The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

JOHN W. BooKwALTER of Springfield. o.
owns about 60, 900 acres of land in Iowa and
Nebraska. and he proposes to 1naugurate a
reform which will keep young people on the
farm. Mr.. ROokwalter spent his early life on q
farm and believes that the principal cause of
discomfort among farmers, young and old, is
isolation and loneliness, He suggests that
farmhouses be built in small villages or settle
ments, not more than third of q mile apart,
with lands surrounding them and conveniently
near for practical farming. The idea is not a
new one. The farmers of Russia live in villages,
but the plan has not obtained to any extent in
this countro where the farmer owns his land
Mr.. BookWalteF has started such a plan in
Nebraska. and he hopes to make the farmer 8
life agreeable as well as profitable. His village
in Nebraska will have a circulating library, a
town hall. a school and church or two. Mr.
Bookwalter's plan could be followed prof1tably
by other farming communities. 1t would do
more to cure the discomfort of the farmers than
the sub-treasury scheme Of the alliance.
QUITE number Of our local politicians and
business men. says the Moberly (Mo.j Monitor,
remember Howard Newman of Georgia, a
brother of H. A. Newman, who visited here q
month ago. To such as met him the following
VIII be rellShed: Tne Georgian is quite as
popular and as well known at home as the
colonel is IN Randolph county On his return
home the people were appriSed on what train
he would arrive and fifty or more of them
gathered at the depot to receive him. The boys
and men got him INTO the vehicle and then az
taching the ropes the shouting crowd caught
hold and drew it up the hill on the summit
of which the anvils were being hotly fired
His wife writes: ut was about the only
time l ever saw Howard embarrassed" The
best of the joke is that Mr.. Newman made S4OJ
out of the prank. On the same train was the
sheriff of the county returning with a prisoner
who in 1856, killed man in that county and
fed to Texas, settled, accumulated property
and tried to be forgotten but was eventually
found out, and this was the prisoner returning
stand trial The great 10
aroused his curiosity and he inquired of the
sheriff the cause of it, The sheriff, being well
acquainted, replied, 80, one of our lawyers
has been out to Missouri on visit and the boys
are giving him a rousing reception" The pris-
Oner was a man Of business perception, and he
said We'll, if that fellow is a lawyer, and is
that popular, be is the man 1 want to defend
me-" and forthwith sent for and paid him the
800 retRiners fee.
THERE is family in a certain New Yorl.
suburb which is endeavoring TO preserve a calm
philosophy over a rather startling occurrence.
On Friday night week 90. the night of the
sudden gale, it will be remembered, the gentle
man was aroused from slumber by the persist
ent barking of his dog. He got up and recon-
noiUered from his window, saw nothing and
heard nothing suspicious, and, telling his dog
to be quiet, returned to bed and to sleep Before
he slept. however he replied to his Wife,s cues
| ton as to the time of night with the remark
| that it was probably about 80 as the street
| lamps were very low. fhs village, it NAV be
explained, is lighted with lamps whose wick
and oil are graduated to burn a certain time
and then go out, without the expense of a human
eXtnguisher, fact so well understood that a
person of any continued residence can gauge
the hour with considerable accuracy from the
condition OF the lights. On arising the next
morning the husband was surprised to find his
watch was not going. 1t had stopped at pre-
cisely twenty six minutes after one. He owns
two watches, silver and gold one, and he at
once went to the gold one for the time. That
had stopped two--at precisely twenty-eight
minutes past one. And then, with an odd SEN
sation, the man recalled that the night before,
in winding the two watches, he had
noticed that the gold one was two min
utes faster than the silver one. He decided he
would not tell his wife about this re-
markable performance of mis- timepieces and
continued his dressing She had preceded him
below stairs, but before he was ready to leave
his room she called to him. He went to the
baluster to hear her. What time is it, please?
The dining room clock has stopped, " she asked
AT what hour?" he almost gasped. Twenty
six minutes after 1 O'Clock" was the reply
which sent an uncanny chill over him. That is
and that Long Island commuter has not even
missed his train, but will some society of psy-
chology please explain, if it can, W at set dog
to barking and stopped three well-regulated
and heretofore continuous time pieces at pre-
clsely the same moment?-for this story is alb.
solutely accurate in every detail.
HEAR from London, says writer in the New
York Recorder, that the deafness Of the Prin-
cess of Wales has of late increased to such an
extent as to render conversation with her al
most impossible 1t is an lntlicton which she
has inherited from her mother, Queen Louise of
Denmark, and from which, indeed but few
royal families appear to be exempt. The late
Empress of Brazil was almost stone deaf. So,
too, is the diminutive ex-King Francis, consort
OF Queen Isabella of Spain. The Duchess of
Genoa, mother of Queen Marguerite of Italy,
could scarcely hear the report of a cannon if
fired close beside her while Prince Alexandra
OF Prussia. the (OuPpn of Swadap in
lar King Leopold of Belgium's brother, the
Count OF Flanders, are almost equally hard of
hearing; The Count of Flanders who is ex-
ceedlngly tall, almost a giant is ex-
lremely fond of witty story. especially when
II possesses the flavor which you in this conn
TRY most unklndly describe ''Gallic " and 7
nave frequently experienced the greatest dlff1.
Guilty In not laughing outright when witnessing
the frantic efforts of the fat and very short
FRINGE OF Wales, standing on Jiptoe to commu
nicate commercially some particularly good
eulng TO the count. Nor shall ] ever be able to
forget the practical joke played by Princess
faullne Metternich few years ago at Vienna
at q dinner which she gave. The two chief guests
were couple of curly old generals who wera
dining there for the first time and who were
unacqualnled with one another To each on
entering she had whispered that the other was
eAtreLheIy hard OF hearing, though very
sensitive on the point of being treatad
as dear, AT dinner they eat on either side of
princess, and being each convinced that the
other was deaf commenced shouting at one an
OIher N such manner as to absolutely drown
tne conversation OF the remainder of the guestG
Ot course each of the two old fellows got angry
at Delng shouted at by the other, and com
tlenceo 70 mutter asides concerning the i'm
neclllty OF yelling so loudly, convinced, of
course that the party whom they concerned
was unable 10 help them. Fortunately neither
OF the Two generals realized that our inex-
tlnguisnable laughter was caused by them
serves. Indeed, they were angry with one
anotner that they needed but little else. They
tep9aiueu put short time after we rose from
table and, kissing the princess hand on their
departure. each apologized for having been led
oy the stupid deafness of his connrade to mani
fest signs of irritation