The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-31
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own hands the management of his private for
tune, and 1t is asserted that short time back
ne negotiate a loan Of G, 900 MARKS, assured
by mort age on house in the Leibuitzstrss se
| IN Berlin. Before cJnclud .ng the treaty the
emperor visited the said house himself several
tunes. SO as to be sure of his bargain.
GIRL of only 10 was committed as ''a CON
frmed drunkard" to an industrial school in
san francisco few days ago. Her mother
stated that the girl would steal. beg or do
almost anything to get liquor and that she had
been drinking for arly a year All attempts
sSloner TO reform her or prevent her gel ting
hquor mad been failures, it was stated.
As A MAN was walking along the Hammer
smith road, near London, carrying a tame fox
under his arm, mastiff approached from be-
hind and so startled the fox tnat it sprang from
tne man arms aud darted along the road at
Iuis speed. with the MASH in pursuit. A dozen
other dogs Joined in the case and the fox event
uaily was run to earth in drain hole.
c. V. BOYS, an English scientist, has solved
the problem of measuring the moons heat.
| BY means of a thermopile composed of quartz
hlaments, which can render sensible the heat of
/ candle up to mile and three quarters, he has
peen able to demonstrate that the warmth from
| the moons reflected light is equal to that gwen
] out by candle twenty-one feet distant.
| ROBERT Ross, q young brakeman on the Pan
| Handle road, dreamed on Thursday night that
| he was thrown under his train while coupling
cars in the Cincinnati ward and that one of his
| legs was cut off. On Saturday his dream came
true exactly as related, except that when his
| leg was cut off his arm went too, and he was
| taken to the hospital in dying condition
RECENT OBSERVATIONS of the waters of Grea t
Salt Lake prove conclusively that the state
ments made that no form of animal or plant
life exists in the lake erroneous. No fish or
| other large form of animal life has been dis
covered. but the presence of vegetable organ
| lSms IN the lake may be considered fact from
| animal
A FIRM in Paris made an Easter egg for a
wealthy Spanish lady at a cost of $4,000 1t is
a most ingenious piece of mechanism, and is
made entirely of pure white enamel 1t is pro-
vided with doors and slides, the inside being
| engraved with Easter gospels. The opening Of
| a door sets tiny bird singing and musical
ap aratus going, which is capable Of playing
twelve airs.
| DEMAR GUANcIA, q Spaniard who Is now visit
ing the principal cities in this country, does not
speak word of English. He expresses his
| wants by pen pictures. If he wants pitcher
the bell boy. If he desires TO attend the thea
ter he shows the picture of a stage with actors
| to the hotel clerk, and boy is assigned to take
| him TO ths best show in town.
ACCORDING to the Lancet, DR.. Luder1tz has
recently made number of observations on the
destructive power of coffee upon various
| microbes He found that the organisms all
died in longer or shorter period. In one series
of experiments anthrax bacilli were destroyed
| III three hours, anthrax spores in four weeks.
cholera bacilli in four hours and the strepto-
| coccus of erysipelas in one day. Good and bad
| coffee produce precisely similar effects.
G. L. PALMERToN of Woodland, Mich has
worked quite a reputation for himself as a
| weather prophet. Last fall he prophesed that
| there would not be enough snow at any one
| time during the winter for seighing. AT the
| beginning of the spring months he published
| weather predictions, claiming that between
| March 20 and June there would be fifty-two
storms and as forty-six of them have already
put in an appearance, it is safe to say that he
l had it pretty near right.
MAI. OGDEN died at Fort Riley, Kan in 1855.
| The remains were removed to Fort Leavenworth
and buried in the National cemetery there, but
| his monument still stands upon a little knoll to
the northeast of the fort, and it lifts its head
| towards the clouds in the exact geographical
center of the United States. OF the thousands
| Of men VINO have been located at Fort Riley
| during the past forty years, perhaps not one in
| a hundred knew or cared enything about the
oddty of his situation. The post is few miles
| east of junction City, Kas., and was formerly
one of the most important in the United States.
| SOME interesting stories of the Stanley expe-
ton were told the other night One OF these
should be very pleasing to total abstainers.
| The expedition started it seems, with an allow
ance of two bottles of brandy per man. These
| however, were exhausted in the first two
j nOnJnS ana Tor Two years The explorers
| without any liquor. They got very well with
/ out it, but, "thank heaven said one of them
| I'VE 4rried the empty bottles with us. For
when we got to Starvation camp we sold the
| bottles to the niggers and got more food for
/ them than one of the party got for his whole
| Kit. which cost him So
THE exhibition of jewelry which is now being
| held at the Kunstgewerbe Museum at Berlin is a
most interesting show. Prominent among the
| exhibits are some magnificent sets of orna-
ments lent by the Empress of Germany. They
are all made at Castellani' S famous workshop at
Rome. The most admired among them is per
1 haps the necklace presented by the Empress
Frederick, which consists of double chrysan-
| themum blossoms in gold, the center of each
| flower being very fine small pearl. Fine lotus
| flowers with pearls pending from them connect
the larger blossoms, each of which has a pend
ant of a small golA head of Hero.
| A TERRIER DOG, owned by native gentleman
residing at Dunnedaw, Cal, while running
about the compound, was DARED at by large
cobra snake, which, however missed its aim
when the do, took its chance and went for the
snake, succeeding in getting hold of it by the
hood, at once running off home with it, putting
the occupants of the house into terrible fright
| The dog then commenced shaking the snake
during wulch operation it released its hold
only to get second grip at it; but this time it
| unfortunately caught it below the hood, thus
giving the snake chance to give it bite on
the lower lip. This so infuriatei the dog that
two. The snakes bite, however, di its work,
for the brave little dog frothed from the mouth
and died in few minutes
PRrNcELY GEMS have been bestowed at royal
weddings. The gifts presented to Mile. d'Albe.
niece of the ex- Empress Eugene, were valued
at Sl,60o,0O0. The Earl of Dudisy presented to
Miss Moncr effe, while yet betrothed to him, a
bracelet OF fifty precious stones, and diamond
diadem which was worth 800 000 On their
wedding morning he presented her with a neck
lace OF five rows of pearls of enormous value
Mile. LeJeune, on her marriage to the Prince of
Chimay, among other jewels, received a neck-
lace with an outer circle of forty-two large bril-
liants, with inner circles each of which con-
tanned thirty seven briiliants, magnificent
emerald forming the medallion and three superb
brllliants the pendants. When AIurat took
refuge in Corsica, after the battle of Waterloo,
he had two diamonds worth $4,000 in his peck
cts Will the diamonds in his hatband were
worth $4,000 and those on his epaulets were
worth $4,000.