The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-22
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cross piece. You will then have Two rows, the
up and down row with four pennies in it and the
horizontal row with three in it. Ask
four IN row by only changing the position of
| one penny. They viii try, but they won't sue
ceed; Then crush them and win the drinks, if
! You happen to be of that nature. by placing the
! lower penny of the perpendicular row on the
center penny OF course you did not stipuate
that the coins were not to be placed on top of
| Que another, and you have done the trick fairly
But 1t always leads TO dispute.
! THERE is a widely popular fad among New
York bachelors for domestic cookery 1t is
quite English, you know. There are more men
about town experimenting with chatting dish
than most people imagine. They get
/ then gradually and carefully branch
/ out in the broader fields of the culinary art
| There is more amusement in this thing" said
/ one OF these amateurs, than anything I've
struck for long time. have little alcohol
/ lamp that you could put in your pocket and
| with this little lamp and chafng dish can
turn out good many palatable things. A friend
or mine IN the same house took breakfast with
me one Sunday morning Now he's got it, 1t
| isn't much trouble. 1t lends the needed variety
| 70 everyday life. 1t saves a right good bit Of
money, too. Though took it up originally as
an amusement. it is a sensible and highly salts
| factory way to i've"
MISS MARY E. GARRETT has offered another
muni1cent gift to the trustees of Johns Hop
kins University. In letter dated April % she
pTOuulSoS 10 give ElUU,UJU TO D9 added to the
women's fund for the medical school of the uni
versity. This fund, which was accepted by the
| university in October last on condition that
/ when the school should be opened women would
| be admitted to 1t on the same terms as men,
has now reached the sum of Sill 300 and was
handed over TO the trustees May l. The addi-
tIonal sum of 100000 to be contributed by Miss
Garrett, is made dependent upon the trustees
having in hand on or before Feb. !, 1892, the re-
| malnder OF the sum necessary to complete the
endowment OF OOo-namely: S2l9.2l9 IS
Of fha ebe
| october, 1892 and has been accepted by them
with these and the other conditions attached
The Baltimore committee met, and, after pass
| Ing vote of thanks to Miss Garrett for this
| last munifcent gift, decided to disband.
''The people of Galveston hate sharks more
than poison. and you would think So too, if you
saw the numerous logs of wood bobbing up and
down In the bay there " said Hubert E. James,
| hardware merchant from the Texas metrop-
| oils. The sharks in the bay of Galveston are
about three feet long, and spoil the good
| fishing. or what would be good fishing. by eat
ing or soaring to death about all the fish in the
| bay. This so provokes the fishermen that they
go out in parties and catch all the fish they can
They never kill one immediately. but bore
| hole through the upper fin of each one and with
| a piece of rope about three feet long tie Mr..
Shark to log of wood heavy enough to keep
him from going far from the surface OF the
water The unwelcome occupant of the bay is
kept prisoner until he becomes SO hungry he
turns his stomach skyward. The fish in that
way is tortured to death, and it is hoped that
AMI give the bay of Galveston wide BERTH
ANY ONE who has ever lived or Travelled
through the wooded countries of New York or
Pennsylvania cannot have failed to notice. In
the early spring or late fall pillars of smoke
rising among the trees on the mountains at
regular intervals in the woods. The fires are the
work of the shiftless bushwhackers who
live In the mountains of all such re-
| glons- They start the fires in the woods
simply to increase the area of buckle
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the fruit, on which they largely depend for
| eking out the miserable existence they
lead. There Is only one way in which the
| huckeberry can be cultivated, and the buckle.
berry farmer does not need to own inch of
| land. If he has title to only enc Iucfer match
| he can put thousands of acres under cultivation
| in very short time. He has only to light it
| and touch it to the dry leaves and brush either
In early spring or late fall, and bis cultivation is
soon under way. What the result may be in
| loss OF life and property does not concern him,
and nine out of ten forest fires that devastate
| the Pennsylvania woods annually may be traced
| directly to the torch of these outlaws.
| JAMES MEARA, the g. year-old son of William
Fl. Meara, was playing in the lot at the rear of
his home in New York last week. aud Patrick
| Reilly the childs uncle was at work in the gar
den close at hand. A young bulldog belonging
to jeremiah Kenney. who lives close by. was
gnawing bone by the fence All at once here
| was scream and Reilly looked up to see the
bulldog dragging the little boy along the ground
| by his head The dogs teeth were firmly fixed
in the teeth and forehead of the child and the
brute was shaking him viciously the child
| screaming all the while and fighting as
hard as he could to release himself. The uncle
| pounded the dog with club, but blows were
unevailing, and 1t was not until it was nearly
| choked to death that the dog released it's grip.
| Then 1t sneaked away to It's kennel, and made
no objection to being chained. The child was
covered with blood and it looked at first as
| though his eyes had been put out but his
wounds were found to be only torn cheek aad
several deep incisions in the forehead. These
the boys mother promptly sucked clean, and
when the doctor came he said they were not
dangerous. The owner had the dog killed.
THE MAN who has furnished the laughter and
tears for the readers of the Detroit Free Press
for SO many years has concluded to accept a
place on New York newspaper. G. B. Lewis,
or as he was known to the readers, IN. Quad q"
has probably made the mistake of his life saws
the Chicago Tribune. The acceptance of a
place on any Gotham journal is not without
honor so far az that is concerned. But the
atmosphere of that ancient city is not congenial
to humor. This is not the fault of the editors
of that city They have done all that editors
can do 20 educate their people up to an appre-
citation of the funny side of life. Every writer
of reputation who has gone there has been
compile ely showed under unless such an one had
the patronage OF the few who seemed to make
and unmake there M Quad has lasted
press. His freshness has not stalled, but in the
nature of things he has seen his best days. He
cannot expect-and If he does expect it, it
| s.
New York will expect him to do better and
when he fails. as he must he will get the coolest
reception he ever had In his life. The career of
m. Quad" has been a curious one He began
as tramp printer in 1858. The first paper to
give him employment at the case was in Pom
tiac, Mich. He was noticeable at that time for
his eccentrcity of dress. Then he thought he
knew a great deal about horse, and the SPORT
ing fraternity played him for what they call q
sucker until he found out that he didn't know
anything about the race track and quit
it. Some years ago James Gordon Bennett
of the New York Herald sent for Quad to go
to New York to accept place on his paper
The humorist went, aud after a talk with the
editor declined the offer. Mr.. Bennett asked
Lewis what The people of the west thought of
him (BennetD. Lewis replied that they thought
he was either crazy or a fool The story
is that this pleased Bennett. who gave Lewis
$1,000 to pay his expenses to and from New
York. Lewis wandered around town with the
money, scarcely knowing what to do with it,
until he saw cast iron Cog, which he bought
paying $3.50 for the same. He shipped it home
and had il painted yellow. and put it in his front
yard. 1t is said that the horse men got the re-
mainder. He is now said to be worth S75 00O
all of which he has made legitimately in his