The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-04
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for 20 cents has besn fined sl75 and disfrac
chised.
A BAxK in Springfield, Mass, received for col
lection Saturday draft from Chicago upon
| large corporation for cents.
| THEY do something's on a large scale in Sout
America. Ex-PreI lent Celman OF Argentin
eft the bank at B1enos Ayres. where he di
business, with a deficit OF 81, 100000.
RECENT very Trustworthy calculations Of tn
population Of the Chinese empire by Russia
authorities reckon it at $4,000. coo. and the az
| nual increase at 4 0O.00Q Not one IN 10, %
ever heard Of the religion Of Jesus Christ.
II Is on RECORD that the vaaderbilts onc'
gave check for e7OO.OOO in a tremend 1us rail
way traasac ion, hut that record is now beatel
By the check for s1.2,0.0)O said to be drawn il
London by the Indian and Peninsular Railway
Company.
CHEF OF Police Crowley of San FRANCHISES
who has been at the head of the police depart
ment for eighteen years, says the Chinese Their
commit more crimes in proportion to thei
number than any other race. and are the mos
difficult of detection
HANNIBAL HAMLIS. who has lived undel
every President but three, when asked rece ntl
why he did not write his memoirs said that h,
could not trust his memory, and he has faile
TO keep diary during his political career. H
IS Ia perfect health at 81 because OF labor in tn
fields.
IT Is 800 years since spectacles we're first used
and the invention is variously credit ed TO Sal
vinodegli Armati, whose epitaph at Florenc'
claims II. and the monk Alexander of Spina- Ii
TIE fourteenth century tChaucer's tinle) spec
tacles were used more generally. but were still
precious GLASSES were employed LOO year:
ago; and Nero, who among mis- otarr infirmitie:
wa near lighted, used concayet glasses TO SCI
the games of the gladiators.
EUROPE is soon to be entertained by a troor
of Persian singers, wrestlers, boxers eques
TRANS, coniurers and mountebanks to the nun
Der or sixty, who will give performances of a
k Rs never yet seen In the great capitals; Mes
OF these gentry are bandtti, whose local celeb
rity has been earned as much by highroad ex
ploits as by artistic performances, but a Rus
sian impressario has banded them together and
begins his rounds with them at Odessa.
THREE GOATS were born in Cincinnati a few
days ago. Two of them are perfectly natural,
but the other is not so fortunate. its body is
natural except the head. which is double. 1t has
four eyes. two mouths. two tongues. It's ears
are set back further than usual. While all reg
ularly formed goats have NJ upper t-eth-only
hard gum-this one has set 10 the upper jaw
of each head, making it have tour sets Of teeth.
In the middle of ths two heads there is one eye
socket with two eyeballs. The mother actually
disowns it, pays no attention to it and seems
to be utterly oblivious to the fact that il is her
offspring.
NEW DEMAND has sprung up for silver.
Under the new Brazilian administration COIN
age of new silver will be made in Rio Janero.
whittier l5,0O0 ounces of silver bullion were
ship recently, and lots OF 150, 900 or more
ounces will follow by semi monthly steamers.
like amount of silver was sent to Rio. Janero
prior TO the dethronement Of Dom Pedro. The
complications which followed the revolution
temporarily interfered with the new silver
coinage, but arrangements have now been
made to carry it through. This will involve
shipments of between 800 ,000an 400, COO ounces
per month.
AN AUTOMATIC PHOTOGRAPHIC MACHINE has
been invented in England. A patron, aftet
placing penny in the slot, takes his stand in
front OF the lens and adjusts his position by a
small looking glass placed above it, He leans
camera. and in about five seconds the ringing of
bell announces the completion of his sitting.
wnlie forty seconds subsequently his p OTTO
graph is delivered to him By the machine re.
quiriag only half a minutes exposure to the
sun or lighted match to dry or finish it, An
addition Il half penny placed in a slot produces
fra ne for the photo.
The QUANTITY of meat thrown overheard into
the Atlantic is very great says an English
paper Out of 1875 cargoeS of animals seat to
the British ports in one year from Canada con
sisting of 81 ,0a2 head of cattle 81 1882 sheen and
consigned to the deep during the voyage. OF
the 432 cargoes imported from the Unite
States to this country, comprising 1873, 6Sl head
of cattle, 3o,3l7 sheep and Il PIGS. 1870 of the
first and S51 of the second class of this live
STOCK was thrown overheard during the voyage,
thus numbering 1855 animals which were
pitched into the sea in the year.
The GERMAN AGRICULTURIsT who was the
leading performer in the subioined little scene.
cabled from Hamburg, had an eye for effect In
tragic situation. "A farmer named Heinrich
Bruins, whp lived in the village of Wosterwich,
having cause to suspect his wife, called her and
their children into the cellar of their house
barred the door. accused her of unfaiuhfulre5s
and declared that she must die for her crime
Then he made them all kneel down and pray for
the forgiveness of her sin, and after that
repeat the prayer for the dying. This done he
bound her to wooden bench, and with an old
cavalry sabre he hacked her head off Then
with great GOODNESS he drew a revolver from his
pocket and blew out his brains. The screams of
the children attracted the attention of the
neighborS, who broke open the door and foun
the little ones bespattered with their mothers
blood and the eldest girl lying in dead faint
across her body"
The harmless, necessary" household feline
has been blamed for many things particularly
i n the way of crockery breakages, but never
before have we heard her blamed for injecting
the children with diphtheria- But it is so. Cats
are frequently affected with wheeling cough
which Prof. Klein, of the Royal Society of Lon.
don, avs is nothing NO cor less than diphtheric
allment, and can readily be communicates to a
human being When kitty is ailing 1t is the first
impulse of child to fondle him, and in doing so
the child is pretty sure to inhale the breath Of
the cat. DR.. Klein says that in every case where
he experimental in inoculating cats with the
diphtheric bacillus it produced the pulmonary
trouble referred to; and where children have
nursed a cat with this pulmonary trouble thew
have sickened afterward with we'll marked dinh
iberia A Jealous eye upon the family cat and
upon the milk supply would, according TO DR.
Klein, prevent many a death now considered
due to an inscrutaole Providence
THERE are probably more club bonds af1ost
in New York now than at any other time in the
history of metropolitan cubdom Several large
clubs owning real estate have issued honds
Quite up to the real value of their holdings
Inc smaller clubs have issued bonds mostly 10
their own members, and entirely on the GOOD
1aith or the clubs. unless they happen to be- nm
Incorporated. in which case the members q "a
individually Liable. In the case of the weaker
CLUBS, however, the issuing Of bonds is Ettla
more than a convenient mode of making an az
sessment Club bonds, for The most naTt hear
q comparatively high rate of interest The Nav
York Athletic Clubs IS once sold slightly hAlou
par, though they were atterward at a prenninn
When the Calumet was without real estate II
easily ttoated $4,000 in bonds. The Reform
Clubs bonds are second mortgage on IRIS raaI
estate but the reformers are not disposed 10
attempt an issue beyond their real estate The
ponds bear per cent. interest and are held hv
members OF the club in denominations of al 060
AMONG the arrivals that arrived in San Ia.