The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-08
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Almost the most difficult part Of the
/ delicate work Of making a wax model
/ Of a life-sized figure is that of placing
ural only one or two hairs can be stuck
/ IN the wax at once, and the process is a
/ secret known 10 only q few persons. In
! deed il is said not TO be known al ali out
/ side Of the Tussaud family.
] Most Of US have read of rooms which
have been papered entirely with Cancelled
/ postage stamps these rooms existing
! writes Dhilatelist, in two well known
cases at inns which are very popular near
/ London with stopping cyclists and walking
tourists But certain monks at the hos
/ pital OF ST. Jean de Dieu. at Client, have
/ utterly transcribed all this by, in their
$50 IHolheAlS' uecoidlli45 VIC Vans
! with gorgeous landscapes, glowing with
| color and full life. which are formed en-
! trely by means Of the postage stamps OF
all the nations of the world. Palaces,
/ forests. streams and mountains are rep
/ resented, butterflies fit about in the air,
! birds of beautiful plumage perch on
! branches. snakes and lizards glide about
/ and innumerable animals find places here
/ and there. The pictures are most artist
/ ic in the style of Chinese landscape gar
\ dening, and already between 9,0JO,OJO and
! lO,O0WO of stamps have been used.
! -Theater managers complain that the
bike" has ruined their business mere,
] says the Washington correspondent of the
! Chicago Record. Since the pleasant
/ weather set in there have been very slim
! audiences in all of the playhouses and
| none of them is doing more than pay OK
| penses. All plans for the summer season
| have been abandoned and engagements
! cancelled The bicycle men are making
/ all the money. You cannot hire ma
| chine anywhere after o'clock in the
| evening. The proper thing nowadays IS
| a short early dinner in riding costume
| and a push" as they call it, afterward.
| The streets of the city are alive with
| groups OF lights like glow-worms floating
/ swiftly over the smooth pavements.
! washington has great reputation as
| summer amusement city, and for several
| years II has been the custom at all the
! theaters to give a two months season or
| light opera and vaudeville at cheap prices
! admission cents and reserved seats at
| 80 and IS cents. There has been very lit
lie else to entertain the people, and the
! theaters have been made cool and az
| tractive by refrigerated air and electric
! fans. But the bicycle craze has taken Sucn
/ a hold upon the people that the theater
| managers dare not try it this season, anc
| Washington is to have nothing but bf-
| cycle parties and music and suppers at
! the roadhouses out of town.
London oculists are up in arms against
the very serious danger to the community
| caused by the electric light. Several emil
| nent eye doctors are agreed on the point
| that unless a stop is put to the exposure
| OF uncovered electric lights in the streets
! and in shops and offices nearly all the
| population viii become blind Experts are
| so greatly exercised in the matter that
! they even suggest that parliament should
| take ii up, and prohibit the use Of plain
! glass globes for electric lights unless they
1 are properly shaded. Commenting on this
| London electrical journal says: 1T is
| not customary to look at the sun, and not
even the most enthusiastic electrician
| would suggest that naked arcs and mean
| descent hlaments were objects to be gazed
| at without limit. But naked arc lights are
| not usually placed so as to come within
| the line of sight, and when they do so
accidentally, whatever may result the in
n h. fa 90 :.
nlament Of glow lamp, on the other
| hand, is most likely to meet the eye, but
a frosted bulb is an extremely simple
/ and common way of entirely getting over
| that difficulty. The whole trouble can be
| easily remedied by the use of properly
| frosted or colored glass globes. In any
| case however, the actual permanent in
| jury to the eye by the glowing flament
is no greater than that due to an ordinary
| gas flame"
There are many stories of dreams that
have afterward been found to be precurs-
| Ors of actual events. They are mysteries
of the mind that scientists have never
| satisfactorily explained, and instances are
| recorded where they have occurred in time
| TO ward off disaster. One of these weird
dreams is described in a London periodical
4 as follows: / was on late duty last De-
cember at one Of the principal Liverpool
pharmacies, and sat doing before the fire
waiting for the clock to strike u before
| turning in for the night. Suddenly the
night bell rang, and a man handed me a
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Liverpool surgeon. I made it up and
| passed 1t over to the customer, about
whose, appearance, as seen in the dimly-
Lghted shop. there was nothing remark
able. However, directly the bottle was in
his hand, he tore off the wrapper, with
drew the stopper, and poured the contents
of the vial down his throat! I was petri-
| lied with amazement. Ere l recovered he
fell TO the floor with a sickening crash.
l awoke with a start to find the
night bell really violently ringing In a
dazed condition l opened the door to the
very surgeon of whom had been dream
ing, who handed me prescription exact
| ly like the one l dreamt Of with the re
mark that he had written ii out at home
for the husband of the woman he was
then off to attend who had hoUavar inst
dropped down dead in his surgery when
in the act of receiving the prescription.
in these days of hustle and activity. it
IS hardly possible to keep posted on the
news of the day, let alone have any time
for the more voluminous magazine or
book What would most of us give for the
faculty of grasping. sentences, paragraphs,
ana, perhaps, whole pages at little more
than a glance? That there have been men
gifted in that way is an undoubted fact.
Macaulay possessed that faculty in a re-
narkable degree and most editors have it
TO lesser extent He would take up a
volume for an evenings intellectual en-
joyment and before he retired he had the
contents fully impressed uDOn his mar
vicious mind. Dickens was another of the
remarkably rapid readers. George Fliot's
Adam Bede' came to him one day Be
4OA 9 HIS VI h4lldl bcullllle ne NdQ read IL
aad pronounced this remarkable dictum:
That book was written by a woman -
Others required days of leisure to read it.
and the question of authorship was the
question of the time in literary circles. OF
a well-knOwn lawyer ii was once said
that he was able to read newspaper ar
ticle or a page of book at what seemed
to the observer to be put a glance. En-
dowed at the same time with a powerful
memory. he was enabled to digest at 1eis-
ure what he had absorbed in haste Very
much the same was said of Daniel Web
ster, who read Don QuiXote" in a single
I night A good memory was, of course, ne
cessary to render the results of this rapid
reading available, but it is evident that in
their capacity to read rapidly and grasp
the meaning and thought of an author
without dwelling upon the separate words
which expressed the thought these re-
markable men possessed an enormous ad-
vantage over their fellow men
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