The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-03
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unusually clever and accom- plshed girl
The first mention of ice cream that is found
in history is in the account of the festivities
following Washington's first Inauguration as
PRESIDENT in the city of New York in I7s9
Among the ices used on that occasion was ice
cream, which is said 20 have been Or pared
under the direct supervision of Dolly Adams
wife Of John Adams, the second President
Mrs Adams was at that time the brightest star
IN social and diplomatic CT cles Dolly's popu-
larlty by means diminished when il v as
discovered that she was first TO suggest the new
CONNECTION
CAPT. DAVID A LYLE, Of the United States
ordinance department, is thoroughly qualified
to speak on the subject of worlds fairs, having
been military assistant TO Commissioner
Franklin during the Paris exposition. 10 re-
ferring 70 the forthcoming Columbian display
70 be held in Caicago he says we need not hope
10 rival The Paris exposition from artistic
standpoint, but in magnitude. in scope, in
magnidcence and variety of natural products
IN machinery. in invention. and many other
ways he thinks our 40Oth anniversary cel4bra
ton viii 20 ahead Of anything ever attempted
in the line Of international fairs
AMONG the accounts of enormous eaters there
are, perhaps, none more extraordinary than
that related in '-Fuller's Worthless page 49,
concerning Nicholas Wood Of Harrison. Kent
England. the account says; he ate a. one
meal whole sheep, and al another time thirty
dozen of pigeons. AT the esdence of Sir
william Sidley he ate as much as would have
sunced for thirty men. At Lord Watten's. in
kent. he devOured eighty four rabbits at one
sitting, which, at the rate of half rabbit for
each man, would have served. l6S men At
breakfast ne ate eighteen yards o. black pud-
ding, and during the day ate a whole hog.
When accommodated with fruit he ate three
| pecSs of damsoLs.
WOMEN who regard the bang as a modern
style of hair-dressag VIII be interested to learn
thae Il is Tar from new, being, in fact, decided
| ly od Boughton, the art st, in his Stretching
in oil aDdf fp.
edition" of which is in the library of the ed
| ltor or this department, ia his description of
the women OF MecRsn, says: in print of a
Dutch book. published in s.. there Is the same
fair hair cut ia fringe straight across the
brow, level with the eyes-soms seem TO even
| look through the fringe with tne bright, sharp
twinkle of oeady-eyed Skye terrier Others
| had tae fringe brought level with the eyes,
| and then brushed up. Tnis had rather az
| gressive air, and BELONGED, probably. to the
| caste OF eligible maidens."
correspon lent writes to the New York
| Tribune: I'VE have a family of FIVE red
| feathered chickens in our back yard, one of
them phenomenon, having lived on mice for
the last week so. We ara tr, ing to extermi-
| nate the mice. which inhaoit every closet in the
| house. The other day little girl of years was
playing with a mouse, having string attached
| 10 its tail. Suddenly the 0old, red cannibal
chicken spran9 upon his victim, half killed it,
and finally swallowed the mouse, string and all.
No matter how the mouse squealed. squirmed
or tried to escape it was a flea beneath lion s
| claws. The chicken Is brave enough 30 catch
mlce. No prey escapes when once in its wise
ike grasp, strange to say"
THE EXHIBITION OF the German societies for
the training of carrier pigeons closed on Oct 81.
Twelve hundred and fourteen prize birds we're
| shown, 263 of which have covered distances of
240 to SEQ miles at stretch, 26S have repeatedly
covered 240 to $50 miles and the rest 10 to 80
miles, says the Boston TrGnscrtDt. A feature
| OF the exhibition was flock of thirty birds
haz
been especially trained TO keep up communica-
| ton between the various fortresses, and were
lent to the society by the ministry of war A
OlacG tema plgeoT, which, during the Hano-
| yer maneuverS last year. beat the telegraph in
| getting to the emperor a message delivered
simultaneously, was the heroine of the eXhibi-
ton.
