The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-20

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on Jan. 1, 1899, the insane in England and
Wales numbered 10j,0s5 a increase Of STA
over the number in 1898.
The efficacy of The automobile in noun
tain climbing has been proved by MI and
Mrs. F. o. Stanley of Newton. Mass.
whose automobile made the ascent of
Mount Washington. 500 feet above sea
level
A soldiers mouldy hat has just been
found under huge stone in the Valley
of Death at Balaklava. Some boys had
shifted the boulder, as bees had built a
nest beneath it and the youngsters want
ed to get a the honey. From the design OF
the badge il is evident that the headgear
belonged to a trooper of the Seventeenth
Lancers, corps which was included in
the immortal Light Brigade.
An employers association. representing
from 100000 to 100000 of local capital,
has been organized in Spokane, Wash.
70 resist any demand of organized labor
which its members may regard as unjust
Inc lumber mills, breweries, flour mills
street car companies, electric light COM
panies, gas company, water company, fac
tories, contractors, merchants and other
interests are represented in the associa-
ton.
A vicar of North London has hit upon
a unique method in connection with his
Sunday services during the recent tropi-
cal weather. When the prayers were said
on Sunday and the time for the sermon
had come, the choir led the way OUT OF
the church TO the vicarage lawn and by
arrangement the congregation, pew by
pew, made an orderly following Seats
We're arranged on the lawn for $50 per
sons. The vicar preached from small
reading desk in the open air
AT Sioux Falls, S. D., the only plant
in the world capable of undertaking the
JOB is engaged in polishing 100000 worth
OF ehalcedony, or petrihed wood, for ex-
hibition at the Paris Exposition. The
wood is found in Arizona, and is shipped
to Sioux Falls in great logs and stumps
Velshlug many tons each, 10 be "a wed up
and worked into columns, table tops, cuff
buttons jewelry, etc. The machinery used
for saving chalcedOny can cur into il 10
the extent of only three inches a day. the
peIrihed wood being seven-tenths as hard
a diamond.
The new Norwegian National Theater
was opened at Chrstiania on Sept. l by
a performance of plays by Holberg. the
eighteenth century founder of the Dan
ish-Norwegian drama. The building is
said 10 be the finest playhouse in Europe
and the poetic and dramatic spirit of the
gians has been thoroughly aroused
by the movement From each country of
Europe one or two men and women of
letters specially interested in Norway were
invited to attend the opening Of the the
alter. Edmund Gosse was one of the Eng
Hsh representatives.
1t is proposed in Vienna to cheapen
rapid communication by a combination
letter and telegram, using special cards
Tor the purpose. These cards are to be
sent at half price of the ordinary tele-
gram. They may be dropped in letter
boxes or may be handed into postOfices
provided they shall be duly stamped They
are TO be picked out at once and the mes
sage, which must be no longer than that
in the ordinary telegram is TO be handel
over 10 the telegraph operator, who will
send it to its destination. The telegram
must be written on a special form, and
will be delivered by the letter carrier
Don Felipe Martel, the famous gamb-
ling house proprietor of the City of Mex
leo, had made fortune in the business
before the government decided to abolish
gambling houses by levying on them a Ii
cense tax Of $1,000 day. One by one the
gambling houses closed, and when the
field was clear Don Felipe Martel ap
preached the authorities with $1,000 in
cash and demanded a days license. In
a few hours his place was thronged. At a
single stroke he had won the patronage
of Mexico, and his doors have never been
closed since. The daily outlay of $1,000 is
not missed from the daily revenue of thou
sands. His strong religious tendencies are
so well known that nobody was surprised
when he built recently in the village Of
San Angel a church that cost more than
$4,000
In a recent communication to the state
| department. the American consul general
in Berlin calls attention to the decision
of the German government to no longer
permit the location of consumptive hos
pitfalls inside the city limits or within any
denseiy populated district. This measure
was taken on the advice of the medical
authorities, who have thoroughly investi-
| gated the matter and become convinced
of the dangers for the neighborhood which
are inseperab bic from the proximity of such
an institution. In this respect the govern
ment has deemed it necessary to resort TO
Radical measures, and it is expected that
within a short time all institutions of this
nature will have been closed in the cities
| and removed to more suitable localities.
/ the righteousness of the disease having
| made this necessary. Il has been proved
that where consumptlves are cougregated
! in any number cOntagion is unavoidable.
-Deroulede is The latest in an iIustrious
| If a somewhat omnibus succession. saws
the New York Tribune He comes today
before the High Court of Justice to be
tried for treason. The tribunal is both
ancient and august. lis first establ4 sh-
ment was more than five centuries ago.
and it has prevailed under king. revo,u-
| ton emperor and republic. Louis XIII
| himself presided over il as chief Judge.
| Bouille, Lessart. Drouet Baboeuf and
| others were arraigned before Sc ia the
revolution, generally with fatal effect up
! on themselves. II sent Ney 10 his grave
and Polignac 10 a prison cell. The Duke
of Praslin-Choiseul committed suicide 10
escape It's judgment and Pierre Bonaparte
| was whitewashod by its verdict Louis
Blanc, Ledru- Rolin ana Gustave Floureus
were tried by it, and so, latest before the
present day, was he pinchbeck Boulanger.
! We shall see how the fire eating poet of
the Patriotic League fares as the latest
| in such a line.
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