The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-18
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| 70 appear IN cost me suited 70 tle apparent
condition or thngs, 20 30 ggan, Esquilneau, or
snow and frost covered suits. The children are
| In trailing fOPeppearaacs as snow fairies, frost
spirits etc. anaa sleigh bell c4orus and drill,
The su per is - match the rest of the pro-
| gramme. II The weather ontinues 20 behave
as It has done FOR the last foar weeks there is no
| douot the outdoor accessories VII be in proper
| trim for the ocea don. I51r- ar
A Brooklyn FaIsSD OF mine. SAYS the New
York Star. tells, me thiS story. when was
/ spending my vacation ia Massachusetts,, I went
/ with my daug Ter 10 the village church. When
| the organist conInenc "a 20 play, nv attention
/ was at acted BY the Tapping Of wings, ana on
sop OF the organ saw a sTlo Wv bite dove which
| seemed TO take great interest in the music
| The dove, known as Clumsy, was owned by a
| farmer who lived at some distance from the
! CHURCH. II attended service every s lnday and
/ often staid and made its way into the Sunla
! school room, where it would perch on the back
| OF the superintendent's chair. There il would
SIT cain aud demurs, uutil the singing was
| ended, when 1t would fly nome"
IF LIONS AND TIGERS catch cold dose of DOW
dered quinine is given 60 them in their food.
They sometimes suffer from dyspepsia, and
| meal OF liver st before them is readily de-
| voured and acts as q cathartic. They seldom
| need treatment, however, Tor any trouble except
lngrowing nails. In a savage state they keen
| their nails pared down by clawing the trunks of
trees. In captivity the nails gr " long and
| sometimes penetrate the flesh of their paws. It
then becomes necessary to relieve tn pain by
removing It's cause. A Topped rope is thrown
| down on the floor Of the cage. the animals paws
| are ca glt in It, and he is dragged 10 the bars
IN such position that the wound can be oper-
| ated upon. Plncers and clip with pair Of
\ sharp shears do the work, and the brute is re-
leased sound and cured.
A TRAVELLER in Mexico speaks in terms of as.
constituent of the magnificent construct on Of
the Mexican Gulf railway, on which the sleepers
are OF SOUND mahogany, and many Of the
bridges ana culverts are built of white marble
| Though this looks like lavish extravagance the
constructors have found the employment of
these subst noes to he economical as both ma
hogany and marble exist in abundance Ia the
country traversed by the line. Similar condi-
t1ons existed not so long ago in some parts Of
the vest Indies. In the Island of Jamaica it
was The custom on some of the sugar estates
few years Iago to cut down magnificent ma
hogany trees for burning in the furnaces in the
olstilleries, and to this day huge blocks of mar
bic are lying in the bed of some of the southern
rivers OF the island, practically valusless from
the difficulty of Transporting them to the coast.
FROM the eternal city come the tidings that
Prince Borghess, the representative Of that
family that gave a pope to the church under
tie title of Pauline Fifth, and a prince to
Pauline Bonaparte. sister OF the great Napo-
leon, is going to follow the example of his
pr decessor and to sell that magnificent collec-
tlon or ART treasures known as the "Borghese
Gallery of Pictures" This will be the second
time that the pictures and curioSities of the
ancient and honorable race will have besn dis
trlouGed Poverty, the normal condition of the
Old nobility Of Italy, is asserted to be the cause
Of the sale. The present head of the Princely
house has failed for over 21,5O0 900 through
dlsaSGrous oui ding speculations. His son, for
tunately, is married to one of the Torionia
family, which is immensely rich otherwise the
Borghese race would soon sink into obscurity,
as SO many OF the great noble families of old
have done
Mr.. STANFORD introduced in the Senate re-
1Ny
tectural designs, for the erection of an extension
of the executive mansion. 1t provides that
the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the
Treasury, and the Secretary of War, con-
shutting a commission, be authorized and
directed to cause to be erected adjacent to the
present executive mansion and connecting there
with an extension in accordance with the ac-
companying plan, proposed by Mrs. Carol ne
Scott Harrison, to embrace the present mansion
as private executive mansion, enlarged By the
addition Of an executive ONCE or official wing
on the west and public wing or gallery OF
pictures historic relics ana art treasures on the
east. Both extensions are to be counterparts
of the original structure in design and con
nected Herewith by colonnades and Railways,
and on the south by a connecting range of iron
and glass structures OF symmetrical design,
forming executive Conservatives and winter
gardens, the whole architectural group form
ing an inner park or garden, at cost not to ex-
coed $3.50, 900.
