The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-16
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! 20 making d journey on loot from warsaw 10
Amsterdam. 1t is curious coincidence that
German army o1icer of the same name was
the hrst to reach Vienna in the competitive
ohg-dlStance ride two years ago between
Berlin and Vienna.
1t Is curious fact SAID physician.
tnat While 1t Is very dlf1eultfer the average
citizen to get poisonous drugs IN small guam
| Iltles, II Is easy to get them al wholesale.
know OF man who walked into the retail
department Of big drug store up town and
Irleq 10 buy hve grains of morphine. The
clerk refused to sell 1t to him without a ply
Slclan prescription The man simply
| walked through passageway into the whole
| SAFE department and asked for package Of
| the drug containing sixty grains It was
handed over to him without a word. The
reason for the distinction is doubtless be-
cause the person intending TO commit suicide
| usually goes 70 the retail DIR az store At the
| same time all the morphine and opium fiends
- i...sI snSiI IaNofltS drugs az wholesale
principally, suppose. because they get them
! much cheaper that way. -
Il once had to run INTO Chatham island in
the South Pacific ocean. said an old sea cap
tain. and was amused to see the way in
which the people accepted their fate In re-
! gard TO the jumping of time. This little STAND
! Is Just on the line of demarcation between
times and dates In order to keep right with
| the remainder of the world it is necessary to
SKIP from noon on Sunday tonoon on Monday
every week in the year, and hence the Joke
| that is possible to spend whole day at din
ner without eating an average meal. The
days and nights are altogether mixed up
from the idea of an ordinary individual, bat
this plan OF jumping the afternoon of one day
ana the morning OF the next, so as TO keep in
line with the almanac is something so ride
ulous that none but a seafaring man can ap-
prec1ate it, or understand the necessity"
The Czechs Of Bohemia. show an undis-
guished hostility to their Austrian fellow
subjects. says McMillan's Magazine. Russia
has no liberation for any differences of race
or religion within her bot ndaries. The policy
of classification has been carried to an ex
treme length; it has acted like great steam
roller In crushing everything beneath 1t to
, one dead level. 1t vas last year made penal
offense for anyone in Poland to speak Polish
| In any place of public resort. Finland has
been made a Russian grand duchy, and
every mark which distinguished her from
| Russia is being rapidly obliterated But the
determined attempt to make Bulgaria Rus
sian has, thanks to he efforts of her past and
present rulers. been averted. In Bull
garla herself the language of the country is
compulsory taught in the schools of the
Greek section of the people France is
hardly second to Russia in her hatred of the
| foreigner, and in yisw of the intimate con
nection which exists between that country
and our own, it will be a matter of more than
| theoretical interest to consider the question
for moment.
At the last meeting of the Society for the
Study of Comparative Psychology, Mr.. An
derson gave some of his personal expert.
ences in connection with the lower animals
"a
ternlng dog in his posse. sion. says the
| Montreal Ga cite. Il ne dog had conceived a
great liking tor one Ct the me nbers OF the
hot Sehold, aud nothing o eased nm better
| than to re allowed to rest at the door of mis-
room. The room was situated at the end of
| a hallway, which was covered by oilclotl
cen eq emily any person i'm nediately be-ow
| could near the dog when Its Laws came in
contact with the glazed Surfa e. One day the
d, g, as usual had taken up its plas at ths
bedroom door b e was sent down s airs in
q while hear ~ : in I a
| oilcloth upstairs. Before removing this time
! he was given a good scolding. enc of the
| members o. the household went into an op-
| posite room. leaving the door slightly open
! and awaited development s. in short time
tne dog was seen aptroa hing. walking with
| body was placed on the ball of his foot. and
! it was impossible TO hear the claws touch the
| oilcloth. Have we not here perfect case of
| reasoning somewhat as fol ows: "f / can
! only su coed in passing the oilCloth will be
! all right
One of the simplest devices for smuggling
| diamonds is that of the hollow heeled shoe
| says the jewelers. Weekly. 1t Is asserted
that boots and shoes constructed so as to
leave small vacant space in the heels are
easily obtained in Europe. and they are es-
peo1ally manufactured for the purpose of sup
plying smugglers with means for escaping
| detection. he porous plaster has often
served as a means OF dsecreting diamonds.
| Wnen IL IS understood. that SlO,UUO worth of
| diamonds or more tan easily lie inclosed in a
paper parcel about as wide as this column
~ inches high. and about quarter of an
| inch thick, II is easy to comprehend that sue
| a package can be kept securely in place by
means OF an limo ent but highly SER
viceable porous plaster. One Of the
| most ingenious methods ever en-
ployed the use of a cake of soap,
| wherein number of diamonds had been IN
bedded, 1t is highly probable that this plan
| would have proved successful had IL not
been that the officers of the government had
received Information that the suspected
person had diamonds with him. and searched
| his ef1ects so thoroughly that they examined
even the gem studded block of soap. The
| wife of this Smuggler helped her spouse and
her plan was not less ingenious than that of
her husband. Her hat was ornamented with
| bunC hes OF grapes, which. under ordinary cir
| cumSLances, would only have awakened the
envy OF other wearers of bonnets. Within
| the graz eS were diamonds and fancy stones of
great value. Another smuggler was specially
| provided by Providence with a smuggling
device In the shape Of heavy covering of
| thick, bushy hair. which he arranged so that
| 1t stood up from his forehead like an impen-
etra lie bush. Within this mass of heavy
hair he deposited a goodly. stock of diamonds,
| and succeeded for time in escaping the Wig
| lance OF the custom house oficials.
The ci.yo Venice is approached from re-
hind by rlilrc ad constr cted over stretch
| OF swamp which is not very unlike the near
Apr zach to several New Jersey coast towns.
| TheIe is trife more water and not SO much
grass, but, acc ordln TO d writer in the Phila-
| anything but a sub ,ect for a chapter OF line
| romance. out teYoni this swamp was an
| other swamp which was a little higher 1t
| had teen out Of the water longer and hal
| caught enough of sea weed, sand shells and
sediment to be fit for birds to nest on.
| There was one island called the Rialto
which was really quite secure and around
this one there was slid to tie about
| Sc 2enty five or eighty other islands which
! to-day are lpied by the city of Venice
| some of these were originally not islands at
all They were mere nigh places in a great
| bog, which, by the emitting OF channels and by
| artificial means were converted into more or
less fit places for the erection of buildings.
| Without consulting history, one could almost
guess that such an unfavorable spot as this
| was not selected as the site for a city out of
free choices and. indeed. il was not Venice
was started during the fifth and sixth cen
turtles. The lnha oitantS of Padua and a few
more north Roman cities. chased out by the
| Huns, the Goths and other tribes Of barba-
! rians, took refuge there In an Adriatic lagoon.
/ he savages of Asia had no boats. so that the
| settlement was very safe. and. leading an ia.
dependent life. prosp. red by itself during the
| middle ages at surprising rate. 1t was a
/ monstrous work to make the city secure from
! the sea. Ship loads of stone were brought
! from other coasts, Dams and canals were
! built al great cost and the residents finally
! got enough of dry land about them to feel