The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-22
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It is said that young man serving term
in the Massachusetts penitentiary for forgery
las earned several thousand dollars by labor
OUTSIDE OF what Is required Of him as part OF
his prison duties; that every cent OF this
money has been turned over to those who
lost by his crime, and that when he was
Onered pardon he refused IL, saying he had
committed crime for which he wished to
make fun PREPARATION, not only to those who
suffered by il, but to the state.
Napoleon's famous column at Boalogne-
Sur-Mer. of1cially called the ''Colonne de Ia
Grande Armee, " was blown down by the wind
on tricay and broken to piec S. says the
Philadelphia Record. This incident Will re-
call the occasion which the monument com
memorated. The calHmn marked the site OF
Napoleon camp when. in 1905, he had con
centrated force Of 10000 men for the pur-
pose OF invading England. He had 2,4OO
transports ready. and the combined French.
spanish and Dutch fleets were prepared to
sWoop down upon the english channel fleet
aho' oy driving out the latter to leave the
way clear fo- the transp ortatlon Of the French
10 the opposite shore SO certain was NapO-
leon OF success that he had the dies prepared
LOT medal bearing the inscription; In
Yaslon OF England: struck at London, 1904"
fortunately for England. or for Napoleon
tthe wise historians have never decided
Whlchi. the war with Austria afforded other
employment for the French army
A local paper of Moravia. Cayuga county,
New YORK, says that George Dunmore, pros
porous farmer. who has been a resident of
mat town nearly eighty years has never Ueen
outside OF the township. u he well-known
villages OF Cortland, Homer, Genoa and Aur-
ora are within ten miles Of MoraVia, but
drtner DumOre has never been IN either one
OF them. He has a brother and a sister who
nave lived eight miles from his farm for over
Sixty years. ana he has not seen either OF
them for forty hve years A neighbor Of
Dumore 5, Nathan TUthill a yeats old. has
HNeu IN Moravla nifty years ana he was never
N E4.a
mas nVed half century in one house. and
never slept or ate meal IN any other house.
he never tasted hquors beer or tobacco, and
never wrote letter or signed a note or other
oDlgation Another neghbor OF Dumore is
Seth IL. Webb, aged 50 years, who has been
town clerk for nifty four consecutive years.
Calve, the famous prima donna although
she calls herself Nine" is not married. Il
have been too busy 10 marry" she says. In
Europe wom&n is called madam when she
ceases TO look Ike girl That is why / pre-
Ter TO g called Nine. Calve. The prlma
donna dlslikes very much the English title
lor unmarried women. &c Yes, miss, fer in
stanCei Is there any. expression less pleasing
TO the ear In france we say: Yes. ma
dame with the trst syllable slightly ac-
cented. and If the voice is sweet the ear Is
charmed Calve considers the English
woman the most accomplished In the world of
society; the American lady comes next. In
none or The countries of Continental Europe
VIII y ou meet as many ladies who speak two
VI al Womanklnd none are so happily situated
as the Americans Their wealth personal
laerty and ind viduality are astonishing.
When European lady wishes to 90 on a visit
or make a purchase. the matter is talked
over with the family; here she is free to do as
she likes. She buys what neases her and
| goes and does as she likes 10 know the
American woman is to want to do as she does,
| 10 be as she is
According TO Pratorius, the man in the
moon is the Patriarch Isaac, carrying the
| bundle of sticks which were TO be lighted to
! sacrifice his own body on the mountain top,
! says the st. Louis Republic. Dante relieves
| him to lie Cain, carrying bundle OF thorns-
| the meanest Offering his lands anorded-as a
present to God. In Iceland the people claim
| that they eau see the face OF Adam in the
| moon, and that of I've in the sun Among
| the Frieburgers there is q superstition which
! says that the marks and spots on the moon
| face are the outlines of the traitor Judas is-
CARROT, holding his hand over his face while
| sneezlng Just prior to hanging himself
| This last belief accords with the old
| trani1sh legend, which says that there
| was no spots on luna 5 bright face until after
| the time of the crucihxion OF Christ. Sul
another story tells us that in the time Of the
creation OF God threw an offending angel
| against the face Of the moon. while another
- 70 ine e4ect that tae moon witnessed the
creation Of Adam and Eve, and took an i'm
| press OF their features on his surface intend
| ing to people his own land with similar be-
| ings. When he ESSAY cd to initiate God &
works he made nothing but Shiny serpent
which since that day has continued to fold
and unfold its mighty coils in full view OF the
descendants of the God creatured beings.
4 approached one day to the formicary of
| some wood ants exposed to the sun and shell
| tered from the north" writes Pierre Hnher
| the naturalist. The ants were heaped upon
| one another in great numbers, appearing to
| enjoy the mperature Of the surface of the
| nest. None Of them were at work and the i'm
| mer s. multitude of insects presented the APP
pearan, OF liquid in state OF ebullition
| upon which the eye could scarcely be fixed
! without great difficulty, but when l examined
| the conduct OF each ant, saw that they. were
| approaching each other, each moving his
antenn8 with astonishing rapidity each pat.
! ting the cheek of one of his fellows After
! tn Sc preliminarieS, which very much resen.
| bled caressing, they were observed to raise
| themselves upright on their hind legs by
! pairs, struggle together, seize each other by
mandible, foot or antenna, and then immed-
| lately relax their hold. only TO renew the at
| tack again in moment. They would fasten
! to each o hers shoulders. embrace and
! wrestle. overthrow each other, and then
| raise themselves by turns, each taking
| revenge without producing any serious mis-
chief - hey did not squirt out their venom
! as they do in they real combats, nor retain
! their holds upon opponents with such oh
stina ". have seen some so eager in these
| exercises that they would pursue and van
! qulsh several in succession, only struggling
with each few SET onds. In one
! place two ants appeared to be gamboling
! about stalk OF straw, turning alternately to
! avoid or seize each other which for, iblv
! brought to my recollection tine sport and past
! time of young dogs. when they are observed
! to rise on their hind legs. attempting to bite
| overthrow or seize each other, without once
| closing their teeth"
Prof. Bert Reese, of Chicago, mind-reader.
furnished no end Of diversion and astonlsh.
ment to a large group Of gentlemen congrs.
| gated at Chamberlin's Saturday afternoon
! says the Washington Post His tests were IN
! nearly every instance absolutely suecessfui
! How to account for them staggered every
| man present. Washington Irving Bishon
never did any cleverer feats Senator Souire
! OF Washington, will never more be skepticai
| on the subject. He wrote on four little sims
| of paper the number OF his watch the name
| of school teacher of his boyhood his
mothers maiden name, and what he had
| eaten for breakfast that morning. These
! slips he rolled up in very tight folds, and no
/ one saw what he had written thereon The
! professor asked him to put two in mis-
vest pocket and to retain two Then
/ after holding one Of the slips still rolled
/ up for a brief space against the mind
eader s forehead. II was Withdrawn and
/ the professor calmly announced that the
number of the watch was I'm. which were
the figures written by the senator A very
simple breakfast dish was revealed in The
same way, but the names that were reposinu
/ in the senator pockets and which had not
come in contact with the wizards body were
correctly told Offhand J can't explain nv
power - said Prof. Reese, but even when a
BOY l could do these things. You heard NE
tell that newspaper man. Just now whom 7
had never seen before the name of tho 0ret