The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-03
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and Hartford railroad says that if electricity
becomes practicable as a motor where steam
now issused two of the four tracks nov hui ding
Tor that road Will be Specially adapted for the
new agent
TIE II aking of music has always been a
more or less profitable occupation, but it has
never before been known to take the exact di-
! rection indicated in the card of Partisan, who
states that he is an "ImiJator of NiyhtinRales
Tor Gardens and Restaurants" This enter
trlslng gentleman Is in great request at garden
parties. His duties consist in concealing him
| self behind the flower pots, oleander tubs or
other shrubbcry and entertaining the company
with limitations of the most melodious of
| feather soagsters.
XENIA, o., has a colored character named Ben
Powell who is a 4 foot dwarf about IS years old.
He shines stoves and does odd JOBS about tin
Stor 5. Ben's chief claim for fame is the fact
that he has been the father of twenty-one cbil-
ZEN pY one wife, and none OF them came In
palrS-al sinEly-and all since 1855. What is
more remarkable, bis wife, who is somewhat
taller team he. mas had twenty-four CHI dren al
| together, having been three times mother be
| fore she married the short but vigorous Benja-
min. They came from Harrison county, hen-
lucky, where both were slaves Sixteen Of Ben's
| progeny have died, however, and are scattered
| II dtf rent graveyardS around Xenia, so thai he
himself cannot locate them all, nor vet recall
the melliiuous names with which they have
been christened.
In a museum of curiosities at Salem Mass,
|
stone, followed and fashioned like basket.
| Within the ba sket twelve tiny silver spoons,
the shape and finish of which cannot be distn-
guished with NAKED eye Dr.. Peter Oliver.
VINO lived IN England during the early part of
the eighteenth century tells of seeing a carved
cherry stone which would be wonder even in
this age OF fine tools and fine " craftsmanship The
stone was one from q com. non cherry, and upon
it were carved the heads of 1874 D pes, kings,
queens, emperorS, saints, etc. Small as they
must neces sariiy nave oeen, 1t is announced on
| "a v Of Prof hat With nrI
glass the heads OF the popes and kings could
readily be distinguished from those Of the queens
and saints by their miters and cio The gen
| tl'Inan VINO broug this httle wonder to Eng
land purchased it in Prussia allowing the or gil
nal owner rs, 100 for his treasure. Think of 1t,
$4,000 for a cherry seed!
THE compression of timber is becoming a
growing industry, relates the New York sun,
AMI the materia thus treated is being applied
to varlet of useful and or amental purposes
especially In the field Of carving, most attractive
and artistic desi ms beng thus brought out,
pronounced in many cases fully elual, if not
super or, TO anything ordinarily produced in
Tat line. The wood TO be employed n this
mann r is con pre- sec either in its natural CON
dtion or after balng steamed, and it is found
that the hardest, wei seas ned ash timber, say
LOT four iucnes thickness can ba pressed
into about three inches without injuFng the
fioer. Moreover, it is also found that wood
can be u set" tie same as iron; and the ia
creased teuacioy Of b ut and compressed wood
OF his sort, as compared with the same in its
natural state IL declared TO be SOmetlinr sur
} ising. In mechan cal operations compression
is now applied to spoke lemons, the work being
described as very simple and rapid. the tenon
properly tapere and ready 10 drive to its place
an increased strength being thus added to the
! wheel equal TO three add tona spJkes
ONE Of the strangest judicial proceedings, per.
, haps, ever witnessed is that of the Chinaman
taking what he is pleased to call the yellow
oath" The oath or declaration is always
written on piece of sacred" paper, and is US
/ q ia T. Cal th.a NirFtg b1rn
and evil, to descend and watch over the trial of
--3, who is charged with numbering =
. -. If swear lseiy or tell o1e uutruth. or
do not make statements according to the facts
in the case, humbly beg the celestial terres
trial spirits TO redress the wrong done to
- and to punish me immediately for havin.
been false witness; to arrest my soul in its
flight, to make me perish by the
sword. or to cause nae to die
while on the sea far from home This is my
true and solemn oath, uttered by my own lips
and signed by me this, the - da, of the -
N nth IN the - year OF the reign Of the En-
Ieror - -; and in proof of the earnestness
OF my declarations, may my soul DO destroyed
, as now destroy this paper. by fire." Imme-
diat2ly after the witness finishes reading his
yellow oath" lighted candle is handed to him
, and the paper is given as food for the dames
To the writer's certain knowledge this form of
oath has been administered bus once in an
American court OF justce-diring the trial OF
Wong All Foo, who was accused Of numbering
Lol All Gou at San Francisco 10 1885. In China
the candle used in this extraordinary ceremo-
|
have Undergone the death penalty!
} THE man in dental anguish, says Chambers
Journal, sometimes curses with Burns "the
venomed stang that shoots his tortured gums
, alang." Sometimes oI tie other hand he
prays. st. Augustine in his Confessions " re-
) lates how he once suffered from ''dolor
dentum." (toothache) appa emily in an agra
waited form, for he could not speak. There
; upon he wrote on wax a prayer to God for the
, other brethren to repeat and as soon as ali
WARE fr~lok
q painl' he says-'never since my tender age
hal l experienced the like" Southsy in his
." ife Of John Wesley" tells of that emil
nent preacher that when his own tooth
ached ne prayed and the pain left him
, Unfortunately, Ordinary men not seem
to have such efficacious faith When the eY
cruciaton begins they must bear it philosopni-
cally; and on Shakspeare's authority toothache
finds out just the weak place in the philoso-
piers armor of patience. In the middle ages
the devout who were racked with pain had a
special patron to whom they could call for de-
lverauce st. Apollonia, martyr under the
Emperor Philip, among other indignities had
her teeth pulled out. In consequences she be
came toothache's tutelary saint as her emblems
-one of which is holding a tooth In pincers''-
sufficiently testify. And there would seem to
have been yet another martyr, st. Baize who
took cognizance of the disease. He was hon.
cred in the little town of st. Bazey, Ia Cornwall
where candles offered upon his altar were sun
posed to be an ipfallible cure for toothache
AN INFANT phenomenon has been discovered
at PlaisanCe suburb OF Paris, in the person of
d little gi / ca led Jeanne Eugene Moreau aged
only 3, but endowed with an extraordinary
memory says the London Telegraph. She is a
walking encyclopedia on all matters apper-
tanning to the history of France. and especially
of the great revolution; is au adapt also in
natural history, and at the same time answers
without hesitation error practical questions
about cooking gardening and household man.
agement. The youthful prodigy was born in
Paris in January, 1887, her father, Phlippe
Noreau. being an humble laborer but descended
from a revolutionary hero whose name figures
in the annals Of 1889, and who was
decorated by Gen. do Lafayette after
the taking of the bastile. Owing
TO the poverty of her progenitor
Eugene Moreau was adopted by a widow
Mime. Callay-who noticing the retentive facul-
ties OF the child, cultivated and developed them
with assduity until the phenomenon has be-
come capable of passing stiff competitive ex-
animation and OF putting to shame many a
| schoOlboy or schoolgirl of maturer years and
more expensive education. The fate Of Eugene
Moreau will no doubt be that reserved for ali
intellectual prodi les Of tender years She
will be exhibited to scientific men and reported
upon; she will probably receive an offer from
an enterprisng Snowman, and in all likelihood
Eugene, should she survive academical testines
aud public examinations, will eventually settle
down to the life of schoolmlstress calling
for which her marvellous memory will pre-,