The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-05
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! and thus cut of an immense source of revenue.
ANY seUINT OR CAST in the eye can be cured
without the expense of going TO a physician o.
an ocuhst. 1t is only nee ssaIy to get a pail
! of spectacies with plain glass IN and TO colol
| the center Of one of the le ses black. The eyC
| Will naturally make effort to look straight
| ahead all the time. and after few days the eff
| fOrt will be impercepUible. With a child a cure
| can be effected IN week, and with a grown
| person month viii suIce TO remedy the worst
| case Wearing smoked glasses is the best posi-
| BILE safeguard for weak eyes when in a stronl
| light and even these will help to get rid of a
| cast by strengthening the eyes and relieving
| them from unnecessary eXertlon.
| HAD slipped into a back seat Of a very large
| African church at Columbia, S. c., one SUNDAY
| evening, and was watching the taking of offer
| tory, says a writer in the Christian Union
| when one of the deacOns, with that tact which
| belongs TO almost all the colored race, came
| and politely offered to carry up for me any con
| trlbution which J cared TO make. handed hin
| q @5-cebJ piece and with lnlmltabe ponpoSity
| he marched down the long aisle, carrying the
| beSgarly coin so that everybody could see it
Suddenly he turned on his heel and came back
| more rapidly, hundreds of white spots flashing
| in the St alum of shade like ire-hies against a
weedy fence, as the curious eyes of the crowd
were turned to follow him. Arrived within
| speaking distance, the good old man called out
| IN q whisper audible to half the congregation,
do you want any changer
NM WOW VI hoAo d II p6Opi6s OO
! evidently thinks the Boston Transcript, as will
be seen from the following: How long will
we have to wait for dinner? says the well
dressed and presumably well heroine of
one OF the dialogue comics in this weeks Life.
The author did not mean to make this woman
sneak bad English; he was simply a New
Yorker, and wrote will when he should have
written shall because, being a New Yorker he
didn't know any better. 1t is odd, after all, to
what an extent grammar is a matter of ge-
OgTaDlV. The educated Nav XOrkar furill
we do this and viii we do that; the unedu-
Gated Boston horse-car driver, if he is only 10
the manner born, never mixes his wills and his
shaHS. IT the thing goes much further it will
become necessary for rich New Workers to send
their sons and daughters to school in New Eng
land merely to learn where TO say will and
where TO say shall
DO YOU Know" said wen-known ex-coa-
federate officer to the New York Sun,
that the confederate government was
the only government in the world that
really enforced prohibition? During the war
the government prohibited the manufacture of
liquor IN Virginia. II was here that the army
was, and the same prohibition extended to the
other southern states. This law was made be
cause the government wanted all the grain TO
feed the people. The further result was that
the confederate army was the sobereSt army
that the world ever had The little liquor that
| could be had was only obtained upon the pre-
scrlgtlOn of a surgeon The first three barrels
guard through West Virginia and consigned TO
leading surgeon. They were carted over the
mountains and several days were occupied in
the trip. AT their destination the barrels were
found to be empty. At first this was a mystery,
but an examination showed that gimlet hole
had been bored in each cask, the liquor drawn
out and the hole neatly plugged. The whole
battalion sent along as guards for this LIQUOR
had IN this way swallowed it all gradually, and
though big row was raised, it was impossible
TO fix the offenSe on any one"
An ENTERPRIsING HEBREW kept tavern in a
small village in Roumania. The harvest had
not been good, and consequently business in
his place was dull, One evening he sat at the
door of the tavern and got into conversation
with one of the influential villagers who hap
pened to pass by, All on a sudden Isaac for
that was the name OF the tavernkeeper, seized
the vIllager by the arm. and with an expression
of surprise and awe depicted on his face, he
| pointed to tree on the other side OF the road
little above the tavern, and exclaimed,
| Look The vllager looked. but saw
! nothing, and asked Isaac whether he
| had the tremens. What cried Isaac, in
avoice filled with indignation: "Do you not see
| that glorious apparitiOn in the tree? 1t is that
| of St Peter, for he holds the keys in his hand
and halo of light surrounds his head " OF
| course, the villager saw the apparition, and
| knelt down. Other villagers who came by also
saw the manifestation as soon as they learned
what was the matter, for it would never do fol-
/ an orthodox Christian not to see what an unbe-
! lleNlng jew Witnessed. Inc news spread far
! and wide. A church was built on the spot. and
| pilgrims came from near and far to visit the
! shrine or course. nearly every pilgrim stopped
/ at Isaac S tavern to take drink and Isaac be-
came rich man.
THE most peculiar document that has been
filed at the Massachusetts probate office at
Springfield in many week came in the will OF
Lavina Boyce of WestheId. Lewis F. Boyce
her husband, receives the use and income of the
cid
that town, but after his death the property is 70
be divided into three parts by imaginary lines
drawn from the front to the back of the lot
Helen E. Amsden, daughter, is to have the
westerly third of the place, onethird of the at
| tic aud cellar, and three rooms on that side of
| the house. Alice r. Hoey, another daughter,
| gets the middle third of the lot, the central
| third of the cellar and attic and the rooms on
| the first floor not already disposed of, while
receive the easterly third of the land,
the remaining fraction of the cellar and attic,
and the rooms on the second story. He is
granted the right to build flight of steps on
the outside of the house, if he wishes to reach
his tenement. The instrument specifies that all
expenses TO the house for outside repair are to
be borne propOrUlOnately by the three, while
each is TO have of the inside stairs and hall
way as may be necessary in reaching the cellar
and garnet. In order to secure this prize they
must pay off a mortgage of over $780, in sums
unequally divided among them, and specified to
exact cents Minute particulars are laid down
for the transmission Of the third of the prop
erty first mentioned.
SENATOR CALL of Florida is in Washington
attending to a little private business, says a
| special to the New York World. The senator
| declares that Gov. Fleming has no authority To
| make or unmake senators, and says that he
| does not care whether the governor signs his
! credentials or not: he has been elected, and
| there are fifty presidents upon which to take
ms seat. Ct all public men who make speeches
! on the floor of the House or Senate, Senator
Call Is the greatest terror to the official stem
| ographerS and printers of the Congress- ona
| Record. Call has been known TO make an off
hand speech on a Florida railroad land grant
! that occupied three days, and when he finally
| TOOK his seat it was with leave to print that
| he dragged out through the entire session. In
fact, on one occasion, he carried large batch
OF manuscript to the government printing Office
several days after congress had adjourned
aud asked to have it inserted IN the
revised edition of the Congressional Record
CAL always gets from the official stenographers
| the manuscript of his speeches and revises il
| however, consists in the additions which he
makes to it. Under the system in vogue in the
stenographic corps the writer's who transcribe
! tue stenographers' notes are in the habit of put
tlhg out a Few words on page for convent
ence IN distributing copy among the printers
as Well as to enable senators to interline correc
| Ilobs. In editing his own manuscript 1t was
senator Call 5 custom regiously TO fill up every
olanK line on the page. If the page was nearly
iull, OF course he could only add a line or two,
| put II thsre were only few words on the page
| ne would pad It out conScientlously TO the very
| bottom. IL took the stenographerS a long time
| 10 get on TO Senator Call. but when they did
an order was issued to leave no blanks In bis
| manuscript The plan worked perfectly, for
! thereafter the senator's corrections were com.
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