The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-19
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The Bohemians have a proverb Each
fish has another for prey" the wells Isl
lurusJ has them all, says Harper's Round
Table. This is the largest fresh water fish
found in the rivers of Europe except the
sturgeon; ii often reaches five or six feet
in length 1t destroys many aquatic
birds, and we are assured that it does
not spare the human species. on July g.
100, a peasant took one near Thorn that
had an infant entire in its stomach. They
tell in Hungary of children and young
girls being devoured on going to draw
water; and they even relate that on the
frontiers of Turkey a poor fisherman took
one that had in it's stomach the body of
a woman, her purse full of gold, and
ring. The fish is even reputed to have
been taken sixteen feet long.
One of the strange caprices of nature
is illustrated in we'll on the premises of
Thomas B. Craft of Belle PLANE, Ia,
says an exchange. The well has been on
the family homestead and supplying the
family with water for the past twenty
five years. The supply of water never di-
minished, even in the dryest periods of
the year, and has supplied neghboring
families with water when surrounding
wells gave out. Last week the water in
the old well commenced to taste salty.
1t was pumped dry and thoroughly clean
ed out. The water became worse, and
the well was cleaned out again. This time
the water became literally a salty brine
and so thick that when placed in a YES
sci a clear, white salt would settle in the
bottom. No explanation is advanced for
the remarkable phenomenon None of the
wells in the neighborhood give any evil
dence of salt, and, as there are no saline
lands in the community, the changing of
this old homestead well into salt water
has nonplused the people.
The chancellor of the exchequer went
out of his way recently, says Labouchere
in London Truth, to explain how little the
monarchy costs England. The crown lands,
he said, belong to the sovereign and pro-
duce 81, 900 per annum. The queen re-
ceives, instead of this revenue, $1,925, 600,
and the rest of the royal family LOGO 900.
Therefore the total cost of monarchy to
the taxpayer is 1925, 900 The calculation
proceeds on the assumption that the crown
lands are the private property of the SOW
eregn. This they are not. They orig
inally formed portion of the general rev.
enue of the country, out of which came
the maintenance of the sovereign. Lord
Butte, wishing to curry favor with George
III, inserted in the civil list act, which
was passed on that monarch's accession,
a remuneration by him of the crown lands,
and this renunciation by a sovereign of
what he did not possess is the basis of the
theory of these crown lands being the pri-
vate property of the occupant of the
throne According, therefore, to Sir
Michael Hicks-Beach's own figures, mon
archy cost England S2,9S5,000. The real
amount is, however, much higher for there
are numberless expenses incidental to the
institution which he does not include.
-Assassins of the rulers of great en-
pires seem prompted to commit their aw-
full crimes on Sundays and holidays, says
the Chicago Times Herald The late Pres
ident Carnot of France was stabbed to
death on Sunday, June "a, 1894, in Lyons,
to which city he had gone to visit the ex-
position. His assailant, Santo, an Italian,
jumped upon the step of the presidents
carriage as it was returning from the eX-
position and buried his dagger in NJ. Car
not's abdomen On Aug. 16 following the
anarchist was guillotined. Alexander II,
grandfather of the present Car of Rus
STA, was also killed on a Sunday. He
was returning to the palace from a review
of troops on March 13, 1881, when two
bombs were thrown at him. The first
wrecked his carriage, the car escaping
a second injury but as he stepped to the
ground a second bomb was thrown which
tore off his legs at the knees. He died of
his wounds few hours later. King Hum
bert of Italy was very recently the object
of an anarchists hatred. AS he was driv-
had been run, on April p, a man named
| Acciarito leaped on the step of the king s
| carriage, just as Santo had jumped on
| the barouche of President Carnot, and
directed a blow at the kings breast. King
Humbert saw the man as he jumped, how
| ever, and struck Acciarito's wrist, rem
| dering his attack harmless. The assail-
ant was recently sentenced to seven years
| Imprisonment for his crime.
We believe the best agents for the mis-
sionary societies in their work, both in
Asia and Africa, might be found among the
| Arabs, as also good agents for Africa only
/ might be discovered among the negroes
| of the southern states and the West Indies,
! says the Spectator. The societies adhere
| to Europeans too closely, and neglect the
| forces which lie in similarity of color, of
| civilization, and of thought. We ask any
| experienced secretary of a home mission
would he, if he wished to diffuse the gospel
the gospel, we mean, as distinct from the
| gospel plus conventional civilization-in
| the slums of Glasgow or London send Chi
| nese or African, or even Indian, mission
| aries to preach there? He would frown
at the idea as hopelessly impractical; yet
that is what we are doing in Asia and
| Africa much too exclusively. No one ac-
knowledges more heartily than we do not
only merits, but the success of the efforts
made through European agency, but to
make those successes great we must step
out of the well-worn groove The mis-
| sionaries, full of their experience, will
deny for the most part the truth Of what
we say, and we have long ceased to hope
| for effort in this direction, but in forty
years of watching we have never changed
the opinion that when the hour arrives for
great and rapid success il will be found
that the agency which triumphs is not
either exclusively or in any great degree
| European. 1t is a marvel in the providen-
tial government of the world that Chris
tianity has for so long a period been con-
fined to the white peoples; but its mission
is to mankind, and mankind, as we have
too often to remind our readers, is not in
any large proportion white.
In the early days of Atchlson a rich
Boston man named Clahin came to town
to assist in celebrating the opening Of the
Central branch, says the Atchison Globe.
He was entertained by George w. Click
and the morning after his arrival he came
downstairs and asked Mr. Click for a
Bible, saying he always read a chapter
in the Bible before breakfast Mr.. Click
said he Vou1H bat