The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-09
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presidents, being only p years of age.
Two PHILADELPHIA PHYSICIANS were recently
arrested on charge of cruelty to animals, the
charge being based upon the fact that they
we in the habit of practicing vivisection on
dogs in the course of their experiments
"JUsTIFIABLE BURGLARY was the verdict
brought in by justice of the peace in Sumner
county, Kansas, in a case ia which the defend
ants were two boys who broke into an ice houss
on the warmest day of the recent hot spell.
If THE SCENT of pines is desired in a room
branches of the Norway spruce should be
broken off and placed in a large jug filled with
water In few days tender. pale green
branches feather out cool and soft to the touch
and fill the room with the delightful, health
giving odor. % % ~ OPS
AMONG the immigrants on the steamship
Calico from Rio Janeiro, we're twenty nine
Russian Hebrews, who were driven from tn eir
homes by prosecutions some eleven years ago.
They did we'll in Brazil, and three years ago
sent $4,000 TO relatives in Kansas in order to
purchase land for them in that state.
THE ENORMOUS IcEBERGs off Cape Race dis
appear suddenly and mysteriously. Here is a
case to throw light on the subject. A dispatch
from St Johns, Newfoundland, says the steam
ship Portia had got there disabled. las the
Portia was passing big iceberg off the banks
the berg broke in three pieces. One part tell
under the Portia ster ,. almost causing her to
AT Bristol, Eng, are two young artisans who
are the prize twins of the world. They of
the same hight and weight have eyes, hair
and complexion of the same color; walk speak,
laugh, sing exactly alike; follow the same &C.
cupatior; have the same religious persuasion
and likes ard diskes; are both mar led and
have the same number of children, who are of
the Sa me sexes-three boys and three girls.
THE PEARL CRAZE in Southern Wisconsin is
increasing, it is rero-ted, and hundreds of per
sons are searching the strt ms for gems. One
! estimate places the amount received for pearls
in that section last year at 100000. A 13-year
old 10y at Broadhead found pearl few days
| ago for which $1,000 has been offered. The
Boston Journal says that, judging from the
accounts given, the clans from which the
| gems are obtained are likely to be exterm-
mated, so great is the hunt for them.
| A PAIR OF sUsPENDERs, a thing too often de-
spsed and execrated in hot weather, saved the
| life of S. Schmidt of Greenvil,e and that, too
| on one of the hottest days of the season. On
| Friday MIR. Schmidt was overcome by the heat
| while at work st. Paul's parochial school,
| and would have rolled off to the ground had
| not his suspenders caught on hook and held
| him suspended in mid air until other workmen
| came to his rescue. 1t is hoped that this dra-
matte incident will appeal particularly to
| those persons who are victims of the delusion
| that suspenders add to the mseries of a hot
| day
! THERE was tragical scene at a funeral in
Scotland the other day, The clergyman, who
| is fond of elaborate ceremopials OBLIGATED and
| in proceeding through the kirkyard to the grave
| he thought proper to walk bickwhad with his
| face turned toward the coffin and mourners and
| Offering prayer as he went along AS the
| reverend gentleman headed the procession there
| was nobody to warn him when ne reached the
| grave, the consequence being that he fell into
! 1t bac edward, TO the indescribable condemnation
| of the company. He was ANONYMOUSLY
| dragged out, only TO hear venerable spectator
| describe him as foolish Galatian. and another
remarking that the proceeding was lust vain
| and silly play He was lucky not to break
| his neck or his back.
THIRTY THOUSAND INHABITANTS of Madrid
mostly women, assembled on Saturday morn
| ing outside he great prison walls opposite the
! scatfold upon which a woman was to be execu
| ted. According to Spanish custom, this was
| done by Strangulation The criminal sits on a
| wooden bench before post, against which the
neck is pressed and broken by an iron collar
| Inls execution excited tremendous interest in
| all classes OF society, and particularly among
| the lower orders. Many were dissatisfied with
| the sentence, because it was believed that this
| Sc want girl mad not been alone in the murder of
| her aged mistress. She confessed her share in
| the crime, but accused another woman who
| was sentenced to penal servitude, with being
| the principal actor in the tragedy. The Madrid
papers on this occasion give vivid descriptions
| or the horrors OF the present system by which
convict is shut up for thirty hours with friars
| and priests saying masses and prayers and
| Keeping the wretched criminal in the awful
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case the woman had to be carried to the scaffuld
! half insensible.
! DISPATCHES from Athens announce most
! disastrous fire upon the celebrated Mount
| Athos, the holy mountain of the Greek church
The nre has destroyed the largest part of its
| monasteries which have been located upon the
| mountain for centuries, most have been COM
| pletely destroy ed. The loss is estimated at
| 100000 francs. Twenty monks and hermits
have perishe1 in the flames. The mountains of
! the district of Mount Athos, near Salonica are
covered with vast forests of pine oak and chest
! nut, They are 5000 feet above the level of the
sea, and during the middle ages were dotted
over with hermitages and monasteries twenty
or which still remain. The monks dwelling in
the mountains are said to number about 5000
from Greece, Bulgaria, Roumana and Russia
No females are permitted to enter the peninsula.
Inc monks are rued by administrative
assembly composed of delegates chosen for a
term OF four years. Some of the monasteries
had rich libraries AMI old and beautiful manu-
scripts. Several of the latter have been nhoto
graphed and deposited in the Museum of
Moscow.
A FIRE caused by water was the apnaren.
paradox that presented itself in the Union
Clothing Company's store on State street about
o clock last evening, says the Albany ErDress
| The watchInan employed by the concern dis
| covered water dripping down from the ceiling
in the forward part of the store and telephonaG
| for the protectiyes that they might come and
protect the goods with tarpaulins minute
later the wood work about one of the electric
light wires began to smoke and emit blue flame
and when the protect.veS arrived the services OF
an extinguisher well as of the tarnaniins
were required. Chief Higgins and one of the |
members OF the protectives received an electric |
shock while they were tearing away the wood |
work to which the wires We. e attached The
dama2e was comparatively slight. The ex
PLANTATION OF the appearance OF the fire was that
the wood work. saturated by the dripping
water, became a good conductor and drew the
electricity from the wire, the Insulation az |
which may have been defective in addit on.
The electric light is supplied by the Electric
Illuminating Company, and word was sent
there TO send man 10 disconnect the wires
The water that caused all the trouble came |
from closet on the third floor, which had over
flowed.