The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-11
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THOMAS A. EDIsoN's fortune Is estimated at
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| The smart girl In the swim of Chattanooga
society is just hung all over with "fads If
she keeps up the gait she Is taking at present,
she will degenerate into a crank. Here are
some Of her fads this season (she changes them
with her seasons gowns. She goes in for pos
| ing; she gets photographed ia all kinds of
| gowns, and poses and styles. She drives she
rides, she kodaks, she Delsartes, she talks Eng
Hsn, you nav, aud she does hundred more
Iaddy things can't remember. but just now,
thank providence, her dog is relegatedl I'VE
ought to be thankful for that"
IT's too late for snake stories In this neck of
the woods. says the Davis Times, but Col Bob
Eastman is our authority for real genuine
West Virginia fishy truth. 1t is about this wise;
cyrus Ellis who works at Henry's camp. about
seven miles above this place, succeeded in land
ing about !, s23 fine trout one day last week
without hook or line. He fastened a stout stick
In the bank to which he tied a short piece OF
gum, and to this was attached a strip of RED
flannel which was allowed to float on the water
The fish would take hold of the flannel run as
far as the gum would stretch, aud in the re-
bound OF the gum would be thrown out on dry
land. Mr. Ellis was very busy during the day
and had not time TO fish in the old way.
''NoT many people in the country understand
how important part in the imports the plant
known as lcorics plays" said w. F. Gerald of
| Richmond, Va, who is at the Lindel to a re-
| porter Of the st. Louis POST Dtspdtch. 1--WE all
| know that school children are In the habit OF
| chewing 1t, and are familiar with the thick
| black sticks in which 1t is most commonly seen.
Sometimes the root is sold, but stick licorice has
about driven the root out of the market But
| this is its most important use. The tobacco
chewer is apt to look with scorn upon the masti-
Gator of lcorice, oblivious to the fact that
much 'of his enjoyment lis derived from the
| same source, as chewing tobacco without leo
| rice would not vary greatly from smoking to-
bacco. Hundreds of tons OF it are used every
| year by tobacco manufacturers. Physicians
use it extensively, and it is one of the most
valuable articles in the druggists pharmacopuia
| for Disgusting the tastes of unpleasant medi-
| cines. In porter breweries 1t is used to impart
the familiar sweetish taste, and even ale brew
ers sometimes employ 1t. All of it is imported.
the most coming from Sicily, but a very consid-
cradle quantity from England. There has
| recently been a movement set ON foot by some
| tobacco manufacturers 20 establish plantations
In this country, and before long We may raise
| our own licorice."
THIS is the time OF the year when women
begin to be sadly perplexed over the buying.of
| holiday gifts Perhaps the greatest art of all
| Is the art or buying, or rather OF giving, inap-
propriate gifts. Few persons possess 1t, and
| not every one is liberal minded enough TO &C
| quire 1t, says writer in the New Orleans
| Picopune. Now person cannot MAKE q sad
der mistake than TO give, let us say an inkstand
TO an author, ferule to a teacher, or a note
| book TO reporter. These are what dull
minded, commonplace person would approve
as exceedingly appropriate gifts. The writer
of handkerchief, not that she is possessed
OF chronic hay fever, but because
she is that sort OF q staid body for whom
nothing seems 80 appropriate as handkerchiefs.
Why, for example, not give the COOK a beau
tifal high art 81 rocking chair instead of the
inevitable calico dress, oxidized pin and pocket
handkerchief? Why not delight the house girl
with bottle of real perfume or a gorgeous
album Why not let the husband off from the
annual pair OF slippers and make him lovely
bag for his soiled collars and cuffsS Why not
send the solitary little friend whom you usually
remember with a box of letter paper, forgetting
to suggest to whom she may write letters, vase
| full OF fowersi Why not send your best young
man shade for his lamp, pair of saddIeba9s
for his rocking chair or 4 trancparent picture to
hang in his window? Why not send q growing
fern TO your best girl or years subscription
to some good magazine? In ali the shops can
be found great amount Of trash of the sort
that unpieasantly filters up house. Somebody
must buy all of this, but the worst is Somebody
must receive it all. Now, for instance, what
housekeeper is wildly yearning for plated eie-
plant hung all over, like a Chinese pagoda
with little glass cups, two fragile for .tnimbl
teaspoon is worth whole circus full of such
elephants. In fact very good plan is to give
the present $50 suitable for Mary" to John and
the present that is just the thing for John to
Mary.
SOME familiar sayings have a strange origine
Business is business" says the busy man Of
America. 1t was a long time ago that a writer
said that printer hung upon his door the
patch that business quickly" treasure was
buried by Xerxes' general Mardonius, on the
field OF Platea; Polycrates asked the Detphic
him how he could find 1t, The oracle replied
Turn every stone" And it has travelled down
the centuries until.we say Leave no stone un-
| turned" Tobias Hobson the first man in
England that let out hackney horses. When
a man came for horse he was led into the
stable. where there was great choice, hut
| he obliged him to take the horse which
stood next to the stable door, so that every Gus
toner was alike well served according to his
| chance, from whence 1t became proyerb,
when what ought to be your election forced
upon you, to say, "Hpbson's choice The ex-
preston, which Fourth of July orators have
we'll niga worn out, eternal vigilance is the
questionably, in the minds of many. OF Amer
lean origin. It may be Of some interest to the
classcally inclined sports who go to Washing
sion "Ecpse first, the rest nowhere" was
declared at EPSON, May, 1T26, by Capt
| OKelly. and found it way into Annals Of sport
ing. When Marechal Villars was taking leeve
friends. can defend myself from my enc
mics" 1t generally quoted In this country
Save me from my friends" From time i'm
memorial it has been the proper thing to call
any virtue jewel. Iago says good name is a
jewel. Shakespeare in some other
place os wr says os sHPerisdn Ise,ot,i1 wel
But the universal quotation is
Consistency, thou art jewel" Maybe
| it is so; but there is no author for the proverb
"Bitter end" is nearly without meaning as it is
used, according to BARTLETT The correct
phrase is better end" used to designate a
crisis on the moment Of an extremity add
ing insult TO injury" came about in this wise:
A fly bit the bare pate of bald man, who en-.
deavorng TO crush it, gave himself a blow
Then, said the fly, Jeeringly, You wanted to
revenge the sting OF tiny insect with death:
what will you do to yourself, who have added
insult to injury"