The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-07
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about 1912. and bore as design the picture OF
a hog.
NEW METHOD of obtaining light has lust
been patented IN England, Instead Of the old
fashioned safety match the stick is tipped at
both ends one end with the usual congestion
and the other with that found on the scra cher
outside the box. Light is obtaine & by breaking
the match in the middle and rubbing the two
ends together.
EVERY kind Of business has its d1sappoint-
ments. One night last week Pennsylvania
burglars broke into the Rochester house at
RldRway, loaded the proprietor's safe in a car
rage and drove off with it. When they had
hauled the safe half mile from the house and
broke it open they found in it bundle of worn
out board bills and copy OF the St. Marys
Gazette, but no money.
A REMARKABLE weather change is reported to
have occurred at Orenburg, Russia, on Nov. 10,
1890, After a temperature of So with heavy
rain there was a fall of 100 below zero in %
minutes. Some thirty Kirghises who were re-
turning TO Orenourg were drenchei with the
RAIN, then frozen on their horses. Ten of them
had been found and the others were being
sought for. Many horses and other animals
succunbed to the cold.
For the purpose of continuing the publishing
business Of her deceased husband Mrs Florence
N. Wilde was granted by Judge Bookstaver of
the court OF common pleas permission to ''re-
assume the well cognomen Of her former
husband. Frank Leslie" Mrs. Wilde said IN her
petition that she is "2t years of age and up
ward, that the names of her father and mother
were q. Ionlin and Susan Danforth, and that
she was born in New Orleans.
SAVAGE or half-ovin zed princes often prefer
death to exile in foreign country. Malietoa,
the king of Samoa, jumped overheard when tn ,
Germans TOOK him to the Gi lbert islands and
was not rescued with mis- own consent. Three
chiefs OF the Comoro islands, Off the East AZ
CT boz.
months ago on account Of the revolution which
they headed against the French. Tney were
very unhappy on board ship, and when the ship
reached Obock they tried to jump overheard
and were placed in irons to prevent further
suicidal attempts
TIE CONDITIONS of warfare have been so rad
ically changed by smokeless powder and maya
zine rifles, effective at mile and half, that
European governments are seeking for devices
that will afford prot ction to soldiers. Austria
aad France are experimenting with shields for
this purpose. A committee of the French war
office has reported in'favor of bucs ar of alum
mum ard copper They think that a shield can
be made out of this continuation light enough
to be carried without serious difficulty and
strong enough to stop even the moderate rife
bullet. except at very close quarters.
TIE congregation OF a Utica church wers
| treated to an innocent yet amusing occurrence
| at q recent service. according TO the Observer
| The Clergyman, who was preaching on the sub
| Ject OF marriage, drew "a picture of a Christian
! home, where love and trust and confidence and
| peace ever found an abiding place, and then
| asked IL everybody would not be happy to be-
thus happily married. At that very moment a
| confirmed bachelor Ia the congregation was
seen to slowly and de iberately rise. People
| thought he was about to speak, and there were
dozen pretty matdens in the congregation who
| would have been glad to have him. He did not
| speak, however, but merely removed his over
| coat, for the room had grown too warm for
| him.
| WHEAT will Mrs. Grupdy say?" is an expires
sion covering the feverish desire to know what
other people may think or say about us, es-
| peciallY il connection with the proprieties of
| life, says the Philadelphia Ledger. There are
some who snpposs that such g dame as Mrs
| 0rundy really existed. whereas she was a me re
myth like Dominls Sampson, Pickwiok, Micaw-
| Der and Becky Sharp. The expression occurs
in Morton's comedy of 'Speed the Plow," writ
ten In 1898. In the play Farmer Ashfleld suddenly
| turns upon his good dame. after being vexed at
her frequent illusions TO Mrs. Grundy, with the
! exclamation: BE quiet, wool yes Always ding
will Mrs. Grundy say What will Mrs Gruudy
| think? Cans't thee be quiet, let US alone and
| behave thysel, prattyY" The constant repeti-
ton Of the ono odd phrase caught the ear OF
the public aud has held it ever since.
THE following sarcasm against episcopal
worldliness might have proceeded from an
| English wit La Moths d'Orlsans, Bishop Of
| preates, on Nine. Louise de la VALERIE some
| time after that princess had taken her vows
| The prelate stood apart, and, apparently, took
no interest in the conversation. AT length Nine
| Louise asked him of what he was thinking
Madame, " he replied, 81 dreamed that | was
| in Paradise, and that some one having knocked
at the gate, St. Peter asked who it was "A
| Carmeite' Let her enter A few moments
and there was another knock-the same in
| curry the same reply Then came a third ran
ping: Who is thatg "A Carmelite' All, good
| heavens, nobody comes here but CarmelitesY
| After while there was a fourth summons at
/ the gate. rs that another Carmelite:' NO,
! your saintshp. It's a bishop 'Ah, ah said st
| Peter, he il welcome, for tbs centuries siace a
| bishop passed this way
The time has been when a criminal felt him.
self to be safe and among friends as soon az he
stepped over the state boundary of Texas Not
| so now, for in many counties the authorities
keep one or more pacKs of bloodhounds to hunt
| down nurderers horse thieves and the worst
| Offenders against public morals. Travis county,
| for instance, has four Of these animals They
| have often been set on the trail OF fugit7es,
I aud never have failed to bring their human
| victims TO bay. The use Of the dogs has made
| the county quiet place to live in. Texas,
| thanks to Gov. Hogg IS fearless administration,
now bids fair to become as orderly as Rhode
| Island. Recently, when a miscarriage of
i Justice threa .ened in the case of a mankiller
trsl J., for shooting t,5 an unArmed editor
acterstic energy: There is 81 003 900 lying idle
| in the treasury of Texas, and intend to see
| that the laws of this state are enforosd if
have TO spend every dollar of it," The governor
showed that ne was In earnest by teeRraphing
the Judge TO stop proceedings until an able
prosecuting officer could be sent down On an.
other occasion, when mob had hanged ne
| gro, Gov. Hogg offered a reward of 81 900 for
the arrest Of every man who had been con-
cerned in the affair. There has not been a
| lynching in Texas since. The governor also
wars on the practice of carrying concealed
weapons. And yet no longer ago than 1868