The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-25
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smoke and produces great heat-in fact clean
and convenient fuel, and superior 70 all other
| here.
'IF they would look in some Of these neigh
boring towns, s. remarked an ex-detective to the
Cincinnati Enquirer, they might ind few Of
| the crooks who have been tearing the city wide
open shrewd burglar or tnief selects place
| a. hls home While there he is as innocent as
| Lne most honest citizen. It stands him in han1
l 20 De 50. He's got to live somewhere. OF course
the authorities know his calling. Generally he
Keeps the chief of police posted as 10 his move
| ments There is a tacit understanding that if
protected he will do nothing wrong at home.
A DASH Of Bohem anlsm in a mans disposi-
ton helps him wonderfully to withstand the
bullets of outrageous fortune" says the Sdtttr-
ddy ReUtelc. 10 the walker in very straight
paths stroke Of ill-luck often seems the end of
| ali Things which to his more volatile brothers
| would appear but flea bite. It is only natural
| that those who regard life as one long, straight,
narrow path should find barrier placed in it
! apparently insurmountable. Those who regard
| life as a series of ups and downs, diversified
| with numerous excursions into byways, will see
now to circumvent such a barrier.
LILLIAN RUSSELL is now the owner of the
| most perfect Japanese dog ever seen in this
| country. says Truth. It is little 3months old,
| aud Miss Russell paid Mrs. Eugene Clark one of
| those fabulous amounts for the dog that only
princes and prima donnas can afford. Koko,
Tor tn { Is the name that Miss Russell has given
her expensive pet, is 50 very small, and yet so
| very bright AMI intelligent, that, even at this
remarkably youthful age it has made budding
| reputation that promises to compete with that
OF It's beautiful MISTRESS. 1t is said quietly that
Miss Russell dew to Koko for consolation after
| her boisterous Thanksgiving night reception at
| the Casino.
| HE WILL of Nine Broachard. believer in the
doctrine or metempsychoss. was lately con-
tested in court at Vouvray, France From the
evidence adduced it appeared that the lady, who
was widow, believed firmly that her husbands
| soul had passed into the BODY of an omnibus
| morse, and the animal in question accord
| lngly the object of her special veneration, and
even affection. She had also visions of the per
lodlcsl descents from heaven of one of her rela
| ives, whom she believed to be engaged In full
| iIllng the humble but useful functions of a
postman for the CELESTIAL hierarchy. Nine.
| Brochard had special cult for great men of
| the past, whose spirits she frequently evoked,
held imaginary Conversations with them, and
| wrote from their dietaeion several profound
treatisss. The will was broken.
| THERE is in one Of the big dry goods stores a
weighing machine which is similar in outward
| appearance to a nickel-in-the-slot machine. but
| which works without the preliminary dropping
| OF a nickel, says the New York Times IL was
| the means the other day of calling attention to
| a very honest old lady. She had her arms full
OF packages, aud sic held them all while being
| weighed, evi emily fearing to lay them down
| lest some one should walk away with them
When the weighing process was over she laid
them all down, however, fished out a nickel
! from her pocketbook, and then began q vain
| search for the slot into which to drop it. She
| looked the machine all over, in front, in back
| on the sides and on top, and even when her
| closest scrutiny failed to discover the slot she
| did not grasp the idea that the machine was a
| free lnborer, but laid the nickel on its top and
walked away, apparently in the hope that the
| next person who came along might know how
| TO feed the money to the machine and drop il in
| for her.
A MELANCHOLY CASE was brought to light in
Brooklyn, n. Y. the other day when a man was
taken TO court on the charge of neglectin9 to
care ttr his family. He Solemnly asservated
INST he carried home all the money he earned
Being further quest oled, he admitted that his
| sole means OF hvihood was serving as a Juror
ana that he only got a chance to prosecu o his
| VOC Anon about once year. This is sometimes
| scoited at as the age of the deoadence of faith
| But think of the faith which this poor man has
| exercised day after day and year after year! Is
| 1t any wonaer IL he has sometimes doubted
| or our llbsrLiesS Certainly he were to be par
doned II questionings and suspicious sometimes
arose in his mind. Still, the calm wings of his
| faith SO lred above such petty things and he
faced the future with confidence As q family
provider. though, it is plain that such person
| mas serious drawbacks. But there's no denying
ms falthi 1t might not be able to remove noun
tains, but it would not hesitate at fair-sized
hill.
THE most interesting thing noticed when
was away, writes Mexican correspondent, was
| a habit that the ladies Of Chihuahua and Zace-
| tas have Of wearing firedes for ieweIry The
legs of the flies shaped like hooks, and they
pear to have been formed expressly in the
| interest OF the ladies'. These living diamonds
| sparkle and shine more than any Of the dia-
nonds of Africa or South America, for the fire.
flies in that part OF the world have rare brill
| fancy never witnessed in the north. They will
almost do for lantern on a dark night 40
beautiful and strong is the light they give to the
world This haoit Of wearing irefies is INDUCED
In ey the ladies' OF the poorer classes to large
extent, and even the society ladies often pick up
| the shining brownies and fasten them in their
| hair just as an American girl will gather wild
| flowers for similar purpose So numerous are
/ the tirefiles in Mexico that 1 was told that a
! train on the Mexican Southern railroad was
| stopped by these brownies. the engineer finding
| it impossible to keep the wheels from slipping
| as they crushed the life opt of millions of the
| insects.
Mrs. PEARcEY's GOODNESS and her fine ap
| petite while awaiting execution-she several
times, l gather, remarked that she thought
''she could manage another chop" or could
| manage a little more''-have many precedents
| Beatrice Cenci, an italian aRtiquary has re-
| Gently told US, says London Truth, ate SO much
funny fish the night before execution that re-
markable heroine of romance that she was, she
| was very sick next morning; Muller, who MUIR
| dered Mr.. Briggs, ate voreciously while await
| ing death, and Rush, who murdered Mr.
| Jeremy, Of Stansfeld ball, ate roast sucking
| pig and plain sa1ce for his supper the night
DetOre ne was nauReu. VI COOineSS there
many remarkable instances, some of them
| being highly amusing, as was the story told of
| a man early this century, who, when the hang
man was stepping off with him TO the scaffoid
| rather quickly, said, stop a bit; there's no
| hurry They can't oegin till we get there" OF
another it is told that, seeing the morning was
very wet, and that he had some distance to
| walk from the prison to the scaffold, he asked
| for an umbrella 10 be held over his head as he
was always very liable to catch cold easily.
THOMAS HARRINGTON Of Allegheny, Pa, has
successfully demonstrated the possibility of
| thoroughly fusing steel and nickel, and he has
| produced an alloy of perfect homogeneousness,
entirely dispensing with porosity and piping in
the material. He cast one 31a-inch square ingot
from one of the pots in the Labelle works,
which had been charged for ordinary spring
| steel having added about per cent Of nickel
| When the melt was ready for pouring Harring-
| ton added a certain flux, and the
| ingot cast This Was hammered
| down to an inch square piece
| ten inches long was tested yesterday in the
| Pittsburg laboratory 1t showed a tensile
strength Of 1881, $50 pounds and an elongation
in two inches of 216 per cent Such a result,
| obtained from q material the stock of which
| (acc riding to Mr.. Smith, the owner of the
works. has tensile strength Of 1000 pounds
by adding 3per cent. of nickel and Harm gton's
/ flux, is regarded as marvellous. The result ia
| most significant with regard to the future com
position of naval NOR plate Harrington