The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-08
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yard and settle the matter between them. His
lordshlp's kindly meaning seems to have been
misunderstood, for in the course of half an hour
or so the "costers" returned into court, one of
them with eyes blackened and his face cut and
bleeding, and the other in a state of excitement
betokenlng the authorship OF his friends in
Juries. The judge learned, when it was too late,
that his advice had been accepted in its White
chap,l sense. and that the two men had bella
bored each other until one of them resigned the
donkey to save his own person.
A VENERABLE MULE. with an eventful history
was pointed out on the streets of Dennison last
week, according to special dispatch to the st.
Louis Globe Democrat. IL is the property of
Ben. Walker, and is known to be- 40 years old
During the war it was in the Red River Depart
ment OF the confederate service. At the battle
or Honey Grove in the Creek Nation, the muIa
was attached to the artillery service 1t was
with Gen. Price at the battle of Elkhorn Tavern,
Mo, 1t was also in the Pea Ridge campaign, and
was at one time ridden by Gen Holmes of
confederate fame, when Gems. Marina
duke and Hindman reiterated TO Little Rock
Ark. After the affair with the federal general
Blount the mule was used in the ambulance
department. II has been in a number of bat
ties. but never stampeded or lost its presence
OF mind. Recently while standing on Main street
the venerable animal did not look dav over 10
years old. Jimmie Dare is sleek and fat with a
bright eye and elastic step, and Ben Walker in
formed the Globe Democrat man that last
spring he travelled over 800 miles through the
Cnlckasaw and Choctaw nations, averaging
twenty-five miles a day, and that Jimmie
showed no evidence of fatigue.
1T is CURIOUS to know what vulgarisms
creep into the American language. says the Bos-
ton Globe, even the language spoken by we'll
educated, not to say cultured people. Just at
present your ear is narrowed by phrase, or
rather word, much used by our bellies who
assist afternoon hosteSses at the function called
tea: !" My dear" says one girl to another
In m invite invited to pour for Mrs COMMONWEALTH
next W ,se % are you? Well. she
ment. Heavens and earth, ! thought, what is
the meaning Of pour and 'turn?" 1t was some
time before the verbs of their implied noun
made connection in my brain, and then the
desire to stand these young women in a corner
was SO intense retired to avoid a demonstra-
ton. The century has, indeed, grown old and
lazy where the tongue finds so small a word as
Yea difficult of utterance. To pour tea is
ABOUT as simple phrase as can be spoken, and
TO drop the final word tea is to render it intoler
ably vulgar. The custom at large afternoon re-
ceptons here OF having two good-looklng girls
perform the service, generally imposed on SER
wants IN well appointed houses in London is
thoroughly American, and so, too, is the abom-
lnabe fault which has grown out of it.
A REMARKABLE ADVENTURES, named Delphine
Geyler, whose notoriety is of long date, and
who practiced her arts with varying success In
Paris, London and other European capitals has
been condemned at Pau to six months impris-
onment, the sentence being afterward increased
to two years by order of the Paris court. This
new Becky Sharp was born of respectable
parents at Nantes in 1899 and received a good
education in a convent at Algiers After two
years or so of welded life In the African colony
she became impatient of domestic ties and went
on TO Paris with clever young fellow who
afterward rose to be noted statesman About
the year 1868 the Geyler was wandering about
france as countess. She lived in great STYLE
put came to grief at Lyons, where she
had her first experience of the dock and
the prison, having been condemned to
one years Imprisonment for obtaining goods
under false pretenseS. On her liberation she
passed through various cities, from time to
Tune acting as governess, music teacher, or
dame de campagnie in which last capacity she
Is said to have been employed for while in
London A few years ago she come to Paris,
where she obtained considerable sum of
money from the vicar of a metropolitan parish
whose church she promised to get her husband
to restore: The said spouse was represented
to the estimable ecclesiastic as a wealthy En-
gllsh lord. Delphine Geyler was arrested
lately at LourdeS where she was engaged in
perpetrating frauds on several pious and
opulent pilgrims to that celebrated shrine.
THE buttermillH mans shadow is now cast
across the curb in various parts of New York
The buttermilk man may have but single can
sunk in a kind of push-cart, the outfit not una
like patent fire extingusher, or he NAV have
stylish four-wheeler with mule attachment
deckload of cans and relay of white aproned
drawers. He may sell buttermilk only and
sometimes, to the unhappy encouragement of
the liquor traffic, be it said very poor quality
OF buttermilk. Then again he NAV include
sweet milk, cream and half-and half two parts
OF milk TO one part of creamy and even iced tea
And how the nickles and dimes merrily chink
and chirrup at him about monday! In the lower
crookedand crowded streets of the metropolis
there is a constant and steady current of coin
He is not allowed to stop long in one spot, but
there he is, somewhere. at midday in little
| thirsty crowd of messenger boys, clerks
office lads, curbstone brokers and what.
not. doing lively trade. Uptown the butter
milk man is usually a woman behind a white
marble bar aud in front of a line of battered
cans in coolers. There is usually glass case
containing snowy balls of cottage cheese other
cases of fresh Orange county butter and drip
ping glasses galore. The dairymad who never
saw a COW in her life, at least with the skin on
plunges long handled tin concern down into
the northeast corner of the buttermilk can
and by quick and clever twist of the wrist
empties it into glass just as you expect to see
it go up her sleeve. Having extracted cents
from you Tor this mechanical Office, she turns
to another customer with an air that indicates
that the life of such dairymad is not worth
living. Buttermilk drinking in New York Is a
popular summer fashion. The beverage can be
had at any of the fashionable bars about town.
Vichy and milk is another common drink In
fact, nice sweet milk can be had at any New
York bar the year around.
BISHOP CRowrHER was born about eighty
years ago on the Benue river the largest tribu-
tary OF the Niger He was little savage boy.
and none of his people had ever seen white men
when, in 1891, MohRmmedan slave stealers at
tackled the little settlement where the lad lived
Among their captves was his mother and her
three children, including the boy, Adiai who
was to become the future bishop Of the Niger
His father. who belonged to the Egba tribe died
in defense of his home. The little boy was sepa-
rated from his captive mother and two younger
sisters, and it was many years before he saw
them again. In few months
Adjai became the property in succession. of
four masters, having been sold from one to an
other for tobacco and rum The great fear
that haunted him through all these changes
was that he might be sold to the dreaded white
men, the Portuguese slave dealers on tue coast
His terror of this fate was SO great that he once
tried to throw himself into a river apd on sew
eral occasions attempted to strange himself
with his belt. The fate he feared, however
overlook him, for he found himself at last con-
fined in a sitting slave shed on the
coast. with iron letters around his neck
and a chain fastening him to his COM
rades in misery. One night he was taken on
board slave ship with cargo of 1877 others
and was soon on his way to Cuba or Brazil But
help was at hand. The British warship Mirmi-
don saw the SLAYER as she started on her Journey
and went in pursuit. The SLAYER was captured.
and Adjai and his fellow slaves were taken on
board the warship. and on June IL, 1922. they
were landed'-at Sierra Leone. the home of the
free The story of the poor little boy fright as he
was taken on board the man of-war has often
been told. He thought he saw the flesh of his
comrades whom he missed. hanging up in
pieces to dry, and he was Mortified to sea objects
which he mistook for their heads lying In order
on the deck. They were joints of pork and can
non balls. The boy was taken to Bathurst
where his education began. He was a bright