The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

J Though Shakespeare informed us lnat lufu
/ have died and worms have eaten them, but
] not for love. the contradictory information
] comes from Russia Of centenarian soldier
] who committed suicide recently because Of
/ hopeless passion for the young daughter OF
] neig hhOr a. girl OF sixteen. The aged onlCer,
! veteran Of Leipzig and Beresina, would soon
/ have been q hundred years old. He was hale
ana hearty, and his townspeOple were getting
| ready public celebration Of the event. but
/ unmindtul Of the honor In store for him, when
/ he found that the lady would not listen 10 his
] prOteStatlOn Of love. he drank nearly quart
l OF brandy and hanged himself. In the empty
/ brandy flask he placed carefully written let
/ ter giving the public his reason for commit
/ ting suicide.
The Chinese highbinders. Of san Francisco
| have taken TO the use Of airguns, which. be
! ing practically noiseless, are better adapted
| to their murderous purposes than noisy gun
| powder, IL Is said to be exceedingly danger
| Gus to venture into Chinatown, on account OF
! the constant shooting going on there. and on
! the Fourth Of July several Americans were
! shot on the confines of that interesting quar-
/ ter: During the past few days the shooting
! galleries have been thronged with Chinese
! practictGg, and as this has been the case i'm
| mediately before bloody outbreaks heretofore,
| the police look for trouble very shortly.
! There are at least 1000 highbindeTs in san
| Francisco, and they are rendered desperate
| by the hard times, which have closed up many
/ OF the disrepUtabe places on which they
/ were accustomed to levy blackmail The
Chinese consul has set Chinese detectives to
! WdtCu luell DuJ the American OIlCGfS place
! little confidence in their efficiency.
will written with a pencil on a
! shingle was once admitted to probate in
! the United States. The author of Gossip of
| the Century tells story still more curious.
! Two British soldiers. comrades. while talking
! over the chances OF war on the eve OF bat
| tie agreed that whichever Of them survived
| the other should inherit all his possessions.
| 10 insure the carrying out OF their agreement
they made their wills AS paper and pens
/ n nj at fheNy fFh ad thafr a
| Will and testament on a horn lantern with a
rusty nail. The battle was fought and one
of the comrades was killed. The other man,
| in course Of time. returned to England, car
| rylng with him the singular document He
! took II to Doctors Commons, where it was
proved and allowed. Then it appeared that
| the poor fellow who had died in battle had,
| without hearing of it, inherited property
| yielding EGO year, and the legatee under the
| horn-lantern will received the inheritance.
The various accomplishments of BARRIERS in
the older daysare illustrated by an adver-'
tisement recently published in the German
| Pedagogues Gazette, which appeared on the
| stgnboard Of barber of Nuremberg in l640,
| says the Cincinnati Enquirer It read as fol
| lows: "Isak Makerl, barber, wig-maker sur
| geOn, cOpyiSt, SchOOlmaSter, blacksmith, ply
! stefan. Shaves for a kTeuzer 1.-TWO cents,
| cuts the hair for two kreuzer, using butter
| and pOmade for pretty young ladies; lights
| the lanterns by the year or quarter; teaches
| young nOblemen how to speak their mother
| tongue dramatically and with ease teach
| es them good manners and how to spell. A
| master In style, makes and repairs shoes and
! boots, teaches to play on the flute and other
| Instruments teaches in the houses cotillionS
and other dances; sells perfumeTy of all kinds,
| paper, shoe-blacRing- sailed herrings honey
| cakes, mouse traps, candy, heart-Strengthen-
| ing condiments, potatoes, sausage and other
vegetables N B.-He teaches also chrog-
raphy and explains the nature of foreign
! wares every Saturday and Wednesday. Isak
| Makerl.
