The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-09
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! Ol tOIl6IuDlIus EuS-s pDEITalL OF Clarte
! Dickens. Of whom there had previously been n,
memorial in his birthplace
THE PRINCE OF WALES yacht, the Alne. ha,
b zen fitted out at Cowes and his royal highues,
intends to sail her for the queens cup durinI
| the squadron regatta week. Prince George viii
probably sail the Aline.
| CONTRARY To time immemorial custom tn.
German emperor has resolved that his eldes
| son, while minor, is not to accept the patron
age or presidency Of any social or philanthropi,
/ association whatever.
| A TEXAS STEER which was being loaded at the
| stock yards at Parsons Kan, had such lons
| horns that they became wedged between the
| sides of the chutes and held him fast In ordol
| 70 Sxtricate him the ends Of his horns had to be
| sawed off.
IN DARMsrADr and other large German cite,
pot plants are given 10 school children who live
| in tenements. Usually three of the same size
are given with printed directions how to cart
for them. At the end of the year exhibitions
are held and prizes awarded.
SAvRRSAKE is at last sold to Lord Iveagh
subject to the permission of the court of
chancery to sell, the price being a little over
SO, 100000 The estate brings in about 2105, 0OC
per annum, but considerable expenditure
VIII be needed TO put things in order.
MAINE MEN are no laggards 1t is related thai
citizen Of Augusta bought lot last week. anC
in less than tn rec days he had the foundations
in and the carpenters well under way on hi,
new two-story house, and also had garden
planted tomato plants set out and other similar
work attended TO.
THE LESSEE of the gaming tables in the Kur-
saal at Ostend has just been sentenced to two
months Imprisonment for fraudulent practices
carried on in the establishment. The mos;
profitable of these practiced at the
''baraquen tables. "Baraque," for the benefit
of the uninit.ated, is a game on the same
principle as bagatelle.
A PERSON who has seen a good deal Of
Emperor William during his last three visits to
England says that at court there is much
apprehension respecting his ajesty's health
he looks very i'll to those who remember him
when at Cowes two years ago, and his nervous
restiessness and irritability have increased to
quite al alarming degree.
DISEASES become fashionable Just like STYLES
of DRESS" says a physician. Look, for in
stance, at the remarkable run that malaria has
had. About two dozen distinct ailments not
one of which is due to bad air (malaria) now 90
by that name. Even the physicians humor
many or their patients by using the word when
they know that something else is the matter.
Then take heart failure. A few years ago there
was 40 such thing as heart failure. There is no
such thing now outside the newspapers Or
rather, TO speak more accurately, every death
is due to heart failure; that is to the inability
MRS. SHELDON, who led an exploring expedi-
ton into the heart of a hostile country IN the
kilmariaro district of Africa is an English
woman only by marriage She was born in
America, and her maternal grandfather was no
less a celebrated parsonage than Sir Isaac
Newton. The plucky woman has just arrived
at Naples on her way home. and her husband
was there to meet her. She has not vet recov-
cred from the illness which caused her return,
but she IS enthusiastic, and says her trip was a
thorough success. What is more, she says she
is going to try 1t again. IL may be fascinating
sport to travel among the widest tribes of saw
ages under a broiling equatorial sun and
through swamps and dense forests not to men
ton the four-egged drawbacks to rapid prog
ress, but it is hardly probable that other wo.
men viii follow Mrs. Sheldons example
THERE is one man, at least, in New Yorg who
has no silly ideas about the inferiority Of women
burglar got into his house the other night
The owner of the house and of a valiant wife
did not fire off pistol nor create any disturb
ance to awaken his neighbors. He aroused his
wife and told her that there was q Ban in the
house. She jumped out of bed and captured
the burglar, holding him fast Ii was at this
point that the husband showed his absolute
faith in the superiority of women, for saving;
You hold him, Fred erika, while go out and
get a policeman :" he hurried down sstairs and
ran up the street. When be returned with a
policeman, his wife still holding the robber
prisoner, This shows that the husbands con-
hdence IN his wife was not misplaced He ought
to value her highly. for most men will surely
believe that Mrs Fredsrlka is worth ten such
husbands as hers is.
UNFEELING CRITICS have sometimes found
fault with the writer's of sporting sketches be-
cause of their proneness to chronicle their emo
tions on sitting down to the first meal in the
woods, to expatiate on the savory qualities of
the camp food, and to aver as a meritorious
claim that the party did full justice to" the
cook, the cooking or the food. AS we have
Tod NNT Fhag 49,
In the forest an appetite and a relish for food
which any sensible doctor would declare to be
unerrinR indications of improved physi-
cal condition; In the year book of
notes in the statement of expenses for tbs
year The cost of living in the woods says
Gen. R. U Sherman, the author of the report
rs not to be estimated by its cost in the settle
ments The fact is well established by ex-
perience that the consumption per head is at
least double in the woods what it is outside. :"
And when a man finds in his camp a new
stomach and new palate new capacity and
a new appreciation of food. why should he not
be given the privilege of relating his good fort
Une and putting IL in the permanent record as
among those things in search of what it is
worth while going fishing and shooting?
Excitement is running high in Temple, near
by Pennsylvania village, says a Reading cor
respondent Of the st. Louis Globe Democr at,
and mothers have been filed with feelings of
horror ever since Monday morning, when
the citizens awoke to find that a family had
been visited during the night by most un-
usual and remarkable experience The
family was that of John Reubright, engineer
for the Temple Furnace Company Some
weeks ago a colony of Norway rats was dis
covered on the premises. They were sup
posed to have theic quarters in the stable
bat no nests could be found Whence they
came no one knew. aud their presence was
not suspected until the entire colony was
found. They were large and ferocious. so
n pf fhnU Qff I'D fha -.
found them, and would probably have bitten
For a whole week afterN they were discovered
nothing was seen OF them, and NO traces were
found until Thursday morning. William Reu.
bright. aged 16, and Paul, babe of IS months
sons OF John Reubright, and Willie Lutz, aged
years, his grandson, slept together IN a room
through which large chimney passed. Shortly
before daylight the other six members of the
family were awakened by cries and shrieks of
pain and fear. They rushed to the room, in which
the three children slept Just In time to see
dozen or more huge rats escape through q hole
which they had dug in the chimney.
nasty examination of the boys showed that the
ferocious beasts had attacked and bitten them
all The fingers of Paul, the baby, were chewed
70 the first joiut, and his hands were severely
bitten. Willie Lutz was bleeding from a dozen
wounds on the face and ears while the feet and
other portions of the body of William Reu-
bright were badly injured DR.. Huyett. the
Ialnuy physician, was called at onoe. The
wounds were cauterized and everything done to
prevent blood poisoning. The children are
sun ID great pain, and danger is not passed,
although the wounds have commenced to heal.
They are being watched carefully by the doc