The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-06
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| THERE are 1b4 students at the University OF
California in Beriely. Alameda county. of
whom 80 are in the college of letters and col
/ Iege OF sciences, 81 each in the college of law
and MEDICAL department, II in the college OF
! pharmacy, 90 in the college Of dentistry and 8
IN the Lick astronomical department..
/ dAJ. PEYToS RANDOLPH. who died in Wash.
/ ington last week, was descended, as might easily
( be inferred from his name, from an old Virginia
/ family He was the civil engineer who located
/ the Richmond and DRnvile road During the
/ civil war he served in the confederate army
/ and since then has been connected with rail-
/ roads, at first the Chesapeake and Ohio and
/ then the Virginia Midland. Following the alb
/ sorptIon OF this road by the Richmond and Dan.
vile, he successfully filed the offices of assist
] antant general manager, manager, and third
/ vice president.
! Is 1868 Van Rensselaer, Morgan, then in the
/ confederate navy had a residence in Wabash,
| Ind, and a fiue farm of eighty acres in the
! county which were cOnfiscated by the govern
/ ment ard sold at United States marshal's sale,
/ MS brother Miles bidding in the dwelling, and
/ an unknown party, who subsequently, sold it to
Thomas Payne, the farm. Miles Morgan and
| Mr.. Payne believed they held good title 20 the
| property, but recent decision of the United
States supreme court is to the effect that title
/ SO acquired survives only during the life of the
/ ulSloyal person from whom 10 was taken Van
/ Rensselaer, Morgan died in Washington last
week, and now his heirs begin suit TO recover
IlEhh Is n story illustrative or the COnSldera-
| ton Gen. Lee always showed for others, while
/ remaining absolutely Indifferent to what might
| bafal himself. 1t was in the wilderness fight
| and he and Gen. Wade Hampton were passing
| over the field. They came to a narrow pass
| between woods. and Gen. Lee noticed that the
| passage was well covered by the northern
sharpshooters, VINO were doing effective work
hampton, said the commanding general, Il
reckon you had better go round through the
trees and meet me on the other side, as the fire
OF the sharpshooters is very dangerous here. 8"
That is all there is of the story. OF course Gen
Hampton said: Gen. Lee guess il you can
Inconsistencies of personal danger and the
unselfshness of Lee These were incessant
characteristics of his.
ToNEY SEEFERT recently killed what is known
as the Great Northern diver in one of Fred
Schrader's fish ponds near Batesvlle Ind. This
bird is the principal of the aux tribe, has white
spots near the end of its lead-colored feathers.
Is nearly three feet in length and weighed seven
pounds and three-quarters. Its natural home
Is IN the northern seas, and it is also common
on the coast of Scotland. This is probably the
only bird of this kind ever seen as far south as
THIS latitude. Mr.. Seeiert also killed, on the
same pond, coot bird which is very closely
ailled to the water hen. but considerably larger
and wilder. The cooJ bird usually inhabts
large bodies of water remote from human habi-
JiLlon, out is migratory fowl, and wanderS all
over creation, but never leaves a stream of
water. The water hen never wanders, and is
always found IN inhabited localities
IT is RELATED of Won Moltke that, after the
capitulation Of Paris in 1871 he went to Colmar,
and, meaning to stay there few DAYS, did not
disdaln to ask for billeUing order. Mile r.
however, upon whom the marshal was to have
heen quaTtered, would have nothing to say to
him, and Moltke was fam to lodge and feed
himself at a hotel-of course at the lady's ex-
pens9. He asked for four rooms on the first
floor, invited people to breakfast and dinner and
treated them to champagne-in short. the leu
ton hero lived like a fighting cock But at the
end of three days the landlord, who hated him
quietly took leave to remind his excellency that
TOE term of the b.l etlng order had now expired.
Moltke replied with dry cough and demand
for small room on the second floor. During
the remainder of his stay he dined friendess
and champagneless al the table d'hote
AMONG tie real wants" of the age it has been
suggested that a typewriter which will do for
music what the ordinary machine will do for
speech or written composition, is prominent
Although not d-voii OF Difficulty the idea is
quite practical one. the principal obstacle to
be encountered being the tendency to uncertain
alignment, when necessarily heavy type faces
such as are formed by notes with bar and ledger
lines, have 10 be employed. The existing meth
DDS OF either copying music by hand or setting
II up IN type are so time consuming, that any
ef1clent music typewriter would be distinct
gain to the musical world. What is wanted Is a
stout machine, which would stand the wear and
| tear induced by the constant motion of the
heavy tvpeheads, and most of the modern type
writing machines, with slender steel levers acted
upon the keys, would not possess the necessary
solidity.
A SHORT TIME AGO the Rev. Father Lamothe.
of Little Falls, MINI had occasion to 20 to the
old trading post of Crow Wing, some twenty
four miles north of Little Falls and while there
visited the ruins OF the Old French mission
church at that place. The church has neither
doors nor windows, and is in n very dilapidated
condition. While looking through the build
ing he discovered hanging or rather nailed
TO the wall painting which at once
attracted his attention by its beauty Of outline
though covered with the dust of Years He se.
cured the prize and brought it to this city, where
it was cleaned and remounted. The painting
represents saint with a cruciflx raised aloft in
his right hand, while around him are clustered
representatives OF the various races of people in
the world, all gazing hopefully in the objection
of the upfted cross. The work is evidently that
of master hand and is supposed to have been
brought TO the wllds of the northwest by some
OF the early Catholic missionaries 1t is 5Ox4O
inches in size. All wao have seen it are enthu-
Slastic over its beauty.
'IT WOULD GIVE genuine and religious Turk
a fit if he saw how little appreciation Americans
show for the rose, and what little reverence thew
nave for 1t, spoke florist to the st. Louis
Post-DtSpdtch man as he wrapped the foil about
the stem of a buttOnuiere. The rose is beyond
question the prettieSt flower that blooms and il
was SO considered by the Turks many years be-
fore the conquest of Grenada. There is a re.
ligious legend generally believed in throughout
Turkey that the red rose sprang from dron of
the great prophet Mohammed's blood. Every
thing beautiful in nature is ascribed to him
The Turks, therefore. have great rever-
ence for the flower, and allow
1t to bloom and die untouched excent
on state occasions. and for the purpose
OF making rose water. After the conquest by
the Turks they would not worship in any church
until the walls were cleansed and washed with
rose water and thus purified by the blood of the
prophet. 1t is used on the body for the same
purpose. A Turk whose conscience is sUunp nv
some act or deed he has committed will caress
and pay reverence to the rose to appcase the
wrath of the prophet and Allah. With these
ideas lnculcated in him from youth it would
shock him severely to see the pretty flower
strewn in the path of bridal couple thrown on
public siege or banked up in hundreds at a
swell reception or party to be crushed and
spoiled in an evening"
CAPT. NATHAN APPLETON of Boston. who bas
been visiting friends in New York is large in
size, blond and bald, good traveller and quite
as able 1GcOHteur as his witty brother Tom
Capt. Nathan is very much interested in the
Nicaragua canal project, and was the American
representative of De LesSeps in the Panama
canal enterprise. He returned a few months
ago from prolonged visit to Santo Domingo
and has a lot of interest ng Information about
the Island While there he became acquainted
with Ulysses Heureux, the mulatto President of
the Republic, whom he describes as a man of
remarkable intelligence and political sagacity.
As to the true resting place of tbs bones of
Christopher Columbus, whether they are in the
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