Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-09
that no man save the King enters the royal

that no man save the King enters the royal
h ,rem, or, having done so. leaves it alive.
SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENTS have been re-
Gently made at Cincinnati with the new cleo
trio railway brake. The trial WAS made with
a heavy coal train of ten cars, each car weigh
ing, empty, about eleven tons, and having
tonnage capacity of 40 COO pounds. The loaded
train. with full steam on, was put to speed
Of forty ght miles per hour on down grade
of sixty light feet to the mile, and brought 10
a dead stop in thrty-seven and one-hali sec
onds after putting on the brake, the distance
run in that time being AS yards, exact meas
urement. Tn brake acts automatically IN
cas- the train should part, and signals ooth
cab an caboOse ana applies the brake to the
ear portion, still leaving the engineer with
complete control of the forward portion.
A STOUT MAN with a tuft of gray on his
chin, with heavy, resolute face and gray eyes,
and who speaks with a pronounced German
accent, is one of the closest yet most unas-
suming Observers OF the Wall street market.
He is Max w ell, the old st. Louis dry soous
merchant. He Is not Il trader IN the ordinary
sense. lie buys or sells IN a small way when
his Judgment tells him to, and every turn nets
him profit. He owns s., 600 0c0 worth OF real
estate In New York. He came to this country
from Germany poor immigrant 30 years ago.
lie tramped all through the Pennsylvania
coal regions, pcddllng from a basket. lie
dates everything from the time he was
pedder. He will raise his fOrefnger when ne
IS "a king End start IN, "N hen 1 was ped
ding"
TEE average time lost on account of sick
ness among the q male clerks in the Dead
Letter Office during the year ending De 81,
1884, was 10 % days each; the average time
loss of the rs female clerks was y Is days
each. Since that date the force of male clerks
has been il creased by one. The annual pay
roll of the IS nal clerks is S37, 400-an average
! of 81 81 each per diem. The annual pay roll
/ of the IS female clerks is SI3,420-an average
I ~ diem. lad ~ at the
| women's pay rate, performed the work Oh me
/ male clerks. the cost TO the government
1 would have been S2S,0SS 80; had men, at me
mems pay rate, performed the WORK oil the
female clerks, the cost to he government
| would have been $97, sS5 So. I hese hInres are
set forth by Mrs. l.. V. Bryan, of the Dead
! Litter Ofice, " hose conclusion is that either
/ the men in that Office arc oyerpaid S9,3li 81 a
wear, or the women are uudTTpalu T2i,lV O0 4
| year.
| THE sharks which abound on the cast coast
Of Madagascar, and make such extensive
depredations upon the cattle in course of
/ shipment, are occasionally captured b. The
/ people. The young men sometimes 90 on
shark hunting expedition. Having dl-coN-
/ cred a shark they dive under 1t, and, before
| it has time TO turn upon its back. use the long
| sharp knife they carry. 1t IS affirmed among
! the Malagasy that some OF their people can go
! into the water on discovering 4 shark, ana,
! with nothing in hant but 4 piece OF SUCK
| about a foot in lCng h, armed with an iron
| point at each end, can accomplish us dcstruc-
| ton. Watching till one of the monsters, with
its two or three rows of tee h, Is just a out TO
| attack him with its wide extended jaws, the
| native with his iron pointed stick SEXES his
opportunity and inserts his arm into the
mouth Of the creature and transliXeS Its jaws
by mplanting the stick crosswise in its
mouth. The more the shark tries by snap
ping 10 discngage the we ipOn the more deeply
it enters, and IN painful fury il seoks the bot
! tom. But H. fails to obtain relief, and at last
/ dies. Its body IS washed ashore, ana Inc IN
| habitants divide its carcass Tor food.
DIR. LELAND, vino recently died in Georgia,
was a great sufferer from asthma, and to all
appearances died several times before the
final dissolution took place, On more than
one occasion his family made preparations for
his funeral. and day or two before his
| actual death he told a remark abe story OF
| how he witnessed the arrangements. ~ nabie
| to lie down passed through all my sickness IN
/ an easy chair. My body died s, veral times. l..
| that is, ms spirit would go away from 1t, ana
| standing in an opposlte corner a Inc room
! would look back at the flesh and blood in the
| char and wonder how | was ever induced to
pass so n.aHy years in its company, Poor
! old BODY thought, your troubles are nearly
I over. They will EOCu pliG you away under
| the ground where you will be at rest forever.
| saw my family gather about my old frame
as it leaned back. dead, in the chair, and 1t
| gave me pain to see them weep. Ihen L
would feel something pulling me toward my
| body again; | could not resist it, was p0W-
erle,s. and in a moment had taken posses-
/ sion 81 it. Ih0n hcre was an instant OF pam,
| and I opened my eyes and breathed. Each
! time this was repeated | was mere reluctant
| to return to my body"