The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-14
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will 1889 instead OF 1889. but the court has de-
cided that this does not impair its validity.
New York public schools now teach aOout
337, 900 children, and there is still demand
for new buildings to hold many more thou
sands.
Two women recently accepted invitations
TO speak at the Kentucky Sunday school con
vention. Hearing o. this two clergymen,
who had also consented to speak at the con
vention. Cancelled their engagement on the
I ground that women are forbidden by the holy
ghost TO speak IN public.
AT Pawnee Ill, the other morning a
daughter Of Rev Mr.. Plowman found a small
package hanging on a nail in an old out closet.
! she took IL to her father who took it TO DR..
/ Brennan, to whom 1t was addressed. When
/ opened they we're astOEished to see 5000 in
/ crisp. new biLs- Inere was note directing
/ that the none be divided among the heirs of
/ c. al White who has been dead for eighteen
/ years. 1t vii. be disposed OF as directed.
At fashionable establishment for the sale
Of men furnishing goods. it was said that
/ perhaps l per cent. of all The half hose sold
| were unoleached; they are bought mainly By
/ older men who have been accustomed to wear
! Ing them and don wish TO change. Scarcely
any white half hose are sold but the url-
bleached are pretty nearly white after a few
! WashlngS. Nearly all the half hose sold for
! ran and winter wear are black, and this year
| they VIII almost all of them he solid bllck,
| uhfeneVed by stripes or other color effects
| by Herr Lilienthal, says McClures Maya
| zine, is designed rather for sailing than tor
| dylng, IN the proper sense Of the term; or, as
| ne says for being carried steadily and with
out danger, under the least posi- Ole angie of
| descent, against moderate wind, from an
| elevated point to a PLAIN fellow" 1t is made
| almost entirely of closely woven muslin,
washed with collodion to render il irnperViOuS
| TO air, and stretched upon a ribbed frame of
| split willow, which has been found TO be the
| IlghteSt and strongest material for this pur-
! re in a1av -, .1,g,l
wings; a vertical rudder shaped like a con
ventional palm leaf whick acts as
vane in keeping, the head always
horizontal rudder to prevent the
sudden change in the equilibrium. The oper-
ator so adjusts the apparatus TO his person
when in the arr he will he either resting upon
his elbows or seated upon narrow support
near the front. and, with the wings folded be-
hind him, makes short II from some ele-
waited point always against the wind and,
when he has attained sufficient velocity.
launches himself into the air by a spring or
Jump, at the same time spreading the wings.
which are at once extended to their full
breadth by atmospheric action, whereupon he
sails majestcally along like a gigantic sea-
gull. In this way Herr Liienthal has accom-
pllshed flights OF nearly 90J yards from the
starting point.
Concerning gray hair says a writer in the
Detroit Free Press, there seems to be no ra-
uonal theory for change in the color Of the
hair, except that Of loss of pigment color and
SHAFT This may he the result of natural or
artificial causes. Probably among Americans
the early age at which the hair blanches is
due largely to nervous conditions. Mental
and physical disturbances undoubtedly often
AFFECT the secretlng apparatus Of the hair de
stroylng cOloring matter, for history records
| instances OF the chang of hair from dark to
white in single night through the cerebral
excitement OF some great loss ODDLY or
mental anguish; neither can coloring matter.
onte entirely destroyed be restored. Do not
! pretend
& a hair to the youthful color in any other
way than by dyelng, for science has not vet
disco cred method by which pigment, once
entirely exhausted. can be renewed Dark
hair may be beaChed. but no sane person
could be deceived by the dull, lusterleSs vel
low OF hair so treated. Neither does dye de-
ceiyc any one, and woman who would look
| charming with head of white hair kept per
fectly clean and fluffy with legitimate treat
ment, becomes disgust n when she resorts
to such fragrant artificial means for keeping
the hair dark or blonde. When ones hair
turns gray tention should be directed
| toward Keeping II SlrupulouSly clean; 10 ward
Keeping the complexion delicate and fine with
color, the eyes bright and the expression ami
mated; for a brilliant ia e. framed by snowy
hair. has a peculiar charm, if the hair be
abundant and becomingly arranged.
} Leather guns are somewhat OF curiosity,
the honor Of having invented them being a
matter of dispute between the nations of
Sweden and Scollnd, says Macmillan Mag
azne. According to one account they were
Quilt of the most hardened leather girt
about with hoops of iron and brass Accord
ing to another they had a core of tin and were
tourd round with cordage In neither case
could they be expected to last long, though
, we are told that they could be brought TO
discharge" as often as ten times in success
, sion; but when we reflect how few are the
! rounds that can be fired from the monster
, guns OF our own day without renewal of
) the inner tube we cannot afford to
! sheer at the shortness of their life
! | They were at any rate mobile for they
! | could be carried on pony's back or stacked
! together by the half dozen in 'barricados Of
+ | wood" borne on wheels. Moreover they did
= good service more Than once as, for instance
: | at Newourn and at Cropredy bridge Later
on they seem to have fallen into disrepQte,
. | for we hear of the leather guns by which
? the king ana country hath been cheated; >
: though even at hilliecrankle Mackay had
+ some of 'Sandy's Stoups," as they were
y called, with him. We may remember that in
, the French revolution there were enthusiasts
r who proposed to set all the coopers in Paris to
work at the construction of wooden guns
I Milton seems to have had something of the
/ sort in his mind when he describes the artil-
. lery OF the rebellious angels:
Like to pillars most they seemed,
Or followed Lodies made of oak or tr
With bran hes Topped;
! But the guns themselves were brass, iron
+ stony moGld.'
+ 1t is extremely improbable. says the Satur-
, / day Review, that genius derives any pecu-
2 liarly appropriate nutrment from a fish diet
: | and It Is certain that genius gives no thought
4 | to the subject Mr.. Carlyle and Lord Ienuy-
: son smoked pipes-because they were men
| enough to smoke pipes-but we do not sun.
| pose that cigarettes would have made a de-
> cadent of Mr.. Carlyle or an i'm 1ressionist"
J | of Sir Joshua Reynolds. The style and char
acter of Or. johnson remained the SINE
| whether he drank lemonade and tea or tor'
and punch. OLD Satchells boldly AYERS mat
brandy makes the poet, but his POETRY would
have had the same complexion had he Re-
b. galel his muse with whisky. On chamoagre
r ana OrtOlans, Burns would have written nei
Their better no: worse than on collops AMI
toddy. In another field Of exc Silence il likely
= that to smoke pipe and urlnk glass OF beer
would not add or subtract a couple of strokes
3 from Taylor usual round on the links Ii
was not because of his great appetite for reef
that Sir Andrew Aguecheek fell below lofty
intellectual standard. We do not know
whether Shakespeare had any 1avorite dish
r ABOUT Thackeravs and Johnson's favorile
r dishes, we know great deal but are psyche
logically none the wiser Appreciation of
p coCkyleeky does not account for the state sman
like qualities or defects OF James VI. What
| ever Mr.. Gladstone favorite food may re- il
Is prOoatly none Of the rouEh-and- ready dain-
ties celebrated by Homer. and II is not to he
thauRht that he takes grated cheese in his
claret like Nestor. In short, food and genius
have nothing TO do with each other, and the
most popular noyelsts are not to lie distin-
q ..R a.