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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-03
NEW PALATE FOR THE BABY.
Mrs. Decker Brought Her Child
From Utah for the Operation.
From the Philadelphia Press.


From the Philadelphia Press.
New York, July ga delicate opera
tion was performed last week on Httle
Ivan Decker, whose mother had brought
him across the continent to New York,
where ne could be treated. The opera
ton was no less than making a new
mouth for the boy.
There was a wide fissure on the left
side of the child's palate, extending all
the way back. This affection had caused
the child great difficulty in swallowing,
and, If not remedied, would in time have
proved a serious impediment to distinct
articulation. The etiology OF this peculiar
affiiction gives as the only facts on which
to base its cause several cases showing
that 1t is occasionally hereditary.
Little Ivan was in excellent health
when II was decided to perform the oper-
alton last Thursday, at the home of Mr..
Ryon, at No. 14S West Sixty-eighth street,
where Mrs. Decker was staying. DIR. j.
II. Branth of No. 116 West Eighty
street, had many of the Instruments spec
tally made for this kind of an operation.
About seventy-five Instruments were en-
ployed on little Ivan, who was in the sur
When the operation began, the mother
who did not remain in the room, sent
message to the father In Parawan. Utah.
and when the ordeal ended she sent an
other message to her husband.
The operation began with the partial
incision of the two sides of the superior
maXilary bone, which were then broken
loose with little steel chisels so that they
would fit together, closing the cleft in
front. The two sides of the cleft through
the hard palate were denuded with the
knife and drawn together by means Of
four catgut ligatures Then two double
ligatures of heavy catgut were passed
through the loosened parts of the supe-
rior maxillary bone.
A second operation will be necessary to
remove the hareip, which is an accom-
paniment of a cleft palate but this will
not be more than an ordinary experience
and after that little Ivan win have Just
as symmetrical a roof in his mouth as
any one, and be abe to talk with perfect
distinctness when he becomes older. Ivan
is a healthy, rosy youngster, and the con-
struction of a perfect palate will make
him fine little boy.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-03
TO LIVE IN CATACoMBs.
Scientists VIII Watch the Effect of
Darkness on Fish and Animals.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
Paris. July 16.-Deep in the bowels OF
the earth curious labratory is about to
be established in the Jardin des Plantes.
Under the gardens run some old galleries
of the Catacombs. which have not been
opened in a hundred years. The labora-
tory which will be established in these
galleries will give an opportunity to study
the effect of obscurity upon animal life.
Every one has heard of the fish without
eyes in the cave Of Kentucky, and other
freaks which exist in dark wells and such
places. These facts are Of great import
ance in studying the evolution of man
and species, but so far no researches up
on the subject have been carried out by
scientists.
Down in the deep galleries Of the Cata-
combs 1t is always pitch dark. and fish
ponds will be dug in the solid rock and
stocked with fish to study the effect Of
the obscurity upon them and their Off
spring Animals will also be kept down
there for the same purpose.
A good deal of trouble and some danger
was experienced in opening up the gal
leries, which have for so long been closed.
The temperature 200 feet below the sur
face is chill and damp, while the gases
which have accumulated in 100 years made
1t a ticklish undertaking TO descend. These
galleries undermine almost the whole of
Paris and its enVirons, being used as cat
acombs and also for growing mushrooms.
Under the Jardin des Plantes they have
never been used since the stone workers
left them in 1T79. They are very narrow,
and one has to stoop in going through
them. In some places the roof has fallen
in, but most of the galleries are dug out
of the solid rock and will last for all time.
The laboratory will be the only one Of its
kind in the world, and the sayants who
have undertaken the task expect that the
results of their experiments VIII throw
new light upon the doctrine of evolution.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-03
opera Bonnet Law in New Orleans.

