The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-10
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SPoRrsxEN IN MAINE are fast going into the
woods TO try their luck with the birds and the
big game, as soon as the law will allow. Close
time on deer and moose will be of on Oct. l.
IT is ESTIMATED that if the tobacco used in
France during single year were twisted into a
/ cord two inches in thickness it would be long
enough to encircle the earth thirty times, fol-
! lowing the line Of the equator
A SCHOOL GIRL coming home to report having
won two prizes. says the Cincinnati Commercial.
remarked that one of them was for having the
best memory. Being asked what the other prize
was for, she replied; FOR the lie OF me, |
can't just now thick what that was for"
Mr.. GoTscHALk of New York owns the only
genuine and perfect holy shekel in the world
The interesting relic is about 34o0 years old
and was used in KIM Solomon's temple. Mr.
CT chalk is on his way to San Francisco 10
fulnll a promise and show the shekei to a friend
who IS Celebrated numiSmatist, and has tie
largest collection in this country.
The wholesale destruction of forests in this
country is attracting attention in Germany,
and it is predicted that we shall in few years
be impoverished in tree property. A striking
comparison is made of the two Countries
While the United States has II per cent. of its
area covered by forests, the empire of Ger
many has % per cent. of its entire area SO
covered.
The attendance at ST. Paul's Cathedral, Io--
don, when Canon Liddon was in residences was
probably the most cosmopolitan ever seen in
any church. On tbs occasion OF his last ser
mon, it is stated, there were present Japanese
christians, in their picturesque costume an
African priest, distinguished lay member of
the Greek church, and repre- sentative members,
probably, of every religious denomination.
The following epistle from a market man to
lady who dealt with him is published in the
North China Herald of Shanghai: please
don't cut my weight the leg of mutton at the
last day sent 81 10. according your Cut half
pound, sent back have got six pound and the
price Charge your ten cent for pound anybody
charge Accent pound give you the price very
cheaper. My dear Sir. Your Loving MARcK
| MEN,
REV. T. D. PERRoTT, an English clergyman,
| has discovered in the garden of an old house in
Suffolk sun Gial bearing the following inscrip-
tion on its base: This pedestal was part of
| the balustrades of Old london bridge, which
! was bui In 1l76, altered 1856, when the balus-
| trades were put up in lieu of the houses which
stood on the bridge, and was taken down in
1892" This should be prese rived for the inspec-
\ ton of Macaulay's New Zealander.
Two BEGGARs, named Jakubowski and WASH
lewics who for years have solicited aims be-
| fore the doors of the Kief cathedral, have just
retired and set up as renters, says the New
| York Post. JakuboYskia possesses a house
worth 10000 rou6es (f2,QOo), and a sum of 5000
| roubles $4,000. lodgsd al the Reichsbank
Wasilewics has invested all his earnings in
property and owns two houses of the value of
5000 roubles (e7,5OO) each, which he lets.
| SOMEBODY gives out the following as a correct
list of wedding commemorations: Three days,
| sugar; sixty days, vinegar; first anniversary,
iron; fifth anniversary, wooden; tenth anniver-
sary, n; fifteenth anniversary. crystal; TWEEN
tieth anniversary. china; twenty NTH anniver-
sary, silver; thirtieth anniversary, cotton;
thirty fifth anniversary, linen; fortieth annver-
sary, WOO ca; forty-fifth anniversary, silk;
tiftieth anniversary, golden; seventy-fifth ami
verSary, diamond
NEW YORK will probably witness one of the
most impressive spectacles in its history when
the young Czarowitz of Russia, accompa MED
by his brother, the Grand Duke George, visits
the city early in the spring. The metropolis
will be the last place visited previous TO their
return, and a big Russian fleet will anchor in
the harbor and welcome him The exact length
OF time he will remain in the city 49, of course a
matter Of speculation but it is probable that this
government will make naval display in the
harbor
Does a meteor belong to the man who hap
pens to find it, or to the owner of the ground
into which it plows when it strikes the earth?
On May 2, this year. a sixty six pound black
stone fell on the farm of John Goddovel in
Winnebago county, Iowa. Peter Hugland
found the stone and sold it to Prof. Winchell
Goddovel brought suit against Highland for the
value o the meteor. The court has just de-
cided In favor of the owner of the land on which
it fell, as part of the realty. appeal has been
taken to the supreme court OF Iowa.
A YOUNG eastern tenderfoot, who is now in
the state Of Washington, writes thus to a
friend: What do you think of trees $50 feet
high! They are to be found in the unsurveyed
townships near the foot of MouDG Tacoma, and
what is more, have seen them and made an
instrumental measurement with that result
There are lots of trees in that locality whose
foliage is SO far above the ground that it is i'm
possible to tell to what family they belong ex-
cept by the bark. Very few people know or
dream of the immensely Of our forest growth"
The extreme and touching devotion Of
widow for the wishes of her deceased husband
has probably seldom been better illustrated
than in the case of a recently bereaved French
woman, who visited a crematorium for the ur-
pose of making arrangements for the incinera-
ton of her late husband The manager of the
institution, after sympathizing with her over
her recent loss finally asked her: Madame.
we have two methods of cremation, the French
and Italian; which do you think the deceased
the French, by ali meanss Aiphonse was a
true patriot and hated Italian cooking Alp
honse was accordingly not cremated rItal-
ienne g go
THE delicate operation of skin grating was
performed in St. Mary's hospital at Astoria a
| few days ago, says the Portland Oreqontan
The patient was Ole Anderson, who had his left
| foot badly crushed at the jetuy about two
months ago. The skin fir on the ankle down the
| side of the foot for the space of four or five
| inches uare was torn off and the flesh left ex-
| posed. From the leg of Anderson several strips
were taken, but not enough to cover the space
| necessary. Another patient offered to lend An
dersOn little section of his cuticle The offer
was accepted and from the patients arm
enou b was taken to complete the operation
and four out of the six new pieces are growing
nicely. and in a short time Anderson will have
skin all over his injured foot
On the French coast of Croisic may be seen
thousands of little sea urchins ensconced in
cavities in the granite rock the openings of
which are too small to permit their ingress or
exit. The animals, it is not doubted make and
widen the holes for themselves, but the cues
ton how has not been answered Chemical
solution of the rock does not seem possible as
no sufficiently strong acid is found in the ami
NAL. NJ. John has recently explained it bv me-
chanical action. With the so-called lantern of
Aristotle, curious formation with which the
animal breaks up the hard substances on which
it feeds it probably bites the rock; the sucker
feet are attached, and a rotary motion is i'm
parted to the body, the Spines and the lantern
slowly wearing down the surface of the rock.
THE WITNESS of ex-Congressman Roswell G
Horn of Michigan is proverbial. In one of the
tariff debates in that state he made a hit in re-
plying TO Congressman Springer of Illinois |
which VIII be widely appreciated. Mr.. Springer |
had referred TO Dives in hadeS as q republican
lifting up his eyes to Lazarus, q democrat in |
heaven. Mr. Horr, in answering the Illinois
statesman, said that under ordinary circum-