The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-28
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: American press was lately sold under the nam
msr at Sothebys, Lonion- 1t was the PennsylpG-
I MIA Gazette for the year l740. printed in Phila-
| delphia by Ben Franklin. It was secured by an
{ American dealer for ga. In a coin sale at the
same rooms on Friday. Ell were paid for
| Lord Baltimore set of American coins, consist
/ ing OF the shilling, slxpence and rare groat.
1T TOOK four generations" the old New
Yorker said, ito procure the fortune that is
I he'd by Mr.. Wealthy. HIS great grandfather.
4 100 years ago, died worth $4,000. which be left
70 his eldest sou. in whose hands the inheri-
lance grew TO S40,O 900. which he 3eft to his only
! h II, under whose administration it grew to
500, 900, which was bequeathed to the present
| Mr.: Wealthy, who, by the growth In the value
/ OF his real estate during the past half century.
/ is now worth S4.0OJ,OOO. II this fortune should
! be equally divided among his ten children each
/ OF them will be as rich as their grandfather was
seventy years ago, and understand that he viii
| thus divide IL"
| KALAKAUA was capable of saying a brigh {
thing when the occasion demanded Once
when playing game of poker with Billy En-
erson. the minstrel, in Chicago. he was called"
/ by MS opponent who asked him what he had.
| The Hawaiian looked at his hand and an
/ this time said the minstrel; ''I've got three
! aces. The king looked at his band again and
salo, You viii pardon me. but there are four
kings Emerson said that couldn't be, when
the Hawaii monarch of all be surveyed said,
| I've got three kings in my hand and I am a
| king mysel and that makes four kings. doesn't
|
But he wouldn't have taken them in Texas.
THERE is little if any ground for the sugges-
ton that Prince Baudouin of Belgium COM
mitted suicide. Everything tends rather to
| prove that he the victim of incompetent
physicians who failed properly to diagnose
| his case, and did Lot realize that the young
| prince was dying until it was too late to help
him. The dead man was probably one of the
| best loved of all European princes, and was Ger
tainly far above the general princeiy crowd in
| intelligence The ultimate succession to the
| Belgian throne now passes to Baudouin's only
brother Albert a weakly youth of 16 years, who
| is said to have tendency to consumption. a
| disease which has attacked other members of
| the Belgian Saxe-Coburg family. January, by
| the way, ID an ill-omened month to that family.
| On Jan. 81 1869, the young Duke of Braba1t,
King Leopold's only son, died, The kings SON
| in-law, Archduke Rudolph, died in January,
and the kings suburban palace was burned in
the same month.
THE newest cocktail" says the New York
Sun, affected by the thirsty New Yorker" said
veteran Dan Donahue yesterday, sis the Martini,
which is not very new, il is true, but has as yet
| had no successor. 1t is mistake, this idea
| that cocktails are viewed with disfavor on ae-
| count of their deleterious effect on the stom-
| achlc membranes, and that they are not so
much consumed as formerly. They still
the favorite form in which the casual, the coca
| sional, the weary, the enthusiastic, the going
| to- bed-now, the just-up New Yorker takes his
poison ana .hey are btter v mot o SO
| hear it put, as because they contain such
| mixture. Each of the elements seem promptly
to assert itself and to fight for the mastery i'm
medlately on arriving at their common deStlna-
| ton The Martini isn't much but whisky
cocktail after all; the least injurious one know
of is gin cocktail in the morning. But it
| doesn't stand to reason that any such mixture
| is good on repetition"
The irrepressible Chicago man shouted as he
stood in the rotunda of New York hotel: "You
| New Workers don't seem to know what, says the
| New York Sun, we are doing to make Chi
! cago the irdeScent metropolis of this coSmo-
poltan country. You may be surprised when
we Hold the worlds fair next year, to see that
| Chicago has become a great port for European
st, nsphips, and that the liners of the new
commercial fleet are running between Liverpool
| and Chicago over the ocean up the st. Law
renee, through the Canadian canals, and across
| the lakes. Where will New York be when these
liners bring their cargOeS to our Chicago docks
| and take their cargoes from our Chicago ware
| houses? Even the immigrants will come our
| way, for most of them that now land in New
| York are bound for the west. 1t is an English
enterprise, that's true, but l notice that the
| foreign steamers in the New York docks are
| also Eng ish, or German, or French. tell you
| That, within the next ten years, European
steamships will be swarming in Lake Michigan.
| and Chicago will yet be the metropolis OF North
| America"
Il WOULD never have been an old maid" said
a lady of 40, IF l had known as much twenty
years ago as know now. When Twas at a
manageable time of life heard so much about
| unhappy couples that was afraid to become q
| wife. But have looked around in latter times,
| and have changed my mind on the subject
| Last year took up a list of twenty wives of my
| acquaintance, whom had known before their
wedlock, and to whom spoke about their ex-
| periences in life. l found that fifteen of the
| twenty were happily married, that four of them
got along tolerably well with their husbands,
and that only one of them bewailed her natri-
monal lot. The fifteen happy wives are amiable
women, fond of their children and helpful to
their husbands. About the unhappy one of
them l can only say that she is a grumbler
married to a growler, and would be unhappy
anyhow, and as to the other four the fault is
not all on one side. suspect that the twenty
married women have spoken of are fair speci-
mems Of wives in general, most of whom find by
| experience that marriage is what makes life
| worth living. AS l, myself, am the soul of
| amiability believe that would have made a
| happy marriage if had not been frightened
by the stories that heard twenty years ago."
A GIGANTIC PYRAMID, the most interesting
relic to the antiquarian now on the American
continent, lies few miles to the west of Pueblo,
old Mexico. The spot is easy of access, and has
been visited by every traveller of note, either
American born or foreign, who has interested
himself in the least in hoary antiquities. 1t
rises suddenly from the plain and is built of
huge adobes, or large unburned bricks. Al
| though mutilated and overgrown with trees, the
massive base and four stories of the gigantic
structure are yet almost entire. Humboldt de-
scribes it as a work of such magnitude and
vastness as, next to the pyramids of Egypt has
never before been seen in the world. Its hight
is 172 feet and the sides of its base 1855 feet,
being 275 feet lower than the great pyramid of
Cheops, and 627 feetonger. The brick material
is interspersed with layers Of stone and mortar
and the four stories are connected with each
other by broad terraces. These are assembled
from bench to bench by regular and oblique
| flights of steps, which lead to little chapel at
the top, which has been dedicated to the Virgin
of Remedies In Strengthening out the road
which leads from the City of Mexico to Pueblo
it became necessary to traverse portion of the
base of this ancient monument. In cutting
| down a section of the base an interior chamber
built of stone and rooted with beams of cypress
was laid bare. In it were found Skeletons idols
of clay stone and bronze, and numoer of
pottery vessels, curiously vanished and painted.
SENATOR CARLISLE has accommodated his
tastes to his senatorial surroundings and now
takes his seat in the Senate clad in a sober
black, which is regarded as inseparable
from senatorial dignity, instead of the familiar
Kentucky homespun which he in his heart pre-
fers. The disting ush ed KentuckiaD 8 style of
oratory has also changed Instead Of the
measured phrases and passionless monotone in
which he was accustomed to announce his rul-
ings when speaker of the House. he now infuses
animation and earnest defamation into his