What is an opera bonnet? is likely to
become an important issue, social and
political, in New Orleans next fall. The
Louisiana legislature, which adjourned
July 10. settled a disputed gubernatorial
election, called a constitutional conven-
ton, framed new charter for New Or
leans modified the suffrage, and did more
than any previous legislature in fifty
years; but all these matters were of small
popular interest or concern compared with
the high-hat bill passed by 1t, prohibiting
women from wearing hats at theaters.
The state house was crowded on the day
of the final passage of the bill the au-
dience the largest of the session, the
most Respondent in beauty and dress,
and the oratory the most brilliant. Sena-
tor Fenner, OF Orleans, who led the fight
for the women, and antagonized the law
as frivolous, succeeded in getting in an
amendment allowing the wearing Of op-
era hats and aigrettes. II is this amend
ment which has caused all the trouble
in the fall, for neither the laws nor the
dictionaries give any definite and fixed
idea of what an opera hat Is The mil
iners Of New Orleans, interviewed on the
subject declare mat an opera hat Is one
which fits close to the head, and IS with
out brim. but that it can be trimmed or
decorated in any way its owner wants,
so that there is no reason why IL should
not be as high as a bonnet OF the Marie
Antoinnette type. 1t is proposed that the
milliners agree as to type Of feminine
headgear TO be known as 'the standard
opera bonnet TO be worn next winter, for
il the selection be left to the pre- ferences
of each woman, the aim Of the iaw-to
allow theater-gOers to see the stage-wiU
be defeated. But 1t is recognized that
even this is not likely to occur without
a "womans war"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-03
TRAITS OF SALMON.
said That IL Returns to Its Own
River After Long Absence.

River After Long Absence.
Chambers Journal.
In the autumn time and onward to tho
beginning of the next year. the mother
salmon ascends the rivers to deposit ner
eggs and thus TO secure the continuance
OF her race In connection with this
periodical visit or visits to the river must
be mentioned a very curious fact The
idea is entertained very strongly by some
authorities that a salmon invariably re-
turns to It's native river or that in which
IL was bred. II has even been asserted 10y
fishermen that, when several rivers enter
the sea I'm one stream las at Bonar
Bridge for examples the salmon bred In
each river will pass back into their own
water and will avoid the strange streams.
The late Frank auckland, a strong he
lever in this instinct of the fish, regarded
the sense of smell as that which led IL
TO ITS native river. Perhaps the truth j.
that for the most part salmon do returr
to their own rivers, but that the practices
and habit are not necessarily invariable.
We know the fishes certainly swim grea
distances along coast lines where they
are captured in stake and bag nets and
It may we'll be the case that now and
then a fish will turn into a river that is
near in preference to seeking its own ana
distant water.
Arrived in her river the mother salmon
begins to scoop out a kind VI trench In tho
gravel Of the stream. This she effects
by blowing into ths gravel with her body
This trench is to- be the nursery of her
young. The eggs are laid in the furrow
and are duly fertilized by the male SAL
mon. Then the trench Is filled in by tho
efforts of both parents the eggs are COW
cred with gravel, and the mound thus
formed is called, In fishers language, a
"redd." How many eggs a mother sal
mon will deposit Is, OF course q Difficult.
question to determine but stock calcu-
lation maintains that she produces about
800 eggs for every pound she weighs. Each
egg In It's diameter measures aDout a quar-
ter of an inch, and IL n estimated that
$4,000 eggs go to a gallon.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-03
OFFERS TO MURDERERs.
In Nearly Every Case Where Women
Are Criminals They Get Offers.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
"A very remarkable fact IN connection
with notorious murders is the number of
persons who write to the accused while
they are awaiting trial. and offer to mar
~ them in the event of their being ac-
Quilted by the jury" said a wel-known
London criminal lawyer the other day.
while Mrs Maybr:ck was awaiting
trial for the murder of her husband she
received as many as seven offers of mar
riage. II l am not mistaken; some of them
from men in fairly good positions. Wheth-
er ii was merely bid for notoriety or
not / cannot say. But the fact remains,
lust the same.
Some time ago / was conducting the
defense of a woman who had knocked out
the life of her paralytic husband with a
hatiron-a very fayorite instrument Of
chastisement with the lower Classes. by
the way-and during the few weeks she
was awaiting her triel she received no
fewer than nine offers of mar
riage One of the men, a
small grocer in the town in which
she had resided wrote in the most tender
terms and tones, and implored her to mar
~ him i'm the event of her being acquitted
OF the charge-that Of manslaughter He
even went so far as to pay me a visit with
the object of getting me to extract a
promise from my client, and after the
trial at which the woman was sentenced
to seven years. he wrote and renewed his
offer, and said he would wait seven years
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-03
HEADED FOR NEW YORK.
A 22O-FOOt Sea Serpent With Pea
Green Whis1xers of POpuIistic Cut.
From the Bridgeport Unlon.

