The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-27
LENS OF INTEREST.

ADvICEs just received at London from Stan
ley Falls, in the Congo Free State, tell of canni-
baliSm among natives and of an armed expa-
dition against them. Natives along the Lomani
river, who had booked the stream with hun
dTeds Of armed canoes killed and ate fifty
natives friendly to Europeans. An expedition
composed of ten Europeans and fifty Arabs
soon after left Stanley Falls to punish the can
, nlbalS, and after days battle succeeded in
routing them and occupying their villages.
Hundreds of the rebelliouS natives were killed
and wounded. The same advices also state
that the Badumus Ound Stanley Falls are re-
turning to cannibalism, and that several of
them have been court MARTA led and executed
ANYBODY who wishes can go into the big
Crane & Co. S factory at Dalton, Mass. and see
the wOrkmen place the blue silk on the ma
chine that makes the paper for all the United
States notes. The silk comes in spoos, and is
made by Belding of northampton 1t is sold
here IN Bangor. There Is no more secret about
It than there is about the water flowing over the
dam above the tollbridge. The real secret is in
the composition of the paper The silk thread
, IS secured by patent, to be sure. but the max
ing of paper, the compound of the ingredients
IS safe in the head of j. Murray Crane who re-
c9lyed the art from his father, who made
bonds for Salmon P. Chase, Lin
coins Secretary of the Treasury, away
back in war times. The pure
linen pulp is in big room, looking for all the
world like any linen pulp. Then comes j. ilur-
ray Crane with gripsack. lie ard toe grip
enter the room toget er, and it is presumed
that he locks the door for the door is locked on
the inside and the grip" does not look able to
do it, They are clOSeted half an hour When
they come out the pulp goes to the paper ma
chine and Mr.. Crane and the grip go home.
But the pulp is changed by that visit, and no.
body has been able to penetrate the Crane
secret. The company gets about fifty times as
much Tor that paper as for other linen paper
made in the same mill "
WHEN CHARLES TAYLoR aged 20, wooed and
won Rosa Gordon, aged II, they determined
upon what might be called a walking wedding
from Virginia, or an elopement by easy stages.
They could not get married very well in Peters
burg, their nome, as 1t is likely ROSa's father.
William Gordon, would have opposed it. But
love, though young, was strong in both of
| them. and was bound to surnount all Difficult
ties, even If they should include miles of south
| side Virginia dusty road or railroad cross-ties
| Lochinvarlsm has become somewhat antiqu-
ated' an a9d ever, even the run from Richmond
| rather tame by reason Of its frequency
| So the young couple determined to
change the plan, and to walk TO their Gretna
| Green-anywhere in North Carolina. That the
| runaway might be proloh ed as much as posi-
| bic instead OF making a bee line for that state.
| they tried to make the trip by travelling in a
| sOuthWesterly direction. They accordingly left
| by Petersburg three weeks ago, and since then
| had Travelled on foot more than 300 miles to
| Salem IN Roanoke county, an average of about
| ten miles day. There, however. awaited them
| Capt. W II. Cares, chief of police of Peters
| burg, VINO brought them back to this city.
| Rosa says she loves Charles, and that she will
| wade through blood up TO her neck for him; but
| that has not prevented Charles from being held
| on charge of abduction.
In THE YEAR 1861 lightning struck the tower
OF the st. Marien church, at Berlin setting it on
| fire. The danger of the church and that part
| OF the city was very great, as j Ist there the
streets were so narrow In the moment of the
greatest danger 1t occurred to Marshal Otto
Cristoph Won Spar that he might shoot the
| burning tower down with cannons. He did it
and saved the church, and perhaps the who o
district. The churchly minded field marshal
| felt cOnSc enJOuSl5 boun TO rebuild the tower
at his own Q ip This he did. but tnro Ugh
1t b.. anne SO Impoverished that he died
a poor man, SO that his relatives for
seven years after were frequently re,
minded of his unpaid funeral expenses
| While living Won Spar had erected il tle
church to MS memory a marble monument
which TO this day forms the chief attraction of
the st. Marien church, and is the most excellent
work of sculpture of the period by A. Scluter.
| On the monument was an inscription, natural Y
omlttlng the day OF his death The heirs and
distant relatives were so angered about their
loss OF fortune that they did not think it worth
While to fill this vacancy. Tle place at which
the date of death, May g. 1868, should be is still
vacant In opposition to this the noble heirs in
stituted sort of mock tablst of memory, which
hangs IN the southern part of the church an
contains this inscription: Luke xiv 2S For
which Of you, intending to build tower. sitteth
not down first and counteth the cost, whether
ne have sufficient to finish it, "
SIR WILLIAM FRAZER, in his "reminiscences of
Lord Beaconsfeld, has occasion to comment
on the narrowness of the limits which circum-
scrlOed fashionable society a generate or so
ago. From lSi7 to 1870 he says, London So
| ciety consisted of from 800 to 500 persons
| These were the people to be met at the best
0alls and evening parties. The charmed circle
was guarded from intrusion of outsiders with
The utmost Jealousy. Every one knows every
one else at least by sight, and you meet the
same partners night after night for three
mouths. Recent disclosures have made it clear if
| demonstration was needed. that no such ex-
| elusive fashionable clique exists now. nor if it
sui exists, that 1t no longer enjoys its old ures
tlSe says writer in the Boston BeucOn So
clety dlstlnction-Uo use a phrase which how
ever clumsy, nevertheless has precise meaning
may be achieved by almost any one who cares
TO pursue II, provided he or she makes proper
use OF some personal and peculiar qualification.
any single quallhcatlon. used the right way
VIII sunce; none is imperative. b. eedIng is not
essential where there Is wealth; the lack both of
oreeing and money may be COM
pensated by good looks or impotence.
Mrs. Ponsonby de Tomkyns may he ia
may entertain the highest in the land. without
either of them suffering the affronts or exciting
the rldicule which Mr. Puncn has imagined.
Society, which was once a clique. has now be
come a crowd, aud highly mixed crowd, IN
which may be met all sorts OF men and women.
Under the present dispenSatIon the privileges
once monopolized by rank and birth are now
within the reach of persons with neither
Some people are admitted only because they
are rich, others because they are talked about,
others only because they are IN way amusing