The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-01-03
HEW YORK FEATURES.
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Skin.

FFo7l he 81. LOUIS Republic
NEW YCRK. Dec - -Thick-skiDued, a,-
pie are so unpopular that they have becor,.
q chronic metaphor to Illustrate consti,,,
tional meanness. Refer to a man as
''Elick-skiuned" citizen and the fancy a,
once concentrates all sins upon him. IT,
would be an u2ius. thing to do In the ca,
Of Patrick Woods of this city. lie has
diuty skin, but his neighbors do ma,
consider him a ''skia-1lintn Forrna-I
be was a painter, but a snail
Of rheumatism left him a con-
dvmed invalid and now he ia In the hosni,oi
The efforts Of the doctors have been futiIe
though they have made a special study a
bis case because it is unique. His skin /,
now az least an inch thick, and it is grow.
ing thicker all the time. To all Appearance
Woods IS a healthy man Of about ISI
pounds. He was never sick in any othsy
way in his life. The doctors think he viii
live about two years longer.
UNCLE sAGE's LIVING SHIELD.
The case of W. r. Laidlsw against Rms.
sell Sage viii be watched with interest n,
was in the millionaire's office when Nor.
cross dropped that now historic valise. and
he claims that the deacon showed him To tbs
front. using him as a sort of living wall "a
the poet call human shields when they coyeJ
a military movement. Laidlaw was terriblv
injured and no has sued for 500 600 dam,
ages. He will hardly recover damages. as
self-preservstion is the first law Of nature
and it will be hard to geo @ Juror VIVA
would not have done the same thing under
the same circumstances himself. Ever
well-read man knows that if two men ara
struggling in the water for plank which ia
stout enough 10 save but one, homicide is
jusHiiable II resoTtei to secure the impro-
vised life-preserver. But whether he re-.
cover or not, the fact will remain that after
saving his own life by forcing a terrible
mutilGtion of Laidlaw, Uncle Sage never
once expressed any interest in the young
man; did not inquire after his injuries OF
seem to care whether he was comfortably
off at the hospital or not.
THE ARSON FIEND.
OF all the criminals the arson flend is tbs
most despicable, and he blooms perennialIv
right here in New York. Since Jan. /.
1891, not less than a dozen persons have
teen roasted - death in incendiary fires in
this city and Brooklyn. l think there has
been one conviction, and that the firebus
got something like five years in the peni-
tentiary Good behavior will enable him
to get out and resume business in the old
way by 1894. Most of the arrests for arson
have been surprises in that they have in,
volved uniformly nice people who were
INSANITY
IAN irresistible desire TO fire O house,
has been the defense generally. An
irresistible desire on the part Of the com.
munity to test the capacity Of few of the
house-burners for maximum number of
volts IL the big armchair at Sing Sing
would probably decrease, If not wholly
abolish, these dangerous Irresistible inn
pulses" Then there is the fellow who burns
to get tho insurance. William and Jane
AcGOry, if the truth is told concerning
them, belong to this latter class. They are
under arresg, and it is claimed that they
were ready TO sacrifice 100 lives for the sake
Of paltry 81, 500 Human beings are
pretty cheap at S15 head. They have
candy store in a tenement house and are
suspected OF trying to sell it to the insur,
ance company for a big price. The hus,
band threw the blame on the wife and the
wife accuses the husband. They will prob.
ably swear each other into the penltentiary.
TRACY's sEAMEN BOLD.
II local paper is to be believed, Chile
might as well haul in her horns. Secretary
Tracy has made arrangements to enlist the
services If the New York Yacht Club in
case OF war. 1t is claimed that the vessels
would make formidable cruisers in case Of
war, ard the secretary has great hopes Of
them. just what sort of soldiers the owners
OF these yachts will make is an uncertain
factor in the scheme under discussion. II
there is anythi & in the Spartan theory
they wouldn't be worth the salt meat and
bareback they would have to swap their
Delmonico dinners for. A bout all the
hardships they have been used to is the
hardship eutailed by being compelled to re-,
cover from champagne suppers while out
at sea and out OF reach of a Turkish bath
establishment