The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-02
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forced a break in the rule. William Wal |
dorf Astor sold to Charles Broadway
ROuss 25x200 feet at 555 Broadway. New
York city, for Sl75, 900. Mr.. Aston desired !
TO purchase the adjoining lots, intending
TO put up business block, but the own
ers would not sell. Hence the transfer
mentioned.
Recognizing the good results that ac-
crue from soldiers singing when on the
march, the minister or war of England
has just ordered 5000 books of patriotic
songs as an experiment. These will be
distributed to the men in infantry regi-
ments and classes for singing will be in
stituted in the barracks. similar expert
ment made in France by Gen. Poillowe
of St. Mars has been attended with
marked success, the number of stragglers
on the march being reduced by 70 per
cent. owing to the singing.
Every town, says the Northport News.
has a liar or two; a smart Aleck; some
pretty girls; more loafers than it needs; a
woman or Two that tattles; an old foggy
that the town would be better off without;
men who stand on the street corners and
make remarks about the women; a man
who laughs an idiouc laugh every time
he says anything; scores of men with the
caboose of their trousers worn smooth as
glass; men who can tell you about how
the war question should be settled; the
weather, and how TO run. other peoples
business, but who have made a dismal
failure of their own.
THE Kennebec (Me.) Journal thus ex-
plains the genesis of the recent yarn
about a gold mine at Franklin, Me: "A
was who was on hunting trip near Bald
mountain secured a small piece of one of
the riugbolts which was used to keep
signal spire in place on this rocky promi-
hence years ago. when a survey was made
through this section. He dug a small
piece of this copper from the ledge with
his knife and brought it home with him,
saying that there was more where that
came from, and the shining piece of me-
tai created quite an excitement The story
that gold had been discovered in Frank
| lin got into the county papers, and he has
| received letters from mining experts all
over the union asking for further paruc-
ulars."
The large number of women students
enrolled in the graduate department of
Yale at the present time calls attention to
a feature of academic life which is assum-
| ing larger proportions every year. 1t was
! in 1892 that the corporation of Yale decid-
] ed to open its graduate department to
I
| The official catalogue of the present year
| has not yet been published, but it is
| known that there are about forty women
| students at Yale; and there are not lack
| ing those who claim that it would be i'm
possible to find among the $500 members
| of the university forty students who con-
tribute more to the real scholarship of the
institution and who are regarded with
| greater respect by the professors under
whose instruction thew come
A colored man in Omaha asks about
the chances of success for a negro colony
in the Philippines, says w E. Curtis in
| the Chicago Record 1t would be an alb
| solute failure. There is already a surplus
| of cheap labor not only there, but in
| Cuba and Porto Rico also, with which the
colored people who have been raised in
this country cannot possibly expect to
compete. There are something like $780,
600 or 5000 COO of laborers in the Philip
pines, who, like their neighbors in China
are living at the cost of a few cents a
day. In Cuba there will be an excess of
labor for the present demands, except in
the mines, when things quiet down and
the laborers are allowed to return to plan
tations. In Porto Rico the situation is
the same. No man should be encouraged
to go from the United States to any of
the new colonies unless he has plenty of
capital to buy land or engage in business.
The wild scene in the streets of Edin-
burgh the other Friday, when the Cor
don Highlanders returned there from In
dia, recalls the return of the same gallant
regiment of Aud Reekie" after the bat
tie of Waterloo. Between the Gordons
and the Black Watch there had for a
long time been a friendly rivalry. Tho
| Forty-second had entered Edinburgh some
time before, and one of their number had
banteringly called out to the Ninety
ond that the size of the crowd was nothing
to which had welcomed them (the Forty
second) eve could hardly make our way
through the people," he added. To this
the newcomer replied: you should have
sent to us, then, to clear the way for
you. as you have often done before" On
the present occasion it was "eminently fit.
ting" too that the Gordons should have
been played into Edinburgh by the band
of the Scots Grays, with whom they
fought side by side at Waterloo.
When Col Thomas P. Ochiltree was
last in Washington, some eighteen months
ago, he had to be borne upon litter to the
steamer that conveyed him to Old Point
Comfort. His powerful physique had been
shattered by Illness, and many thought
his days on earth were few. Last even
ing, surrounded by friends in the suggest
corner at Chamberlin's, the gallant col
onel looked in finer bodily trim than he
has appeared in years. All the old-time
sparkle is in his eye, all the ruddiness of
color in his cheek, all the enthusiasm of
speech all the jollity and bonhomie inner
ent in his nature. He said himself that
he is almost, but not quite, a well man
yet but hopes TO be ere many weeks II
had to go abroad" said Col. Ochiltree, ito
recuperate, and after months of slow con-
valescence in France and other parts of
the continent, landed in England. where
the glorious climate and the company of
congenial friends soon made a new man
of me. The situation i'm Europe is inter-
estiug storm likely to prove the worst
in its history is brewing in France It
may burst upon that decadent nation any
day. France, sir, is in a blue way, a very
blue way There are a number of good
and patriotic men in the republic, bur
Paris is rotten and corrupt to the core
The Parisians have no God but Mammon;
for the acquisition of money they are will