The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-27
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SAID post trader Of New Mexico 20 q Tri6uN
reporter in Chicago thesqtzsrl day; "Yot
people out here would laugh to eee The way Vi
speech in English and tR64etersreter Stands
beside him translating into1 Spanish asong with
hlm. and talking Just as loud and making tbs
same gestures We don't notic@ the confusion
They do the same thing when addressing a fury
or when witness testifes in court. II is my
belief that New Mexico viii never be a state
until they have ons official language
IA YOUNG LADY who knows writes to the
Boston Hero about the pronunciation Of DR.
koch's name: Being of German extraction,
can give you little Information in regard &c
the pronunciation. Koch is pronounced like
| chi IN bronchitis. a cultural sound made with
Tire palate. The name ntranslated would be
Cook, Koch being the word for cook in English
Many friends have discussed the matter, and
finally asked me what the correct pronunciatlor
was. Pronounce it like chi. only with a long
| drawnout sound. and you will have it correctly.
New YORK has seen its first auction sale OF
California wines AMI brandies. held to Learn
what brands New York has the most confidence
In. Red wines brought from 10 cents a gallon
| Tor unknown brands TO 50 cents for known.
White wines ranged from 81 to AZ cents gallon
| all Known brands and of the vintage of 1855
Port wines brought 20 cents for the vintage oil
1888, and from 4Gl5 to So cents for the vintage
OF 1885,. Angelica, 1885, realized 721< cents and
sherry less, from AZ to IS cents. Brandies were
sold from 65 T. 50 cents a gallon. vintages OF
1887 and 1889
WILLEM Ill. as the Dutch call him. whose
death was announced in the MORNING NEWS
Monday, was born Feb 10, 1917 He is the
eldest sen of King William IL and of Princess
Anna Paulowna, daughter of the Emperor Paul
| l. of Russia After preparations py private
| tutors, he a student in the University Of
| Leydsn. He has been King of the Netherlands
since March II, 1649, when his father died. Ten
years before he had married the Princess
Sophie, daughter of King Wilhelm |, of Wur-
temberg. Sac died on June 8. 1877. In Janu.
| ary, 1879, the old king married Emma, daughter
oil Prince George Victor of Waldeck, youn
woman born in 1855 Princess Wilhelmina only
surviving child of the king, is the daughter of
his second wife,
MR.. WEBER, the traveller, states that in Thi-
bet he has lived for months together at hight
of more than $4,000 feet above the sea level, and
that the result was as follows: His pulse. at the
| normal nights only 6s beats per minute seldom
| fell below 100 beats per minute during the whole
| time he resided at that level. His respirations
were often twice as numerous in the minute as
they were In the ordinary levels. A run of 100
| more than a run of 1000 yards at sea level and
he found that the higher the level the greater
| the difficulty of running or walking fast He
crossed the Gurla Mandhata mountain at a
hight of 10000 feet, and found that he had the
utmost difficulty in getting bis breath fast
enough. Weber also says that the native
guides OF the mountains suffered equally as
| much, II not more than he.
| VI Uuf DE MAUPASSANr was never guilty OF
overconf1dent indiscretion." says the Scots Oh
seruer in sketch of this French writer. al
most alone among those WAC follow the pro
fession of letters, he endured rigid apprentice.
| ship. In his youth he sat at the feet of Louis
Boulihet; he drank wisdom at the Inns of GINS.
| tave Flaubert. He observed life and nature
with the devotion and singlemindednesS of
student OF painting: he made iunumerable
pochades, which we're mercilessly criticised by
his master. high ideal was set before him.
