The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-11
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call on Mrs - and charge it to the Lord"
ARTHUR PoPK, aged Q. son Of A. Pope O.
Davless county, Indiana. continues to labo,
under the halluci1ation that if he eats soIit
food he will CHOKE to death. and he subsists en-
tirely on liquids. The Lad Is strong and health,
and seemingly all right.
HENRY STRAeER, rich farmer in Braxto
county. West Virginia, says the Lord appeare
TO him In person and commanded him to se
all ne had and give TO the poor. He then dis
posed OF his property 70 his ne ghbors, VIII
| succeeded In getting his farm equipments at
ridiculously low figure
The brothar of West, the colored man exc
cuted in Washington, Pa, could not hire
| hearse in town 10 convey the remains to tn
grave, aud was obliged to get wagon. H
was told by undertakes that popular supersti
| ton IN Washington would ruin the business OF
any undertaken who let hearse for such q
purpose.
LUNATIc arr sted in Brooklyn gives the fol
| lowing account Of himself: II am the Emperor
of Japan, and have given full instructions to
my lord high executioner to hang 400 promi
nent people in Brooklyn, beginning with
| Saloonkeeper Rotherback OF Broadway, and
| winding up with Mayor Chaplin Dewitt G. Tai
mage and Boss Mclaughlin. After that will
| ave regiment Of Amazons composed of all
| the tailor girls of DutchtoWn. Their uniforms
are already ordered
AMONG the recent patents intende for the use
OF limited section Of the community is a
watch hand remover for matchmaking work
| Two metallic strips are compressed and nip the
watch hand, while pin Is pressed down on the
cen Q post OF the watch, and a slight relaxation
/ OF the baud lifts the watch hand off the post
| Ihis device prevents all danger Of cracking the
olas, breaking the centerpost and losing the
| watch hands, and however tight the hands are
fastened they are readily removed
IT Is TOLD of Justice Maule of England that
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in the presence Of the jury which had convicted
MIN: Prisoner at the bar, your counse thinks
| youinnocent; think you innocent, bus jury
| OF your own country nen, in the exercise of such
! common sense as they possess, which does not
| appear TO De much, have found you guilty and
| 1t remains That should pass upon you the SEN
| tence OF the law. That sentence is that you be
| kept in Imprisonment for one day, and as that
gay was yesterday, you may go about your
| business"
ALARMING NEWS has been received from Turk
ish Armenia of the attack by Mohammedan
mob upon the British consulate. Toe christian
population Is said to be in a condition Of great
alarm as result of the frequent and unchecked
| kurdish raids Fears are entertained of a col
lision at Aschekian Tne Armenian patriarch
has called a meeting, at which the consul was
| invited, and where it was resolved to send
special delegates to inquire on the spot as to
| alleged grievances and endeavor to bring about
| a rapprochement between the two sections Of
the population.
A NOVEL APPLICATION Of electricity has
recsnty been made in ELEPHANT catching. At a
recent capture of forty of these animals, when
| the last OF their unwieldIy bodies had passed
the entrance into the khedda the signal for
| barring their exit was given, instantsneousy
and without word spoken, by means of an
| electric wire. II is only short time since
petroleum superseded native vegetable oils for
| lighting throughout the baZars and villages OF
| India. Electricity is now taking the place both
of petroleum or coal gas in the great spinning
| factories, for which 1t is peculiarly suited in a
| not clmate, owing to its GOODNESS and absence
| of smell.
Mrs. JAMES G. BLAINE, JR., who has had such
| hard fight to regain her health, attracted
| much attention while dining with a party of
friends few evenings ago at the Victoria New
York. Her early career pro missed q bright
| future, but it was apparently completely
wrecked by rheumatism. She suffered ter
ribly, but she now appears TO be fairly on the
road to complete recovery. In appearance she
| is still very handsome. has bright color, aud
| but for limp 10 her walk, it would be difficult
| for any one to tell that she had passed through
such an ordeal of protracted suffering. Her
misfortunes have brought around her many
| friends, who have great confidence in her. She
| will go on the stage alter all.
ADvIcEs from Zanzibar state shat another
rare piece of good luck has befallen Henry M.
Stanley. It appears that the distinguished
traveller had brought an action at Zanzibar to
recover 10000 damages from Tippoo Id fol
breach Of agreement 10 failing to supply car
| riers and necessaTies to Mr.. Stanley's real
guard To obtain q verdict against the African
| trader might not prove difficult but to collec,
the damages awarded might be another matter
Soon after the case HAD been begun, however
Tayra Topay, an Indian banker at Zanzibar
happened to mention to friend that he had
| just received Ei0, 000 for sales of some ivory
belonging to Tippoo lib, and had passed the
amount to his credit. This statement Coming
to the ears Of Mr.. Stanley's represe utativl the
latter at once took steps to inpound the sum
until Judgment In the case should be obtained
MRS. JAMES McKEENE, an old lady in lewis
ton, Me-, who was recently taken to the insane
asylum, had been very eccentric for years
while working In hecotton mills and mum
Der of cries are told OF her pecHliart.es At
one time she had lot Of cockroaohes in box
near her looms which she would feed regularly
every day. Whsther they ate the food pro-
vded for them by their benefactress is not
known, but she took good care of them and
they increased in numbers until at last the
| superintendent discovered them and had them
removed. The old lady cried bitterly that her
pets-snd whoe er had such pets bstore-were
removed. They say she used to drop silver coin
IN the canal each day, which she said went 10
feed / or husband and boy who were droN ned
at ssa. Her boys clothOs which she carrie
| unIer her +rm she never ~ert-d With Every
morning she took the tun l. to her work, an
ca h niglG eturneu witt ~.
ACCORDING TO the Washington Post Nine
| Romero, in speaking of a recent funeral, said:
1t oppressed me to think OF that family re-
turning to their home, to be left all atone in
that darkened house where memories stand in
| every corner and look at one from every picture
Now, IN Mexico, we manage that better. We
have what think is a very comforting custom,
In few hours after the return of the family
from the cemetery all Tire friends begin to arrive
at the house, and for nine days theJ visit will
| them, endeavoring by cheerful conversation to
| draw their minds from the great loss sustained
There is no hilarity, only the truest and deepest
sympathy. All the callers wear mourning cos
| tune, and failure to visit the family during
| the allotted time is considered a serious breach
of etiquette. Frequent illusions are made 70
the good qualities If the dead, but there is no
| time for bro ding to intensity the grief and at
the end of the nine days, the deepness of the
sense of desc alton is worn off and the mourn
ers are ready to take up life again. Isn't that
an improvement over the American way?"
| To THE THEATER MANAGERS of this country is
commended a new form of chair for use in
| theaters, music halls. ETC., which is now being
| introduced into England. This chair is already
in use in several theaters in GERMANY and is
| intended not only to prevent panic in case of
fire, ETC., by e. aiding the audience to gain the
exit ors more easily than hitherto, but also to
allow ofici lis of the theaters and members of
the audience to move with freedom from one
| place to another. For this purpose the seat
and back of the chair are free to move and are
connected suitably together so that by means