The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-07
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is announced by Bulgarian journal tHdt
the ex-premier's widow has had her nus
bands hands, which were amputated by
the surgeons after the murdererous attack
emblamed and placed under a glass case
in the dead mans chamber. The hands
are crossed like two fencing gloves, and
behind him is hideous Pho
tograph of Stambuloff, showing
him in all the horror of his terrible
wounds just after his death. In speak
ing Of these grewsome relics Nine. Siam
buloff said: Il have preserved these mu-
tiiated tokens of my dear husband in or
der 10 keep constantly before the eyes OF
my children the great crime of his death.
A clairvoyant has been telling some
of the tricks of her trade and how she
dupes women When a victim seems
worth working she says: Il ask for tn,
usual fee and go into a trance Very
shortly l awake with start. l am very
sorry l remark, but the electrical anG
magnetic conditions to-day are very bad
VIII she call again tomorrow? She us
ualy is impressed by my sincerity ana
promises to come back. When she leaves
a negro servant, whom l have warned by
an electric buZzer, follows her wherever
she may go. When he returns he has the
woman'S residence number. From this l.
is an easy matter to identify her, and few
inquiries in the neighborhood-at the near
est grocery, perhaps-are sufficient to give
me al the Information l need. Very of
ten as soon as l find out who my visitor
is 1 know something about her which viii
give me a clew TO what she wants to
know. When she calls again go into
trance, and this time the conditions arc
all right. / surprise her inexpressibly by
describing the appearance of her own res
idence giving the street and number are
finally spell out her own name Nine times
out of ten this is all that IS required. The
caller is convinced. that have learned her
name and residence by occult power, and
therefore is ready to believe anything else
I may tell her. 1t is easy when you know
how"
x-Pres.dent Harrison tells of the con-
tention created over the question of an
appropriate court dress for the justice of
the federal supreme court in the January
Ladies Home Journal when the con-
sttutional organization of the court mad
been settled and the high duty of selecting
the Justices had been performed by Wash
ington," he says, the smaller, but not
wholly unimDortant, question of a court
dress doomed up, and much agitated and
divided the minds of our public men. Shall
the justices wear gowns? And if yea, the
gown of the scholar, of the Roman sena-
tor or of the priest? Shall they wear the
wig of the English judges? Jefferson and
Hamilton who have differed so widely in
their views as to the frame of the consti-
tuition, were again in opposition upon
these questions relating to millinery and
| ha.rdressing. Jefferson was against any
needless official apparel, but if the gown
was to carry he said: For heavens sake
discard the monstrous wig which makes
the English judges look like rats peeping
through punches of oakum. Hamilton
was for the English wig with the English
gown. Burr was for the English gown
| but against the inverted woolsack termed
| a wig The English gown was taken and
| the wig left, and l am sure that the flow.
| ing black silk gown still worn by the JUS
| tees helps to preserve in the court room
| that dignity and sense of solemnity which
shall always characterize the place of
| judgment"
| Why should we not all of us be identi-
fed from youth upward by tattooed
mark? asks the Boston Home
Journal. Men who travel have
often found difficulty in get
| ting checks cashed in strange places and
women who entertain are frequently taken
in by distinguished guests" who prove
| to be any person except except the d.s-
tinguished ones expected. A tattoo mark.
registered somewhere and placed on record
| so as not to be initiated without punish
| ment from the law, would be every bit
as useful on human beings as the brand
| is on cattle. Human beings when disas-
| ISOLATED from their usual attire and sur
| roundings, are distinguished from each
! other with even more difficulty than at
tends the picking out of a particular COW
| or horse from a large number. 1t was
| Thomas Hughes who declared that a man
would refuse to recognize his best friend
| if the latter was set down in ragged cloth
| ing at a street crossing-and he was right.
| Men escape justice easily by such simple
aat,a
ing the beard, and the lady in stageland
! who isn't recognized by her own family
! merely because she puts on a different
| coiored dress is not known in real life.
| A Philadelphia man has been discovered
with his name and address tattooed on
his arm. and he takes great pleasure in
| getting checks cashed at banks where he
IS unknown by merely exhibiting his arm.
Properly arranged, the name and address
of fair debutante, with her family crest
and a few incidentals added, would not
disguise her above-glove arm, and SINH
lar markings would be very useful, for
all the boys who went in for athletics and
who desired to be known to the world bet
ter than was possible through letters
pinned on the back and bound to blow of
during the first bit of wind.
Dogs are at present under a cloud in
Baltimore and its neighborhood, and vel
dogs are proverbially faithful, even unto
death, says the Baltimore Sun. Not with.
out good reason has the dog been called
''man's most faithful friend" Two "doe
Stories" recently reported in Paris papers
and both pathetic in the extreme, whose
authenticity is guaranteed, will please
many of his steadfast patrons and admir-.
ers. In the Rue Able Gregoire, Paris
there died at the beginning of the present
month an aged lady of seventy-odd years
whose only COMPANION was a little dog
named Lii. When the animal saw it's mis-
tress dead on ner bed its grief was great
and for whole day it remained close tC
the bedside, whining piteously. When the
undertaker's ASSISTANTS came to place the
corpse in the coffin Lii got furious and
snarled at any one who attempted to touch
her dead friend, and it was only with diff
Guilty that the little mongrel was secured
and taken to a neighbours On the date
fixed for the funeral the body, accordIne
to custom, was exposed in its coffin at the
doorway of the house. BY some mean:
Lii escaped from her bondage and at once
came and took UP her place at the foot Of
the coffin, remaining there until the same
was placed on the funeral car, when Lii
ran along underneath, ears down and tai