The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-06
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inthe year 100. that weighs only torres ounces.
It is white, cut low in the neck, sleeveless, and
I we'll preserved.
NEVADA cattlemen are troubled By the ccuel
trait o, the maybe which leads it TO pick ont
the eyes Of cattle. The spectacle of living ami
inals with their eyes picked out is said to be a
com mon occurrence.
PRoF. THOMPSON says that the dynamo OF the
| future will develop from 1000 to 5000 orse
power, and as there is practically limit to its
increase, he sees no reason why it should not
go far beyond those figures.
AT KANSAS Cry man stabbed his brother
but the wounded man survived The iury's
verdict was: I'VE, the jury. find the defendant
guAty OF manslaughter in the third degree, had
the prosecuting witness died.
A METHOD of transmitting sketches by tele-
graph has been devised. The fugitive from
| justice viii now find mis- path strewn with OBJ
Slacies, FOR his gortrait can be sent to any num-
Der OF points along his line of travel.
Mas. THOMAS VIcKRoY Of Denver. has sued
! her husband, who is living in Omaha. for
500, oCG in cash and divorce. She says that
her husband deserted her in, 1884 and that rre-
viouS 10 that time they bought some land To-
gether in Wyandotts county Kansas. for 81 900.
ana that this property Is now worth Sa00.00
IN 1871 man living at Porterville. Cal, set a
slip OF ivy at one end of his store To-day it
covers the whole building and has climed upon
large oak tree. The first occupants were n
palr OF mountain linnets, who were not dis
turbed, and their descen dants still breeI there
IN immense numbers. They sting as well as the
herman canarles.
IHE VILLAGE of Data. on the island of Lesbos
has woman said to b. l35 years old, VINO still
has the complete use of all her senses. The same
island contains three other inhabitants who are
said 10 have passed their hundraGth birthday
lsmail Apa 10 years old: KhalI Apa in his 10th
year, and Aschik BAHIA, aged rs. All three of
LueSe centenarlans It Is said, earn their living by
daily work.
y BosToS GENTLEMAN, TO test his deg's under
standing, read aloud to him from the news
paper an article to the effect that our worthy
legislators had abandoned the attempt to
Inuzzle the dogs Thereupo1 the joy of the St
BERNARD knew no bounds, He barked. leaped
INTO the air. ran aroun the room, and even be-
came SO excited that he ran up and down stairs
until restrained by force.
MAN named Juan Vaca died at Lone PIN.
Ariz. About 16 years ago deputy sheriff was
murdered in Kern county. Recently the mur
dorer was discovered and arrested. Vaca was
the only eyewitness 10 the killing; his testi-
Inony was not taken. and now it NAV not he
possible TO convict the accused vaca lived
WITH an Indian woman; after his death she said
4 heap sorry; cry like h--ll.'
The EMPEROR WILLIAM develops a remark.
able sensitiyeness. His latest order is that no
portrait of him or of the empress. or of other
members OF the imperial family, is 10 be pub.
Hsheu without his express sanction. Dispeased
with The Photographic studies so far put before
the public. the emperor is having his portrait
painted by three artists, Konor, Prell and Beck-
ert, TO whom he gives sttings simultaneously
Slttings are also now given 10 a sculptor for the
emperor's bust.
LuDovIco VIOLA, one of the most celebrated
clowns of his time, has just died in St Peters.
burg in his Sst year. In 1S45 he created such a
Jttrore IN the Russian clpItaI when visiting it
WIN an Italian circus that the Russian million
alre JaSowlew offered him sum of 200 900
ruoies IL he would settle in St Petersburg and
Start circus of his own. Viola accepted the
oifer and performed ut his circus till some few
years ago, when he took up the profession of q
gymnastic master
TIE premiums of 500 guneas and 80 guineas
offered by the London Tower Company for the
best and second best designs have, it is said.
induced engineers aud architects of the highest
professional status in The United Kingdom the
continent, america. Canada and Australia to
compete. The committee of jurors appointed
70 ad1udicate has made preliminary examina-
ton OF the designs submitted and after a
very prolonged inspection, about seventy de-
signs were selected for further consideration.
NEW HAVEN ice dealer who went to bed
bewailing the short ice crop dreamed that the
pond where he usually secures his supply had
suddenly frozen over. Being anxious To find
out how thick the ice really was. and supposiDg
that ne was throwing stone upon it, he jumped
out of bed, grabbed costly vase from ths
mantel and threw it with all his might through
French plate mirror before he was aware OF
what he vas doing. The racket awoSe his wife
and he was suddenly brought to his senses His
customers are pretty sure that they will have TO
pay Tor that mirror next summer.
NJ. HERIoT, the owner Of the big store called
the Louvre in Paris, was sent to the insane
asylum byhis relations because he insisted upon
srtui .e.t. l.,
to lose, 10 found an orphanage for soldiers
children. The local authorities finally ordered
that he should be removed from private ASYLUM
and placed in public one, and it was que Iv
found that lie was not insane at all. For thir-
teen months treatment the private asylum doc
tors demanded S2.500 the local doctors want
$4,000 three medical students who heIped to
find him crazy 500, and the keepers IS 600
III Is no wonder they wanted to keep him insane
at that rate.
a PROMINENT NEWSPAPER of Central New York
prints the following notice of a case OF self
destruction that is, in all probability. unprece
denied. 1t says Michael Donovan died yester-
day while eating breakfast; 75 years old Ha
leaves wife and three children all grown up, -
suicide by taking rat poison. paris green and
other lndigestible substances is decidedly com
mon, but when man has accomplished his own
taking on with the originality of Mr. Donovan
lie deserves an obituary column long I'm
doubleday Mr.. Donovan was in the habit of eat
small wonder that he succumbed TO a repast of
such unusual maturity
AT a BALL st Pesth in aid of destitute children
there were two bands engaged, a gypsy one and
the band Of the infantry regiment. Toe latter
played without fee The gypsies played national
airs for while. and when the soldiers struck M
waltz, their platform was surrounded by a lot
of young men who declared tia they would
have no Bohemian and German Iiddlers playlny
while they could hear the real Hungarian airs
The excitement increased until finally some of
the men clilned up on the platform and
wrenched a violin from the hands of q soldier
VINO Insisted on playing. The military band
thereupon LETT the hall, accompani ID by the
colonel of the reginl9at AMI all of the officers
present, and the affair has been reported to the
emperor.
PAUL CLIFFORD, the original inventor Of the
Paris pneumatic post system he's made a pneu-
matte rifle which is said to be- a wonder Il is
described this way: The weapon is much
lighter than any Of the army rifles now in usa
1t resembles the magazine gun in that ste ell
cartridge about a span and a half long and as
thick as q mans thumb is attached TO the har.
rel by means of "a screw. This cartridge con
tains 300 shots, which can he discharged az ran
Idly or slowly as q man desires At "a recant