The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-21
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I borator.
Ar TIE CoMNEScEEEST OF next month a sys-
( tenn of 'telephoned msssag = will be organ
| lied in Paris. For fee OF 50 cents message
may be telephoned 70 any one OF eight central
offices IN various quarters of the city, after
which it will be delivered TO its address by spe-
cial messenger. The message Is not TO exceed
| !0) words.
| BARON NATHASIEL RoTzSczILp Of Vienna car
be seen walking about the village of Waersbofen,
near Munich, barefooted, undergoing the nerve
| cure of the Roman Catholic priest. Father
| o6refooted most Of the time, take plunge
every morning into icy cold water, and eschew
al meat and intoxicating drink
THREE YOUNG SOLDIERS near Warsaw returned
from debsuch with blood on their clothes and
the statement that they had beaten some one
| sergeant in their regiment was found murdered
and the three soldiers were tried convicted and
| snot within twenty four hours. The next day
ahother soldier surrendered as the murderer.
AT Lalbach. Austria, deep in bog, where it
| IS supposed there was once lake, boat, be
lleved to be of Roman origin" has lately been
unearthed. The boat is 90 feet long and nearly
Is rect broad. The bottom is said to be OF thick
mr. boards, and the sides of larch. Wooden pegs
anu IRON nails were used In its construction
Inc boat will be placed in the museum at
Laibach.
county, O., is In custody, charged with being
guilty of a novel scheme of fraud Il is alleged
that ne advertised that for cents in posts &c
stamps he would send pair of slippers beauii-
iuily embroidered 10 seven coors. For a while
ne did send pair of tissue paper slippers a bout
an inch long, but for the last six months he has
not been sending anything.
Now THAT Bismarck is brewer, the papers
are digging at him right and left The Freisin-
ntOe Zettttng quotes from a speech of the ex-
chancellor delivered in the Reichstag on March
= 1881, in which he said: Beer stupefies the
dr1nker instead of exciting his nerves. and it
ought, therefore, to be considered from an
economical and national point of view, as a bad
drink. But Bismarck has learned a thing or
two since then.
A PERPLExING SUIT involving professional
secrecy has been before the Paris Society of
Public Medicine. A suburban practitioner,
called III to attend patient suffering from
scarlet fever, advised the landlord to dsinfect
the house. This was done, and the landlord
sueu the patient to recover the cost. The
patient thereupon sued the doctor for breach Of
professional secrecy, and it is thought that he
will win bis case.
A CURIOUS ANlEsTHETIc used by the Chinese
has recently been made known. 1t is obtained
BY placing frog 10 jar of flour aud Irritating
II by prodding 1t. Under these circumst ances
It exudes liquid which forms paste with the
flour, This paste, dissolved in water has we'll
marked anasthetic properties. After the
tnger has been immersed in the LIQUID for
few minutes II can be cut to the bone without
any pain being felt"
AT the recent unwilling of the Greeley statue,
says the New York Sun, Bishop Potter, in his
canonicsls, proved rather trying to some of the
spectators. That's Depew," said one man in
the crowd to another, recognizing ''our Chaun-
cey But who is the fellow in the gown and
red cap?" Il don't know was the reply, then
half musingly, as if he was trying TO place
RI inn afo1 he
be the Turkish consul"
IN MANCHESTER. N H, the other day, novel
battle was witnessed between a red squirrel and
flock of English sparrows, says the Union
The place of combat was in a small tree that
stands in front of a grain store at the north end
OF Elm street. The squirrel had strayed into
tne city and taken refuge in the tree No
sooner was he settled there than the SparroWs
| set upon him, and, by their vigorous attacks,
| compelled him to leave.
The society man who hasn't consulted his
tailor as to the proper idea in evening dress this
| fall and winter should do so at once A study
or the imported plates reveals a change as to
proper linen to be affected Two winters ago
| society leaders went into ecstacies over the
1 new pique shirt fronts, embellshed with vine
| IKE emoi oicery Elaborate designs were deftly
| Drought out, and diamond studs formed the
| centers OF daintily embroidered flowers That
| all changed now; in fact the change had become
| the rad at the latter end of last year. Common
|
| the market. Now the bosom is severely plain
| The collar turned at the points is also not CON
| sdered good form. The plain standing collar
open in the front, is what society or at least the
plate designers, say shall be worn. The only
change which is made, and which is not being
| followed generally by tailors, is to make the
trousers; for both young and old, plain at the
! sides The younger men, however insist upon
| the silk stripe at the SIDE Silk vests are as
| papular as they were year ago.
Col. DAN" LAMONT is good deal of a man
these days, says the New York World His in
fiuence is more eagerly sought than that of any
| other man 10 Wall street of his years, and it
may be added that it is more difficult to secure
than the majority of people perhaps imagine
| The colonel is now rich and inaccessible to the
majority of people. He sits far in the rear of a
| theater when he attends play. sinks mod sstly
back IN his carriage in going to and from thu
once, mas secluded table at luncheon and is
always in hurry. He was describ I'd the other
day by a member of the COMM tee of the
stock exchange as the hub" of one of the
largest syndicates in the world, Nobody seems
to know exactly how it has come about but
people who wish to see great miliionaires like
| Whitney, Widner, Payne or Elkins, find some.
how that it is necessary to talk with COL
Lamont first. The group of great miionaires
of whom the Colonel is the hub leave him
most of the hard work as well as the donors
He is at the Mills building at s O'Clock in the
mornins, and he seldom pulls down the ton of
his desk before O'Clock at night.
q
recipe for learning any language il twenty
| four hours?" asked Senior Federico Mora of
| Costa RIGA of a Chicago Tribune reporter. "It
| is extremely simple. Just divide the Language
| into twenty -four parts and learn one part each
hour. didn't do it quite like that but went
at the English language the longest way round
was boy 10 years old and had gone to a
Latin school, where we had to speak Latin al
| together. knew that great many words in
| English were OF Latin derivation and set nv
| self to learn the language. l got me pro-
| nouncing dictionary and then went to work II
was hard work and at the end of two wears +
| found had learned hundreds OF words that
| should never use-thet most English-speakin
| people do not even know the meaning of In
| English you have only about 150. 900 words In
| Spanish there are about 500,000 You make
your propositions do the work that we have
| special words for. You have about 1903 irregu-
| lar verbs, irregular in two lenses only. We
| have about 5000 irregular verbs which NAV
| be irregular In any and all lenses Neverthe-
| less man may learn Spanish easily in year
| sufficient for commercial purposes"
THE OTHER NIeHT, while sitting with some
| friends in the club house, says a writer in the
| New York Star, 1 noticed a young man at a
table near U.S. apparently tired Of waiting for
| the waiter, strike the neck of a wine bottle
| sharp, quick stroke With his knife in such n
manner That the bottle was broksn suuareIy off
| just below the cork as neatly and clearly as IL
it had been cut off with a diamond "Tbat
was very well done,'' remarked one Of NV
| friends, but did you ever see a method soy,s