The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-17
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daughter in the course Of a year calls
upon the bereaved parents and says:
| Your son is sure to want a wife. I'll
give you my daughter and you shall de-
liver 10 me the marriage portion in re-
tufn. A friendly Oiter OF TINS description
Is never rejected. and the two parties
soon come 10 terms as to the amount
Of the dowry, which varies according to
the advantages possessed by the girl in
her lifetime. Cases have been known
where the young mans father has given
as much as thirty cows TO secure a dead
/ Wife for his dead son.
1t has been claimed by observers Of
birds that some of the feathered tribe will
iced thelr young II they are Gagged, and if
| they fall after certain time to release
them they viii bring them a poisoned
| weed to eat. that death may end their cap
uVlty. About week ago, says the Carson,
New Appeal, at the Molstein ranch the
cnllufeh captured nest or three young
orioles, and they We're Immediately Gagged
and hung in a tree The mother was soon
about calling her young, and in a little
While brought them some worms. She
continued feeding them regularly for sew
eral days without seeming to pay much at
tentlon to persons about. But on Sunday
came the tragic ending that demonstrated
the theory relative to birds She brought
them Sprig of green on Sunday morning
and disappeared. In less than an hour they
all dled. The sprig was examined and
proved to be the deadly larkspur weed
that viii Kill full-grOWn cattle. The little
creatures lay dead in the cage and slight
~ roaming at the mouth, victims of their
mothers stern resolve that her offspring
should die by her own act rather than live
in captivity
The origin of the polka is not generally
known, the inventor of the dance having
been young Bohemian girl named Han
lczka Selezka, says the Etude. She was
blooming young peasant maiden, and
the best dancer in the village of COste-
lee, on the river Elbe, and used to per
form solo dances of her own invention
az the various village festivities. 1t was
IN the year 1880, at a farmhouse, that
the assembled guests asked her TO dance
a solo, and she said: Il will show you
some thing quite new" and to the music
of her own singing she danced the polka
step, though with more elaboration than
1t IS now performed. The dance became
50 popular that 1t was later made a ma
tonaI dance and Haniczka named 1t
pulku, as she said it was danced in short
| steps; from pulku came pollku, and finally
polka, the dance three years later, in
1871, becoming popular in Prague and
IN l609 1t was already danced at Vienna
balls, and one year later became the most
popular dance in Paris. HanicZka Selez-
ka is still alive, surrounded by numerous
grandchildren and great-grandchildren
sprung from her own six sons and daugh-
The conventional way of putting ones
autograph on a hotel register is common
place enough, and so every now and then
variations In registering are to be found
in all hostelries of Washington, SAYS the
Washington Post. The man who puts
Hon. Colonel" or Judge" before his
own name is n very rare visitor at the
capital, but occasionally a sinner of this
sort against good taste is found. Very
few travellers nowadays write the word
lady where wife ought to go, though Mr..
and Mrs. seem to be the most approved
forms. The night clerk at one of the up
town hotels opened his eyes wide the other
DAY When a guest who registered from
New York added thereto 1926 West Forty
ninth street. which was putting a much
finer point on the matter of address than
is usual. If a Cleveland man uses a cap
ital after the name of his city, he there
by goes square against the resolution of
the chamber of commerce of his town,
which calls on all patriotic Clevelanders
to omit the O. 1t is said that city which
is bound to be the metropolis of the Buck
eye country needs no minute geographical
designation.
As a remarkable instance of longevity.
says writer in the Terre Haute Gazette
l think the following will break the rec
ord, and possibly serve as a suggestion for
tue of contentment of home and the clus-
tering of families around and about the
scene of youth and rural life and advant-
ages The writer of this recently visited
Georgetown, a small, neat little village
nesting in the valley of Little Indian
creek, eight miles west of New Albany
in Floyd county. In a family, old friends
of thrty-tiVe years ago, L met a little
| girl, years old, daughter of Edward and
Ida Engleman, who has twelve living
grandparents, and has seen them all
They all live not to exceed three miles
from the old Engleman homestead-my
Old-time friends-Where Jewel, the little
girl was born. And another remarkable
feature is that they all were born and
raised in the same neighborhood where
they DOW reside. Their ages range all
the way from As to SO years, and their
names are as follows: First the grandpa
rents-James EnSleman and wife, Susan
nee Tyler; Charles Waits and wife. Next
comes the great-grandparents George
| Waits and wife; Shelby YenOwine and
wife; Lewis Engleman. Next comes the
| great-great-grandp Reynold KEEP
| ley and wife and Charley YenOwine
"A novel telephone scheme is being con-
! sldered in South Dakota, says the New
| York Times. 1t is proposed to connect
| Aberdeen and Tacoma Park by running
| a telephone wire to a rail of the Great
| Northern Railroad at Tacoma, and make
| similar connection at the Aberdeen end
| of the line. The joints behind each end are
| to be insulated, so as to concentrate the
| sound in the desired direction. This idea
of using the railroad in lieu of wires for
! telephoning has already been. successfully
| tested, and South Dakota farmers are
| looking to derive great benefit from the
new service, especially in the matter of
information OF coming storms. UtlizatiOnS
| of the telephone for similar purposes are
now being made in many places. Arrange
| ments have been made at New Haven
| Conn, to send to the tobacco districts of
the state by telephone intelligence of an
| preaching weather condition which are
! likely to cause injury to the tobacco crop
| Extensive use of the instrument is also
| being made in Montana for weather sig
| Mailing on sheep ranches. A syndicate of
| TanCherS are extending their teleDhopa
| wires to a length of 100 miles The princi-
| pal ranch is placed on a commanding site
! favorable for meteorological observations
| and all the ranches are connected with it
| by wire. In the severe season all the herd
| ers are called up at 4 o'clock in the morn
| ing, and asked for reports as to the wealth
| err direction of wind, cloudiness and other
! data, and when these reports are all di-
| gested directions for the days work are
| given to the herders. This weather-Wa-n-
ing system has already proved of i'm
| mense value to the ranchers. Many times
! large bands of sheep have been saved
| from the disastrous consequences of sud
! den and severe changes of wind and tenn
! perature during the winter months.
The revenue cutter Commodore Per-
| ry mas returned from the northern sea
| where she has been confronted each
| night for weeks by a gigantic line of
! nre, says a San Francisco dispatch. AS
! capt Smith expressed it. the DEVILS
| srokers have been stirring up the sub
| teranean sea of flames that is supposed
! to lie thousands of feet under the Berine.
BED, and as consequence fully twenty
| OF the forty volcanoes in the Aleutian
! chain are now active" The line of is
lands lying between the Boring sea and
! the Pacific ocean belong to the United
| only active volcanoes lying within Amer
| lean territory Much has been v-rif+ay,