The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-17
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Dogs have most acute ears in detecting
differences in the quality OF sound sara
a musician TO the PittSburg Dispatch.
have at home a large Newfoundland when
is great lover of music. No matter IN
what portion of the house may be, ne al
ways comes to me when begin 10 play,
lying close TO the piano. 1 nave an oiu
organ. 1t is one of those instruments with
many stops and but few good qualities.
think ] have been able, after much en-
deaVOr to distinguish two different quail
ties of tone In all of the long row of stops,
put my dog made II apparent 10 me lndt
my ears were not as acute as his. i play
for variety upon the organ, nOtWlthSt and-
ing its being antiquated, and my dog
seems TO enjoy this as much IS the piano,
all except enc stop. Whenever pun JhdI
stop out he rises 10 his feet suddenly and
commences TO bark and growl at me IN a
most VICIOUS manner. sometimes DllnS
al the organ. Now, TO my ear, that stop
makes no difference in the sound OF the
organ. / have tried hard to detect the dis
tinCtive quality which aggTaVates the
dog nature. but without success. ] have
tried to fool the old fellow by commencing
tune OF one stop and suddenly pulling
out the obnoxious one. he never lalls 70
notice this. although the sound, to me, is
just the same.
Charles HarlSinson, the well-known
manager and actor who has Travelled
all over Asia, Africa and Europe, tells
the following wonderful story of a Fab
yah magician who walked right straight
up through the air to a hight of sew
greatest neCromanCers, -hypnotistS and
magiCians of the world, and are supposed
TO be descendants of the old mijas of
biblical lore. one OF their principal feats
is that of walking upward through the
air TO q considerable hight. The Fab
yah who performs this startling feat
first lays fat on the earth, face down
ward, for minute or a minute and
half He then rises quickly and, placing
his arms tightly against his sides, delib-
erately walks right upward into the air
as high as his powers Of endurance Will
permit When his strength is exhausted
by treading thin ether, he casually a
arms wildly d time or two and then be-
gins the descent One who sees this
startling feat performed will agree with
me that it is a difficult matter TO believe
ones eyes, and shake off the idea that
d miracle has not been enacted. One who
was not satisfied with the air walking
feat may hold a coin in his hand while
Fahyah mutters over it and then open
his fingers and finds the coin gone and
Shiny serpent in its place. --.-.
The Norwegian kjoelke are queer little
carriages about six feet long, made for the
descent of snow-COVered mountains, says
the Pittsburg Dispatch. They rarely eX-
coed d foot in width, and are raised some
eight or ten inches on runners. In his
right hand the rider carries a Tong pole,
varying from twelve to eighteen feet in
length with which he is able to steer A
friend of mine tells true story of kjoelke
Coasting. which is always dangerous, but
seldom as funny as the present case, says
an f4nSllSn writer. A gentleman was rlu-
ing his kjoelke down from Holmenkollen,
and before him on the road he saw d lady
and a gentleman walking He called loudly
to them to get out of the way but either
they did not hear, or his pace was too
great and they could not move aside As
he rushed madly on his little kjOelke, be
fore he knew what had happened, whipped
up the lady, and there she was sitting in
front of him. What was his establishment
to find that he was conveying an utter
stranger down the mountain side at this
lEFlE cob MAJ 10
breathless to speak, and they sped swiftly
away The lady knew that she must sit
quite stu, and after the first shock she
tucked her feet away and remained in
quiet beWlderment until they reached the
bottom. There they stood aghast. Each
bowed to the other. Each apologized, the
bearing off a lady so unceremoniously. All
reserve soon wore off and by the time the
lady brother arrived he found them chat
ting and laughing, the best of friends
when you pull a champagne cork the
anticipation of the sparkling beverage
gives you but little time to consider lust
how important the cork is" said a promi-
nent cork manufacturer to a PittSburg
Dispatch man. "A champagne cork IS
the most expensive made. You will prob
ably be surprised when l tell you they cost
Z to 10 cents each. To keep champa gne
in good condition the cork must be as
near perfect as possible. So it is that
they are cut by hand from the best quality
of Catalonia wood. The utmost care is
taken in the selection of the wood and
even after the corks are cut another
sorting process is gone through. Then,
by chemical process, the Corks are
tested to see if they can be relied upon to
do the particular work of tightly ia sten-
ing champagne bottles The manufactu-
rer must learn for certainty whether
the corks are perfect or not before they
are permitted to be put upon the market
OF course you find some bad corks in
champagne bottles, but their defects are
either passed over through carelessness
or develop after the bottle is corked.
You will now appreciate that 7 or 10
cents is not such very eXhorbitant fl g
ure as it would SEEM There are very
few champagne COrks made in America
The corks could be made here just as
well as in Europe, but at much less profit
AS the process of manufacture is mostly
by hand the difference in the price of
labor would reduce the manufacturers
proht to a small margin. We pay cutters
on this side from 1925 to $3.50 day, as
against 90 cents to rs cents on the other
side"
The gambling instinct among the In
dams seems rather to be increased than
otherwise by civilization, and more than
one Cherokee who drew at Tahlsquah re-
Gently for himself, wife and his children
quite a large sum of money III full dis
charge of his personal interest in the
Cherokee Strip came near losing every
dollar Of it before returning home, SAYS
the st. Louis Globe-DemoCrat One riav
when the distribution was exceptionally
heavy two very speculative recipients were
standing together near the postofice A
a bucking pony. For SO young a boy he
held his seat we'll but it seemed exceed
ingly probable to the onlookers that before
he got the pony home he would either be
thrown or would have to get off. The two
Indians discussed the proposition with
much excitement and family one man bet
the other the entire government per capita
that the boy would be thrown before he
got past them. The bet was accepted with
vicious eagerness, and as they watched
the antics OF the pony as it whirled round
bucked. sat down on it's launches and ala
everything else that was ever known 10 A
trick horse they almost came to blows in
the excitement of their argument FINALLY
the horse, despairing of any other means
of getting rid of the rider leaped in the
cir and fell on its side, knocking half the
life out of the boy, and then rolling com
pletely over him. An alteration, of course
followed as to which had won the bet The
plucky boy hung on to the horn of his sad
die, although apparently fatally injured
he neither fell Off nor got off, hui was
lifted off the furious animal by half a
dozen dozen men en-, who rushed quickly to the
rescue. Efforts were made to quiet The
two Lndians. and the sLaaastinr, 49, -