The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-14
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keeping an engagement when he makes one.
His wife went away a visit, and he invited a
precarious female to pay him a visit at his house
the next evening. Shortly before the time of
her expected arrival his wife returned, where
| u.oh IN order that the programme he had ar
| ranged might not DO interfered WITH he picked
| a quarrel with her and got policeman to ar
rest her and stow her safely away in the lookup.
BY means of recent Improvements made in
the manufacture of rifles, as many as 100 bar
rels can now be rolled in an hour by one ma
| chine. They are Straightened cold and bored
| with corresponding speed, and even the rifiing
| IS done automatically, so that one man tending
six machines can turn ont sixty or seventy bar
res per day. With the old Iitiing machine
| twenty barrels was about the limit of day S
work; but the improved machines attend to
everything after being once started, and when
the rifiing is completed ring bell to call the at
tentlon of the workman.
B. X JAMIsoY, one of the wealthy men Of
Philadelphia, was few years ago poor mess
| enger boy in a Quaker city banking house
One day he went to the head of the firm and
said be wanted his salary raised The great man
was aStOnished at the boys assurance Il told
MN, says Mr.. Jamison, that | intended TO be
head of the firm some day myself" The bank
| president thereupon told the messenger boy to
| show his ability in some way before be INDUCED
| in extravagant ambitions. Jamison left the
| office, sought out Col Tom Scott, said he was
| a poor boy and wanted some brokerage busines
AN right, my boy, I'll send you an order" said
| Scott. The next day Messenger Jamison re-
| ceived an order from Scott for 5 900 shares of a
| certain stock. Jamison took the order to the
| head of the firm and said: Here's order
| from friend of mine" From that day Jami
| son $ fortune was assured. He became head Of
the firm in time, as he had propheSied
| The remarkably lurid description which
| Chicago blanket sheet gave recently of fire in
! this city has been initiated With great success
| by a pyrotechnic writer in the Meridian Miss
| Democrat. He says: The water seemed to
| spur the fire to wilder deeds. The flames and
| the smoke climbed and rolled higher and higher,
| and the scene became luridly, awfully magnifi-
| cent beyond totterng words power to paint.
| 1t was canto of Dante's Inferno, acted in all
| its fiery pomD and spendor Banners of flame,
@|O feet square, would now be waved out by
| dark smoke hands, then 10000 goo curling little
pennons of fire would hiss and tlutter, then van
| lSh, and great reelng tower of smoke, whose
| darkness was stabbed and spangled with fame
anu sparks, would iii the scene, while all around
| the surrounding buildings grimly shot back
| from rejecting surfaces a crimson greeting,
| and up iii the far-of sky the out gstened stars
i lulneI pale Tor shame, and the moon thrC ugh
| the drifted smoke glowed like a bowl Of blood"
7 Any one who reads or hears a thing like that is
| certainly justified in eXclaiminS Rats"
A LovEsMITTEN COUPLE visited the capitol
building in Madison, Wis, the other day and
finally climbed to the top of the dome. Far
| below, the people, looking like midgets, were
gong here and there attending apparent to
|
apart from and above the practical groveling
| world. Their young hearts bounded and their
| iove-ht eyes snapped ntensities. Then the two
! got all tangled up in each others arms and four
| lips We're compressed into the smallest possible
| space. Several minutes passed. and this little
| space seemed struggling with itself to get vet
| smaller aud 10 ENHANCEMENT of forms occurred.
| To best girl" and her steady there is in
| being alone i'll romantic spot vast amount of
| absolute bliss. These two had fairly begun to
| realize it when from below came up the cruel
| hEapa Offo
| Rats" And the two young people sauddered
| apart and diligently began TO point ont to each
| other the beauties of the coy litte city spread
out beneath them, and neither one thought it
worth while to look at the hundred men with
| upturned faces down below.
| FRED BIG HORSE is a bright 13-year-old Sioux
boy from the Rosebud agency who is being edu-
Gated at the Industrial school at Carlisle, Pa.
When he arrived he could not speak or read
word of English. Now he gives promise of dis
| tinguishing himself in literature wit as the
| following composition. iecently written by him,
| indicates: 'MOnkeyS-There are many kinds
| of animals. Monkeys and monkeys etc The
! monkeys are very much like a monkeys. too
| The monkeys can climb a tree like money
| They have long fingers like a monkey The
| monkeys have long tails aud long bodies like a
monkey. They often play merry game and
sing merry song like monkey. Once upon
| time my friend and were young men that time
we took a trip we started off from Dakota and
| away went and then we went to South
| America There saw. the monkeys and
/ moneys everywhere on the trees screaming
! and chattering everywhere on the trees They
were very cheerful like monkeys. We saw all
| kinds of monkeys in South America; caught
| a shipload of them and brought them back to
| the United States and sold them for so much
| money Then took the money to buy a
great big balloon and it blew away. Then we
had no monkeys, no money, and no balloon.
| Fred Big Horse. ="
STRANGE PHENOMENON is reported by the
Two, c-iIl. Ind
messed by Capt. Penney and his crew of the
| steamer City of Owensboro, near Mauckport
| Overhead the sky was clear and the sun shining
| brightly, but off to the north. east and south
| large black clouds were seen rapidly approach
! ing each other. AS they came nearer the
| account SAYS, 1.-THE thunder rolled and belched
| forth piercing shrieks, while the lightning was
| vivid and cut through the clouds with appalling
| fright. The clouds were all rolling with rapid
| lty toward one another. The sun was shining
| down brightly, but the opening gradually les
| sened, and in another instant tie rays were OBJ
! scure. The volumnOus clouds came together
with terrific force and deafening roar drowned
| the earth and shook it as a seismic shock would
| The boat plunged about the high-running
waves. Chairs were thrown over and pasSen-
gers hurled about the deck. Almost inStanta-
neOus with the crash of the clouds and while the
lightning was wildly flashing. an immense OBJ
Ject was seen shooting earthward Ii appeared
to be about 10 feet in length and in diameter
From all sides of it burst forth brilliant light
which, silhOuetted against an inky heaven pre-
scented grand and marvellous sight II was
like gigantic SKY rocket, though its luminous
power was a thousand times greater. 1t struck
the water nearly 81 feet in front of the steamer
and in mid-river The water closed over il. but
a heavy smoke remained above The clouds
dropped back. grew thinner, and in another
minute the sun broke forth, shedding its re-
splendent rays broadcast The captain and
passengers were dumfounded, and finally when
they had recovered. their faces were ashen
white, their knees trembed. and it was with
difficulty that they could maintain standing
position"
THAT kissing is unhealthful and ought not TO
be INDUCED in is probably the most unpopular
sanitary tenet ever promulgated. The kissing
goes right ON and the young people seem to
thrive on it, AS all information concerning this
pleasurable alleged evil is not only Interesting
but of value from scientific standpoint the
following, gathered from travelling mems ros
sip by the New York Commercial 1Ciyerts SCI. is
Civ here even at the risk of libellnz the dear
girls: The varied emotions excited In Young
ladies IN leading cities along the lines from Bos,
ton to ST. Louis as kisses are caught or stolen
from their sweet lips are expressed in some
thing Ii e the following manner: The Bos-
ton girl with an assumption of indig-
nationl-"Sir, l declare such a liberty rs
that is beyond all bounds Of propriety and gen
tlemanly manner. = she is stopped by an.
other which isn't resisted very strenously The
New York girl says: Indeed, Mr. Brown your
conduct is a little familiar if not ardent have
mind TO ask you what you take me forg'' The
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