Oreen Wh1bkers OF PODuItsttc Cut.
From the Bridgeport Union,
A sea serpent with pea-green whiskers
passed down Long Island sound in a big
hurry Wednesday morning. He was plow-
ing through the water at a twenty-five
knot clip, when he passed the Stratford
lighthouse, and left a wake Of foam be-
hind him mile in length. He was cas-
ily 200 feet in length, and his head was
reared twenty feet above the brine. That
afforded good view of his whiskers
which were of the Is to l variety and of
the rich deep green color of bog hay.
The big reptile was plaintly seen from
the lighthouse by Keeper Theodore Jud-
son, his wife, his son Henry, and his
daughter Agnes, and by H. w. Curtis Of
Stratford, as wen as by a number OF
people at Capt. John Bonds place, up
the river. These latter saw only the loft
lily reared head, which at a distance look
ed like the tall funnel of a sound flyer
Keeper Judson seriously declared to q
reporter that he could not be mistaken
Il saw it plainly" he SAID land so did
my wife and children and Mr.. Curtis. AL
of US are familiar with the appearance Of
a school of porpoises, and this sight was
entirely different. Besides, the head stuck
up straight, and porpoises could hardly
present that appearance unless they were
pushing along a stovepipe In the water
OF course 1t is hard to say just how big.
the creature was, but the body was very
long and quite thick. 1t was travelling
down the sound at a rapid gate, perhaps
a half mile off shore. 1t could be plainly
seen without a glass"
The other witnesses all corroborate
Keeper Judsons statement. which bears
the imprint of truth. Incum bency in the
lighthouse service is prima facie evidence
of sobriety, an element not always close
ly connected with stories of sea mon
sters.
Still the pea-green whiskers are mex
plicabie. There are only twenty-eight
populists in the state, and they are all at
st. Louis.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-03

sereia Por0. Asa tons. Cheveira, at sa-
pelo
Rimfax CIor). 51s tons. Aanonsen. Goole
sid June 80.
Peppina NJ. QtaD. 5Os tons, Cahero, Cadiz,
sid June 80
Morning Light (Nor). 1,24O tons, svend-
sen, Port Natal, sid June 9.
D. B. Metcalf (Nor), 1857 tons, Larsen,
Harburg, sid July s.
Hans (Sw), $50 TONS Lenander, at Ant
werp June q.
Johannes (Nor), 62s tons, Hansen, Har-
burg, sid July g.
Linda Morgenroden (Russ), 4S6 tons.
Aavidsson, Fowey, sid July TO-
Guldregn (Nor), $50 tons, Hansen, Algoa
Bay. sid June &c.
Kriemhild Ger, = tons. Hold. Algoa Bay,
sid June Is.
Ramona (Br), 4O4 tons, George. at Sapelo.
Cuba Ger. LIPS tons, Behrends. at Por-
tishead July s.
Emilia qtaD, 3O6 tons, Trapani. Cadiz, sid
July Is.
Vedova R; QtaD, 541 tons, Mortola Rotter-
dam, sid July 80
Amor QtaD, 6S5 tons, Quintavalle. Ant
werp, sid July 90
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-03
Weekly Marker Reviem

C0tlon-Ihe warning repeated in tbis
IeVleW for the last month to fhe effao+
i 49, II was dangerous to sell the grow
lIs crop short at the low nrinas 80
rent found justification in the 49,, - Su ae
A. AZ past week. The excessively hoH ana
Wy weather brought very general ,a1
H. boi - OF serious damage, which tboroueh-
l11- - iiieu me pears and caused a sharD
,,, nauce OF fuly GO points in new crop
nIoHths. Liverpool closed on Frida,, ~ ~
i,-Iu ciosed until Wednesday. and since
Nv pool closed New York has adVenceS
for ,lG 10 or ~ points; but up to then the
with ne marker mad kept up the pace
~ ~ very well. The main reason for
sa7 @uNance is probably the heaviIv over-
~, condition of the marker NTon,,
en-, the damage so far not severe
4 I,sn 10 legltimately account for such
Jury. August advanced only abo,,t
;,slli as much as later months nsr+,S- ~.
of ~ Ihe extraordinarily early recaints
az rev cotton. This verv fact NAV III III
cron ~ nose who pin their faith in a large
shoIld ms Tune, while the plant
good - IS growing and preparing for a
9r9r, uiledle crop, not to mention tbe ton
f7rF,, rs growth is checked and ~ -
jn'if.a..lo untlmely maturity. giving over,
It Is s,i,u OF an early and soon over cro13
concerning ~ lily 70 venture any opinion
Least slHs the probable yield but n IL
tha LCSIhs reasonable to believa tbat
has mig weather of the last ten davs
e94 of L{Su the total something like / O01
nth will cor+ot ~ bureau report on the
aictaJ III condition, but the damaga jn-
month WI become more apparent tbis
tons more more especially if weather condi9
an oh4rac.eai orth are not such as to afford
l'-HCes for ~ecuperat ion '
ba- me- lend end Of the torrid turn, which sho,,,,
action near viii likely cause some re- az
tend1n- pIt in the main the market ssar,S.
The fs-r, up~ards. Coming just as it does
ii N at the Improvement wa toe ine ppm,
parry respect of success for the silver
sonetbi1ou II IS possible there NAV be-
ana Provisions-Wheat has been
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-03

