The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-20


best be told in his own WORDS.
II had been in the Electricity building
and came out because there was nothing
TO see. 1 went across the bridge to the
Manufactures building, and as | was
going a crowd collected to see the fire
engines which were at work there. My
! overcoat was open, as / always wear it
that way in the middle of the day, and
my pocket book was in the inside pocket.
1t was large one, big enough 20 hold the
/ notes at full length. | got into the crowd,
| but did not feel any one touch me, but
when | got out of the jam, put my hand
to my pocket to see if my money was safe,
and the pocket book was gone.
GUARDS HAD NO TINE To WASTE.
Il saw a Columbian guard and went
up to him and said i have lost my
pocketbook. He replied: You should
take better care of your valuables: have
no time to bother with you I looked
around but could not see policeman, and
as | did not know what to do l came to the
city as soon as possible and reported nv
loss to the central police station. 1t was
| all the money | had in the world, and was
the savings OF lifetime. | do not know
what l shall do. If were young man |
could commence again, but | am 40 years
of age and it is hard to begin all over
again. | have the numbers of the notes,
but do not suppose l shall ever see any
of them again"
After the old man had reported the
matter to Capt. Shea no time was lost in
making an effort to trace the stolen prop
| erty, and as the old gentleman had not
reported the matter to Capt. Bontield he
was notified.
This is the first big robbery that has
taken place at the fair, but it is not likely
that there will be one at any time that
will call for more sympathy.
IN THE ART DEPARTMENTS.
There are visitors to the Art building
| every day who show by their ia res that
| they would be more at ease somewhere
! else in jackson park, says the Inter
| Ocean. They walk through the rooms as
| though they were lodging their creditors.
They hang their heads before marble
| Diana and steal covert glances ut some of
| the ambitious efforts of the French art
| lists. Their modesty is so pronounced
| that it hurts them as bad as bunion in a
! tight shoe. A man with his wife strolled
| into the French section yesterday. He had
! the appearance of clergyman looking for
a job. She was more worldly in her
! dress and manner. Before he knew
where he was going he was standing
right in front of pastoral scene, re-
markable for the amount of flesh color it
! contains, if for nothing else. The man
! duCked his head like an umpire lodging
base ball Then he pulled his hat over
! his eyes and turned to his wife who was
looking in another direction.
Come out of here" he grufly COM
handed, I've seen enough of this al
ready"
His wife started in meek submission,
but her eyes fell on the pastoral scene,
| Her feet stuck fast to the floor while her
| husband repeated his command.
"Wait for me out in the other room,
! John" she sweetly remarked. This is
France, you know. You had better go
over to the architectural exhibit"
Two of Buffalo Bills Indians daubed
their faces with fresh paint yesterday
morning and started out to see the worlds
fair without guide. They took the trail
that runs due east from the SiXty-second
street entrance and finding that it ended
in the lake they turned into the Manu-
features building They wandered aim
lessly through the labyrinth of exhibits
until they reached the British section,
and halted before big glass case con-
tanning choice assortment OF wigs,
whiskers, frizzes and other articles in
false hair. They grunted their
satisfaction at the exhibit and
were preparing to seek other sources of
enjoyment when the wig that covered the
waXen image of an English swell raised
in the air and revealed a shiny, bald head.
! The sight was too much for Indian flesh
and blood to stand. A smothered whoop
ana the other instinctively slapped his
hand to his belt to feel for his knife.
They looked at each other in amazement,
and then turned away. Before they
reached the nearest door they were going
in a lOpe, and once outside they never
slackened their speed until they were in
side the high board fence that surrounds
Col. Cody's show.
A REVOLVING SIGHT.
Standing square upon his feet at the
edge of a platform of the Algerian
theater in Midway plalsance, says the
Inter Ocean, a sturdy dancer, with
white silken turban upon his head and
blue robe falling almost to his heels,
thrust blade of a knife through his
tongue and then laughed at the spectators
who sat in the chairs before him. Not a
drop of blood fell from his chin, although
the blade had pierced the tongue from
side to side. Then this thermometer
with steel drove the blade through his
cheeks aid danced around the stage with
handkerchief hanging upon the point of
the blade (which glistened at one side
of his shapely nose. The revolving spec
tacle made many of the spectators sick
But the dancer seemed to be driven intoa
frenzy by the wild beating of the tom
toms, Tor ne pfanCed ABOUT the stage Win
the knife still thrust through his face
He bawled from time to time and the
women who were squatted back of him
set up shrill cry which resembled the
tremendous yelp of Indian squaws at the
close of their dancing songs.
Then middleaged Algerian, who had
been beating a drum in the orchestra,
sprang upon the stage. The weapon he
held in his hand was like the one his com
panion had thrust through his cheek and
tongue 1t looked like an ice pick, so
slender and so sharp was its blade.
PICKED HIS EYE OUT WITH DAGGER.
The drums beat furiously as this dancer
leaped upon the stage The Algerian
twirled the glittering weapon in his hand
as he cavorted in front of the spectators
Then, of a sudden he turned the point Of
the blade upon his left eye and bored the
steel into the flesh until the eye-ball fell
upon his cheek Then crouching like a
cat he moved in front Of the spectators,
his hands twisting the handle of the
sharp instrument which he held A half
dozen men left their seats and went out
of doors. Those who remained cheered
the daredevil and urged him to more saw
age endeavor But the fellow was plainly
exhausted. His face was distorted with
pain, and the eye which he had gouged
with the steel looked red and swollen
The dancing girls from Sequia then
tripped out upon the stage, and to the
Of