The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-27
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stage ana on the street. 1t ceases TO De
original in view of the fact that favor
ite retort of the Greeks before the Chris
tian era used to be You're not so sacred"
There is a man living in Thomaston.
Me, who never rode in the steam cars
or on electric cars; was never out of Knox
county farther than Waldoboro; never
uses rum or tobacco although on the
Fourth of July INDUCES in a cigar. His
only pet is horse, to which he gives the
best of care.
People get UP early in the morning
out in Nebraska, and from this habit
some enterprising social leader has evolv-
ed an idea which has become a fad in
the neighborhood of Grand Island, where
breakfast picnics" are in vogue The
guests start out at 4 o'clock, breakfast in
the woods, and come home before he
sun makes things too hot for comfort.
Col. Pope says he cut the price of Co
lumbia bicycles in order to make a de-
mand that would keep his shops running
all the year full time, and also to clear
the way for next years chainless wheel
that will not sell as low as $780," He talks
about $50 for chainless bicycle. The
drop in price on the present style argues
800 as the figure on the new one.
-Four students in Springfield, Mass
have been experimenting with Mr.. Edward
Atkinson's Aladdin stove for the purpose
of reducing their expenses and yet main
tanning a strong and verile physique The
result is said to have been entirely salts
factory. They have lived like fighting
cocks and yet, not counting the purchase
of the stove, they say the cost to them
Of their food has been cents a meal
The human heart is practically a force
pump about 6 inches in length and 4 inches
in diameter, says the Philadelphia Rec
ord. 1t beats 70 times per minute, 1920
times per hour, 1O0S00 times per day and
56'1S2O00 times per year, and 2,575, 440, 900
say TWO thousand five hundred and seven
ty-fve millions ,our hundred and forty
thousand-times in 70 years which is
mans appointed three score years and
ten" AT each of these beats it forces 81
ounces of blood through the system TO
ounces per minute, 65614 pounds per hour,
or 703 tons per day. All the blood in the
body which is about thirty pounds, passes
through the heart every three minutes.
This little organ pumps every day what
is equal to lifting 122 tons one foot high
or one ton 122 feet high-that is. one ton
to the top of 4O-yard mill chimney. Dur
ing the seventy years of a mans life this
marvellous little pump, without a single
moments rest, night or day, discharges
the enormous quantity of $50 tons Of
human blood.
What is the most remarkable monu-
ment ever raised to the advance of civili-
cation in Africa? asks the New York Jour-
nal. well-knOwn African explorer, JOS
Thomson, thought it was a mighty pyra-
mid OF gin bottles. He saw a great gather
ing of kru coast negroes engaged in
worshipping this strange altar. So strange
was this incident that many people would
| refuse to believe it. MIR. Tomson, there
fore, took a photograph of the scene and
brought it home to the royal geogra phical
society in London. The Krus are the finest
of West African races. They are in fact.
about the only people in that part of the
world who will do any work European
| commerce is practically dependent on
! them. To these noble savages gin is the
spirit of the white mans civilization in
/ more senses than one. 1t represents his
| power, his philanthropy and his religion
| AS soon as they tasted gin they fell down
| and Worshipped it, The more they tasted
| the more they fell down. After a while
| they fell down SO much that the European
| governments thought it might be a good
| thing to restrict the circulation of gin
| The most remarkable fact of all is that
the contents of the gin bottles were i'm
! bibed by one man, native. whose over
1 towering thirst for the white mans spir-
its eventually drove him mad. So the bot
| ties stand monument to the monument
| al drinker of darkest Africa.
If there is another place that can boast
of the oddly named localities that New
| Jersey has, it would be we'll worth hearing
| from, says the Washington Star We do
| not refer particularly to villages, for they.
| as general rule, are commonplace enough
| in name, but there are localities which al
| though in some instances supporting only
/
name, old and antiquated though it may
| be. In the list the affix town" seems TO
| predominate. In this collection there ap-
| pears Wolftown, Quakertown, Dogtown,
| Feebletown, Antonetown, Cobtown Slab
town, Jugtown and Stumptown Wolftown
is near the village of Delaware; Quaker
| town is in Hunterdon county; DogtoWn is
| located in swamp south of Asbury Fee
| bletown is a settlement along the Morris
| canal, at the northeast corner of Washing
| ton. Antonetown is the old and prevailing
| name for Anthony; Wiretown is near Aha
| muchy; Kennedytown is above Tranquil
| lily and Stumptown is near Harmony Jug
town is the much-used name for Valley.
| which village has been called within the
last few years West End, West Portal and
| Valley, although the old residents still
| cling to the familiar old name of Jugtown.
| Some of the very oldest names with which
| we are familiar are Guinea Hollow. Hard
| Crabble, Buttermilk Bridge, Quaker Set
Element, Cat Swamp and Sin Corner a
| bad place in the vicinity OF Danville. These
| are in Warren county.
Il asked Japanese friend Of mine who
called on me the other day during his brief
sojourn in New York with Marquis Ito.
| in whose suite he Is, why the japanese
| use such very small pipes, says a writer
in the Tobacco Trade Journal. A Japa-
nese tobacco pipe holds merely a pinch OF
| tobacco-less than would suffice for the
making Of half a cigarette say. Moreover
| the tobacco smoked by the Japs Is ex-
| ceedingly mild The japanese who. like
my friend, have been educated i'm the
| United States or IN Europe smoke cigars
| like the rest Of US. and cigarettes. too: you
won't see Jap smoking any OF the small
! pipes Of his own country whenever he II
away from home. Yet In Japan the tiny
| pipe Is seen everywhere, and had It been
left to me TO explain why 50 vigorous and
| Virile a people are content to get along
with so little tobacco. ! should probably
never have solved the problem. When /
asked my diplomat friend TO solve Il for
me, he laughed softly for a moment. and
then said: None OF the Americans OF