The Next Best Thing.-The young wo-
man was losing no time in getting her
sightseeing tour started Approaching a
man who stood in the doorway of a store
on Pennsylvania avenue, watching the
crowd pass, she said: "Will you tell me
where 1 can see the Senator" 1T isn't in
session" Then 1 guess I'll go see the
House Of Representa- tives." That isn't
in session, either" us Senator PETER
hereg' No" "Or Senator TIlIman 2"
NO" Il don't sec what they let them go
away for. when 50 many visitors are com
ing. Well, anyway. can you tell me what
car to take to get to the o7"-Washing-
ton Star.
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SCHOONERS.

Port Royal Aug g
Aaron Reppard 436 tons. English ~
Port Royal Aug. 2. at
A. D. Lamson. 426 tons, Smith. PhiladeI-
-phia, sid July g. '''-''''
j. E. duBignon, = tons. Turner ar phil
adelphia July %. o. = M
York July 81 81 -'e"
timore July 81. e' at Dali
n 6rr1 c. Kerlin, 491 tons, Coverdale.
?, Ferth Amboy, sid July 30.
i'T yorTl W. DaSey, SS9 tons, Hunter, at New
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and marry her when she Obtained her re-
lease.
Made Very probably; but there seemed
10 be a method In hts madness and there
was nothing suggesting insanity I'm his
manner and speech j believe he is SIN
waiting He writes me ocrasi0naliv and
implores me 10 get the woman out so that
he may marry her. But o. course can do
nothing. nor would IL ] could
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-03

Nev York. July Sl.-Arrived, schr Will
-, p Potter, Slocumb. Georgetown.
brunswick, Ca, July Sl.-ArriVed' scnrs
,-2ob NJ Haskell. Hart, Norfolk; James
yya5,o Davidscn. New York; Harry &
80 80 REYNOLDS. Mills, New York
0Dsrien. Ga. July 3l.-Cleared, bark Es-
aida Rus), Grant,, Queenstown
phiIadelphia, July 31.-Arrived, schr hed
wing. earle Savannah.
triUerp. July 29.-Sailed, bark Amor
1t1n Oumtavalle, Savannah.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-03

Total visible supply III 565. 607 2776 ZIG
The imports into continental ports the
past week have been $1,000 bales.
The above figures Indicate a decrease in
the cotton in sight tonight of 1211, 1863
bales, as compared with the same date or
1895, a falling off of 759 34S bales from the
corresponding date of 1894 and a decrease
of 932, 17S bales from 1893.
India Cotton Movement From All Ports
The receipts and shipments of cotton at
Bombay have been as follows for the
week and year, bringing the figures down
to July 80:
Bombay Receipts and Shipments Cor
Four Years
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WILL SAVE MONEY.
Southern Railways New Method of
Firing Up Its Engines.
From the Knoxville Journal.

UTIV JUL
The vacuum locomotive fire kinder
which has been on trial at the Southern's
new shops for the past three months, has
been adopted by the company and Will
be used hereafter by this company in all
its shops as soon as they can be procur-
ed The invention is the greatest saver
Of time and money that has ever been in
vented The old way of firing an engine
with wood has been done away with 1t no
longer takes one and a half TO two hours
to get up steam as IT once did with the
old way Of using wood. The new kinder
is an invention Of y. Fl. Smith, master
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-03
Visible supply of Cotton.

The visible supply Of cotton to july 81.
as made up by cable and telegraph is ss
follows The continental stocks. as well
as those for Great Britain and the afoat
are this weeks returns, and consequent-
~ all the European figures are brought
down 10 Thursday evening. But TO make
the totals the complete figures for July
81, We add the item of exports from the
United States, including in it the exports
of Friday only:
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-03
NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Pilot charts and all photographic infor-
nation will be furnished masters of YES
sells free of charge in United States hy-
geographic Office, in custom house. Cap
tans are requested to call at the office.
Reports of wrecks and derelicts re-
ceived for transmission to the navy de-
partrnant
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-03
BRIGS.

