The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-19
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Nevada, through a relationship to the
Comstock after whom it was named.
1t is quite possible that her majesty's
jubilee year viii be still further marked
by the creation of a regiment of Irish
Guards, consisting of two battalions, one
of them to be always on duty in London,
with Dublin for its headquarters.
"A report has been issued by the COM
mittee on the Child memorial fund, of Har-
ward University, announcing that it now
amounts 10 $lO,S20. The money has been
turned over to the authorities of the uni
versity, with the condition that the in
come be devoted TO buying books and man.
uscripts relating to the study of English
and their maintenance in a proper
state of binding and repair"
by the death of cat, the Temple
quarter in Paris" says the Boston Trans
cript. receives a legacy of 10000 francs
for its elementary schools. The cats mis-
tress, who died in 1892, left the money
for the maintenance of her pet cat with
the reversion at its death to the district
municipality if it would look after the
cat. 1t speaks well for the honesty of the
trustees that the cat, winch is now dead
at the age of sixteen years, should have
survived its mistress five years"
Five stores in this place have syn
chrOnized electric clocks operated by wire
from the Western Union telegraph office,
says Mount Vernon IN. } special to
the New York Sun. The proprietors were
startled this morning when the gongs be
gan striking internationally, and the hands
flew round and round II time was no
object. telegraph opera tor who happen
ed to be in one of the stores pricked up his
ears and discovered that the gong was
Mi out B..sr,
Greenwich, Conn, TO New York city.
The storekeepers assembled at the tele-
graph office and declared that their custo-
mers were being driven out by the racket.
An investigation revealed the fact that
the clock wires were crossed with a reg
ular telegraph wire, and the trouble was
soon Slaughtered out.
The police of Paris recently discovered
a regularly organized market place for the
sale of spurious coins of France, says the
Philadelphia Record. 1t was extensively
patronized by walters who lay in a sup
ply of the false coins to work them off on
tourists. The large stock of false coins
seized was found to be of quality superior
to that generally uttered by counterfeiters.
The idea seemed to be to safely insure
| small profits. For instance lot of five
| franc pieces were found to have an almost
| bullion value of three francs each. They
| four francs each, allowing the dishonest
| purchaser a clear profit of one franc. Few
! people look closely at a franc piece, and a
very bad imitation can be successfully
! uttered in four cases out of five The
average price paid at this exchange for
| franc pieces was twenty-five centimes, or
| two and a half cents. European continen-
tai walters are past masters in the art of
passing counterfeit or demonetized coins,
! foreigners being their victims.
Among the lofty mountains and elevat-
ed valleys of Switzerland, the Alpine horn
has another use besides that of sounding
the far-famed RAM des Vaches, or COW
song: and this is of a very solemn and inn
| preSslve nature, says Our Dumb Animals.
| When the sun has set in the valley, and
the snowy submits of the mountains
| CLEAN with golden light, the herdsman
who dwells upon the highest habitable
| spot takes his horn and pronounces clearly
and loudly through it, as through a speak
ing trumpet, Praise the Lord Cod AS
soon as the sound is heard by the neigh
boring herdsmen they issue from their
huts, take their Alpine horns and repeat
the same words. This frequently lasts a
quarter of an hour, and the call resoundS
from all the mountains and rocky cliffs
around. Silence at last settles over the
scene. All the herdsmen kneel and pray
with uncovered heads. Meantime, it has
become quite dark. "Good-night!' at last
calls the highest herdsmen through his
horn. "Good-night!' again resounds from
all the mountains, the horns of the herds
men, and the rocky cliffs. The mountain
GERS then retire to their dwellings, and to
| rest.
Late accounts from Morocco show that
the Moors still carry on slave trading at
the very doors of western civilization,
I T I,l .fr1a
istrator of the Gharb district named Ell
Amen Oold-el-Dawia, recently purchased
three slaves, one of them being a hand
some-looking woman of about q years,
for which this official paid f22. This slave
buyer is a persona grata at the shereetian
court and makes presents to influential
court personages. AT times these distin-
guished courtiers find they possess more
slaves than they require, so they send
these wretched beings to the public auc-
ton market in the capital, and general
ly obtain good prices for them. Gener-
ally the slaves are taken from negro fam
lilies that have been brought up from their
childhood in Morocco, and dealers are con-
tinually bringing others from the Soos
provinces. At least two dealers journey
to Tangier itself twice a year, bringing
boys and girls, who are sold privately to
the rich Moors of that city. Moorish
government officials do not stop this dis
inces, nor prevent the sale of slaves in the
chief centers of Moorish Cultivation.
Through the measures taken by the late
Sir John Drummond Hay in 1885, while
British minister at Tangier, public sale
of slaves was forbidden in Tangier city,
but public sales of slaves are sti1l allowed
in every other place, and even in Tangier
though greatly lessened, sales are regu-
larry effected privately.
Like the buffalo, the Indian language
will soon be lost forever" explained gem
tleman who, under the auspices of the
Smithsonian, has devoted a number of
years to the study and preservation of The
Indian language, says the Washington
Star. "It was thought that the Indian
language could be preserved by the aid of
the monograph or graphophone, and par
ties were sent out to many Indian tribes
to have them talk into the apparatus, and
thus secure a record of the Indian tongue
1t was found, however, that but few In
dians of the present day. and they We're
the older ones, could talk a pure tongue.
More than one-half of the Indians now on
the reservations, and this is the case with
all the younger Indians converse in Eng
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