The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-08
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| CLoTH IS successfully made from wood.
Strips Of fine grained wood are boiled aud
Ing b en- carded into parallel Ines are spun into
threads from which cloth can be woven in the
usual way.
TIE crowded audience attending the Resi-
denz theater in Berlin on Christmas eve was
forced to ct fifty minutes in darkness. broken
only by the 70 bic ray from lantern pIaced on
the stage. the electric light having failed in the
middle Of the performance.
An Armenian paper has been started in New
York, and is called HaLk. Should il enter into
that decline to which young and feeble journals
srs so exposed, it will bring the editor 10 Hoe"
/ his valuables ere the blasts of another winter
sweep DER us from the frigid zone.
AS A TEST Of steel manufactured at Reading.
Pa, the othrr day a ore-inch tar broke at a
strain Of s33,S3s pounds. being about 10000
pounds IN excess OF the highest record autdori-
| tatively known" The test was made under the
supervision Of the government officers.
"WHEN look ct our honored guest" ex-
claimed the orator of the evening. land re-
member how he rose from an humble position TO
be president Of this vast corporation, re lie
| torcibly the truth of the saying that there is
always room at the top" The president Of the
vast corporation, a gentleman with large bald
| spot on the top of his head, made a memor an
dun in a little note book, and the wages of that
| young orator have never been raised.
A CORRESPONDENT sends the following as
good example of mixed metaphor: AT large
temperance meeting held last F, urth of July,
| the orator, man of wide reputation, was
speaking Of the magnitude and extent of the
! rum power; he told in strong terms the lnflu-
ence it now has, and concluded his scription
with the following words: They the rum
power are now generating a current of cleo
| triclty hich win one day rise up and smite you
with sword or dynamite.
Mrs. MELLON J. CRAcRAFr of Des Moines. Ia,
went to the county inflrmaFy in Dayton, O., a
| few DAYS ago snd found her mother Mrs I
| W. Beach, who has been there for several years.
| Mrs. Cracraft became separated from her
mother fifty years ago, during the cholera cpl
| demic. As ne lrly all the family had died from
cholera, each thought tbe other was dead. Mrs
Cracraft went west and married a wealthy man.
and by acc dent heard of her mothers whers-
abouts. Tne injecting was a happy one. Mrs
Cracraft will take her mother to Des Moines.
THE best selling, Autographs to-day" said a
clerk in a Broadway. New York, store that
makes a specially of selling photographs of
foreign and local ceiebr1 les Fare tho3s Of Mrs
| J otter, Mrs. Langtry, Mary And rson, Edwin
Booth and Lawrence Barrett. Mr.. Harrison's
photographs have never sold well. and the sale
OF Mrs Cleveiand's Tx ness fell short one-half
after the close Of her hus band S adm nisrration
| The demand for the pictures of Mrs. Langtry
AMI Mary Anderson has continued ubirter-
ruptedly for the past seven or eight We rs
| Women'S tastes are much more tickle than
| mems, as, for inst nee, the photographs Of
popular actors vary In their demand as much
| as the style in spring bonnets."
DURING the present century three girl queens
have. before the advent of Queen Wilhelmina,
| almost simultaneously assembled the throne of
an European nation Maria a Gloria of ortu.
gal Isabella OF Spain, Victoria of England
The two first had the mis- fortune of attaining
to the regal power while still mere children
There has been vide difference between the
histories of the spoiled daughter of Spain and
Q headstrong P rtuRuesese damGel, and that
OF the grand and consci ntious maiden of IS
who was called upon to reign over Great
sister, the Duchess of Albany to the En- glish
court, Queen Emma will probably profit by tae
example set by the Duchess of Kent in the edu-
cation of her daughter.
ONE TINE, in order to test the courage of
Bengal tiger and Hon. said a well known
Snowman, I'VE placed shooting cracker in
the respective cages and fred the fuses As
soon as the fuses began to burn they attracted
the attention of both animal {, but in wild ly
different manner. The Ii drew into a corner
and watched the proceedings with a dstrustful
| and uneasy eye. The tiger, on the CONTRARY ad-
vanced to the burning fuse with q firm step and
unfnching gaze On reaching the cracker he
| took his paw and began to roll it over the floor
and when it exploded beneath his very nose he
| did not finch, but continued his examination
until perfectly satsf1 d. The lion betrayed great
| fear when he heard the report of the explosion,
and for quite time could not be coaxed out of
| his den."
MINISTER RYAN of Mexico was in New York
Thursday with Senator Plumb. He has been in
| Washington about two weeks, and told me he
exp cts to return to the City of Mexico in an
| other fortnight He will undoubtedly carry
with HIM instructions from the President and
| Secretary of State or toe promotion of r CT
| procity with Mexico within the limits of protec-
| ton. asked Mr.. Ryan about the report that
| M. Romero, the Mexican minister at Washing
| ton, is to return to Mexico to become Secretary
| OF the Treasury. Said he: i" hat is an old
| rumor, revived on account of Mr. Romero's
recent visit to his home. There is no truth in
| it. l would be certain to know il there was anv
| such movement on foot, aud am certain that
! Senior Romero will not be recalled from Wash
| ington on any account"
A MONTREAL PAPER tells OF a new religious
community that has recently been established
in that city. family having en- cured of
| the smallpox some time ago, the daughters
| manifested a desire to become nu s. They
| thereupon established themselves in a house
under the rules of q religious commuuity and
with a cOstums consisting Of red garments and
| white wells. The young women keep perpetual
silence, except during one hour each day. They
rise at a. m. and go to bed at D. m. In one
OF the halls is pillar four feet high, with
chains, crown of thorns, and instruments Of
discipline. On DAYS of public rejocings the
| sisters are chained in turns to this ri liar and
carry crown of thorns upon their heads, the
penance lasting one hour for each Two or
| three times week t1ey whip themselves on the
bare skin. They sleep in Separate G. lis, their
| bed being a coffin, with no other bedding than
a pail
l.. A. TowNE, wealthy man of Austin, Tex
tells this little story; 81 got my start in life
| through Jay Gould. l was a porter in a hotel
| at Greenwood Lake, where Jay Gould used to
stop, and the tinaucer took a fancy to me
somehow. One cay, lust as he started for New
| York said to him. NJ : Gould, l have saved
| up 500 and | would like to increase it in the
! next feS months and go west and invest it,
| could looked at me sharply moment and then
Whispered ~ my ear, Buy Erie bought Erie
and cleared oter 81 900 on the inv stment the
next time Gould came to the lake he asked me
II had followed his instructions. 1 told him
| that had. Sell 1t at once and keep your
promise about going west said Mr.. Gould
That night l eleyraphed an order for the sale
| of my stock, and the next time jay Gould Wis
tied Greenwood lake his favorite porter was
missing e He had gene west bought a ranch
and he has grown up with the country"
A CALCUTTA PAPER says that the sale in the
bazars Of India of Engls matches at the
rate OF two boxes for a pice is marvellous.
Matchesto the value of over five laos wer. i'm
ported TO Calcutta in 1889 80, tue amount
having ne1riy DO BILE in five Years At tie
Who'll sale price of bout 80 rupees for a case of
so zrosS the pre- sent imp IT represents 1872 900 :
600 boxes. Although inI orte from the United
kingdom, most of these matches are made in
Norway and Sweden. Upward of two lacs'
wor h more are imported from Bell un Ger
many Malta, Hong Kong. ald the Straits Set
| Elements. Those from Hong Kong and the
Straits are m nufa ured at To TO- in Japan
| where the dusUTy vas started about ffteen