ABOUT 1875 large tree of the elm species,
growing on the farm of Mr.. Smyth, rector OF
Little Houghton, England, was blown down.
upturning an immen quantity OF dirt in its
| fall. Tae large bail OF earth q almost entirely
| washed from the roots on the Jper side, when,
| in 1881, worRmen We're set to work removing the
old forest monster When they mad sawn off
| several of the large limbs on the undermosu
| side. 10 their great astonishment. not to Sa
| downright terror, the tree rose Of its own
accord and went back into the pit exec v tied by
| the upturning roots six years before, standing
| up IN its original place straight as arrow. In
| 1882 il threw out fresh, green head and still
| stands. even to this day, curious example of
| A resurrected tree.
| AT AssENs, in the Canton of Vaud, Switzer-
land, on Sept. Of the present year, while some
| grave-diggers were removing the contents Of a
| grave from low, wet portion of cemetery, a
co11n. winch contal ed the remains of woman,
was found to be full to overiowing with crisp,
| curly black hair. The coffin was OF wood and
! laid the undermoSt of three, all in one grave
| AS : BON as the first two had removed, the
workmen noticed that the clay on the lid of the
under CONN, as well as the cracks in the lid and
sides, was matte with hair which seemed to be
| pushing out through the cracks. On removing
| the lid most remarkable ghG met their gaze
| There was the whole figure OF til, corpse, ex-
| hibiting the eyes, mouth, ears and every part,
every square inch of the body being covered
with the long. curly hair. Exposed to the air
FOR few minutes, the contents OF the coffin
| became shapeless mass of hair, one hand and
| the great toe Of the right foot only retaining
! t.leir shape.
NJ DUMAS INTENTION of sending play I'M
| signed by him and written in an unknown hand
| by typewriter, with a view of seeing whether
| Partisan managers will discover that they have
really the production of a capable draInat st in
their hands, is not altogether new, anu mas un-
| doubtedy been anticipated in England.
| Lord Macauley, for instance sent his we'll
known essay on Oliver Goldsmith to the editor
| of the Encyclopedia Britannica under an as
sumed nam, wnen it promptly re-
| turned to him that he had grave doubts whether
| 1t had ever been read; but on writing to the
editor afterward, and stating that he had such
| an article ready. he was Informed that it was
| just the very thing they wanted. On the other
hand, and as an opposite case. IL is not very
| long since a weiEknown Lit rary man conc oc1sd
poem carefully made up of gems extracted
| from Milton and other poets Of ain lred spirit.
which he sent to the editor of a magazine VINO
cheerfully PUB ished it under the impression
| that it Was another grand production of the
well known one. Let us, however, mo- e for his
credits sake that he, too, had not READ it.
( E. j. GLAvE, one of StanIey's companions
vas talking in Chicago hotel the other day Of
| the horrors of The Afri al slave trade and the
| barbarian native customs. This j. tue descrp-
| ton ne gave CAlca 20 Time reporter of a
| native execution An old woman had died the
| MKT before. We were som where near the
| banks OF the Aruwini. To prohibit tn evil
| SpriCs, a captive was tied 10 a stake by means
| of ropu OF grass fastened to his hair The
| executioner carr cd a long. fat, soft bladed
| knife. AT last the sulrsme i5omeau came
| With QUICK ool1 stroke the executioner
| shoved-literally s1oved-the square end in
| the neck, turned it first to the right and the :
i to the left. Thus severed rom the trunk
"here by means OF the grass 20 e it had b. en-
| stretched taut rs catsut,t4e head shot up ike
| bullet. A strea of biooi gushed UpW arl
| like a uutain under high pressure, the arms,
| under the muscular action. Topped up and
down like the wings of a ch cke 4. But the most
horrible sight was that presen ed by the severed
| head. For fully a minute the eyes rolled back
and forth in their orbits, while the jaws worked
| up and down, closing at times with the sound
of a sprung steel trap l could have puverl zed