The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-14
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contemplating matrimony wanted piano and
ms lie was made miserable by piano agents,
WHO sWarmed from all directions,
w THE ROOF of the New York hospital will
De a garden, probably inclosed in glass, where
atients can enjoy the cool breezes that blow
over the housetops. Here there will be flowers,
| pants. an aquarium, seats, and hammockS.
AN ENTIRELY NEW ROSE, called the rainbow
rose, was exhibited at a recent flower show in
San Francisco and received the first prize. 1t is
| small. of delicate shade of rose pink. with
darker bars running lengthwlse Of the petals.
NEAR LEBANON, Pa, there is a school teacher
who has an inordinate desire for sleep, and fire.
| quently slumbers during school hours. The
| scholars being unable to wake him. few days
| ago. gathered up their books and started home.
| DURING the warm weather of a few days ago
grasshoppers made their appearance in vast
| numbers in Southern Indiana. They did great
| damage to wheat, and had the warm weather
| continued the crop would have been badly in
| jured.
| A DISPATCH from Denver tells of hurricane
that lifted a heavy locomotive and train of
| cars from the track. This was almost as bad
| as the storm encountered by the sea captain
who had TO get two Of his men to hold on to his
| whiSkerS.
IT IS SAID that in the depth of Africa the
natives still retain the memory of Sir Charles
4 LdAcF anu especially Oh MS VIE. VINO travelled
there with him many years ago. They call
| him, il is said, "Longbeard" and his wife
| Morning STAR
| CURIOUS FACT is that seventeen clerks in the
Senate of the new state of Washington, a ma
| Jority OF them-nins-are women, and there is
but one who carries Mrs" before her name.
| The same rule holds good with the House, a
majority OF its clerks being ladies'.
THE AUTHORITIES at Nordhausen, in Saxony,
| at the suggestion of the district medical officer
have issued an order to BARRIERS, to disinfect
| their brushes and other implements Immediately
after use and before they are applied to the
hair or beard of another customer.
RENO COUNTY QkAN.) FARMER of so summers
advertised for a wife. Pretty Miss Minnie
| Forester of Carthage. Mo, answered the ad-
vertisement aud went to Hutchinson to wed her
| antiquity. She asked him to deed to her 100
acres of land. He declined, and the wedding
| did not occur.
CENTRAL PARK, New YORK, is a favorite resort
for amateur photographers. Last year 100
permits were issued to photographers who
| wished to take pictures there, and go permits
| have been issued this year. The Society of
| Amateur Photographers of New York numbers
| 225 members.
A GENTLEMAN who has just returned from
| France says that the American ambulances,
| which were introduced into Paris a year or two
! ago, are now one OF Une recognized institutions
| of the French capital. People stand and cheer
| as they go along the street, and ambulance
drills are given to all distinguished foreigners.
DR.. EDWARD GoERTz, a Somerville, IN. W
dentist, was operating few days ago upon the
| teeth of a girl when she was suddenly seized
with an epileptic fit and shut her teeth down
| on the dentists fingers so firmly that the doc
| tor was compelled to forcibly extricate The i'm
| priSoned members, decorating them in a most
| painful manner.
AT the French cooks ball in New York on
Thursday evening the work of vrt was the rep
| resentation of a temple of commerce. 1t was
| made of 5000 pieces of gum paste and sugar,
| and stood several feet high The architectural
beauties were well shown, and the cOioring
was especially clever. Il was the work of @.
| Ranhofer, the chef of Delmonico's.
PRoF. HADDoN, the English naturalist,
| who has spent some months on the islands south
| of New Guinea, says there will never again be
SO good time now to study the natives and
| make anthropological collections, as the
Papuans there are dying out fast and still more
RAPIDLY dlscardlng their native arts, preferrihg
to buy the merchandise that the whites bring
| among them.
THE OIL INDUSTRY will soon be fully and ex-
tensively organized in Barren county Kentucky
| A refinery has been erected four miles from the
| town of GLASGOW and will be completed in
short time Fifteen wells have been sunk in
! Two years ana are all producing. The whole
county seems to be fertile in oil resources, and
! the product is pronounced equal to that of
| Warren county, Pennsylvania.
A NOVEL APPLICATION of electricity is a trit-
orator for grinding drugs, which is ingeniousy
fitted mp to work by electric motor, to save
| labor in chemists shops, or for drug grinders.
The mortar or mortars to the number required
| are made to revolve by the electric motor, and
| a very heavy porcelain pedestal hangs inside,
the necessary grinding being assured by the re-
| volving of the heavy pestle by friction against
| the side of the mortar.
PEzoN, the Paris lion tanner, has had another
narrow escape. He was exhibiting Coralie. q
| redoubtable lioness at Brussels the other night
| when the animal gave him stroke of her paw
| on the left arm. PeZon whipped her and fixed
her with his eye, but the brute retreated only
to make spring on her owner, who was
| knocked down by the bound, although he man.
aged to hold the lioness by the throat until she
was dragged away by the keepers.
THERE is considerable excitement at North
| Planfeld, N. j., over the discovery of copper
| and silver ores in the mountains back of the
| town. The discovery was made in excavating
for water works, and it is said that sufficient
investigation has been made to warrant the
| assertion that, underlying the outer layers of
| trap rock and red sandstone in the mountain
| are mines from which fortunes may be deyel-
| oped. Capitalists are negotiating for the con-
| troll of the mines.
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| interior decoration is rooms furnished with
Eastern couches and draperies. To satisfy this
| taste the bazars and shops of Persia Turkey
| Egypt and Arabia have been laid under con.
tributon. The general effect sought is one of
| voluptuous luxury, and the effects of the
draperies are brought out in perfection by shut
| ting off gas and electric light, and introducing
| oil lamps shaded by soft colored silks, wrought
| into fanciful shapes.
| The relations between the courts Of Berlin
! and Vienna are not SO cordial as they were n
| few months ago. private conference was re-
Gently held at Berlin between the heads OF the
| German and the Austrian armies for the mr.
| pose of discussing their respective methods of
organization, but it terminated abruptly and nm
pleasantly, for the Prussian officers with char
| acteristic bluntnesS, unequivocally condemned
| the Austrian system. and plainly told the repre-
sentatives of the Vienna war office that if a war
| took place Austria would be beaten as speedily
| and completely as she was in 1859 and 1856
THERE is a lesson in perseverance to he
learned from a woodpecker that makes an an
nual visit to a certain church steeple in North
ST. Joseph every spring Although this church
! steepe is completely covered with tin he puts
| in his appearance in the early morning and
pecks and pecks throughout the entire dsv
| Last year was his third season, and up to that
time he had not succeeded in making q dent in