The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-17
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FANS over. and his conclusion is that it is good
for 100000 years Tnat's long enough for any
one performance to last, ana the people of that
gederatioa can hunt for something else.
The CATHOLIC POPULATION in this country is
estimated at s30l, 367. and the number of priests
is placed at s,463- Z, 125 regulars and $685.
seculars- Ihey attend 7,420 cnurches, 2,7Is sta
ions, ana l,539 chapelS. There are 2J2 orp an
asyiuEls, caring for, IL is estimated, 2,761
orphans. There are thirty theological semi
narleS with 1851 Students 125 colleges and 622
acaa m es. and 3209 parochial schools, with
o54,S3S pupils.
Few GOOD WIVES object to their husbands
going to the Audubon Club OF Detroit. Who
ever smokes in that club must bring his own
cigar TO the club house, and whoever wants a
drink there must have brought 1t along with
him-a dreadful condition that has not vet
been Known in the CLUB. The aim of the club
Is 10 provide rooms for reading and card play
ing, but no playing for money is permitted, aud
az AZ Q clocS sharp every night the club rooms
are closed.
The LAST Of the original contributors to
Punch, which was started forty nine years ago,
died last week in the person Of Harry Plunkett
GrAtten Grattan who was in his SD year. He
never male much Of mark aud has beel for
gotten many years. His wife was at one time
a somewhat flashing actress and singer, and in
the revival of Masks and Faces under Ban
croft's management, his two grandchildren
made quite a success in their performance of
i the little triplets.
REPRESENTATIVE DARWIN S. HALL of the Third
congressional district Of Minnesota is one of the
new members Of the House He was the victim
/ recently of a clever swindler. A wedressed
man called upon him at his house and claimed
/ to be one of Halls constituents. He said that
| he had Just been granted patent on a valuable
/ invention, but did not have enough money to
| Telegraph the good news to his family. Mr.
! Hall handed him S.. He atterward learned
that the man had played the same game on
| several new congressman.
| The PRINcE OF NAPLES heir-apparent to the
throne of Italy was recently startled while
driving in R )me by new terror now agitatng
| nervous people in Europe. A carriage contain
| ing number of Americans was blocked near
| that OF the prince on the Torso. Looking up,
tue prince saw that one of the Americans had
| pointed something at him, He turned pale for
| moment then smiled and courteou>ly raised
| his hat He had seen that nothing more deadly
| than Kodak had been directed toward him.
Inc American had made clsver snap shot.
SOME THE AGO Joseph j. speck of Kansas
City learned of the existence of a certain alleged
! miraculous stone found in Southern India,
! winch would heal wounds of all kinds particu-
larry snake a1d dog bites and any sore from
| winch hydrOp lobia or lockjaw might result. To
| learn more of the wonderful curative powers
| OF the stone, Mr.. Speck addressed a letter to a
| native of Bombay. Toe Hindoo replied that
! the stone is supposed to be fund in a serpent's
| mead, and IS rarer and more valuable than the
/
savage natives place great faith in its power,
| and guard II as sacredly and carefully as they
| do their idols and gods of metals. The owner of
this particular stone advertise it and offered it
| for sale in an American news oape aud it was
| tn S advertisement that Mr.. S6eck saw. The
owner of the stone wants $1,000 forit.
A BRANCH of the Baltimore Society of Disap-
pointed Lovers was organized at Wilmington,
DEL, recently by Joseph T. ark, who is presi-
dent OF the Baltimore organization A dozen
| Wel-known young men in town, including q
| lawyer, several politicians and prominent
| merchant, met in one of the large hotels. Mr.
| Clark explained the nature OF the organization,
saying that it was mutual consolation 1ciety,
and any man to be eligible to membership must
have BEEN engaged and the enga CEMENT must
| have been brok N by the Ia one. Hs severely
| denounced flirting and said that caused nine
| tenthS of the woes of man. Ten men appended
| their names to the constitution, and each re-
| lated his experenc in striving for matrimonial
honorS The constitution requires every man
to shun female society at all times, and a vic a.
ton of this rule means expulsion. A lookout
committee was appointed to search for new
| candidates
A REGGAR, who for thirty years has been
familiar figure in st. Peters at Rome, has just
died suddenly from appoplexy. The Rome cor
respondent of Lon ION daily reports some
| curious circumstances in connection whit his
| man. whose name was Pietro Marcolini. He
| was the only mendicant who was permitted to
follow his calling wi hin the church itself, Plus
* having granted him that privilege. Leo
XIII. confrme it, andalso, like his Predecessor
| granted an audience to the beggar, who was
lame and afflicted When Marconi was re-
| ceived by Plus TX he comp aimed of the cold he
felt within the church. whereupon the Pope
bestowed upon hIm an old warm dressing gown
OF his own. This garment, however, the beggar
wore only on great occa ions and the more sol
emu festivities of the church. He had been
repeatedly offered large sums for it by foreign
| ers, but always refused to part with it. Marco
lini left an estate worth $1,000 francs.
E. S. WILSON, blacksmith of Ozark. Mo-,
has relic of the Marshied cyclone which &C.
Cured on April IS, 1890, that is a very remarka-
BILE curiosity This witness of one OF Inc freaks
OF the great stor Is a bllck quart bottle bent
| by some mysterious force int an elliptic circle
| without crack or break in the glass that the
closest scrutiny can discover. The neck of the
bottle actually touches the ed ge of the bottom,
| and the fact that the glass was not broken I'm
| any way by the force of the storm is shown by
Its holding water or any other fluid. BY gra lu-
! ally turning the bott as the water is poured
in 1t can be nearly filed to its full capacity so
| as to show the perfect Soundness of the mate
| rial. This bottle was found by Mr. Wilson the
day after the Ma Shield disaster, and exam
1 ine1 by Prof Tice. The met Tologist attributed
the bending Of the bottle to the force Of cleo
| trcity, and co sidered this one of the rost
wonderful results Of the agency at work in the
storm oud. Ths bottle was foun in the
wreck of one of the Marshtield drug stores
THE EMPRESS AUGUSTA had great partially for
everything French. French was the language
in which she usually conversed with her
daughter, the Grand Duchess of Baden. She
| always had a French reader, and she has even
been accused Of having too strong sympathy
with the French people, that objectionable sin
| of the Ger man political gospel. II was a matter
| of course that the Empress Augusta would he
| queath the bulk of her large fortune to her
| laughter, the Grand Duchess of Baden who
now is very wealthy, as she inherited 6.OOnOOO
| marks from her father. the late EN- error Will
| lam. The hereditary Grand Duke of Baden has
| no chill rem so the fortune of the grand duchess
will ultimately pass to her daughter the Crown
| Princess of Sweden The empress has left a
| consi erable sum to her grandson, Prince Henry
| of Prussia. The disposal of Babelsbery was
the item in the will of the empress which px
| cited most interest. This beautiful estate was
the private property of the late nperor Will
lam, who bsq eathed it to his widow. and she
| has left it to her grandson, the present en-
peror, to his great delight as he has always
been very fond OF Ba6elsberg, which will proba
| bly, becom the suffifier residence of the i'm
| perial family. a2 i's
WRITING about the use of trained dogs in for
eign armies as sentineis, mes sengers etc. the
London Saturday ReUiew recalls that the en-
| ployment of dogs in war was not infreouent
! from the very earliest times. Corinth is said
| to have been saw d-by fifty of these valiant
auxiliarieS, which, while the rest of the garri
son slept remained on the alert, and Performed
valuable outpost duty ii the drunken rsvelers