The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-22

feus ieaNinR The wheel. one goes home
oppressed and exhausted hy the great
thlhes ne has seen, the leagues ne has
wearily wandered and dreams perhaps
that he is chained under the mighty ham
iner, or hides trembling from hideous
Cyclops' whose one terrible eye is the
colossal search light
DRESS or GLASS.
One Of the oldest of the Infapta's
American presents is an evening dress Of
glass which the Princess has promised
70 wear IN Spain the first opportunity
sne mas. The glass fabric which is as
me as 4k, soft, white, pliable, and lus-
Jrous, was made by the Libby Glass Com
pany, and IL was made up into rich even
ing toilet by Nine Victorine.
Ihe wrap of the fabric is silk, and the
hIllng Is glass fibre on thread The waist
Is trimmed with white chiffon The skirt
Is OF the glass cloth trimmed with glass
braid sewed upon satin ribbon Ten yards
OF the material valued at S25 a yard,
| We're required to make the dress. One
loom operated by girl produced only
half yard in day.
The Infanta visited the glass works at
the Columbian exposition, and appointed
the Libby Glass Company glass-mal5ers to
his Royal Highness the King of Spain.
BUNCo ON THE PLAIsANoE.
A crowd of people have settled down Just
outside the gates of the Columbian ex-
position whose members feel that money
must be got from visitors by some sort of
hocuspocus, whether or no. If the shekels
cannot be secured by sharp practice, they
must be taking away by brute force. The
chicago police have been notified over and
! over again of this state of affairs and have
| repeatedly promised to break up the dens
In response to the efforts of the guardians
OF the law the places have been closed spas
medically from time to time, but the mo-
| ment there has been the least relaxation
the doors have been thrown open again
and the same old games have been resumed.
one OF the most braZen schemes that
nave been put into operation is called
running through the battery" This
game IS carried on in dirty canvas tent,
which bears the sign in large letters,
Dime Musee." Two women and three
or four men carry on operations there
Their plan is something like this: A tall,
burly chap goes in to the street, selects
his subject and steers him into the tent.
There the victim is met by a woman,
who conducts him through the mazes of
the place to a secret apartment at the
rear Of the canvas, while another woman
insists upon telling the victims fortune.
All this time the burly steer is close at
hand, either grasping the victims arm or
with hand on his shoulder ready to seize
him if desire to escape be shown. If all
other devices fail, he is induced or forced
to grasp opposite poles of an electric bat
terry, and so stong a current is turned on
as to hold him powerless while his pockets
are rified. Then the victim is commonly
kicked or hustled out, minus his money
and likewise his self-respect,
DIME MUSEUM FAKE.
OF dime museums there are a great
many, and this is the lecture one of the
bankers gets off: "Come right in, come
right in, ladies come right in, gents; all
come in This ERE is the greatest school
of education on this earth. Mebbe you
don't know it, but this 'ere's what Won
come to the worlds fair to see. Ere you
can see what you can't see no place else.
Come right in, ladies'; come right in,
gents; all come in and see the three-head-
ed woman, as large as life and twice as
natural, iist the same as you see her in
the picture"
The picture represents a woman with
three heads, the profles of which were
intended to be classical by the dauber
who produced it. She wore pink tights
and red shoes, and in one of her single
pair of hands she carried a bouquet.
Among the schemes adopted by the
directors of this interesting exhibition is
bHlS. Two Cdpp6rS posing as VlS1UOfS rush
out of the tent. One declares Indignantly,
Il bet S. that that thing amt genuine"
"I'll go you," says the other man. 'Where
shall we put up the money!" This
draws a crowd. The men wrangle for a
while, and finally the incredulous one
admits that he was probably wrong.
THE REGISTER CRANK D..
The fair has developed some curious
cranks, says the Mail. One of the most
conspicuous is gentleman who wants to
write his name in every register he comes
across. He is generally enthusiastic over
his own state and makes for the local
building as soon as he arrives at the
grounds. Once there he first locates the
register, squirts gallon of tobacco juice
across the floor, and with a mighty sweep
of the arm scrawls an illegible name across
the register. This duty performed he
wanders into the next state building, finds
the register there and signs his name
again.
All told there must be several hundred
registers in use for not only are they to-
be found in state buildings, but also in ex-s
hibits. One man entered the Minnesota 1
building, and as he signed his name ex- /
claimed: II guess I've beaten the record. 4
This is the two hundred and fiftieth time I
I've signed my name. | guess more
people'll know Jabez Dorcy after this fair
than ever knowed he existed beforep
1t is amusing to watch these register
cranks. One got in the California build
ing. "Say, boss,p said he to the ,secre-
tary, are these names sent back to be
printed in the papers"
''Well, l guess some Of the correspond
ents do send them back" -.
''Well Tll register then. I've registered
in fifty different books these two days. You
see, I've got friends all over the country,
and l want them all to see that I'm at the
worlds fair"
In the woman's building a group is al
ways to be seen around the Welsh weaver
in the north gallery. She is a strong,
manipulating girl from Swansea, in South
Wales. Her tall, sugar-loaf hat awaA-
ems the establishment OF many, but the sto-
lid Briton pays no attention to what is 60
ing on around her, and drives her shuttle
with increasing activity, turning out yard
after yard of the coarse blush cloth used
by the country people there. Close by is a
wax figure of North Wales
peasant woman with her spinning
wheel and distaff- She also wears
the sugarloaf hat, but has also
the white ruffled cap beneath it and the
shawl made so familiar by the photo
graphs of Welsh character to be seen in
almost any large book store. Wales is
not. much more than one hundred miles
long, and yet if that wax figure were en-
dowed with life she could understand
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