The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-18
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white dog. Agassz could not bear to
touch polished steel. The sight of the rising
moon, when it was full, always made Nine.
de Stael i'll. Barefooted children made
Louis XIV. nervous. Dean Swift has said
that Bolingbroke would "act like one be-
reft should he cast his eye on poor harm
less toade." Disraeh had an attack of YER
tgo when he saw any body chewing gum.
Dickens never liked a stiff shirt bosom,
and Button would fly into a rage if anyone
put an egg on the dining table at which
he sat.
That famous summer resort Mount
Desert Island was the traditionary gar
den of Eden Of the Northeastern Indians.
says an exchange. According TO their
story, the first man was a youth with
golden hair and eyes like the hazel berry.
His Eve came to him from the clouds She
Immediately proceeded to make herself dis
agreeable by cutting off Adams golden
locks. These she began to weave into
cord. At this stage the Indian god
of evil appears and binds her with the
cord she has made. She stops growing
but not working. From q tall green stalk
she gathered yellow seed out of which she
made bread. After these first people had
taught their children now to raise and
use the grain, they were translated to the
constellation stars known as the Sickle
whence they still watch over their earthly
home.
"A seventy-five horsepower self-propell-
ed wagon has recently been built by a
California firm and shipped to Australia,
where it Will be used by the Coolgardie
mine, and crude petroleum is to furnish
the motive power. 1t is intended purely
Tor freight-carrying purposes, and 1t will
haul all kinds of supplies for the miners
Coolgardie is in Western Australia, 400
miles in the interior. 1t will journey day
In and day out, in sunshine and rain, right
through the country that the bushranger
and the black formerly ruled over. Up to
the present time all supplies for the men
at the diggings have been transported by
the old freighting system, a wearisome
task, and one that only produced general
dissatisfaction. 1t was considered i'm
practicable and too expensive to construct
a railroad to Coolgardie, so the idea of a
horseless wagon was hit upon.
Sixteen of the marriageable girls of
Charleston, S. c., presented the following
petition to the governor of the state in
1888: THE humble petition of all the
maids, whose names are underwriters
Whereas, we, the humble petitioners,
are at present in a. very melancholy dis
position of mind, considering how all the
bachelors are blindly captivated by wild
ows and our own youthful chances there
by neglected, the consequence of this, our
request, is that your eXcellency will for
the future order that no widow presume
to marry any young man till the maids
are provided for; or else to pay each of
them a fine to be laid on all such bache-
lors as shall be married to widows. The
great disadvantage it is to US maids is
that the widows by their forward car
riage, do snap up the young men, and
have the vanity to think their merit be-
yond ours, which is a great imposition on
us, who ought to have the preference
This is humbly recommended to your ex-
cellencys consideration, and hope you
will permit no further insults. And We
poor maids, in duty bound, will ever
pray"
in speaking of hat manufacturers in
England and this country, ''Megargee''
of the Philadelphia Times, says: "a few
moments ago the expression gentleman
halter was used 1t is a curious fact that
in no other trade is that adjective habit
ually employed in connection with the
artisan. Shoemakers speak of themselves
as shoemakers and talors speak of them
selves as tailors, but journeymen hatters
almost invariably speak of one another
as gentlemen hatters.' This arises from
an ancient custom. In years gone by the
British sovereign paid a visit once a year
to the lord mayor of London, calling upon
him within the walls of the city proper
Such occasions were distinguished by
trades professions. During one Of these
events, when Queen Elizabeth had left
the palace of st. James to honor the lord
mayor by an annual visit her notice was
attracted by the gallant bearing and neat
dress of certain body of men, concerning
whose identity she made inquiry Those ,
she was told, are your maiesty's hat
ters.' 'Henceforth,' she graciouslv an
swered, let them be known as gentlemen
hatters,' and that title is enjoyed by them
even to this day."
An observing manicure says that the
finger nails grow more rapidly in children
than in adults, and slowest with the aged
He also finds that both in childhood and
age they grow faster in summer than in
winter. In one instance, a nail that re-
quired 1872 days to renew in winter re-
newed in summer in exactly 116 DAYS. Dur
ing both seasons the patient upon whom
this experiment was made enjoyed normal
health. The method in testing this growth
was in each instance the same The nail
was pared close and slightly notched at
the quick. Both the right and left hand
were studied, with the result that the
growth of the finger nails is more rand
on the right hand than on the left One
popularity of the growth is that the period
of renewal differs proportionately with the
length of the fingers. Thus it is more
rapid in the middle fingers than any other.
In the fingers on either side of the middle
finger the period of renewal is about equal
and slower. 1t is even more slow in the
little finger, and the slowest of all in the
thumb. In one particular, the growth of
the nails and hair and beard are govern
ed by the same law, that of growing most
rapidly in summer.
For several months past, says the
Chicago Chronicle. stories have been cur
rent in Hnsdale regarding an alligator
which is alleged to have taken up sum-
mer residence in the tepid waters of Salt
creek. Youths who have been accus-
toned to performing their additions in the
still waters "above the dam have been
compelled by anxious mammas, much 20
their indignation and sorrow, to battle in
a dlsh-pan or wash-tub. Now, these same
boys are happy, for the dreaded monster
has been captured, and the chief of police
is exonerated from the suspicion Of hav-
ing deliberately imported the crocodile
in order to even up matters with his natu-
raj enemy and tOrmentOr-the small how