The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-12
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/ the accident last summer. II will pay Louis
I vile peoplei in all about $4,000.
The FOREMAN of one OF the largest barber
/ shops in New York is authority FOR the state
/ ncent that the number OF men who part their
hair in the middle is increasing every day
TEE French grape crop is not good this year
| but the Missouri apple crop viii see to it that
/ there is no falling of in the supply Of imported
champagne, If the Freedmen viii only keep
I I'D supply of eorks and labels
TIE Beethovea house az Bonn Is now open to
/ the public A large number Of portraits busts
aud autographs, tue composers violins and
other instruments. his last grand piano. still in
/ good CO 7dition, and the aural appll anees he
| used are among the most interesting relics on
/ view.
! FARMERS attending the market say that the
coming winter will be mild one. and their
reason for the prediction Of this is: The hornets
/ are building small nests and low down on the
! trees. lower even than they did last year. This
/ the farmers say, is an unfaing sign of mild
i winter
! PRoF. julius PoHLxAS, of the Buffalo Med
ical College. says that it viii be necessary to
4 build the Niagara Falls tunnel partly under
/ water o. line il with brick because the frost
/ atmosphere aad springs woul cisntegrate the
sott shaie in which the turnl is being bored
Inc expense OF this work would be 81, o00. 0o) or
more
|
about 20 churches, s.. coo converts. 10000 ad
| herents 275 schools aud 10000 pupils. Thirty.
\ nVe languages or dialects have be n mast red
| INTO which portions of the scripture and re
| hSious books and tracts and general educa-
tlonal books have beel translated and printed
| and some knowledge Of the gospel mas reached
! about 100000 of benighted Africans
| MARRIAGE by photograph has taken place
A man waited upon the minister with a phono
| graph. The minister spoke into the apparatus
| the questions and the bridegroom the responses
| or the marriage ceremony. The Immersion
was then posted to the bride some hundreds
OF miles away, and she and the minister of her
village went through the same process the last
minister pronouncing the couple man and
wife.
NATIVES OF AFRICA refer to whisky as
shame water" but it appears they are not
ashamed to drink it, Agents of the German
government are accused of carrying large sup
pi es Of shame water, which they can readily
trade for ivory and other articles of value
There is said to be degree of thirst in Africa
at times which would induce native 70 barter
whole elephant for quart of this shame
water"
LADY Of Lexington, KY, whils walking
home was disturbed by an article in her shoe.
which she thought at first TO be a cinder which
had got in while walking along She vent
limping home. and on removing her shoe found
diamond earring Her dress skirt had ap-
perenty caught it up in some manner and
dropped it into her shoe. The lady is at loss
to know who who lost the valuable, and cannot
tell where she found it.
PIERRE LoRILLARD and his friends, who have
organized q society to reform the evils of the
turf, are confronted with a new combination
At kempton park there appeared the other
day female bookmaker. clad in plush cos
tune, who harangued the betting crowd in
dulcet tones, giving and taking odds cashin9
up the checks at the end of each race and
creating sensation generally. It is estimated
that the female jockey will be next turf innova-
ton, and it does look as if the reform club
would have plenty to do.
BURMESE CHILDREN, especially little girls. are
very fond of game which consists in throwing
tamarind seed into the air with one hand and
seeing how many more can be picked up by the
same hand before it falls and is caught. The
royal children used those made of gold and sill
yer, and King Mindon used significantly 10 i'm
press upon the little Processes the importance
OF keeping those that he gave them against a
rainy dty. They have now been mostly sol
or melted down. and are already exceedingly
rare, They are tokens. owing TO their weight
and fneness being assumed, and when, as sub
sequently happened, the majiZis assumed a
uniform and conventional shape, size and fine
ness, we are brought to point very near the
true coin.
THE metropolitan police force in London is
not under the control of any local authority.
but is directed by commissioners who are re
sponslole to the home office of the general gov
eminent. There is a strong demand in London
for the transfer of the police authority to the
county council and tn esubject has provoked
much discussion. 1t is urged that the concen-
tration Of imperial and national interests in
London is so vastly important that the higher
authorities should maintain control of the
| police in protection of all those central con
Germs that pertain to the greatest capital In the
| world Ultimately compromise will prabably
| be reached. The county council ought GER
talniy TO nave some share in the police admins
| tration Of the metropolis.
| bee country that ever existed. 1t was here that
! the tree growth found its last expression in the
| sparse and scrubby oak openings which, in
| happy Attenuation of tree ana grass and sun
| light; afforded vast fields for bee ambition to
| unfold itself. 1t was here, too, the bee said
| good-by to the white man he pushed out on
| the prairie. Here the trees ceased, and here,
| perforce, the bees ceased also. They could 20
| no further. So as year followed year, with new
| communities of bees following hard the old
| and all checked and held by the eastern bound
| airy OF the treeless plains there came at last
| day in these parts when bee was swinging on
| every clover bloom, and every hollow tree pos
| sessed its buzzing commonwealth.
| CHINA supplied 81 per cent. of the tea supply
OF the world in 1864, aud India per cent; but
in 1888 China stood at 43 per cent. and India at
81 per cent. In 1891 tea plant was discovered
growing wild in Assam, and in 1884 the Indian
government caused experiments to be made by
bringing plants from China and cutivating
them, and it was not until 1854 that tea planta-
| llouS were openel up. IQere are now SOC, 900
imported laborers working 1000 tea gardens in
the province of Assam. There are four other
| places where tea is raised, and the tea growing
possibilities of India are unlimited The Chi,
nese find they cannot compete by the old
msthods. and they are building railroads and
taking steps to lessen the export tax 1t looks
now as II India we're too far ahead to be out
done by China on the tea question.
The ORDER for waters to shave off their
mustaches in Vienna recalls to my mind some
| incidents apropos to those appendages in Eng
land. 1t is not SO long ago that Coutt's bany
issued an edict against them, which was fiercely
resisted There is now bank in 1.-The city
| wherein no official may Mea~ them aud it is |
but recently that barristers and clergymeu have
taken to doing so, whilst no judge or bishop |
would think of sporting a mustache unless ac |
companied by full beard. In the royal
navy no one can wear mustache alone
without the beard. the mode being
either whiskers and no mustache, tota
clean shaving, or tho whole of the hair on the
face; in the army no one can 20 without it ex- |
cept the chaplain, while the pioneers of the
regiment alone may wear a beard. Il is only |
of recent years that ths police have been
allowed to grow the hair on their face and an
actor with a moustache twenty years ago was |
almost unknown, the late Mr.. Sothern being
one of the first to wear it regularly Fifty |
years ago no soldier even wore any hair on his |
face, while, so strange are the chang of |
fashion. it is now becoming the style in London
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