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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-24

MEspms, TGNB.. Jan. 23.-ATs. Mary
Forrest. widow of Gen. n. h. Forrest, one
of the most famous commanders of the
eopfedergey, died yesterday
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-24
Fire Draws For 100000.

CLINTON, No, Jan. 23.-Churchilis
livery stable and other buildings were
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-24
No Choice in Montana

HELENA. MONT, Jan. 23.-The ballot for
United States senator to-day resulted;
Sanders q, Clark IS, Dixon II, Collins 20.
No choice.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-24
Rlaine Faahln.

wAsHIsoroN, Jan. 23.-Ex,secrstary
Blaine 10 quite feeble. but,Dr. Johnston says
be does not consider him in critical con
dition.
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LIHCoLs, HER. Jan. 23--fhe Legislature
to-day took one fruliieas ballot Ia joint sss@
slon for United States senator.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-24

COLUMBIA, 8. c., Jan. 23.-Goy. Till
man lo-day appointad Il. d. fullsF aa treas
urer for Beaufort.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-24
DEATH IN A ooLLIBRY.

Ok N1bIl hIIINU OuLIIRuL uIIu OtU0rB
Injured Severely.
LONDON, Jan. 23.-The wall of a shaft in
the colliery at Pont-y-Pridd near Aberdare,
Wales, collapsed late this afternoon as the
shifts were changing. Fifteen men were on
their way up and many we're waiting be-
low. Six of the fifteen were killed instantly
and others were injured severely. Some
ten men at the bottom Of the shaft were in
jured also. Three more may die.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-24
BISHOP BROOKS DEAD.
A Spasm Of Coughing Ends N a Fatal
Attack OF Heart Failure.

A Spasm Of Coughing Ends m a Fatal
Attack OF Heart Failure.
BOSTON, Jan. 23.-Bishop Phillips Brooks
died at $3.50 o'clock this morning of pneu-
monia. The bishop died of heart failure,
brought on by a fit OF coughing. His death
was entirely unexpected. He was taken ill
on Thursday with a sore throat, but nothing
serious showed itself until last night. Dr.
Beach, his physician, discovered late last
evening diphtheretic symptoms and consid-
ering consultation advisable called in DR..
Fltz. Nothing serious was anticipated aud
DR.. Fitz remained only shors time. DR..
Beach was with the bishop the entire
night. About $3.50 o'clock this morning the
patient was seized with a coughing sDasm
which lasted few moments ana his heart
ceased to beat. DR.. Beach said this morn
ing that death was caused from heart fail
ure and not from .diphtheria. No diphthe-
retic membrane was discovered at super
hctal examination this morning.
IS Bishop Brooks was born at Boston, Mass
Dec. 13, 1885. He graduated at HarVaId
College IN 1856 studied theology at the
seminary at Alexandria, Va, and was or
dained in 1859 and became rector OF the
Church Of the Advent at Philadelphia. In
1862 he took charge of the Church of the
Holy Trinity in that city. In 1869 he be-
came rector of Trinity church at Boston,
Mass. MIR. Brooks was noted for his low
church views and frequently preached in
churches of other denominations than his
own. He declined many calls elsewhere, a
professorship in Harvard and the Office of
assistant bishop of Pennsylvania, to which
he was elected in 1886. Bishop Brooks
Boston church was built for him at cost
of over 81 900, 900. Bishop Brooks was one
Of the most brilliant pulpit orators of the
Episcopal church and was noted for his
rapid delivery. He was elected bishop a
wear or two ago
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-22
A Botanical Freak.

The Malayan peninsula is the home
OF an extraordinary botanical curiosity
in the shape of flower which is sim
ply blossom without leaves, vine OF
stem and which grows as pal asite or
decaying wood, etc. 1t is known to the
natives by a name equivalent to q
"wonder-wonder." This extraordinar,
fiower-like growth is sometimes a:
much as three feet in diameter, with q
globular central cup having a capacity
OF about five to seven quarts. This
cup distills fetid liquid with an odol
similar to that of decaying meat
Botanists believe that the odor is cal
culated to attract flies and secure pro.
per fertilization.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-22
TONGUE TWlSTERS.
Six thick thistle sticks.

