The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

OF the English language was given at
Manchester. says the ST. James Gazette.
An inquiry was being held as to a house
feputed TO be used for gambling. It was
1requented by poor Jews, and they were
stated in general way to have spoken
their own Yiddish-except when they
Wlshed 10 swear. Then they used English.
our oaths appear to be simpler and
stronger than those of any other tongue.
The Spaniards, though it must be adj
mltted they are coaser, are too elaborate.
They swear, not in words, but in sem
fences. The same may be said of Italian
excavations. French are failure. They
beat US in slang, but IN simple Objurga-
tons they are nowhere. German impre-
cations mean good deal, but that is just
where they fail. The essence of a good
round oath is mystery. And that is why
american swearing, though sOnorous,
misses its mark There is too much
thought in it.
"A circumstantial account of a "dog
marriage" has been given to the world
through the medium of the Paris press.
AS the story is published it would appear
that Madame Maurice Ephrussi, early
last week, issued invitations to her friends
to attend the wedding ceremony of her
GustaVe Rothschild. When the guests
who included most of the fashionable so
clety in Paris, arrived at the Ephrussi
mansion, they were ushered into a draw
ing room brilliantly lighted at the end
of which was a table behind which sat a
clever performing bulldog, who imper-
who wore white satin gown trimmed
with costly lace and a wreath of orange
venerable poodle in a blue frock coat with
buttons. The bridegroom arrived in a reg
ulation swallow-tail coat, white craVat
and satin waistcoat. Both dogs are said
to have behaved with becoming decorum
during the ceremony, after which the
canine party proceeded to a banquet, on
all fours.
The accidents that astonish railroad
men are those which happen without hurt
ing anybody, says the Chicago Tribune.
Such mishap occurred to the Lake Shore
flyer, from Cleveland, coming into Chica-
go last Saturday morning. a steel tire
slipped from one of the driving wheels of
the engine with the train going at full
speed. This was extraordinary. But that
it should slip off the wheel, over the con-
Meeting rod, and fall clear OF the track
instead of wrecking the train, was simply
miraculous. The driving wheel revolves,
say, four times every second, covering
that same second eighty feet of the rail
Fracture the tire, with its deep inner
fange, made to keep it on the rail, and
try, with that big connecting rod rising
and falling two feet every quarter of a
feet every second, to make the tire fall off
the wheel and over the connecting rod so
it shall drop clear off the wheel, the rod,
the rail and the track. This could not
happen once in ten million times. Yet, on
last Saturday morning, on the Lake Shore
flyer coming into Chicago, it did that very
/
ing smashed up in wreck, marveled over
the remarkable occurrence.
People generally have a very faint
idea of the extent of the ship-building in
dustry on the river Clyde, Scotland, says
the Fall River News. Some statistics
have come to hand however, which tel
| the story in measure. In a recent is
sue OF the North British Mail, of Glasgow,
seventy firms are named who are con-
Structing from one to ten large vessels
from twin screw steamers of Loco tons up
70 llrSt-claSS cruisers and battleships of
Ib,5OO horse power. The year 1896 was a
record breaker on the Clyde, but the pros
poets for 1887 are equally satisfactory The
work on hand represents about 900 gross
register tons. Compared with last year
TINS shows an increase of $4,000 tons The
marine engineering, trade is also well rep
resented in $4,000 horse power, or $1,000
over that of the previous year. The gov
eminent orders include one line-of-bat-
tie ship, two first-class cruisers and three
| second-class cruisers The largest order
gwen to the Clyde for a long time was
that for the Nippon Yussen Kaisha of
Japan. This consisted of ten steamers of
9,SZ4 tons gross register and 1880 dead
weight tons each. -Four of these are al
ready launched and six are being built
three in the yard of MesSrs. D. & w Hem
derson and three in that of Messrs Ma
pier Shanks & Bell, Yoger. The money
value OF the contract represents well on to
The Empress of Austria, with a CORPS
of scientists, will soon visit the homes
of the monks in northwest ThessaIy. She
will be doubled up on net of stout rope
! and hoisted with five centuries old wind
lass to the top of the rocky tower a
/ thousand feet high. There is no other
| way OF reaching the place. The old-time
holStlng apparatus, which has been in
! use for nearly 500 years, is simplicity it.
| self, being constructed of heavy beams.
/ Inc cylinder, as well as the lever, is made
| OF wood, and the rope is likewise a home
| product of the monks. The traveller. after
! sitting down in the net, is made fast nv
| sticks and boards. The pulling up process
neafs the summit, one of the monks grasps
! the rope with the crutch of his crozier
! anu pulls 1t on to the landing place. Me-
| !eora, the name by which the settlement
is known in history, means literally
| translated, floating in the air." The prin-
clpal clolster is a tremendous structure,
| pullt AFTER the manner of a place of de-
tense, with bastions, towers and mighty
! gates; The chapel is situated in the cen
t rSa OF the courtyard, which has pillared
/ plazzas ana lncloses a natural fountain
and plot of garden land. Empress Eiiz-
apeth has two objects in view in visiting
/ ihis strange settlement. One is to shut
| herself off more completely from the world
/ than she has ever been able to do, and
another TO seek for hidden treasures in
| a history going back to the time of their
| in 1872. 0-9N
"A singular case of the recovery OF a
needle which was swallowed by Alexan-
der Ross, of 2OS Washington street. Hobo
ken, when child about a year old, was
! developed at Hudson street hospital n
| rev days ago, says a New York letter in
| the Philadelphia Times. Ross, who is SO
| years old, does not remember swallowing
| the needle, but he says his mother rold
| MN OF II after the grew up. About three
| years ago Ross dislocated his left Shout
| der, which was set at the New York hos
| pltaL He was told at that time by the
| surgeons that piece of broken bone had
| become lodged in the lower edge Of the
| .'glenoid cavity" a cup-shaped depression
! in the shoulder, in which rests the head
OF the large bone of the arm. Ross went
| ABOUT his work as a laborer soon after
! ward, but within two years he felt a
singing pain in the inside of the muscles
| or the arm, near the shoulder where a
lump had formed about the size of a hens
| egg. Every time he rested his elbow on
any hard substance the pain would be-
! come almost unbearable. This annoyed
nlm so much al to incapacitate him for
work, and three weeks ago he went 10
! Bellevue hospital. His case was d.agnos-
| ed as paralysis Of the left arm, and cleo
tricity was applied to the limb. without
| erect. A week ago Ross went to the Hud-
| son street hospital where he was exam