The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-05
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II is curious fact that the Rev Joseph Pill
moor, one Of the two missionaries whom John
Wesley sent to America in 1863. and who started
the oId Methodist church at New Rochelle which
mas just celebrated its centennial. became an
EplScopal clergyman in later years. After the
revolution church was built for him on Ann
street, and was called Christ church. 1t was
atterward removed to Anthony (now WORTHY
street. near Broadway, and has since made two
plIgr9rnages farther up town. In 1877 there
were lou negro communicates of the Episcopal
churches IN the city. and lin MIR. Pilmoor's
christ church. ten members, as the record says
a COUNTRY JUDGE in Hungary gave a decision
few days ago of which Solomon himself might
be proud. Members Of the Nazarene sect in the
town OF Gyoma requested his honor to be al
lowed to cruelty one of their number, who was
Messiah, and had been called by heaven to
save men," The Judge for a moment was
dumbfounded. Friends, - he replied after re-
covering his senses, II do not wish to interfere
WITH your religious practices. II your Messiah
wishes to be crucified, let BIN prepare himself
Tor death. Remember, however that II he does
not rise again in three days. shall cause every
one OF you to be hanged" The Nazarenes it is
needless to add, allowed their chief to live.
IL the August number of Free Russia Step
MAX draws terrible picture Of the impending
famine in the land of the car He believes
that it will be worse even than the famine of
lo9O. The crops have been destroyed, ;" he
says, or almost destroyed in twenty. six prov
IilCCS VI european RUSSIA. In SIX other prov
lnces more than one half of the districts will be
aftllcted with the same calamity. In thirteen
provinces the harvest promises to be miidling
suiticlent for the needs of the population, leav-
ing no surplus. Only in the northern Caucasus
IN the northern provinces and in three districts
OF the southeast is the harvest expected to be
above the average" He declares also that
thousands OF people are starving upon grass
boiled IN water; that people have died in the
streets OF hunger, and that children are offered
Tor sale by parents who do not wish to see them
perish before their eyes 1t is to be hoped that
otepnlak $ story is greatly exaggerated.
SEVERAL ENGLIsHMEN. of the critical sort, have
been, with few exceptions, writing with faint
praise, or even with disparagement, Of Lowell
as serious poet. AS might have been expected
their very criticisms reveal that they know lit
tie or nothing of his poetry outside of the Big
low Papers. In the course of an article on the
American author, the St jones Gazette saws
that 1t doubts very much whether it would be-
easy TO find one cultivated EngliShman out of
nifty who has quotable knowledge of his
works This writer adds-we repeat il for the
sake of the curious assumption to be found in it
that one can understand the severe literary
artist like Edmund Gosse, who frankly tells US
that the flavor of Lowels verse is not delicate
or subtle enough for him; but one would have
said that the general reader should
s SaVe interesting s%eFn by poet 50 h Varied
straightforward sentiment So apt in the choice
of popular themes, so strong in the command of
picturesque language and easy, ringing verse
1OWeH Is not OeLCato or subtle enough" for
Mir. GosSe That is to say that the stroke of the
kings best Toledo ba le is not delicate or subtle
enough to suit the pruning hook of his males
tvs gardener.
THE longer live the less regard have for
so-called expert opinion, '" said an intelligent
young man of Washington, D. c., who is IA
miliar with the vinous belongings of a fashion
able uptown hotel, to the Post of that city For
instance, we have occasionally a patron whose
boast is that, like the actor Dixey he confines
his drinking to champagne exclusively. Now
this fellow has a hobby-only one kind Of wine
will suit him He will tell you there is only one
brand fit to drink. He can tell it anywhere and
| under all circumstances If you can't give him
that he will go somewhere else Not
long ago a customer belonging to
this family of the genus crank entered
our place with friend and ordered a
bottle of White Seal went back after 1t, but
| however, wac a bottle of Cabinet Sekt a TO,
tally different and inferior wine. with a very
| dry taste, almost as sour as Rhine wine, where
as the Seal is moderately sweet. AnotiCn came
over me to pass this for the article called for
| 1t wasn't quite fair I'll admit. but there are
tricks In all trades. nervousy tore off all the
labels and the wine was served. my heart
| humping all the while lest my patron would
| denounce the imposition. And didn't he's"
| Not word On the other hand, he gave up
his "a with a smile, remarking to his friend that
| here was the place to come for the real stuff.
| 1t was the genuine article"
NEW York certainly boasts the prettiest
women of any city in the world " remarked a
| gentleman at the Hoffman, New York, who has
| Travelled extensively. and was feictating HIM
| self upon his safe return from the contin emit
| she doesn't boast of them exactly, either for
| yoa are so accustomed to the sight that YOU
| take it as a matter of course. They were
| making a great TO do over some American
| women at the German spas, and was asked to
| admire them. Bah! they were nothing more
| than l can find in any five minutes of the daY
on Broadway or Fifth avenue. So said and
was evidently considered a typical Yankee
| braggart. In Paris and other continental cities
| the American style of women are very much
| admired. l Chicago girl cutting a great
| swell in Dresden. Everybody looked at her
| And she right handsome. too, and
| dressed out of sight. But I've seen hundreds
of just as pretty women in Chicago. These
foreigners seem to think that only our prettiest
girls get over there, and that all have fortunes
and are hunting man with q title, and that
sort Of rot. There are thousands of American
| women who go abroad who are in but moderate
| circumstances and who would think no more
of count or lord than they would of q New
York drummer, so far as marrying is concerned.
| This thing of beauty is purely relative, and the
| American girl who wouldn't excite much at
| tention on Broadway comes out strong every
| where abroad Not that they don't have pretty
| women in every country, but because they are
| more or les rare compared with the great null
| titude. England has many beautiful women
| and we hear an everlasting sight of chatter
about them, but you may stroll London from
| Hyde Park to the slumS and never begin to see
a many Orettv women Internationally vot,