Six thick thistle sticks.
Flesh OF freshly fried flying fish.
A growing gleam glowing green.
The sea ceaseth. and it sufficeth us.
High roller, low roller, lower roller.
A box of mixed biscuits, a mixed
biscuit box.
The bleak breeze blighted the
bright broom blossoms.
Strict strong Stephen Stringer
shared slickly six sickly silky snakes.
Swan swan over the sea; swim,
swan, swim; swan swan back again,
we'll swum swan.
1t is a shame, Sam; these are the
same, Sam. 'Tis all sham, Sam, and
a shame it is to sham so, Sam.
Susan shineth shoes and socks.
Socks and shoes shine Susan. She
ceaseth shining shoes and socks, for
shoes and socks shock Susan.
Robert Rowley rolled round roll
round, round roll Robert Rowley
rolled round. Where rolled the round
roll Robert Rowley rolled round?
Oliver Oglethorp ogled an owl and
oyster. Did Oliver Oglethorp ogle an
owl and oyster? If Oliver Oglethorp
ogled an owl and oyster, where are the
owl and oyster Oglethorp ogled?
Hobbs meets Snobbs and Nobbs.
Hobbs bobs to Snobbs and Nobbs.
Hobbs nobs with Snobbs and robs
Nobbs' fob. THAT is," says Nobbs,
." the worse for Hobbs jobs" and
Snobbs sobs.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-22
PRINCE OF THE VIOLIN.
Ole Bulbs Love for That Instru.
ment Dates From ChildhOod,s
Happy Hour.
Harper's Bazar.


From HE earliest childhood Ole
Bull was exceedingly sensitive to
music. His uncle, who belonged to a
quartet club, used, when playing on
the violincello, to put the little fellow
into the empty case, and keep him
there until his nervous excitement
made it impossible for him to remain.
In spite of this excitement, he mar
rowly observed all that the players
did; he knew the sounds of the notes
long before he could name them: and
when at the age Of five his uncle made
him the proud possessOr of a little
scrap of a violin-which he received
with kisses and embraces-to every
ones mazement, he played upon it at
once with remarkable correctness.
His next violin was given to him,
at his earnest solicitation, two or three
years afterward, by his father. He
could not sleep for thinking of it.
When he heard his father and mother
drawing the deep breath of sleep, he
rose and lighted candle, and tiptoed
to the room where the dear violin lay,
in order to open the case for one de-
lighted look. "The violin was so
red," said he, as Mrs. Child reported,
"and the pretty pearl screws did smile
at me so! Ipinched / the strings, just
a little, with my fingers. 1t smiled at
me ever more and more. / took up
the bow and looked at it. 1t said to
me that it would be pleasant to try it
across the strings. so / did try it
just a very, very little. And it did
sing to me so sweetly! Then 1 did
creep farther away from the bedroom.
AT first did play very soft. 1 make
very, very little noise. But presently
| did begin capriccio which / like
very much; and it did go ever louder
and louder; and forget that it was
midnight, and everybody asleep.
Presently heard omething sgo crack
And the next minute felt my fathers
whip across my shoulders. My little
red violin dropped on the floor and
was broken. weep much for il; but
it did no good. They did have doc
tor for it next day, but it never re.
covered its health"
His father had meant that he should
be clergyman, and in due time the
boy was placed at the University OF
Gottingin. But it was quite useless
study or not, music would get the up
per hand.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-22
RUINED CAPITAL OF SIAM.
Ayuthia, Once n Magnificent City
Now Has NO vestige OF u House.

The remains OF the old capital of
Siam, Ayuthia, which was taken and
destroyed by the Burmese in 1760, are
on the banks of the Menam, says the
New York Tribune. Ayuthia, which,
from the glowing description of writers
of the seventeenth century, appears to
have been one of the richest and most
prosperous cities in farther India, was
founded in 1850 by prince who mi
grated from the north. Joest Schou-
ter, Dutchman who lived in Ayuthia
for eight years just two centuries and
a half ago, never wearied Of telling of
the great wealth and commerce of this
ancient capital OF Siam. He described
the place as being laid out with several
broad streets, intersected by numerous
canals and possessing hundreds OF
large and splendid temples.
1t measured eight or nine miles in
circumference, exclusive of suburbs,
and was protected by a thick stone
wall, which, in the estimation OF the
Dutchman, made it impregnable.
That this was not the case was proved
in I76S, when the Burmans, after q
two years siege, took the town and
destroyed it. Deluges of rain, fol.
lowed by blazing heat, have reduced a
once large and magifcent city to q
dismal. bowling waste. The view from
remaining tower is dreary enough.
Where once were canals crowded with
shipping and streets teeming with a
busy population can now be seen only
clumps of green bamboo and wild
shrubs, forming in many places an inn
penetrable jungle. All vcstige of
houses have disappeared under the
rank tropical growth as completely as
if they had never existed, but the
sight OF former magnificence is attested
by the numerous ruined and broken
towers and pagodas springing up here
and there, half smothered and choked
by the closely clinging vegetation.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-22
The King of Spiders.

