The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The other ght the heroic figure Of the
ereat statesman vas shrou1ed IN saeklng
ana bound with ropes VII ie over u hung
the tail frame of the derrick, 50 that Ia
the falling gloom or early evening the
great ugure was suggestive OF hanging,
WITH me heavy hempen bindings on az IN
ana legs and The hosting tackle henE pg
loosely ben I'd the muftied head ana lace.
ne statue VIII be taken from the 4edeS al
~ order that the la-ter may be rsdu 60 ~
size IN order 10 accommodate the street.
car tracks al this central point
Ever since the visit of Prof. Flint, who
is a witness in the eng murder trial al
Minneapolis, 10 Rockford, H., the prac-
tee of hypnOtism has been a great source
OF amusement 10 a number Of young men
m the town who have mesmer c powers
Al party recently John FralpCnt assert
ed that he could hypnotic any one OF the
guests. Miss Lena Molsine offered her-
SELF as subject. In a minute he had her
UNCONSCIOUS. But when he attempted 10
restore her he found he was powerless 10
90 so. The guests became alarmed, shook
nar, threw cold water m her face anc
shouted frant cally, right, right but she
Mo1lu uot come r.snL many ga
Cieaiy, anO. her amateur hypuOtlst, hap
pened in and brought her out Of her
trance.
The Philadelphia Record tells OF a large
manufacturing rrm which recently sent
around communication &c all TIE people
with whom they had dealings, saying thai
because Of the pleasant relations between
tnerls II was the firms Intention 10 preSeni
y
token Of esteem. Most OF the people i'm
ag-ned the letter to be a fake. viii e 9th
ers waited anxiously for the valuable gift
10 arrive Last week a srnel package ar
rived through the mails, ana when the
wrapped was taken off a neat jewelers.
BOX was reached. The present had al
last arrived, but within were discovered
bright new dime and brass pin, which
the facetious hrm had designated as .
dime and pin. The recipients are now
wondering what induced he firm TO spend
m4UW dimes narWcfrafr small a
Joke.
entered a store on the plaza IN Peru
says a writer in Harper's Magazine, anC
bought twenty-five excellent cigars for =
cents. The merchant rang my S. gOlr
piece on the counter. and without emo
ton handed me six silver dollars and T.
western habit of always coming down
stairs that way" stood by me lie haf
counted too exclusively TO make any ms
take. There was contag.on i'm this
went to an opposite store and purchased
box Of twenty-five such except onale+
as are seldom smoked with US for 81
handing out another half eagle The ven
Her counted out and gave me 500 silver
with pleasant smile. It was hard to
leave spot where one can make a hand
some salary simply by spending money
There was but one hard reality. I { mpt-
ed the national drink for dime and got
RACK but 80 cents from my silver dollar
That, however, is easily overcome. Az
one mas 10 90 Is TO take gold along. Plenty
or gold. Then one can revel ia swapping
dollars for dollars and a half. II one have
the mind to Withstand prosperity.
a popularity of all great disaters that
nave occurred to'trans atlantic liners IS
that almost every one has been close IA
shore, says the IN ladeiph d Press. I hi
Is for the reason that most of them have
been due to q Their collision or strand.ng.
In m ocean the transatlantic track IS al
Vided into Two lanes, one to the east the
her 10 the west. The two lanes are IN
IN docean. about f y miles apart. and
there have hegO few fn-tanFac " ba J n
ers wandered away from them. The LAST
o"cas on was when the Off ers Of tha
American line steam hip New YORK
round west. allies ell last summer that he ?
mad GIFTED the Cunarl $ 'e8mship L.u-
rania, r0und east. in mid1cean. The posi-
ton Of the New York Z that time Shove 2
that she was in the right lane. and that
the Cunard steamship was nearly dfty
miles off her course. The Cunard people.
in defense, said that the New YorlS's Off
GERS We're try ng 10 cetraCt from the Do r
law, however 70 compel stea IN hiDs to
travel IA these lanes, but as a measure of
cor mon safety cons" entio1s capita ms in
Nauaby follow these courses marked
upon Their charts.
NJ. de Quatrefapes. the French natural
list, reports the scientific examination of
one of the n ost remarkable human Curl
Osities or mOnstTOsi tics ever known. The
person IN question is Simeon Aigure who
lives in one OF The French provincial
towns, and who has control over his body
10 Sucn fenarkdnie degree That reports
concerning his do'ngs were all discredited
up to the time of the Quatrefages inVesti-
cation. IT was found. q had been report
ed. that Aiguire was not only an adeDt in
the arts of the contortionist, but that he
could, through his peculiar system OF
muscles and nerves. instantly cause his
flesh to appear as If II had been trans
formed into solid stone. W hen in this pc
Guitar condition his flesh could be struck
with cane, or with a metal instrument
whereupon ii would give off a ringing
l. Ill. L.. EN-.
marble statue. Assuming a ferent atti-
tude, he would throw his intestines for
ward, and appear as one hideously de-
FORMED, and the next moment he could
draw them up into the thorax and appear
as a living skeleton. His statue, pose and
contortionS were wonderful indeed but
what most astonished the investigators
was Acquires ability to control the circu-
lation of his blood. This ne did to the
satisfaction of all present by first stop
ping all circulation or one side CT his
body and then on the other. This he eff
fected by muscular contraction.
There are many versions of the famous
legend of the Flying Dutchman," says
Chambers Journal. Quite recently az
of endeavorlng TO discover the paternity
of the tradition ana who the Honander
was that brought upon himself and his
companions such d miserable doom by his
ACT of profanity. The result or his in
vestigations would be extremely interest
ing, but it does not appear that he has.
vet gwen LneIn 10 LUH WOIiu. I6IudpS
story has nowhere been better told than
by Capt. Marryat in the novel which he
founded upon it. Cornelius Nanderdecken
d sea captain of Amsterdam coming home
from Batavia, is much troubled by head
winds when off the Cape OF Good Hop.
Day after day he goes on struggling
against .re battling weather without ga.4-
ing a foot of ground. The. sailors grow
weary, the skipper impatient. Still the
bleak sou-wester continues TO blow the
gaIl'ot steadily back. For nine dreary
weeks this goes on; then a terrible fit Of
passion seizes Vanderdecken. He sink
down upon his knees and, raising his
ci.nched fists to the heavens, curses the
Deity for oppos -ng him, swearing that he
will weather the cane yet, in spite of the
Divine Will though he should go on beat
ing about until the day of judgment. As
a punishment for this terribl@ impiety
he is doomed 10 90 en- sailing in the stormy
seas east of Asu!hes until the last trum-
pet shall sound forever STRUGGLING aga'nsf
head W nds in vain endeavor 10 double
the South African cane. Such, in brief
is TIE legend OF the Flying Dutchman,' %
as IL has he n accepted by Trgl'eh-
speaking sailors for many generations
past.
pTsICFc'S RAKINC POWDER