The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-29
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feet from the fifth-story window of his tenement
home in New York recently. He was so fat
that he rebounded from the pavement and
alighted second time, uninjured except for an
abrasion on his chubby nose.
CARDINAL LAvIGERIE, now occupied with his
scheme for the evangelization of northern
Africa, dwells in dignihed simplicity at Beskra,
in Algeria. Says correspondent who visited
him there: The walls are bare-not a picture,
not a bit of sculpture, nothing but a small
statue of the Virgin. which faces the crucifx
over the mantelpiece. The cardinal turns to
confront me. He is dressed in scarlet, with the
same Florentine cap that Dante WORE half
covering his ears and falling to his neck. The
purple cloak standing out in clear relief against
the bare flooring heightens ones impressions Of
the cardinals uncommon stature. He is an i'm
posing figure. 1t is as if the form familiarized
to us by Bonnat's canvas had stepped down
from its frame. There are the same lustrous
eyes, the fine. serious features, and the white
beard flowing to the breast, where it half covers
the chin, whence depends the Episcopal cross.
few minutes of conversation with this man
suffice TO demonstrate that his is an intellect
above the level of common men, and one that
sweeps the range of conception, from the
subtle to the sublime.
This CASE full of implements which we have
newly placed on exhibition is designed to show
the development of the tool which we call the
knife, beginning from the earliest times" said
Prot. Mason TO the Washington Star at the
fragment of flint, which the savage split by
banging it on top with a stone hammer into
number of flakes. The smaller ones were used
for arrow points and the bigger ones for knives.
their edges being split off so sharp that you
might almost shave with some Of them. Next
you see the flint inserted into handle of split
wood or bone, and, as further improvements,
the fastenings of this primitive knife in the
handle by the rosin of trees and by cord of one
sort or another bound around to secure
it. The most beautiful knife 10 the collection is
Tod do fodo
belonging to the stone age, branded with
walrus tusk. You can hardly find a more adj
mirably formed weapon among the products OF
modern cutlery wares. Most curious of the
modern tools here is this sailors knife, square
at the end instead of pointed, to prevent stab
bling in row, or the dangerous falling OF the
weapon from aloft. Its blade drops out of the
end of the handle when spring is touched. 80
that Jack can hold a rope with one hand aud
open the knife for service without the need OF
ten fingers"
THE following are some of the alleged nui-
sances for which injunctions and damages have
been asked from sympathetic courts and juries.
| In a recent English case an enthusiastic anna
| teur played daily eight hQslrs on violoncello,
and on Sundays a little longer sometimes. To
add to the misery caused, the player lived in a
| fiat. The Judge before whom the case came
decided that three hours was long enough for
| any human being to play on a violoncello, and
| the injunction issued. In case before the
court of common pleas some time ago in New
York person was brought up for trundling in
a carriage overhead his teething baby, both by
night and day. The judge, who must have been
| a married man. held that the noise was not I'M
reasonable, and refused to interfere. In another
| English case a chime OF bells at Deptford was
not allowed to ring because the noise was
| offensive to the majority of the property own
| ers In the vicinity. The newspapers recently
| mentioned the sad case of discharged Choir
lister, who took horrible revenge on the con-
| gregation by sitting 10 a pew and purposely
singing out of tune. Whether he was indicted
or not for disturbing public worship does not
| appear There are few annoying sounds which
| have not, sooner or later, been alleged as null
| sances, but the courts hold that many of them
must be endured.
| THE PRINCESS OF WALES is one of the busiest
women In the world, compared to whom the
| wife of day laborer has leisure. When her
daughters were in the school-room, punctually
| at O'Clock every morning she went into the
! schoolroom with the teachers and masters to
| examine the work OF the previous day. and now
| that they are in society she personally super
vises their gowns, designing and working on
them herself, as she is q skilled dressmaker.
Besides her own arduous public duties and
those she has to perform for bhe old lady queen,
she undertakes large correspondence with her
| brothers, sisters and parents. So numerous
are her calls of duty and pleasure which fire.
quently takes the form of duty that when in
London this royal lady, who is never expected
| TO button her own boots or curl her royal hair,
| cannot get her work done to retire earlier than
| 2 O'Clock in the morning. Not many years after
| the pretty Dane came up to London on her
| wedding journey she wrote in her diary as her
favorite king and queen. Queen Dagmar and
Richard Coeur de Leon; her favorite hero, poet
and artist Wellins ton. Byron and Sir Joshua
Reynolds The author she most admired then
was Dickens. the virtue to her most worthy was
charity, her favorite locality was home" her
chief ambition mot to be fast" and her motto,
"Dieu ct mon droit"
HARRY MILLER, old resident of Oil City,
who has been absent for the past nineteen
years and was long since given up for dead, re-
turned home last week. He is as full of old
time and interesting "reminiscences as an egg is
of meat. He was the first chief Of police and
detective that Oil City ever had. The circum-
stances following his departure in 1872 ara
rather romantic. He joined the regular army
and went to Texas. He wrote home when he
could get chance, but the family had moved,
| and fifteen years ago he was told by an
acquaintance whom he met in Texas that his
, wife was dead and the children were all doing
well. From that time up to three months ago
he has been a gold digger, cowboy, a regular
enlisted soldier and government detective.
The family reunion came about in a peculiar
manner. His wife applied for pension from
the government and stated that her husband
| was dead. The case was pi9eonholed In the
pension office for some time, and the pension
officers finally made an investigation which
resulted In their informing his wife that Miller
was alive and well in Baltimore, Nd His
daughter, Mrs. M. E. Harms, and husband left
| Immediately for the address given, and found
Mr.. Miller getting ready to come to this city,
he having heard that his wife was still Ia
the land of the living. No persuasion was
necessary to have him accompany the party
! home.