The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-27
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The WIDOW of Richard Proctor, the astrono-
mer. is to be curahr of the Proctor Memorial
Observatory at Sat Diego, Cal.
HANNIBAL HAMLb when lad 10 years old
broke his arm; and then, upon removing the
splnts and bandages it was found that the
bone had slipped out place before knitting a
surgeon was summond again Without Civ
l2g the boy hint of what was coming, be
broke the bone again, 3 as to set it properly.
Thereupon, with no warming whatever. his
youthful patient who sill had one sound arm
drew off and struck thedoctor in the face; a
performance which waseXcused. but with the
remark: when operae on you again, young
man, III have you STRAPPED DOWN."
A PENURIoUs OLD Fellow went to a Maine
county grocery store. ons day, and asked the
price of an empty molaSses hogshead The
price was not satisfactory and long wrangle
finally resulted in the old man making a very
mean offer which was Indignantly refused
mo, sir" said the grocer, you cannot steal
that hogshead but l will Awe it TO you if you
earn it by rolling it honh " IL was in the
spring and there was laye of soft snow on
the ground but the challengewas accepted and
old Parsimony rolled the hogAhead distance
OF more than mile. He was n9t a strong man
except in will and it cost himbis life, for be
never did any more work and died in few
weeks
WHEN Marie Halton re urned nom her first
visit to Paris she secured position as gov
erness in family where she taught the little
folks French, dancing and music. She had
pretty little voice, AMI the children got very
FOND OF her catchy tunes and would listen TO
them with delight for hours. One day il oc-
Cured to the small governesS that IL the chill
dren were so pleased with her songs big folks
might not find them embarrassing She looked
at herself in the mirror and made up her mind
toat she would go on the stage. The next day
she called on Jimmy Duff, who worrying
and working over the rehearsals for the
production of Dorothy" Miss Marie
Halton was in her best bib and tucker,
and she was in dead earnest She told
him that she had just come from her home in
Parls, that she could sing and dance and act
and wanted an engagement at once ANY bit
would do until she was settled in this strange
country" Well, Jimmy Duff sometimes Duffy
was charmed. He engaged the little girl on the
spot, gave her copy of the score she was to
sing, and told her when to report for rehearsals
When she got home she began to do a lot OF
thinking. She had never been on a stage in
her life, and didn't know any more about act
ing part than she did about making an cleo
trio lamp 1t 80 happened that there was an
actor in her boarding house, and the day of the
rehearsal she went to him for some points. He
said he hadn't any time even to talk to her, as
he was in hurry to get to the theater On his
way out he added, never dreaming that the
girl would take him seriously: Just
go to the theaJer and put on all the airs YOU
can imagine; bully the chorus; sass the stage
manager; kick at The conductor; find fault With
the opera and the theater and everybody will
think you are great artistic" Well, Marie
Halton carried out his directions to the letter.
When she appeared on the stage she pushed
her way across with her head 10 the air and
that fine scornful expression on her face she
afterward turned to account unfasteped her
her cloak and threw it into the hands of one of
the principal male singers. Then she began to
feel the draft and ordered some window closed
before she caught her death When the con-
ductor impatienty raped the music rest with
his stick for that nav soprano she Jumped to
her feet marched down fO foOtiiChtc will
her eyes flashing defiance and her nostrils
dllated, and asked if he expected her to ruin
her voice for him. The farce worked ike a
charm. Everybody really took her for a singer
of experience and ability. Her success dates
from that time.
THOSE who are interested in what may be ap-
propria tely styled face culture will be thrilled
by the intelligence that new remedy for
wrinkles has been disclosed. II isn't likely to
be ION the market" since it isn't a mask paste
or lotion, and cannot be exploited in the beauty
shops because it is an operation instead of a
process and requires the services of surgeon
with knife and needle. The accounts OF this
new method of celebrating the footprints OF
time on the human countenance come from
afar-from the land of the chrysanthemum-
and are as follows: The Japanese have beauti-
tu eyes, but this is not patent to the casual OBJ
server, who is impressed by the odd expression
impaired by the Slanting lids and generally fails
to perceive that the orbS beneath are full, soft
and lustrous Habltual exercise of the facial
muscles, as in the case of an actor or orator,
does much to modify this obliquity as appears
from the fact that members of these classes in
Japan are Ii orally wider eyed than the rest Of
| their countrYmen. Observation of this led a
certain German surgeon, who is a resident of
Toxic into a field of experiment, where he
finally discovered new method of dealing with
wrinkles. He found that by pnching up a lit
tie plat of skin below the outer corner of the
eyellds of his slant-eyed subjects the lids could
be drawn down to the proper level and made to
open more widely. Then he cut out this little
nfRh nrnA aafW, a
| stitches aud covered the slight wound
with sticking plaster. 1t healed,
ieaVing no scar. Everything de-
sired of the operation Lad been attained Then
the fame of it spread abroad in the city The
nations Of the east, like the ancients, whose
| godS and goddesSeS were described as 'ox-
eyed, consider round orbS chief beauty and
| Immediately several Japanese bellies hastened
! to avail themselves of the skill which could in
this way enhance their charms This stimu-
lated general interest, and by and by an En-
gllshman, who had dried up and shriveled a
| good deal about the eyes in that climate, aud
who wanted TO go home looking as youthful as
the gods would permit aud marry a young girl
| IN England, conceived the notion of trying the
same means TO smooth out mis- puckered visage.
Knife and scissors did their swift work The
operation was beautiful success and has since
| been tried on several other Europeans I'D to
Date to ooViate the same Disagreement, with
talnly seems strongly probable that
so soon as this method is introduced it will be-
come extremely popular in this country, where
the bright and breezy climate alternately smites
ana daZzleS our eyes until the muscles Of the
race ars drawn like shirring strings and
wrinkles are thereby made the portion of young
and old alike. 1t is not reported that the
stitches leave no trace on the face of Eu-
ropeans. Probably a slight mark does remain.
Inc Japanese are a VIGOROUSLY pure-blooded
ieople, whose wounds are said to heal with phe-
nomenal rapdity. and 1t is not at all strange
that no seam shows where the skin-patch is re-
moved from their faces. But even If we are
less fortunate. and small scar remains, it ism
so much Of a Disagreement as perfect cobweb
of creases about the eyes, and doubtless the
American mind will incline readily to the idea