The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-11
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III which have no laurel crown.
A Virginia farmer asserts that if one
half Of the fruit of a heavily laden tree
is removed by picking. the remainder will
De or better quality. The prodnct Will
also De as many bushels as though ell
OF the fruit had remained on the tree.
The most curious newspaper in the
world. says an exchange, is the one got
ten up by the inmates of the insanse asy-
lum Of Bicetre, near Paris. The insane,
as rule, believe themselves 10 be per-
fectly rational, and owing TO this belief
consider the trea tment they receive at
the asylum as not only unnecessary. but
an injury to them, and il was primarily
for the purpose OF voicing their opinion
OF this treatment and those who admins
ter It. that the paper in question, which
they named L Anti-Alieniste (the enemy
Of the insane dOctors), was started.
AT Oranienburg, near Berlin. a colony
Of vegetarians was started some years
ago, and is growing slowly but steadily.
Founded in 1898 by seven enthusiasts on
the subject, there are at present a home
steads, where 81 families and 10 single
men have built houses and raise their
cabbage. Outside of the vegetables neces-
sary for their own food, they have plant
ed 5000 fruit trees, and 1000 berry
bushes, and have fenced in the entire
property with a hedge OF hazel nuts. From
a
well, because they realize excellent prices
for the products of their truck farms, the
quality of the vegetables raised by them
being the best to be obtained.
Dave Potter, a Carson CNev) veteran.
committed suicide recently. He sat down,
leaning up against a shed, laid his hat
on one side, taking of his boots, attached
a string to the trigger of the musket ana
to one Of his toes, placed the musket to
nv n Z <
fired the fatal shot. When he took the
musket it was loaded only with powder,
and he had found a bit of brass, some
what similar to a bicycle valve, weighing
perhaps three-fourths of an ounce and
this he used in lieu of bullet This queer
missile passed through his right lung,
and, coming out of his back, passed
through the wall behind him and was
found embedded in the opposite wall
A party of Chinese mandarins march
ing in state to the strains of Tommy,
Make Room for Your Uncle" is an idea
worthy of a comic opera, says Odds and
Ends. Yet such an event has taken place
in real life. Some years ago Ii Hung
Chang engaged a yankee bandmaster to
train for him a band of Chinese must
clans The yankee was a bit of a humor-
list, and he gave to each of his Dig-tailed
instrumentalists a music album of En-
glish comic songs, assuring them that the
tunes were suitable for state occasions.
The consequence was that when Ii Hung
Chang came in state, accompanied by his
suite, to call upon the English ambassa-
dor, he did so to the strains of Tommy,
Make Room For Your Uncle" and, later,
whep the two diplomatists adjourned to
the supper room together, the band was
blowing away at the strain, Said the
Old Obadiah to the Young Obadiah, Oba-
diah, Obadiah, l am Dry
"A correspondent calls attention to a
blunder attributed to the British govern
ment, says the London News, in its en-
deaVor to do honor to Ii Hung Chang,
which may cost the envoy his head on his
return to China. The are said to be hang
ing his house in yellow. Now, yellow is
the imperial color, and no Chinese sub
ject may assume it without special per-
mission. LIS yellow jacket was a special
mark of imperial favor, given or with
drawn as his fortunes rose or fell at
court. To put him in a yellow bedroom,
for instance, is mistaken kindness, or
rather positive cruelty, for he would not
be able to sleep wink in it for fear of
the consequences. 1t the unfortunate
order has really been given to the up
holsterers, there is still time to counter
rnand it, and to fit him up in red, which,
or correspondent assures us, is the proper
thing. 1t will swell the bill for his enter
tainment, but we have a surplus or we
mad one, and We can borrow, at the
worst
made some interesting experiments with
the loud-speaking telephone instrument
and electrical fire-alarm appliances of the
Single Wire Multiple Telephone Signal
Company of London. In addition to the
apparatus to test the adaptability of
which the experiments were arranged, a
new portable loud-Speaking combined tel
ephone and telegraph instrument spe-
cially designed for military purposes in
the held during operations, formed a fea-
ture OF interest, the extreme portability
and light weight of the whole apparatus
attracting considerable attention. 1t was
proved that although the wires connect
ing the instrument were cut, Morse sig
nails were quite audible even when sew
eral Feet OF damped Irvine were interposed
in the circuit. We understand that the
British military authorities are taking
an interest in the instrument, and that
a demonstration of its special suitability
Tor military purposes Will shortly be
given.
THE battles of life are fought below
the belt quotes a cynical writer, who
proceeds to give illustra lions varied and
numerous, says the Chicago News. Oc-
caslonally one hears of a poet or painter
VINO produced the masterpiece of his life
while starving but usually a Well-fed
stomach is essential to great deeds The
butcher patronized by Sarah Siddons said
tIldl there never was such a woman for
chops-she was inordinately fond of them.
The same butcher supplied Hayden. the
painter, and became impatient for his bin.
On one occasion when he called with a
dun Hayden led him into the studio where
stood on the easel, yet wet, the famous
painting Alexander the Great" The
butcher was so impressed that he consent
ed TO wait, but privately remarked that
Hayden would not have been able to pro-
duce such work If he had not been well
supplied with JOINTS roasts and steaks
from his shop Byron, however, ALWAYS
grumbled at the length of his butchers
Dill, but Bismarck never did and I<ouis
XIV had the same excellent reputation.
Philip, the son of Charles v, while in
England, developed a great fondness for
bitches of bacon. Those who work with
the brains are privileged to be finickv
about what they eat, but manual laiborers
usually are fond of meat and should have
plenty of it. In London a COMMITTEES in
structed to report on the food products
sold in the shops reported much adulte.
ration and so formidable a document wa :
their Indictment that it took the commit
tee two years to frame it. The Sensible
recommendations appended to the doom
ment are approved by Londoners. who
sigh as they calculate how long II will he
before they can be put into practice.