The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-18
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IT is easy to trace wheat back for nearly
1900 years or indefinitely earlier STILL for it
was known in the neolithe period when men
lived in dwellings, built on platforms supported
by piles driven into the lakes of Switzerland
Near the remains Of these dwellings, wheat has
been found, together with mealing stones.
hearth stones and sickles, the wheat almost
Identical in character with that of the later
Egyptian, or even that which has gladdened the
fields OF Dakota or Minnesota during the season
of 1891.
WHEN the late William Henry Smith, the
government leader of the British House of
Commons. held the position of first lord OF the
admiralty he burlesqued in "Pinaforee,"
aud the actor in e frs; cast of the part made
up 80 much like the original that when dr.
Smita once went to hear his double sing now be
polished up the handle of the big front door,
before he became the ruler of the queens
navee" the audience Immediately recognized
the real first lord' and We're convulsed with
laughter, in which Mr.. Smith heartily joined.
ONE of the latest schemes that is being
worked in New York to get something for moth
ing is the answering of srenographer's adver-
tisements in the daily papers with requests for
trial OF course a lady stenograpner who
wants job does not object to a fair test of her
capacity. When a business man sends for one
of these, however, and tries her on a whole
mornings work, and the mornings work being
done, either thinks she won't do or offers her a
rldlculously small salary, he usually gets so
up, making diff rent appointment. ne can
have a new stenographer and typewriter every
morning OF the week without expense. 1t
would seem improbable that any man would
thus take advantage of young women seeking
employment. But It is an UNREASONABLE fact
that certain class of alleged business men are
guilty OF this very thing. A man like that
would rob graveyard.
A CURIOUS shooting affair which occurred in
Medora, n. D., is thus described by Theodore
Roosevelt: Il did not see the actual occurrence,
but saw both men afterward and heard the
shooting. which took place in a saloon on the
bank while was swimming my horse across
the river. will not give the full names of the
two contestants as l am not certain what has
become of them, though was told that they
had since been put in jail or hanged, | forgot
which. One of them was a saloonkeeper,
famiiiaTly called Welshy. The other man, Hay,
bad been pickering with him for some time.
One day Hay entered the saloon and the QUAR-
rel became at once violent. WeIshy suddenly
whipped out his revolver and blazed away at
Hay. Hay staggered slightly, shook himself,
stretched out his hand aad gave back to his
wouldbe slayer the ball, saying: Here, man,
here the bullet 1t had glanced ong the
breast-bone, gone roundabout course, and
come out at the point of the shoulder. when.
being spent, it dropped down the sleeve into
his hand"
LUCKY" BALDWIN. the muti-millionaire
minor and horssman of Caforna a, was seen in
the corridors of the Leland yesterday afternoon.
says the Chicago Herald. He is on his way to
New YORK to see his string of horses, but he
stopped in Chicago to close contracts with fur
niture dealers 70 furnish SS,00J,000 hotel be
owns at san francisco, known as tue Baldwin
hotel, and also an immense hotel at Santa
Anita, Cal, and another in Eldorado county,
California. Asked - to how he obtained the
sobriquet Of Lucky" Mr.. Baldwin said that
when he made his first deal in the Opair mine
the Flood Mackay and O'Brien gang" tried to
down" him, but he 'downed" ITEM On &C
count Of this victory over the bonanza kings he
was then called Lucky" Baldwin. Mr. Baldwin
says that all TIE sympathy on the coast IN the
Searles-H Hopkins will contest is with young
Timothy Hopkins, and every body believes he
ought to get tue money he is fighting for. Mr..
Baldwin says it is a mistake to believe that the
bottom has been knocked out of the California
real estate boom. He says the days OF deti-
tious prices are over, but that the state has the
soil and climate He makes more money, he
says, off one acre of an orange grove in LaI.
ifornia than he does of a whole farm
of 16G acres he owns near South
Bend Ind. MIR. Baldwin sold $780, 900 worth
of California land the other day. and expects
to sell $500, 900 worth more in short time
But he has plenty left. as he owns 5000 acres
in Que cody in California. His present wealth
is estimated at S2O,O00.0OQ The
companion travelling with LUCKY is a typical
old '49er. j. b. Christy. He is 70years old, with
snow-wnite locks now growing thin and
scarcely seen under big SLOUGH hat; but he is
broad should red and tall and almost as spry
as spring lamb.
THERE is an old saying that a woman can
throw out with spoon faster than man can
throw in with a shovel. Without reference TO
the apparent injustice of the comparison be-
tween the two sexes, 1t must be admitted that
the thrlftness of the family depends as much
upon the economy Of the pouse mother as upon
the industry of the wage-earner No one
should deSpiSe small economies, though it is
not an economy to use up a dollars worth OF
time in order to save a tuppenny worth of ma
terial. Clothes may be patched and mended to
that extent that it were actual saving of money
to buy material rather than put so much nav
cloth on old garments. Despite all this, there
is not the least excuse Tor any woman
allowing any particle OF good pour-
ishing food to be thrown away II is inst
as easy to COOK the meat that has been cooked
before as it is TO cook fresh meat Every par
ticle of fat cut from the kitchen meats should
be carefully fried out. Coarse fats ike mutton
lamb and turkey are for the soap fats, but are
none the less valuable for that. Beef fat prop
erly clarified and strained is equal to butter for
shortening ana frying. 1t is incomparably bet
ter than lard. Brosdcrumbs saved from each
days cutting of bread, properly dried in the
oven and rolled and sifted go far toward keep
ing stock of breadcrumps on hand for veal
crOQuettes and other dishes. II every particl5
of stale bread is saved. pounded and sifted.
there neeI bs not Jar. of cracker crumbs pur-
chased II the housewife is careful to save all
the bits of Irvine. wrapping paper, etc, she will
always tind them useful and great deal of
time and petty annoyance will be saved in this
way Habits Of small saving incucate a spirit
OF thrift which goes far in young people to ward
making them useful and efficient memCers OF
society. Oae OF the greatest follies whca can
be committed in this direction, however. is to
co1coct uses merely TO use up material The
pasty bread buildings, which 10 one likes, and
probably no one ever did like, may be charged
TO such'eXcess of ill-directed economy. Valua-
bic eggs milk and other materials which would
make an excellent custard are wasted in the
desire TO fuse up" The brcadcrumbs in thiS
way. There are excellent bread buildings. bnt
they are not made Of undried Overwhelmingly
soaked in custard apparently for no other reason
than to save them