The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-22
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| his burial by buying grave and paying for the
/ digging OF it. He has shroud on hand and
now boasts that he has in his possession re
! ceipts for all his funeral expenses"
| JAPAN is to adopt base ball as her national
| game. Recently an order was received in New
| York from Toxic requesting that several gross
/ of balls and bats be sent Immediately to Japan.
| The writer says that the Japanese have been
| for some years trying to adopt some sport as
| their national game, and that they have tried
base ball and that it fills the bill in every par
/ ticular.
| A BROOKLYN CRANK has a scheme for facili-
tating rapid transit upon the big bridge. 1t
/ provides for the construction of a sort of tobog-
gan slide arrangement between the piers of the
| bridge over which trains started with a slight
/ boost from locomotives at the termini would
run with great speed. Then there woul be
| pocket contrivances where the cars would find
lodgment when they reached their destination.
On the high road in quaint village Of Lang
banshyttan, in Central Sweden, stands an iron
shaft on a pedestal of coarse granite. 1t bears
| an inscription, OF which the following is a
| translation: In a miners hut at Langbanshyt-
| tan were born the two brothers Niles Ericsson
| Jan. 81, 1902 and John Ericsson July 81 1909.
| Both honored their native land. Their way
| through the world to knowledge and lasting
| fame is open to every Swedish youth
How to get to and from the school house when
the roads are muddy is one of ,the most per-
| solve. The one who presides over the school in
| Fairfield Drumore township, Lancaster county.
! has devised plan, which, no doubt, other
teachers will not be slow in adopting Every
| morning two of her largest male pupils call at
| the house and carry her to school on a board,
| and return her to her boarding place in the
| evening in the same manner.
The president of the fair grounds at St. Louis
has evolved scheme which, for originality,
| certainly beats anything of the kind yet pro-
In flxr rnI .a1s
pillow up the track at the fair grounds 1t is a
| very heavy affair and requires the united efforts
| OF four horses to drag it over the ground. Mr..
| Green conceived the novel idea of making the
| elephant at the grounds earn its feed by drag
| ging the pillow. He has ordered harness and
will soon set the elephant to work.
SOME TIME AGO two German girls landed in
New York, bound for Chicago, and were told by
| runner, one of their own countrymen, that
they could get tickets SO cheaper out side the
| garden. They went with the runner, and each
| paid him SEQ He took them up to the elevated
| railroad station, gave them two scent tickets,
| and babe them good-by for Chicago Neither
| girl could speak a word of English and when
| they got TO Harlem it was some time before
| they could be made to understand that they
| had been swindled.
AN UNUSUAL CASE of combined longevity is
reported from WATERFORD, Me. Four genera
lions are unbroken by death. David Scribner
| of that town is now in his Goth year and his
| wife IS nearly of the same age. The couple
| have been married for sixty five years, and have
| three children living, the oldest of which is up
ward of 60 years Of age. These children have
| children and grandchildren, and the remarkable
| TACT is that no death has ever yet occurred in
the line of the descendants, from Mr.. and Mrs.
| Scrloner to their great grandchildren.
SOMETHING of interest to ornithologists oc-
Cured over in Canoe township, near Punxsu-
tawney, Pa. recently. On the 10th day of Feb
| last yUb
| was returning from Sunday school, he noticed a
| bluebird gonc into hole in an old stub OF a
| tree, Thinking he could catch the bird, he
| climbed up to the hole and ran his hand in
The old bird flew away. but the boy was sur
| pGiSed TO tiud the nest still inhabited. 1t con
| tanned three young buebirds about half
| hedged, and evidently only lew weeks old. 1t
| Woul1 appear from this That bluebirds do not
| contine their work of incubation to the mil
and genial spring or the sweet summer time
OF THE BEAVER, correspondent writes ST.
| James Gazette: It's intelligence is proverbial
but it may not be generally known that if a
| steel trap is left Wis bic in one of his runs be
will deliberately spring it with stick; but If it
| is so artfully covered with snow or leaves that
| he steps on it unwarily, he will twist round and
| round till the limb is severed. 1t is only under
! water that steel trap will hold beaver and
| then because he browns before he can twist
| himself free. l once caught beavers foot in
! this way, and some wees afterward another
| trapper caught a three footed animal in a dead.
fall This was evidently my beaver; so l bought
| his skin and eventually brought it to London
| where it was sold, to be converted-so was in,
| formed-into sealskin vest
HERE is some very interesting information
from Paris, furnished by the London YOUNG
| Ladies' Journal. In underclothing the Direc-
| toire style reignS in full force The fine cam.
| brio chemise is made so as to set close to the
| figure without one peat; it is embroidered
| round the top, and has very short sleeves, which
81 a fha hO1x Of
| The drawers are cut stra. ght; no longer gath
| cred on to band. but simply trimmed with a
| lace border very slightly gathered. The rules
| OF fashion admit of none but real lace for the
| chemiSe. but allow of imitation lace for drawers
and petticoats. The refinement and elegance of
| under clothing is carried to an excess by
| Partisan LADIES' Over the chemiSe Of cambric
and Valenciennes lace is worn the corset of
| satin, black or red for the daytime: white
| cream, or pale pink for the evening. The under
petticoat is of slightly quilted silk, matched 70
i the corset, and trimmed with black or white
| lace. The overskrt is quite as elegant if no,
| more so than the dress itself
The unesSential ideas that enter conscious
ness, writes William H. Burnham, Phi. D in
Scribner'S are Of all kinds and of all degrees of
intensity, from those that result in trivial ideo-
| motor acts-as, for example, when one engaged
| in conversation automatically picks up a scrap
| of paper from the hoor-through all sorts of
| whims, pedantrie7, and distractions, to the an.
| archy OF mind seen IN some pathological cases
| Illustrations might be multiplied. The case of
hysteria is often some obstinate intruder in
| consciousness; and hypochondria has been
| called the microscope by which one sees the
! otherwise invisible little ailIngs Of ones own
| body. Undue Self-cOnSciOusness pessimistic
| anxiety about the future. extreme persistence
| in one kind of activity from mere force of
inertia, INDIGESTION, pedantic attention in trivial
| things, extreme habituation maxi x every one
do everything in the old way though a new way
| would be more economical morbid conscien-
| tiouSuess with its hyp rBsthet.c casuistry and
| that counterfeit religion which continually
| prinks before the mirror of self-consciousnpssE
| all are mo es of spendthrift activity by which
| nervous energy is wasted.
THE Churcimdn holds that although in one
| sense a church is the house of God, in another
| it is on the same footing as a club house.
Persons invest money in the fabric, the furnish
| ing, and the salaries of those who serve. aud
those who do not so iny est have really no rig L
! to partake Of privileges they don't or won't pay
| for. "TrampS and hearers with itching ears
| who beat about from one church TO another
must not be astonished if sometimes they meet
| with less attention in q church aisle than
| habltual worshprs and ste ldy, cpnsi [, mt
| supporters" Speaking on tue club biea, TIE
| hide UeRdent makes this point: at is to be con
sdered whether church which is not a church.
but a club, has a right to ask the state [, re-
| heve il OF taxation. II there be any excuse for
benefit. But If IL is a private benefit why
| should it not pay taxes like any other
| private club? II the rich are bound to
have their private and extravagaut religion a, l
BY themselves then why not let tn IN nav all
| its expenses, and not ask the pu | - tn moor