The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! I'll WARRANT you never saw more liberal
set Of men than those employed on railroads
when il comes to helping out family in dis
/ tress," remarked a Buffalo man, who knew
what he was talking about Go where you
/ viii in a railr0an Office. shop or yard, with q
I subscriptioniin aid Of an injured fellow-em-
ploye. or the family of one deceased, and the
men VINO refuse among hundreds 10 contribute
/ are few and far between. You can gamble that
I they would also contribute, except for neces-
! sites Of their own. In com parisOn with their
/ pay and risk they run, railroad men are the
most liberal OF any class OF men in the country,
not even excepting our millOnaires."
ONE NIGHT recently the First Congregational
church at Columbus, o., was the scene of O
/ small sensation. A large concourse had gath
cred TO hear the Rev. G. W. Hiatt preach. The
/ subject Of his sermon was The Negro Ques-
ton" Referring to the proposition to send he
negroes all back TO Africa, and in showing the
| causes which continued the sectional strife be-
! tween the north and south, Mr. Hiatt made the
statement; The hatred between the two sec
/ tons will never disappear as long as it is tAe
| desire Of every white man IN the south to shoot
/ the negro and every white girl in the north to
marry one" Immediately number of the
/ feminine portion of the congregation hurriedly
/ retired with the most injured expressions on
| their cOuntenances. Others regarded the state
| ment as q pulpit joke" and laughed accord
| ingly.
FROM VIENNA comes weird story about the
skull Of Mozart, bequeathed by Prof. Hyntl,
! tue 6uhLOmlsL, TO Lle AOZarLOuTn at SalLOurR.
| The skull which has just found its way to the
depository Of other relics of the great COM
poser, was taken many years agofrom MoZart's
grave in the cemetery of st. Marx at Vienna,
| by the gravedigger, who had been much i'm
pressed with MoZart's com positions. He kept
| 1t in a cupboard at his home, showing it only
| TO his most intimate friends The finding OF
the SKULL was recorded In the calen lar and
when the grave digger died his successor, an
| enthusiastic lover of music. came into posses
sion OF both calendar and skull One day the
r~Snffs fha .nNa -
81. Marx to see his NJ others tomb. over
| taken by a storm and was invited into the
/ grave-digger's house. The latter showed him
| the skull and, upon Hyntl stating that his
brother was phrenoogist and would be much
| interested in the relic. the grave-digger pre-
| sented 1t TO him The skull, like the skulls of
Beethoven, Haydn aud Schubert, is rather dis
| appointing to those who look for signs of the
genius which inhabited it.
THE late W. ]. Hanks was at one time the
foreman of the Gould & Curry mine, and on
one occasion Just after a skip had been low
cred for the 1890 level of the mine, loaded with
miners TO relieve another shift carman. by
some biunder. dumped into the mouth of the
shaft a carload of newly sharpened picks, that
went hurting down the shaft with gathering
velocity, and seemingly carrying death and de-
struction to everything in their path. The
foreman and workmen on the surface were
| horror-stricken, and in less time than it takes
| to tell it, Hanks signeled, but the skip was
struck, and he hurriedly descended the pump
|
great relief he found the miners had made the
descent in safety, and were, in fact. unaware of
any accident having happened An inspection
or the shaft revealed the fact that not a single
one of the murderous picks had reached the
| bottom, and they were found at various points
stuck fast in the tmbers of the shaft In falling,
the hand eS had swerved them in curves from
side to side Of the shaft, and with the acquired
! force they had all been caught and firmly en-
| bedded in the wooden walls. 1t was with great
relief that Hanks detached and sent them to
| the surface.
THE st. Louis Globe Demo crat tells about a
cranky invention of a western man who thought
that horses are worked too hard. 1t was car
riage which ran on four very high wheels.
The driver sat in front and the passengers on
each side, like those on an Irish haunting car
The horse was underneath the affair and Wit, yIed
| along with only his head sticking out like q
| turtles. The beauty of the arrangement was a
four-foot belly-band that went underneath
the horse, and when the concsrn started down
hill the driver turned crank and lifted the
horse off the ground. and the whole business.
horse and all rolled on together till level road
| turned, the horse lowered till his feet reached
the ground WIN en business was resumed in the
old way. The advantage of the invention was
| that il enabled the horse to ride down hill; the
disadvantage was that it could not foresee and
follow the windings of a road. There is nc
| knowing how much might come OF it,
ran of the track one day when going down q
winding hill, ran into a gulch, killed a horse
| smashed the whole contriyance TO pieces and
hurt the man so badly that when he got well he
declined to undertake the construction of an
| other.
BURHMEsE WOMEN are as tall as the men
much more fully developed and frequently
quite good looking. But the iron rule Of fashion
forces them to hide their rosy cheeks under a
thick coating of teu,la black, sticky, paste.
made of catochu. This is to preserve their
complexion from tie cutting wind-so say those
who are matter-offact, but others tell differ
ent tale. More than hundred years ago there
| lived at Lh'a great saint named Demo Rim
peche, who did much to restore the purity OF
monastlc life. which had greatly suffered under
the icentious rule Of the sixth pontiff of Lh'asa
when a monk goes abroad he must keeE
his eyes fixed the ground some lit
tie distance ahead of him, looking neither &c
the right nor to the left; but the rosy cheeks
and bright eyes OF the women caused the lamas
to forget this law and great disorders ensued
Demo Rnpoche then commanded that nc
woman should 20 abroad unless her face was
well besmeared with black, and soon this be
came fashion throughout the whole country
Time and again l tried to induce girls In the
houses where l was stopping to wash theil
faces clean, promising them beads and Other
ornaments; but in vain They said they washed
only when the feasts came around, some four
or five times year.
MFRoM what is known of the first effect of gun
shot wounds, says the ST. Louis Republic. sur
geons have decided that to be shot to death i,
the first impression is known to be rather more
stunning than acute. Rapid, however, as such
a mode OF death must be, the body has leisure
to feel and time to reflect. even though it be but
for single instant. On the first attempt by
one of the frantic adherents of Spain to assas
sinate William Prince of Orange, who took the
lead in the revolt in the Netherlands, the bal
passed though the bones of his face and
brought HIM to the ground. In the instant thai
preceded stupefaction he was able to frame the
notion that the ceiling of the room had
fallen in and crushed him The cannon
ball which plunged in the brain of Charles XII
did not prevent him from Selling his sworC
hilt. The idea Of an attack and the necessity
OF defense was impressed upon him by a blow
which we would natu rally suppose to have beer
too tremendous and instantaneous to leave the
least interval for thought But, the two in
stances above related Notwithstanding it by nc
means follows that the infiicton of fatal violenc,
is accompanied by single pang of pain. Un
less death results Immediately, however, tht
pain is vaIied as the nature of the injuries
too numerous for enumeration and past count
ing up.
In THIS MIDwINTER of 1891 a mighty wine
sprang up 1t twisted folks triangularly. II
blew silk hats over into the planet Jupiter. L
snapped elm trees and almost blew over the
horse cars. Folks who faced it felt as though
slapped in the face. and it rumoled through the
land like q million Roman chariots In mad
race over the cobble stones of the moon. Thi.
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