The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The latest remarkable cure reported II
Name is that Of a 9-year-o old girl at Levant
who is SAID 10 have been cured of had case o.
spinal disease by riding a tricycle. Her trouble
dated from infancy, and she was supposed TO bt
/ dsfOrmed for life. But month ago the child S
father bought her a tricycle. and she at once be
| gan riding. at first only on smooth floors, but
| later out of doors. Lately great change has
! been noticed in her condition. Her back has
began TO straighten and her general health &c
| improve.
HARRY c. NORMAN Is the owner of handsome
setter dog which does the work of a man on the
paper route, in Atlantic City, n. j., and does il
inteligently. too. He serves me about 13s
copies of the Philadelphia Press daily, said his
| owner. Il start on one side of the street and
| he carries on the other, coming back to get
! each paper IN It's turn. lie also takes the side
avenues, and rarely, IL ever, misses a house.
| can send him the distance of two or three
| squares, where houses are just alike and he
! finds tho right one. Should he find the gate shut
and cannot open it with his paw he will jump it.
| 90 up on the porch and drop his paper. A five
| foot fence does not bother him, as he goes over
| with ease. | rarely speak to him when he is
! working, as he knows his business. Should the
| dog be stolen from me he would starve to death
| as he will not eat or drink but from my hand. -
| A FEW EVENINGS AGO I sat on the stoop of
| Frank Works residence, facing Madison
| square, writes a New York correspondent
listening with infinite amusement to his nara
| ton of some of his early experiences of life A
! famous horseman, an admirable man of bust
ness, a hOspitable host, ne is also great
hearted. big-sOuled man. such as later genera
tons find it hard to produce. He told me that
lie left MS home in Chilcothe, O., when he was
years old with a gold piece. a dime and SIX
teen pennies in his pocket, to seek his fortune
where fate should direct. Destiny sent him
down the Ohio and the Mississippi rivers to
New Orleans in tlatboat. The dime and the
pennies | spent" he said, but have the IS
gold piece in my safe at the trust companys,
and shall will it to my son. 1t was sixty-uhree
years ago that | started out with that coin, and
III leave you TO guess how much think of it. "
If the coin in its turn could tell its story what
golden chapter of reminiscence that
would be-
THE typical cowboy is seen no more; his
place is taken by barb wire fences and rail-
roads The towns where he once roamed during
his outings have settled back into quiet cities,
| noted not for their disregard for law, but for
their love of it. Here and there yet remains an
old tumble-down frame building which the old
timers will tell you was the headquarters of the
Ell Reno or Paso Del Mar saloon The number
of murders committed in its rooms will be re-
lated and perhaps some stained boards or wa Is
can be shown to tell of the bloody leeds there
committed. The men who took advantage of
the cowboys spendthrift ways have become
retired capitalists or Joined the dead cowboys
themselves in another world Yeac by year
the drive has grown less Up to last season
few hundred stragglerS we're brought up
through the territory in preference to shipping
from Texan points But there was no profit in
1t, and the probabilities are that the last herd
has ''dra sged its slow length along" over the
famous cattle trails of the vest
A SELECT PARTY of Wall street bon vivants
was personally conducted through the apart
ments of the new Kansas City chamber of COM
merce building and shown, a few days ago the
gastrOnomc nicetieS of its internal arrange
ment There Is one particular point of want
q .rfu rftgua
cafe downstairs which cannot fail at times to
afford intense delight to many participant in
its gay scenes. Standing Immediately in front
of one of the composite columns which line the
walls my attention was directed for moment
toward the street door, and in the interval l
felt gentle pressure on the arm,
which had evidently put me into the
proper focus. Turning toward the series of
eight mirrors which line the wall Immediately
opposite the main enterance, was struck with
the amazing sight of sixteen exact reflections of
my entity, each confronting me with a cur
louSly questioning glance. The management
saws that the discovery Of this particular point
from which sixteen distinct reflections of the
individual are s. glariagly apparent was an
accident At all events the spot has already
been chrstened The Sanctum OF the Jag.
and the unwary who fell in its trap will re-
| member it for many day.
| AN AMUSING EPISODE occurred the other day
near the corner of Clark and Van Buren,
streets. New York. that resulted in the great
discontinue of a gay but elderly and near
sighted masher In the door-wIndow of a
| plaster figure mandatory there is an appari-
ton OF lovely femininity attired In pink bodice
| gray seude gloves reaching to the elbows a
| lavender colored Gainsborough hat topped off
| by three ostrich plumeS, cream colored, and a
| bunch OF posies in the corsage. She is a
| blonde in her style of beauty and is about
! as clever representation Of a glddy girl
| as can be seen anywhere Ten feet away
1t requires a second look to convince
| a man with good eyes that the plaster
| figure is not that of a real girl This masher
| came along and saw the nigh colors and smiling
| and coquettlsh face. He looked the second
time and walked on Then he came back and
| looked again. Then he took position on the
curb and commenced his ogling again, when his
ears were greeted with this cry from a street
ganin: Hi there, Jimmie. Get onto the old
man trying to mash the plaster girl" The
| masher heard the sally and took in the situa-
tion at glance, and the way he made tracks
for another corner was caution TO old gay
but elderly and near sighted Washers.
ELLEN TERRY, continuing her STRAY Memo
ries' in the NeW ReUielc, gives her impression
on the subject of that singular sensation
stage fright She assures lis that it is like
nothing else in the world. You are standing
there apparently quite we'll and in your right
mind, when you suddenly feel as il your
tongue had become dislocated and was lying
poWerless in the mouth. Cold shivers begin to
creep downwards from the nape of your neck
ana all up you at the same time, until they seem
to meet in the small of your back About this
time you feel as if a centipede, all of whose feet
had been carefully iced had begun to run about
IN the roots of your hair. Your next agreeable
sensation is the breaking out of a cold perspira-
ton all over you Then you feel as though
somebody had cut the muscles at the back of
your knees; your mouth begins slowly to open
without giving utterance to a single sound and
| your eyes seem inclined to jump out of your
head over the footlights. AT this period it is as
| well TO get Off the stage as quickly as possible
| you are far beyond the hope of any human
| help One such occasion she can recall when
| she was playing at the Royalty small part in a
| Diece called The Governors Wife" II had -
| she continues, Just sense and strength enough
| TO drag myself off the stage and seize book.
| with which after a few minutes | reappeared
/ and ANONYMOUSLY read my part
| ANY TINE Joseph Flude of Indiana. Pa. wants
his hair to stand on end be need only to recall a
little trip he took oyer Laurel Hill the other
night. He was on his way to the house of John
Dick, but got off the trail. Darkness soon settled
| around him. and a drenching rain fell The
| lightning was vivid One of its flashes saved
| his hte, for by its light Flude found himself
| standing on the edge of a steep declivitv ON
| turning about he felt the sickeuing crunch ~ a
| huge snake under his foot. He escaped from
| TINS one. but IN a moment he felt something
strike his leg just below the knee. He thumped
| 1t with his umbrella and began to run.
FINALLY the umbrella broke, and Flude reached