The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-20
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phia mint is turning them out at the rate
of 100000 month to keep up the sup
ply.
The only military company composed
of Cinnamon that exists outside of the
Chinese empire has been formed in Port
land, Oregon. 1t has thirty-seven men,
bers all full blooded Cinnamon of Ameri-
can birth. Seid Back, Jr., its captain, was
about to offer the services of the organi-
cation to the government when the war
came to an end.
The grave of the late Secretary of
State James G. Blaine at Washington,
which has heretofore been unmarked save
for a dead oak tree, will have a monu-
ment of the finest marble from Vermont
within the next ten days. Ever since the
death of Mr. Blaine his expressed wish
that nothing should mark his last rest
ing place but the blasted tree has been
carefully observed, but, as a result of a
heavy windstorm. that ruined the tree
some months ago. Mrs. Blaine decided
that the grave should receive suitable
recognition, and the monument ordered
is now being inscribed preparatory to its
| erection at the head of the grave
Mrs. Oscar Stanley of Anderson, Ind,
gave birth to a baby boy nine days ago.
When it was placed in care of the nurse
she found a rather peculiar pimple on the
| inside of its thigh She thought nothing
of it at first. but it began to get very sore
and also became very large. When she
| was bathing the child her hand came in
contact with sharp projection. She call
| ed a physician, and he found that there
was a needle in the child. 1t was finally
| extracted and proved to be two inches in
| length. 1t was in the child when it was
| born. He thinks the mother swallowed it
probably many years ago. The child is
sound a
| be bothered because of the fact that he
was born with needle in him.
The sad and extraordinary position of
a woman being a widow before she is
| WIFE says the johannesburg Standard is
that held by Mrs. L. G. Hoops. A few
| days before Mr.. Hoops deeply-regretted
| death he was married by the handschoen
| glove to the lady in Holland. She was
| to have left to join her husband on the
| 18th instant, but the cables have apprised
| her of her misfortune. The system of
| marriage by proxy is frequently adopted
| by Dutch bridegrooms in South Africa
| and Dutch brides in Holland. A friend
| of the groom represents him in the church
and he is only released from the solemn
| enga cement by a saving clause in the
| certifcate~ The aim and object of these
innocent mock marriages is to bind the
! far-away husband to his contract.
DIR. S. Weir Mitchell, author of Hugh
! Wynne, Quaker" and 1.-The Adventures
| of Francois" is now in his SEVENTEEN
| year, and presents a remarkable instance
| of a mans achieving distinction in litera-
ture and eminence in an exacting profess
sion. His poems, novels and stories have
| not been written in the slippered leisure
| of the professional man fallen into the
| luxurious armchair enjoyment of honors
| earned by hard work in an active life.
| They are the serious If mentally relaXa-
| tive employment of opportunities made
by an indefatigable practitioner who has
| learned the thrift of time. His numerous
| medical and therapeutcal works, no less
than his contributions to polite literature,
are a monument to DIR. Mitchell's marvel
Gus industry and versatility.
Egypt under Great Britain gives mag
nifcent evidence of the value to an other
wise unprogressive country of the extern
sion of the rule of the Anglo-SaXon. In
proportion to its population it has more
railway mileage now than Austria Hun
gary, Spain or Portugal. It's imports have
increased from $25,O00OO0 In 1875 to $50,900,
GOO in 1896, an increase of 100 per cent. in
twenty-one years. Until 1891 roads in the
true sense of the word did not exist in
the country. AT the end of 1897 the statis-
ties showed that ,0H miles of exc client
roads had been completed through Lower
and Middle Egypt. The exports of cotton
have been doubled in twenty-one years,
despite increasing production of other cot
ton-growing countries. Each year Egypt
is becoming more of an importing country.
Thus Great Britain not only is raising the
land of the fellah in the scale, but is open
ing new markets for the entire world.
A Parral chihuahua, Mex.) correspon-
dent writes The branch line of the Mex
lean Central Railroad, which is now being
constructed from Jiminez to this place, is
to be extended from here to the mining
camp of Batopias. The principal mines
at Batopilas are owned and operated by
eX-GoV. Alexander r. Shepherd, better
known as BOSS" Shepherd, formerly of
Washington, d. c. He has made a big
fortune out of these mines during the
past fifteen or twenty years, and his
wealth is now estimated at not less than
S12 100000. He seldom visits the United
States, being content to remain in seclu-
sion in the innermost recesses of the Sier-
ra Madres. Batopilas has been visited by
but few Americans. The town is shut in
by towering mountains The streets are
well paved, and several beautiful parks
make the place veritable paradise. Gov.
Shepherd has equipped the town with
free public library of several thousand
volumes of choice books; installed an cleo
trio light plant, and, in fact, no conven-
fence which is to be found in the largest
| cities of the United States lacking
at Batopilas. Some time ago Gov. Shep-
herd ordered a piano from New York. 1t
cost him $1,000 to have the instrument con-
veyed over the mountains and set up in
perfect order in his house.
Thirteen have been the number of Leos
that have filled the chair of Peter and of
these several have been Popes of eminence.
The first of the name early obtained the
appellation of great" leaving less hon
ored titles for those who might succeed
His pontfcate, in the middle of the fifth
century, lasted over twenty years, and a
fine early printed edition of his sermons,
with a magnificent illuminated initial let
ter lies before me as 1 write. Leo II, who
lived toward the end of the seventh CEN
fury, had but short reign; Leo III in his
twenty years of rule, had the honor of
GROWING the greatest of the medieval
Caesars, Charlemange; the fourth Leo was
an exemplary pontiff, if nothing more; the
fifth. sixth and seNenIh wore hut Transform