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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-01
GAMBLING IN EUROPE.
Baccarat at the Clubs and Petits
Chevaux in Public.

Henry Watterson, in the Courier-Journal.
In Europe, except at Monte Carlo, table
gambling, such as roulette and rouge ct
noir, has long ago disappeared. OF course,
baccarat which is to the European gam
bier, what draw poker is to the American,
is played in the clubs and in other seclud-
ed places, often for very high stakes. But
the laws are everywhere rigid against pub
lie gambling and so the Casino people
have to resort to other agencies for anus
ing the stranger and Tightening his purse.
Petits chevaux consists of a mechanical
race course, arranged to run by electric-
ity. Nine horses are placed. Nine folded
numbers are put in an oval cushion pass
ed around at the end of a long handle
among the players. Each player takes one
of these folded numbers corresponding to
one of the tin horses, which are like
wise numbered from one to nine. The
price varies from / to francs. All the
tickets disposed of a spring is touched and
off go the horses. dashing around ana
round the track at breakneck speed, but
separating as they go. When the mo-
mentum is exhausted one horse Is found
in the lead. He who holds the number
corresponding to this horse gets the pool
less two portions held back for the bank
To vary this scheme OF open and fragrant
robbery boats are sometimes substituted
for horses and a yacht race takes tne
place of the horse race. Thus a man Is
given the option Of losing his money on
water equally with that of losing Z. on
land. Such a game could never have ex.
listed in America. 1t is too simply OBJ
viously and absurdly against the PLAYER
In "a last fQf-Niffpd EnrOnaan oil
with the gullible stranger, has got on TO
it. as the saying is, and les petits chevaux
and autour du lac no longer suffice to lure
the unwary. But even in Europe there is
a certain progress. SO the Casino people
have added TO their old race-course lay
out" an appendage or annex, which looks
very like gambling. This is on either
side of the machine or table, on which In
bright gold figures appear the numerals
to correspond with the horses. You bet
on one of these numbers. There are nine
of them. If you win you get five to one
II you bet on three in a bunch you get
even money. In order to show, however
that this Is not gambling there is a limit
from / to 8 francs. according 10 the
wealth and size OF the Casino or Kursaal.
/ am told that at the more ambitious of
these and late at night when the hetero-
geneous croVd has gone, there is a good
deal of very'steep rolling. But as never
sit up late at night I can give no direct
testimony on this point.
1t will be seen al once that the sole mer-
Il of this method of pretending not to
gamble lies in the bold, transparent rob-
berry which II embodies II is worse than
a mock auction or a church raffie. II I
wanted to teach a child to be a sport and
10 plant in its young and tender bosom the
thoroughbred's love Of gambling 1 would
bring him here and stake him.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-01

from small highly finished models. Usu-
ally, however a full-sized model is made
in clay. The sculptor can still alter or
modify his original design, bringing GER
tain features into greater prominence,
subduing others. When the model is fin-
ished a cast of it is taken in plaster,
and this latter is used as the final model,
and. with it as a guide, the block or
marble is carved by skilled workmen.
This is an art which has been carried
to high degree of perfection in italy.
and the workmen of Carrara are famous
The sculptor makes his model in clay
and takes a plaster cast, and then sends
1t to the works in Carrara, where II is
chiseled and then returned to him for
the final touches.
After the choice of a suitable block of
stone a most important piece of work has
to be done, namely, the marking OF GER
tain points on the plaster cast and the
determination Of similar points In the mar
BILE. Various methods and instruments
have been recommended for this purpose.
In practice a divided frame is used and
the exact distance of certain marked
points on the plaster cast Is accurately
measured. Fixed points on the stone are
marked, and from these the other points
are measured with instruments, and the
depth to which the stone must be cut or
drilled is determined with great accuracy.
In this way all prominent points are mark
ed out, and holes are drilled to the requir-
ed depth and the intervening marble chis-
eled away, at first roughly, then with
greater and greater care till the marble
begins to assume Its finished shape.
In the larger sculpture works one man
does the marking, another rough chisel-
ing, another the fine work. Finally a
stage Is reached when 1t again passes into
the hands of the sculptor himself, and he
1t is who puts the lines of genius into II
with his fine instruments. Although the
workers in Carrara are clever, they sell
dom are gifted enough to supply the fin
ishing touches which give the characters
tics of the great sculptors themselves.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-01
a Strange Power.



