The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-11
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neart he la1 taCtOOel These words. IOuI pour
Jeanne Grainer" (All for Jeanne Grainer1
"GooDNIGHT, LILLIAN, Sugartree, Caption,
Abbot Rock, is the way telegram read which
a wife found in her millwrght husbands pocket.
He obtained a copy of his telegraph cipher, and,
after fierce struggle, convinced her that the
suspicious cipher when read full length, resolved
itself into the innocent message: Send US right
away pulley 35 inches diameter. l212 men
face, with a l4inch huShing inches in diameter,
to fit on a 9-16-inch shaft
In this progressive age hot stoves enter the
list of articles which thief VIII appropriate, il
the opportunity offers. But a Detroit husband
goes step further toward adding to the stove
notoriety. He picked one up, fire and all, and
threw it down stairs after mis- fleeing wife.
Fortunately, his aim was poor, and no serious
damage resulted. The facts were brought out
during a successful suit for divorce instituted
by the wife, they being part of the mothern-
laws testimony
DR.. GADERTz, of the royal library, Berlin, has
found valuable manuscript and drawing
which he has just published, relating to theaters
of Shakespeare time. The date of these pa
perS is 1886, and they were written by learned
Dutchman, John dewitt, canon of st. Mary's
church, in Utrecht, who visited London in that
year. and reports on the theaterS, which were
four in number, The Theater, The Curtin, The
Rose and The Swan, each Of which was an oval
shaped structure built or faced with flint and
marble and of considerable size, the boxes and
galleries containing 1000 seats
IT HAS long been thought an excellent thing
to mix silver with the other metal when BEN
was to be cast, and many pious persons have
rejoiced at the thought that the svery chime
OF their church bell was in part due to their
gifts. Now comes writer In al English soien-
tific paper with this paragraph Il once asked
foreman in a well-known bell foundry whether
putting silver IN q melting pot was of advan-
tage. he replied OF great adyantege-to the
founder, as the silver sinks TO the bottom, the
off b. or,A
the silver has cooled puts 1t In his pockets"
A MADMAN was found aoundering around in a
swamp at Snake Hill, early Wednesday morn
ing. On being taken to the city hospital the
unfortunate was identified as John Collins, aged
20, of Sixth avenue, New York who, the New
York Tribune reports, had been arrested on
Monday and held in the first precinct police sta
ton TO await examination by County Physician
Converse. At about i o'clock p. m on Tuesday
PoOrmaster Hewitt sent him to Snake Hill The
police supposed that he was sent to the lunatic
asylum, but Warden King says ne was not
brought there. He left at the almshouse
and placed in the mems pavilion. The officials
at the hill say that the grounds are open and
they suppose that Collins must have walked
out
The Washington correspondent of the Balt-
more american says: A postmaster's lack Of
knowledge Of working his own NEST" lost him
an increase of 800 on his salary next year
When he sent his returns in he lacked 81 cents
of the amount called for by the law to permit
an adjustment of his salary His report showed
the yearly receipts of his office to be 81 O90 20,
AS the department allows a fraction over 50
cents to be counted as 81, the postmaster would
have been 800 more in pocket if had had
shrewdnesS enough to buy 81 cents worth of
stamps out of his own pocket. Since he sent
his report he has learned his mistake, and any
body in the county can now kick him His was
the only case of the kind in the , 800 1t caused
much merriment among the clerks at the post
office department.
A CHICAGO CORRESPONDENT writes that zone
of the direct results of the 60 strike upon
labor organizations is that it has stimulated
and will probably bring to a realization the
plan OF consolidating the different bodies in
which the railroad workers are now banded
together. An understanding has been reached
between the railroad organizations and the
Knights of Labor, and the Observation-Disclosures
that created feeling of hostility in the past
have all been satisfactorily explained and
adjusted, The importance of this alliance lies
in the fact that the telegraphers and section
hands. we'll as all the unskilled laborers on
railroads, as far as they have any organization
at all, belong to the Knights Of Labor. If any
defensive or offensive alliance is formed these
assemblies will probably be taken in"
THE Troy Times reports this incident: "A
young man who, until recently, had lived at the
house of his father, married few weeks ago
and went to live in other apartments Soon
q y
Office, bought an evening paper and climbed
the hill TO his fathers house. Entering the IA
mlar precincts, ne went to the wash-rOom,
made his toilet and presented himself at the
table. The family, who had been watching him
curously, eyed him with amusement. and at
last his mother softly inquired; Robert have
you already procured divorce?' A flush suf-
fused the young mans face, which rapidly
changed TO crimson. Leaving the table amid =
roar of laughter he hurried out and walked rap
IDLY to his own abode, where his young wife was
impatiently and anXiousy awaiting him lie
had forgotten that he was married"
THE claim is made that the first attempt ct
celestial photography made at the Harvard
college observatory, nearly forty years ago.
when daguerrotype plate was exposed in the
focus Of the 15-inch equatorial, which was kept
pointed upon u LyrG, and very good image
was thus obtained, the double star Il q sminorum
also giving an elongated image, evidently due to
IT'S two components. II was found that such
bright stars could be made to give faint images.
but no success followed when fainter stars were
the Objects even of Polaris no image being oh
talnable with any exposure. The experiments
were at last discontinued. but were resumed
seven years later, Collodiof plates having then
been introduced, which in sensityoness far ey-
ceeded the old Gaguerrotype-a short exposure
of some eight seconds, or even less, sufficng for
a great many stars; the Improvement in the
driving mechanism of the telescope still further
aiding the operation.
AT Haloway's ranch in Yuba county. Cal
several years ago, there occurred what might
be called a hydraulic duel. There was crowd
of men working there, and, as will sometimes
happen, split occurred, and they divided into
two parties. One day one party offended the
other IN some way, and in order to keep off the
offended mon recourse was had to a hose and
the water was Turned on them They were
then driven into their cabin, and the transom
over their door being gone, the water was
thrown through the hole until the men were
thoroughly soaked II was midwinter and the
cold was intense The men in the cabin mada
a rally, and succeeded in capturing the hose
Then two of them got to fighting, and big
freshman, taking The nozzle, kept the water
playing on the belligerents until they were both
fairy beaten into submission The duckiug
was too much for one old fellow; he caught a
cold and died from the effects of it.
SEVERAL YEARS AGO number Of German
wortmen came to Connecticut by a precon.
certed arrangement, and obtained employment
in the clock factories in New Haven Ansonia.
Waterbury, Thomaston and Winsted They
worked steadily for long time, applied them.
selves diligently TO mastering the science of
clockmakng, and became proficient in the art
of handling the fine tools necessary TO the work
They also purchased the tools and several of
the complicated machines, and. returning TO
Germany, they began the manufactllrs of
clocks for themselves They set up a factory in
the Black Forest region, and their business now
amounts, according to letters recently received
here, TO nearly 10000 clocks a month This
German factory has proved close connection
with the Connecticut concerns. Materials and
labor are so muca cheaper in Germany than in
tins country. that they can beat us in the for
elgn markets, and they are pushing their wares