The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-22
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such Joke on Mr.. Dean. He's always CRITICS
ing my cooking. To-day his mother happened
| in. and persuaded ber to make some cakes
Wal it not be very funny when he finds fault
with the cak when tell him that his mothe
made them herself:' Half an hour later Mr.
| Dean remarked, MY dear, you are becoming
perfect cook. These cakes are as fine as thost
my mother makes"
some PEOPLE find it hard, in using the tele
phone, to realize that they are not face to face
with the person they are addressing. prom
iuent merchant in the capital city of state sal
at his desk one hot day in July. In or Ter Il
secure some degree of comfort he had taken of
his coat and his collar and necktie CLERK
came into the room. His excellency, the gov,
| ernor, wishes TO speak with you through the
| telephone said the clerk, The governor
Dear me. said the merchant. He rose, hastily
put on his collar, his necktie and mis- coat, gave
his HAIR strOke, and went to the telephone tc
answer tie governors call.
ALMOST every woman knows the distress oc-
casoned by a sudden tendency TO cry at a time
when one wishes to appear particularly I'M
| moved and even stoicaL Marjorie never erie;
| when any little mishap befalls her, and hs;
Deen known TO sustain, without shedding a tear,
severe bumps that have rapidly acquired q
| black and blue aspect. But the other day Ara
minta, her dearly loved and tenderly cherished
doll, tell INTO the open CRATE and received con-
| fusion OF the nose, which was most unpleasant
TO contemplate Marjorie winked very hard
| Tor a Few minutes, and then, running with her
| injured Araminta to her mother, she buried her
head IN her mothers lap, sobbing: ION,
| mamma, don't want to cry, but my tears have
| all come unfastened.'
Milton GEORGE, publisher of the Western
Rural, published at Chicago, claims to be the
! founder of the farmers alliance, having estab-
| lshed the first organization on April IS 1850
he looks ike typical western granger stout
anu soma IN figure, gray-bearded and cautious
| IN speech. He left the Colonnade Yesterday af-
| ternoon for Washington, and is travelling in the
| east to forward what is now his favorite project
The establishment of the school of agriculture
ana manual training for boys on the Rural Glen
| farm The property, which is situated near
| Cmcago and comprises 800 acres, is valued at
| SlOOU COO, and donated by Mr. George on
Dec ~, 1852 to a corporation formed under the
| laws OF Illinois for the purpose indicated He
| is now engaged in gath ring funds for the
school IN order that its field Of usefulness NAV
be extended Instruction is free to all pupils
NEGRO WOMAN in a Georgia back county
hoed cotton until midday, and then lay down
Tor nap in the shade of tree She was
barefooted. Suddenly a tickling sensation in
| one or her big toes disturbed her sluInber She
looked sleeDlly in that direction and saw sight
that made her teeth chatter huge black
| snake had swallowed the toe, and was acting as
thOugh he proposed to swallow the rest of her
| AS she gazed along the sleek back of the undu-
latlng serpent he seemed so long that his tail
was below the horizon. When she recovered
from her temporary paralysis she arose like a
skY-rocket Tired Slantwise, and disappeared in
tne pine TIMBER with a blOOd-curdlng shrek
After being jerked through the underbrush for
a few rods the snake let GO The woman NAV
De running yet for all that is known to the CON
trary-
EUGENE FIELD Of Chicago. whose delicate
humor and verses of pathos have given him a
reputation not bounded by the confines of this
country, Is about IS years old. In personal ap-
pearance he is long and lank and the hair on
MS head and face is not abundant Few men
probably possess wider extremes of Character
ana IN nothing is this shown more plainly than
IN his writing and in his treatment of persons
lie has made many enemies. his temptation to
satirlZe friends we'll as foes being under little
restraint, while the propensity TO play FRANKS
whIcn marked him while q schoolboy at Mon
son, Mass, Is still strong in his nature. The
! pump OF VeneratlOn was evidently left ont
when he was made, and the higher the respect
ability of the victims of his jokes ard iibes the
/ keener seems to be the endowment of the nor
! petTatOr. But underlying this exterior ia a
tenderness for children which is touching Mr.
