The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-10
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TITS SAID that fully 1000 900 copies of Com
rades" have been sold For this and others OF
his popular songs-such as THAT Is Love" and
-. What q Difference in the Morning THE
author, Felix McGlennon. receives about 81 200
month from America alone in royalties Mr..
McGlennon lives in London and is a Scotchman
of Irish parentage.
IT is the custom to allow the German ambas-
sador to China and Japan credit for two years
for each one he serves in those counties. Herr
Won Brandt has represented his country for
hence enjoys the somewhat anomalous distinc-
ton of having served in that capacity for more
years than he has lived.
IT Is SAID that person standing on the ruins
Of the old castle Of Hawarden near Gadstones
home, can see with the naked eye enough I'M
used park land to furnish livelihood for perhaps
1000, 900 people. Most of this land is owned BY
the Duke of Westminster, and only the rabbits
that Overrun it seem to get any advantage out
of 1t. Mr.. Gladstone's own estate comprises
several thousand acres of forest land untouched
by any ak except that of the g. o M himself Il
has been at times a favorite hunting preserve
for Herbert Gladstone, who occasionally
slaughters rabbits here.
A CURIOUS LAWSUIT is engaging the attention
OF the courts at Ecija, Spain. The suit is over
the sum of 100000 pesetas and baby. A
stranger some time ago handed the railroad
stationmaster a sealed letter aud heavy box.
On opening the box he found a baby and at once
handed it over to switchman and his wife.
When the switchman's wife undressed the in
FAINT for bed she found rolled up in its clothing
quantity OF bank notes. which, as the paper
stated were to be applied to the child's educa-
ton. The stationmaster demanded the return
of the baby, but the switchman refused, holding
that it was given him without reservation.
PERHAPS the most remarkable case on record
of death resulting from cigarette smoking was
no ~ Va na a{d 10 A.
Car Alexander III. and a son of the Russian
minister OF finance. One day. while on duty in
the cars apartment, De Reitern ventured to
light a cigarette. He YVES interrupted while
smoking it by the entrance of the car. and in
the embarrassment of the moment he endeav-
ored to conceal the cigarette by thrusting it
into the skirt pocket Of his uniform. The car
supposed the movement TO be attempt to
draw a pistol and, rushing upon the young
aid, struck him with such violence that he fell
dead at the monarchs feet
INSECTS have recently destroyed whole for
este in PoWhatan county, Virginia and among
other trees the famous Pope's pine. a noted
land mark in the Old Dominion. 1t stood for
years on an eminence from which it was visible
for twenty miles or more around, and lowered
high above all surrounding trees. In old times
Col. Pipe, local patriot, put a liberty cap like
that stamped on our copper cent pieces on top
of the tree, and every year when Fourth of July
came around he cee grated the anniversary by
holding a barbecue at the foot of the pine This
COL Pope, WHO lived to be 80 years old, knew
personally every President from Washington to
Polk, and was famous character in Virginia.
GOING to church is great picnic down my
way" says Nicaragua banana planter. II
have on my plantation about fifty Jamaica ne
groes who are very pious and insist upon going
to church regularly, no matter what may be-
come Of the crops. Still, | cannot blame them,
for every worshiper takes a rooster under his
arm, nurses it. throu IA service at the MoraVian
nd al bR bas claa
goes outside, where hundreds of cockpits are
improvised and where Sunday after Sunday,
wal cocks contend in the bloody arena. The
custom is universal, and every man has a
rooster, from the humblest hborer to the
grandest alcalde, and the whole day after serv-
ices is spent Ia this bloody sport
PROBABLY the oldest known specimens of re-
corded language in the world to-day are the in
scriptions on the door-sockets and brick-stamps
found at Niffer by the Babyloniau exploration
expedition of the University Of Pennsylvania
which has recently returned. The brick stamps,
which are OF yellow clay, about by inches,
and l inch in thickness, bear the name and
titles of King Sargon and his son Nsrim-Sin,
who lived about $500 B. c., and they we're taken
from the mound which covers the site of
ancient Nippuru, with It's famous temple Of
Baal. The expedition also found many other
objects of interest, such as clay tablets, con-
tanning contracts, lists Of goods, temple in
comes, art fragments and images sold by the
temple faklrs. These throw much light on the
history of the people, as opposed to that of the
kings and the WORK of the expedition carries
Babylonian records back 1000 years, to a time
OF which practically nothing has hitherto been
known. The antiquities found are now In the
university museum.
PROBABLY no other part of the world, except
ing, perhaps, the Yellowstone park contains so
many natural curiosities as Modoc county. Cali
fornla. The first, from a historical point of
view, is the famous lava beds-scene of the Mo
doc war-a country of rocks, so full of caves
that lakes and rivers are swallowed up, leaving
nothing but faint murmur to show their
course through the bowels of the earth In
many OF the caverns an army of men could
hide and in some places the intense heat of the
rocks is evidence that internal fires are raging
In all parts of the county can be found NAM
moth hot springs, belchiDg forth water strongly
impregnated with minerals, and often close by
will be caves of the purest ice. Medicine lake
is wonder that draws many visitors annually
"a body of water that does not c Jntain A living
thing, and at certain hours of the day is full Of
a ge!atinous, spongelke substance that sinks
aud leaves the water clear. At the lake are two
mountains, one or pure obsidian, the other of
pumice stone, in layers.
NOSE SILvERMAN has returned from the Milk
river country, says the Butte (Montl Inter
Mountain. zone Of the most peculiar and in
teresfing sights | ever saw " he said .'ves m n
Indian graveyard a few miles out from Chi
nook. The whole place used to be the Indian
! reservation. saw between 400 and 500 graves
there Inc bodies were laid in boxes on TOD OF
the ground and the so-called collins are in ali
manner OF shapes. could not understand the
reason for this, but l soon learned 1t seams
that IN whatever position the body is when life
passes out Of 1t the Indians will not change IL
For instance II one dies with his arms out
stretched they will not pull the arms across the
body as we do. They will build the box in a
| shape to fit the position of the body. In some
cases the corpse had the legs drawn up; other
cases the Indian died lying on his side with rio
knees near his head in others, one arm was
outstretched, or one leg pulled out No matter
what the position the box is built to conform to
it without disturbing the attitude of the BODY.
AS Il result the graveyard is one collection ~
nnftina in all sharas and aizas So - o-