STUDENTS of folklore will be much interested
in tale of witchcraft reported by q Chinese
journal. They often complain that the nhabi-
tants of that vast empire do not contribute any
appreciable share to the records of ra1ition and
mythology which make the world kin-not,
probably. because the Chinese do not possess
such, but because we have not yet collected
them. The story now referred to shows that
superstition which Is always found wherever it
Is sought prevails in China also. A young
woman was arrested for bewltching her
husband, and the police searched her mouse.
Under the mattress of her bed they found a
paper inscribed with the word "Yenh-that is,
'rnan, and three tigers heads: whilst doll
tied up with red and green strings,
the S bS itself p0ra were found
we have an instance of magic
practices identical with so many charged
and proved all over Europe in the middle
ages, still employed by the red Indians of
America by the South Sea Islanders by a great
number, if not all, African tribes, aud by the
inhabttatants generally of Hindostan. China
was the blank in this world hitherto. There
are differences, as We should expect. The
witch writes man" in scarlet characters, Just
as the req skin makes the outline of the figure
while Europeans executed model In wax, and
Indians still make it OF clay. The slices OF pork
doubtless. were put tRere TO grow putrld; the
FlJalns, a cleanher people, hide fish with the
same object at distance from the house;
negroes employ a vegetable substance and
Europeans used to melt the wax figure itself
TIE notion Is the same all through-that an In.
dividual bewitched will perish gradually as the
opJoct decays.
THERE is probably more wealth Represented
in the ten blocks lying between Forty seventh
and Fifty streets on Fifth avenue, New
York, than in any other space Of equal sizs on
Their continent. On tho northeast corner Of
Fifth avenue and Forty seventh street lives Jay
Gould. Nearly opposite is the home of Mrs
James ID. Guion, an heir of the enormous Pike
estate At the corner of Forty-eiRhth street
and Fifth avenue is the palatial residence of
Robert Goelet waile one block above is the
equally splendid home of his brother, Ogden
Goelet. On the block from Forty ninth street
TO Flfteth street are the homes of J. Hood
Wright and Edward S. Jaffray, both many times
milllonalres. This block opposite the cathedral
begins and ends with the handsome homes of
Walter S. Gurnee and Samuel D. Babcock,
while D. ., Mills and the daughter OF Judge
Hilton dwell in the Intervening houses. Fifty
first to F1fty-fourtl street is practically ''Van-
derbllt lane, for in rapid succession come the
residences Of Mrs Will an Fl. Vanderbilt, her
daughters, Mrs William Douglas Sloane and
Mrs. Elliott T. Shepard, and her SON William
X. Vanderbilt; and at Pifty-fourth street are
the handsome houses Of two more daughters,
Mrs Seward Webb and Mrs. Hamilton Mex
Twombley. Just on the other side of the ave-
nue. are the residences of H. Victor Newcomb,
John II. Watson. Henry NJ Flagler, Calvin
). Brics and William Rockefeller while the
dwellings, OF such men Of wealth as B. Fulton
Cutting, George A. Kemp and Louis
Lorllard are sprinkled here and there The
four corners where Fifth avenue and Fifty
seventh street interseet are monuments to
will alrz ,tr-U nrf-