The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-24

4 up their gerfalcons with gold ar Gill;
/ calls and anybody who is con,-., - y "a
with iox hunting knows thar Is 5@.-.,t
nenty proper 10 whistle for hon. j'l-
sun, 10 is not everybody who can aeg.-s
mounds, aud Rerfalcons are THINGS ~ ~ ~
past. 1here Is one beauty about fbo
human wins tle-it is so very ine1,,e, -'e
and, as a luxury, within every ilSi e.,
reach. 'ou3 $
But what Mr. Gilbert STYLES ga No.
tlce that bears the sanction of antioIi,II.,,,
is not TO be so slightly dismissed Nun.
Gus instances can be given the AIN
prehistoric whistle. For instance IN ~
train of Anne of Denmark, who marril9
James VI. of Scotland, was an enormo,,.
Dane OF unparalleled drinking canacitI'
1hls great man was the owner Of ~,
ebony whistle, which he was wont 10 In.
upon the table whenever a drinking bol,.
was well under way. Whoever was H.
last man sober enough to blow the wbiqtia
with the rest of the titled gentry nroDo
under Their the table was by general COW
sent considered to be the "Champion af
the Whistle" Full many a night and oSt
the Dane had blown the whistla
put one fine night Sir Robert Lam,
RE of 'MaXwellton BraeS" sat down ~
the table with the great Dane, and after
three days and nights of hard drinking
the Danish champion fell upon the floor
and Sir Robert footed the whistle yaIian
thy. The ancient chronicler who gives ma
this pleasant legend states that Sir Rohert
"blew on the whistle his requiem shriUi
and was thereafter regarded as thu
greatest man in Scotland
The whistle remained for years in tho
family and the last person who is credited
with having carried it off in triumph was
Alexander Ferguson of Craig-Darroclr
son of the gentle Annie Laurie, the hernl
inc of one of the sweetest songs of Scotch
minstrelsy. Bobby Burns immortalized
the whistle in poem eight lines of which
runs as follows:
l sing of whistle, a whistle of worth
I sing of whistle, the pride of the north?
Was brought to the court of our good Scot
fish king,
And long with whistle all Scotland shall ring
Old Loda still rueing the arm of Fingal,
The god of the bottle sends down from his
hall
This whistles your chalenge-to Scotland
get DER,
And drink them to holI, sir, or ne'er see ma
more.
A whistling oyster in the year 1910 was
one of the evidences of a whistling mania
ready to break forth at any time. OF
course it is remarkable that an oyster
should whistle, but we are perhaps will.
ing to agree that nothing is miraculous
WueH calmly COuSlu6F6Q IN bQ6 light of
nineteenth century knowledge II was
related that an oyster who lived in a shell
and was on view at famous London
porter house whistled as blithly as
plowboy or a skylark. Thousands Of
people maintained that the oyster actually
whistled.
That inimitable wit Douglas Jerrold
saw the oyster, listened to its whistle
and straightway remarked: "This oys.
ter has been crossed in love and is now
whistling to keep up appearances, to show
that it does not care" Thackery, the
novelist, relates that he was in the shop
one day when an American visitor came
in and heard the talented mollusk After
the performance the American declared
very CONTEMPORARY that it Wasn't a
patching to an oyster he knew of in Mas
sachusetts which whistled Yankee
Doodle right through and followed its
master about the house just like dog"
The story is characteristic of both Thack.
cray and Brother Jonathan abroad
From all this weight of evidence it will
be seen that Mrs. Shaw as the pioneer Of
an advanced civiliza tion has simply i'm.
proved upon the ideas of both ancients
and moderns.