The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-27
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ter year using the same patterns and
turning out the same sort of machines,
Il would not be difficult to reduce the
price considerably. as has been done in
the case OF sewing and other machines.
But IN bicycles improvements and
changes are demanded every year, and
TINS lmpedes large reductions in price
The prohibitionists OF Flint, Mich,
are about TO try the scheme of setting up
counter attraction to the saloons on
Saturday afternoon, when the farmers
and traders come into town. For this
purpose a church is to be opened and
music and hot coffee furnished. The
people of the church will be present 10
welcome visitors. Smoking will be allow
ed, and an attempt made to give visitors
all the opportunities for enjoyment they
can find in a saloon, except intoxicating
be considerably alarmed at the prospect
of competition.
"A singular case was that of the actor.
Mr.. Joseph WheelOck, who some four or
nVe years ago was said to have been be-
witched by flower While travelling in
the west in the pursuit of his profession
he suddenly developed peculiar symptoms.
He could not sleep, except by taking 0c-
casional maps at irregular intervals. To-
wards midnight at the close of the per-
Torrance, though usually a calm, phleS-
matte man. he would become unusually
talkative, demonstrative and full of en-
thus1asm. He was usually a man of few
words, but on these occasions he would
grow very fluent and redundant in eX-
preston. He would relate to his friends
marVelouSly eloquent descriptions of
scenes and incidents. In diagnosing his
case. some physicians said that the COW
ering of the actors brain was infamed,
others said that he had in some way
absorbed into his system some deadly
poison. The last named explanation prov
ed to be the true one. 1t seems that two
weeks, previously, while the company was
passing through Washington, d. c., the
superintendent Of the national botanical
gardens, invited Mr.. Wheelock to be pres
ent at the unfolding of a night-bloomins
cereus. The actor accepted the invitation.
At the conclusion of the phenomenon the
superintendent invited Mr.. Wheelock to
take the flower. Taking a penknife from
his pocket, the actor cut the flower from
its stem. In doing so he inflicted slight
cut upon his right thumb, and in this way
he became inoculated with the juice of
the flower, which is very powerful and is
distilled for use as homeopathic medi-
cine. The actor had also preserved the
flower i'm alcohol. keeping it near his bed,
thus inhaling the slight vapOr and empha-
sizing the influence of the deadly drug.
HOmoeopa thlStS say that there are one
or two cases where men have purposely
placed themselves under the stimulus of
this poison for its effect upon their brain,
and while under its influence have dicta-
ted weird poetry and extravagant ro-
nance.
The popular belief has been that "snuff
dipping" is confined almost entirely to
the negroes and the poor whites down
south, says the New York World but this
old-fashioned practice is INDUCED in to
a remarkable extent in this section of
the country. Within the past two or
three years it has been taken up by shop
and factory girls, and there is hardly
manufacturing town in New York state
or in the east where the dealers do not
sell hundreds of pounds of dipping snuff
weekly. The girls are using it now in
preference to gum, and those who do
not already know the trick are being
taught 1t by their companions. The old
fashioned snuff that pleasurably Initiated
the nostrilS of our ancestors is going
more and more out of use each year, and
to-day seven-tenths of the snuff manu-
featured in America is snuff for dipping.
Approximately about 60,000000 pounds
come out of the mills each year. 1t is sold
in little tin cans holding one ounce, or
frequently girl prefers to buy it in a
small paper package which she can carry
around more easily. An ounce costs
cents. With some girls this quantity will
hardly last more than a couple of days.
The dipping process is a simple one.
The old-fashioned method was to rub the
gums with the powdered tobacco by means
OF stick of soft wood, whose end had
been chewed into a sort of brush, but the
factory girl pours about half a teaspoon
full on a card or a bit of paper, and, tip
ping this. shakes out the snuff into her
mouth against her closed teeth The
amount of the consumption can be Judged
best from the fact that one wholesale
dealer in this city sends a barrel of dip
ping snuff weekly to a dealer in Troy The
collar and cuff girls of that city, it is
sald, nave large number of snuff dip
Lynn are also strongholds of snuff dip
ping, and, in fact, this article finds Gus
toners in every city and town along the
Atlantic SeabOard. The negro and moor
white trade of the south is a combara-
lively small factor nowadays There are
ten dipping snuff manufacturers in the
country. the majority of them in New
Jersey, though Baltimore has two or three
and Philadelphia at least one
Some very long survivals are on rec
oIu, out none, perhaps, more interesting
OF remarkable than well authenticated
case which comes from France saws Pub
lie Opinion. Mr. Gely farm superin-
1endent at Dampierre, in the department
OF the Upper Saone, has a dog named
IISolet, which, although past ten years
o!d, and almost toothless, has never
aDated the activity of his warfare against
all the animals of the field, and especially
against foxes. short time ago, as Mr.
Gely, with his dog, was passing the
mouth of fox-burrow, Rigolet made a
sudden and furious descent on the bur
row, showing plainly that it was inhab-
lted. 1t had so spacious an opening that
the dog forced himself into it quite ont
OF sight. Presently the master heard the
tumult OF a combat within. The dog was
barking fercely. Then there came a
sound or a caving in, and the noise ceas-
e9: Ether R1golet had been silenced by
the fox, or he had been engulfed by the
collapse of the gallery in which the fight
was taking place. Mr.. Gely set about
eIsgitng MN out, but found the ground
up; and the old dog was left to his fate
Gely went home, and after mourning the
dog few days, thought of him no more
Iwenty-one days went by. 1t happened
that the miller of the neighborhood. pass
ing the foX-burrow with a friend said
There's the place where poor old Rig
oIet was buried alive" Just then he
heard a feeble whining, which seemed To
come from underground. He called ana
listened, and the whining was repeatad
louder than before. There was certainIv
a dog within the fox-burrow. The miller
ran to apprise Gely, who this time
brought picks and shovels and a suffj
Client number of hands to open the bnr-
row After five hours of active diggiog
the old dog was unearthed at a considere
able depth. As soon as he was brought
TO the open air Rigolet fell to the ground
apparently dead. But his master suc
ceeded in reviving him with doses of beef
tea and milk, and the old dog was soon
seemingly as good as ever 1t became a
question whether he had tasted in tbo
burrow for the twenty-five DAYS or
whether he had subsisted on the fox
which he certainly found. 1t was assnn,N
ed by his master that he was too nearly
toothleSsf to have been able to devour y
fox; and those who dug him out declared
that there was no sign that he had had
anything to eat N
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