Ceylon is the home of the largest
species of spider that has yet been
made the subject of chronological in
vestigation. Thi. web-spinning mon
ster lives in the most mountainous
districts of that rugged island, and
places his trap-not gossamer snare
OF airy lightness-but huge net of
yellow silk from five to ten feet in di-
ameter, across chasms and fissures in
the rocks. The supporting guys on
this gigantic net, which in all cases is
almost strong enough for q hammock,
are from five to twenty feet in length
Gas conditions and circumstances may
require) made of a series Of twisted
webs, the whole being of the diameter
of a lead pencil. AS might be imag-
ined, this gigantic silken trap is not
set for mosquitoes, flies and pestifer-
GUS gnats, but for birds, gaudy moths
and elegantly painted butterflies, some
of the latter having spread of wing
equal to that of q robin or blue jay.
Some extra fine skeletons of small
birds, lizards, snakes, etc., have been
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-22
WHOLE NUMBER 1.76O.
MINES AND MINING,

Mexico has $50 mines, worked by
100000 men.
Coal mines were begun in Pennsyl-
vania in 1884.
Some of the Australian gold veins
are 13O feet thick.
There are copper mines in every
country in Europe.
Gold was discovered in the Ural
mountains in 1745.
There are now cold mines in every
country in Europe.
The great Nevada silver mines were
opened in 1859.
There are gold washings in almost
every part Of Idaho.
The first oil company Was formed
in New York in 1859.
The tin production of the world in
1891 was 1866 tons.
Spain is one OF the principal copper
producing countries.
The worlds coal mines produced il
1889, 4S5. 600, 900 tons.
Coal mining in the United State
began at Pittsburg in 1884.
The British Neurological society
was established in 1900.
The British government school o
mines was opened in 1851.
Gold in paying quantities was dis
covered in California in l849.
In every ton of sea water there i
about one grain OF pure gold.
The annual production of gold ant
silver is about $2OO,OOO,OOO.
The United States produces 35 pc
cent. of all the lead in the world.
Great Britain, Australia and Jaw,
are the three leading tin countries.
Italy has 47O0O miners. The maj
BILE quaries employ 10000 more.
The first iron mine in the Unite,
States was opened in Virginia in 1865
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-22
Advice TO Depositors.


If you have money on hand, says
the Toledo, Ohio, Commercial first pay
your debts; then if you have some left
lend it to some one who can secure
you against loss-your neighbor, your
employer or q bank. In this way it
will earn you interest and put the
wheels of business in motion. The
person who draws his money out of a
bank in Toledo and hides it away
ought to be driven out of the city to
find home in some locality where
the seal of the city is: Every one
for himself and the devil take the
hindmost." Many a man is out of a
job to day because he and his wife
hurried to the bank few weeks ago
to draw out the few dollars they had
there. The next week his employer
was made to pay up loan and forced
to shut up his shop, and the first man
discharged was this panic-struck de.
positor. We are knit and bound 10.
gether 80 closely that even an igno'
rant woman may in saving her few
dollars bring hardships ON hundred;
and herself lose many times the
amount OF her deposit. You who
have given your confidence to youl
banks in spite of the whispering
OF fear, the public owes you respect
and gratitude. But for you not {
wheel would be turning in Toledo to
day, not a bell would call men 10 work
And those who owe you the most ART
they who were SO cowardly as to thinl
only of themselves, and who have suf
fered but little simply and only be
cause you refused to follow their sci
fish, suicidal guidance.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-22
AN ERA OF TRANQUILITY.
Alexander Dumas Belief Concern.
Ing the Earth,s Near Destiny.

