The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! uptown New York restaurant the other day.
The young women evidently sus; a ned the reia-
tons Of sister and fiaucee 70 the gentlemen
Al we're buslly taking aud the waiter was re-
hlIiug the clar-t glasses. AS he left the table
one OF the young women whirled sharply around
and said: Put that bottle back on the table
/ W men her brother began a remonstTauce she
! calmly held the bottle up 20 the light and
/ showed him that it was stin nearly half full
y on can do Just as you please, Ned, #" she SAID.
| but don't propose that any waiter living
I shall ct ahead of me. He saw We wers en-
! gagged in conversation and he meant to goblis
! the remaining wine 1t doesn't 60" Verify
! the New York maiden knoWeth the wiles of the
wicked world.
WE ARE AT WORK Just now on some pcetty
small wire, writes manufacturer It is I-5OOth
Of an inch in diameter-fner than the hair on
/ your head, great deal. Ordinary fine wire is
drawn through steel plates, but that wouldn't
/ DO for this work, because if the hole wore away
| ever so little 1t would make the wire larger, and
/ that would spoil the job. Instead. 1t is drawn
| through what IS practically hole in a diamond
| 70 which there is, of course. no wear. These
diamond plates are made by woman in New
! YORK, who has a monopoly of the work in this
| country. The wire is then run through mac in
cry which winds it spirally with layer of silk
| thread that is .O0l5 of an inch in thickness
| even dner tnan the wire, you see. This wire is
| used in making the receiving Instruments of
/ ocean cables the galvanometers used in testing
| cables and measuring insulation of covered
| wires.
|
| awakened by the ringing of his bell, and found
| three strangers, masked, waiting for admit
tance. Tneir prompt dis play of revolvers and
nasty demand gave him no time for reflection
| one or the men Yves badly cut in the abdomen
/ ana they wanted him to dress the wound. He
vas repeatedly warned to keep quiet at the
peril of his life and not arouse ANYBODY He
completed the operation and received his pay
| for his work. AS he bade them goodnight one
| turned and said: IF you tell this before 10
o clock Friday we will return and burn you
/ ou.. " Another of the trio, with a voley of
| oaths CALCULATED HE knows us and will tell.
! Wen finish MIN now" The villain made des-
perate plunge at Stevens, striking for his heart
with murderOus- looking knife The doctor
| saved MS life by throwing up his hands. One OF
his fingers however, was almost cut off, and a
| dan 5erouS s ash was made across his breast.
| The three then fed.
HALF the fads in which women indulge to-day
are due to newspaper writers. When some
| poor TO ling. moiling little newspaper woman is
grinding out an article for the wOman's column
| OF big Sunday paper and gets stuck for mate
rial on her last page OF copy, does she tear her
| hair and say: mo butter shall have this week
| to spread my Vienna rolls, because forsooth, l
| nave not ideas enough to fill up my column
| No! She sits down calmly and writes para
| graphs that begin with: sit is the correct
| thing to- The more unique and startling
| the correct thing" is the better. Miss ewfad
aud Nine. Latewhim read it next day and inn
| msdlately adopt it as their pet fancy, and 50
! the fad that my tired little writer up in her
| tiny room originated to earn butter with is &C
! cepted on the avenue and becomes the correct
thing" after all. AS they say in confidential
| newspaper coteries: "A good fake is as good
as genuine story any day
! ACTOR JOSEPH HAwoRTH in private life is a
student When away from the theater Ha-
| worth spends all his spare time in completing
! the life of John Mccullough. HaEorth has an
money could not buy. 1t was written several
| days previous to the death of the tragedian. II
| was probably the last letter written by McCul-
| Tough, In view of the fact that for months
| previous to death his brain was shattered. We
| will climb the ladder of fame together Joe, - he
said, and wi help you until we both reach the
! top round. Mccullough had a valet named Bob
PTtchard, who a curious fellow said
! Haworth, recently. "He was thrifty Scotch
\ man, and to save money he always made his
| bed III McCuiIOugns dressing room in the
thrater once John missed handsome robe
| which ne wore IN Richard III 1t couldn't be
| found. Finally, several mon1hs later. when
| playing in New York. two little Pritchards
| came to the theater, and the dresses which they
| wore were cut from McCuloughs handsome
| robe. Pritchard expressed his sympathy curl
| ously the day the poor guv'nor was buried.
! He was great man, Mr.. Haworth, he sObbed
| a good man. Many dressing room through
the country has he wiped the floor with me,
| sir"
A VERY SINGULAR FORM of neuralgia is that
affecting the nerves of amputate1 limbs. 1t
| not rarely happens that after an amputated
| stump has healed the ne rves of the stump. be-
ing compressed in the scar. become exceedingly
| painful CurlouSy enough, the pain Is not felt
\ III the stump, but seemingly in the extremity of
| the limb, which has probably been buried for a
year or more. In one case coming under the
| notice OF the writer man whose arm had been
| amputated above the elbow often referred to
the pain he felt in the little finger of the sew
cred member for years after the operation. An
old, one-legged soldier, applying for an In
crease Of pension, said: II have more pain
in the loot that aiut than in the one that
are" This his terse way of saving
that he continued to have pain in the
foot which was lost on the battle field years be-
fore. The explanation of this curious phenoun-
ena consist in the fact that the terminal fi!a-
mentS of nerve are its sensitive parts; they
are the 'feelers," the points from which the
sensations start on Their course to the brain
where they give notice That something is wrong
with the outlying districts. When the nerve is
! injured IN this continuity the sensation is often
referred to the terminal ends. Everyone who
has struck his crazy bons'--the point above
the elbow, where the ulnar nerve is very SUPER
fetal and east Y injured-must have noticed how
much the sensation was affected in the little
Il yer, the pain being often greater than that at
tn poiat wnere the blow was struck
TIE TOWN OF GRETNA, the western suburb Of
New Orleans, has been under water for nearly a
month from the Ames Crevasse Scenes such
as are witnessed there have been frequent in
otaer towns along the Mississippi during over
flow years, but, although the water has been
phenCmenally high this season. reaching within
few inches of the disastrous food of last wear,
Gretna alone has been a victim. When the
levee first broke at Ames the entire population
OF that town turned out and tried to stop the
break. Rich and poor worked side by side and
built the needed levee, but the work was
too hastily done, AID the dykes gave
way before the waters. inundating the
entire town. Gretna is an American Venice
with vast discomfurts. Most of the people are
still living in the submerged district with false
floors to the houses. The funerals there are
OF the most impressive character, for a skiff is
used instead of hearse the mourners follow in
other ats to the cemetery The latter is sew.
erdI feet under water, but the tonbs rise above
the flood, so that the deal may be posted in
| the upper vaults. deeming feature of the
fl 'od is the abunda ce Of fish of all kinds which
can be caught almost in ones back yard. A
| curious phenomenon is to be witnessed at the
Ames crevasse. III water has taken to spread.
ing up, running apparently up stream Some
curiosity was felt over this phenomenon and
the cause An exami alton shows it to be due
to the prairie tremblantes, the floating or
| trembling prairies OF Southern Louisiana.
A CINcINNATG FAMILY, according to the Times
Star, had two objects of affection-a large
tortoise-sheu cat and baby. The cat was
there first; the baby, a girl, arrived but re-
Gently. During the years pending babv's
arrival Nine. Tabby had what sporting people
call IAN all-rouDd cinch." Everybody petted
her, and fed her, and made much of her until
she became the ia test, biggest sleekesS Tabbv
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