The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

brood of young chicks, dropped the dia-
mond set from her ring which in some
manner had been loosened from its fas-
Jennings. No sooner had the diamond
struck the ground than it was gobbled
up and swallowed by the old hen. After
consultation with her husband it was
thought best to- wait a few days before
killing the hen so as not to deprive the
young chickens of the care of the mother
1t was soon the talk of the neighborhood.
In the meantime the farmers wife had
grown impatient for the recovery of the
hen in a day or so, but that opportunity
Is now passed. Yesterday morning it was
discovered that the hen was missing Some
one knowing the true worth of the hen
had doubtless stolen her to secure the
diamond
In the railway strike of 1877 the loss
to property and business inflicted by the
mob at Pittsburg alone is estimated at
100000 and the county of Allegheny was
compelled to pay $2,7S7,O00 of the loss sus-
tanned during the Pittsburg riots, says the
Arena. The Chicago strike cost the rail-
ways s., $4,000 and the employees 81, 700 900,
a toat of $705S,000, not including the loss
to the Pullman company. The national
commission says that beyond these
amounts very great losses, widely distrib-
uted, were incidentally suffered through
out the country" The California fruit
growers, for example, lost $4,000 a day.
The total loss which resulted from that
one strike, in all probability, exceeded So,
100000. The telegraph strike of 1888 cost
the companies 1899 600 and the men $3.50,
900. The railway strike on the Gould
system" in 1886 cost the strikers 5000 900,
those thrown out of employment by their
action 100000 and the railroads $3,1SO0OO.
THE word Limited in connection
with corporations and business concerns
and firms" explained a prominent law
yer to a Washington Star reporter, lis
now in very general use. 1t originated in
England, and almost every business con-
Germ there is a limited partnership. OF
all the cities in this country Philadelphia
has more limited partnerships than any
other, though there was not one there
twenty-five years ago. Philadelphia got
the idea during the centennial, and, it
having been found by experience to be a
good thing, it has grown constantly. 1t
means that those interested in a firm
are only interester to a limited extent;
that is, only to the extent in which it is
stated in the articles of Incorporation.
The limit of one member of a firm,
therefore. may be $5000, while the limit
of another may be ten times that amount,
or one-tenth or any part. Thus, in the
firm of Brown, Jones & Company, Lin
tied, Brown may have three-fourths of
the stock, and Jones and the others the
remaining fourth 1t limits the RESPONSE
bility, as it makes a member of the firm
liable for only that which is named in
the articles of Incorporation. In this
kind of corporations or firms the law
which allows them to limit their respon-
sibility also requires that the word Linn
tied shall always be used in naming the
firm, so that all may know exactly
that, though there may be a large num-
Der of very heavy men financially inter
ested in a concern, their interest and
responsibility are limited. 1t is a fair
thing all around, for it prevents the use
of big names, which have sometimes been
used to boom enterprises and corpora
tons, when in reality the owners of the
names have but little interest in the con-
cerns'
It was Prof. Schroeder of Louisville"
volunteered a surgeon to a Washington
Star reporter. who first ventured the
opinion that the negro never sneezed. The
statement was made in reply to a question
of Prof. Gross. the famous Philadelphia
surgeon, and in whose memory statue
was recently dedicated in this city. A
smile passed around the listeners, and
Prof Schroeder observing that there was
some doubt about his statement, reiterated
it with some force. He then explained
that while there were no structural ar
rauEoments about the breathing apparatus
of the colored race that had been discov-
cred which prevented him sneezing, it was
a fact that the colored man did not
sneeze, though he could be made to sneeze
by the use of snuffs, pepper or other irri-
tants. He had, he said, never made any
experiments in that connection. He also
said his observation had been confined
to colored people in the southern states.
Atmosphere or other conditions might ex-
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sneeze, but none existed naturally in the
south. The debate on the subject occu-
pied nearly an hour at a meeting of the
International Surgical Association, which
held a convention in the old Lincoln hall
some years ago. Since then, / have often
spoken of it, and asked my friends to no.
tice. and though / have directed the atten-
ton of hundreds to the subject, l have yet
to hear the first one say that they have
ever heard a negro man or woman sneeZe
BY negro, 1 mean black man or woman
l believe that mulattoes sneeze occasional
~, and the nearer they are to white the
more frequently they sneeze. but even they
are less sensitive to influences which pro-
duce sneezing than the people of the white
race. 1t has been observed also that In
dams sneeze very seldom, while Chinese
sneeze ten times as much, even, as the
white race"
The recent conviction of man at the
Old Bailey for uttering coins gilded to
represent gold recalls some interesting ac-
complishments of the mint within the last
eighty years, says the London Mail. The
path of the coin-gder is made easy in
England as abundant instances testify.
Since the days OF George ", of pious
memory, he has been able to swindle a
Credulous people without the risk and
trouble Of making dies and casting money
for himself. The mint provided his ma
terial, ready-made to his hand There
were three blunders in George Tvs
reign. The farthing was of precisely the
same size as the sovereign, and the head
of a similar design Farthings were gid
ed, milled at the edge, offered over the
counter with the diverse side upward and
successfully passed, That was early In
the '20s. About 1926 the royal head was
altered in design, and shorn of its wreath
OF laurels. But unfortunately the farth-
ing changed with the sovereign and was
made TO resemble It. The trick was of
course, repeated. Nor did this exhaust
the swindler's opportunities, for the six
pence was made just like the half sover.
eign until the danger was discovered, when
the half sovereign was Withdrawn. In