The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-20
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TIE PLACE TO send old stamps is the Asils des
Billodes Locls, Switzerland. In 1SSsthls asylum
received over l. 10000 stamps. of which the best
the children assorted and sold for $40 to deal
ers and collectors while the others were used for
decorative purposes, rooms indeed being
papered whit EN-.
ATA PERFORMANCE of Married Life" given
in London the other day for the benefit of
Buckston IS daughter. Miss Terry appeared as
the maid servant with only q line 10 speak.
oddly enough" saws the London 5 age, this
most practicsd actress was rendered 90 nervous
by the reception she received that she stumbled
with her single line, announcing Miss Kate
Phillips instead of Mrs. Doyle.
NJ. GzRvILLE -REAc.:E. an official reporter in
the French parliament, has calculated that be-
tween 1871 and 1890 England spent on her navy
335, 916.526 francs; France, 3.63 ,O52.776; Ger
many, 1000, 724 4Oi Austria, 4IO. 1857; Italy,
, 1l01, 1858; Russia, 1879, 63a 7O2 or the
whole amount expended by her, France devoted
35 per cent to the construction OF new ships;
Russia, 30 per cent; England, Al per cent. !;
Austria, AZ per cent; Germany, 5711 per cent
THE FRENCH are certainly great on novel
IDEAS. A new clock contains a novel applica-
cation of the magnet. The clock is shaped like
tambourine, with circle of flowers painted
on its head. Around the circle two bees crawl.
the larger one requiring twelve hours TO com
plete the circuit. while the smaller Que makes
II every hour. Different flowers represent the
hours, and the bees, which are of iron. are
moved by the magnets behind the head of the
! tambourine.
A DEPARTMENT OF JOURNALISM will be unique
feature of the national Italian exposition in
Palermo in 1891. 1t will contain all the rare
old printing presses in Italy chronologicallY
arranged and copies of all the Italian papers
and magazines of the last century. NJ. Bernar
DIM, member of the executive committee of
editors, in charge of the exhibit. will lend the
exposition his collection of 10000 periodicals
from all of fha world and CDripS of most
of the books that have appeared concerning
newspapers and newspaper work.
PARTY Of fox hunters accidentally dis
covered cave in the neighborhood Of Staun-
ton, Ind, the other day, and in exploring il the
petrlf1ed body of an Indian woman, whose orna-
mentS proclaimed her a princess of powerful
tribe, was discovered. Her shapely arms and
ankles were encircled with bracelets of gold
and bone, while around her neck was band OF
human teeth. Three other bodies were found
in a less degree OF preservation, and scattered
throughout the cave were specimens OF gold
jewery and collection OF stone cooking uten-
sis. axles, knives and tomahawks.
La france MtIitdire says that on last May IS
there died the only man who had beaten Field
Marshal Won Moitke on the battlefield. He was
Gen. d Hautpoul. In tue celebrated battle of
Nlsib he was chief of the general staff of
Ibrahim Pasha, while Maj. Won. Moltke served
under Hafz Pasha. Moltke's commander lost
the battle, but, as he has been repeatedly
major. AZ long as Motke directed the troops
all went well with him. When Hafiz Pasha
took command, however, the tide turned and
defeat followed the prospects of victory.
IT APPEARS from a report on capital punish
ments which has just been laid before the par
lament of Austria and Hungary that execu-
lions in that country are carried out in
lnconceivably barbarous manner. The convict
is plac on the ground where he stands with
long rope round his neck, which presently
Jerks him off his legs, and he remains strug-
Cling horribly in the air for several minutes.
A convict is never strangled in less than seven
minutes, and often the operation takes quar-
ter of an hour, and the poor wretch is usually
conscious during the greater part of the time.
People talk about disgraceS to civilization
surely this is one.
AN AMUSING SCENE happened in the Sullivan
county On. y court house the other day. The
wife of one of the parties to suit was on the
witness stand ald had intrusted her baby to
tne care OF anotner woman, VINO was tending it
below. The child became restless after awhile
and announced its desire to see its mother in
notes of unmis akable patnos, which might be
traced 10 hunger. After trying in vain to quiet
the child the woman came up the stairs and
into court. the baby all the time yelling at the
top of its lungs. Judge Thornton jumped up
and cried: Take that child out of court" The
woman addressed needed not the command
but continued to advance, and, holding the
youngster out to its mother over the head of a
prominent lawyer, exclaimed, with fire flashing
from her eye: Court or no court this child
has got to be attended to-"
REAL CHILD of the regiment was graduated
last month from the Alexander-V arien Institute
in Warsaw Her name is Marie Keksholm, and
she is just Is years old In the last Turkish
war she was picked up from the ruins of
burned and deserted town by the colonel
of a Russian grenadier regiment of the Empe-
ror of Austria Keksnolm. The members of the
regiment voted as soon as tn Y went into camp,
to support and educate the little Turkish girl at
their expense. They contributed enough money
Immediately to set their PLAZA in operation. and
have continued ever since to buy their ward all
she wished Five weeSs ago they decided to
give her handsome dowry when she should be
ready to marry. Marie is 16 years old, has
beautiful oval face and keen mind. 1t is ex-
pected that she will get her husband from the
regiment which adopted her.
ONE OF THE SIGHTS at Saratoga, noted by the
New York Times, is the race of the newsboys
from the railroad station to the hotels each
morning with the New York papers. THE
train on which are the papers reaches Saratoga
at $3.50 O'Clock. The papers are in separate
bun les addressed to the news agents Bun
dies fly from the car for a block before the
train stops and the boys employed by the diff
ferent agents are there to grab them Then
there is a wild race down Division street with
the bundles, which grow bigger and bigger each
day till the seaSo is at its night. Summer Wis
ltors get out on the streets mornings to see the
dash and shout encouragement to the boys
Some day one boy comes down the street ahead
and sometimes another Charlie 1Iadigan, the
good looking youngster attached to the news
stand in the United States hotel, is a frequent
winner He was rcd ahead of the nearest of
his competitors when he reached the ladies'
entrance to the hotel the other morning.
PASSENGERS on California express had an
exciting experience some days ago in a forest in
Josephine county, Oregon They encountered
an electric storm, and for the two honrs it
ragged $50 one of the passengers told q reporter
of the Salem (Ore.) StdteSman), it was as
dark as dungeon except when the woods were
lii up by the lightning. During the whole of
the storm hailStones pelted down, and some of
| them were SIS inches in circumference The
train was compe led to stop by a fallen tree in
front of it, Before it could back out of the
woods tree had fallen across the track behind
it, 1t was compelled to stand during the entire
storm, the trees sWayinE and twisting above it
as If they would be hurled down upon it every
moment, and the wind whistling aud moaning
and the storm raging so as to make the passen-
gers think the Judgment day had come So
terrified were they that many of them said their
prayers and other sang psalms. The storm ex
tended for about ten miles in the Rogue River
Mountains. Before the train could proceed ten
trees which had fallen across the track had to
be cut away. On each side of the train the
hail covered the ground until it was perfectly
white"
A NEW INSTRUMENT, the eophone was tested
last week by board of United States naval
officers, and gave great satisfaction. The in
strument, which is intended to eliminate the
danger of fozs at sea, is polished black re-
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