The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-05
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a PROMINENT LEGAL FIRM in Boston, which
does great deal Of business for rich merean-
tile concern, lately rendered bill which the
senior partner OF the mercantile establishment,
who was accustomed TO liberal charges, thought
was too high He therefore took the bill to the
law firm and asked the chief TO look it over and
see if IL was all right. The account was subse-
Quently returned with $40 added. for "advice as
TO the reasona blenesS of the bill
THERE is a very widespread demand, says tie
Pail Mall Gazette for Sir Morell Mackenzie
| forthcoming reply to the German doctors The
popular interest in the brochure however, viii
center not SO much round the medical con-
troversy as round Sir Morell Mackenzie's per-
sonal "reminiscences and his fac SMILES of the
slips OF paper which the late emperor handed,
after the loss of his voice, to his chosen medical
attendant. Some of these communications are
likely to make considerable stir
MAN in Trenton, N. J., was recently
drowned in a beer glass. He had been drinking
hard, and was well under alcoholic influence,
when be entered q saloon and ordered glass
of beer, which was brought him. He sat down
at table and fell into stupor, his head drop
ping forward into the glass before him. When
| the barkeeper tried to arouse him, half an hour
| later, it was found that he was dead his nose
being immersed in the liquor in such a way
| that respiration was completely stopped.
THERE was notable luncheon at Pontoise
France, the other day, given by the veteran
| Capt. Soufflat formerly of the Twentieth Chas-
| seurs now IS years old, but very vigorous, to
the officers of his regiment as the corps stopped
at Pontoise on its way from one garrison to
| another. The captain, who enlisted as a private
| in 1870 and took part in all the campaigns from
| that year to 1915, made an excellent speech, in
| which he spoke Of himself as the last survivor
| of the grand army of the first empire Six of
| his grandnephews all soldiers, were seated at
| the table with him.
| YEAR AGO the German coachman of Mr. AL
word of Green Farms, Conn, announced that he
had become German count and had inherited
| a fortune. He started for Germany amid general
unbelef in his story. He has recently been
| neard from. He did, indeed, receive consider
| able wealth, some of it being in Central Ameri-
| can bonds. He went there, negotiated the
! bonds, and with the money received engaged
| successfully in gold and diamond mining He
| Is now experimenting the Fulda gold mines in
| Costa Rlca, and has sent nuggets, rough dia-
monds and other valuable presents to his former
| employer.
| THERE, you look ten years older now, " said
| Chicago barber as he released man from the
meshes of towel and yelled "Brush!'' To the
| customer who followed he said: THAT was a
| young fellow who has Just started in business
| here as a doctor He looked too young, and. to
get patients. he had to grow old in the BARRIERS
| chair. Can we age man? Well, | should say
So It's part Of our trade. Let me take YOU
| IN hand and dress your hair and beard my way
| for month and you'll look a middle-aged man
IL s all IN the appearance. People won't trust
| young doctor if he looks too young, and am
adding years to the appearance of half dozen
| young physicians now.'
JEANNE ToRRIoU French woman, aged 63,
| who had amassed quite sum of money by a
life of hard work as cook, went to live with
| Widow Grumet, aged 70. The two got on to-
| gether poorly and the ex-cook had packed I'D
| her things to go to a home for aged persons,
| when the Widow Grumet knocked her down
with heavy pestle and battered her brains out
| with shovel The neighbors heard cries, and
became suspicious. While the widow was gone
| TO draw her victims money from the savings
| bank, they entered the house and found the
| body, and also that the widow had taken every
| thing of value that had belonged to the ex-
| cook. She was overtaken, arrested and con-
| fessed
WEDDING among the fishing population of
| New Haven. England, is a novel affair. THE
men dress themselves in white duck trousers
| and blue coats, with brass buttons They form
| line, and headed by two fiddlers march to the
| home OF the groom and escort him to the
| brides residence He usually wears silk hat,
with long StreamerS attached. After the cere-
mony, the line of men and women, the fiddlers
| playing, march to hall, where a banquet is
| given. AT this banquet each one pays his share
| for the newly married couple would not he able
to entertain so many. Often $50 and 200 at
| tend. The ceremony is usually performed be-
| tween o'clock and o'clock in the evening"
! and dancing continues until nearly morning
| The men usually take the names of their wives"
THE British legation at Buenos Ayres reports
| that there is a great financial and commercial
boom in the Argentine Republic. Exports and
| imports are increasing rapidly the public debt
| amounting to about 800, 600, 000-is being rap
| idly reduced, and the credit of the country
| abroad was never better. The public however,
| are filed with the widest speculative ideas,
| their operations varying from reckless plunping
on the races to transactions involving tracts Of
| land big as empires. An inflated paper cur
| rency aids this spirit, and the British legation
predicts disastrous panic, but says that the
fnatural resources of the Argentine Republic
| are great, and the support it receives from
| foreign immigration of so much value that il
is possible that speculation may return to legiti
| mate channels without the shock of financial
| disaster"
AN interesting surgical operation which he
performed ID described by DIR. Bartens of Roda
in the Berliner KIiniSche Wocienschrift. The
| patient was a lad of IA. who had been severely
| burned, almost all the skin on the upper sur
face OF both feet and part of his legs having
| been destroyed His condition was such that
| his own skin could not be used for grating
| purposes, and, as none volunteered, DR.
| Bartens tried skin taken from the calf of the
| leg of an old man who had just died Each
| foot received fourteen gratis After six days
| the first dressing was removed, and it was
found that twenty-four of the twenty-eight
CRAFTS had become attached Four DAYS later
| the second dressing was removed, and the
CRAFTS found to be doing we'll and to be sensi-
| tive TO needle pricks and light touching In
due time the whole OF the liberated surface
| was covered with good skin.
| AN INTERESTING EACE WAS Witnessed at south
! Auburn, Me- the other day. The race was be-
tween two men to see who could dig row each
| of potatoes the quickest. There was money I'D
| on the result of the race. The contestants
were eX-Mayor Haskell of Auburn and J. d.
| Johnson of Portland. Neither of them mad any
knowledge of the art Each was equipped with
| a common hoe. Both men went in to win and
| it is said that the potatoes and dirt few sur.
| prisingly. 1t reminded man standing near of
| dog digging for woodchuck. At the close
| the eX-mayor came out twenty seven hills ahead
of his competitor. 1t was no fault of his
| though, but due to luck. Directly in the path
of his row, about midway of the stint was a
| monster stump. Here he went ahead the
length Of twenty potatoes bills. A bit further
ON ne came to place where seven hills had
been removed and the ex-mayor went to the
front and held 1t to the finish. 1t was an exct.
ing race.
ACCORDING to a writer in the Liverpool Post
it is not the least part of the Prince of Wales
enjoyment of Homburg that it is one of the
few places in the civilized world where he is not
mobbed. What in past years has annoyed the
prince has been the slavish imitation of mis-
dress affected by the Washers and dudes more
especially the latter, who are of American birth
Last year lie took effectual means to put a
stop to this folly. Immediately on his arrival
the old order of things prevailed. The cut OF
his coat, the pattern OF his wastcoat. the shade