The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-13
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CURED 10 him 10 use Do for the taking Of
judicial 80 IS. The machine was conveyed
INTO court, and the judge kept note Of the
proceedings. The prisoner was found gull
~ and sentenced. and be promptly appeal
en- on the ground that. instead Of listening
70 the evidence. the judge had Whiled
strument.
-Slr frederick Darlington, who sailed
the other day for South Africa 20 take
charge Of the military operations in Mata-
neleiand. Is best known 10 the English pub
Tie as the organizer of the famous car
ring ton Horse He had an unusual way
OF maintaining discipline. When an often
der was brought before him. - says a friend
ne would sit sOlemuly in cOurt-martiaI
ana the charge was recited. Did you do
YOU was Carrington's reply. Then take
that Wherew.th Darlington would rise
In his might and thrast the culprit until he
considered him sufficiently punished. Car
rnston was judge and eXecutOner in one.
but tnen, you see, he was pretty certain
OF Delhs able 10 give every single one Of
nus troopers several pounds and a beat
The headquarters Of the army" said
an army officer TO the Washington Star
are where Gen. Miles is located. or at
least, where he keeps his headquarters
nag Should he take his flag up in a ball
loon the headquarters would be up in the
ar lie seldom takes his flag with him
so headquarters would be exactly where
the nag Is, whether he was i'm The cars or
at a hotel The law has never designated
an oincial headquarters. When Gen. Sher-
man moved his residence from this city
some years ago to ST. Louis the headquar-
ters nag went with him, and the war de-
par tine MT found 1t was no longer headquar-
ters- Neither was there any way by which
the department could find where headQuaT-
leLs Were except by Ielegraphing for the
whereabouts OF Gen. sherman and his flag.
al
week in Cornwall, says the Sheffield Tel
egraph He started his crusade in 1892,
when he was a bookseller in the little
ONfordshire town of Charlbury. For weeks
the curious Of the countryside trOOped
INTO tnarlbury every Sunday to see Fox
wearing his hat in church. In the end
tne long-suHering authorities prosecuted
hlIn' and as he refused TO pay the fine
MS Stock was sold zap. Then he came
to London, a tall, gaunt. hollOw-cheeked
young Fellow with the eve of an enthusi-
asst, and huge, broad brimmed, high
crowned lelt hat of a weird amber hue.
IN this he entered st. PauPs, or "Pauls
mousse as he always called it, and, re-
tuslng TO uncover was run in" He made
several other demonstrations in London
churches. but as his friends always paid
MS lines. he never had the satisfaction
OF gong TO prison. He has left behind
MIN the manuscript of a work on hat
wearing.
Health Commissioner Wends. says the
Buffalo Enquirer, is suu having great
trouble because people win not look upon
consumption as a contagious disease. The
genial doctor had battle royal with a
man in the health office who was complain
ing because he had been ordered to reno
Vate his house. In this particular instance
tnree persons died of consumption in the
same house within a few weeks. The fam
lly shortly alter moved out and the health
commissioner ordered the landlord to re-
paper the house and thoroughly disinfect
II. The landlord asserted that ne did not
know why he should take such precautions
for consumption any more than he should
for death by accident. But Of course the
work Will be done. Il wish that people UNI
derstood that consumption is a conta-
g-ous disease said DIR. Wende. I'm some
states consumption is covered by special
laws, Just as smallpox or diphtheria and
while the health department has the pow
er 10 act now, consumption Will some dav
be covered by special laws as in other
states"
r-Ed-Deen, Shah of Persia. who
was shot to death by an assassin near Te-
heran on May /, made several visits during
his reign to the civilized countries of Eu-
rope. The Introduction of reforms in Per
STA followed each of the visits saws the
New York Sun. After one he permitted
the Introduction of the telegraph into his
dominiOns. After the second, his subjects
having cut down many of the poles and
snot away the wires just to pass away the
time, and having ignored the royal decree
and shot and cut every time the damage
was repaired the shah decreed that tbe
violation of the order to let things alone
should be severity punished, and the second
onense should be punished by burying the
oifender to the neck beside the pole inter-
LeTed with ana leaving MIN there to die
A traveller through Persia, speaking of
this second order, said that when he pass
ed through the kingdom following the tel
egraph lines he saw at the foot of every
pole a human head. In some cases ONLY
me skull was left. on some there was
some sun. 1eSH DINERS We're SUI fresher, and
now and then one would be seen not yet
dead. This drastic treatment the traveller
SAID, stopped interference with the prop
erty of the telegraph company This par
ucular telegraph line was from England
via Teheran, to India. Under a less merci-
ful monarch than Nasr-Ed-Deen the of
fender probably would have been sliced up
and the pieces hung on the wires.
Old shoes are not waste from the
standpoint of modern industry. After
they have done their service and are dis
carded by the first wearer, a second
hand dealer restores the worn shoes to
| something like their former appearance.
and they are sold again, to be worn a
! little longer by the poorer classes. When
the shoes are finally discarded by them
they are still good for various purposes.
In France such shoes are bought up in
quantities by rag dealers, and are sold 10
factories where the shoes are first taken
apart and submitted to long maniDula-
tons, which turn them into a paste,
Transformed
into an imitation leather. appearing very
much like the finest morocco. Upon this
material stylish designs are stamped
and wall papers, trunk coverings and
similar articles are manufactured from
it. Another French industry using old
| dilapidated shoes is the transforming of
old into new footwear. This is the
principal occupation of the military con-
victs imprisoned in the Fortress of
Montpelier. There the shoes are taken
apart, all the nails taken out and then
the leather is soaked in water some
time to soften it. From those pieces
that can be used are cut the uppers for
children's shoes, and parts of the soles
are similarly used. The smallest pieces
of leather are applied to be used in high
Louis XIV heels, which were so much in
style a few years ago. Even the nails Of
the old shoes are used again. They are
separated by a magnet, which attracts
the steel nails, while the copper and brass
nails are carried on further. The price
received for the old copper nails alone all
most pays for the first cost of the old
shoes. Clippings and outings of the
leather are also used, being turned into a
paste from which artificial leather is made
and what is not good enough to serve for
this purpose is sold with the sweepings
to agriculturiSts in the neighborhood who
| use this waste with great success as a
fertilizer.