The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-20
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set West Strand. when an ostrich. at
tracted apparently by what was in its eyes
around the bicvcIe- After a. few pre-
liTninary antics the bird took II into It's
head 10 pace Mr.. Menzies, and so long as
IL abstained from using its wings, the
cyciist and the ostrich managed a dead
heat. However, after covering about half
a mile in this way the ostrich utilized its
stumDy wings as sails, and spurted away
at record-breaking pace leaving the cy-
clist far behind After that the bird trou-
bled Mr.. Menzies no more.
The late NJ Carnot, president of the
French republic, died from a stroke of
apoplexy, Nobody ever heard of that.
says the New York Tribune, except the
subjects of the sultan, and this is explain
ed as follows in La Jeune Turquie, a BIZ
monthly periodical just started in Paris
by the young or liberal Turks: Every
body has known the criminal attempt
which cut of the life of NJ. CarnOt. But
as soon as the news reached CONSTANT
nople the papers were ordered not to men
ton It. Still. as the sultan was made to
understand that it was impossible to con-
ceal a fact like that of the death of the
regretted president of the French repub-
lie. Abdul Hamid answered; Let them
say that he died from apODlexy.' He
feared that the event might suggest to
one of his subjects the idea of initiating
Caserio"
The game of living chess recently
played at the Prague was an extraordi-
nary dHdlE- Inc BOARD was ldld out IN
the midst of a huge amphitheater, and
each piece was represented by a group of
figures. The idea of the game was the
deteat or the Hungarian king, Matthias
| CorVidut, by King George Podjebrad.
PaWnS took their stations as halberdiers,
IN proper historical costumes; The
knights, on gorgeously caparisOned
horses, We're attended by squires in gay
attire. Battlemented wagons represented
the castles and bore the banners and stan
dards or the rival kings. The bishops
We're also mounted and accompanied by
group of archers. The royal pieces, with
| their retinueS. were dressed in appropriate
| historical costumes, portrait masks being
| worn by the kings. Altogether the whole
/ affair was carried out on the most magni-
| hcent scale, and the marches and ma
noeuvres of the groups representing the
| different pieces were followed with the
| greatest interest by the spectators. In
| all, rs people took part in the game.
To have a great voice is more prof.
/ table and certain than to own a gold
mine says the Pittsburg Post The saIa-
/ ries paid TO the great singers of the world
| are so great that one is disposed to look
upon them as mere fairy tales devised for
\ advertising purposes. But these great
salaries do really exist and are actually
/ paid, and what is more, the outlay proves
| very remunerative to the manager who
! has to pay them Adelini Patti gets $4,000
! for each of her performances; the re-
! ceipts often amount to 5000 to $1,000
Just think of it, $50 a minute for sing
! ingi Nellie Melba receives 1900 for a
! night in opera, as much as Bernhard gets
for a whole week. Nordica is not so
! high priced, but she receives the nice
| little sum of $1,000 night, while the mag
| niticent looking Emma Eames is given
| $500 for an evening. The best leading
| man in a stock company has to work
! three months for what Jean de ResZke
! gets for a few hours singing. De ResZke
! receives $3.50 for a night. and besides
gets a percentage of the receipts, which
often amounts to another 81 600 Edouard
de Reszke and Pol Plancon the noted
| bassos, get $500, while such singers as An
coma, Mantelli or Brema demand $3.50 be-
| fore they Will appear. The lesser lights
| who appear in the smaller roles command
about $50 for their services
-Londoners are so accustomed to the
traffic in their streets that they seldom
realize its vastness until they have ex-
| perienced the comparative quiet of the
other great cities of the world, says the
Strand. The figures are so enormous that
the unothclal Statistclan has hitherto
had no little difficulty in getting his read
i ers to believe in his statements. That
difficulty exists no longer as far as the
FbubHc vehicles are concerned; the county
Fcouncil has taken the matter up, and,
ban it's first report on the London loco
motive service, which contains as a sup
.plement one of the best maps of London
yet issued, has given such detailed par
ticulars Of every train and omnibus route
as 10 place the figures beyond all ques-
ton. Four years ago, when the city took
its day census the enumeratorS found
that, on four consecutive days in April,
alone varied from II, 1853 to 16 674 daily. The
number of passengers at Bishopsgate
street station was 10000, at Broad street
1000, at Liverpool street 10000 To and
fro over London bridge there passed pa,
COO people in the day. The people walking
into the city during the day numbered
diaries mum bered 25S26, and of these no
less than 1855 were omnibuses.
II was talking with my wife the other
day about the cost of living said a mar
to New York Sun writer, ''about wheth.
er it costs more TO live in summer or il
winter, and she said it depended a gooC
deal on how you We're situated. That is
whether you lived in the country or in 6
smaller city where you had a garden anC
raised your own vegetables or whether
you lived in a city where you had to buy al
those things; and it depended also a goo6
deal on how you We're circumstanced. She
thought that people who were rich could
| live cheaper in summer than in winter
(this is OF course not taking any account
of summer travel and that sort of thing)
the poor, because in summer they had les:
to pay for fuel, and the clothes required
cost less, and they could if need be, liVt
on as little then as at any time the rich
eating more or less fresh vegetables and
fruits in winter, because vegetables Wer'
cheaper in summer. As to people in mod
crate circumstances, that is with income:
sufficient to live comfortably on: Sh'
thought that. if anything, it cost then
| rather more TO live in summer. Light, fue
and clothes cost them more in winter, bu
they spent less in winter for food. The
moderate people couldn't afford to ca
fresh vegetables in winter, they ate canned
goods then, and in less quantity and a
less expense than the fresh vegetables anC
fruits of which they ate freely in summer
| Upon further elaboration, however, my
wife was inclined to think that taking on
thing with another it cost people in mod
crate circums tances about the same to liv,
| in winter as in summer; and with this view
/ am inclined to agree. In fact, I know
when l come to think about it, that ou
own expenses in winter and summer ar,
strilIingly uniform, as indeed they are thu
year around; so closely do they at all time
approximate to our income"
The excessive use of tobacco can bt
clearly demonstrated by the examination
of a properly spread slide of blood, say:
: Popular Science News. In such cases, rec
corpuscles will be found to be crenated
that is, the corpuscle, instead of possess
ing the absolute regularity of margin no
ticed in health, will present a series o.
scallops somewhat irregular in their dis
| tribution. A few such crenated corpu
scles, in the proportion of one to tire,
hundred and fifty, occur in normal health
but in tobacco blood the ratio is often a;