The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-03
STORIES FROM THE STREETS.
Things GOssiDDed AbOut by savan-
nahians These Hot Days.

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residence on Liberty street that is singing
! itself to death by degrees.
The bird semes never to close its eyes
! to take nap of sleep, and sings all the
| live long day, only to begin its carol at
nightfall in a weirder key and keep It up
| till the stars fade again in the early morn
| ing. The reason perhaps the bird sings
/ al night long is because there is a great
| arc electric light on the corner Of the
street close by, and. it is said. that mock
] ing bird will never sleep so long as an
electric light shines in its eyes. There
seems to be something about the white
glare of the light that makes the bird
think it is the sunlight, or maybe the
moon Of Maytime, which is a season when
these birds sing their sweetest songs at
night.
At any rate this bird sits there singing
all night Footmen in the streets as late
as to o'clock stop and listen at the
songs the bird pours out He rarely ever
| stops singing, except for brief moment
| just long enough, as it semes, for him to
dream a moment of the sunshine dancing
over meadows and sunny slopes waving
wheat fields blackberry patches and plum
bushes swaying in the breeze-and then
he changes his tune and takes up in rapid
succession all the chirps and songs of
other song birds and fairly pours out
stream of merry minstrelsy beneath the
food of CHASTITY light, which ilIuminates
his entire neighborhood.
The question is, when does this bird
sleep, if ever? The neighbors go to sleep
at night listening to his lay, and waken
in the early morning to be greeted with
| has sprightly call. It doesn't matter
whether the day be bright and sunny, or
whether 1t be cloudy and rainy, the bird
sings all the while, and 1t doesn't mat
ter what kind of weather the night may
bring, SO long as the electric light is shin
lng-his song is endless.
Speaking of birds" said a well-known
gentleman of the old school yesterday. at
is a great mistake to think that the night
ingale is only a night singer He will
sing in the day time as we'll as at night
II is also mistake to think that this
bird is as timld and shy, as he has been
called. He will sing while you stand and
listen, watching him at close range
i doubt if the nightingale, with all the
richness of its full orchestrated throat.
can sing any more sweetly than the
mocking bird"
Judge Falligant and the Savannah law
yers who are attending the Georgia Bar
Association at Warm Springs will return
tomorrow and resume the work of the
superior court next week.
THE representative EngIishmen who re-
side in Savannah hope very soon to get
together and complete the organization of
their society" said Mr. A E. Horrocks
yesterday. 1T is our purpose to form a
society for the purpose of becoming bet
ter acquainted with each other in a social
way, and also for the purpose of having
an organized body for the purpose of Join
ing IN any and all demonstrations in per-
petuation of our memories of associations
in the old country. The society is to -
called the Victoria Society, and was sug-
gested at the recent banquet given by the
Englishmen of the city in honor of the
queens jubilee After we have organized
we Will probably arrange to have an an
nual banquet or dinner, and other gather
ing, the feasibility OF which may arise at
any time
1T might surprise you to know It. but
IL is not a bit hotter down on the Gulf of
Mexico in places like Tampa, at this sea-
son OF the year, than it is here or even In
latitude
Mr. Moragne Fleming, the well known
railroad man yesterday. He was holding
IN his hands most RECALLING looking hand
bi4l advertising an excursion to Tampa for
July 20 over the Florida Central and Pen
insular railroad. The gaudy colors. pic
lures and lettering presented a glimpse
of fairysand all at once, and the picture on
the bill of the place on the coast of Tampa
bay, where De Soto is said to have first
landed was as refreshing as an Apollina-
ris lemonade, the waves fairy dashing
themselves to foam against the pebbled
shore, beaten as light by the breeze as a
veritable Christmas eggnog. 1T isn't
worth while talking about hot weather at
a place like that" said Mr.. Fleming.
holding out the bill. And surely 1t did
look more like an ice cream menu card
than like railroad hanger. If there isn't
train load Of passengers on that excur-
sion, it will not be the fault of the hand
bill.
There will be some fine sport at deer
hunting at ST. GATHERINGS Island next
season, If signs count for anything" re-
marked Mr.. Henry McAlpin yesterday.
having just returned from the island
while we were down there on a recent
trip" he said I'VE had occasion TO OBJ
serve that there are great numbers of deer
about the place and while we did not
make any particular search for them we
saw enough Of them to know that they
must be plentiful"
There is a good deal OF criminal bust
ness before the superior court yet" re-
marked Mr.. J. X. p. Carr. the clerk. yes
terday, looking over the immense docket.
I'VE can probably finish with It by the
middle OF this month and tAth the civil
work win be taken up Thepe are many
important civil cases to be tried at this
term of the court, and there seems but
little chance for us to finish until late in
the summer"
IN THE RAILROAD WORLD.