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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-08
MY FIRST LSrE,

pet ny first love ia a = az to-day,
OF course she's changed-has grown great
deal stOuter.
And am anxious what ny wife would saw
y she bat knew I only thought about her.
since 1 had seen her seven years had passed.
fABf since I've loved four times ana once
have married;
ERte misfortune have charged this last.
10. Irritation that had miscalri-a.
ear eyes met once, almost think she blusl,ed
soc, 20, Is married, for she had three
might have spoken had the youngest
sgualling infant drives ne to the rabies. )
! wonder if her heart has ever chaugeds
well remember when she said It couldn't.
- glad that from me she became estranged-
Ii7 ODD 70 have TO marry when you
wouldn't
Anoa too, wonder Is zhe happy now
As m matrimOuy could have made her.
u sht d not, upon M life SOW
me fstes nave most conlounecdly BETRAYED
E1IshiUped once her face, her eyes, her hat.
There never was more angelic figure,
But 5te has grown IN beautifully taL-
There's no Dutch fshwife that's a scruple
bigger
TIT drst loves shadow 5tIl! j. in my heart.
That heart Of nlue Is q mysterious packet
Why tina; poilceman's very sudden start,
And SHAT the cause Of that Internal racket.
7 tAoHght it meet that investigate
ne row across the street, the basement IN
1T.
sFsIres down there, and With her dating
mate.
was My raising some domestic thunder.
Teas .Sff+,HJs.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-08

How Signal Ezen May WSs>
Trains in a MfrFoF'

How Signal ESen May Wa4N
Trains in a MfrfoF'
An apparatus has just beer HfI 80 - >.
says the Paris Morning Ne'eS.- ~hsN =, -
simply astounding, for with it the trap> .
er need no longer fear any accidents.
Safety viii be assured on railroads. This
apparatus permits the employe charged
with the duty to see in a mirror the en-
tire section Of the road he is TO control,
with all She trains in motion, and he
knows at every instant Just exactly
where each train is. When one Of them
approaches another ut a distance Whieh is
dangerous be can Immediately signal che
menaced train.
The apparatus consists Of sheet q
opaque glass, on which the rails are midi
Gated by horizontal lines and the stations
by vertical ones numbered. Little ar
rows, representing the trains, move along
the horizontal lines. They are put in mo-
tion by aid OF electricity deYelOOed by the
contact of metallic Srusnes attached to
the locomotives Wits zinc OaLGs placed
along the rails. The train thus continual
ly traces its trajectory on the giass indi-
Gator.
The apparatus was exhibited some days
ago IN Germany to a commission of Ber-
lin scientists,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-08
HOW THE FAMILY MANAGED.
An Investment Which Was a Nero Nat
ter-0-Aopey.

Well, how many of the people in this
metropolis, says a New York letter, are
worthy only so far as mere veneer makes
then, seem so? Here is a very interesting
true story, and 1 am sorry to be obliged to
omit the names. There lived in Brook
Ign boarding house a gentleman, his wife
and their pretty daughter. He was a
salesman in a Broadway dry goods house,
and his salary was $1,000 year. He had
saved $4,000 in the course Of thirty years
of hard work. Last summer the wife and
the daughter went to BridgehamptOn,
Long Island. for a little recreation, and
there met young man from Chicago. who
instantly fell completely IN love with the
young woman. He seemed ID have money,
and the father was sent for to come down
and look him over. The man of bushes
asceTtained in half an hour that the
youngster was the son Of a rich merchan
who was rated among the millions BY the
commercial agencies. Indeed, the Chi
cage merchant and his wife were at that
moment in BridgehamptOn. The Brook
Ign man formulated a scheme and hur-
ried to Brooklyn TO put it into execution.
In that city OF churches there are to let
fully appointed mansions. in which are
not only furniture but bedding. table
ware, silver service, china, lace curtains.
piano and library. The best of them come
high, 70 be sure, but they are exceedingly
sumptuOus, and to live in them is 10 en-
Joy life as though you owned them. Our
Broadway salesman at 900 year hired
one of these elegantly furnished houses
tor six months, paid two months rent in
adv ance, moved in and sent word 10 his
wife and daughter to invite the Chicago
folks home with them. The Chicago folks
accepted and came along. They found
their newly-made Brooklyn acquaint-
ances living in one Of BrOoklyn's finest
dwellings. The practiced eye of the chi
cagO merchant saw that it must require
an income Of at least $4,000 year to
even live in such house-more
that sum. The Brooklyn man
evidently was very rich, and his daughter
was doubtless well worthy to be the wife
of his son. They had very pleasant visit.
The boy pressed his suit. He was asked
to come again in few weeks and ger his
answer. He did so, and was accepted.
The girl could not then be married too
soon. and December was named. Accord
ingly Just before the holidays there was a
grand wedding in the mansion. There
was big handful of Chicago guests who
congratulated the young man from Chi
cage on his good luck in getting so pretty
bride, and one apparently with such
well-tO-dO parents. 1t was a very success
full wedding. ana the bride is very happy,
presumably, in her Chicago home; but the
Brooklyn mans lease of the mansion ran
out on Jan. 10, and he is now back in the
boarding house, and still selling goods In
the Broadway house at $4,000 q year.
Almost all of the $4,000 he had saved is
gone too But he has married his daughter
to the son Of a millionaire, and she has
promised TO take care of him.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-08
AN OLD woMAN's REMEDY
Gen. Clingman's Tobacco Cure and
Beverly fuckers Cancer Remedy.

