The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-10
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by lightning some two weeks ago. The leaves
Of the tree died and left the tree with the ap-
pearance of being dead also, Much to the
establishment Of people in that vicinity the tree
Is now covered with the most fragrant bios
SONS"
Prof. CHARLES ELIOT NORTON Is busily en-
gagged in editing Mr.. Lowell's letters for publi-
cation. The poets correspondence was charac-
teristically frank, witty and wise, and IL is
pleasant to know that il has been. for the most
part. carefully preserved by those to whom 1t
was addressed.
PHILADELPHIA evidently has more capital
than she needs. Syndicstes OF her citizens have
for some time past been providing Chicago and
New York with improved street railways: and
now IL is announced that they are TO build a
hotel in Brooklyn superior to any In that city or
It's nelghoor across the East river.
H. A. CRoNIN Of Chicago. Columbian fair
stakeholder, says 81, 900 have been offered for
the first 100 of the souvenir half dollars coined
and 81 900 for the last one. Fancy prices will
be asked for the coins, and Chicago hopes to
get S0,C0l0O0 out of the 81, 500, COO given in
these souvenirs by the government.
JEWISH writer is DESTROYS that, in
this Columbian year, Columbus indebted
ness to the Jews shall not be forgotten He
says that the Jewish astronomer Joseph We
CHINO, was the inventor of q nautical astrolabe
which c. lumbus used. 1t is known that Column
bus took two Jews with him on the voyage
SHE was remarkably pretty and she seemed
little tiirtatious, too, in her manner as she
walked up to the soda fountain. The debonair
clerk was so overcome by her charms that he
could not forbear to make the attempt to strike
up an acquaintance with her, so he winked at
her. mo, thank you," abe said; nothing but
lemon syrup In mine" And he drew it with a
very red face
ACCORDING to the Washington Post, officials
Of the state department, in explanation of the
recent digDatCb that 10 h.
titled King Malietoa that men-of-war will be
placed at his orders to enforce the payment OF
taxes, say that since the supreme court of
Samoa has no means OF enforcing its decisions
outside Of the municipality of Apia an under
standing has been reached by which the naval
vessels Of either of the three great treaty pow
ers may lend aid in serving process or executing
Judgments of the supreme court, and thus cause
its Judicial authority under the treaties to DO
duly respected.
The attention OF American heiresses OF am
bition is directed TO the fact that three prom.
| inent members of the new British ministry are
| in lack of wives, namely Lord Roseberry, minis.
| ter OF foreign affairs; Lord Houghton, viceroy
Of Ireland; and Mr.. Asqulth, home secretary
They areall wldowers each Il young. public
! men run in England, and the FIRST two are
| wealthy The woman who marries Lord Hough-
toa will, it is said, enjoy the supreme felicity OF
/ sitting on the throne and will have to helm to
| spend an income of S250,000 at present his
! lordship's domestic affairs are presided over by
| his sister, Mrs. Henniker.
DURING recent excavations In Upper Esypt
there were found four colored plaster busts.
which have Oeen sent to the Louvre museum
! They are interesting not so much on account of
their artistic worth, as for their curious life
likeness OF the persons represented Two are
blonde with straight hair, doubtless Greeks: the
/ Others are brunettes, with black, curly hair re-
/ Bemoung SyIians or Hebrews. All four are
b arded. The faces are pink with ROSY cheeks
. the eyes are bits of mica, and the lips are red
aud smiling. The four busts were imbedded in
/ u SarcophaSus OF the Roman epoch in Egypt
and date from the second century after Christ.
Up at Berkeley Springs, Va, there is a young
navy department clerk named Handy danger
ousy Ill with cigarette heart This is a disease
that is quite prevalent among those who use pa
per cigarettes to excess. This young Handy has
| q clai to public attention simply because he,
happens to be the husband of Senator Mitchell
daughter, Maggie, whose sister is now the OUCH
| ess de la Rochefacauld. About the beginning
OF the war Handy'S father was chief OF the ap-
pointing division OF the treasury department.
| He was very eccentric in his dress and always
wore large sombrero and trousers Ike those Of
aJack Tar and also an extremely large turn over
collar His hair was so long that it hung over his
| shoulders almost to the mi die of his back
Senator Mitchell had one OF Handy's sisters ap
pointed to a place in the interior department at
81 200 year and an other in the treasury depart
men at the same salary. Handy himself is a
| clerk in the navy department; he gets 81 800 a
| year. Senator Mitchell has, in addition to his
| salary as senator, retainer of $40, 900 a year
| from Q Northern Pacific Railroad COMPANY
| Irs. Mitchell has spent the last ten years with
| the exception Of one or two winters abroad
| While in New York she makes her home at the
| Windsor hotel. In Washington she generally
stays at the Ebbitt house, but during one winter
she kept an establishment on Connecticut ave
| nue. and entertained quite considerably The
senator himself, during the absence of his wife
| lives at John Chamberlin's.
One of the worst enemies which the cockroach
has is the scorpion, the latter being able to run
II down even in the open. says writer in the
| New York Iitbllle. 1t was in Jamaica West
| Indies that the writer, sitting in a room uncar
peted, as all rooms are in the West Indies no
| tic 4 a cockroach crawling out from a chink
| between two boards. These West Indian cock
| reaches are not tie water bug of tn q state
| They are large, loathsome- looking insects from
| ! inch TO Ia inches long. and the curses OF the
tropics, as they will eat everything, DESTROYING
| in a short time boots. boo%s and clothing. and
| they leave q horrible odor be ind them Its
| only use seems to be that of a scavenRer. The
particular cockroach in question came most
cautiously from its retreat. The cockroach
was on the forage, and tie watcher was WAITING
| until it was FAR enough from its home to give
| him some chance Of squashing out its life. This
| chance never came, for OF a sudden the roach
1 darted OFT at full speed, q rate that ia nv M
means to be despised, in an almost opnosite
| direction from its home. In hot pursuit. was n
SCORPION Its tail bent over its back. going at its
| utmost speed, which was much greater than
that of the cocSroach. The latter was soon
| held in the claws OF the former, and a sting NV
| the tail seemed to kill it, apparently, Instantly
| 1t was the first good deed the writer had ever
| seen a scorpion perform, but the good deed Of
among some of its relatives in a bottle az
spirits. 1t may be interesting to note thar
scorpions apparently have no power to harm
the common fowl Fowls are passionately fond
of the roach, and the negroes in their quaint
proverbs have these two on the subject: ''When
roach glib party, him neber ak fowls" and sIf