The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-03
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were imported from Greenland and Lab
rador at a cost of $50 each. and We're Sc
lected for their superiority in speed, train
ing and weight
"A writer in the Wiener Drogisten lei
tung calls attention 10 a new method OF
masking the unpleasant odor of petroleum
and benzine. This method consists simply
in the addition of per cent. of anIylace-
tate. To destroy alike the offensive edoI
Of benzine and to render the latter color
less, the following treatment is found sue
cessful: To a mixture of one-fourth litel
of sulphuric acid and one and three-fourths
liters of water are added, after cooling,
thirty grams of potassium permanganate,
followed by mixing with four and Ave
tenths liters of benzine. the whole to stand
for twenty-four hours with occasional
shaking. After this period, the benzine is
lifted off and agitated for several hours
with a solution of seven and fiye-tenths
grams of the potassium permanganate and
fifteen grams of sodium carbonate In one
liter of water the separating benzine being
thus rendered Odorless and colorless.
Unusual features came to light before
Magistrate Crane in the jefferson Mar
ket Police Court yesterday when man
who gave the name of Joe English had
hearing on charges of burglary, says the
New York Times. He is accused of hav-
ing, in company with George Allen, who
has been in custody for some time past
looted several houses in the northern sec
ton of the city. One of the houses which
was robbed by the burglars was that of
Mrs. Julia B. Adams of !, 925 Madison ave
nue.. The residence was entered on Dec.
10 and about $500 worth of silver was TAX
en-. Mrs. Adams was in court yesterday
no moi ahant nine
years, up to the time of the robbery, she
had been an invalid, and that for six
weeks prior to the invasion of her home
she was confined to her room. The fright
of the robbery she said, had a strange eff
feet upon her. On the morning after
the visit of the thieves she was able to
leave her bed and her room, and to assist
the police in making the preliminary ex-
animation Since that time she has been
well and is able to go about as she
chooses. English, whose right name the
police say is Joseph Foster. was held for
trial. Allen who has been in the prison
ers' ward at Bellevue Hospital receiving
treatment for the opium habit, is now
awaiting trial in GeAeral Sessions
In his Life of Stonewan Jackson" Col.
G. f. r. Henderson writes: "Jackson's re-
ligion entered into every action of his life
NO uuly, however Trivial, was D6SuH Will
out asking a blessing, or ended without
returning thanks. He had long cult
waited the habit of connecting the most
trivial and customary acts of life with a
silent prayer. He took the Bible as his
guide, and it is possible that his literal in
depreciation of its precepts caused many
to regard him as a fanatic. His observ-
ance of the Sabbath was hardly in accord
ance with ordinary usage He never read
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believed that the government, in carry
ing the mails, was violating a divine law,
and he considered the suppression of such
traffic one of the most important duties
of the legislature. Such opinions were
uncommon, even among the Presbyter.ans,
and his rigid respect for truth served to
strengthen the impression that he was
morbidly scrupulous. If he unintention-
ally made Observation-Disclosures about
some trifling matter-as soon as he discov-
cred his mistake he would lose no time
rect it. ''Why, in the name of reason"
he was asked, do you walk mile in the
rain for a perfectly unimportant thing?"
Simply because I have discovered that it
was a misstatement, and I could not sleep
comfortably unless I put it right
/. The Empress Dowager of China is a
very considerate woman, says W. E. Curtis
in the Chicago Record, and among the re-
cent edicts published in the official ga
zette of Pekin is the following: "I, the
Empress Dowager Esi-Hsi-Tuan-Yu, etc,
hereby acknowledge the receipt of men,
orial from Tan Chung-Lin, viceroy of the
two Kuang provinces, stating his pro-
longed illness and praying to be allowed
to resign his post 1 have always had
great respect for the said viceroy's energy
Il
chief of a great province, and therefore,
feel reluctant to deprive myself of the SER
vices of such a faithful officer Instead
of retiring, therefore, the said viceroy is
given an extra period of leave from his
duties, and 1 hereby send him as a mark
of special grace four ounces of ginseng to
help him in regaining his strength and
health" Ginseng is one of the largest
articles of export from the United States
to China. Last year we sent $S506S6
worth Although the Chinese consider
it one of the most valuable of drugs. it is
seldom used in this country. 1t is a root
that is found growing wild in the forests
of the central states, and costs only the
labor of digging it. The finest ginseng
used in China comes from the province of
Manchuria, and forms part of the regular
annual tribute paid by the inhabitants to
the throne. The Manchurian gingseng is
a monopoly OF the crown. Persons
caught selling it in the markets are Sc
verely punished. The price is therefore
purely nominal, but the tribute is credited
at the rate of 100 taels an ounce
London is in danger of subsistence. says
a London cable in the St Louis Globe
Democrat This is a startling assertion to
make But so grave has the peril become
that one of the first measures with which
Parliament will be called upon to deal
when it meets a few weeks hence. will he
a bill, the object of which is to put a
check, if not an absolute stop. 10 the
alarming increase in the process of honey
combing the foundations and subsoils of
the British metropolis What with two
and even three layers of underground rail-
roads the one below the other. and huge
conduits, tunnels, sewers and subways of
every description, the subsoil of London
is honeycombed to the depth of nearly 100
feet The result is beginning to be felt.
and is giving rise to no end of alarm.
The other day the papers recorded an
alarming subsistence in Hyde Park. where
the ground suddenly showed a rift of the
length of a couple or hundred feet in two