The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-12
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81. Several children have taken advantage
Of this offer.
Eleven transient dodgers called at the
station house in Spencer a few nights
ago. and when booked by the captain
these were the names they gave, and
which were entered in the book: Dusty
RhodeS. Weary Rags. Foot Soar, sight
Seer, Foot Train. Track Walker. /. y.
Spector, ROade Agent, y. o. Hobo, Hand
Out and Tour Ist
-Paderewskrs price for playing the
piano at private reception is $500 min
ute. says the New York Sun. A San Fran
cisco woman wrote TO Paderewskis man
ager some ten days ago, when the pianist
was in that city, asking for five minutes
a an afternoon tea. She got a reply that
the charge would be $500 She thought
THIS rather steep and wrote another note
Offering to pay ST. 90 for five minutes of
Paderewsd's music. She didn't even get
an answer to this note.
Some time ago a London clergyman.
In the course of a sermon, thus addressed
the women in the congregation: Some
OF you, my friends, followers of the gentle
Christ, come 10 worship wearing egret
plumes of 'ospreys' in your hats and bon
nets. DO you realize that this egret plume
only grows on the bird at the time of
nesting. and that to obtain one such
feather involves the cruel death not only
OF the beautiful white mother heron, but
of the whole nestful of its nearly nedged
pleasure of an egret plume! What a ira
Vesty of religion to be able to come into
and sing in the words Of the Benedicite:
oh, all We fowls of the air. bless We the
Lord, praise him and magnify him for
Probably the first public lottery ever
held took place in England in 1867. says
an exchange when 1000 chances were sold
at 10 shillings each, the prizes consisting
chiefly of plate, and the profits going
Tor the repair of certain harbOrs. The
drawing took place at the west door of
st. Pauls Cathedral. In 1912 another lot
terry took place at St. Paul's This was
for the benefit of the Virginia company.
profit was gained. Again. in 1880. lottery
was promoted in order TO bring water into
London, and after the civil war another
lottery helped to replenish an exhausted
national exchequer Private lotteries
soon became very common, and being
generally conducted on fraudulent prin-
ciples. an act of parliament was passed
early in the reign of Queen Anne suppress
ing them las public nuiSances." In 1894 a
loan of 100000 was raised by the sale
Of lottery tickets at 40 each, and in ITO
Fl 10000 was raised by 40 tickets, each
ticket being entitled to an annuity for
thirty-two years, the blanks IA shillings
per annum, the prizes varying from f@
to fl,OO0 per annum.
Almost every form and variety of hui
man crime is common with insects, says
the Pittsburg Dispatch. Cases of theft
are noticed among bees. Buchner, in his
'Physic Life of Animals" speaks of the
thevish bees which, in order to save
themselves the trouble of working, at
tack well-stocked hives in masses, kill
the sentinels and the inhabitants, rob
the hives and carry off the provisions.
After repeated enterprises of this descrip-
ton, they acquire taste for robbery ana
violence; they recruit whole companies,
which get more and more numerous and
finally they form regular colonies Of
a IL
rious fact that these brigand bees can be
produced artificially by giving working
bees a mixture of honey and brandy TO
drink. The bees soon take a delight in
this beverage, which has the same dis
astrous effect upon them as upon men
and lose ali desire To work and finally
when they begin to feel hungry, they
attack and plumber the well-supplied
Sphecodes-which lives exclusively upon
plumber. They may thus be said to be
an example of innate and organic Grim
inality among insects, and they represent
what Prof Lombroso calls the born GRIM
inals-that is, individuals who are led to
crime by their own organic constitution.
Singapore, the capital of the Straits
Settlement and practically of the whole
Malay peninsula, with it's British settle
ments, is one of those spots favored by
nature and seemingly destined for great
ness. The island on which the city is
built and around which the commerce
from China and Japan and India has
swung for centuries, is about tWenty-SeV-
en- miles long and fourteen broad. Its
harbor is well protected and fortified by
its British owners. About twenty years
ago the island of Singapore was famous
for it's groves of spice trees, but blight
attacked them, which caused them to be
abandoned in year or two. Though the
island is so near the equator the delight
full sea breezeS render the climate nearly
temperate The population of Singapore
is large, there being 100000 people on the
s-1, vl,Nr,, Ia.
nese and Malay prevail, though every
race on the globe is represented. Here,
as in most eastern cities, the horse is re-
garded as luxury and when used at all
it is in the carriages of the wealthy For
business purposes the jinrikisha, drawn by
coolies, is the thing. There are said to be
1000 man-drawn carriages for hire in Sing
apore. 1t is in the harbor that the life of
the city centers. Those who have seen
only an American or English harbor can
not imagine the wilderness of boats rang
ing from the most awkward canoe to the
finest ocean liner. Many workmen and
boatmen live in their boats the year round
"A contemporary has an interesting ed
torial on 1.-The Oldest Family in the
World" says the New York Christian Adj
vocate. About a dozen of the 400 barons
in the British House of Lords date back
to AGO, the earliest being 1854 The oldest
family in the British Isles is the Mar fam
lily of Scotland, 1893. The Campbells of
Argyle, to whom belong the present Duke
of Argyle, began in 1880. Talleyrand dates
from 119O, Bismarck from 1910, the Grosve-
nor family, the dukes of Westminster,
1866; the Austrian house of Hapsburg goes
back to $50, and the house of Bourbons to
S64. The descendants of Mohammed, born
so, are all registered carefully and au-
thoritatively in a book kept in Mecca by
the chief of the family. Little or no doubt
exists of the absolute authenticity of the
long line of Mohammed's descendants.
In China there are many old families, also
among the Jews, but" says our CON
temporary, when it comes to pedierees
there is one gentleman to whom the world
must take off its hat not as facile prin-
cops of primus inter pares, but as a great
and only none-such. This is the Mfkado
of Japan" His place has been filled by
members of his family for more than $500
years. The present milSado is the 122d of
the line. The first one was contemporary
with Nebuchadnezzar, $50 before Christ.
Of the seven great religions enumerated
by Max Muller as possessing Bibles. the
mikado's family is older than five. Since
we all have the consolation of knowing
that we are descended from the first FAM
lily, it makes no difference if some of the
early records are lost except so far as thew
may relate to recent property titles