The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-21
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lowing the name of each of the men who
resigned the words Resigned O.. k"
We're entered on the cOmpany's record
book That meant that any of the fifteen
who applied for work at any time in the
future could get il if there was the slight
est chance. The young men were all stu
dents in the jefferson Medical college, and
the superintendent of the line says they
made the best conductors employed by
the company. All told this summer. more
than fifty college students We're on the
payroll Of the company. Their earnings
averaged about SO a week, and as they
were able to live for about s. a week, most
OF them have money enough to pay their
expenses this year at college.
August Gemunder, who died in New
York recently, was at the time of his de-
mise the Oldest living violin maker in the
country. Not only this, but he had given
to America by his wonderful art in the
construction of viOlins a reputation which
it certainly, up to this time, would not
otherwise have possessed. His shop in New
York became known as a depository of the
great masterpieces of the art. And while
in his own original manufacture Gemun-
der ranked among cOnnOisseurS with the
very best of violin makers. it was in his
limitations of the old masters that he
achieved a success which was his alone.
Having discovered the secret processes by
means of which the early Italian masters
succeeded in constructing utterly incOm-
parable instruments, he applied these
processes to reproductions whose fidelity
was exact.
Col Benjamin Norton, well known in
Chicago politics, who is at the home of
his daughter in New York. has rallied from
one of the most remarkable operations
known IN surgery, says the 81 LOUIS
GlObe-Democrat Col. Norton, when he
came here, began to have intense pains in
his stomach. A structure formed in the
gullet and communication between his
mouth and stomach became impossible.
Despite the best medical skill he was
slowly starving to death. Physicians were
called in. An operation was decided upon.
1t was performed July q A hole was cut
in his stomach about two inches above the
navel large enough for hand 10 be in
serted. 1t was found that the walls of the
stomach had collapsed. and lay nat against
the spine. DR.. Weir pinned the forward
wall to the intestines with two gold pins,
each four inches in length. The stomach
was stitched to the intentines on Aug. l.
and the pins were Withdrawn. Then a sill
Yer tube was inserted in the wound,
piece of rubber tubing attached to 1t, and
through this canal food was forced into
the stomach. A daily wash of nitrate OF
silver cured the ulcers. A sounder, consist
ing of jet bulb on the end Of a whale
bone rod, was inserted once a week. This
opera ton will have. to be kept up for a
year or more, to keep the passage from
growing together again.
The United States is the richest coun-
try in the world, according to NJ. G. Fran
co.'s the eminent French statistician,
who has been making careful study of
the wealth of nineteen of the principal
nations of the globe. 1t will interest pen
niless people to know that this calcula-
tor estimates the riches of this country at
$4,000, 600, 900 francs or reckoning francs
to the dollar, nearly S63, 900, 900, 900. England
is the next with 265, O00,00O,O 900 francs and
France the third in line, being the pos
SCISSOR of 22j,000, 600 900. Germany's fortune
is considerably less-only 16l,0O0,0O0,0O0 and
the Russian empire, though far more
vast is considerably poorer, with but T..
600, geo. GOO Three states possess more than
So 600 600 600 and less than 100 900 900 900 eacn.
Austro-Hungary, $1,000 100000; Spain, Co.,
OOO,000,OOg and Italy. 54O4WOOO0 The for
between 50OO,OOOOOO and $4,000 100000
france. The actual amount of
money possessed by the various
nations bears but a feeble proportion to
the above figures of national wealth. The
bank of France, for example, is response
BILE for only about 6,5000OO,OOO
francs, or a little less than per cent. OF
the total fortune of that country, while
other countries have still less cash in their
pockets and strong boxes. for France has
the greatest per capita wealth of any
country in the world.
One of the most valuable relics in the col
lection OF the famous church of Ara Coeli,
Rome, says the st. Louis Republic Is the
noted image which has frequently been
figured and described in the investigative
magazines under the heading of THE Old
est Doll in the World" In Italy this valu-
able carving is called II Bambino CThe In
fanD, and legend says that II is hgure
of the child Jesus, carved from a tree on
the Mount of Olives (the identical one
under which Christ underwent the agony
cOrding to the popular belief it was carved
by a franciscan monk or pilgrim (ac-
counts differ on that score) and painted
by st. Luke In Rome the figure has been
greatly Venerated for centuries on ac-
count of the power attributed to it or
miraculously healing the sick. When car
dinals and other high church dignitaries
and officials are supposed to be on their
deathbeds the BamblnO IS often taken to
the sickroom and many are the miracu-
lous cures that have been reported. When
never carried, but is taken by a prelate
in a tan-colored coach over which floats
the holy vermillion flag. There is a le-
gened that the figure was once stolen from
its place in the church reliquary, but that
it escaped and walked back. This sup
posed incident is made the subject of a
"A Legend of Ara Coeli."
-Soest in Westphalia, Prussia, accor-
ding to the St Louis Republic, was the
fusion lasted three or four centuries lon
ger there than it did in the benighted
burg in the colony of Massachusetts Bay;
The judicial tribunal before which all
Westphalian witches were forced to APP
pear, was called the Vehm-g ericht, and
was composed of the most superstitious
set of bigOts In the province. The trees
are still standing under which witch-try-
ing congress regularly met on the COM
mons of Soest, and the records of their
proceedings are still to be found in the
archives at the town hall. One of the
most noticeable things in these queer old
records of the days of bigotry and blind
superstition is the fact that the pages up
on which the written proceedings of the
cases in which the accused were condemn
ed to the stake, are all adorned with locks
of the culprits hair. The individual
hairs of this queer collection of tufts ex-
hibit all the variations usually noticed
in such assortments, being long and short,
coarse and fine, and straight and curly
In one very characteristic feature, how
ever that of color, all the locks have the
same general appearance, being uniform
~ red. 1t is passing curious
country where red hair does not
predominant all the witches execu-
ted during a period covering several hun
bred years should belong to that class of
beings derisively referred to as brick
top blondes"
How a snake eats frogs is worth the
telling, says the New York World. The
writer distinctly remembers witnessing a
dramatic meal of this Kind, in which, of
course, the snake came out the winner,
getting his dinner in excellent style and
completely vanquishing the frog. Though
a snake may seem at first sight an organ
ism that is extraordinarily slow of COM
prehension, any well regulated ophidian
knows, nevertheless, exactly how TO salts
fly the wants of nature in the most ap-
proved manner. A snake invariably grabs
the frog by one of his hind legs. This pre-
liminary struggle is one of the most i'm
Of no