The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-16
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/ an enormous increase in the consS
/ tobacco during the last two or three Won OF
/ estimated that each lead OF the pOpus II Is
/ sumes two pounds weight Of the weet con
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| THIRTY YOUNG WOMEN were made NJ
Chicago the other day. They ought to 81 20
in their chosen profession. Women have
perceptions and quicker intuitions thanr
/ qualities often desirable In a sick room. ] | 4
| have heretofore achieved such distinction in
practice OF medicine that more Of the sex shoAl
| be encouraged TO enter this field of usefulnet Ii
4 1t offers opportunities for doing good that az
| IN many places peculiarly adapted to I'd, '
womanly hand and brain.
| Ben BUTLER has a great law practice, and
many irons in the fire besides-hs bunting fac
/ tory, his granite quarries and so on aud so
/ forth. But much of his law practice is made
| up of desperate cases. such as those claims be.
| fore the court Of claims which no one else will
/ undertake, and in which the compensation is all
/ contingent upon success Besides. like other
| men with many irons in heating, he cannot
| keep them all white hot, and loses every now
/ and then on one of them Then, too. he is one
| of the most generous and charitable of men. He
/ lives on a scale which seems extravagant TO
/ most men, keeping up three or four establish
ments-one in New York, one in Lowell,
1 one in Boston, and so on, and treating
| all his relatives and friends most gen
| erousy in all his dealings with them.
Rough and gruf as he sometimes seems,
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| sionate ear and hand are always Open He
| gives away a small fortune each year, to say
| nothing OF bis thank you" practice, which eX-
| ceedS that of any other LAWYER in the United
| states, and probably in the world Naturally,
| with all his shrewdness he is deceived by the
| designing, and loses more money in this way
| than most people give away. Unless his forth
| coming "reminiscences" yield a large sum
! Butler will not leave large fortune behind
| him.
| You may talk about your wheat corners"
said the old 49er to the Chicago Eyening Post,
| but they don't compare with the corner in
| cats man got up in California in the early
| DAYS San Francisco at that period was a tum-
! b,e-down village of pine boards built on
| marsh. The place was oveTrun with large,
| long-talled, voracious rats which made life
| burden TO the inhabitants We who lived there
| then weren't particularly delicate IN our per
| sonal tastes, but when it came to losing toes
and fingers while we slept we got right up and
| objected to the limit of our vocabuaries. There
| were few cats in the town, of course,
| but they were kept too busy TO in
| crease any, and their daily walks were
| so full OF excitement that they didn
! live long Well it finally got to be case of
| too bad, and cats were quoted on the Bourse at
| $50 per ordinary cat Experienced cats and
| cats with records brought higher prices. Down
in the southern part of the state they had more
| cats than they knew what to do with. smart
| chap in Los Angeles heard about the state of
affairs in Frisco, and he goes and borrows all
! the money he can and then buys up every cat
1
| loads Cap Haley's Sea B I'd with EN-, brings EN-
| up to our town and auctions 'em off. He gets
| as high as S15 apiece and clears several
thousand dollars. The cats did the business too,
and inside of six weeks there wasn't a solitary
rat in San Francisco. But we had q devil of a
time afterward getting rid af the cats"
| HALF of the American women, or perhaps all
of them, who spend their money and energies
| in obtaining a presentation to royatY-at the
| point of the bayonet, so to speak-have but one
] IN ~Tarr iG TO haul hnn al
| quarters with the Queen of England, and
breathed the same atmosphere for about two
| and one half seconds as that pudgy but vlrtuous
| monarch. This is something to relate to ones
relatives at home, perhaps The cost of pre-
! sentation, as every one knows, ranges from
hundreds to thousands of dollars, but of course,
| the good American, like Mr.. Mantalini, "dem'ds
| the expense and is only too thankful
| If no divorce nor scandal prevents
the Lord Chamberlain from ordering
| taboo at that or any other royal function in
| the hereafter. Judging, however, by the names
| which have already been sent in by that exalted
| functonary, the Overrlch citizen of the United
States does not always get there. The line, it
seems, can be drawn, even at a court presenta-
| ton. Let us be grateful for so much. although
| it breaks millionaire heart or two to find the
! Mighty Dollar is not sesame in a royal palace.
| 1t seldom happens that money fails key,
but at this precious court of s.. James there is
| sort of Yale lock which deties it. And, after
| all is said and done and the American society
| beauty has been stared at by naughty royalty,
| and has heard her names called in the halls of
| the elect, what theay Is it not very silly, very
| absurd, and about as childish as the perform
ances at fashionable dancing school class?
WHEN William H. Crane, the actor, fell upon
the stage during a performance of The Sen
ator'' in New York last fall, says the Chicago
NetCS the physicians said that he was atfii cted
with neart failure This is a pretty serious
thing to be charged with. Itinduced complete
reformation in the routine and methods of the
actor life. No more hearty dinners, no more
| late suppers no more champagne luncheous
were INDUCED in. Crane has put away all THESE
vanities and has become an abject slave to a
simple diet and a vast amount of outdoor exer-
else. The result is that he is feeling strong
active and ambitious, but he is so thin as to be
hardly identified as the William H Crane who
twelve months ago pulled the beam at 200
pounds. The physicians now say that his
ailments is dyspepsia. Our acquaintance with
Mr.. Crane began ten years ago. He then
returning from tour to the Pacific coast with
Mr.. Robson. For some time he had been
afflicted with dyspepsia, but he told us that he
had at last discovered a certain cure. at is
champagne" said he. six weeks ago began
to drink it, and have been recovering rapidly
| | have a good appetite, can digest anything and
am making flesh fast | am satisfied that
champagne is the sovereign cure for dyspepsia.
At that time Mr.. Crane weighed 1876 pounds
| diligent of champagne for ten years
added sixty five pounds to his weight, and then
all at once it was discovered that the cure had
induced a more malignant attack of the old
malady! Last fall MIR. Crane told us that for
ten years he had not been able to sleep on his
left side; that whenever he tried to do so he
suffered with palpitation of the heart. man
standing high in the medical profession in
Great Britain is authority for the statement
that 40 per cent. of masculine adults in Eng
land and America cannot sleep upon the left
side, to such an extent have they suffered to.
bacco to vitiate the functions of their hearts
AS for Mr.. Crane, although he eats circumspect-
edly, drinks wines or LIQUORS and exercises
diligently, he has not quit tobacco; on the con-
trary he continues to smoke as many cigars per
diem as he did during that halcyon period when
champagne was effecting its marvellous cure.
LEARN that Mrs. John W. Mackay invited a
theater party to the Vaudeville theater in Lon
don on Wednesday evening of last week. writes
a Chicago Post reporter, to encourage Harry
Dam, who is described by the London papers as
The California journalist" Why Harry Dam
should be thus encouraged is satisfactorily ex-
planned by the Information that the California
Journalist on that occasion produced his new
play, Diamond Deane." I am also told that
the play, while not an assured success. is by no
means failure, and that the great London
critics treat i. kindly. To all Californans Harry
Dam is a familiar name. first met him four or
five years ago when he was private secretary
to Gen. George Stonenan, who at that time
was governor of California. Dam was a
San Francisco youth of enterprising char
acter and attractive qualities, who man.
aged with considerable difficulty to make a