraid to offer it
to the queen as he would have been to refuse to
take it from the chief and can't make up his
mind what o do with it.
G. F. WATTS, r. A, has been at work for five
years upon piece of sculpture which he in
onAs, 70 ~.
gigantic figure of a man mounted upon horse
The model * being made in plaster in the gar
| deE of Mr.. Watts house. so arranged beneath a
shed that it can be run out upon rails in fair
weather to be worked upon, and when it rains
| can be run back out of the wet. The statue is
so large that the top of the sculptors head does
not reach half way up the horses leg when he
| stands in front of it.
THE new storage battery for lighting cars by
| electricity recently tested on the Chicago and
Northwestern railroad, has capacity that will
| supply ten lamps with light for thirty consecu-
! tive hours This has been accomplished by
| other systems, but the point of greatest inter
| est to railway corporations is that this appa-
| ratus weighs but 1,2S0 pounds, or about one
half the weight of storage batteries hitherto in
| use. This reduction in weight means reduc-
| ton in cost that will tend very materially to
| recommend the new system for general adop-
| ton.
| How long should pastoral call be? A Massa-
chusetts clergyman settles this question i'll an
original way. He has fine dog which always
accompanies him in his pastoral calls, nesting
down in the parlor beside his master in respect
full silence. When the dog brain. with the abso-
lutte accuracy of dog instincts, decides that the
proper limit of the call is reached, he lifts his
head, rises erect, put his nose on his masters
knee and winks at him, saying: Times up"
And, thereupou, the good man makes his adieus
gracefully and departs. How much better this
is than the furtive consultation of a watch.
THE number of foreign students at German
universities has been larger this winter than it
has ever been before. Out of q total number
of 29,001 students 1890 are nom Germans 1881
being Europeans, and $40 having come to the
seats of learning from other parts of the world.
OF these latter 435 are from America 80 from
Asia mostly JapaneSe) II from Africa, and 9
from Australia. OF the European foreigners
Russia sends 331. Austria Hungary 1913, Swtzer-
land 255, Great Britain H. Greece 40, Turkey
"A, the Netherlands 42, France 81, Luxemburg
81, Roumania 80, Bulgaria 81, Scandinavia 20,
Italy q, Serva a. Belgium &C. Denmark g.
Spain 2, and Portugal and Lichtenstein / each.
THE CENTRAL COUNCIL of the New York Asso-
citation of the Working Girls Societies an
nounces that it has arranged to hold q conven-
ton on April Is, 16 and II under the auspices Of
the New York, Boston and Brooklyn Associa-
ton of Working Girls Societies and the Phila-
delpha New Century Working Women's Guild.
This is also the annual meeting of the New
York association. The working girls society is
an organization formed among busy women
and girls to secure, by cooperation, means Of
self-improvement, opportunities of social inter
course, and the development of higher and
nOber aims, and the object of holding the con-
veution is the discussion more fully than has
hitherto been possible of the various interests
Of working girls club.
THE RECENT TENDENCY in Sunday schools to
pay great deal of attention to the Old Tesla
ment is open to criticism. Not long ago a newly
appointed Sunday school teacher in Baltimore
asked one of her scholars what Christmas com
me morated. The end of the year. was the
reply Another question brought out the fact
that the girl, who was old enough to be church
professor" had never heard that Christ was on
this earth. She thought he was crucified in
heaven. Then the teacher tackled a boy who
bad been a Sunday school scholar for five years
He was equally ignorant. Il don't know about
Christmas. NJ S. he said. II have learned all
ABOUT Adam and Eve. though. They lived in the
Garden of Eden and one OF them ct some kind
of fruit, but don't know whether it was Adam
or Eve or what kind of fruit it was, but think
it was apples.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Richmond (Va) Dis
patch says: Recently reading an account of
duel fought during the war by two confederate
Officers well known here in Richmond | am re-
minded of one of the most remarkable in the
annals of history, between confederate officer
and suffer. which will relate for the benefit of
your readers. In 1862 there was encamred on
the peninsula, near Yorktown, the Fifth Louisi-