The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-26
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| now. as Mrs. Albert Richardson, she has re-
| signed her journalistic labors and by the advice
| OF magazine editors will devote all her talents
and energy to more lasting and pretentious
literary work.
THIS is Rose Coghlan's answer to a question
as to how she preserves her beauty: mot by
| wearing steel corset, assure you although
| some paper did declare fastened myself up in
cage. Fancy how one would feel! But my
Melght never varies l keep my flesh off by
| an active brain for reducing flesh. Then. too
never drink while am eating. believe that
drinking with your meals makes you grow
/ chunky. / think American women drink too
| much soda and aponaris"
Mrs. PEMBERToN HIScKs is another American
| girl who is winning fame and fortune abroad.
She is native of New Orleans and member of
| an old French creole family. From childhood
sne displayed rare musical gifts. She had a
rich, flexible voice, a singularly sensitive ear
and a retentive memory. She studied with
ardor, and her voice was cultivated to its high
est extent. Circumstances compelled her to
TAX tske 10 tne stage. She came to New York, and
tne success OF the creole songstress was assured
al the first concert she gave She is now in
London winning wealth and fame under the
patronage of the Duchess of Manchester.
WE MET the officers Of the famous Black
Watch. writes traveller In England, and finer
set of fellows never saw. They are all Scotch,
ana splendid, stalwart men, but one is struck
by their unusual youthfulness-som of the
subalterns are barely 20 years of age, and the
colonel is still in the thirties. Nor is this
strange IN view OF the fact that the Black
Watch claims as a right that il shall be ordered
TO the front whenever England has fighting to
do, and this she always has somewhere. It is
hard to live long under these circumstances
Yet they are jolly set of fellows, always ready
for sport and squeezing all the enjoyment out
of life that they can while there is a chance
WHY do carry guui" said a member of
congress in response to Washington Star re-
porter's question. Because am liable to need
weapon at any time. If you we're permitted
TO look under the coat tails of the entire ma
tional legislature you would find revovers in
two out OF three hip pockets. A senator or
representative, merely by reason of his con-
righteousness, is always in greater personal
danger than the citizen in privase life. For one
thing he is an object of pursuit by cranks, a
percentage of whom are murderously inclined
II you could get together list of the deadly
affrays in which congressman have been en-
gagged through no fault of theirs you would
perceive that such a precaution is worth
taking"
LONDON SOCIETY is curiously watching the
strife between the Duchess of Marlborough
formerly Mrs. Hamersley of New York; and the
harchioness of Blandford, formerly the dukes
wife, who obtained a divorce from that erratic
noblemen and secured the custody of her son,
the Marquis of Bandford. heir to the dukedom
The duchess is terribly jealous of the mar
chioness who occupies nigh position in society
/ duu Is d IdVOTlLo Win LDo Quo60. The
chioness has hitherto allowed the young
marquis to visit his father and stepmother but
of late has withdrawn this permission In
revenge the duchess has persuaded the duke to
withdraw his sons allowance and refuse to pay
his university expenses. The marchioness is
said to be in despair at this state of things and
the queen has expressed her displeasure at the
blows aimed by the duchess at her maiesty's
protege.
"a HUNDRED YEARS AGO" says slot machine
man in the Philadelphia Press. "a man in Eng
land, who kept a tavern, made use of the slot
machine. This was a tin box containing to-
bacco. The frequenters of his tavern droppe
half penny in the slot and it struck lever
which opened the box. Then the purchaser
took out pinch of tobacco and put It In one OF
the pipes lying around on tables in the bar
room. This is the first slot machine of which
any record is known. Nowadays they sell
everything in them. especially in Eng
land, where they are used for post
age stamps. In Washington the other
day saw slot machine into
which you dropped two nckels and from which
you obtained glass of rock and rye | do not
think that any of the machines cost over $780,
and il only cent profit is made every day this
means 10 per cent. interest on the investment
Inc nrst month our company put a machine in
the Hoffman house in New York city it took in
S46. certain dry goods firm has recently put
around a lot OF slot machines which sell lead
pencils. You drop penny in the slot and out
comes a pencil nicely sharpened and covered
with the advertisement of the flrm The latter
estimate that the advertisement paws all ex-
penses, and so the pennies taken in are clear
profit"
more than S5,OOo,0oo was expended for
charitable purposes in New York last year."
say the superintendent of charitable organi-
zation. 'New fields are constantly opening UP,
till it seems as though at least two-thrds of the
entire population of the city is being supported
by charity. In the various institutions that
dispense charity more than COG, 900 persons
~ lf.f 1f ~swxl-
and refugees, protectories and asylums lodging
houses and shelters by the score, and the dis.
pensaries and hospitals scattered about the city
are maintained at a great cost to charity in
| order to provide medical and surgical aid to the
poor. am sure there is no other city in the
world as charitable as New York and still all
our institutions running over and the cry for
| more aims is increasing in volume daily. In
| 1890 there were in poor houses and almshouses,
as indoor paupers, in New York state, one to $50
| of the native population. and to every twenty
| five of the foreign popu' alton. The local COM
missioners OF charities and correct on oil now
hard at work on prev entive. curative and elimi-
mating measures. The great DISPARITY in the
ratio of foreign-b born convicts, paupers and in
| sane in the foreign population ON New York
| compared with the ratio of the same classes
coming from its native born population cannot,
of course, be satisfactorily accounted for the
| result of a voluntary and healthy immgra-
| ton"
A MOST SUCCESSFUL TEST was made in Phila-
delphia last week of the use of ammonia as a
motive power to displace steam. The test was
the first that has ever been made on a marine
engine, and the trial was most satisfactory. An
ammonia engine plant has been fitted out on the
tug E. w. Hartley. which made trip up and
down the river, subjecting the new scheme to a
| practical test 1t is known as the Campbell am
monia engine system, and it's workings are
novel and interesting. not only to the mechani-
cal and scientific circles, but also to the laymen
| of the industrial world. Any ordinary engine
can be converted into a Campbell ammonia
engine simply by the addition of a generator"
which is much like boiler. Steam is used
simply for 1.-THE purposes of heating the aqua
ammonia In the generator. The
| heated ammonia expels a gas. leaving a
weak solution of ammonia in the bottom of this
| boiler-like affair. When, by raising the tenn
| perature of the ammonia, sufficient power is
| generated, the throttle valve is opened and the
| gas passes into the cylinder of the engine and
1 propels the piston rod in every way the same as
| steam. 1t is here exhausted the same as steam,
Quoted back to the generator. Before it
SPRAY COLI to point where the gas comes in
| contact with the ammonia solution which has
| been rejected from the generator and
here the solution is reoharged by ABSORB
| ton and by the natural affinity existing be-
tween water and ammonia. By this means the
same body of ammonia is used constantly ex-
| hausting itself only to be recharged with new
| life and to be returned to the generator The
same is true of the water used. The steam in
the generator inparts its heat to the ammonia,
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