1t is a curious thing, the power which
some human beings have over animals
There is in Lowell boy, differing In no
respect from his companions, who has
this power In a marked degree. Every
stray dog or cat in the neighborhood
knows him and loves to be in his COM
pany. A vicious horse which the stable
men can with difficulty handle will stand
like a lamb while he harnesses and unhar-
nesses him. The doves fly around him,
and in the woods the wild birds apparently
regard him as a friend and ally.
The most remarkable exhibition Of his
power, which has long been known and
commented on by his friends, was given
the other day. A large and vicious rat
was captured in the stable in one of those
traps which permit Of easy ingress and
no egress. The men who were looking al
the animal were afraid to go near the
trap, the animal showed such terror, but
the boy, when he beheld the imprisoned
creature fearlessy put out his finger and
stroked its head, the rat manifesting as
much pleasure as would a cat or a dog
Several days have passed since then, and
the stablemen are still afraid of their cap
ture, but he has grown so tame and fa-
'miliaP with the boy as to allow him to
take him out and put him in the trap
will come at his whistle and manifests
every appearance of Joy at his presence
There seems to be no question: but what
the boy could train that rat TO perform
almost any feat within the power Of such
an animal.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-01
DUNMOW's FAMOUS Fitch.
Ancient Ceremony Repeated Before
Amused Spectators.
From the London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle.
The quaint and time-honored ceremon-
ial which is associated with the presenta-
ton of fitch of bacon to each married
couple who can prove that for a twelve
month and day. they have lived without
domestic strife and have not wished them
selves unmarried. was performed at Dun
NOW on the Sd inst, and, as heretofore,
attracted the whole countryside. not to
speak of many hundreds of London Wis
itors, to the little Essex town.
This year no less than twenty applica-
lions were received by the committee
charged with the arrangements, and they
came from various parts OF the country
Ultimately, however, the claimants were
narrowed down to three. Their names
and addresses were given as follows:
Mr.. and Mrs. Drury, s Blisscourt, oxford !:
Mr.. and Mrs. +. G.. Johnston, Kensington
road Lambeth; Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Rookie. White Cottage, Harley Lane, Am
well, Herts All three couples have reach
ed the middle of life Mr.. Drury is
walter. Mr.. Johnston is a factory hand,
and Mr.. Rookie coachman.
The trial took place in field on the
outskirts of the town and abutting on the
highway known locally as 1.-THE Cause
way" In the field large marquee had
been erected, and at the further end a spa
cious platform contained the fully con-
stituted court. Mr. S. White of London,
in scarlet robes and full bottomed wig
looked every inch Judge. The opposing
counsel were Mr.. Robert Marsh, repre-
senting the claimants, and Mr.. 7. Gibbons
the donors of the fitch.
Mr. Marsh is an old hand at the game.
He Is a local auctioneer, much given to
Shakespeare. His Learned friend" Is a
brewer, who is but winning his spurs,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-01

Couldn't Carry It.-"How in the world
did old Filibuster manage to leave cuba?"
Because he couldn't devise any way Of
bringing ii with him" -Detroit Free Press
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-01
LOVELY WOMEN'S NAMES.
According to Bah, Some Are Fearfully
Distorted

lowing
DiGeren of
er's n and the Devil.
Road
Frst WoreD vde Skirts
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-05-08
UPSTAIRS BY EXPRESS.
The Through Elevators Run in Tai
Buildings.

