The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-15
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who, provoked beyond restraint by the cough.
ing in his church. stopped abruptly in his dis
course and blurted out: This is either the
most diseased or The most impertinent congre
CATION ever preached to-
THE FRENCH are amazed that the English
should have built the Royal Sovereign, theil
biggest iron-clad, in 215 years. The Neptune
twelve years building. The Messrs. Yarrow
lately offered to build a small vessel In thirty
days.
NATIVE CHRISTIANS are increasing In India, al
least inthe northwest province of Dude for which
we have statistics. There are %, 265 this year
against Is, 2O4 at the last census. More than
half belong TO the Methodist Episcopal Church
The church Of England has only 6,0l3, and the
Roman Catholics 1916.
a MAURITIUs PAPER Of recent date containe d
the following unique birth notice; "BIRrH. -
CASTOR Prokop Miroslaw de Tarnowsky, on his
first visit to earth-waking on the cares and
troubles of this word-but just now enjoying
ai1ecti9nate tenderness in pious Mothers
of Life New Grove, Mare D'Albert, April
Is, 1892 at 6:l5 D. m"
A SINGULAR BOYCOTT was recently enforced
against local pedagogue at Bronkaw, in Ger
many, by the parents Of his pupils. They OBJ
jected to the schoolmaster's extreme notions
of discipline and agreed among themselves to
keep their children ut home. So the bell rang
for Two days without the appearance of a
scholar at the school room, until at last the
magistrate summoned the parents before him
for conspiracy and the schoolmaster won the
day.
HERR A. Nom of Berlingen, Germany, has
constructed the most marvellous timepiece that
was ever evolved from the human mind. Calcu-
lations, based on two years of solid going
proves what the maker claims for his wonder
full clock. viz: That it will run for 10000 years
without winding. Hands on the dial point to
the time of day, the day, the week, months,
seasons and years. 1t also calculates the
changes in the moon and tells when the sun is
fast" or SLOW" The clock is the result of
five years Of patient, arduous labor.
IT IS REPORTED In Berlin that the Russian
finance minister recently requested Baron
Blechroder to send member for the firm to st.
Petersburg to confer with his excellency on i'm
portanU business, whereupon, the great Jew
banker wrote saying that, as all the partners
and employees profess the Hebrew faith, he had
nobody TO senu for whom a passport of Russia
could De obtained. Under the new regulations
all travellers who enter Russia must formerly
declare themselves Christians on crossing the
frontier and the creed must be notified upon the
passports.
JAMES PAWN tells Of lady in Rome who has
bequeathed her whole fortune to the editor of an
Italian newspaper, 1.-THE perusal of which has
given her many happy hours. " Mr.. Payn, who
is not the editor of any newspaper, is vet gen
erous enough to say that he hopes this ladys
example will be followed IL is now renorted
however, that the Italian editor has refused to
avail himself of this windtall, and has distrib-
uted the legacy among various CHI ritable in
situations. 1t is now Mr.. Payn's turn, and he
comes forward to saw that he does not believe
in this report about the conduct of the Italian
editor.
PERSIAN DINNERS are very much like ours,
turned the wrong way round. The feast is pre-
coded by pipes, while tea and sweets are handed
about. Then the servants of the house appear
bringing in long leather sheet, which they
spread in the middle of the floor, the guests
squat round this tailor fashion. When all are
seated flat loaf of bread is placed before every
one and the music begins to play. The various
dishes are brought in on trays and arranged
round the leather sheet at intervals. The covers
are then removed. the host says ''Bismillah"
lin the name of Cod, and without another word
they all fall to.
IT SEEMS that W. S. Gilbert, who wrote the
hbrettos Of "Pinafore" and the ''Mikado" is the
author Of the air 81 a ra-ra Boom-de-ay." which
IS having such rage just now on both sides of
the Atlantic. The music was adapted to its
present use without the real authors consent,
having been sold to some American publisher
and not copyrighted. When, by chance, Mr.
Gilbert discovered the identity Of this new song
with his Old one. he had an interview with the
piratical London publisher who is selling It and
stated the case At first he was offered 9
guineas as compensation. Declining this, and
obtain 100 guineas
REV. Mr. JENKYN, lately installed as pastor OF
the Rockland, (Me.) Congregational church, ex-
pressed the belief that the final end of the in
corrigibly wicked would be literal eternal death.
or complete humiliation. One of the church
council protested vigorously against such a
theory, and few others questioned the parson
pretty sharply, but the council was composed
mostly of liberal men and he was duly installed
Mr.. Dunnells of Bath. who gave the charge TO the
new pastor, advised him to take good care Of his
health. and, as he was fond Of fishing to take
his pole and bait box and march off through the
streets like man, and not sneak away as though
he were ashamed of himself
THE government of Holland for long time
has been considering project for draining the
vast lagoon known as the Zuyder Zee. This
sheet of water is almost useless for purposes Of
navigation, and large vessels can only And their
way to Amsterdam by means Of the North sea
canal AS agricultural land however, it would
be exceedingly valuable, since 1t is estimated
that more than two-thirds of it is very fertile
The Zuyder Zee was formerly a lake
but in the twelfth and thirteenth centu
ries it was united to the North sea by inunda
ton. commission was appointed tn
inquire into the feasibility of draining this terri
tory, which has a superficial area of 76O SQUARE
miles report has now been issued II nro-
poses to close the Zuyder Zee by means of n
dam that shall be constructed from the main
land, on either side of the island of Wieringen
The water thus cut off from the sea would be
divided into four parts, each of which would be
drained in turn. The cost OF the dam is esti-
mated at fSG75,OO0, and of the draining at
913, 100000. SUCH large sum would naturally
be spread over a number of years, and the time
which the work would occupy is put down AT
thirty-two years.