A Mr.. Rimington, of London, has been MAX
ing some experiments In the line of producing
! electric light by induction which bid fair to
! revOutionize the whole industry of electric
! lighting, His method is similar to that re-
! Gently shown by Mr.. Tesla, but he uses vastly
| less power. He produces light by simply
! revolving vacuum tube in constant eectri-
| cal field between two charged plates. He can
! even produce the light by rotating the tube
| and holding rod of glass or ebOnite electri-
| fed by friction near it. II the rod is simply
| drawn once through piece of dry flannel,
| sufficient electricity is developed to make the
| rotating tube luminous at distance of a foot
! from the rod. The tube In this experiment is
! simply straight glass cylinder about5 inches
| long, with o bore similar to that of a spirit
| thermometer and a bulb at each end. A
| Tplece, or projection, allows it to be exhaust
| ed by an air pump and then sealed, besides
| forming an attachment to the motor which
/ reYolves It. II the tube is merely tw1rled be-
| tween the finger and thumb near the excited
rod, the characteristic luminosity which has
a double fan shape, will appear.
A wellknown gentleman of Seattle the
other day handed TO reporter for the Post
Intelligencer a curious looking scarfpin tine
head of it being of the size of q small marble,
! such as isGused by boys In color it was of a
peculiar reddish amber and seemed to con
tain strange life-like heart, from which
! drop OF blood appeared ready to fall. "A
| heart OF hre bedimmed with haze" What
is it, asked the reporter 1t is an eve taken
| from mummy" was the reply. Where
| was it taken FROM" was asked Il was ut
! ArTN IarV ~,
| my myself, was the reply. "A number of
| young men and myself one day We're out for
| sport and dug up half a dozen mummies for
| the sake of seeing what they had heen buried
| WITH We found money, pieces of pottery,
| etc, but did not strike a gold mine
! Nearly all the better class of mummies
seemed to have these eyes in them,
| ana took this from one Of them. 1 could
| not learn what it was Some people in Peru
| contend that II is the natural eye preserved
| and hardened in some manner while others
! think 1t is hShS eye. They do not bother
! their heads much about it down there how
! ever. The fact that these eyes are found in
Inunmles Is SUFFICIENT for them. I have
! never heard OF any tradition connected with
! Them Il took the eye to a jewelry store in
| San Francisco aud tried to get il polished
| out could not although half a dozen men
! worked on it. The powder arising from it
| WhlIe they were at work would make them
| qeathly sick. and also get in their eyes and
| blind Thorn temporarily. You see that it has
| scaled of in places. l finally mad it set in
| this pin as you see it,"
| In 1924, writes Archdeacon Farrar. in the
! Fortnightiy Review, gin drinking began to
| affect the masses, and Mr.. Leczy in his His
tory OF the Eighteenth Century" draws ter
! rible picture of the way in which the fatal
| passion for drink was at once and irreVocably
| plante in the nation" On that account he
| nXeS on that year as one Of the blacklist and
| most fatal epochs in English history And
| are we now to be told that drink in those DAYS
! did not cause crime? One may suppose that
! the grand jury of Middlesex were under no
/ such utter delusion, for, soon after t124 they
, sent in a powerful presentment, in which
| they declared that much the greatest Part
| OF the poverty, the robberies and the murd
| ers OF London might be attributed to drink"
| In 100, the London physicians also drew up q
! memorial and said that there were then
! 1000 cases of fatal illness due TO gin alone
| AT the same time, Bishop Benson, of Glouces-
| ter, one of the best bishops on the bench
| used these words so diametricallv
| the opposite of Mr.. Walkers insinuation:
| Our peoOle' he said. have become what
! they never were before-cruel snd inhuman
! These accursed liquors which, to the shame
! OF our government, are so easily to be had
| have changed their very nature" At the
! same time the whole bench Of bishops inter
! posed the unsullied purity of their lawn be-
| tween the nation and the curse of the drink
traffic. as, in these days, our judges have in
! terpOsed the stainless sancity of their err
mine" They protested against the Gin act as
founded on the indulgence of debauchery
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