Field lives quietly with his family and his
nome IS mica with books, many of them strange
| OLD tones, which mono but real book-lover
| could crave.
! WHO is the most beautiful woman of Furone9
1t would be difficult if not wholly impossible
| 10 answer that question under any circun
! stances, but cable reports and letters from
! european correspondents daily ada to the diff.
I nculty. one asserts that the wife of Prince
m
. other claims it for daughter Of the reignino
| house OF Denmark, and a handsome woman this
| last Is, TOO, and she comes from a family of
! beauties in their day; but still another corr-s
: pondent dominates member Of English row
atty, while another favors a German lady
ahotuer an austrian, and so on to the end of
the chapter. One of the latest claimants is the
Comtess9 Aymery de La Rochefoucauld a Par
l'lan belle VINO has attained distinction hereto
fore as being living reproduction of Marie
Antolnette, but it is only within the last week
IN fEun hot har. fY,Sr I,
still higher honor of being the beauty mar ev
cellence. If her pictures are truthful she is
certainly a handsome woman, but whether
everybody will unite in granting her this honor
Is another matter; there is such difference of
opinion as TO what constitutes beauty.
Miss EMMA EAMEs Is among the latest and
brightest of the stars" that shine in the on
cratic armament. Barely a month has passed
since she made her debut, and already is the
young American soprano as great favorite at
CoVent garden, as she Is with Partisan audi.
enCes. Here, Miss Eames made her first essay
In Faust ana to find more winning or uoIe
comedy and sympathetic representative of Mar
gnerIte would be difficult task. Indeed no such
deal Gretchen has been seen since the DAYS
when Nine. ChTistne Nilsson adorned the lyric
stage, says the Illustrated London Aers Her
second appearance was made as Elisa" in
Lohengrln' and the third the heroine of
iounod's Romeo ct Juliette." 1t was in the
latter that Miss EameS, succeeding Nine Patti
made her debut at the Grand Opera two wears
since. and the triumph won there has been en-
pnatlcally repeated on this side of tho channel
her youthful assumption of ".Juiette" is re-
plete with grace charm and tenderness, added
TO considerable amount of dramatic feeling in
the "a er scenes, wherein our portrait this week
depicts the talented artist. Miss Eames is the
p0sSeSsor Of a lovely voice. and she has been
trained in the best of schools Ter vocalization
Is remarkable for its purity and brilaucv
leaving nothing, in fact for the critical ear to
desire
PHILADELPHIA SCIENTISTS are making ar
engagements to determine how fast the electric
current travels. An experiment will be made
from the FRANKLIN Institute, over the Atlantic
cable. TO Liverpool and return recent test.
would seem to show that electricity is slow
! compared with light, being able to get along at
something like 100000 miles a minute, while
| hgnt mas 100000 mile a minute gait But
sclenUS ts not satisfied that electricity is the
| slower of the two. The most recent experiment
was tried at McCfill College, Montreal, saws the
| Philadelphia Record. The current was trans
! cable at the Newfoundland cable station by
! means Of Thomson's mirror galvanometer,
! sent across TO the station at Liverpool and
returned TO Montreal by the same method. The
distance traversed, partly by overhead wire and
partly by cable, was 5000 miles. From the time
the current left the key in Montreal until it re-
turned to the receiver in the same office Just l
second and l-20th of a second had elapsed; but
the conditions were not as good as they might
have been; The rapidity with which the cur
rent ira 2eis over short wires with no delay indi-
Gated unlimited DO satellites in the direction of
practical tests. Prof Marks of the Edison Elec-
trlc Light company is authority for the asser-
ton that II the globe were encircled with con-
tinuous cable current would travel the entire