Gen. ClIngman's Tobacco Cure and
Beverly fuckers Cancer Remedy.
A pamphlet by Gen. T. l.. Clingman, Of
North Carolina, says the New York Iri-
June, has just been issued in which re-
markable cures are set down as the re-
suit of applications of tobacco Leaf.
About every disease under the sun is said
to have Welded to its charm. Chatting
with a Southerner yesterday he said;
Tobacco has been classed among the
old wOman's remedies ever since l can
remember. Why, from bOyhOOd | can re-
member its simple applications in various
forms. When l got stung by bee, my
father, who was an inyeterate cheWer,
would take a cud from his mouth and
bind it on tue wound. That was the end
OF the pain. If my eyes got sore they
were bound up at night III the same pOul-
tice. and when | got black eye in fight
one day, | got the tobacco as well as a
licking when | got home"
Beverly Tucker. Of Virginia, said
Yesterday on the same topic:
lit IS remarkable what tobacco viii do,
when applied as Gen. Clingman directs.
Why, it will even take out corn. Mills,
of Texas, and John Hancock both tried
il a short time ago for corns, and after
two nights applications they were aOle
to pick the cOrns out with their fingers.
Bunions, too, those eternal Affections, are
remov. d by it. Gen. Ciingman is re-
markably well posted on it's merits, and
MS lit pamphlet will prove a valuable
thing to the public"
The talk. turning on Gen. Grants re-
cent malady, Mr. Tucker said:
Now. if it was cancer and external,
we have a dead sure cure for IL in Nlr-
ginia-redwood bark. They pound 1t fine
and make a paste of it, which is applied
ike poultice. 1t beats anything ever
heard of. In fact, it's like the story Ned
Burns used to tell of fellow who was
about to be tried tor a criminal oifense at
Richmond. He sat in the back part OF
the room, under bail, He had hired a
scrub Of a lawyer to keep him posted as
TO what was going on. Presently the
prosecuting attorney got up and moved a
nolle prosequi. The lawyer went back to
MS client and says: Hes moved nolle
prosecute WHATS thatY asked the &C
cused man. Il can't explain fully said
the lawyer, but it just scrapes hell
And with that the fellow jumped the
court room, straddled a horse and fed
the town. When he got to Phila delphia
he paid another lawyer So to tell him
what a noile prOsedui was. Well, red
wood bark for cancer and tobacco as a
general remedy are like that nolle
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-08
PETTICOATs WORN BY MEN.
Remarkable Fact that Appears to
Have Been FORGOTTEN.