A long and highly interesting letter
from NJ. Alexander Dumas appears in
Paris contemporary. 1t is in reply
to request for an expression of opin-
ion on the part of the well-known lit.
terateur on the new and at present ill
defined movements in the great cen.
tiers OF learning among the rising gen.
Grafton on the subject of " Mysticism"
and on the controversy as to whether
or not this movement is based on re-
ligious tendency. NJ. Dumas sums up
his opinion in the following interest
ing profession of faith:
"The power, whatever it may be
that created the world, which / can
not believe created itself, having up to
now retained, while using us as in
struments, the privilege of knowing
why it made US and what it does with
us, this power appearing more and
more determined to keep its secret, 1
believe, if may be allowed to speak
freely, that humanity is beginning to
cease its efforts to penetrate this
eternal mystery. 1t has tried religions,
which have proved nothing since they
are all different; it has consulted
philosophers, who were equally un-
successful, since they were contra
dictory. Humanity is now going to
endeavor to overcome the difficulty
alone by the simple use of its instinct
and common sense, and, as it has been
placed Oh earth without knowing why
or how, it is about to tIy to be as hap
py as possible with the means furnished
by the earth ITSELF"
The eminent academician foresees
in the not remote future an era when
the useless search after the eternally
hidden have ceased people will agree
to live at peace with one another. M
Dumas, who detects this tendency
even in fact which appear to be mos,
directly opposed to it, concludes:
"The ornaments of all nations
these continual menaces, this resump
tion of races oppression, are evil signs
but not signs of bad augury. They
are the last convulsions of what is 60
ing to disappear. The social body re
sembles the human body, the malad.
being only violent effort of the or
ganism to throw off a morbid and nox
ious element. Those millions of arme,
men who are drilling every day in viey
of war Of general determination hav
no hatred toward those they may b
called upon to fight, and none of thei
leaders dare declare war. An agree
ment is inevitable within a given TINT
which will be shorter than we suppose
do not know whether it is because
am not much longer for this life, an
that the light from over the horizo
already affects my vision, but 1 do be
lieve that our world is about to vii
ness the realization of the words
Love one another without inquirin
whether it was man or a god VIII
uttered them."
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-22
STATE NEWS.

The new court house at Mount
Vernon will be enclosed this week.
A carrier pigeon, marked "V 510,"
stopped at Kelso in fog, and is there
yet.
Nicholas Riplinger was unanimous
ly chosen Mayor of LaConner, Skagit
county.
Whatcom county has made another
cut in the salaries of its courthouse
employees.
Two kicking horses at Tangent
broke each a leg of the other and had
to be killed.
They have just killed, at Sauk City,
a six-foot cougar that has been killing
considerable stock.
Wallace Bros, of Kalama, are freez-
ing both sturgeon and salmon and
shipping to Eastern markets.
A young woman at Woolley is now.
and has been since February, quite i'll
from the effects of vaccination.
The pile-driving contract on the
government work on Swinomish slough
has been abandoned by the contrac.
tors.
1t is again announced that the Aso.
tin irrigating ditch is to be completed
1t will reclaim for Asotin 10000 acres
of land.
The people of Walla Walla valley
are talking of the profit there would
be in raising tobacco. Already il
successfully cultivated on several
tracts in the valley.
{ 1t having been proven beyond any
doubt that the death of Mrs. Louisa
Schlitch was suicide, the Port Town
send authorities did not consider the
proposed autopsy necessary.
While Jacob Salladay was preparing
to thresh wheat near Ellensburgh a
spark from the engine was carried to
the stacks, and four were entirely con-
sumed, burning about 500 bushels of
wheat. No insurance.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-22

found in these webs, with every vestige
of flesh picked from them. The own
er and maker of these queer silk traps
is spider with body averaging four
and half inches in width and six in
length, and with legs nine to twelve
inches from body to terminal claw.
Some are spotted, others red with
greenish gold abdomen and legs.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-22
IF THE OCEANS WERE DRY.
They C0uldn,t he FILLED Up Again
Because shc Rivers Would DisaP.

