The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-04
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Edward w. Box. in the May Leslies
Home Journal, replying to an inquirer
contends that opportunities for promotion
Qn business) are more numerous in large
cities than in smaller communities, but
they are not better. There are more
chances in the larger cities, but likewise
there are more applicants for the chances.
Salaries may be higher in the centers, but
so, too, is the cost of living. Things al
ways equalize themselves. To my way of
thinking a moderate business success in
a small community means more to a man
in point of living and absolute satisfaction,
than a greater success in a larger city"
John Dufficy is the longest policeman in
Chicago. 1t would take only 1872 of him,
placed end to end, to reach a mile says
the Chicago Times Herald A stack OF
twenty-six of him would reach to the caves
of the Monadnock building. A perpendic-
ular line of two of him would make a fes-
tOon up one side of the patrol box, over
the top and half way down the other side.
one of him hangs foot over the average
bed. ladder of two of him would reach
to the ceiling of any drawing room in the
city, and, standing on tfp-toe, one of him
could blow down the gas burner in most
any chandelier He Stops to enter the
average door, and when he holds his arm
out straight and says his wife is about so
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arm and not get a dent in his hat.
The Nashville Banner says: "At the
Tennessee centennial exposition are to be
exhibited the old cabin birthplace of two
famous American citizens. Those cabins
are genuine, as certified by affidavits in
the possession of the owner and exhibitor.
The Rev w. G. Bigham, a Methodist
minister, while travelling a circuit which
embraced ma rte Of
ties, Kentucky, bought the two .og cabins
and the land on which they stood One
of the cabins was built by Tom Lincoln,
and in it ne lived with his wife, Nancy
Hanks. In this cabin, without a floor,
Abe Lincoln was born ii the year 1909
Every log, except few which did not
Withstand the Tavages of time and the
weather, is preserved. The other cabin is
one in which the president of the late con-
federacy was born. 1t came from near
Fairview, Todd county, Ky. Mr.. Davis
was born there in 1908, and when Sc years
old was given a banquet by old citizens of
Fairview in the very same cabin"
1t costs the British government $780,
900 annually for the clothing furnished TO
it's army all over the world. Each of the
foreign possessions, however has to pay
back TO a certain extent, the amount
which the uniforms of the troops stationed
or sent there has cost, and this entails no
end Of bookkeeping, says Harper's Round
Table. India pays for the clothing of its
own troops, and also for the uniforms OF
the men which England sends there. The
latter item is about S675OO0 annually. On
the other hand, when a regiment comes
home from India, that country has to be
paid back the full value of the clothes it
wears. The government sells old and
worn-out articles to the secondhand deal
ers, who, by the way, usually accumulate
fortunes in a short time. The value of
cast-off clothes so disposed of is about
$l50000 yearly The best quality of every
thing is used in the manufacture of uni
forms In fact, it is said they are too
good for durable wear. A huge factory
in PimlcO makes a large share of the
furnishings, but vast quantities of foot
and head gear are bought ready made
Boots and leggings, for example, cost
ST. 900, and head-dresses $250,000. The
thousands of miles of flannel linen, cali
co, cloth, velvet, etc, the millions of but
tons, the tons of cottonwood the billions
of yards of sewing cotton, that are made
in tunics, trousers and shirts cost $3.50, 600
and the wages made for making these up
are over 5000 a week. But all this vast
expense is much less than the annual out
lay that France or Germany makes for
keeping its soldiers. In Germany every
man in the army has four complete suits
of military clothing.
-Kentuc1ians have bred saddle horses
for beauty and charm, and have got them
says Harper's Weekly. There is a charm
about the Kentucky horse that no other
American horse has. No other animal
have met in the country exist in the mem
DRY with quite the fascination of certain
horses have seen in Kentucky. There
for q mil ay
ington, a roam gelding that had had this
fascination to a high degree. He had the
graceful Kentucky Observation-Disclosures
yet with difference. His beauty appear
ed particularly in the shape of the rump
and in the carriage of the tail. There was
an exquisite trick in the conformation of
the quarters. Charming and very Ken
lucky" you said as you looked at them,
and yet YOU felt you had never seen quite
that before. II was, perhaps, a bold
flight nearer the Kentucky ideal than you
had seen. This quality of the figure was
certainly due to an infusion of the Den
mark race. The tail was the other chief
beauty. There was an airy grace in the
carriage of it which reminded you of the
fortunate. work of some architect of ge-
| MUS What have you done to him?" I
said, referring to the graceful lightness
with which the tail was held. Nothing "
| said the farmer; "as you drive out of the
gate you Will see his old dam in the past
ure to the left, and you will see that she
carries just the same tail that he does"
| This carriage of the tail is also a Den
| mark characteristic. 1t is said, by the
way, that this tail has been transmitted
to the Kentucky horse from the Arab
progenitor of the English thoroughbred,
and that the trait Is due to the fact that
the hair was not allowed to grow upon
the tan of an Arab till he was five years
old: the custom of keeping the tail shaw
ed, observed through many generations
made 4 thus light and easily held up.
For nearly thirty years there have
been no important changes in the English
methods OF regulating the liquor trade. In
fact, the changes made in the course Of
a century are exceedingly few, and in its
main features the English licensing sys-
TEN Is pretty much in the condition that
IL was when the century opened. says Har-
pers Weekly From 1928 20 1869 England
tried the experiment Of free trade In beer
For forty years almost anybody who liked
could set up a beer shop But the expert
ment was a direful failure. In 1869 It was
finally Abandoned not however. without
leaving disagreeable traces. which are
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