A Remarkable Fact that Appears to
Have Been Forgotten.
1t is remarkable fact that
the petticOat was first worn by men,
and that even in this age and generation
men are 10th to discard its flowing dra-
perry. l like to record this fact. Natur-
ally women take a sort Of savage salts
faction in discussing a weakness in the
other sex, especially in the matter Of
dress. Please don't stare me out of
cOuntenance at the supposed presumption
of my assertion that men have, or appear
to have, sort OF envious feeling toward
us for having stolen from them this pre-
rOgatiYe, and that they clutch at every
means in their power to wTest it from or
at least share il with US, for Ill prove It
before III get through. And we do not
wonder this Is 80. There is dignity in
drapery. as well as grace and elegance.
W hen Henry VIII. went to meet Ann Of
Cleves be was habited, we read. Gin a
coat of velvet somewhat male like a
frOcke, embroidered all over with flatted
gold OF damaske, with small lace mixed
between, of the same gold, end other
laces of the same going traTersewise,
that the ground little apDeared;" and in a
description Of a similar garment. belong
ing to his father, Henry VII, we read of
its being decorated with bows OF ribhSn,
quite as a belle Of the present day would
adOrn ballroom dress. 1t is We'll known
that the garment was at first not alone a
skirt, bur, as the name denotes, a little
coat. How it came to lose lis upper half
or body we do not know, unless the pet
ticOat' was made with long skirts for the
sake of warmth. and IN each case it was
as much a petticoat, as we understand it,
as anything else. We have only to look
at Sh6kspearean characters; nay, let us
he thorough and 20 back to the time OF
Jatriarchs to discover the skirts Of men.
And easily enough we trace them down
through the ages.
In the inventory of the effects of Henry
Y. appears a ''petticOat OF red damask
with open sleeves" and although it was
question whether this had been fashioned
f.r a man or woman, it would, If wO-
mans, be the only instance known before
Ehzabeth's time of woman using such
a garment. Thus we hear nothing Of wO-
mems ppttic0ats before the Tudor period.
Good Queen Bess,' with all her learn
ing, which was essentially masculine in
he- age and time, had the true instincts Of
wOmanliness IN her as regards personal
ad0rnment, and even though we find her
deficient In taste, and heartily wish she
might not have made such a guy of her
self in her old age, yet as woman We
have her to thank tor stockings and petit
coats and many other Injuries which
have become necessities, and which we
now appropriate with as true belief in
our inalienable right to their sole posses
sion as though the legacy had fallen to us
from Mother Eve instead of Maiden Eliza
hath
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-08
AN ARCTIC HFRO's PLEDGE.
To Write a Name Across the Face of tn
Polar Continent.

To Write Name Across the Face of the
Polar Continent.
1t has been known for some time, says
the Philadelphia Record, that one Of the
heroes of the Inflated jeanette Arctic
expedition, Chief Engineer Melville, de-
sires to make another attempt to find she
North Pole, and he now appeals to the
American public for some one to con-
tribute the funds for another Polar expe-
dition, to go out under his leadership. He
saws that $4,000 will cover all the eX-
penses for a four years effort TO solve the
mystery of the Polar seas. Engineer Mel
vile, in urging his plan upon public at
tentiOn, SAYS that there Will be no danger
of such calamities as have befallen other
enterprises of the kind in an expedition
by the route he proposes, VIZ by the way
of Franz Josef Land. He thus explains
the proposed plan: cine personnel of the
expedition Will consist OF officers and %
men, equipped for four years. The work
in all probability can be completed in Two
or three years, but the surplus supplies
are intended for contingencies"
A snip is to take d party as far as Cape
Nassau, at the northern point Of Nova
Zembla, where a depot Of supplies will be
established. The advance party will 90
by ship as far north on the west side OF
Franz Josef Land as they can, and there
land sledges, boats, a house and equip
ments for a four years. stay. The journey
to the Pole will then be undertaken by
series of overland advances.
Mr.. Melville says; "AbOve latitude 80
degrees l have every reason to expect the
existence of paleocrystic sea of ice,
over whose surface-sm0Oth because Of its
fXIty-trayel will be easy and free com
pared with the difficulties encountered in
more southern ATTITUDES, where the ocean
currents ard stOrms, constantly agitatiDg
the ice, cast into such a chaotic condition
that it is impossible to march upon it
without cutting roads. From we'll
grounded theories which have been thor
oughly digested confidently predict land,
smooth ice, and water extending all the
way to the Pole.'
AS an incentive to some wealthy nation
to fl out and pay the expenses of the eX-
petition the confident and intrepid ex-
plorer who thus proposes to make fourth
visit to the locked seas of the North says:
'.The mere millionaire must abandon both
name and wealth at the final call of ma
ture: but not so the man distinguished as
an artist, scientist, physicist, discOverer
or benefactOr of mankind, and it is such
an undying name that / propose to make
for the patron of my expedition by writ
ing it in full across the face of the Polar
continent"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-08
Some British Personal Statistics.
Londo4 Times.

