The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-25
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living by strolling along the boulevards
and making wagers at the cafes that he
can answer correctly any question that
relates to the history of Franc. He is
very successful
found. The man, according to Peruvian
telegram, was found on one of the desert
Galapagos Islands He had not spoken 10
or even seen a human being for fourteen
years, and his body is covered with
thick hair He has lived on wild birds,
shell fish and water
There is a village in England built
upon an enormous bowlder of chalk, says
London Answers. This bowlder is half a
mile long, and must have been carried
| eastward a distance of twenty-five miles
by some great iceberg. 1t was dropped to
the bottom of the glacial sea, where it
became partly covered and surrounded by
| blue-gray bowlder clay.
The deepest shaft in Colorado is that
of the Geyser mine, at Silver Cliff, which
penetrates the rock to a depth of 2,40O feet
But even that is a shallow puncture beside
the one which goes down into the depths
of the Comstock Lode, again active and
productive. In that wonderful treasure
!
in value have been taken out. new explo-
rations are expected to reach a depth of
6,OOO feet
The town of Nimegue, Holland, is
much agitated by a proposal which has
been mooted by certain town councillors
| in favor of allowing all the municipal en-
| ployes to observe Sunday as a day of COM
plete rest. The authors of the proposition
IL hat h. hall To Ia
keepers of the public gardens and foun-
tains, the gasworkers the attendants Of
| the public baths and the police. No police
and no gas on Sundays!
These Angld- saxons are a boastfuI race,
says the Vienna Reichswehr. The Ameri-
cans are jubilant because their modern,
well-equipped, fully manned battle ships
| blew into eternity a much smaller force of
| Spanish cruisers, sans ammunition, sans
coal, sans everything. The English free
lance Kitchener has now swept a few thou
sand badly armed, worse-led negroes off
| the face of the earth and his countrymen
are oVerjoyed al his victory. But 1t would
| be quite a different thing if Tommy Atkins
were pitted against European enemies.
"A unique petition in bankruptcy was
recently filed in the Federal Court at
Nashville, Tenn. The Banner, of that city,
says that the petition probably has no
! equal in the country in the way of liza bility,
| which is confined 20 the one item of ali
| mony due a divorced wife. 1t was filed
| by Gentry r. Smith of Mursreesboro, who
| sets forth that his liabilities are 50, ITO due
Mrs. l.. A. Fits of Enon College, nee
| Mrs. l.. A. Smith. &" incidentally, as
nee means born, Mrs. Fits, who was
born Mrs. Smith, must be a remarka bic
woman.
During late years consumption has be-
come a much greater scourge in Germany,
says the Pail Mall Gazette, and at the
Emperors suggestion hospitals and homes
| for patients suffering from diseases of the
lungs are to be founded in those parts
| of the country where the disease is most
| prevalent In Wiesbaden and the sur
rounding country the cases of whole fami-
lies dying of this complaint are of fire.
quant occurrence, and a hospital for con-
sumptive patients is to be founded in the
Taurus mountains, in the high dry dis
trict, as soon as the necessary funds are
collected.
AT Rivolto. near Arco, three persons
recently died in the same house of pneu-
monia who had previously been in excel
lent health, says the Arbeiter Zeitung
! Two parrots in the house died about the
same time. Suspicious was aroused, and
careful examination was made 1t was
found that both parrots had died of acute
pneumonia, and there is no doubt in the
minds Of the medical men concerned thai
the three human victims took the disease
from the birds This is not the first occa.
sion on which it has been established be.
. yond doubt that men have taken the in.
lection of dangerous diseases from par,
rots.
Information received here, says thu
Birmingham (Eng) Post from the mos
remote corner of Shensi, Northern China
within the sphere, believe, of the import
ant British concession in that region
leaves no room for doubling that system
attic excavations, conducted on a scientii,
principle would yield valuable and impor
tant objects of antiquarian interest TIL,
very primitive and fragmentary attempts
in this way already made have revealeC
many pieces of antique bronzes and pot
terry, several of which have now arrived
in London. Experts who have seen then
state, I am informed that they are a
least two thousand years old. Reports hav
also reached certain quarters in I.ondo1
of the discovery near Foungsian-Fou o
gold objects, supposed to belong to coats O
mail, and an inlaid casque; all of which
news makes it evident that rich harves
for the antiquarian is in store when tn
time IS opportune to carry on the work o
exploration in those regions.
1t is a superstition of some importanc,
among the Chinese, says the Pinang Ga
zette, that he who saves a turtle by pur
chase and allows it TO go free upon tn,
sea will enjoy good fortune. In accord
ance with this practice, a wealthy Macao
bought a turtle this morning from a Ma
wi IN baA in, HI
fishing stakes off Tanjong Tokong TIL
price was S.. The purchaser proceeded t.
scrape the back of the turtle so as 10 pre-
pare an even surface for his name to b.
engraved upon the shell, when he discov
cred his name already engraven on III
animals back and then remembered h
had made a consignment to the sea som
few months before. The turtle was there
fore his own property, and he at one
pursued the Malay and claimed a return
Of the IS. The fisherman declined, an
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