| painter learns to grasp the picturesque ele-
ment In what he sees, to realize at a glance how
a scene would compose on canvas, so NJ. de
| Maupassant was taught to view the world from
the standpoint of literature, and, dsregarding
their philosophic or moral essence. 10 think of
all things in terms of his own medium. His
unique education fruitful of result It
prevented him from displaying his talent in the
making. When he first came before the public
as writer of prose he had already acquired
the finished grace of q master"
JUST because hsr appearance is SO old-fash-
Toned Mrs Stanley is very attractive to look at
Her neck is long-and, by the way, its length
| race nearer to Mr.. Stanley. She has wonder
fully pink complexion, with very active dmples
IN both cheeks. Her hair, very fluffy, like that
or the average young woman who has lust
been washing her head is gathered up in loo Q
roll from her forehead, back over the TOPS or
ears, and is fastened behind in a sort of
bunch, like the ancient American waterfall q"
except that it is pretty Instead of hideous and
has no net over it. Everybody on seeing Mrs
Stanley will say at once that she looks like
somebody whom he knows. That is not as
fattering thing as one would like to say of such
an interesting young woman, but it is the fact.
For example, Miss Phoebe Russell, who used to
play at Days, looks very much like Mrs Stan
ley, except that she has q great deal more
character in her face than the swest and placid
wife of the King of the Jungle Mrs. Stanley's
hair is brown, and when she is old she is going
| TO be just as attractive and pretty as she is
| now.
| THERE still exist a few contrivances for per-
petual fire in English churches; they go by the
| name of crosset stones 1.-The earliest l know
| is not in England but is in the atrium outside
| the remarkable church of ST. Ambrogio at Mi
Ian, says writer in the Cov7ltIl MoJGsine
| 1t is block of white marble on nodded
| base, now broken, but banded together with
IRON 1t stands feet 10 inches high and is 2
Ieet onches in diameter at top. It consists of
| a nat surface, in which are depressed nine cup
| like bellows. These were originally filed with
| oil, and wicks were placed in them and ignited
In England one is still in stu Ia the church of
| Lewannick, in Cornwall. There it is not far
| from the door 1t consists of circular block
containing on its fiat upper surface which is %
! Inches across, seven cup-like hoIlows four and
, half inches deep. The stone stands on a
| rudely nodded base, octagonal, and IS In all
| about two feet six inches high. In Furness
ABBEY, among the ruins, has been found
another, with five cups in it; at Calder Ab ey
| another. AT York is another with Xix such fire
| cups, and at Stockholm ano hor with the same
number, in square stone table. At Wool
! In the south wall of a small chapsl on the north
side or the chancel. 1t is a block Of Purbeck
marble, and has in the top five up-shaped cav
tiles, quite backened with the oil and smoke
| In some of the examples there are traces Of a
| metal pin, around which the wick was twisted"
| OF THE MANY natural wonders In the outof-
way regions of West Virginia, none have more
| widespread fame than mysterious hole in { ne
mountains near RiIenour, we'll known over tae
South Branch country as the bell hole. This is
rather an uncouth name, to be sure but to visit
the spot Justifies the title in the mind of the be-
holder. This terrible abyss is on a stream called
North Fork, in Grant county, and is at the lower
or LETT hand side of the road which leads
through the Harmer hills. The chasm, circular
| in shape, is about Is feet in diameter almost
perpendicular, and believed by the natives to te
| bottomless. Many attempts have been made To
| SOUND this mysterious natural well; in some in
| stances lines over 1000 feet in length have been
| used, but as yet the other end has
not been discovered; lanterns and torches
| lowered TO the depth of many hundred feet
| reveal nothing but rough, irregular walls of
| solid rock. Scientists provided with stop
| watches examined the chaSm in 1888. Heavy
| boulders Were rolled over the edge of the yawn-
| ing gulf which failed to give forth sound
| until after the expiration of fourteen seconds,
| From this making due allowance for the resist
| ance of the air. the transmission of sound and
| the experiments to the boulders caused by the
| uneven sces. they calculated that the hole was
| 3,l52 feet inches deep, presuming, of course,
| that the first audible sound was caused by the
stone striking bottom. The people of the vicin-