The oldest member of Her Majesty's
Privy Council is the Right Hon. NiscOunt
Eyersley, aged 80; the youngest, his Royal
Highness the Duke Of COnnaught. aged
"a. The oldest Duke is the Duke of
cleveland, aged 81 the Youngest, his Royal
Highness the Duke of Albany, an infant.
The Oldest Marquis is the Very Rev. the
Marquis of Donegal, aged s.; the young
est, the Marquis Camden, a minor, aged
-. The oldest Earle is tie Earle
of Buckinghamshire. (whO is the
oldest peer in the realm aged
81; the youngest is the Earl OF Cottenham,
{ "A minor. aged 10. The oldest VlscOunt
Is Lord EVeTsley, aged 80; the youngest,
VIscount SOuthwell, "a minor, an Irish
peer, s ged z. The oldest Baron is Lord
BrOugham and VauX, aged 50; the young
est, Lord Ampthill, "a minor, aged 10.
The Oldest member of the House Of Com
mons is Alderman Sir Robert Walter
Garden, member of Parliament for the
borough of BaTnst3ple, aged 50; the
youngest Mr. Matthew Joseph Kenny,
member of Parliament for the borough
Of Ennis. in Ireland, aged %. The oldest
Judge in England is Nice-ChancellOr the
Hon. sir james Bacon, aged Sc; the
youngest, the Hon. Sir Archibald Levin
Smith, Of the Queens Bench Division,
aged As. The Oldest Judge in Ireland is
the Hon. John Fitznenry Townsend, Ii.
D., of the Court of Admiralty, aged IS;
the youngest, the Right Hon. Andrew
Marshall Porter, Master Of the Rolls,
aged As. The oldest Of the Scotch Lords
OF Session is the Hon. Sir George Deas,
{ Lord Deas,) axed 81; the youngest, the
Hon. AleXandsr Smith Kinnear, (Lord
Kinnear, aged 81. The oldest prelare of
the Church of England is the Right Rev.
Richard Durnford, d. D., Bishop Of
Chichester, aged %; the youngest, the
Right Rev. Ernest Roland WilberfOrce,
| D. D., Bishop of Newcastle-on-Tyne, aged
| 49, The Oldest prelate of the Irish
Episcopal Church is the Most Rev. Mar
Gus Gervase Beresford, Archbishop of
| Armagh, aged 50; the youngest, the Right
| Rev. Robert Samuel Gregg. Bishop Of
| Cork, aged 80. The oldest prelate Of the
| Scotch Episcopal Church is the Right
| Rev. Robert Eden, Bishop of Moray and
Ross, PrImus of Scotland, aged 50; the
youngest, the Right Rev. James Robert
A Chinnery-Haldane, Bishop Of Argyll
and the Isles, aged A. The oldest
Baronet Is Sir Moses MOntefore, aged 100;
the youngest, Sir Stewkley F. Draycott
| Shuckburgh, a minor, aged 4. The old
| est Knight is Sir George Rose Sartorius,
| G. G. b., Admiral of the Fleet, aged "a;
the youngest, Sir Waiter Eugene de
| Souza, of Calcutta, aged 3S.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-08

Last spring an Indiana man started a
bank in a town IN Dakota, and about Oct.
l, having secured deposits to the extent
of $4,000, a notice was one morning
posted on the doors of the bank reading:
Temporarily closed-hope to pay de-
pOsitOrs in fun"
The banker wanted to test the temper
Of the public, previous to big scoop. In
the course of half an hour the doors were
kicked in, the Office Quilted, the banker
stepped on until he was II feet long and
only 2 inches thick, and the chap who
held a revolver to his ear joyially re-
marked:
E'Now, then, my friend, we give you
Just five minutes to unlock that safe and
count out the slugs to depOsitors in full"
DepositOrs were paid in lull, and the
banker has come East in search OF more
civil people.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-08
\ DUDE DECOY.
How He Plays His Fellow Dudes for
the Benefit of His BegGer Pal.
Philadelphia Meas.


