The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-20
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other.
A sHREwD old philosper says: people get so
well acquainted with their Own faults that they
don't mind their existence"
IT is SAID that the Florida Central and PENN
| sular road, although it has been running
trains ever since 1857. has never killed passen-
| ger.
TIE CURATOR Of the Brooklyn Institute told a
reporter the other day that enc beautiful but
terfy in the collection of the institute is valued
at $1,000. that sum having recently been paid
for duplicate.
DOCTOR and an undertaken heard Of a man
who was hurt near Menominee and rode to the
scene of the accident in the samerig. the former
taking his pilb0x and the latter his coffin. The
doctor got the job.
The MEMBERS of a stranded variety troupe
are living in a cottage at Reed City. The male
members are saving wood and the female mem
bers are telling fortunes. The company finds
the new business lucrative.
WHILE Edward Cruel was walking from Bos-
cobel to Fennimore, a ferocious wolf slipped up
behind him and bit him. Cruel had no weapons
of defense, but fought the animal of the best
he could, and finally scared it away.
The FASTEST SHIP BUILDING on records that
of the English Royal Sovereign. Her keel was
laid Sept. 30, 1889, and by the end of this month
(Sep temberl 5.20O tons will have been built into
the ship in fifty-two weeks, at the ra te of 100
| tons q week.
EVERY TIME a COW moves her tail to switch a
fly she exerts force of three pounds. In the
course of the summer single COW wastes 5O00,-
! GOO pounds of energy. The cows of America
| throw away power enough to move every piece
| OF machinery in the world.
A CUCUMBER on exhibition at Montgomery,
Ala, is 80 inches long. 1915 inches wide and
weighs 6034 pounds. IL is called the "Centen
NAL, and the patch in which it grew is full of
cucumbsrs, Weighing from one pound to the
weight of the one mentioned.
In ENGLAND they have had a coin worth no
more than quarter of a farthing. and very
pretty piece it is. A piece of one-third of a
| farthlng was also minted in the reign of George
| ~. and William ". II IN good condition it is
now worth shilling as a curiosity.
WHAT becomes of al the stale candy?" was
asked well-known confsctioner. 1T is made
up into fresh candy" There is rot an ounce Of
waste about confectionery. You like chocolate
| caramels? Well. they contain more scraps than
any other candy. They are especially adapted
for this on account of their dark color. They
| were first made by confectioner who re-
ceived the inspiration from his great stock of
| stale sweets.
In SYRACUSE, N. Y, few days ago, the jury
in Judge Oberlander's courtroom. in an action
for an accounting, found a verdict for the de-
! nounced verdict for the plaintiff, and the
court recorded the same and gave judgment ac-
cordingly. When tue mistake was discovered,
after the jurys discharge, the Judge declared
that he could not change the records. Several
local Ions are knitting their brows over the
problem
The SoUDANEsE WOMEN are curiosity. The
hair is braided up into hundreds of little plats
so small as to be mere strings Tlese braids
have been soaked III castor oil and rubbed with
dust until in places they are perfectly solid. In
the middle of the forehead dangle short strings
| OF beads holding fancy gold pendant. and ia
| the n-strilS a large ring. Around the neck are
strings Of onyx beads as well as long strings Of
| polished pebbles and amber nte-Spersed with
gay beads. OF bracelets there are several of
coarse dark horn upon one arm; upon the other
the massive silver work peculiar to the Soudan
| They wear wrapped around them a black
| shawl, and their feet are decorated with ank-
| lets.
| PROF. DANA Of Yale frequently gives illustra-
tons of wit in the recitation room, SAYS the
New York Herald. 1t is customary for the
| students to bring with them from time to time
| such bits of stone as they have CHANGED across,
and to submit them to him for examination
| and explanation This is plesh OF shyenite
and that very fine specimen of mica shist,"
he would customarily explain, with an accent
peculiarly his own. And what is this, pro-
tessor?" questioned an eager youth one day. as
he placed before him a small red specimen that
| was strikingly suggestive of it of brick The
| it with the closest attention. Then his brow
contracted. and he said slowly and ponder.
ousy: This, sir, is a rare piece of impu-
| dence.'
JAMES MILL and his gifted son, John Stuart
Mill, would appear to have moved no enduring
sympathies among their contemporary associ-
ates The son, even when in conversation with
| others, would seem to have been preocupied
with his own thoughts, all the time moving
restlessiy to and fro like hyena' as de-
| had To hnn ov.ixy ka
fore sitting down to has desk he used not only to
strip himself of his coat and wastcoat, but OF
his trousers; and 80 set TO work, alternately
striding up and down the room and writing at
great speed He wrote an Uniformed, awkward
sprawling hand, which gave great trouble in
copying TO the clerks, who used spltefully to
say he could not spell correctly, This is not
true, and when what he had written had been
fairly copied, it was found to be faultlessly ex-
pressed Still they literally oetested copying
his manuscript, aud appear to have even dis
| liked him personally for its iegibility
FEW DAYS AGO Chinanan named Wong
Chin Foo, residing at Mott street, New York
city, rushed into an American drug store with
a prescription for remedy given for cancer.
! Wong All Sing. the Chinese physi
can who wrote the prescription.
e Gees said to !, the be r,n the most nSted
York. Thus is the formula called for by the
| recipe; Picked lizards two pairs, two males and
two female; Corea ginseng root, one half onnce:
!
and three females; rattlesnake TAIL fourth
| ounce; sweet potato vine, one ounce; black
dates. two ounces; elm bark one-half ounce
devil fish suckers, three ounces: reindeers horn
Ground, onehalr ounce birds claws one-fourth
! ounce; lotus leaves, one half ounce: white nuts
one ounce; dried ginger, one-fourth ounce
coffin nails (od bones, five ounces Boil the
! whole i'll two quarts of water; drink two
spoousful day and make paste with the
solution and powdered rats flesh and apply to
the sore.
Mrs. F. M. H. TAYLOR. who died in Nashville
Tenn, on Sunday aged 80 years, was the
daughter of Judge Leonard Henderson of North
Carolina, in which state she was born in 1895
| Her father was for fifty years chief Justice of
| the Old North State. Her grandfather Richard
| henderson, was the head and front of the his
torical Pennsy lyana Land Company before
| which the land companies of today pale into
lnsignificance. He bou ght from the Cherokee
! Indians, for a wagon load of tinseI a territory
equal to kingdom, domain of no less than
COO square miles, situated on the back or in
| terror part OF Virgin and North and South
| Carolina, and comprehendlng the rivers OF Ken
| lucky, Cherokee and Ohio. The House of Rur-
gesses eventually conflscated 1t on the ground
| that no one man should own so much territory
and he was offered as compensation the county
OF Henderson, KY, and much slrroundlnS
| country, but refused it. That city takes its
name from HIM. Mrs Taylor was the mother
| of fourteen children, ten of whom were sons.
| OF these four sons aud two daughters suryye
| her. One son and one daughter reside in Costa
| Rica Her remains were taken to Memphis for