The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-12
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decorative effects can be gained by coloring the
paper aod using IL In the same way as stained
or painted glass.
RAT BIT PIECE from the lip Of Miss E.
Wells while she asleep in bed at her
home. Seventh street and Railroad avenue
Pittsburg. early on Thursday morning. Miss
/ Wells IS painfully injured. and DR.. j. r Smith
/ is in attendance.
ACCORDING TO the NaUv Register there are in
the service Of the navy rear admirals, 10 COM
modores, IS captains. s. commanders. "a leu
/ tenant commanders, go ieuUenants.
| % junior hsutenants ia ensigns.
assistant surgeons, IS pay directors, Is pay in
/ spectOrs. 10 "a masters, % passed assistant
| paymasters, IL 'sistant paymasters. 20 chief
engineers, 81 passed assistant engineers. 81 as
sstanf engineer. % chapiains, II professors of
mathematics, naval constructors, and 10 civil
engineers.
NEW VARIETY of plant for parIor decoration
| in florists window the other day was marked
at the modest figure Of $780, In the passion
/ for this sort OF display, which is now rampant
in Boston, says the Post, the money expended
is out of all proportion to the intrinsic value or
beauty or the product, some rare specim ms
being sought for in preference to one in which
tue attractions OF form and color are conspicu-
GUS Tbs sort of interest recalls the Dutch
tulip mania, and though there is perhaps no
danger That our yankees flower fanciers will lose
t0er heads. as the old Hollanders did yet it is
NOEIu remembering LlaL the latter were ldrd
headed, matterof-tact people, and it isAsuch, by
the way, who are apt TO be most unsettled by
gust of excitement.
PETITION signed by over 300 oyster dealers
in the vicinity OF Philadelphia, praying for the
repeal of the law which prohibits the sale of
| oysters during the months Of June, July and
| August. has been presented to the legislature
| oY Representative Quigley of Philadelphia.
| This law is a very old one and is violated with
| lmpunlty. Tee petition recites that the whole
| sale dealers of this city lose much by reason of
| having TO close their places during the summer
| noni hs, the small dealers going TO New Jersey
| Tor what oysters and clans they need. Will
lam Boothly. one of the largest dealers IN the
| city. said: '1have not taken part in this move
! uent for the reason that believe more money
can be made by closing up than by trying to do
business Few people want oysters in the sum-
| mer, and these is no trouble whatever in sup
| plying this demand -"
DO YOU KNOW" said matron whose mar
ried life extends over a score of years, ''that 1
attribute in considerable degree the happi-
| ness of our life to custom which my husband
and myself have unfailingly respected We
never do aEy talking hardy speak to one an
| otner lndeed-befOre breakfast. He was quite
| confirmed bachelor when married him and
he told me soon afterward that until he had
| taken bis breakfast coffee he held the most mo-
rose and gloomy views of everything. thought
at first this was a little peculiar, out when my
attention was thus called to it discovered that
| l, too, found life much more agreeable and
| small burdens much more bearable after had
broken my nights fast Many wives tell me
their most available time to talk over things is
during the dressing hour / always feel like
| begging them to try some other time. 1t is a
| mental eXertion to discuss the ways and means
| OF this exacting exist nee of ours-too great a
one, think, TO be INDUCED in before breakfast.
CURIOUS LAWSUIT. says the Paris CORE
spondent of the London Telegraph, is being
| brought before the civil court of the Seine in
| which the defendant is Prince Napoleon. On
| March ", 1889, the prince was crossing from
| OStend TO Dover on board the ComtesSe de
| FIandre, when she was run into by the Prin-
cesse Henriette Her boiler burst, wounding
mortally the princes servant, Castel. A few
moments before the exclusion occurred the
man had been ordered by his master to go down
TO the cabin in search of a box, and although
the outlook was not very promising at the time,
| as the Comtesse de Flandre had sustained con
| siderable damage. he obeyed without the
slightest hesitation. The box Contained some
| important political documents, and Cast is
sou-who is bringing this action against Prince
Napoleon maintains that his father did not
meet his death through an ordinary accident,
but while he was dischargpg a special service.
at imminent peril to himself-in fact, that he
| was exposed thereby to more risks tuan any
other passengers. He has therefore. sued the
prince FOR damages TO the amount OF 34n0.
IT Is certainly fortunate that fires in London
have not thus far succeeded in getting away
from Capt. Shaw, when one consii FRS the ire
mendous effect upon EnIlsh companies that
the parallel of a Cnca-o or a Boston fire would
have ia the English metropolis According to
official reports made to the London fire brigade,
the large English companies have enormous
amounts a risk in that city, 50 that a conhagra-
ton which should happen to occur there would
be perhaps as disastrous in its results to them
as the great fires in tots country have been in
the past to some of our American companies
The following is the list referred to, with the
merciai Union $3.50 600 900; County, $685. oee oOo;
Guardian, 1916, 000, 900; Imperial $ls5 900 600;
Liverpool aud London and Globe, $3.50, 1000 600 T;
London As 'urance, $115,0OO 900; London and
camille, SlS0,000oO0; Northern, $40, 900 900;
Norwich Union, S75,eo0 900; Phoenix. $3.50
GOO OOO; Queen S45 600, 600; Royal, $a05 600 900;
cover the wide territory of London. but as some
of the companies have at risk nearly twice the
insurable value of the city Of Boston, it is evil
dent that II 9 great confiagration should take
place in London, it could not fail to lead to
| corporate bankruptcy in number of cases.
WHEN Christopher Columbus was leaving
Spain in despair after the junta had pronounced
his exploration scheme to be vain and imprac-
| ticabie, says the London Neirs, he halted at
the monastery of La Rabida, near Palos, to ask
for broad for his boy Diego There he poured
his sorrows into the sympathetic ears OF Juan
| Perez, who he'd been the Spanish queens con-
lessor The monks influence at court was still
sufncent to regain the ear of royalty for Column
bus and not far from this spot, VIII re his de-
spair was changed to hope. the marvellous voy-
age OF discovery was commenced in 1902. For
| this monastery of La Rabida, as we learn from
our Madrid CORE spondent, the Spanish
| ministers of the colonies and the public works
| with government engineers aad architects set
out on Saturday evening with the view OF set
| ting on the spot plans for the raising of a
statue to Columbus, for restoring tire famous
convent and for preparing accommodation for
an American congress and other projected cele-
brations of the 400th anniversary of the great
voyage of Columbus. The Spanish government
will provide the supplies by vote of the cortes
this year. and grand commission in Madrid is
| actively pushi the organization of this
national commemoration. Unfortunately the
| state of health of the lineal descendant of Co.
lumbus, the twelfth Duke of Veragua leaves
little hope that ne will be able to be present at
the fourth centenary celebration.
| EX-SENATOR WADE HAMILTON and Evarts both
go back home and will devote themselves
largely to their farms. says Washington
special. EvartS has a good sized estate in
| Vermont, and he bought another one down on
| the Potomac few years ago. AS to Senator
Blair, he will be happy at Picking, China and
he can live very happily on his $4,000 year
salary. He has his house rent free, aud there ia
enough civilized society in the Chinese capital
to enable him to talk education prohibition and
| other reforms. Senator Moody of South Da-
| kota is the lawyer of one the biggest mining
companies OF the Black Hills. He gets big fees
and ms salary from this company amounts to
much more than he receives in the United States
Senate. He will continue his practice and Will
keep his eyes open for a chance TO get back
to the Senate. What Gil Pierce will do no ona