The morning news., 1899-11-19

AA4eAiA " AAO lanes EIllE III MS IAOLSEdf uses
lasts TO keep his shoes in shape when they
are not being worn, but this new arran se-
ment fumigates them as well. The for
ward and lower paris of the lasts are hol-
lowed out, the openings extending TO the
sole, so as 10 allow the bottom of the
shoe to be acted Jpn by the fumgating
liquid. Holes in the upper portion of the
last permit of the fumigation Of the uppers
of the shoes as well as the sole.
"A court in Shemnitz, Germany, has re-
Gently decided that a hotel servant has a
legal right to tips, and can collect them by
law if they are refused merchant
stopping at a Chemnitz hotel for four
weeks put his shoes outside the door of his
room each night for brushing. When he
left he handed the head porter 4 marks,
or n cents. The porter demanded q
marks was refused, and brought suit for
the missing eight. The court awarded
him judgment for marks, holding that
the hotel paid its porter no wages, simply
furnishing him board and Clothes and that
the public ought TO recognize that the ser
vices of the porter TO the guest are 10
part of the functions of hotel, but per-
sonal matter between the guest and the
porter. The case has been appealed by an
organization of German travellers.
-Advices have been received in New
York that the Russian government will,
within the next two months, call for draw
ings, specifications and bids for the con-
struction of coo locomotives for use on the
Transsiberian Railroad. This, says the
Chicago Tribune, will probably be a larger
order than has ever before been given for
locomotives, and as the average price of
one of these mammoth machines is $l5, 900,
the expenditure will aggregate 100000
The New York representative of one of the
largest locomotive works in this country
said that the probability Is that this large
order from Russia will be divided between
several firms in this country when the es-
Inmates are called for. At the present
time, he said, all the locomotive shops in
the country are filled with orders for en-
gines to be used on domestic railroads
The curious placard, Love potions, S1
each,' induced a London reporter to enter
a drug store there In response to ques-
tions the man behind the counter said:
You may not believe in love potions, but
the fact that we sell on an average some
forty potions a day shows that our Gus
toners do. But then you don't believe
that the one remedy for every complaint
is dogs lard. which our customers apply
both externally and internally. Here are
few of the other most popular physics
in this part of London: Seaweed soup
as embrocation for rheumatism; wurzel
soup for catarrth, and a correction of lard
and turpentine for black eye. You want
to know what our love potions are made
of? All, couldn't tell you that" But
the speakers hand mechanically removed
the stopper from a large breaker of col
ored water.
James J. HILL president of the Great
Northern Railroad, is working out the de-
tails of a great system of transit that will
stretch from London to Hong Kong. The
Great Northern Railroad, as announced
several months ago, is building a fleet of
passenger steamers in England for trans
atlantic service. These will be completed
by Feb. IS, and ready for service by April
Mr.. Hill has just returned from a trip
abroad, whittier he went to inspect the
ships and to make traffic arrangements.
According to reports In railroad circles,
the purpose of Mr.. Hill in gaining control
of the Baltimore and Ohio was to COM
plete a missing link In his great chain
of railroad and steamship lines. This sys-
tenn, 1t is said, will consist of the North
Atlantic Steamship Line the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad from New York to Chi
cago, the Wisconsin Central between Chi
cago and st. Paul the Great Northern
from St. Paul to Seattle, and the Japan
Mail Steamship Company from Seattle to
Manila, Yokohama and Hong Kong.
The Philadelphia Record tells about a
relic factory hidden away in a cIump of
trees near Gettysburg. The value of this
years production will be about $4,000, and
1t consists of cold bullets, old cannon balls
soldier buttons, buckles, swords. pieces of
bone and sabertasches, all. of course. of
very ancient and worn appearances. These
are the cheaper products. There are. be
sides, in the finer and more costly lines
Testaments bored through by bullets. love
letters burned by powder and stained dark
with blood. skulls with big leaden balls
lodged neatly in the eye sockets or the
jaw, and the full uniforms properly pune
tured and bloodstained, of all the officers
slain upon the battlefield. The factory
makes nothing In advance, thus avoiding
oVerstocking. 1t only runs on orders and
by night the customers call for their
goods. They are the innkeepers the gro
GERS, the saloonkeepers, bakers and real
estate men of the town, and whenever it
is moonlight they may be seen distributing
the rare relics cautiously and judiciously
over the field. Visitors there now are
more numerous than they used to be. II
Is no longer usual to poke about all dav
without unearthing so much as a single
bullet and tourists appreciate this
change"
TO go to bed one night and wake IN
the next morning with an almost connlete
extra set of teeth in the mouth is an ex-
perience not vouchsafed to many persons
such a case, however has, according To
a London paper, been for some time en-
gaging the attention of the officials of ona
OF the London hospitals. The patient l.
a boy of II years of aSe, who works in an
office in the center of the city In an
pearance he is not different from the hun-
dreds Of other youths who work about
MN, but, unlike them, he is an object of
peculiar interest to over hundred doc
tors and embryo dental surgeons His
story is a peculiar one, and were il NOT
backed up by substantial proof would he
dismissed as wildly imaginative Some III
tie time ago he began TO be affected with
acute toothache, but as his teeth were an
parently sound, no local cause could he 4
found by his parents or friends Reiny
too poor to secure medical attention he
was forced TO bear pain with what fort
tude he could. Finally, his gums h7g,-,
to swell on the outer side, and this grew
worse until one morning he awoke to find
the soreness and pain gone, and that be
had an almost duplicate set of teeth