The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-04
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IcOplS party arc EOluR 10 NAYS q O5lcET6p0IC
bureau OF their own in Washington.
PROBABLY the smallest painting ever made
was the work Of the wife OF Flemish artist 1t
depict d mill with the sails bent, the miller
mounting the stairs with sack OF grain on his
back. Upon the terrace where the mill stood
was a cart and horse, and in the road leading to
it several peasants we're shown. The picture
was beautifully finished and every object was
very distinct yet it was so amazingly small
that its surface could be covered with grain
of corn.
THREE Of the first four Presidents Of the
United States married widows. The wife Of
John Quincy Adams, who received her educa-
ton in England, created q great sensation in
the nations capital The wife of Martin Vane
Buren,, Hannah Hoes, lived but q short time
after her marriage, dying about seventeen
idency President Tyler's second wife was an
ardent Roman Catholic and Mrs. Polk a calm
hammered Presbyterian. Mrs. Willard Fillmore
had been school teacher and the courtship
was carried on under difficulties, as the lover
could rarely afford the expense of q journey to
visit his fsnce. Mrs. Franklin Pierce was the
devout daughter of clergyman and made the
white house a center for charitable and re-
hgious enterprises.
TIE character OF Falsteff, long believed 70 be
one of Shakespeafe's most interesting crea-
tions, has been proved to be q most mastery
sketch Of q real character, an English gentle
man named Oldcastle. There is no doubt that
he was originally called 0ldcastle. fact which
explains a pun otherwise unintelligible in
Henry ". where Prince Hal in alluding to
him calls him ''My old lad of the castle" Shall
low describes him as page to Thomas Now
bray, Duke of Norfolk, (" which Oldcastle really
was. It is suspected by the Globe. Demo
erat that the name was changed
quest of the queen, as SONS Of Oldcastles de-
scend6nts were then living. In all essential
particulars Oldcastle was the man described by
otvna LNntd taft hA NAaf Al
knsve that ever was depicted for the entertain
ment of the world Corpulent beyond measure
always intent on eating, drinking and sleeping,
a cowardly soldier. q lying hraggart a flatterer
of his friends before their faces while he satir-
tied them in their absence, constantly in debt
and by no means scrupulous as to the means OF
raising money, he was always contemplate. and
yet. from his unchauging good humor and never
failing wit, he was always entertaining.
DIR. z. A. GRoUx, surgeon CT the Twenty
eighth New York regiment, who died in 1873,
was during mis- life the most wonderful living
human mAformation, says the St Louis he
public. The surgeons regarded him with special
interest. because, having been born without a
sternum-the sternum is the fiat bone In the
middle OF the breast-he could control or sup
press all the pulsations OF the heart The post
norton eXamir alton was made by Profs Dali
ton. Nelsher Daring and Pitcher of the College
OF Physicians and Surgeons and Long Island
College and Drs. Riedel, Brady, Hesse. Jewett,
schliTz, Baker, De Long; Fnhs and othess.
The examination showed deficiency OF
breast bone, and a conRenital assure Of the
sternum, forked in shape running up between
the secoud and third ribs to the LETT of the
medlan line. Before bis death there was
dispute among the faculty whether the out
ward indications OF pulsations were caused by
the aorta or right ventricle; the examination
proved conclusively that they were caused by
the right ventricle. There Is said TO be only one
| other case OF similar malformation known and
| reported in the medical books-that of Mr..
| Of ENGLAND WIN hv Of
sion, often stopped his heart from beating for
| full two minutes.
An elopement in London suburb recently
| had a most amusing sequel. A young man
smartly dressed and young woman closely
yelled were hurrying together toward railroad
station. Suddenly woman drove up from be-
| hind, and three chimney sweeps alighted In
| front of the couple. They seized the young man.
| One stripped him Of his coat and waistcoat,
| while tho other poured over his head the con-
while the man who directed the operations
! threw into his face about a bushel of SCOT
which he took from a bag in the cart. The
latter completed the assault by horsewhipping
the unhappy youth, and advising him to
rehearse the tenth commandment without
delay. Then: turning TO the crowd, which
had assembled he gave his name and
address, and informed his bearers that the
young man had robbed him Of his wife. He di-
reeted the woman, who had been crying for
mercy. to mount the cart, and she, obeying
| Win ahCtlbI1 pdFby uEONo OlAs ledNInR Oo-
hind them bowling creature of hideous ap-
pearance, who, catching up his coat and waist
coat from the ground, darted down q by street
| into the first open door, which happened to be
that of q house in which number OF Salvation.
| lists were engaged in devotional exercises The
sudden appearance Of such an object naturally
suggested the appearance of the evil one, but
! an explanation having been vouchsafed, the
young man was allowed to rearrange to some
| extent his toilet
THE wealth of Paris Is so boundless that the
rubbish and refuse OF the city are worth mill.
ions, says writer In HdrperS Magazine
There are more than $4,000 persons who earn a
living by picking up what others throw away.
| Twenty thousand women and children exist by
sitting and sorting the gatherings OF the pick
ers, who collect every day In the year about
1900 tons of merchandise. which they sell to
the wholesale rag dealers for some 20 600 francs.
At night you see n en- with baskets strapped TO
their backs q lantern in one hand and in the
other q stick with an iron hook on the end.
They walk along rapidly, their eyes fixed on
the ground, over which the lantern filings q
way OF paper, rags, bones, grease, metal, etc.
they stow away in their baskets. In the
morning, IL front OF each houss, you
see men. women and children sitting
into the scaveneers' carts. At various hours Of
the day you may remark isolated rag pickars
who seem to work with less method than the
others and with more independent air Tbs
night pickers are generally novices; men who.
having been thrown out of work, are obliged to
hunt for their living like the wild beasts. The
workers, who pay for the privilege Of sitting
the dust bins OF certain number of houses and
of trading with the results. The rest, the ma
iority, are the coureurs, the runners, who exer-
else their profession freely and without control
working when they please and loanng when
they please. They are the philosophers and
adventurers of the profession, and their chief
object is 70 enjoy life and mediate upon its