The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-13
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pronounced sound and hearty.
TIE PRESENT WINTER on the North Atlantic
coast has thus far been the warmest known to
the United State signal service.
c. j. JONES, who is going to run for congress
IN the Seventh Kansas district, killed one of hi
buffalos last week, and sold the meat for sc
cents pound.
MONEY is being raised for tho erection of q
monumental statue of Commodore Vanderbilt
on the. campus of Vanderbilt university al
| Nashville, Tenn. g.
IT WAS discovered at recent Banquet in New
York city, which William Lloyd Garrison at
tended, that not one OF the negro walters had
heard the name before.
c. LoNGFELLow, druggist at Machias, Me-
inserted an advertisement of his business in the
first issue of the local paper forty years ago
and has kept it in ever since.
THE EMPRESS OF GERMANY has changed her
name from Augusta Victoria to Auguste- victo-
ria, proceeding which has involved an i'm
| mense amount of state business.
| WH1LE sinking well at his new saw-mI near
Seymour, Ind, Jesse Cox came across some
| large chestnut trees thirty five feet below the
| surface IN perfect state of preservation.
| A CURIOUS FACT about cigarette smoking is
| that nearly double as many cigarettes are
smoked during July, August and September as
during any other three months of the year.
| The CHINESE GOVERNMENT has just ordered a
new edition of the famous encyclopedia which
was originally compiled during the reign of
| hien-Lung. The index alone fills twelve folio
| volumes.
| The WoMEN's CLUB OF BROOKLYN is to cele-
brate its 2lst birthday on the evening of Feb IS.
| by giving large reception in the assembly's
| rooms to which will be invited many ladies and
| gentlemen from various cities.
PROF JANSEN, who is regarded as a high au-
thority, and who is consulted as a chemist by
| the principal beef-canning establishments in
| the United states, asserts that American pro-
| auction OF this kind, by their superiority, are
| driving those of other countries out of the
/ market.
THAT there is nothing new under the sun is
shown by the unearthing in Kahun, Egypt, of a
Will which is 1850 years O d. 1t is SO curiously
| modern IN form that it might almost be granted
| probate to-day. The testator who was a priest
9eVised his entire estate to his wife. This is the
| llrst recognition of the power of women to ac-
| qulre and exercise rights of property.
TIE ROMAN TRAMwAYs SOCIETY has concluded
contract with the English Electric Traction
Syndicate to make experiments upon the line
| on the Via Flaminta outside the Porta del
| Popolo. The line runs to the Ponte Molle a
| spot much frequented by the Romans in sum
iner ana ON all holidays, and there are numer-
|
| the Ilber there
| GEORGE MACDONALD, the novelist. says that
on one occasion he was discussing with Tenny-
| son the well-known and beautiful poem, THE
! Northern Farmer written in Lancashire dia-
lect, ana IN the course of the conversation Ten
| nyson confessed that his cook, who was of Ian
| caShire birth, told him that she could not I'M
| dersUand the poem and that the dialect was not
| Lancashire speech.
| On HENRY NJ. STANLEYs arrival in London.
ten days hence, he will receive a testimonial
| banquet from Americans resident in London,
| with Minister Lincoln presiding. He will at the
| same time be presented with an American flag
made of silk and massive silver shield craven
| with appropriate American and African en-
| blers, and with scenes illustrative of the princi-
| pal incidents of his various journeys through
| the Dark Continent.
| HERE has long been a tradition in Japan
| that once treasure of gold bars worth now
SSO000O,OOO was buried far beneath the earth
| somewhere in the Enclosure of the castle of
| Auki Harutomo. Three attempts 60 dig it out
were abandoned on aCcOu of accidents to the
work. Last May excavations were begun
| again, and the wOrkmen have come to pieces
OF boxes covered with plate iron and other in
dlcationS of what is believed to be approaching
| success.
| UNKNOWN to the public, a large amount of
| work is being slowly but surely carried out,
lease and free pardon of the convict Mrs May
brick. The new evidence which has so far been
collected is stated to be of a most important
character, and turned upon the question of the
arsenic which was detected in the body of the
deceased, the contention being that the amount
OF the drug so found was quite insufficient to
have caused death.
| FUNNY STORY is going the rounds of the
press of young lady who found a horseshoe.
and wishing for good luck, placed it under her
pillow in company with her false teeth In the
morning, in the hurry of dressing she sinh
| stituted the shoe for the teeth and wore il for
some time before the mistake was discovered.
ms story was told to a young lady visiting
Meadville Pa, and with great astonishment in
her voice she exclaimed: And never washed
| the shoeI' She was evidently more SURPRISED
at the lack of cleanliness than the size of the
girls mouth.
In ONE of the large parlors on the main floor
| of the Arlington hotel Washington, D. c.. there
is magnificent exhibit of silverware by a
prominent northern firm, and some of the
pieces are marvels of workmanship, both in
etching and design. Some idea of the display
| can be formed when it is stated that a silver
punch bowl, lined with gold, and with dainty
cups to match, is held at So, 900. Upon another
| table is dinner service of solid silver and
eXqu1SItely carved for which the firm will ac-
cept $4,000. Night and day two guardians keen
their eyes upon this silver, and the relief sleens
| behind Japanese screen in one corner of the
|
| THE LONDON PAPERS are now carefully in
| specting advertisements offered for insertion
that is, those of a personal nature. Some of
them printed affecting appeals to III. BIO
| return to his afflicted relatives promising that
| if he displayed a contrte disposition all would
yet be well, the notices being signed "V r -
The obvious allus on to Henry Of Battenburp
| and his imperial mother -in-laW was too trans
parent TO escape attention long, and the adver-
tisements were hastily killed after they had
afforded considerable amusement. Prince
| Henry, 1t is said, has vowed that he will never
| again visit Balmoral, never again wear kits
and that he will speak to his brother Alexander
| in spite of all the queens in chrstendom
ELL F. SWEET, queer old character of Pike
county, Pennsylvania, has written a book on
Bears and Bear Hunting the locality being
Coufined to his county. He estimates that
seven bears have been killed for every acre in
| the county, or q total of 1886 bears to 400 :
400 acres of land He says only 442 died from,
| natural causes. Over so 900 of them have oniu
been killed after a paw-to-hand conflict WITT
| their slavers. Nearly 9S,000-or, to be exact
| 81, 423-have received their mortal wounds
from Bowie knives, after having been shot
| from one to thirty-four times Over "a O00
| have been killed by small boys armed onIv
with axes; IL, 739 have bitten the dust in trying
| to steal little girls away from their moI6ers
| the mothers having slain them. great MANY
| have been killed by faithful dogs in defense ~
4 sleeping babies, over whose cradles the faithful
| dogs were keeping vigil.
| The srLvADoRs, or musical jugs, found among