The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-05
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feet in size. but is woven from strings
of pure pearls. with center and corner cir
c-es of diamonds. II required three years
to Manufacture this jcwei of carpet
which was intended as d gift 10 a beauti-
ful Mohammedan belle.
The smallest cemetery in the world
which only measures 221k feet by IA feet
is situated in the tweed manufacturing
town Of Galashiels. in Scotland The
place is surrounded by a wall seven feet
high. with a doorway at the west corner,
which has been barricaded TO keep the
children out. The cemetery has long been
closed as a burial ground.
Archbishop of Armagh, primate of Ire
land, has seen fit to protest against the
disarmament agitation and the celebra ton
Of peace Sunday in his diocese While he
regretted the horrors Of war, he said all
knew what il meant in the case of Eng
land-the pulling down of her great fleet
which he considered a very dangerous
thing 10 do in view of present conditions.
An electrician in Lockport n. Y, who
was shocked by a current of 800 volts, says
he felt no sensation whatever He saw
banding flash and was thrown violently
to the floor. After staggering TO his feet lie
tainted. He says his brain seemed TO be
partially paralyzed, and every thing around
was dream-HSe, but he fe.t no pain
though his hands and ankles were badly
burned.
-Greuoble is the place where most of
the kid gloves come IRON. Al this place
alone 100000 dozen pairs of gloves are
manufactured annually. This represents
a value of 100000 pounds and gives en-
ployment 10 25.OO0 working people of both
sexes. There are 1900 men and y 900 wo-
men residing within a radius of thirty
eight miles round Grenoble, who live by
this work.
The Figaro states that the widow Of
Armand Dumare5q has sold to Nj Georges
Pauillac, of Toulouse, a collection of arms
and armor and the hat worn by the En-
peror Napoleon during the Moscow cam
paisn. The hat was given by the En-
peror to his valet, Evrard. After his
death, when the property was sold to be
divided among his heirs, his widow bought
ii for $50 francs.
At the ensuing session of the British
Parliament power will be sought to incor-
pOrate a company to construct a ferry to
be worked by electricity on submerged
rails across the River Thames, with road
ways and approaches for the passage of
vehicles, foot passengers, animals and
and electrical or other machinery and APP
planes.
In Prestbury churchyard, in Cheshire,
there is a gravestone which records the
fact of a woman having died a bachelor.
The inscription reads as follows: Here
| Lyeth Inferred the body of James Pick
! ford, of Mottram, who departed this life
the first day of January 1881. Also Sarah
iPly To To,
! Pickford, was here inferred August We
nth, 1705, and died Bachelour in the
| 18th yeare of her age"
A woman has brought suit in the Mu-
nicipal Court of Boston to recover $500
damages from baking company. because
| while passing along the street she was
! struck by an egg, dropped or thrown from
/ the building of the defendant, and had
! her garments destroyed" She further al
| leges that the egg was set in motion by
| the negligence of the defendants servants
engaged in the discharge of ats business"
AT recent Bombay school board ex-
animation, says the Pittsburg Bulletin,
| one of the tasks was an essay on boys,
and this was one of the compositions just
as it was handed in by a girl of ~: The
! boy is not an animal, yet they can be
! ntdIU 10 a COflSluGIaDle distance. w men a
| boy hollers he opens his big mouth like
| frogs, but girls hold their tongues till they
! are spoken to, and then they answer re-
| spectacle, and tell just how it was. A
| boy thinks himself clever because he can
wade where it is deep but God made the
| dry land for every living thing, and rest
| ed on the seventh day. When the boy
grows up he is called husband and then
he stops wading and stays out all night
| bIlf ba crirI &c r1ri1r
house"
One of the most sensible attempts to
deal with the unemployed is being made
at Billericay, in Essex, England, where a
farm has been established by Mr.. A. F.
| Hills. of the Thames Iron Works, solely
| for the purpose of giving work to the gem
| timely distressed. The work is spade dig
| ging, that no idle loafer is likely to
| apply for employment, and the payment
| is made by results. The men come down
from London on Monday morning and re-
| turn on the following Saturday. Beds and
meals are provided for them at a very
| small charge, and at the end of the week
| a man who works well can take back to
| his wife as much as sixteen or eighteen
! shillings. Mr.. Hills is a vegetarian, and
| during their week al Billericay the men
have to do without animal food and alco-
hole liquors.
Indian Mussulmans, of whom there are
from forty to fifty millions of the Queens
subjects in India. are said to be gradually
changing their head dress for the genuine
i Turkish fez, sO-called from Fez the chief
| town of Morocco, where they were first
| manufactured. The Sultans factory at
Constantinople where the brimless, close
fitting and silk-tasseled red cap is made
| for the followers of the Prophet in the
| East, are now turning out the fez to the
number of 1900 a day, and the orders from
| India are increasing. If the rate of pro-
| ductiOn is not heightened il will take
! many a year before every Mussulman in
! the British possessions receives his fez
! The Turks, meanwhile, see in this peace
! full occupation of the Hindu head a sort
of revenge against the English for the
| loss of Crete.
The amount of prize money gained by
our sailors in the Spanish war is compar-
atively trifing, says the Philadelphia