The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-02
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fractions is soft little musical laugh,
entertained an interested group lately
with an account OF now that prominent
charm Of her was acquired Very lev
persons have, as you all know said she,
AN agreeable laugh j had simply noIh-
ing that could be called such III my pos
session The lack made me seem grin,
and too far from merry 10 be successrul
companion So 1 took lessons OF an &C
tor. and learned che mechanism Of forced
laughter This practised and improved
by myself till ! had the art 70 perfection
and u became second nature II cost me
so 10 buy my laugh, but ] would not
part with il for many thousands. You
can guess what boon IL Is when the
social atmosphere is tull OF ancient joe
Millerisms.'
"A meeting to consider the best means
Of celebrating the four hundredth ami
versary of Melanchthon's birth. on Feb.
l6, 1897, has been held at his birthplace,
Bretten, ia Baden. The Grand Duke Of
of the enterprise, which was started, and
IS actively promoted. by Dr. Nlcholas
Muller, professor of theology in Berlin.
The foundation Of a Melanchthon museum
on the site of the house in which he was
born Is proposed. The museum is TO be
built in the hOrid gothic style, like the
Melanchthon house at Wittenberg. The
first story viii contain memorial hall,
fitted up like a church and adorned with
frescoes of scenes in Melanchthon's life
and statutes and portraits of the other
reformers. The upper story will contain
manuscripts, printed publications, and
other memorials.
There are more millionaires in New
York and Brooklyn than in all the rest
of the country. The metropolis boasts
forty-eight persons, each Of whom Is
worth over 100000. We also have nine
citizens who are worth over $4,000 900.
besides two estates each of that value.
Ihere are, however, only two residents
who are worth over 500 900, 600, according
to popular report These are John d.
Rockefeller and William Waldorf Aston.
There are several who come very close TO
the hundred million mark, if they do not
quite reach it. Among these are Russell
Sage, Cornelius Vanderbilt, William
Rockefeller William X. Vanderbilt and
John Jacob Aston. Poor Hetty Green turns
the scale at 100000 900, and the plain, every
DAY gentlemen who are worth anywhere
between million and million and half
number in New York and Brooklyn over
thousand by actual count, and but very
rev Of them are known by name to the
general public.
-EX-GOv. Boutwell, of Massachusetts,
says of the Bunhnch state house. which
some vandals want to tear down 1T is
the building which, in historical incidents,
takes rank next after Faneuil Hall Ali
the great names of the century are assO-
ciated with the state house. In the hall
OF the house there have been two con-
sututtonal conventions. The elder Ad-
ans presided over the convention of 1920
and Gen. Banks presided over the conven-
llOi OF 1895. IN those conventions there
were historical men-John Adams, Jus
tice Story, Webster and Shaw in the first;
and Choate. Sumner, Wilson and Burling-
anne in the second. Gov Andrews pa
triotic labors are Identified with the conn
ell chamber, where his work was per-
formed. We are not far enough away
from this later generation to indulge in
sentiment In century there will be
generation that Will reverence the names
of Sumner and Andrew as we now rever-
ence the names Of Otis and Hancock"
In strolling through the Palais Royal
arcades recently. says the writer of
Paris letter, I came across the Worth OF
dog dressmakers. 1t is a swell establish
ment and no ordinary dog is ever admit
ted. 1t is safe to say that no ordinary
DOG would go there if he was invited, and
the pampered beasts that do visit it look
upon the experience much as their mas
tiers and mistresses would regard an ar
ternOOn a. the dentists. The laws of dog
fashions are as arbitrary as those of the
latest thing in hats. l saw bewiderng
costumes for every conceivable occasions.
There were flannel nightshirts, oVercoats
OF velvet. astrakhan and other fur, ali
with Medlc1 collars. There We're morning
clothes, afternoon clothes, evening clothes
street clothes, walging and driving ali
lined with finest silk or satin and suited
70 all manner of canine complexions. The
Grand Duke Michael, the wife Of the
khedive and dozens of world-famous folk
patronize this dog tailor of Paris
In an account of Capt. Cooks last
voyage to the Pacific ocean in the New
London Magazine for September. 17S5. is
recorded very curious method of shaw
| ing adopted by the inhabitants of the
| Friendly Islands. While Capt Cook (savs
the writer, was at Hapaee, he observed a
woman shaving a childs head with A
| sharks tooth stuck into the end of a
piece of stick. She first wet the hair with
a rag dipped in water, applying the in
strument to that part which she had pre-
viously soaked The operation seemed to
! give no pain to the child, although the
hair was taken off as close as one of
our razOrs had been employed. Can't
| Cook tried one of these singular instru-
ments upon himself and found it to be
an excellent succedaneum. But the men
! nave another contrlvanee when they shave
! their boards. They take two shells, one
! OF which they place under a small part
/ OF the beard, and with the other ap-
/ piled above they scrape that part off
! In this manner they are able to shave
/ very close. The process is rather tedi-
| GUS, but not painful, and there were men
among them who seemed to profess this
| trade 1t was as common to see the sail
! ors 90 ashore to have their boards scraped
| off, after the fashion of Hapaee, as it
| was to see their chiefs come on board TO
| be shaved by our BARRIERS.
Nowadays, says the Chicago News. the
breeding Of homing pigeons has become
| almost an art and these domesticated
| birds number hundreds of thousands,
| They would be Of great use in times of
| war when telegraph wires were cut. The
| Z IlO6lllCldIiSi the EeTSldnS, the Modes and
the Assyrians all organized homing-pigeon
! posts. The Greeks borrowed from the
| Asiatics the taste for pigeon breeding,
and history tells the story of victor
at the Olympian games who announced
| his luck to his own people in Egina by
means of a carrier pigeon. The Romans
! took up the pursuit from the Greeks and
| in the organization of Gaul the pigeon
| with its message played an important part
! Later on the pigeon was used for the
| less important purpose of announcing AT
| a distance the results of races of gladfa-
| torial combats. The news of the taking
! of Damietta by St Louis was announced
by pigeons and at the sieges of HARLEM
and Leyden pigeons were utilized The
| great doge of Venice Dandolo. when At
lacking Gambia, used pigeons to carry his
! orders. When postal relations between
| England and the rest of Europe were
stopped by the blockade certain CONT
| mental financiers maintained a constant
| communication by pigeon messengers. In
the siege of Paris many a bird carried
! messages which otherwise could not have
been sent. The fishermen of Boulogne
| Dieppe and St. Malo are accustomed to
| send news of the catch" ashore nv
| pigeons and the poor Partisan is cheateS5