The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-17
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salary of $1,000. or 5000; but, then. he is
a great scholar, not only in the English
| language, but in all ancient and other
tongues, not excepting Asiahc ones, says
Leslie's Monthly. He is permitted to query
and suggest excisions or additions to the
work of writer's and editors.
The following placard is displayed in a
Philadelphia barber shop: For the conve-
nience of patrons, brush and comb are
provided for each. No brush and comb
will be used twice without washing. Our
barber will not receive any extras. Please
do not offer any," Outside the shop a
colored man has a bootblacking stand,
over which is the sign: Pedal teguments
artistically illuminated and fabricated for
the inhnitesimal compensation of five cents
per operation
1t has always amused me-" remarked
a botanical expert, according to the Wash
ington Star, "to hear people talking of
their preference for black pepper over
white, and the various explanations they
give for the same. Little do they know
that both black and white pepper grow up
on the same shrub over the pepper seed
grows a black covering. The seed itself
is white, or nearly so. To make black
pepper is the seed alone ground Up. White
pepper is milder than black, the greater
ing. A pepper made of the coverings
alone would be such, to use a slang term,
hot stuff that it would burn the mouth.
The black covering of the pepper seed
contains the OIL"
"A Moscow dentist has solved the prob
lem of supplying the human mouth with
false teeth which will grow into the gums
as firmly as natural ones. DR.. Zamensky
has performed several successful opera
tons on dogs, as we'll as human beings
The teeth are made Of gutta percha, por-
celain Or metal, as the case may be. At
the root of the false tooth holes are made
and also made upward into the jaw. The
tooth is then placed in the cavity. In
short time a soft graduated growth finds
its way from the patients jaw into the
holes in the tooth; this growth gradually
hardens, and holds the tooth in position.
1t is stated that it does not matter wheth-
er the cavity in which the tooth is to be
placed is one from which natural tooth
has been recently drawn, or whether it has
been healed for some years.
II don't see why Americans should be
so far ahead in so many things and yet so
far behind in the use of compressed air."
said c. L. Mueller of Hamburg, Germany
| according to the Cincinnati Enquirer. In
my city experiments have been success
ed twenty miles in eleven minutes in
pneumatic tube, and several lines will soon
be in operation in Germany. The pneu-
matte cylinders in which the passengers
are seated are fed with pure air. and no
one has yet felt any bad effects from being
slid thus rapidly through space In Lon
don there are many miles of pneumatic
tubes for transportating parcels, and yet
there are none in America, except as be-
tween different portions of buildings. With
the United States leading, as it does, in
railroads, 1 expected to see it far in adj
vance of US to the use of compressed air,
and was disappointed at not learning any
thing new about it in this country"
The old French convention lasted three
years, one month and four days. 1t had
749 members and passed Il, 21O DEGREES, says
the New York Tribune OF it's 749 mem
| bers, So were guillotined-Duray, June g.
! 1893, being the first and Bishop Huguet the
last, Oct. 6, 1876; 8 were assassinated and 2
| shot; IA committed suicide; 5 died of grief;
/ 6 persisted in abject misery's; died on the
/ highway, to be eaten by dogs; l. Armon-
| vile, the last wearer of the red cap per-
| ished in a drunken fit; died mad; 2 were
killed in the armya1 was carried away by
! the Prussians and never heard of; 8 died
suddenly; l expired in prison; fell dead of
/ joy on learning that Bonaparte had dis
I
lie or in penal settlements; % We're never
! heard of from the date of the eighteenth
! Brumaire; 60 vanished after the corona
! ton of Napoleon, and 25 died in poverty
and obscurity. The convention had 63 pre-
/ siding officers, of whom IS were guillo-
| tined and transported; % were outlawed
and sentenced to Impeachment for life (;
died in madhouses, and committed
suicide.
1t has been said that there are no skat-
ers on ice in the world as graceful as the
American girls, says the Washington Post.
| This may be due in a measure to the diff
ference in method between the skating of
the girl of the new world and her English
sister, but be the cause what it may the
| truth of the assertion still holds. An es-
sential feature of the English method is
| to skate with straight knee, which can
not be accomplished to the letter and at
the same time give the graceful. easy
| stroke which is so noticeable a character
istic of the American skater. It cannot
be said however that the women of the
| old country are as prone to adopt this
method as the men, and there are in Eng
land to-day some really fine skaters. En-
glishmen, as rule, execute their move
ments on the ice on a grand scale. They
appear to be flying rather than merely
| gliding over the surface of the ice, and
some of their strokes are really marvels
of strength and skill, one stroke frequently
carrying the skater the entire length OF
the rink. The American skater, however,
takes the stroke with a slightly Bonded
knee, and then coming up to the straight
knee" movement. makes a most easy and
graceful appearance
"A suit for damages has just been
brought against an English provincial
| newspaper by husband who considered
himself and his wife aggreved by the
terms in which the couture of the latter
was described in the report of the county
ball published in the Journal in question.
| says the New York Tribune. They recall
the description of the Marchioness Of Tavi-
stocks head dress at the queens drawing
room, described by the court newsman and
/ commented on by a volunteer outside with
abominable ideas on the subject of hair
| dressing, whom, nevertheless, IL does not
appear that the marquis brought into
court for damages This is the descrip-
ton of the court newsman: 1.-THE front
hair was curled la neige dixie snow, at
! the top an ornament in diamonds like a
| peacocks tail: the back hair raised from
the roots, accompanied on each side by