The Through Elevators Run in Tall
Buildings.
All aboard-seyenth floor, first
stop"
This cry greeted a reporter the other
day as he stepped into a downtown
Office building and faced a half dozen
elevators. He wished TO go 10 the ninth
noor. He stepped into an elevator
over which was the sign: "Express-
first stop, seventh floor"
In II there were three men and a
mlddle-aged woman. The starter said
"All right" and the elevator man
grasped the throttle of the express.
1t was tie usual cable rope, and a, the
man pulled it began its journey up
ward. The lone woman messenger
gave vent to a slight oh" and held
her breath.
Floor after floor was passed at A
speed of about eight miles an hour.
When the sixth floor was reached the
woman wanted to get off, but was in
formed that She was on an express
and 1t was against the rules to stop an
express until its destination was
reached. The elevator arrived at the
seventh floor On time. 1t took exactly
eight seconds to make the upward Jour
ney of 81 feet. The elevator man then
announced that the next stop would
be the top floor, 100 feet above. The
top floor, according to the directory,
was the 14th, and the elevator flew
upward once more, arriving near the
roof a few seconds later.
I'VE can make round trip in IS sec
ends, including short stops" said the
engineer of the express, but we have
made 1T in about 40 without stops.
There are two express elevators and
four regulars, that we call way trains.
They stop al every floor and for every
body who shouts. Often | get passen-
gers who want to get out at the sixth
or tenth floors They get mad, too,
when they are told they must go up
and take another elevator down The
other express makes no intermediate
stops at all during the busy hours"-
N Y. Press.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-05-08
The MaYs of the Opossnm.

Just why the great biologists of the
present day should have chosen to con
slider the opnssum an animal of Il lower
order than the stupid and helpless
sloth, and the third order from the
lowest of all, is not so easy to under
stand as il ought to he. AS a mat
ter of fact, nature has done a great
deal for the opossum-far more than
fof the great majority of quadrupeds
Note what the creature is, and can
do, and match it if you can. 1t eats
almost everything that can be chewed
wild fruit, berries. green corn, insect
larvae, eggs, young birds and quadru-
reds. soft-shelled nuts and certain
roots. 1t is a good climber, and has
a very useful prehensile tail. 1t for
apes on the ground quite as successful
lv as any squirrel. 1t usually burrows
under the roots of large trees. where
it is impossible for the hunter to dig
it out; but sometimes it makes the mis-
take of choosing hollow log. When
attacked. it often feigns death to throw
lis assailants off their guard. Like the
bear and woo1chuck. it stores up n
plentiful supply of fat for winter use.
when food is scarce; and, above all.
the female has a nice warm pouch in
which to carry and protect her help
less young. instead of leaving them
in the nest to catch their death of cold
or he devoured by some enemy.-W. T.
Hornaday, in st. Nicholas.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-05-08
KEPT AHEAD OF THE BULLETS.
Astounding Swiftness of Foot shown by
a GeorKiA. Razor Back.


Col. Taylor jenkins who lives a few
miles north of Blakely, is known
throughout that section as one of the
most truthful men in it At least, so
says the Early County Times. Re
Gently, while Mr.. jenkins was out
hunting, his dogs began barking at
something in a large hollow log. 1t
was wild hog. He took the hog home
and dropped il in his cornfield Ii is
there now. A few weeks ago Mr.. Jen-
kins went out to kill il, thinking he
could easily do so with his unerring
rifle. lie searched about till ne
Jumped" it. Down corn row il wenr
like lightning. He leveled his rifle and
cut down" on it, but never touched
hair. He Jumped" it again and shot
again, hut no hog. Again and again
he Jumped" it and shot at it, with the
same result He began to wonder what
could be the matter. The corn rows
were as straight as moonshine whisky
and his gun true as the third party To
Tom Watson. yet hit il hI couldn {. To
shoot at the hog as il ran OFF down the
corn rows was just like shooting at il
standing, SO far as getting bead on
it" was concerned. To make surr- that
he didn't. 'wobble" off the hog ne put
up small target and cracked down
at it five times, then took his AK and
chopped in and found five balls ali IN
one hole in the middle of the spot
That settled it-that the fault was not
in him or the gun, but the hog had out
run the bullets.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-05-08
SOUTHERN IMMIGRATION
Movement of the Worlds Popula-
ton Takes a New Direction.
In This Country the Tendency Is Most
Marked-Many Northern and West
Farmers Are Moving
Down south.

