The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-08
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machine is DR.. Curreall, in Holland It is a
/ wO den structure of a man. with compartments
( al over II, labeled with the names OF various
ailments II you have a pain md its corr
spending location on the figure, drop coin into
the SLOT and the proper pill or powder will come
/ out
/ A YOUNG LADY who went TO Marshall Hall with
! the Six O'Clock CLUB last Saturday was sitting
or the deck OF the steamer chatting with a
I friend, says the Washington Post when the
friend recalled the fact that a few years ago she
/ was great suff .rer from hay fever and asked
! her if it had troubled her any this summer.
| on, my, no, y said she; Il haven't had il for
| three years now. don't have to have it, Pa
/ let me 90 70 the mountains now witdout any
excuse at all"
AFTER Mrs Levi Matthias of Lanes Valley,
near New Philadelphia, had done her Monday IS
washing she went into the kitchen to get her
| clothes line. AviciOus looking snake had found
Its way into the house and crawled up she log
wa l, an! lay stretched along the clothes line.
| In reaching for The line Mrs Matthias got hold
| OF the snake and came near being frightened to
death Her screams brought in the neighbors,
who, after fight, succeeded in killing the I'M
| welcome visitor.
The industry of wood carving. according to
a recent publication, was introduced into Swilz-
| erland some sixty or seventy years ago by ma
| tive of Brienz named Christian Fischer, who
! used to spend his spare time in making triling
J objects for sale. he started night school for
! the benefit of the neighBorhood a d thus laid
| the foundation of an industry which now gives
! employment between 5000 and 6, 900 persons
! lie FIRST conceived the idea of making tiny
! models of Swiss chaletS, which at once found a
\ T6a y sale.
| IL ANCIENT TINES the male element in New
| England either combed its hair back with no
| parting or parted it in the middle A s.Ianc. at
| the statue Of GRACE Man D, Oh taa state hOuSA
lawn or at any of his pictures, shows that b
| followed the latter custom. A number of prumi-
| nent individuals might b. cited whose useful
| WORK III the world shows them to I've anything
! but edeuinate, are still accustomed TO this
style of hair d. esSing, thus indicating how mis-
taken are tie ideas of those who think the
| haolt trliie unnanly.
A COUPLE of young men living at Wellsville,
! Mo-, were rivals for the hand OF one of the fair
| Wellsve daughters They were inclined 10
| settle the matter by duel. When she learned of
! the affair she sent for them to meet her at the
| nour set for the fight, and, after reminding
! them that duels were unlawful and the victor
| would lie fugitive from justice the rest of his
! days, she sug Sested that they run foot race
! her hand to be the prize The young men ac-
| cepted her proposition. and sle umpired the
race and walked off the field with the victor
JOHN NJ. CALLAHAN, ticket agent of the North
| western railway at n enah, Wis, has a son
named Willie, aged 312 years, who is a most
! precoclouS boy. He mas marvellous me tai
| powers, and can readily answer all the leading
| questions in regard to American history geog-
! raphy and social economy. He can tell the
| names Of all the Presidents down from Wash
| llEIoh anu rnunerate &c cabin I ministers of
tAch lie IS well po- ted on the governors, SEN
| aIoFs ana congressman of the respective
states, and, to sum it up, he is a Dewidering
| phenomenon of facts and fancies.
"SUNBzAM' INFORMS US that Judge Furs-
man, the orator of the quintet of counsel en-
| pioyed by McQIade in the New York Doodle
! trials, to secure his recent acouittaI orew
non fiznI -,l.t,
! Smyth for stripping off his judicial ermine
| ana cOthlng III n|elt in the beggariy rags of a
| counsellor at law Whea in McQuades second
| tflal ne stopped from the beucn to examine a
witness This was all very telling and effective
al created a sensation, but in point of fact the,
Troy Judge, who looks like a bishop of the
English c1urcn. made an egregouS blunder
1t was not Recorder Smyth, but Judge Barrett
who presided VIII N the witness. Richard J. Sui
Ivan, was q ieStloned.
