The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-31
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BY new law in Paris each owner OF a
bicycle is required 10 have his name ana
address soldered on his wheel Fifty bicy-
/ e-es were lmpouIdeo IN one day recently
I tor violation or this rule
The town Of PEBBLES. o.. has passed an
ordinance requiring "A curfew bell 10 be
/ runs az r. n every evening except sun
/ DAY ~ nen 10 rings. every boy DefWee u
/ the ages OF and l6. unless accompanied
! by parents or guardians. must be within
! doors. under penalty Of arrest and fine
OF not less than s. ard costs.
] A Boston man asked a well-knOwn
| Boston clergyman one bitterly cold day
/ last winter why he didn't have his church
/ opened on week days. and Jet the poor
/ come in and warm themselves. Why,
/ you talking abOut2 Think of the car
! pets Inis suggests a story that Dean
! Stanley used 10 tell about a verser in
/ Westminster Abbey. on a certain week
/ day this Verger came upon a man in the
/ abbey on his knees praying. With mucn
/ Indignation he ordered the man to desisu
/ adding in explanation: IF I let YOU 20
| on pretty soon people would be praying
/ ali over the church."
| The origin Of the phrase "mending his
/ fences" IS said 10 be as follows: Imme-
| diately prior 10 the meeting of the repub-
Lcan national convention in 1Ss0 John
]
/ presidential honOrs, withdrew from the
/ Senate 10 the seclus.On Of his farm at
/ Mansfield. .. II was generally believed
| tnat in TINS retirement he was maturing
/ plans and secretly organizing movements
10 bring about his nomination. one day.
| While in a field with his brOther-in-Iaw
| Col. MoUltOn, engaged in replacing some
/ ralls IN fence, reporter found him and
| sought some political news by inquiriug
80, - a a. ~ lildil W. dolle- Gul. Aloultol
4 avoided the necessity OF a direct answer
| to so pointed question by eXclaiming:
! Why, you can see for yourself; he's
| mending his fences
Some revolutionary suggestions in re-
! gard to domestic servants are being dis
| cussed in Australia. Tt is proposed to call
| them household employees" They will
/ eat in the dining-rOom, either with the
/ family or by themselves. They will not be
/ at the beck and call of the mistress. There
| viii not be two shifts Of employees" one
| TO work from a. m. TO . p. m, and the
/ other from D. IN. TO or p. m, so that
! they may have the afternoons and even
/ insS OH every alternate week. 1t is be-
! lieVed that the expenses of the household
would not be increased by adopting this
| step, as domestic service under this new
| condition of affairs would be rendered so
/ ATTRACTIVE that servants would be OBJ
tainable at half the present wages, and
| sweating IN factories would be largely di-
| mlnished by reducing the number of ap-
plIcants.
"Log-rolling' is an American slang ex-
| preston for mutual assistance rendered
| by persons in power to the detriment of
! the general public. The English You
| scratch my back and I'll scratch yours
and the Scotch Cav me, cav thee are
| approximate equivalents In its original
| sense log-rollng is q sort of mutual help
festival, akin to the quilting-bees and
| husking-bees. When a backwOodsman
| cuts down trees his ne!ghbors help him
! to roll them away, and in return he helps
! them with their trees. The phrase was
| first applied as slang metaphor 10 poll
tics. A and b. for example, congress-
men or assemblymen, each has a Bill to
| pass. Each agrees to support and vote
for each other. Furthermore, neither, we
Will suppose, has any interest or belief
/ IN either bill, but wishes TO gain the help
| or the promoters Tor some scheme of his
! own. He and the promoters are log-roll-
| ing for each other.
! -Parkesburg, Chester county, has the
| distinction of numbering among its citi-
zens Samuel Penn Garnet, who probably
| holds more offices, political and private,
than any other man in the state, SAYS the
| Philadelphia Record Just at present he
| is acting as foreman of McCappen's stone
| quarry, near Lafayette, Montgomery
| county When at home he ofliciates as
| high cons table, policeman, health officer,
| janitor of Music hall and Odd Fellows
| hail, sexton of the Methodist church, dog
| catcher reporter for two local paperS and
/ Sunday correspondent of a Philadelphia
| daily. Not satisfied with all these honors,
| he yearns to be made postmaster, justice
| compulsory eQucatlCn
| officer of the borough. Then he viii be
! really busy, he says. Now he only work
| from 4 a. m. until midnight As he has only
| one arm, having lost the other in a cotton
| mill at Valley Forge in his youth, his
/ wife helps him to ring the church bell Oh
! Sunday which summons Parkesburg to
| worship.
| William Crookes, whose tubes have re-
Gently come into such general notice, was
born in London in 1892 and at an early
| age turned his attention to photography.
| When he was seventeen years old he gain
| ed the Ashburton scholarship in the Roy
| al College of Chemistry At the age of -
| he was appointed superintendent of the
| meteorological department of the Radcliffe
] observatory, at oxford In 1851, while eX-
| aiming the residues from a sulphuric
| acid works, he discovered the new metal
| lie element, thallium. This was followed
| by his election as a fellow of the Royal
| Society. In a paper before the society
| he stated that he had Succeeded in OBJ
! tanning a vacuum so nearly approaching
! perfection that the pressure in il was
| only 4 millionth Of an atmosphere" These
| experiments led to very important results:
for it was found that in such an extreme
| vacuum gases pass into an ultra-ga seous
| state, which Prof Crookes termed a state
| OF radiant matter" and, further, these
| extreme vacua opened up the way for
| the incandeScent lamp.
In American political slang the phrase
ito wave the bloody shirt" sometimes Gu
| pLclnlAeu lulO the eHSdQSulneQ garment"
means TO keep up the sectional issues of
the civil war by appeals to prejudice and
| passion. A probable origin Of the phrase
! may be found in Corsican custom nearly
# not quite obsolete. In the days of the
! fierce vendetta-the feuds which divided
! Corsican family from family-bloodshed
! was a common occurrence. Before the
| burial of a murdered man the grdata was
! celebrated. This word which literally
| means crying aloud, may be translated
! a wake" The body of the victim was
laid upon a plank; his useless firearms
! We're placed near his hand and his blood
stained shirt was hung above his head.
| Around the rude bier sat a circle of wo-
! men, wrapped in their black nantes. who
rocked themselves to and fro with strange
/ Walllngs. The men, relatives and friends
/ of the murdered man, fully armed stood
| around the room, mad with thirst for re-
! Venge. Then one of the women-the wife
or mother or sister of the dead man-With
! a sharp scream would snatch the bloody
| shirt and, waving it alOft, begin the vocero
the lamentation. This rhythmic dis
course was made UP of alternate EXPIRES
| sions of love for the dead and hatred Of
| his enemies and its startling images and
| tremendous curses were echoed in the
! faces and mutterings of the armed mourn