The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-05
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Speaker Reed set out at a pace that n kept
up will reduce his accumulation OF adipose
tissue more ehectually than any system Of
banting. he waved aside with disdain the
rolling chair pushers and ambled along like a
Splinter warming up for race The big man
from Maine wore light suit and soft hat,
but had replaced his pink shirt for one in
which there was but the faintest suggestion
of pink
Statistics are said to show that young men
do not on the average, attain fun physical
maturity until they arrive at the age of 2S years.
Prof. Scheller, o. Harvard, asserts, as the re-
suit Of his observations that young men do
not attain to the full measure of their mental
faculties before y years of age. A shrewd OBJ
server has said that most men are boys I'M
til they are 80, and little boys until they are
25 and this accords with the standard Of
manhood, which was fixed at 30 among the
ancient Hebrews and other races
An instance Of the transformation of an
epithet to a word of totally different meaning
is that of the term applied to those impecuni-
GUS hangers-On about faro tables who surrep-
titiously appropriate the checks of more
opulent players. The term 'check guerilla"
which originated perhaps at the Mexican
monte tables. and was applied tittingly to
these petty -skrmiShers about the big fight
ing of the game. in time be- anne "check
gorilla by which name they have long been
known in the gambling houses of the far
west.
One Of the interesting results Of the recent
experiments in England in photographing fly
ing bullets has been to show that the disturb
ance in the air travels faster than the bullet
itself. The photographs exhibit air waves
in advance of the bullets, even when the lat
ter are moving faster than the velocity Of
sound. In one case where the bullet was
moving considerably faster than sound traV
els in the air 1t was preceded by an atmOS-
pheric disturbance which, at the moment the
photograph was taken, was half an inch in
advance of the nOint of the bullet Even
when the bullets were travelling four times as
fast as sound TIE atmospheric disturbance
kept ahead of them.
There is a large bowlder lying in a field
near Foremark, England, which is known
throughout Derbyshire as "Hangman S
Stone The exposed portion of the bOwlder
rises about six feet above the surface of the
surrounding field and has narrow ditch or
indentation running across the top. The
mark, so tradition says, was made in this
way: A sheep thief In the dead of night,
while leaning against the bowlder to rest,
placed his booty above on the fiat surface of
the stone. The man had the sheep tied with
a rope and in its effort to escape the creature
slipped on the opposite side and the rope,
catching under the thefs chin, choked him
TO death. The indentation in the rock was
made by the friction OF the rope while the dy-
ing man was engaged in an effort to extricate
himself.
Louisville's great editor George D. Prem
tice has been so much the subject of newspa.
per reminiscence that almost as many apOc
ryphal stories are now told about him as
about Lincoln. In showing forth the falsity
OF some OF these fairy tales the LOuSlSVllle
Courier-Journal says: up to three weeks
before his death Mr.. Prentice was an active
and constant worker on the Courier-J Ournal,
receiving a salary ten times more than he
spent or was required to supply his wants
There was no elevator for him to refuse or
den for him to inhabit. He selected his own
apartment, the most desirable room in the
Courier -.IO Journal bnildiup which thpn
Jefferson street. and he could not be induced
by his family to leave 1t aid make his home
with them. His relations with Mr.. Haldeman
and Mr.. Watterson were cordial and unre
served to the last
In passing through the woman's building
there is one picture always pause to look
at, says worlds fair writer in the Inter
Ocean. 1t has n fascination for me, not only
on account Of its merit, but because Of the
artists sad history. | mean Jean and
Jacques" two little boys walking hand in
hand through the streets Of Paris. Both are
dressed in dark blOuSes and coarse shoes.
The elder with green leaf in his mouth. car
ries an umbrella in his right hand and holds
his little brother with the other. The face Is
thoughtful and grave beyond his years. The
younger, with hand deep in his trousers
pocket. is a sturdy little fellow with dis
heVeled hair and sweet brown eyes. This
picture was painted by Marie Bashkirtseff,
pupil Of Bastien lie Page, who was very proud
of her talent and success. jean and Jacques"
was exhibited in the Salon at Paris in 1888
and won high praise. LePage pronounced it
to be very strong" Poor Marie died the
following year of consumption, at the early
age of %, and her teacher did not long survive
her. In the French department of the art
gallery there is painting by Bastien LePage
entitled "ReVerie."
A case was commenced Wednesday in the
United States circuit court of Kentucky IN
Covngton, that will disturb the happiness of
nearly hundred farmers in Eastern Ken
lucky. ApOlina Bertuccat MaretZek, once a
famous opera singer, and now "a resident of
New York, sues to recover 900 acres of land
in Menifee county, about twelve miles east of
Mount Sterling. She claims as the sole de-
viSGC of her father, Francis Romano Bertuc-
cat who was desc auded from one of LaFay-
Cttes staff in the war of the revolution, and
who received grant of 20 $40 acres from the
United States government in consideration of
services rendered in the war. The unsold
balance is the subject of plaintiff s claim. 1t
is held by farmers who have patents from
Menlfee county about nineteen or twenty
years old but which. it is claimed are not
based upon bona ftde title, and are proba-
bly, unavailable against a regular chain of
title of record, which commences with
George Washington, President, to the State
OF Virginia, and is followed by that of Gov.
Patrick Henry of that state, to the plaintiffs
grantors The land is well adapted to farm
ing, and also contains coal and iron mines
The county seat Frenchburg, is on this land
A practical mechanic, who has paid much
attention to the question of the attachment
Of a safeguard to the cable cars, said yester-
day that the mistake made by most OF those
who have proposed devices of one sort or an
other has been that such appliances have
heen patterned more or less on the plan of
the cowcatcher. He believes that no device
in which rigidity is one of the characteristics
can meet the demands required of il. las an
improvement on any of the devices pro-
posed" said he, Il would suggest a movable
continuance Of this description: A vertical
stout sheet iron apron, coincident in its
lateral curve with that of the dashboard and
buffer, Of depth to cover the space between
the lower edge of the dashboard and the pave
ment beneath. On the lower edge of the
apron three small fiat trimmed wheels or cas-
tiers to run on the tracks and cable
plate. When not in use this apron
will be suspended from the front end of the
car, held by two or three stout steel bars at
tached vertically to the top edge of the apron.
each bar steadied by two or more rings
rigidly attached to the front of the dash
board, through which rings the two steel bars
will play freely, vertically. These bars bv
some simple device close to the hand of the
grtpman, will hold the sheet iron apron when
not in use clear of contact with the pavement
and at such height as is proper. When a
person falls or is thrown down in front Of a
moving car the gripman will promptly trip
the device for supporting the apron, where
upon il will drop. The aDron, supported by
its three sma wheels, will be carried along
by the car so closely to the pavement that a
body, unless exceedingly small, will be pushed
along in front Of the car until the latter can