EX-PosTMAsTER GENERAL DICKINSON has al
was been an impdlSive man, says the New York
WoIld, Right after the Greeley campaign, in
1872, he wrote letter saying that he would
never again vote tue democratic ticket he was
so dlSguSted with his party for not supporting
Greeley When Mr.. Cleveland invited Mr.
DlcklnS IN to become member of his cabinet
the latter said; You don't know my record
man in Michigan has got a letter of mine
written in 1872, in which | say will never again
vote the democratic ticket. Should | 20 into
the cabinet have reason to believe that the
u. NJ Cleveland asked
to see the letter and copy of it was finally OBJ
tanned. That letter does you credit" ex-
claimed Mr.. Ceve and after reading it. 81 felt
the same way In 1872 myself" Mr.. Die inson
became Postmaster General, and his Michigan
friend gave out his cd letter for publication
but 1t did not c cate the sensation at the White
House that was expected
THE reign.of slmpsy skirts and no bustles in
the feminine world is upon us, and must say.
quoth the New York Graphic man, there are
signs that it will b. rather try ng for some of
u:, those IN whom modeaty is unduly developed.
At a Long Branch hotel the other day | saw a
young woman, properly chaperoned by he
m tmma float into the dinlng-room in an ey-
dulslGe empire gown of some thin white stuff
| she was pleasant TO look at and kept my ewes
that way a good deal perhaps, so | saw ner
when she started out; did, indeed. She hap
p4n-d TO get between me and the light and it
was made clear that She-well, Tat she was q
| b;pe l. had not doubted it, SO perhaps was
unreasonabiy started by the demonstration. but
| had not had such dose of anatomical in for
| nation since Mrs. Potter opened IN "Cl eonatro
| suppose the first wearerS of first empire
! gowns went in for that kind of thiny but with
| this young lady I'm sure it was an oversight
and tell this tale as warning to other young
ladies'. Unless you are doing that kind of thing
on purpose, it isn't the sort of thing YOU want to
do at ALL
Young jim GARFIELD is going to be married.
ana that, too, to one OF the handsomest girls in
Chicago, says the Kearney Neb } ENTERPRISE
hear that jim has steaded down considerably
| since leaving college There was a time whsn
jimmy" as he was called was one of the
| lead rs IN fun an mischief at old Williams
| with the understanding that this article will
| not fall unuet the eyes Of the young lady who
Is soon to be his wife, perh Fps may write A few
| things That the public does not know. In his
! college days jimmy wore one of those meek
| 'nJured-lnnoce t. cOuntenances that are very
| SerVlceaoe on certain occasions | remember
! now on one bright May morning, SundayitvaS
| during fierce cane-ruSh in front of t1e chanel
| he mad h1nd-to-han struggle for the
| possession OF cane with Prof Perry the free
trade star. The angered "professorn was
aoout TO gain possession of the stick when Don
| Rockwell, young Garhald's cousin. arrival on
| the scene AMI took in the situation With ono
jump he was in the midst OF the font and
| quicker than | can tell it. smashed tha nr,
feSsor's tall hat doNu over his eyes When tna
professor" reached da Light again there v,oS
no one in sight. Yes Jimmy" Garfield was a
cool star. He could open a chauipapne bottle
as quick as the best Of them cut a recitation on
the simmest pTetexc and make up a plnusjble
story for the professors benefit / tion't re-
member that he was ever eau ght in a collage
prank, though h has been engaged in .racE
cts tnat might have ended his college ,ifa
rather suddenly il he mad been de5ected
The STRANGE animus of the late ukase Of ths
car, excluding from the line OF succession to
thu Russian throne all members of the immortal
| family who contract marriages with princesses
not of the orthodox Greek church, has mat
been learned from an intimate of the aon,.t
1ig lXr ffaN rh.,