The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-08
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hey come durin the night locality that
feet OF his house. Last week teuI i ~ W. -
| lighting and one Of them killed BUCKS soI , 20
| defeated buck. when found. waStnier. I'm. me
| lis horns y made with Ct
| A NOVEL SLOT MACHINE is TO be pu. p.-i. .
cabs By simply putting a tened - .,
IN the slot the wayfarer can take & 80
paper, an insurance policy, an order neS rs. 81
count Of 10 per cent. on ali purcha es | .
| he shops advertised in the newspapluS a. q
| all probability, a package of cIgarettp I IL
| trait OF Napoleon the Great, manual P;a. .
ious devotion and ticket Of admissioh tbs :,
Moulin Rouge. 'ne !
FLUTE that was discovered lately '
Egyptian tomb was in so good state Of
Servaton that it could be played as well as. :
| had been made this century, instead of h =
years ago. What is equally interesting is tH
/ while the sound differs from the flutes of { I
| lay, its notes are said to be based upon q
rules Of modern scale. If this should be veritit
| 1t would, to some extent. revolutioniZe existing
| notions about Egyp tan music.
| SENATOR WoLcoTT. who has been in the Sen
ate long enough to Rave ceased studying his
| elbow statesmen, said the other day: II have
| seen good many aSgregatiOns and types of
| 1uman nature. but this is the most interesting
oody OF men ever came in contact with. Now,
take the s. old fellows on the other side of the
| chamber, the democrats from the south. They
| are old fogies, every one of them, sectional
and all that sort of thing, and yet so Internally
honest and rotten poor that it makes one proud
to take them by the hand Now, on this side
| OF the c'amber-but l must not forget the re-
| qurements Of senatorial courtesy"
On the occa sion OF the celebration of the
birthday of the Queen of Italy, short time
| ago, her majesty distributed twenty savings
| bank b oks to the most meritorious pupils of
/ the Regina Margherita schools in TraStevere.
| Each book contained 100 francs Queen Marg-
4 10 vt,rsfa a.
| aides Of Europe. celebrated her thirty-ninth
| elrt day in November, but one would readily
| suppose, judging from her slender and perfectly
modelled figure and her fresh, fair skim that
she was fully decade younger She seems to
| have discovered the secret Of perpetual youth
while her consort ages rapidly. His hair and
beard arc now white as snow, and certainly
1--WE him a most venerable appearance before
ne is even middle-aged
NAIL in ones shoe is neither comfortable
nor convenient, but nail in ones pocket may
possess both of these attributes and be useful
and fashionable as well. Oxidized silver nails
are made in exact fac SMILES of iron ones. so
yearly ali Ie that you could not tell the differ
ence You wo I'D pick one up and cast IL away
| IT co sign it to the cigar box that is kent for
| home carpentry readily as you would the
| real articles. But il you come across one of
| these nails in an out-of-the-way place examine
| i carefully, for you will probably find away
DOWN on one side tiny silver point. Push tits
point forward and You have a lovely pencil fit
tor gift in any OF the progressive" games
and nice enough to do duty as a special souvenir
OF any special occasion.
SAYS an expert swimmer ut looks very
| strange to see a man go under water with a
lighted cigar in his mouth smoke calmly at the
oJttom and come to the surface with the cigar
| burning as nicely as If be were SIN liking in his
| easy cnair. Apparently he defies all natural
| laws, but of course ne doesn't. 1t is a simple
| trick, but it requires practice Just as l throw
myself backward to 90 down 1 flip the cigar
| END for end with my tongue and upper lip and
3et the hghted end IN my mouth, closing my
| Ups watertight around it A little slippery-elm
juice gargled before going in prevents any acct
| lental burning of the m Iutn. Go NJ slo Wy
down back" ard, lie at full length at the bot
| tom or the tank ami blow smoke through the
| cut end OF the cigar. Just as | reach the sur
| lace again another flip reverses the cigar an |
there am smoking ca mly. Tne reversing is
| done so quickly that nobody notices it,
The eldest son of Bonanza Millionaire Fair
has been cured of dr. hiking by hypnotic D ,wer.
