The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-08
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to make or use any craven image" con-
sequenuy their chessmen have no resem-
blance to human figures.
Conductors on the Manhattan Elevated
Railroad trains in New York are hereafter
to be designated as captains" according
to an order just issued by the trainmaster
1t has also been decreed that the beard
the sldewhiskers and the goatee must go,
and the Il" captain must be content to
wear mustache.
For the year ending June 3d. 1899, the
production of chewing and smoking to-
bacco was 237 1872, 10 pounds. a decrease
of 81. OF 365 pounds; cigarettes, 2S05, 135, 90S
a decrease of 94S, So, COZ; snuff, 1852. 1C6
pounds, a decrease of 59S $50 pounds; CT
gars, 1929, 81 304, an increase of 24.70O 976;
little cigars, 547, 4l5,520 an increase of
al, 1873 $40.
A tract of 200 acres of land, beauti-
fully located in the suburbs of Parkers-
burg, w. Va. has been arranged by its
owner, ex-senator Camden, for a play
ground for the children of the city. A
part of the tract Is well shaded and will
not be disturbed, except that seats and
tables are conveniently placed, while the
unshaded portion is arranged with flow
ers, paths and other pleasant effects.
In spite of British rule, India is stin
virtually a soapless country. Throughout
the villages of Hindostan soap is indeed
regarded as IA natural curiosity, and it is
rarely, if ever, kept in stock by the native
shopkeeper. In the towns it is now sold
TO a certain extent, but how small this is
may be gathered from the fact that the
total yearly consumption of soap in India
is about 100000 hundredweight-tha is to
ca
only 112 pounds of soap among them, or
in other words, s.derably less than an
ounce is the average consumption of a
person.
The Pail Mall Gazette is authority for
the story that the Pope has had wine
made from the vines in the Venetian
gardens which has a quality all its own
and is in high demand, partly because of
its really delicious flavor and partly be-
cause of the position of its maker. Leo
XIII has now been approached for the
purpose of inducing him to exhibit this
wine at the Paris exposition next year,
elegantly bottled, with labels showing a
picture of ST. Peters and the Vatican,
and setting forth that this is the famous
'Leonine wine" of Leo XIII. in the TWEEN
ty-first year of his reign. A syndicate Is
also anxious to control its sale on most
liberal terms.
Deserted wives of pensioners are taking
advantage of the law enacted by the last
Congress, providing that one-half OF TIE
pension be paid to the wife on proof OF
abandonment. More than 1000 of these
claims have been filed with the pension
bureau. nearly al Of which have received
favorable action The pensioner in nearly
every case combats every pros Dective cur
tailment of the amount he ultimately re-
ceives, but the proofs furnished by the
abandoned wife have almost Invariably
outweighed his arguments and the per-
centage of such applications rejected by
the bureau is extremely small Thirty
days notice is given to the pensioner, with
in which he may show cause why the di-
vision should not be made
An Italian newspaper publishes a ia
BILE giving a list of the various persons
and their nationality who have been can
onized or beatifed by the Church of Rome
during the last 400 years. 1t is as fol-
lows: SeVenty-siX Italians twenty-eight
canonized, forty-eight beatified; sixty-slx
Spaniards, seventeen canonized, forty-nine
beatihed; thirty-seven Portuguese, one
canonized, thirty-siX beatified; fourteen
French, six canonzed, eight beatifed;
thirteen Dutch twelve canonized one
beatifed; five Belgians, four canonized.
one beatified; four Germans two canon
lied, two beatihed; two Poles, one can
onized, one beatihed. 1t will be noticed
that neither Great Britain nor the United
States has furnished any saints.
"A warrior and hunter who owns a IA
nous costume is Coz Robert Hall of Tex
as. 1t is made of over 100 different skins
of wild animals and the owner made every
stitch of it. For over forty years Col.
Hall has been a hunter. and all this time
he has been collecting the skins for his re-
markable outfit. Bears, panthers, wolves,
wild cats and deer have all been contrib
utors TO this costume, 70 say nothing of
Che rattfers from hundreds of rattle
snakes. A pair of antelope horns adorn
Col Halls fur cap, and his feet are shod
with Indian moccasins beautifully
wrought. For this fur suit the owner has
been offered $500, but he declares that he
would not take $4,000 for it. Col. Hall is
the veteran of three wars, and is the most
widely known of all the Old Texas SOL
diers. He is over feet tail and IS years
old.
This is the season of the year in which
to set out bulbs. Prepare the ground for
them before they are received by having
it dug up to a depth of at least a foot
a foot and a half is better-and worked
over until 1t is mellow" writes Eben L.
Rexford in the September Ladies' Home
Journal. Mix with it liberal quantity
of old, rotten manure from the coward.
or, II this is not obtainable, use bone
meal in the proportions of one pound to
a square yard of soil. If the soil is nat
uraly heavy it is we'll to add considerable
sand to make it lighter and more porous.
Plant the bulbs as soon as possible after
they are received, IS they are greatly in
jured by exposure TO the air. Set tulips
and hyacnths six inches deep, smaller
bulbs from four to five inches All bulbs
should be placed five or six inches apart
and each kind kept by itself.
With population of exactly 2O6, Ser
via, village in Indiana. on the line of
the Chicago and Erie Railway, has twelve
men who weigh more than 200 pounds,
and some of them tip the beam at very
nearly 300 Nor is this remarkable ten
dency to obesity in the community confin-
ed to the men. The stranger who visits
the place cannot but be impressed as he
strolls down the single business street
from the station with tho oril q,