The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-18
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TIE Richmond Dispatch understands that
President Lyon G. Tyler, of William and Mary
| College has in contemplation the writing of a
| political history of Virginia, and that he has
| already accumulated vast amount of matter
| bearing on the subject.
A PLUCKY and independent girl is Miss Eliza
beth More of Edgeworth, Pa. With her own
hands she recently built a neat little cottage:
laying the foundation, clustering the walls of
| the different rooms and performing all the car
peuter worS TO a builder taste. To do this he
found 1t necessary TO dJn male attire, anu a
young girl friend helped her over the hardest
| part Of the work. Mss More is said to be as
pretty as she is energetic. Sc was once a pro-
tege of Jane Grey S Sisshelm. and the les o IS
that stern champion of woman's rights taught
| 1er have apparently not been forgotten.
IL LETTER TO Nature, Mr.. McLac1lan states
that fishes suffer comparatively little injury
when lnclosed for long periods solid ice. An
other CORES pOndent reports the case of a small
fish which survived Enclosure in solid ice for a
psrlCd OF between six and seven months. 1t is
well known that smelt and trout may be frozen,
and if gradually thawed out they will live on,
yet careful experiments need TO be made. When
caterplllarS are frozen solid they will, if grad
uaily warmed, live on. IL is frequent thawing
and freezing that is destructive to insect life.
It is also stated that fresh water mussels
u nlonidBl can Re frozen and thawed for two
successive nights at least without injury and
that the young, or sDrat, do not suffer from be-
ing frozen. With warm booded vertebrates it
is quite different.
GENTLEMAN complains to me, writes Editor
Labouchiere in London T. nth, that ne has re-
ceived circular from Mr.. ]. Franklin Brown
or San Francisco offering to cure him of dip
somania. hysteria, nervousness, excessive
smoking, the opium, cocoaine morphine or
laudanum habits, etc, by hypnotic treatment.
AS my friend is not suffering from any of these
weaknesses ha fppla ha has
against MIR. Brown of San Francisco. SO do | !;
bIt do not quite know how the grievance is to
be redressed. see from this medicos circular
that he VIII kindly make appointments for con-
situations in presence of the family physician
or a personal friend, at a fee of one guinea |
should vastly like to know what the family
physicians fee would be for attending consul
tation with Mr. Brown of San Francisco.
A RUTHENIAN, 1874 years old. is living in the
town of Belgorod. Russia. His name is Bogdan
Nitchinorenko. He is still hale and hearty, only
mis- hearing is somewhat impaired. He ascribes
his old age to his manner of living. At the age
of 25 he became i'll, and as there was no
physicians in the neighborhood, a Tartar prac-
tltloner. or wise man, was engaged to cure
him. For three weeks he was under the Znak-
hairs treatment until his health was restored
Parting from him the Znakhar told him that II
he wished to live long he must never eat any old
or stale food. FOR fear lest he fall sick again
NJ chlnorenko observed this rule scrupuously.
He ate nothing but spring fowl, veal or lamb,
and never touched piece of meat of an old
animal. Even garden fruit he ate only when II
was quite young and fresh; he never touched
canned or picked food of any kind.
DURING the frequent visits l have made to
Mckee, said a mining engineer of Philadel-
phia, II have come in contact with many of the
Indians resident there and have heard some
very singular stories. One which all the Indians
unite IN telling, is that far in the interior exists
an enormous city never yet visited by white
men. 1t Is described as peopled by a race
similar TO the ancient Aztecs, who are sun wor-
shippers and offer human sacrifices to their
deity. The race is said to be In high state of
civilization, and the Indians say that the CITY is
full of huge structures which are miracles of
quaint but beautiful architecture, and are sit
uated on broad. paved streets far surprising
those of the City of Mexico. Zone Indian [
recollect, assured me that he had seen the city
aud its inhabitants with his own eyes, but had
been afraid Of being captured and had fed. OF
course did not believe him, but all the same
it is not a little strange that the accounts of
the Mexican Indians relative to the mysterious
and magnificent interior city agree perfectly. :"
AT least one very good melo1rama, THE
Merchant, is the unaiied work of woman.
Miss Martha Morton's brilliant SUCCESS has
given her high rank as playwright. II is re-
lated by the ItlUSt1 dted american that since
her earliest girlhood Miss Morton devoted her
self to studying dramatic form and style in
writing. Her maiden effort was devoted to a
dramatizatlon of George Eliots great novel
| Thentollowed number of busy years when
| study divided the hours with composition
Three years ago, at the time highpressure liv-
i ma was aSIt;a9ting public sentiment;
read by number of managers who,
one after another, declined it with thanks
Finally the disappointed author put her re-
Jected effort away. anu not until her family
suggested competing for a newspaper prize did
she dream it would ever be resurrected from
| the seclusion of her pigeon-holes The manu-.
script won the first prize. and, after production
at matinee performance, was again threatened
with oblivion. The play was finally purchased
but another delay of twelve months occurred
before it met with the ultimate SUCCESS il has
scored IN the last few weeks. Miss Morton has
charmlnglY unaffected manners, is delightful
conversatiOnalist, her fine reasoning powers in
tultive perceptions and close observation com.
bnng to render her unusually attractive and
entertaining.
TIE HEAVY RAIN on the afternoon of July 4
was the cause of mnch excitement in Water
bury, Conn. A Hebrew dealer in sponges. with
his stock in trade on his back. was walking
through the principal streets when the shower
came on. He was not dressed in holiday attire
so he did not mind the rain. But his load of
sponges evidently enjoyed the shower They
swallowed every drop that fell upon them and
} pretty soon they began to swell The faster
the rain fell the bigger grew the sponges until
| finally they took up the larger half of the
| sidewalk. A policeman whose coat sleeve
| had been dampened by coming in contact
with the mass of sponges ordered the man
10 walk IN the middle OF the street He
obeyed, but this only made matters worse His
pack grew larger and larger, until the peddler
| looked like gigantic walking mushroom. Car
| riage horses we're frightened at the sight aud
| even street car horses, which rarely nav atten-
| ton to anything but the conductors signal
turned out for him, and drew the cars off the
| track. Dogs ran after the man and made life
miserable for him by smiling at his heels and
barking. People stood totally oblivious to the
heavy rainfall and laughed until the tears came
Finally the peddler, still unconscious of the
| trouble, became worried, and a hunted look
came into his eyes. He turned off into side
street and started toward Nau9atuck, ard the
| Celebration of the Fourth went on
I HERE are couple of true stories about ami
mails. woman in New York has two canary
BIRDS The male bird is sickly and delicate. but
| 10 priced for his sweet voice The female bird
| does not sing much, but is cherished by the
| woman for her attention to her mate. There
| isn't the slightest doubt IN the world that the
| female bird could thrash her mate within an
| men or his life If she cared to do So And vet
| she submits to terrible abuse. She is pecked
| beaten and clawed all around the cage Her
| lord and master is as peevish and pettisb as q
| soured old bachelor. He is never happy unIess
| ne is whipping his spouse. She never retaliates
| never even scolds. She even feeds the disagree,
aole brute as if he were young chick. So
| much for this case of feminine devotion and
| adherence to duty" The other story
IS told for the benefit of those who
know all about the animals and can tell Won tha at