The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-27
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ured of late in Partisan dispatches, sare a
family of considerable fame in France,
says the Philadelphia Press. Among the
least envied OF their distinctions is that
of producing the Chevalier de Rohan, who
was the only nobleman who died upon
the scaffold during the long reign of
Louis XIV. This gentleman was convict
ed of conspiracy 10 betray 10 the Dutch
one of the French strongholds, and, to-
gether with his accomplices, the Mar
quise de Villars, the Chevaler de Preaux
and a Dutch schoolmaster, Van de En-
den, was executed in November, 1914 DE
Rohan was not heroic; he seemed to be
half dead. his lips blue, his face pale ana
disfigured like dead visage." The Mar
quise prayed her fellows to put a good
face on it," and bore herself with cour-
age. Three were beheaded. The school
master, being "roturier," was hanged.
Martin observes: There still existed
aristocratic distinctions in face of the ex-
ecutioner."
M. Loubet is the seventeenth occupant
of the Elysee since it sprang into exist
ence just 1870 years ago, says an exchange.
Molte built the house, in what was then
a remote suburb, for Louis de la Tour
dAuvergne, Comte d Evreux, who had
cier Madame de Pompadour was the
next tenant. The millionaire BeauJou
succeeded her and remOdeled the arcnl-
lecture, besides laying out the gardens.
For a few years before the reVoluuoh
the Duchesse de Bourbon lived there
bequea thing to it the name of the Elysee-
Bourbon. For time 1t served as PRINT
ing establishment and also as a sort Oh
VauxhaH for the people, till Napoleon
md CIr
wall his second abdication. In 1914 wei
hngton is said to have had his quarters
there for a brief period, and 1t was GER
tainly occupied by the Gar Alexander
| The restoration saw it transferred to the
| unlucky Due de Berry, and in 1913 Prince
| Louis Napoleon took up his abode there as
| President of the Second Republic. Since
| then six Presidents have made 1t their
| official home.
| The business of insurance seems to en-
| brace nearly every imaginable risk. A
youth who stood watching three giants
| hoist a piano into the third story OF
| house with block and tackle remarked 70
| the languid man who bossed the JOB,
I'D like TO see that rope break. 50
would l." replied the man. THE rope
| insured Every week an agent inspects
| it, If it every breaks the insurance COM
| pany PAYS for what is smashed. So you
| see, it's nothing to me whether the old
| thing breaks or not. In fact, I'd rather
| like to see her break with good, valuable
! piano like this in tow. I've paid so blamed
much money into these insurance COM
panies I'd like to make them fork out a
| little of it some time or other. what
a malicious thing to say exclaimed the
young man in a highly moral fashion.
| Suppose this piano was smashed. Well,
the company would pay for it, but you
wouldn't be benefited any, neither would
the owner of the instrument. You ought
to be ashamed of yourself, wishing an evil
to happen to an honest corporation when
this evil would benefit nobody" Perhaps
l ought" said the boss, patiently. but I
can't help it. It's my nature partner"
The popular belief that the Irdians are
a doomed race and that they are rapidly
dying off is not substantiated by the fig
ures of the special Indian census that
! forms a part of the last general census,
| says the Rochester Post Express. This
census gives the Indian population as 325,
464, of whom, however only 1889 447 are re-
turned as ull-blooded Indians, the remain
der being those who are in various ways
| affiliated with the whites. The Indians of
to-day are in narrower quarters than were
their ancestors, but they are almost as
! strong numerically as they were half
| century ago. In 1883 the secretary esti-
mated the Indian population as 5000, and
| in the following year Gilbert Inlay reduc-
ed this estimate to CO. 000 but both of these
estimates were doubtless far from accu-
rate. In 1850 Schoolcraft reported the In
dian population to be 1886, 229 which is only
,765 above the figures of the last gen
eral census, counting the mixed blood.
| These Indians are divided into nearly
ninety tribes that are recognized by the
laws of the United States, and they are
divided numerically among thirty states
| and two territories. One can only feel a
thrill of admiration at the vitality OF a
race that has weathered so well a CEN
| fury of adversely
London, according TO some sociologi-
cal persons, is crying for Malthus, says
the Philadelphia Press. Never were lodg-
| ings scarcer or rents higher. The cornpe-
| tition is as fierce as that of trade. and
| the landlord gets any rent he chooses to
ask. Says writer in the London Daily
News: Houses and tenements, and one
roomed homes have been divided and sub
| DIVIDED, till now it has come TO pass that
the very beds are let off at so much rent.
1t is becoming common for night workers.
such as bakers and watchmen, to rent a
bed to sleep in during the day from peo-
pie already living in an overcrowded state
who occupy the bed at night Among
some families in Spitalfelds the beds are
| rented on the eight-hour principle. having
| three different sets of sleepers every TWEEN
| ty-four hours. Little room though the
law allows, there are 100000 Lohdoners
| living in less. But more than two in a
room does not mean simply three in a
room, or four or five. In some cases il
means twelve, and even seventeen in a
| room. The last census return, eight wears
| ago, when oVercrowding was less severe
| than it is to-day, showed a number of
families living more than twelve in a
room. Since then it has been calculated
| that London has added little over 100000
people to its population 1t is this great
and continuous growth of London that
has made the overcrowding worse than
it ever was in the history of the city.
"A rare and singular case of deformity
was exhibited to the graduating class of
the medical department of the University
of Pennsylvania yesterday by DR.. Fred
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