The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-18
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horse CoInanche the only survivor OF the Gus
ter massacre. Comanche is now % years old,
veteran Of Troop viii be assigned to look after
him
TEE OFFICERS Of the German army, the cap
| tains in particular. are requested TO deliver
lectures to their men on the subjects relating
TO the latter's duties, says the Chicago Herald.
A certain captain quartered in Berlin was due
at the barracks O'Clock one morning at the
| class room. Oversleeping himself and not
arriving till $40, he finds to his dismay and
annoyance a young-lookiug officer attending to
his work, aud busy at the blackboard. On his
angry approach the young oif1cer turns around
| and the captain at once recognizes his en-
ror and unable to utter word hs tremblingly
| receives the text book which his majesty
quietly hands him. saying: I'VE have
got as far as there. captain" and
leaves the room without appearing to hear the
| or1cer's suffered excuses. The officer awaited
crushing dismissal, but for weeks there came
no decision OF bis fate. At last, when the sus-
pense had become fairly unbearable, on Dec. 6,
when st. Nicholas holds his disciplinary inspec-
| ton among the German children, he received
present from the emperor. It was an alarm
| clock.
A CORRESPONDENT who has lust returned from
Pine Ringe Agency tells story of the visiting
Sioux Indians who are now in Washington. He
said: Reading of the reception the Indians re-
ceiVed In church last Sunday, and the fact that
| they attended the theater Monday evening,
recalls funny incident that happened when
| they were in Chicago few days ago en- route
| TO Washington The manager who has charge
| or the visiting Indians thought he would
amuse them by taxing them to
| the theatre in the evening. He never for q
moment thought that tragedy would rouse the
war-like nature, of which the Sioux is so album
dainty endowed. Wen, he got them into several
boxes all right, and everything went well until
the third act. The play was a heavy tragedy
and in this act the heroine was to be killed
Inc minute the villain attempted to strike the
woman with knife, three of the Sioux rose
from their seats and actually prepared 70 leap
over the boxes onto to the stage for the purpose
OF rescurlng the heroine. The theater was soon
In al nproar, and it was only by removing the
three refractory Indians from the theater that
the actors could proceed That also explains
why they were taken 10 see light opera in
Washington.
THE MARRIAGE of Mile. Hugo, the grand
daughter of Victor Hugo, with NJ. Georges
Daudet, was celebrated in Paris Thursday even
ing by the marie at Passy. The Sale des Fetes
was splendidly decorated for the occasion and
the ceremony was conducted with great solem-
nifty. All the most notable people In the poetcal,
literary and artistic worlds Of Paris appeared
to be present. The stairs were found to be TOO
narrow for the crush, and the wedding cortege
bad the greatest difficulty in making its way
through the crowd TO the table, where
the MARIE awaited its arrival Owing
ent there was some crushing, and numerous
alterations occurred among the spectators
VINO were naturally forced TO make way for the
wedding procession After the cermony was
concluded the MARIE read q short speech, and
M. Jules Simon delivered q nuptial ad-
dress in which he referred to Victor Hugo, and
the great service he had rendered to the world
OF letters and to France. He concluded by
speaking of the very great interest all Paris took
In the ceremony. On the termination of his
speech which was frequently interrupted by
bursts of applause, n. Simon kissed the
hand of the bride. The marriage was ex-
clusively civil one, and the ceremony was con-
cluded at o'clock
BRIsoN HILL. a Pocohontas county, West vir-
ginia, farmer and hunter, last December saw a
snow-wiiite deer while out hunting In follow
ing its trail he came across a tremendous birch
tree, on which he saw the marks of bears
claws. Looking closer he saw a large hole in
the tree, which was hollow. Satisfied that there
was a bear in the tree he started home for help
but during the night the snow fell to great
depth and continued to fall for many days, and
1t was not until Jan. 26 that he was able to re-
turn to the tree. When he went back he was
accompanied by George Brook, Sam Hodge
and Pat Henry. All of them were
armed with Winchesters and axes They
had no trouble in finding the tree,
the men stood at short distances away with guns
levefed. The tree had scarcely struck the
ground when tremendous female bear rushed
out OF the hole, but she was shot dead at the
first fire by Hill and Henry. Before the men had
time to look about another bear came rushing
and growing from the same hole, and, like the
its head Before the second bear had ceased to
thrash about two more came out of the tree
The two last were killed by Winchester bullets
before they ran thirty feet. The bears were
mother and three large yearlings.
A NEW YORK World correspondent had an
| interesting interview with Mrs. Stanley, the
explorers wife, in the Sunday World. Mrs.
| Stanley said: II did not think anything of the
| mon at Mrs. Astor's ball. they did not COM
pare with the men in the literary circles and
| were not the equal in polish or intellect of
| the ladies'. can't say that was overpowered
| by the beauty of the New York women at the
| ball There we're strikingly handsome bellies
but the average personal beauty was lower than
| you would find in a London drawing room
The ice water an American girl drinks in one
4 day would kill me. Our disappointment was In
the audience In the boxes there was fashion
beautifully ~. "a arrayed' but lacking in
| were evening toilets, walking costumes and
| demi-dress side by side. Many of the gentle-
men were in business suits. The American
women are not SO partial to the typical decol-
lete bodice, as we make more show Of our arms
shoulders and back than you do, and think we
are more adroit IN slanting the corsage into
shape or round effect, getting not only more
modesty but suitability" Mrs. Stanley thought
the American women overdid the matter and
had their bodices slashed instead of cut decol-
lete. They run too much to square neck where
as the standard favored is the round or pointed
ARIEL could put girdIe round about the
world in forty minutes, but he was slow COM
pared with the most ordinary dream. We sur
vey mankind in China and Peru at the same
instant of time, and in the course of ons re-
volvfng moon we may walk with Plato in the
Groves of Academe applaud Luther at the
Diet Of Worms, set out for Holy Palestine with
Coeur de Lion, assist Noah in building the ark.
and call on the mountains to cover us at the Day
OF Judgment. Many stories are told showing the
different count of time. Lord Brougham relates
that he dreamed dream of long-continued
action during a short doze while a dropine
counsel was pleading before him. Lord Hoi-
land fell asleep while listening to some one
reading, dreamed long dream, and awoke in
time to hear the conclusion of a sentence the
first words Of which were in his ears when he
became unconscious. DR.. Abercrombie relates
that gentleman dreamed that he had enlisted
for soldier, joined his regiment, deserted.
had been unprecedented, carried back tiled, CON
demned to be shot, and at last led out for exc
cution. After all the usual preparations he
awoke with the report, and found that a noise
in an adjoining room had both produced the
dream and awakened him. Another dreamed
that he had crossed the Atlantic and spent a
fortnight in America. In embarkinS on his
return, he fell into the sea- and having woke
with the fright, he found that he had not been
asleep ten minutes.
THE great drawback, /" said Mr. Richard. one
of the agents of the Hamburg American Packet
Company, ITO cross the ocean quicker than we
do at present is the expense of coal. More
powerful engines could he huilt xvh{ob 1ro,,I.