The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-22
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a GIGANTIC DAM is being built across the Mis-
souri,. It viii be 500 feet long and ~ feet hi h
and the reservoir will cover an area of 429
square miles
CONSERVATIVE LoNDoSERs are shocked at the
proposal Of an American Insurance. con-
pany to purchase the historical Mansion house
! for the headquarters of its English agency.
/ OUR Chinese brethren make bod strikes for
| free opium. Some time ago the American
vessel Halcyon was wrecked on the Jap aneSe
coast. In a fresh water tank was found $50, 900
worth OF the drug IL was supposed to be IN
4 tended for British Columbia.
| II IS STATED that patent medicines have paid
to the British government in 1890 the enormous
sum Of e22o.OOO. or $1,000. OOO, in the shape of
duties and it is estimated that before the end of
the year 81, 500, 900 will have been expended by
the owners of these nostrums.
DEC. II will be the hundredth anniversary OF
the storminy of Ismail by the Russian troops
There still lives veteran who was present on
that occasion, and received gold cross for
bravery Col. Gritsenke has been on the re-
tired list since 1915, and is now III years old.
ROCHESTER, IND. is vain of a prodigy years
months old distinguished for his won
derful pronunciation" marvellous gestures
and remarkabls m micry." He delivers lect-
nres oy DR.. Talmage. recites funny sketches Y
MARX Twain, and IS an all-round elocutiolist.
SUNDAY OBSERVANCE is steadily gaining ground
IN Paris. In the west end the great majority of
the SHOPS are closed. and the railway companies
nave lately a{reed not 10 reckon Sundays in
charging for the warehousing of goods The
postoIhceS, too, are to close in future at D. ID.
instead OF :, aud the two evening letter deliv
cries are to be abolished.
IT is becoming 'the correct thing" for En-
glishmen to wear wedding rings. The fashion
! aole design is said to be somewhat more ornate
| than the plain broad band which lady deems
Tue only permissible form of nuptial circl {.
ana bears a true lovers knot, whils a motto or
| posy is frequently inscribed inside after the
FASHION OF our grandmonhers
| THE OLDEST PRINTED BOOK in Germany has
lately been acquired by the Royal Library in
| Berlin, says the Aneric1n Booknlaker 1t is an
early edition of the Chinese art treasurer, ''Po-
| hu-t-ulo. printed from metal blocks, and
eating from the years 1903 to 1912. The impress
sion OF both the text and the illustrations is said
| to be beautifully clear and distinct.
A BURGLAR got fast in the window Of a house
occupied by John Roach. Of Paterson. John
Is a moralist, and he dressed himself AMI sat
| down on chair and talked to that burglar for
Two long hours without break. Then the
| burglar asked to be either knocked on the head
| or let CO. and Mr. Roach talked to him one hour
| longer and then suffered him depart.
IN ROUND FIGURES, 900 square meals have
been served in the House of Commons this
session, namely, $1,000 dinners and 10 900 lunch
cons. Members have had Il, 900 dinners and
| o.OOJ luncheonS. In the strangers dining room
| l,l2o dinners and 1,142 luncheons have been
served, and there have been 1914 dinners and
80 luncheons in the terrace dining rooms.
IN AN EPISCOPAL CHURCH. near Boston, the
other Sunday lady in passing up the aisle
caught Ier dress on a corner of pew and tore
| II. AS the process of tearing was very audible
o i ;rgd the Ieeng OF the lady may
| oe imagined. when at that moment, the clergy
man began the service by reading the sentence
"Rend your heart and not your garments
The old New York Marble Cemetery on
Second street, between First and Second
avenues, New York, is notable as contli
not single grave. The ground was filed up
| from the be Ching with the Sunken stone vaults
| IN which the dead are paced. These vaults
have thin covering of soil thrown over them
which is now laid out in grassy plots and walks,
| Robert Fulton. of Steamboat fame, is buried
| In this cemetery.
The NATIVES are making preparations for the
coronation OF their young king and chief para
mount of the Swazis nation, SAYS the New
| Castle Chronicle An impi has been sent out
hunting for lion, tiger. buffalo and a large
snake Fart OF the ceremony. at the corona
ton consists of the king eating a portion of the
hearts of the first three animals to give him
couIa e, afterward being anointed with the
SnaAe's fat to prevent him being bewtched
1--WE can give point to New York people
about getting their moneys worth out of these
hItle moVaole ELECTRIC Dub lights, said an Ida
hoan the other day. "Out our way we take
them to bed with u.s. For keeping one com
Portable on cold night they as good as a
roaring fire in room. Rubber bags, lin boil
ers aud other devices for holding hot water get
cold. When begin to get ready for bed put
the lights between the sheets. By shifting it
about very little while it takes the chill from
the bed by the time | am undressed AS slide
in push the light down with my feet, ard usl
ally fall asleep with it there
SOME TINE SINCE a hanson cab was driven
at a very rapid pace along the strand in Lon
don, and passers by observed, to their horror
I there were two men inside engaged in an an
pearantly deadly conflict Fearing that muir
der was about to be committed. they raised an
alarm, and some bold individuals rushed to the
horse and brought the animal to standsti1
Ihereupo1 the two persons who minute be-
fore seemed to be engaged in life or death
struggle guilty leaned forward and distributed
among the crowd some handbills inviting them
to go TO such and such a theater to witness a
certain performance.
A LITTLE TOWN near Providence boasts a Con-
gregational church whose pastor, besides being
an eloquent preacher is a man of stalvart mr. a
portions. At one of his evening PRAYER meet
ings. say the Boston Globe, the services were
disturbed by two young men who audibly
scoffed at everything they saw or heard.
Finally the pastor demonstrated with them on
their behavior, and asked them why thew at
tended the meeting I'VE came expectinp to
see miracles performed" impudently replied
|
walking quietly down the aisle. the mast p
seized one after the other by the collar and az
they disappeared out of the door, with the
imprint of his boot in their trousers, remarked
We don't perform miracles here, but we cast
out devils.
SIR ROWLAND HILLS great discovery of the
value of simplicity in vast undertakings saws
the London NelrS, seems to have produced little
impression as yet upon those who lave the
management OF our railways. In Paris fine
directors OF the queer little line which rms
| right round the city inside the fortifcationS
aud forms means Of communication hetwaor,
all the great termini have Just made a consid
cradle advance in the right direction For rho
future the fares will be reck0ned by the nnno
Der OF stations one passes in travelling Eor
the tirst two s. ations the fare will be nance.
beyond these it will be three pence One bos,
only to remember that frst-class is inst dorbie
the price OF the ordinary or second-class and
that return tickets are issued for a fare and n
half, and one can, by looking at a plan. see alta
glance what one has to pay WHY NOT trv
some such plan on the District railway in Lon.
don? =" LUZ
AN ENGLISH WOMAN of some fame wrote re-.
Gently, in response to an invitation to sreal, i,
public on the freedom of women: II wish with
all my heart this question of woma1's righeS
were settled. have been tired of it for a Sary
long time; but am something more than tiraS
OF the smoking, sanging, utterly unwonnanlr
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