The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-15
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cost of governing London for the year
1915 was about s64 500, and the total
receiptse about 81 10000 less. The metro
polItan debt to March 81, 1891, is set down
at $40(S92 500.
A significant indication of the value
of educational work being done by philan-
thropists in East London, is shown by the
fact that of seven scholarships in natural
science given at Oxford in the past six
months three have been awarded 20 boys
educated at the London peoples palace
technical college.
During the last 100 years there mas
been great decline in the art of proce-
lain manufacture in China. There are
few choice specimens in the markets, and
all that gets there is bought at high
prices by American and English collec-
tors. The so-cailed imperial mandatory,
however continues 70 produce cho-ce spec
linens
The gifts TO colleges in the United
States last year amounted to $1S 1886, 1850,
and libraries received 81, lee, 500 Museums
and art galleries, whose object is partly
educational, were generously remembered
to the extent of ST. Az, GOO For these vari-
Gus Institutions the aggregate of gifts
was $l5,72i650 in total for all purposes
of $23 9Si,9C0. .A
Archbishop Bruchesi of Montreal has
issued two sweeping orders to his people.
He directs that they must hold no more
bazars or fairs for any purpose what
ever, and he cautions the French Cana
dian newspapers not to publish pictures
of murderers, adding that the accounts
they use must be of the briefest possible
character.
"A for
the CriDplegate Institute, is the first such
permission ever given by the lord cham
| berlain's office to a place within the lin
its of the city of London. The old City
of London Theater stood outside the boun-
daries, while in Shakespeare's time the
ord chamberlain had nothing to do with
the theaters.
king Humbert of Italy holds the record
as a hunter of chamois. During a recent
expedition in the valley of Ameris. near
! Cuneo, the royal party killed seventy of
! these animals in one day, of which fifty
one fell to King Humhert's rife The old
mountaineers declare that his record has
| been approached but once before when
! Victor Emmanuel killed forty-four cha
mois in the same region
Stephen \. White young business
man, and Miss Belle Lavaro, after falling
in love and promising to marry. have dis
| covered by romantic turn of affairs. that
| they are brother and sister. says a Nashua
| n. H., dispatch of Jan. II. They met al
a recital which Miss Lavaro gave on
| Christmas eve We're betrothed. and the
| girl, upon informing her supposed parents,
| learned that they had adopted her as a
child from a Boston institution Investi-
| cation proved thaC Miss Lavaro was the
| of Mr nd
| White of Weymouth, Mass, names that
| the girls fiance at once recognized as
those of his father and mother. In the
joy of the sister and brother at finding
one another, Miss Lavaro says she is fully
resigned to the loss of a lover, and she
declares that she certainly can be. a sis
ter him. ..ns
For half a century, says a St Louis
dispatch, Calhoun county, Illinois, has not
| had a bank or a negro within its borders.
Neither has il had a railroad. a telegraph
or telephone line. 1t was announced
short time ago that the county would nave
! a bank and the contract was let. The con-
! tractor thought that if the county ac-
| cepted bank it could also stand a negro,
in which he reckoned without his host.
| Last Saturday the contracting company
| reached Hardin. Samuel Washington, col
| ored, was engaged to carry the nod. When
the news spread that a negro was in town
| and intended 10 stay the townspeople pre-
pared to scare him. They arose and &C.
scended with ropes in their hands. When
Washington heard the vigilants coming he
made for the river bank, tumbled into the
water and swan to the other side, with
the vigilants hot on his trail. He then
walked sixty miles back to Alton The
crowd stood on the bank and saw TO 1t that
the negro did not return.
Many years ago, Emerson, in a letter
to d college boy, said: Newspapers have
done muoh to abbreviate expression and
50 to improve style. They are to occupy
during your generation a large share of
atlen lion, and the most studious and en-
gagged man can neglect them only at his
cost. But have little to do with them
Learn how TO get their best, too, without
their getting yours. Do not read when the
mind is creative, And do not read them
thoroughly, column by column. Remem-
ber they are made for everybody, and
don't Try to get what isn't made for you.
The miscellany, for instance should not re-
ceive your attention. There is d great Sc
cret in knowing what to keep out of the
mind well what to put in. +
You can't quote from newspaper Like
some insects, il died the day it was born"
"A curious divorce case is about to be
\ tried in Emporia, Kan. John W German
Il
she persists in exhibiting herself as freak
over the country Mrs. German has the
most remarkable head of hair that ever
grew on a Kansas woman. 1t is wavy
and lustrous and sweeps the floor. While
at the worlds fair she was considered
a wonder, and the showmen got after her
with propositions TO exhibit herself. Mr.
German objects TO his wife travelling about
the country for this purpose, and hence
the suit.
There are between 100000 and 100000
pounds of mica used in the United States
annually" reports a wholesale dealer in
that mineral, according to an exchange
North Carolina, New Hampshire and
other states once supplied all the mica
used in this country, but so extensively
has the material been utilized in the last
ten years in various arts and mechanical
trades, that many of our most productive
mines have become pretty nearly exhaust
ed. The consequence is that about So per