The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-21
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robed, pig-tailed and imperial self another wife,
| AS he is only allowed to have seven wives at one
| time, and has already been in the marrying
| business several years, he will soon have to
| stop, or kill off few of his present wives and
| begin over again. The amount of diplomatic
| fuss and feathers involved in selecting a wife
| for this extremely fastidious youth puts Chi
reese ladies into deliriouS fiutter all over the
| tlowery Empire until the agony is over The
| selection of u juryman in a great modern
scandal trial is nowhere in comparison.
A WEALTHY Russian gentleman, living in his
own house on the banks of the Seine, has for
the past ten years kept in box in private
room the embalmed body of his young wife,
She was murd red few days after marriage
| and her Borrowing husband obtained the cars
permission to take the body away with him
The law of France forbids absolutely the keep
ing of dead body in any place but a cemetery,
but the Russian gentleman hopes TO obtain
special permission from high quarters 10 remain
the custodian of his beloved relic. If not, he
threatens to leave the country rather than part
with it.
DOES your daintiy fashioned summer shoe
bother you with trailing shoestring threaten.
ing to trip you up? Then tie it as follows: Pro-
coed exactly as if you about to tie an ordi-
nary bowknot, but before you draw it up pass
the right hand loop through the knot, give a
steady and simultaneous pull on both loops
and you may tread the sands of time or the
ocean beach all day ana waltz into the wee sma'
hours of the morning aud that shoestrIng will
never trip you up In untying be sure to pull
the right hand line and the string will readily
loosen but if you pull the other you will find it
as bard to unfasten as some hastily tied matri-
monal knots.
LORD LUTON the English ambassador at
Paris is graceful poet but he seems to possess
many of the idiOcyscrasies which ordinarily 90
with that form of genius, He gives one the im-
preston of being utterly lacking in all knowl.
edge of good form and good taste wears clothes
OF a fasnlon almost as extravagant as his father
was wont to do, and is ready TO rave and 90 into
rhapsodieS about any operate or dramatic
"Divette" who may happen to take his fancy.
While viceroy of India he distinguished himself
on one memorable occasion by solemnly pro-
senting gold medal, which he had struck for
the purpose, to circus rider during one of the
performances at the circus.
The GENTLEMAN who was conductor on the
first Philadelphia street car that ran over the
Fifth and Sixth street lines in the ante bellum
days tells how the old-time conductors had
wonderful chance TO ''knock down" untram-
eled as they were by registers or bell punches.
| Finally new superintendent called all the con-
ductors before him, beginning with the con-
| ductor of car No. /. Out of the sixty-odd con-
| ductors on the line about one-fourth of them
| admitted that they had been in the habit of
| taking the company's money These honest
rogues were not discharged, but the three
/ fourths who never took a penny" were not
| allowed to remain on their cars another trip.
Mrs HENRIETTA MORGAN, who has Just died
at Lexington, KY, full of years and honors, was
| known as the mother of soldiers" Besides
| her famous son Morgan the Raider" she had
| five sons and two sons in-law who entered the
| confederate service. Her sons in-law were the
noted Gen A. p Hill of Virginia. and the no
] less redoubtable Gen. Basil Duke of Kentucky.
! Gen. Morgan. Tom Morgan and Gen. Hill we're
| killed in battle and all the others were wounded
at various times, while all were prisoners during
| the course of the war. Frank Morgan, the
youngest Of the boys, was but IS when he en-
| listed. Mrs. Morgan's father, John W. Hunt of
| Lexington. was the first man in Kentucky to
| become a millionaire.
The collecting hobby of royalty is on the in
crease; thus the Prince Regent of Bavaria has a
| large collection of beetlas-the most complete
| in Germany-and is also great observer of the
habits of ants, Bees flies, moths, etc. OF other
| royal persons King Oscar of Sweden may be
mentioned as collector of books of poems
| with autographs of the writer's. The Gear
Alexander III. has preserved and increased his
collection of birds eggs and postage stamps be-
| gun when a boy, and the King of Rou-
| maues ambition consists in bring
| ing together the largest number Of au-
| tographs of all well-known personages
| throughout the world. The ex-Emperor of
Brazil possesses the most complete collection of
| butterflies, and the Qneen of Italy is very fond
| of continually adding 10 her already large col
lection of gloves. boots, and shoes worn at diff
| ferent periods at Italian courts including, for
| example. 'Nera's" sandals. "RenZi's' throne
| shoe a pair of white slippers and a fan which
| they say belonged to Mary, Queen of Scots,
| the Empress Josephine, etc,
| FOREMOST in their geographic importance,
and in the intricacy and significance of their
geologic structure and origin, says the Popular
| Science Monthly, are the mountain belts which
| consist of folded rock forma tions. The strata
! forming the upper part of the earth's crust are
bent up and down in long, nearly straight or
curving wave like ridges and troUghs, and
where their disturbance was greatest the sue
! cessive rldged folds are closely pressed to-
pether The waves of the rock structure are
then pushed to such steepness that their sides
! become parallel with each other and
the entire fold is driven forward into
| an inclined position The order of
| the strata on the lower side of the oppressed
fold is thus inverted; the originally highest aud
| last formed deposits there lie beneath Older
| beds in an overturned series. Subaerial ero-
| sion then wears down the fluctuations and the
crests of the closely folded strata, often plan
| ing them off until a long section. crossing
| mountain ranges. passes from older to newer
| beds and onward from newer to older, in sew
eral alterations, having throughout the whole a
| nearly constant steep dip. Owing to the inter
| bedding of hard and enduring sandstone, quart
| zite gneiss, and other rock formations,
| with more easily eroded limestone, shaleS, in
| coherent sandstones, or schists, the eroism
F, commonly produces new topography, making
| hollows and long valleys where the more erosi-
| bic beds have been removed, and having ridges
| and mountain ranges OF the harder rocks
| More than this, when erosion has been contin-
ued through very long periods, it tends toward
the ultimate result of removing the upward
curved or anticlininal portions OF the great folds
| and sparing the originally lower downward
curved or synclinal portions, until val eys take
| tue place which were originally occupied by
the highest upheavels, while the original
! troughs where the rocks were most compacted
| by pressure, remain nov at the principal mount
| tam ridges. Under denudatlon, the folded
mountainous belt fulfns the prophecy: Every
valley shah be exalted, and every mountain and
hill shall be made low.