The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-24
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A WIDOW of Oswego went to Indianapolis
Ind, over a year ago to have very importan,
| operation performed. For several years Mrs
| Lon2ecker W IS without nose, having lost that
| imUortant member by disease. Receiving the
glorious intelligence tn It a certain medical iu-
| stitute. located at Indianapolis Ind could pro-
| duce for her real genuine flesh and blood
| nasal appendage by taking the flesh from GER
| tain port onS OF her body and attaching the
same to the vacancy made by disease. she went
| ana passed successfully through the ordeal. and
after ar of uutiring grit aud nerve, returne i
home with fine, well developed nose. chsng-
| ing b " Appearance Co such an extent that
many OF her most intimate friends hardly
| knew her.
ROYAL c. Villas who was for many years one
of principal officer of the Erie railroad is full
of instructive information ab }ut the progress
or railroad invention. He sail recently: "fhe-
is new arb AXE in tae field which must equa
| or excel 1.-The Westinghouse, for tie Chicag
| Burlington and Quincy has ordered 1850 ne
cars equipped with it an % 900 old ones, aft
thorouy test by their experts | believe the
time is near at hand when every freight car aud
train will be equipped vita an air brake ap,
paratus, The en- lneer of the freight train
could by that m sals ntrol fifty cars easily.
| II air rakes had been on the freight train
which caused the recent disaster at Ravenna 1t
could have been ayerte1 bya twist of the en-
| glneers wrist"
AwEALraY GERMAN recsutly was bemoaniug
the want of respect for law which he said was
everywhere apparent in this country. How
different it all was In Germany! He told a story
| TO enforce the point of MS remarks As lad
| in Berlin he was apprentices to tailor. One of
| his dut Is was to 20 co the apartments of the
"young oloo1s" of Berlin every week or two so
that be mig 1t fetch their trou to ths ia lor s
| shop Ia he, VITA other Of t le apprentices,
| searched the linln IS for CONS, which they we
| knew would be there, for they had deity made
| openings ID the pockets throu h which they
| would fall. There was a quarrel and exposure
came. Tnen followed prosecution ald the i'm
| prisOamenJ of two of the apprentices Well, it
! efectuahy stopped the pllfer ?: the appren-
| tees sewed up ali the holes. and the young
bloods" never had any of their coins stolen
aft rwari. If any were found in the trousers
they were returned. Here. this wealthy German
sail, no amount of Imprisonment had the least
effect in stopping pecuis.ions
SEVERAL YEARS AGO, before the old district
courts wer. done away with, says J. G. Camp
bellto a San Fran isco cat reporter "there
was an old gentleman occupying the bench in
the old Fifth district who WAS exceeiinkl civ in.
dolent, ana during his term of odlce he allowed
the ou mess of the court to fall behind At
last he died, and as his succ ssor, an old Vir
gilman, was enc Ten who was celebrated chiefly
as an invetecate tobacco CheWrr aud whose
knowledge of the law was extremely small
Waen he took thu OATH OF office he in
CURED into the condition of the calendar,
and when h. lear led how great was the
number of cases awaiting decision he i'm
me1iately ordered the clerks to lay all the pa
pe-s before him They wee acc irdingly car
riet into the court m, and the newly ell .cted
judge yei them Sharply for several M nutss
Reaching over, he Erasped the first one that
came to his han1 an 10 lug it aside sal /: "Tais
one is decided for the defeu liant. Another was
taken, and laying it as de by itself he remarked:
And this on l give to ths plaintiff In this
way be disposed OF every case on the calend ar
| Rivl1g every other verdict to the defendant and
! the other to the plaintiff. Strange as it may
see it is still claimed in the old di trcts that
the verdictS thus rendece we o he most equita.
BILE ever delivered thsre, either before since "
PEOPLE who read of tarring and feathering by
| Whitcaps and others know that the punish
ment is very unpleasant one, but few imagine
| how terrible and dangerous it is. Ia Wyoming
! l onc3 Jaw man who had been tarred and
| feathered, says st. Louis writer and al hough
| the wretch served the discipline, | could not
help pityin him. Hardened tar is very hard
| to remove from the skin, and when feat hers are
| added it for kind of cement that sticks
| closer that brother. AS soon as the tar sets
the victims suffering begins It contracts
| az It coOls, and every on of the little veins on
most exquisite asonY. TIE psrspi he
alton is en- Irely stopped, and unless
the tar is removed death is certain to ensue
| But the removal Is no easy task and requires
several days The tar cannot be softened by
| the application OF heat, and must be peeled OFF
| bit by bi sweet oil being used TO make the
process less painful. Tho irritation 10 the skin
is very great a 9 hairs cannot be disengaged,
! but must be pulled out or cut off. No man can
| be cleaned OF tar in single day, as the pain of
| the operation wou be too excruciating for en-
durance and unless this is done he has to suffer
| from PAIN like that of IL, 600 IN pric g. Num-
| bers of men have died under the torture, an
none who as gone through it regards tarri e
a ID featbering as anything but a most fearful
| infection.
SPEAKING OF MONEY" said Passenger Agent
i W R. Fayan TO Memphis Al peal reporter,
reminds me Of az experience had once 1t
was just four years ego, wnen | was express
/ agent in one Of tbs small towns Of Texas The
safe Of these little fellows like the mes.
| sengers carry in their cars. You could carry il
/ OF on YOUR Dacs or prize it open with a knife
/ hell, one evening when the express train pulled
/ In the messenger banded me- pacl age I
| checked for it. and found it contained $4,000
&c whiz out didn't the cold chii,s run over me
when looked at it. Forty thousand dollars and
no here to put but in my little pony safe |
didnt snow what to do with il. shook like
Ind buck ague. The M ney was for big
ranchman about forty miles away, and didn't
know vhel he'd be in. ! couldn't eat any sup
per: was afraid 10 leave the office and scared
to take toe package our. l sat down and
thought. or tTIed to think. 1t was grow
ing dark. The winds that came sweep
ing across the broad plains nloaned as they
stole throu : the keyhole and the cracks in the
door. Every mesquite tree, in the dusk took
on the shape of ;hwayman. and | could
hear the football of burglars IN every sough of
the wind. Each moment seemed an age. be-
gan TO feel my baiF-tHFn- gray. The SUSPENSE
was dreadful Just at this moment ] say ona
of the boys. called to MIN and told him to
come-ov to the office. | didn't say a w.rl
about that money, but told him was sick and
got him to send for my supper aud then get
half a dozen Winchesters ard stay in the Office
with ne. / told him was looking for robbers
that night. While he was out took that p.c Z
age and u it between the mattresses on the
bed l didn't sleep wirk that night The
next day this ranchman came in for his pack
age, and never wGs as Ra TO get rii Of money
in my life. was so happy holiened, an then
weEt out and set EN- up to the boys was a
young man then. but recall every incl lent of
tha time as readily 4 If il vraa xyastard., -