The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-07
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her appearance in China. The daughter
OF a magistrate in Shantun acts as treasu-
rer In her father district keeps the books,
pays the bills and stirs Up delinquent
debtors.
Declines in the revenues Of high church
dignitaries, caused by the agricultural de-
preston in England. are very serious in
some cases. AT Canterbury the dean re-
ceives, $500. instead OF $1,000. and the
canons 1880. instead OF 5000; at York
canons get 1900 instead of 3, COO; at Ely
the figures are. dean 8, 100, instead OF S.
0gg, and canons $3.50, instead of $3.50; at
canons, $500, instead of $500; at Nor
wien the reduction has been about 20 per
cent, and at Rochester 3 per cent. The
canons S1,155
"A Frenchman has discovered a way to
soothe with music the troubled breast of
baby. Animals are we'll known to be
susceptible to the influence Of music. and
as the baby Is an animal, the baby can be
clrcumXented that way. Some people be-
come III on hearing the first notes of a
musical nstrument-notably the flute.
Not so the baby. Take an ordinary baby
az a. m. 1t wakens up, IL is insulted by
the silence, indigna ton succeeds and it
begins to cry. This is the time to bring
out the musical box-at least NJ Bezichin-
sky says so; and then the infant sleeps.
ter, but either leaves bromide of potassium
ana the soothing syrup far behind. One
nocturne neutralises another
Indian medicine men make a mess of
it when they attempt to work miracles.
A report comes from Western Oklahoma
that the various bands of the Pawnee
indian tribe are encamped on Black Bear
creek and engaged in the wild dances and
revels OF the annual medicine making.
Crazy Horse, one of the medicine men,
made a medicine which he declared TO be
protection from bullets when applied to
the body. His brother volunteered TO pose
as target after rubbing the mixture up
on his body. He fell dead at the first
shot with a bullet through his heart.
crazy Horse barely escaped lynching, and
a council OF chiefs being held, 1t was de-
cided to dlsDossess him of all his prop
erty, including herds of horses and cattle.
Relics of Louis XVI brought good
prices at Rouen lately. They belonged
to the, descendants of Clery, the kings
Nalet de chambre, who was confined in
the Temple with his master. cambria
shlrt worn by the king the day before his
death, with an ink stain on the wristband,
brought 500; the napkin used at the mass
on the morning of the execution 1890:
Louis nightcap, $40; key made by him,
viva; the coat worn by the dauphin in pris-
on fetched $40; his waistcoat, S2G5; a knife
with a plain bone handle belonging to
Marie Antoinette. Sis; a tress of the
queens hair, $50; locks of Louis and of
de Lamballe, $50; and Nine. Elizabeth's
head dress, 1886. Clery's diary brought
Wv ana MS portrait $3.50.
AT a recent meeting of the American
Psychological Association, as reported in
the American Naturalist, Prof. w. r.
NeWbold narrated informally three cases
vaguely described as Dream Reasoning
which had occurred in the experience OF
two OF his colleagues. Dr. w A. Iamer-
ton, professor of Greek in the University
OF pennsylvania, when a young man. af-
ter giving up as insoluble a problem in
descriptive geometry upon which he had
been working for weeks by the analytical
method, aWOke one morning several DAVIS
later to find an hallucinatory figure pro
Jected upon blackboard in his room with
all the lines necessary to a geometrical
SSQIutlon OF the problem clearly drawn.
ne mas never had any other visual halu-
cthauoh. Or. II. V. Hilprecht. professor
OF assyrlology in the University of Penn
syNanla, some years ago dreamed an in
depreciation of the name Nebuchadnezzar,
winch has since been universally adopted
AT later period he dreamed that an AS
syrian priest gave him information about
some inscribed fragments that had puz-
zled MN, which was afterward confirmed
III all points now capable of confirmation"
The tidal movement in the st. Law
renee is not the familiar durnal one com
mon in the ocean and other extensive bod
les OF water, salt or fresh, and caused by
We Yn., atitITactlon OF the moon, says the New
ork Herald. 1t is something much more
mysterious. The allegation is that the big
river has total tidal period of about four
Iarly and continually for seven consecu-
1--WE years, dropping its level four or five
Ieet, and then rises for the next ensuing
seven years. Those who make this as
sertion-and it's most persistent adher-
ents are the fishermen and guides who
study the river as matter of business
from day to day and year to year-are for
Tined with apparently excellent evidence
Ihey will show you the islands submerg-
ed Tor twelve years that only show them
serves at the lowest water during the two
remaining years of the period They will
row row you out to perpendicular cliffs, upon
whose sides they their fathers and their
grandfathers before them have marked
high water, and the alleged dates seem
10 confirm the theory What makes this
singular movement, of the water more APP
parent Is the fact that the lordly St Law
renee is not subject to the floods and
droughts which raise and lower the levels
OF almost all rivers many times during the
course OF each year. Except for the al
most imperceptible "tidal' rise or fall as
the case may be, it's level is constant the
year around. Weeks of heavy rain do not
disturb its steady volume or spoil the an
glers sport by making muddy the clear
water
"A laborious genealogist announces, as
the result Of years of minute labor. SAYS
the Gentlewoman. that the queen has had
nine children, of whom she has lost two;
forty-one grandchildren, of whom eight
have lived; and twenty-three great-grand-
children, all of whom are living She has.
therefore, sixey-three descendants living
dren, and twenty-three of the next gen
GRAFTON. Her next eldest great-grandchiId.
the Princess Feodore of Saxe-Meiningen,
is now nearly II, SO that in all probabili-
Y her majesty viii live to see her grand
childrens grandchildren. Few English
sovereigns before Queen Victoria have
seen grandchildren grow out of infancy.
and none ever saw a great-grandchiId
Hence, her majesty had to determine the
question Of presidency in the case of the
Duchess Of Flies children, and she wisely
decided that they should rank only as
daughters of a duke. This decision was
in accordance with a house law decreed
earlier in the reign, by which the title
of prince and royal highness is limited
to the children of the sovereign and the
children of the sovereign's sons, the chill
dren of the sovereigns daughters taking
precedence only according to the rank Of
their fathers. Thus the Princess Eelena's
children rank as children of Prince Chris
tian only, while the Duke of Connaught's
are royal highnesses, and Prince Arthur
of Connaught's son and successor if he
has one. will be the Duke of Connaught
as an ordinary duke, taking precedence
merely by date of the creation of his duke
dom. This is now the case of the Duke
of Cumberland on the roll of the House