The next great movement of popula-
tion that the world is To witness will bc
southwark. The conditions are now all
favorable. 1t has required a quarter of
century since the war to bring about
the changes that were necessary to
make the south a thoroughly attractive
country for northern and western farm
ers. All the questions relating to POS
sible race troubles had to be settled;
the prejudices engendered on both
sides by the war had to die out, and the
fact that the south could produce
other things than cotton had to be
demonstrated. The construction after
the war, of railroads through the west
and nothwest by the aid of enormous
land grants made IT absolutely neces-
Sdry that these roads, controlled as
they were by the leading financial pow
ers OF Europe and America. should bend
their energies and unite the Influences
or all the financial forces concentrated
IN them To turn population westward.
The south WIS in no condition to in
NIte immigration, even if il had been
IN its power to accomplish anything
against such combination of forces as
were at work in behalf of the west
But 4 great change has come and all
the disadvantages under which th..
south has labored are being removed.
During the last five or ten wears Their.
Lave settled here and there all over thu.
south a few mort hern and western farm
crS, whose great success is now being
made known TO all their friends, in their
former homes. This is awakening a
direct interest in the south in all parts
OF the west-an interest such as could
be aroused in no other way.
From every section of the north. tho.
west and northwest. and even from Cali
fornia, requests for information about
the south and its advantages for set
tiers are being received. Items of news
from several thousand towns and vii
lagos from Maryland to Texas pass be
fore the writer every day. The most
striking feature in this mass of news
so pronounced that it would impress
itself even upon the most casual reader.
is the number of settlers reported
from day to day as locating in the south.
This is entirely anew thing. wear
ago items of this kind were rare. Now
every issue of every southern paper has
something in ii about immigration mat
tersand the incoming of new people, and
even now thousands of western and
northern farmers are settling in the
south.-Richard III. Edmonds. i'm Chan
tauquan.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-05-08
He WAS RIGHT.
The One Juror Who Stood Out Against
Eleven Obstinate Men.

The One Juror Who stood Out Against
Eleven Obstinate Men.
y standing joke around the Maine
courts is the juror who stands out and
refuses to agree with the eleven OBJ
stinate men, who don'trhink as he does.
Judges are not apt to take kindly to
this style of man, and have Decn known
on occasions to give him a terrible snub-
bing- There is still living in this city
says a Bangor gentleman. who thinks
jurors have rights of opinion as we'll as
judges, "a man who is very proud of
little experience he had as a Juror. 1t
was in Judge Cuttings day. and that eN-
ceiient jurist was on the bench. The
jury had heard an important case, and
failed to agree because this particular
juror stood out against the arguments
and solicitations of his fellows. and de
clared he would stay there till the ants
ate him up ami carried out his remains
through the keyhole before he would
consent to what he believed TO be an un-
Just verdict. Judge Cutting asked how
they stood, and the foreman replied
eleven To one, your honor Who is the
one" asked the judge. angrily Let
him stand up The Juror arose and
received scathing rebuke from Mr.
Cutting, who permporily discharged
him from further duty The case went
over to the next term, and was again
tried, resulting in a verdict in accord
ahce with the views of the one Juror. II
was then taken to the law court ON mo-
tlon for new trial and was upheld by
the full bench as mainfestly right. The
man says that whenever lac thinks of
that case, he thanks God he had the sand
Il stick to what he believed To be right.
and take the rebuke a mistaken Judge
gave him for 50 doing This will do
for an exceptional case, but the one
man against the IL is not always filled
with good judgment as this one seems
to have been--Lewiston CMe.) Jour
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-05-08
EnRlisn Humor.

strange society was brought to
light during the hearing of a case be-
fore the Thames magistrate. Several
men were charged with stealing
watch from n sailor, and We're all dis
charged except Alexander Fullerton.
on whom was found savings bank
book for S2i5 and a card of membership
of society with a curious title IL
bore the following Inscription: Ma
tional Liars association-Iiaving been
a member of the above association, AMI
finding you are a bigger liar than my
self, | must congratulate you on re-
lieying me of this card" 1t must be
gratifying to the East end community.
as we'll as a tribute to Fullerton's own
abilities, that he had found no one
worthy of relieving him of the card.
The magistrate remanded him for in
0uIrIeS.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-05-08
TIP IT"
A Trivial Pastime Popular Among Lam
czshire Gamblers

