The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-16
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wheels, are now in use on the golf links
in Kashmir. They are conducive TO silence.
as, when one misses particularly good
stIoke one takes the wheel hurriediy from
the caddie and violently turns it round.
In the Rakaia New Zealand) Railway
smash. says the Sydney Bulletin. drink
was the direct means of saving the lives
of about sixty excursionists who as the
night was cold and wet and the train was
waiting, left the rear carriage and trooped
into the railway hotel a few yards off.
When they were drinking the smash took
place. The carriage which sixty of the
beer-thirsty crowd had quilted was re-
duced to matchwood.
This comes from Peoria Ill. Thomas
w. Davis, the veteran bicycle rider of
the state, who holds several national med
ais for long-dstance riding and has rid
den 10000 miles since he was 81 years of
age, and is now Y years old, has erected
monument in his lot in Springdale Gene
terry and the contractors have carved
large bicycle upon the shaft by his order
Davis is highly pleased with the work and
says it is to commemorate his career as
a cylist.
The report of the Commission of An
tiquities and Fine Arts respecting the dis
cover!es made in Tunis during the past few
lAOAiAAlSt WHICH mas just DSen puDIlSleU, Is
of considerable interest. The principal flnd
was made at Carthage, where three coos
sal Graeco-Roman statues were Unearth-
ed. One represents Isis yelled and wearing
a diadem ornamented with the upturned
crescent, the characteristic emblem of Car
thage;the Others, somewhat smaller. are of
two women. doubtless priestesses with
head-dresses as worn during the first CEN
fury. In another part of Carthage a mag
niflcent statue of Baccuhs, giving drink
to his panther, was found
For some unknown reason there has
sprung up in Chicago within the last sixty
days a demand for stogies which cigar
dealers find it impossible TO meet, says the
Chicago Tribune. 1t was reported yes
terday that there was not a case of the
genuine stogies in the city. One dealer
who himself sells 10000 stogies a week, said
that the demand has more than doubled
within three months, and that $4,000 sto-
gies are now sold daily in Chicago. He
was unable to give any reason for the de-
mand. Times are good and therefore the
low price a which stogies are sold cannot
be the determining factor. 1t is simply
as near as he can gather, a within on the
part Of smokers
Under the provisions of well-nish
forgotten statute, Thomas Gilmore, a
butcher of Argentine Kan, has been SEN
fenced to the state insane asylum for ha-
bitual drunkenness by a jury in the Wy
andOtte Probate Court. The sentence pro-
vides that Gilmore shai be detained at the
asylum until cured of his appetite for
strong drink and he may be confined
during the remainder of his life unless
discharged as cured. The complaint
against Gilmore was made by his wife and
children No effort was made TO show
that he was of unsound mind. The evil
dence all went to prove that he was per-
fectly sane and a competent business man
when not in his cups.
Farmers in North Dakota, who report
$50, 900 acres of standing wheat destroyed
by hail, met with a similar loss thirteen
years ago. On July "a 1886 a great hail
storm swept over Minnesota and North Da-
kota, wiping out nearly 5000 acres of wheat
and doing immense damage in other ways.
Some of the hailstones We're as big as hens
eggs. The biggest hailstones on record,
however, fell at Whitehall. H., in 1881.
They were as big as goose eggs and drifts
ten and twelve inches deep were found the
day after the storm. In August, 1888
hailstones measuring thirteen inches in
circumference fell and at Dubuque, Ia, in
1882, monster hailstones weighing two
pounds were picked up.
The date set for the ball 20 be given
at Newport by the servants of the New
OIhCIS WIZ SOJOulAA luGL6 10 Sept o. 1t
will be under the auspices of the Buffers
Association. The ordinary help of the
townspeople will be barred and the thing
will be correctly smart" Social rank
as indicated by the rank of the employ
ers of those who attend will be strictly
observed, so that the butler of one family
will take precedence in the cotllion over
the butler of a family of less prominence.
and so on down the line to footmen and
grooms This is the first bali of the kind
to be attempted and already there is hat
red envy and heartburning from the riv-
airy for place among the people below
stairs.
There is much excitement a present on
the Highland peach farm, near Benton
Harbor, Mich, where the peach crop IS
being gathered. Last week 5000 baskets
of peaches were shipped, and it is expected
the local shipments for the current week
will reach 1900 baskets. The total value
of the peach crop on this farm of 100 acres
will reach about $1,000, and pears and plums
will bring from $1,000 to $3.50 additional
A Chicago commission man, who, last
June, paid So 600 cash for a thirty-fve acre
peach orchard on the farm, will, it is ex-
pected realize a profit of at least 81 900 on
the venture. Adjoining farms, which are
on lower ground, suffered from the severe
winter and on some of the trees there Is
not single peach.
in New Zealand a man who drinks too
much for his own good may be summoned
before any justice of the peace on COM
plant of any member of his family or 9TH
er person interested. Witnesses are then
heard and if it can be proven that he mis-
spends, wastes and lessons his estate,
greatly Injuries his health, and endangers
and interrupts the peace and happiness of
his family" the magistrate will issue
written order to all liquor realers within
his jurisdiction, forbidding them to fur
rish him with any intoxicating liquors for
a period of twelve months. Severe pen
alties are provided for those who violate
such an injunction, as well as for persons
who may obtain for or give to the convict
ed drunkard any intoxicating drink.
The superintendent of the state peni-
Tertiary of North Carolina inquired wheth-
er in his official capacity he would be
permitted to buy leaf tobacco and have it
put into twists" by hand, for the use OF
conVicts only, without paving the govern