The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TIE ISLAND OF JUAN FERNANDO, once in
habited by Robinson Crusoe, is now tenanted by
/ former Austrian officer, Baron Won Redth
/ who. after being forced by the terrible wounds
which he received at the battle Of Sadowa in
1856 70 leave the army, grew tired OF the
/ monotony OF existence in civilized Europe, and
determined TO devote his fortune TO a life Of ad-
venture. For fifteen years past he has been
/ living on the Island of Juan Fernandez with a
small colony of natives and of European de-
serters from civilization. and only communi-
/ eating with the world once a year, whea he
/ sends his fine sailing yacht TO Valparaiso for
| provisions and supplies
II YOU DROP A NICKEL with string attached
keeping the end of the string in your hand,
| have you really dropped the coin? An Iowa
| judge has decided in the affirmative. An in
| genious youth in that state tied thread TO
| nickel, dropped the nickel ia a slot machine,
| got what he wanted, then, Withdrawing the
nickel by the thread repeated the operation
until he had made clean sweep of the recepte-
cle's contents. He was arrested on the charge
| OF theft, but the judge who tried him held that
| ne had committed neither burglary, larceny,
| nor robbery, nor even obtained property under
| false pretenSes. He had merely done what the
| inscription on the machine told him to do-drop
nickel In the Slot-and had kept on doing it.
| Nothing was said about leaving the coin where
| IT was dropped. This decision will probably
abate nuisance.
MANY visitors to Paris have lately been re-
| marking on the rows of sealing wax of all hues
anu SudueS. many DellR mover cOlOrS, which are
| exposed in the windows Of the fashionable sta
| TONERS shops IL now appears that meaning
is attached TO each of these colors, which is as
eloquent in its silence as the language Of flow
! ers In this new language white means pro-
posal OF marriage; black. DEATH and violet, con-
| doence. Chocolate is used for invitations to
Inner, VerInlllon Tor business communicat ons,
| Whlle ruby, suggestive of coral lips and bleed
ing hearts is used to seal the miSsives little Don
Cupid inspires. Green is typical of hope for OBJ
vlous reasons; brown, of melancholy; blue, of
unllON raf iacle DALI
Is the color selected for notes containing a re-
| proof; pink is affected by young ladies when
writing 70 each other, and gray is used for let
| tiers to friends who have passed the age when
| pink would be appropriate.
DURING surgical operations it is often neces-
sary TO use red-hot metal point to arrest
hemorr hage, and for this purpose an apparatus
| is employed consisting of hollow PLATINUM
| tube, through which current Of air and hydro
| carbon yapor passes The PLATINUM point is
first heated in spiriE lamp. and the vapor cir
| culatlng in the center of the tube keeps it at
| any desired heat depending on the quantity
OF Vapor used. modified device,
| based upon the same principle
| has been introduced for engraving purposes
| In this apparatus the tracing-tool may be
| changed to suit the character of work to be
| done. For industrial decoration and orna-
| mentation on large scale this method
| of engraving. to which the name
| OF pyrogravure has been given, offers an ad-
miraole and practical means of utilizing the
workman
THERE was northern farmers allianceman
who went to Kansas to interfere behalf of ingalls,
who had flea put in his ear which he thought
was as big as an elephant says the New York
FTesS His name is John Livingstone, and he
is president of the New York Farmers Alliance
he was in Topeka for two days trying to get
the alliaucemen to vote for Ingalls,. At first he
was taxen Into the inner councils as q brother
linen he got the cold shoulder; then he was told
that It was not wise for him to stay in town,
ana hnally he got such warning about the DOS
slbility of violence being done him that he left
the city secretly, taking night train, after an
nouncin that he intended leaving at a different
hour. Would they have injured him? No.
They played big game of bluff and scared him
out he was as safe from harm in Topeka as
at home. The character of the members of the
legislature, am bound to say, is much higher
on the average since the alliance came into con-
troll of it,
THE ASTOUNDING RESULT which American en-
terprise may bring from even such beginnings
as '10-cent show is illustrated, says the New
York World, by the case of a Buffalo and
toronto promoter of popular amusemenus who
was IN New York yesterday. This mans name
Is NJ. ). Robinson and he has actually within
five years, starting with capital Of S. 600
realized from that species of American enter
| talnments which he calls the 'Nmusee-theater"
what some of his business rivals say can't be
| much less than half million. How? He
says it is possible for the cheapest to be
| the best, and that he has succeeded in
getting the solid citizens of Buffalo and Toronto
| to go to his muses. with their wives and
| daughters by absolutely refusing to permit the
| slightest coarseness of costume, song or action
IN ms houses Then, too, I've made them
| worth seeing for their own sakes; even were
| there nothing but the decorations to see, a
| muSee on which have spent nearly $780, OO as
at Buffalo, will of itself draw crowds of the
| curious. am going to establish a circuit of
| such houses, and by and by, when am worth a
| million, am coming to New York TO live as all
! good Americans do, and double or lose my mil
| lion here"
| a MAN who made fortune as a magician in
this country, and who is now making fortune
in another line of professional endeavor, said
| Thursday to the New York World that one of
| the greatest difficulties he found in doing his
| tricks was the securing of intelligent confeder-
| ates in the audience. Conjurers usually leave
| But he saw the confederates himself in each
| case and instructed them faithfully as to their
duties and how they were to perform them
The difficulty that confederates have to over
| come Is the tendency to be too prompt in their
| offers of assistance and in their proffers of
articles to loan. Very few confeder
ates, again, are able to simulate
| to be overcome In the matter of confederates
| and that was tbs danger of their becoming In.
toxlcated between the time they were employed
| and the time they were called upon to perform
In this condition they are apt to forget their
| promise not to give anything away and become
| instruments in the hands of practical iokers to
| procure the discontinue and embarrassment of
| the magician on the stage. In one instance a
| young man. who was carefully arranged so that
The dexterouS conjurer could pull two live rabbits
| from inside his vest, was got hold of by the
| humorist of the theatrical establishment where
| the magician was performing and two dead cats
| we're substituted for the two live rabbits and
| when the inside of the young mans vest was
| called upon to give up the magician was lust as
| much surprised at the result as the audience
| was. In another case a young girl who iisap-
| peared from the stage during the course of one
| OF the tricks, and who was supposed to appear
| at the back of the house at given signal was
| arrested outside by policeman when she was
| making her way from the stage door to the
| front of the house, and the coniurer after wait
| ing for her several minutes, was obliged to ring
| down the curtain.
| THE tragedies in the official family of Presi
dent Harrison, says the Sum- great though they
are, are matched by those in the cabinet Of
President Tyler fifty years ago. That admins
tration began with tragedy, for the death of
the aged Gen. Harrison, though occurring from
natural causes, cannot be counted in view of all
| the circumstances, as aught but tragic In
| December of the next year, 1912 occurred the
tragedy of the United States ship Somers-the
| mutiny, the trial by court-martial and the exc
cution OF three sailors, one of whom was the son
| of the actual Secretary of War. In
| June, 1843, the President, with soma OF
his cabinet, journeyed to Boston to at
| tend the ceremonies of the dedication az
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