The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

/ Two Chicago doctors were married the
other day, and the bride retains her maiden
( Eame. She says that having practiced medi-
4 cine for eleven years under that name she
/ prefers to keep it, and her husband does not
object.
Boys stretched a cord across Boston pave
nent and Miss Colt fell over it. Her injuries
were not serlous, but the mental shock re-
/ suited in insanity and in three weeks she
died in an asylum. An investigation Is in
progress.
lawyer in Wichita, Kan, asks for
divorce on the ground that she travels too
much. She was one of the state commits
/ sloners at the worlds fair ana contracted the
habit in that wav, having been on the go ever
since her appointment.
1t is said of Henry Renwick, the great
patent expert, who was the first examiner
! appointed in the patent ONCE at WASHINGTON.
/ and VINO resigned IN 1874. that he did so / e
cause he had made up his mind that com
paratlVely rev more patents would De issued;
! that the whole field Of invention had heen
! pretty thoroughly eXplo ed and exhausted,
and that he. therefore. thought he ought to
/ look out for some business Of q more peIma-
| nent kind. At the present day. says CasSel'S
! Magazine, with the multitude OF inventions
/ tnat have cropped up, and with the host that
are to follow, this early view of the subject is
| uniquely interesting Experience has more
! than borne out the statement once uttered
! that one Invention makes at least cae add
1
| vented, a machine for making it must
| often be invented ALSO the building OF
| this machine may again necessitate the en-
( plOYment of some special tool for which, too,
| we may have to depend on inventive genius.
| and IN this way multiplication Of devices may
| go on to an extent little imagined in the be-
| ginning The discovery and manufacture of
| korOS me Tor Illuminating purposes, for eE-
| ample. are SAID to have been alone respon-
| SIble for abOut 000diferent inventions which
| have teen patented. There are similarly
n 10 oh ,fof
| coupling railroad cars. and something like 800
/ for knitting machines Other equally strih-
| ing cases would. no doubt be afforded by
| study Of the subject but are scarcely neces-
! sary to complete the picture
The moving OF houses either OF brick.
! stone or wood. for long distances, is very
simple matter nowadays" said Judge Robert
! Campl ell, of St. Louis, to the Baltimore sun.
| While at Wichita last week one of the citi-
| Zens told me, We are improving very fast.
! houses are fetng moved into the city every
| day He referred TO the fact that during the
| mad and frenzied DAYS of the Wichita boom
| streets with gran told walks we're run away
| out into the cornheldS of the prairie, and
| handsome villas were built several miles
| from town by the suddenly enriched popu-
| lace who imagined that their suburban sites
| would in few years be centrally lOca.ed. The
| boom collapsed, Wichita lots again became
| farms and these suburban villas bought for
a song, are now Being hauled into town.
| to Us vast improvement The most
remarkable case Of house moving that
| ! ever heard of was at Nauvoo III
| When the Mormons we're driven out OF
| Missouri by an armed force they UIilt the
| town OF Nauvoo on the banks Of the Missis-
| slpp1. Here they erected their temple and
| constructed thriving town. Then the Iii
| nois people arose burned the temple, muir
| dered the prophet Joseph Smith, and the en-
| tire community fled to Utah. Mennonites
| from Russia came along and bought the land
| They had no use for the $50 buildings in the
| town. They wanted the land to pialt vine
! yards upon. They sold the houses to Mis-
Sourlan named Boyd for a triftie. The next
| winter he began to put rollers under the
| houses, slid them down the banks to the
| frozen river and then slid and rolled and
| pushed them six miles up the river and
| founded the town of Fors Madison. Ia.-alI
| except about forty of the houses which are
| to day on the left bank of the river, opposite
| the site OF the extinct town Of Nauvoo."
The old dictionary sell about "transpire"
and 'perspire" is still worked with so much
assiduity as to lead one to suppose that there
is none other to be had. says thu CHICAGO
| Times. But there are others quite as good
| Take three words: "Reeking" "desiccated -
and 'lurid, and ask your friends what they
understand by them. "ReekinE?" one Will
] say. Why. reezing means dripping with
moisture, soaked with wet" Another will
| say that 1t means slippery, Shiny: as with
| filth ~Reeking with Nth Having an I'm
pleasant odor' If you can gel bet that the
word does not mean anything OF the kind.
| If he won't bet you'll have
almost as much pleasure in noting his sur
! prise when you tell him that 'reekingr means
smoking. steaming." a chimney can reek.
| or new pipe can reek. When a horse reeks
with moisture it is because its tanks smoke
| with steam. Jean Ingelow writes
No fame did flash or fair blue reek
Rose up to show me his place"
That is the surest catchword of the three
"Desiccated" is pretty good though Nine
out OF every ten will instantly say that the
yorH nc l.
| Smashed up in small pieces" In this VOID
! as in 'reeking the process of change from
| the real meaning can he traced Anything
| very wet would reek in frosty weather so the
| wetneSs was assumed to be the real char
| acterlstic of r5ek. Pretty much The only
| article in common use to which the adjective
! deSiccated" Is applied Is CocOanut prepared
| for use in cakes and pies. II is chopped up
that it may he thoroughly dried and thor
| oughly dried is the only proper meaning
'Lurid" is a word little better known ASH
a man what color lurid Is and he may answer
correctly, but the chances are that he will say
red, flaming, orange, or bright yellow" OF
course, lurld means smoky or dull color
London fog is lurid; thick suiocating smoke
is lurid. Lurd and liyld are almost synony-
nous, "Lurid flames are flames almost
choked with smoke. lurid sunset is not
brilliant one, but one dull, and gray and cheer
less.
Dueling is the Leading and almost the only
athletic sport in Italy says the Idler. II is
true that there is an Alpine Club, so called be-
cause its members climb the lesser hights of
the Apennines, but there is no cricket, and.
except among the lat oring classes. Ran
games of even the Inildest character are
hardly ever played The young Italian gen.
tl9man finds in dueling an exercise which is
| beneficial to his muscles and sufficiently ex
citing to interest him. and the middle aged
Italian keeps up his practice with the foils
and occasionally challenges and fights n
| friend Just to show that he is not too old to
have lost genial interest in the innocent
pursuits of youth. DuelinP is con-
tray to law in Italv fIIt
the duelist is never punished (uniess he
should accidently kill a NAM except in the
army, where the sport is obligatory and
strictly prohibited The same curious anon
ally exists il Germany, where army officers
are arrested and punished il they fight a duel
and either cashtered or forced to resign IL
they do not. The Italian officer when Chal-
lenged to fight, is virtually told You'll ne
condemned If you do. and condemned IL Won
don't I his seems to the Anglo Saxon de-
clGedly idfotic, but nothing can well re more
idiotic than dueling. Playing ,charades in a
drawing room rises to philosophic hights of
wisdom In comparison with it. At leas1
ninety whine of every hundred Italian duels
are of the class technically known as
| "hrst-blood duels. That is to saw. the
combat ceases the moment either of the adj
versaries loses blood. In these duels the
sword is always used, and the slightest
scratch on the hand or the arm-which are
| the localities usually cratched-signalizes
the end OF the game and aCtborizas ba AL