"Suppose the ocean bed were empty,
how long would the rivers of the
world have to pour themselves into it
before it was filled again, presuming
there was no loss by evaporationf"
Answer by the Brooklyn Eagle:
This question, or one very like it, has
"gone the rounds" for good while.
Its terms seem to infer that some
things have been forgotten in formu-
lating it, as will be seen. The ocean
and seas on the surface of the globe,
representing 145! !0OO, 900 square miles,
with an average depth of 1000 fathoms,
are calculated to contain 3,270,6OO
billion tons of water. If this were all
evaporated and the basins left dry, it
has been computed that, at the rate
of thirty-six cubic miles per day
(the estimated flow of all the rivers in
the world), it would occupy $4,000
years to replace and create complete
circuit of the whole of the seas as
they at present stand. But this re-
quired further assumption, namely,
that the rivers would continue to flow
with their present capacity, which
would, in fact, be impossible if the
ocean bed were empty and dried up
If such a thing happened the river
beds would soon follow suit and be
also empty, as the sea Is their great
source of water supply. 1t is esti-
mated that every year layer of the
entire ocean fourteen feet thick is
taken up into the clouds and returns
to the earth in the shape of rain,
keeping its springs and rivers supplied
with water. Stop this supply and
rivers of the world would soon be
mere dribbles of wal er, which would
shortly and quickly isappear, render
ing it impossible for them ever again
to fill the sea to it's prt sent extent.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-22

blocks, and not by lots, has caused
much confusion and numerous dis
putes. The strip contains nearly
6 100000 acres, and, estimating the
families of the boomers who will fol-
low, it is estimated to-day's numbered
10000 souls. The strip has been
added to Oklahoma, which now, there
fore, has ample population to justify
its demand for statehood.
Engineers of trains were instructed
to run carefully, as it was feared the
tracks would be tampered with. The
discovery was made yesterdays that
straps and spikes were removed from
some OF the bridges, consequently the
trains were so slow that those on the
wagons end on horseback easily out
stripped them.
The town of Guthrie, o. T., is nearly
deserted. There is scarcely 100 people
in town. The remainder have gone to
the strip, including 500 women. Men
armed with Winchesters are guarding
the city against the bandits that have
threatened to loot the town. The
rush was so great that the railroads
could not carry all who were intent on
making locations of land.
At all the stations between Cald.
we'll and Wichita on the Rock Island,
hundreds OF boomers were left be-
cause of the inability of trains to
carry them. 1t became necessary to
lock car doors and leave the unfortu-
mates to shift for themselves.
The intense heat has told fearfully
on the excited land.seekers. The air
is like that of an oven and filled with
binding dust. Over 100 cases OF sun
stroke occurred in single day, and
many of the victims died.
Much suffering exists for want of
water and provisions. Bread sold for
so cents loaf, bacon 81 per pound
and water 10 cents drink. Lines are
formed to secure order and precedence
in registration and issue of certiti-
Gates. The exodus will be nearly Us
rapid and quite as complete as the
rush to this land, of which it may be
said,
| And as they view,
! The vision dies,
Twas but enchanted ground"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-22

THERE seems to be a spell about the
twelfth hour in the Cleveland house
hold. Baby Ruth never had birthday,
for she was born between two DAYS, at
exactly II o'clock, midnight. And
now the announcement comes that
Baby Ruth's sister was born at Il
O'Clock, high noon. The Cleveland
family seem to have a liking for
scriptural names. Ruth's sister has
been named Esther.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-22

JAMES Hammill, who was until two
months ago road overseer on the
Western division of the Northern
Pacific, was tried at Ellensburg and
acquitted by jury on a charge ol
embezzlement, brought at the instance
of the Northern Pacific railway
Hammill was charged with attempting
to manipulate the pay-car by issuing
bogus checks, a transaction commonly
called in railroad circles carrying
dead men," The jury was out but 10
minutes when it agreed on its verdict
of not guilty.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-22

IT is reported that certain Umatilla
county farmers propos establishing a
Changers cooperative store, carrying
general merchandise, wi tn the idea of
obtaining goods at cost prices, with a
margin for the expenses of operating
the store The location # the enter
prise has not yet been deci ded upon.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-22

THE pilots on the ferryboat Van
couver have tough time getting
across owing to the rapid shoaling on
the Oregon side. The breakwater
seems to have been too much of a
good thing for the railway company's
landing, piling up the sands at a great
rate during the late high water and
throwing nearly all the current to the
Vancouver side, where it is swifter
than ever known before at tbis. stage
OF the river. The route the ferry has
to take in order to get into Oregon
resembles the shape of a fishhook,
barb on the outside. Should the water
fall much more it will be necessary to
either extend the trestle, dredge a
channel, or make passengers walk a
quarter OF a mile across the sand bar.
-Vancoarer Register.