The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-12
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misht possibly be an Improvement TO spell
Z the name as one word and pronounce il
with the accent on the FIRST syllable. New
salem Il would then rhyme with Jerll-
/ salem. and the change would be a boon 10
the poets.
A fine piece Of wood carving. about
seven feet high, representing a woman
I crowned with wreath and supposed TO
Franklin, who was lost in the Artic ice.
IS displayed in Baltimore. 1t is said to
be the figuTehead Of the Old British bark
Lady Franklin. which was lost off Cape
Horn a number of years ago. II must
have drifted about the ocean for a long
time. as il was covered with barnacles
when picked UP by an Italian bark and
brought to port.
Since 1883 England has acquired the
following islands in the Pacific: Gilbert
Group. thirteen islands. Ellice group five
Islands; Union group, three Islands: King
man, Tanning, Washington, Palmyra, Jar
Wis Christmas. Starbuok, Maiden, Nostok,
Flint Penrhyn, Dudosa, Rule. Coral.
Gardner. Johnston. Danger. Suwaroff and
sionaries, sailors and commerce have been
familiar in the Pacific islands in the last
half century. no attempt has been made
by the United States government to an
mex any of them
A big soft drink peoples palace for
Chicago is to be Incorporated. "Our pal
ace" says one of the incorporators. will
not be prudish. The only question on
missed on cigars. 1t will be run as a first
class cafe, a regular free lunch layout
which the walters will take to the table
when ladies are to be served. We are in
this business to fight the saloons, but we
viii not truckle to the ultra. prohibition
enthusiasts. If man wants an innocent
drink that resembles the old stuff we will
satisfy him rather than have him go to
the real saloon down the street"
ON wager of $1,000 made by a st.
Louis man, variety company of ten
people was scraped together and will leave
st. Louis March II to walk to New York
before June So playing one-night stands
on the way. The conditions of the con-
tract arc as follows: There shall be
only one watch in the crowd. so that
the manager may direct the movements
or the members. The members must re-
main together, none going ahead and none
remaining behind. All money eXcept what
Is necessary for expenses must be for
Wared to a St Louis bank. and any mem
Der who leaves the company forfeits all
claim to his share. They must stick to
railroad tracks. They must not ride at all.
They must not sleep in hotels. The quar-
tet must sing at every way station and
pass the hat; They must carry their cos
tunes with them"
Among the remarkable birds of New
| Zealand. says the Revue Franchise, is the
greentsh-gra " nocturnal parrot of the ge-
nus StrigOns. which lives in burrows and
resembles an owl, and a still more singular
parrot, the NestOr notabilis, which the
English have come to regard as a danger
Gus nuisance. The English, as is well
known, introduced sheep farming into
New Zealand, as well as into Australia.
Now these parrots have acquired the
habit Of perching upon the back of the
sheep and eXcavating holes therein with
their formidable bill in order to extract
the kidneys. The fact is so much the more
curious in that ii cannot be attributed to
an innate instinct; since previous to the
arrival of the English, these birds had
never seen a sheep nor even any animal
of analogous conformation, the fauna of
New Zealand including scarcely a single
mammal We know, moreover, that in en-
tire Oceanica there are no other mammals
except marsupials. There Is here, then
on the part of these birds, an act of in
telligence and even of calculation, so
much the more curious in that il is GER
tainly complicated with a phenomenon
of language or analogous communication.
1t is true that the birds are parrots. but
the TACT IS none the less worthy of re-
mark.
Leonard Jacobs a pie peddlar, has one
of the most remarkable horses in Con-
necticut says the Baltimore American.
Other towns have boosted of horses that
chew tobacco, chew gum, and drink beer,
but Jacobs horse will eat pie. The horse
is % years old. Jacobs pies come from
New Haven, packed in cases. and in trans
portation some of them generally get
broken and cannot be sold. One day ia
cObs threw a broken pie on the ground
near the horses head. The animal smelled
1t, touched it with his tongue, Tapped it
up and ate 1t with relish. Then Jacobs
began to feed pies to the horse The
horse soon got to like them. and would
even refuse oats when pie was to be had.
The habit has grown on him, until now,
when Jacobs says pie to him. the horse
will turn his head and wink expectantly.
lie has decided preference for mince
pies, and the more raisins and currants
and cider there are the better he is pleased
Apple pie is not great favorite with
him. Most bakers put grated nutmeg into
the apple pie, and that doesn't seem to
agree with the equine taste. Pumpkin pie
he likes, and cranberry tarts are an es-
pecial delight. Peach, apricot berry and
prunes are acceptable, but unless the
prunes are stoned he will not touch
prune pie after the first bite. The horse is
fat, slick and youthful in his movements,
and Jacobs expects to keep him on the
pie cart until he is long past the age when
most horses are turned out to grass for the
rest of their days, or are carted to the
horse cemetery by the side of the murky
waters of the Naugatuck river.
There are fiends and fiends" said a
travelling man TO a writer for the St
Louis Globe Democrat. In Terre Haute
the other day / ran across a quinine fiend
l have seen almost all the other kinds
in my travel, persons irresistibly given to
opium, morphine, alcohol tobacco, CHINA
mon, coffee and red peppers but / never
before happened to run against a regular
quinine hitter for the mere love of the
thing This was a short, stocky- man,
who had the appearance of perfect health
He said he had formed the whisky and
quinine habit on the Ohio river bottoms
many years ago to fight the shakes and
finally concluded to drop the whisky and
keep up the drug. He said it caused a
sense of enlargement in his head or mind
which might be compared to the sensa.
tons of an active opiate upon the ex-
perienced user, and so he had for years
continued its use as a mere indulgence for
It's grateful and sensational effects While
| was talking to him in the hotel he drew
from his pocket a small oilskin pouch
partly filled with quinine in the ground or
powdered form and from this little bag
he took perhaps ten grains on the biz
blade of his knife and conveyed il to his
| lips. This was only one of about five on.
SIX such doses he used each tWenty-four
hours. How he can survive it is a nys-
terry. He told me he was like and unlike
certain Boston drunkard who some
forty years go was due to die of consume
ton within a doctors limit of six. weeks
He discarded dOctoring and took to
straight whisky and cod liver oil After
few months he dropped the oil, but for
these forty years he has kept up the
whisky. The difference, my quinine friend
said, between him and the Boston man
was that he had dropped the whisky in
stead of the quinine."
PRICES BAKING POWDER.