tDO you see that young dude walking
up the street with those four swell CON-
panions? Well, that gent is one of the
trickiest Of the many who live by their
sharp wits. Keep an eye on him, y said are
! serve officer on Chestnut street yesterday.
The fashionable group at once became
the object of attention.
This action was followed By a geReFal
and very liberal aims giving by the tailor
| made men. COins We're showered into the
beggar's ragged hat, and the conclusion
naturally drawn would be that the parry
had just returned from a church revival
where charity was the subject OF the
sermon.
While walking up Chestnut street, the
tricky dandy little in advance, the bon
ton crowd suddenly stopped before a poor,
decrepit, blind beggar. Dude No. ] en-.
tered into an animated conversation with
his companions.
''Oh, no; charitable motives have very
little 10 do with the proceeding" remark
ed the peace guardian.
That's the last act of a clever trick Of
the dude. You see, it's done in this way"
continued the officer The fashionable
young mar and that blind beggar, strange
as il may seem, are cOnfederates. The
beggar stations himself on a principal
thOroughfare, receiving whatever extra
aims he can get, while the dude HES off TO
a neighbOring hotel or billiard-rOom. He
plays several games Of pool or billiards
with the young bloOds there assent led, is
very companiOnable, invites them to
drink, and finally proposes to patToniZe
some other saloon in the vicinity.
The beggar is stationed between these
two places. The young fellows innocent
ly comply. The gang walks up the street
past the blind beggar, who at this mo-
ment walls sadly. The sharper dude is
suddenly conscience stricken, turns back,
throws a dollar or two into the mans hat
and jOcularly invites his cOmra es to do
the same. AS a rule they comply. Then
in a bantering wey the dude offers to bet
s. that he will contribute the most, the
stake OF the yanquished to be given to the
beggar. A weak point in the average
young fashionable is struck. the bet is
accepted, the sharp dude contributes SO
or more, the blOOds have their pride of
birth aroused and cover that sum. At
length a limit IS reached, the cOntTibu-
lions stop and the tour successful en-,
forfeit So apiece to the beggar or continue
to contribute.
''Tne young blOOds are fleeced without
knowing it, and console themselves with
the idea that they have done something
very charitable. 1t is needless to say
that there is a grand divide afterward
between the TWO sharpers. You see, that
crowd had just been roped in, and the
worst Of it is we can prove nothing
against either of the operators. There's
big money IN it, l tell you," concluded
the stalwart preserver of the public peace.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-08
EGGS FORTY YEARS OLD.
How the Value of the Luxury Increases
with Age.

We had beche-de-mer soup, alias sea-
slugs, which does not sound nice, says the
Cornhu Magazine, but which really is
like Calls head. Then there were sweet
soups and small stews and ragouts of
every conceivable meat except beef,
which is never seen at a Chinese table,
oxen being accounted too valuable to the
farmer to be consigned to the butcher.
AS to cat, rat, and dog, those curious in
such matters may procure them at res
taurants in the city; but understand
that they do not grace the festivals Of
Chinese gentry. What with turtle soup,
soup of ducks tongues, macaroni, fairy
rice, skins Of pigs mouth, dragon
whisker, vegetables, etc, we found an
ample succession Of astronomical inter-
est. No bread is eaten, but all manner of
delicate little preserved fruits and pickles
ara brought to each guest on tiny silver
plates to play with between the courses.
One of the greatest delicacies provided
for us were ducks eggs, hard boiled,
quite black, and of incalculable age,
antediluvian perhaps, as nothing is con-
sidered respectfully old in China unless IT.
dates back some thousand years. But,
joking apart, it appears that the value of
these black eggs really increases with
their age. The Chinese epicure discri-
inmates between the eggs OF successive
decades, treating his most honored guest
to the oldest and most costly, just as the
owner of a good cellar in Britain brings
forth his choicest old wines. The charm
of lightly-boiled fresh egg is quite un-
known to the Celestial palate, which only
recognizes eggs when hard boiled, and
much prefers them in an advanced age.
For ordinary use, and especially as light
diet for invalids, eggs are simply pre-
served by being stepped in salt water
mixed with either SCOT or red clay, in
which they are baked when required. But
the truely refined process is to prepare a
solution Of wood ashes, lime and salt,
mixed with water in which some arOmat-
10 plant has been boiled. This paste is
run into tub, and the 1ewly-laid eggs
are therein imbedded in layers. The tue
is Theoretically sealed, and at the end of
forty days the eggs are considered fit for
use, but at the end of forty years they
will be still better. They become black
throughout, owing. l suppose, to the ac-
ton OF the lime; but the white becomes
gelatinous, and the whole tastes rather
like plover's egg.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-08

A new building materIal-a mixture Of
cork, silica and lime-is coming into eX-
tensive use in Germany. lie has the adj
vantage of keeping out heat and cold, and
is also claimed to be an excellent pre-
ventive of damp and deadener of sound.
1t is substantial, light and durable, and
seems to be especially adapted for ceilings
and wall Innings,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-08
A Valuable Hint.

sWhat are you buying nOwi' asked
Ned Stevenson of Andrew Powell, on
meeting the latter in BelPs jewelry store.
Il am looking for some present to give
my wife on her birthday. l tell you,
making presents cost heap Of money"
"Why don't you do as dor | have
never failed to make my wife present on
her birthday every year for twenty-five
years, and am not out cent thus far"
"HOw do you manage itY
cit is very simple. After we were mar
ried, when her birthday came ar ound
gave her a twenty dollar gold piece
When my birthday came around she gave
me the twenty dOllOr piece back. and we
have Kept that up ever since, and neither
Of US are out a cent"