The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-06
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ing the year
Dr.. LESLIE KELLY, an Illinois physician,
claims to have cured over 5000 cases of drunk
ennes by injections OF lymph he makes for
| the purpose.
CRAB was caught in the harbor of Victori =
! b. e.. that was three feet six inches around the
waist It was presented to the Museum of
/ Natural Science.
/ CHINESE CAPITALIST under a concession of
LANDS free OF rent, is making arrangements to
| COLOMBO lands on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec
with Chinese agriculturists
| TIE greater quantity of hair from which wigs
are made for England's judges, lawyers and
cer<ymen comes fromChina, where it is cut from
| Tue heads or baggars, criminals and the dead.
SIGNoR AGosTNo MAGLIANI, who was Italian
| minister Of finance, with a few Interruptions,
from 1871 TO 1889, died r-csntly at the age OF S.
Inc adoption of the gold standard of currency
| oy itaIy was mainly due to Linn. He was man
OF nhe administrative ability and vast informa-
tlon, although Roman paper in 1873 remarked
IT. must not be fOrZotten that to Magliani we
| owe tine enhanced price and the inferior quality
| of CIGARS
| THERE is no denying the fact that the steady
and chronic falling off in the patronage of the
manicure has become an accomplished fact
Maroon finger nails, with a small sediment of
olushlng powder surrounding tn M, became so
frequent year or two a 20 that there was
| part or the public. large number of the
manlcures. discovering that they had missed
their vocation, have now wisely turned their
| attention 70 typewriting, bookkeeping, aud
CtneT sensible occupations, and can regard with
| lhdiHerence the decay of an industry which
| seeks to artifically exaggerate the right and
proper care OF the hands to point of Sickly
| effeminacy.
SINCE the streets became so muddy have
mad number Of sufferers apply to me for re.
sail H.
Democ OF reporter. If man has corn can
take 1t out and relieve him. but if he is suffer
ing from what call rubber fever can't helm
him, and can only prescribe liberal foot bathing
ana removal OF the cause of the trouble.
Ruooers should only b. worn TO keep wet out
and they should be removed the moment the
wearer gets indoors Failure to note this gives
man wet feet IN a far worse sense than If he
had waded through mud ankle deep. 1t was
tne trouble resulting from forcing the perspira-
lion to Sc ak the stockings and keep the feet
perpetualiy damp that drove rubber soled boots
OUT of e market Even loose rubbers are a
source of danger, and the cause Of many more
serious colds than they avert.
The ATTENTION of the iron works of the
United States has been drawn to the fact that
there is now ile opening in Guatemala and
Gehtrai America for supply of iron houses.
Inc Belglans are already in the field, AMI are
oolng profitable business in the erection of
IRON houses. and America is much nearer than
Belgium. In Guatemala wood is scarce and
ana as 1t is frequently used in damp state for
building it is specially liable to mold and rot.
iron uses are, therefore, much more suitable,
ana, as they are not only free of uuty, but
cheap than wood. they are rapidly coming
into general use They are safer in case Of
earthquakes, and people get shaken up most
uHcsre non1onsly at very short notice in those
climates. They afford better protection against
vermn and admit of better ventilation than the
wooden shantieS
CALIFORNIAN tells this story of boom times
IN San Diego. The general delivery window of
the postofffce was always crowded One week
the mails were delayed for several days and
when they were at last diStribu ed the line of
lnquiTers at the general delivery window of the
postottice extended for six blocks. A man who
Tell In line in the early morning got to the win
dow and received his mail about O'Clock in
the evening. One old lady VINO mad plenty of
time on her hands, took with her camp-sJool
and her lunch basket, and camped right there
on the line She received no letter, aud turned
away apparently happy, although she had
waited Ia line for seven hours. When this mail
accumulated the postmaster made no attempt
TO ds ri6ute the newspapers. They were sim
ply pIeu up IN one corner. and finally wagon
| load of newspaper mail was carried away from
the postofice. To b. distributed? On, no: to
| be dumped into San Diego bay.
The FASTEST TIME on record for the making
compiling and publishing of a statute book
comes from Okla loma, says the Kansas CITY
| Tthnrs. The legiS ature recently adjourned was
| in session 1S0 days. On the morning of the last
| day there had not been passed enactments that
| when prese uted woud fill to excess sixty pages
OF an ordinary law book At the close of the
| last day the signature of the governor was
| placed on enough more to fill statute ok of
1850 pages without the index. Among these
we're Included code of civil and criminal pro.
cedure in both district, probate and Justice
courts, and laws governing crimes and punish
ments covering 800 pages Within thirty i've
days from the final adjournment these laws
were copied, cor ected and arranged in a man
ner that Chief Justice Green of the territory
pronounced perfect, with side and head notes
for each section. Within forty-eight hours
after the compiling committee had turned in its
last copy the printed volume, comprising over
l,3O0 pages, was turned over to Secretary Mar
tin, bound in law she p.
In POPULAR CHICAGO STORE lady, upon
whom suspicion had been resting for some time.
was one day called to account for her careless
ness. The proprietor walked up to her, and re-
heyed the distressed attendant by saving:
Madam, will you pay cash for the pitcher Won
have under your cloak will you have il
charged?'' The woman's face changed color.
She looked at the proprietor with gathering
expression OF Indignation. He met her look
with one of unfinching determination Her in
dignation change to one of recollection and
surprise She gave hysterical sort of laugh
and said: How very thoughtless of mel did
not at first know what you meant l was so
Interested at looking at the beautiful things
that had really forgotten that / had-had
taken up the pitcher, or to ask the price Of it.
dom care how much it is. will take it any,
way You may charge it The proprietor
looked at the price, bowed and wa ked away.
The CLERK took the pitcher, and sent it to be
wrapped UP and taken to the carriage that was
in waiting for its occupant.
IT WOULD BE WE'LL for peope who come into
any sort of contact with Harvard students
no Sadays, says the Boston Transcript to look
out for the observers" It seems that recently
one of the professors set his boys the task of
observing carefully whatever they see OF anv
in, crest outside the class room and making notes
OF it when onvenient, to serve as ma
terial for compositions later on The bows
| thought the task rather irksome at first bnt
most af them became very much interested in
it after II ne, and now Observe" with alarm
ing assiduity and PARTICULARLY. At a party the
other evening student told group Of Young
ladies about it, whereupon one of the girls who
had been flirting little with the young Young
man behind her chaperon's back, exclaimed:
Good heavensl Are you observing nowy' The
young man leased her not little by insisting
that he had pa ticulariy resolved to make n te
OF every circumstance that he observed thar
evening and put it in the next piece for the pro-
lessor, but the young lady was not as badly
frightened as she pretended. 1t is somewhat
alarming, however, to think of large number
of Harvard students turned into sort of 80
ciety reporters, with the professor for "circu-
laton."
A PROMINENT CoNFEcTIoNER says: THE big
confectioners all along Broadway lose hundreds
Of dollars every season by the candy sneak