Emma L; Shaw 567 tons, Porter, Philadel-
phta, sid, Breakwater, July go
Wan Bun, 491 tons, Avis. New York, sid
July Is. 9'N
Robert Dillon 431 tons, Wyatt at New
York, via Port Royal.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-03
4RRIVED YESTERDAY.

g.-- Henrietta (Nor), Bull Kingston
.i-l-Dahl * Andersen
.s.---.-rer Ethel, Carroll, Augusta ana
T-riings.-W. T. Gibson Mahas.r-
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sAuFD YESTERDAY.

Park Washington QtaD. Genoa.
schooner City Of JacksonVlle' Ferth'
smbOy.
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B,-, I.atona Clor). Gahrsen, TO Id naval
80 for Europe-Paterson, Downing *
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>---TETNAH. Monday, Aug 3, 1885
s-r rises -------..--------.---- SIS
--- 500
- -,,rer al TT Pulaski 20 am, 500 pm
t---- --srer al Savannah 80 am, 40 pm
- ~ han on Cotton Exchange drops
80 18Th meridian
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According to the foregoing Bombay Sp-
pears to show a decrease compared with
last year in the weeks receipts of 5000
bales and a decrease in shipments of 1000
bales, and the shipments since Sept. l
show an increase of 243,000 bales.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-03
,pRTvED Ar QUARANTINE.
,nRIvED UP PROM QUARANTINE

p,-k DOCTOR Meyer CNor). Engleslad.
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LIST OF VESSELS
Up, Cleared and Sailed for This
Port.
STEAMSHIPS


Iris Belg), Leenaers. Antwerp. sid July
II.
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-04-17
wrc. for British CoiumbIans,

VANCOUVER April i7.-The mayor Of
Vancouver has received a peculiar icttel
from Toronto written in the interests Of
the young women In Torunto and ether
eastern cities. Tho writer states that, &C.
cordins 60 statistics, thero h shortagc. in
tho female population IN tho northwest
territories and British Cotnirbis amount.
ing to about o.eoO. and there Is in eastern
Canada q corresponding overplus of un.
married women. In order to equalize
matters It Is proposed to send young
women of good health and and moral
character west to hc distributed where the
demand is greatest.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-04-17
BURDEN JEWEL ROBBERS CAUGHT.
Diamosds and Other Property Valued II
100000 Recovered in London.

Diamosds and Other Property Valued at
o2ooooO Recovered ia Londoa.
NEW YORK, April IA special to the
World from London says: Two Spen,
whose real names the London police say
arc William Turner and William Rob
erts Dunlop, were arraigne6 in the Mhrl-
borough street police court yesterday
afternoon. charged with the Illegal pos
session Of n quantity Of jewclry. The
World correspondent is informed that the
two men are undoubtedly either tho act.
ual burglars or accomplices Of the bur-
glars who robbed !. Townsend Burdens
house In New York city some months
ago. They wcre arrested while lettering
before the windows of various jcwelry
shops In Bond street, but 1t appears that
the arrest was really arranged beforehand
on Information received by Scotland Yard
from New York.
The men were searched and twenty
eight unset diamonds, valued ut a3 OUO
Nl5, ,oOJ), were found in their pockets.
They refused to give any explanation.
The police knew they lived Ia lodgings in
Shephclds market near Whitehorse
street, Mayfair, and not far from Plcca.
dilly. There the police found jewclry to
the value, as they say. OF eiO.0 600 1taOo. 0OO),
together with the settings of the diamonds
found upon them whom arrested The
other jcwclry was sewn up In belts and In
the Innings Of their clothes One gold
picco with the name ct. Burden" en-.
graved upon 1t was also found
The police say tho jewelry corresponds
to the description Of that stolen from Mrs
Burden. and they think all that was miss.
ing has been recovered. The police are
most reticent about the case. Tho ar
rested men, while making no resistance
when overhaulcd, seamot greatly fright
cEcn They have refused to mako any
stat.mcpt
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-04-17
Fatal EXPLOSION AT PEORIA.
Sugar Converter Bursts, Two Men Ar
Killed and Three Baiiiy Hurt

Sugar Converter Bursts, Two Men Are
Killed and Three BADLY Hurt
PEoEIA, Ills, April ia converter at
the lower sugar works exploded this
morning, filling the immense building
with steam A man named Barnes was
killed outright. The body of John Hoey
has been removed from tho room. He
was killed instantly, as well as Barnes,
and was found alongside the converter.
John Dooley and Mat Connolly are the
men most severely injured. Tho converter
was on the fourth story of the building, in
which about hundred men were at work.
There was the widest excitement and
many thrilling escapes occurred. The cx.
plosion was plainly heard in all parts Of
the city.
John Wilson has been removed from
the ruins. Several ribs arc broken and he
Is injured internally, and probably ia.
tally