Trivial Pastime Popular Among Lam
casEire Gambler--
Among the strange sports of Lanca-
shire IS game known variously as
.'coddam" or tip it,"
As the Lancashire man Of sporting
tendency must have a wager On every
thing that engages his attention, a lot
of money changes hands on TINS game,
generally ia small way, but quite fire.
quentiy in substantial sums Indeed,
says London Answers. there Is a recog-
nized champion player Of tip IL" who
is open to back himself for { 25 TO lick
creation"
And this is how it is played; The
rival players take a button, or some
small article, and sit on opposite sides
of "A table The beginner puts his
hands under the table, and. taking the
button I'm one of them, raises his closed
fists into view, and the business of the
other is To say III which hand the button
is hsId. The button changes sides as 1t
IS found. and the game goes on until the
points are reached
1t is often played with two or four
side. and the champion viii meet
dozen alta time, and discover the hand
holding the button by a sort of instinct
The position of the thumbs decides
whether the game is "coddaIn'' or Tip
it" On this trivial pastime hundreds
of pounds change hands every year in
some parts of Lancashire
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-05-08

4 superbly rich Elizabethan tomb is
left to us in Boreham church, Essex.
This was erected to the memory of
Thomas Radcliffe, earl of Sussex, lord
chamberlain, and known as the stern
opponent of Leicester. Three knights
in martial costumes lie on the tomb
slab, one of which is his son and the
other his grandson. Walpole incident
ally states that the earl bequeathed
e 500 to be expended on this tomb.
and that his executors agreed with n
Dutch sculptor, Richard Stevens, to eN-
ecute his part of the work for e 292 l2s
sd. The earl and his son were first
buried in the Church of ST. Laurence
Poultney, in the metropolis, and then
removed to Boreham at the instance of
the grandson.-Cornhill Magazine.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-05-08
ABOUT PERFUMES.

Perfumes were introduced into Spain
by the Arabs, who brought many re-
cipes for making them from the east.
Napoleon loved perfumes, and al
ways had a bottle of rose water or vio-
let water emptied into his bath tub.
From the offensive fusel oil the skill
of the chemist has been able TO extract
the odors of several flowers and fruits
The recipes of over 300 different oils
and perfumes have been preserved in
the remains of Roman literature
In many of the perfume factories of
south Europe only the purest olive OH
is used in fixing the perfumes of flow
ers.
Nearly every known perfume is now
successfully initiated by the sympa-
thetic processes of the chemical labora-
tory
Pastiiles are waters made to he set on
fire and in the process of burning give
forth the odor of certain plants or
flowers.
Every sacrifice offered on a Roman
altar was perfumed either with flow
ers or with some odor extracted from
them.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-05-08
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

On stoves and furnaces 1870 nat
ents have been issued covering every
part of these Indispensable articles OF
comfort.
Five generations of one family ar.
living on homestead at Barcistown.
Ga. The head of the family. W g.
Cherry. has l36 living descendants.
After the cocoons intended for the
silk manufacture have been finished
the worms are killed by the heat either
of steam or of hot water If the insects
were allowed To esape the value of t:te
cocoOns would be lessened.
For several years an old soldier
has been compelled. 10y poverty. TO live
in the poorhouse of Carroll county. No
He has just received pension. and has
decided To remain in the poorhouse and
pay his board. because he likes his
home there SO well.
-Indiana's oldest residents are Alex
ander Ferguson and his sister of
of Frankton. Alexander is IO3 wears
old and his sister IOz. Alexander
worked on the farm every day. doing
the ordinary chores of the place until
he had passed his Tooth birthday. and
a
daily walk OF a little more than two
miles His wife is over 80 and is in good
health.
The army rules are that two-inch
ice VIII sustain a man or properly
spaced infantry; four-inch ice VIII
carry man on horseback or cavalry
or light guns; siN-inch ice, heavy field
guns, such as so Founders eight-inch
ice. a battery of artillery with car
riages and horses. but not over 900
pounds per square foot ON sledges: and
ten inch ice sustains an army or an in
Vulnerable multitude On I5-inch ice
railroad tracks are often laid and oper-
ated for months.
The most important, as well as the
commonest metal in the world Is iron
1t is almost everywhere in nature. We
are bombarded from cosmic spaces bN
meteorolites of nearly pure iron: the
spectroscope finds il in stars SO distant
that the naked eve sees but emptiness
in the abysses wherein they burn. I;
makes a 18th part of the crust of the
earth Its PARTICLES are mingled in the
dust of every country road. in the AIR
we breathe, in the water we drink. IN
the food we eat. II i the great color
list of nature. Even the red OF our
blood is due 10 its presence