The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-26


the sun
Arizona pays the women teachers in
her public schools the highest average
monthly wages Of any state in the union
pays her men teachers an average Of
Sll807 monthly.
Aluminium neckties have been introduce
ed IN Germany They are frosted or other
wise ornamented in various shapes imitar-
ing the ordinary silk or satin article. They
are fastened 10 the cOllar-buttOn by band
around the neck, and are for summer wear
since they can be easily cleaned when soil
than cotton, cambria or silk
-Four years ago a Hungarian judge
named Moriz Revai married very
failure. Two months ago they parted
IN anger, the wife taking with her a
s5,UJJ insurance policy on her husband s
life. Revai then committed suicide, avow-
edly out Of spite, because thereby. under
the clearly expressed condition of the
pOhcy' the insurance company was re-
leased from all liability.
a German. for many years a residen:
Of Brazil, affirms that petroleum is an in
fal1ble cure for snake bite. The best plan
is TO battle the wound in the liquid, or
rags soaked with petroleum NAV be laid
over II. His nephew and his son-in-law
We're thus saved. He mentions several in
stances wherein persons were bitten far
out IN the woods, far away from the rem
Guy nut even then relief was Immediate
as soon as the petroleum was applied.
One Of the most successful features Of
the Carlisle PENN Indian school is the
outing system" Early in the spring. af-
ter the school commencement the BOYS
ana girls arc put into families preferably
IN the country, for farm or household work
during the summer They return to the
school in September Not only do the Du-
pills look forwsrd to this outing with great
delight, but in almost every instance their
hosts express desire TO have them again
"A woman in Catania, Italy. lost her
two little children by death, and some
Tow came TO believe that they died
through Witchcraft. To revenge herself
on those whom she believed guilty Of this
NltChCry, she deceived their children bv
promises Of sweets and toys. to her house;
there she gave them wine of phosphorus
to drink. causing unspeakable tortures,
ending in DEATH In this manner she
poisoned twenty-three little ones.
Whenever a Seine steamboat happens
TO sound its whistle a little longer than
usual, near the Jardin des Plantes, Par
Is the lackals moping there set up their
ulsmal howl. The compass and pitch of
the 1ackals voice is truly awful-a jaciSal
SOLO equailing q chorus of six drunken
women and a howling dervish The Whis-
tie and Jackal concert is SO horrible that
at last many Parisians are also bowling
Tor relief. a little more and there'n be
another revolution.
1t has been known for centuries that
oil poured upon the angry bosom of the
enraged ocean instantly allays its tenn
pestuous hoaVing. Improving on the old
method of applying the oil near the ship,
a european genus mas introduced
storm cannon, subduing the angry waves
10 long distance. The prOjectile Is hol-
low and filed with oil. During its 7irht
from the lannon's mouth the soothing
nuid is scattered through suitable orifices
thus opening a smooth road through the
agitated waters.
In servia capital punishment is by
shooting. In the near future Stang Nj
hailOvichs, woman who killed her son
with an ak while he was sleep, will be
riddled with bullets according to law.
she IS the flrSt woman sentenced to death
under the reign of King Alexander.
"A writer in the ChrOnik der Zelt SAYS
that IN India snakes are not as plenti-
iul as IS generally supposed; but almost
IN the same breath he mentions that in
1880 the government paid IS 900 in prerni-
ums on 4ll,095 snakes killed or captured
lie does not deny that death from cobra
bite is almost instantaneous, and he ad-
mits that boas fifteen and twenty feet
long are not at all rare in the Indian
jungles.
The highest rented house in England is
one in Whitehall court, Charing Cross
London, in which many of the suites of
rooms 1t contains let for SO 900 a year. and
the rents of the whole house amount to
$4,000 year, or nearly 5000 a week The
rents of houses in the fashionable parts
of London are extremely high. In eros
Yenor square the rents of the houses range
from 5000 to 5000 a year, and the rental
value of the sixty houses in the square is
not tar short Of $4,000 a year In St
James square it is next to impossible to
OBTAIN q house, but such houses as the
Duke of Norfolks, Lord Derby's or the
Bishop of LOndons are worth a rent of
$4,000. marlborough house. the London
residence Of the Prince of Wales. has been
valued by an expert at $4,000 a year as
us rental value, and some of the club
houses in Pail Mall are worth the same
amount The larger houses in Piccadilly /
near Hyde Park corner, could not be rent
ed under $4,000 to $50. 900 a year. Bucking-
ham Palace and grounds. covering fifty
Fara
of the four and a half millions sterling.
would give a rent of $3.50 900 a year
Lady Dudley is probably the only
peeress of England who was risen from
social eTinence. Prior to her marriage
she bore the name of Quincy. in Nor
toik The young countess father, how |
ever, met with business reVerseS resigned /
his partnership in the Quincy Bank, and |
surrendered all his possessions for the /
beneht of his creditors. Mrs. Quincy |
opened millinery shop in London but |
met with scant success, her two daught- |
ers, who acted as assistants ultimately |
becoming saleswomen in the shops of the |
modiste, Nine. Elise About a wear r1rA- |
vious to Lord Dudley's marriage the now |
widowed Duchess of Bedford and her |
sister, Lady Henry Somerset, interested |
girls. and removed them to more con. |
genial surroundings. Rachel the eldest !
became member of the household of the |
duchess, while the younger, now LADY |
Trowbridge. was adopted by Lady Henri
Somerset. 1t was as the adopted daugh- |
ter of the Duke and Duchess of Bedford /
thai, Rachel Quincy married young Lord |
Dudley.
Among the curious things in life few
are more amazing than the constitutional |
pecularities occasionally met with. The |
professor who delivered the introductory |
address to the students at one of fbe
London hospitals thought it well to put
his audience on their guard. He insta need
two very singular cases. One was thai
of a man to whom rice in any form was
poison. Some friends wished to test This
persons susceptibility and at dinner sur-
reputiously got him to partake of his
cults in each Of which was a grain Of rice
He ate two or three biscuits and soon
after had to leave the table, DECLARING
that he was being poisoned by rice, though
he was absolutely certain he had not
partaken of any. The other case was
one in which the juice of a gooseberry
acted as a powerful excitant and nro,
duced at once a virulent skin erunfio1
This This, man was so very susceptible that he
could detect gooseberry juice even when
it was masqueraded as champagne AZ
a public dinner he whispered to his neigh.
Dor it was gooseberry wine thew v1ere
drinking, and as proof he turned up his