| The process was prec sely the sa ne as employed
| ia the case of Carroll Cook. wellknown San
| francisco lawyer Young Fair was hypnotized
| SO successfully that whisky, which he formerly
| loved not wisely but too well. is positively
nauseatinS to II IN now. YounS Jimmy FAIR is
notorious in Frisco a high liver. For years
| his p anks have kept his father busy getting
| MIN ont of scrapeS and davsing means of re-
FORM. About three months ago young Jim
| reached tie end of his rope. He came near
| lying at the German hospital, ami the physi-
clans warned him II at further indulgence in
| hIuOr would prove ia al. SO he went to DR..
| roSn, who is noted for his hypnotic power an /
af, r several weeks the doctor regards his cure
as c)mpete. He has also operated on Charles
| rair, younger brother, and cured him. Ex-
| Senator Fair said: my son Jim came to me
ABOUT six weeks ago and said: Papa, I've taken
my las DIR. nix of whisky Now, he had said that
| to me many times before, and | Gated il
| lightly. 1t was increduous. But when he did
| not drink that day, or the next was surprised.
| don't quite understand it yet, but when the boy
came nome, night after night after he had
been exposed to the temptations Of lot of
| companions that would lead him asIraY if they
could, and when saw that he had not tasted a
drop of liquor of any kind, | was surprised COM
pletely. 1t seems that the smell of WHISKY
| makes him sick. It's the same with his brother
| Charles, and thi they re both cured.
EVERY ONE KNOWS, says the PHILADELPHIA
Press, that the English sparrow is valiant
| warrior but every one doesn't know that he is
| also an able tactician If any one will wal oh
| EN- going to roost among the ivy vines at sun.
| down, they can easily verify the assertion. Sew
eral thousands of then make their home in the
| ivy vines that cover the Old brownstone church
at Hhirty-siXth and Chestnut streets, and thou gh
| there are hundreds of square feet of s elter
| there is apparently not sufficient room for all.
| There are always a lot of stragglers W o arrive
to find the Suggest and warmest Toosts under
| the leaves pre-empJed by the vie and early
birds. The late Corners dart in one placa after
| another, only to be driven out again 1t was a
! when a half d zen belated gray pirates
made a persistent search for lodging under the
| ivy leaves, nut each time were driven out,
Then they few to the roof of thu church. and
put their hea s together in q n isy discussion
that lasted fully minute Then, as if by q
pre-arranged gnal, they flew in the air, utter.
ing rill choruses of alarm and warning. Hun
dreds of little yellow and gray heads were poked
out from under the leaves and hundreds OF
shrill voices inquired the cause ofathe hubbub
The alarm lists redoubled their wild cries and
gyrations. There was a stampede, and in an
instapt the air was filed with screaming spar
rows. The conspra ors watched the result of
their plot for m mute. then licked out the best
beds in the lod ing house, and there were half
dozen wise early birds on the outside with cold
feet and some additional wisdom.
ALFRED PAGELow, lawyer and newspaper
man of New York. has just returned FROM 6
trip TO Europe, where he went two months az O
partly on business and partly for pleasure H,
brought blct with him very poor opinion oil
the London fire department. He says that one
night while walking through Cumberland s1ree
with his friend, Fran NJ. White, an America
newspaper correspondent, we'll known in New
York, he saw flames creeping slowly through
the lower part of a building. Tle street ~ a.
| CONF arativey deserted at the time, and no
body. it was evident, had observed the fire. ex
cept White and myself. Mr.. White quietly re
marked Il say, Pagelow, we can earn a shill
ing by reporting this fro at an engine house
"Come along" said Pagelow curious to wit
ness the working of a section of the Londor
fire department.. A cab was found a few