The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-26
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applicants for his position have appeared.
He gets $37 for each execution and his
travelling expenses.
The cradle in which Grand Duchess
Olga, daughter of the Car of Russia,
sleeps every night is a gift of the Dow
ager Empress of Russia, and is described
by Russian newspapers as the costliest
object which the fancy of a fairy-tale
writer might conceive. The little bed is
inlaid with mother-of-pearl and precious
gems. Above the pillow of the cradle
golden crown, richly studded with brilliant
jewels, is suspended. held up by two fig
ures of angels and wrought in solid gold.
The cradle is said to have cost 100000.
Six women students of Bellamy, who
are employed in the American paper goods
factory at Kensington, Conn, have put
their principles in active operation, says
the Troy Times. These young women
have leased a house, in which they live
and have their being. Everything ex-
cept their clothing is owned in common,
and they take turns in doing the house.
work. Two of them do it for one week,
then another pair assumes the response
bility So successful has this plan proved
that more have applied than can be ac-
commodated, and it is proposed to lease
the Hotchkiss house, engage a servant,
AMI enlarge the scope of usefulness and
rules Of this colony is that no male COM
pany shall be admitted to the house.
In Minnesota and the two Dakotas
there are areas of more than 200 square
miles with a population of only eight to
the square mile. Speaking of Minnesota,
the Minneapolis Tribune says: Mime
sofa alone is larger than all New Eng
land, and much larger proportion of
the land is tillable. OF the SO, 900 acres
in this state, only 100000 are now cult
waited. If peopled as densely as Ohio,
Minnesota alone would have a population
of 100000 There are said to be 100000
lakes in Minnesota, and these are fed or
drained by innumerabe streams, not to
mention the mighty Mississippi on the
east. the Red River of the North on the
west, the Rainy lake water courses on the
north and their great tributaries, which
together, penetrate nearly every section
of our vast territory"
"A domestic tragedy which can scarcely
be matched among unnatural crimes, is
interesting the inhabitants of Warwick,
says the New York SUMS London cable.
Two sisters, one aged Sc and the other 73,
were found dead in their home, where,
apparently, they had killed each other in
a terrific quarrel. 1t is known that they
often had serious squabbles, the elder one
irresponsible. They had begun, apparent
ly, by throwing crockery at each other,
one room being Uttered with broken
dishes. Then one had Tesorted to the
tongs for a weapon and the other br oom-
stick. Both were considerably injured,
but the doctors are inclined to think that
death was caused in each case by the vio-
lence of their exertions rather than by
their wounds. There was no robbery or
signs of foul play by third person.
Palmer Davis, a farmer living near Co
lumbia, Mo-, is the victim of a most GU
rious malady, says the New York Times.
One cold night two weeks ago, while lying
in wait for some boys who, he had heard,
were coming to steal his front gate Davis
became thoroughly chilled, and then when
the marauders arrived he chased them
along the road until he became as thor
oughly heated. And in the latter state he
has remained ever since, so far as his
feelings go, though his doctors thermom-
eter does not reveal a trace of fever. Da-
Wis now goes about his work in his shirt
sleeves and spends the evening on his pi-
azza, using a. fan to hasten the November
breezes and mopping a streaming brow,
while the rest of his family gathers about
the fire indoors. How long this uncom-
Portable state of affairs is going to last
no one can tell, but apparently the farm
he emigrates to Nova Zembla.
That the invention of labor-saving ma
chinery is not detrimental to labor is
strikingly shown by statistics. The re-
| cord of the labor bureau of the United
States show that, from 1860 to $780, the
most prolific period of inventions, and the
most intensified in all directions of their
introduction. the population increased 81
| per cent, while in the same period the
number of persons employed in all occu-
| pationS-manufacturin agriculture, do
| nestle service, and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
109.S7 per cent, and in the decade from 1870
to 1880 the population increased 30.0S per
| cent, while the number of persons en-
ployed increased 80 per cent. AS shown
by the investigation of a committee of
the United States Senate, wages have in
| creased 81 per cent in the United States
since 1860. And, as we all know during
the same period the cost to the people of
nearly all manufactured articles has been
decreased in as great if not greater ratio.
-Aerolites seem to be losing that hne
| judgment in the selection of places on
which to alight which has characterized
| them in the past, says the New York
| Times. Reference was made in this col
umn few days ago to one that came
near killing a harmless, necessary house,
painter Jul III OfSSOll, anu AiOW d SlIilltdT
piece of carelessness is reported from Bel
| GUM. Two laborers working in a field
near Namur were interrupted in their use
full and honorable toll by the sudden de-
scent of large, jagged star fragment,
which noisily buried itself at their feet.
One of the men promptly tainted away,
while the other Immediately held religious
exercises Of an informal but extremely
sincere kind. Next day, after the meteor
had cooled off, 1t was dug out of the
ground and examined. It weighs thirty
pounds, and is of yellow color. Three of
its sides are rough and crumbly, but the
fourth is smoothly polished and on it are
inscribed, apparently with a sharp tool of
some sort. what appel to be hieroglyph-
les. A Brussels paper says: mo one
has so far been able to decipher these
marks" The frankness of this admission
is reassuring as to the truth of the story,
for no constituencies chronicler could
have resisted the temptation to exploit
those hieroglyphics as message from
Mars
-Elwyn A. Barron writes in the Chicago
T.maS-IInra1 an account 81 tha e..s