The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

There is a barber shop in an uptown
avenue in New York where music goes
with every shave. Never a barber is hir-
ed there who cannot twinkle the sweet
: mandolin or PUNK the dreamy guitar. The
gentleman who can play no instrument
but the razor and the shears has no vel
come in this tonsorial parlor, for the boss
barber is musical and loves TO mingle ce-
lesdal strains with the torture of the bar
Der chair. Whenever a chair as vacant
the attendant genius sits him down and
performs on his favorite instrument
To those familiar via the enormous
salaries paid to the judges of the higher
English courts it may come as something
of a surprise to learn that the president
in chief of the FRENCH Cour de Cessation
gets only about $1,000 year. In no coun-
try save the United States do judicial sal
aries reach in amount to even a third of
those paid in Great Britain. The heavy
rise in judicial salaries in England began
about the middle of the last century, based
on the assumption that the payment
should be in ratio with the earnings of
barristers from whom judges were select
ed.
An old clock three feet in hight re-
Gently was given to Warren, ILL.,, Academy
for the use of the class in physics in
demonstrating the laws of the pendulum.
When set up in the laboratory the clock
refused to keep time. Miss Mary E. Gloss,
an instructor, Investigated the cause and
found a roll of bank notes aggregating
$242 tucked away in the clocks works. The
outer bill had been rusted through, and
was of the issue authorized by the act
of 1882. 1t had been sent to Washington
to besredeemed. The clock had been for
a long time slowed away as a useless piece
of furniture.
Some little establishment was created
in France the other day when the name
Felix Faure" appeared among the sig
natories to the 'Ligue de la Patre." The
Presidents alter ego is NJ. Felix Faure,
barrister practising in the Appeal Court,
at Grenoble, and to avoid confusion he
now signs himself Felix Faure ". The
mysterious numeral does not signify any
dynastic claim to the position held by his
namesake. 1t merely indicates that he is
the fourth of his family in direct descent
who has received the baptismal name Fee
liX as well as the patronymc Faure There
are a half-dozen other Felix Faures hold
ing responsible places in France.
-Mecklenburg county, N. c., of which
Charlotte is the chief city, is already noted
for having better public roads
than any county in the
South. They radiate from Charlotte
and the extension has been gradual. So
satisfactory has been the result, in the in
creased value of lands and decreased cost
of haulage, that the county commissioners
| of Mecklenburg have adopted a resoiu-
! ton asking the Legislature for authority
to order an election on proposition TO
vote 100000 bonds for improvement of the
roads of the county. "Mecklenburg's
! good roads, says the Charlotte Observer,
| ARE the pride of the county and are
pointed to as an example by the enlghten-
ed and progressive men of abe state. The
sum of 100000 invested in their extern
sion would be of untold benefit to the
county. We cannot imagine any other in
vestment of a like sum that would help 1t
as much" This is indeed a valuable OBJ
| ject lesson
Local street car owners are greatly in
terested in a new street car brake, which
it's inventors claim will do away with fiat
| Wheels says the Cleveland Plain Deal
| err 1t Is not an uncommon thing with
the brakes now in use on street cars for
wheels to become fattened To remove
| the fiat side" of set of wheels entails
an expense of SO to $12 A brake that
will not make a fat wheel, it is agreed,
would be an excellent thing, and would
| find ready market, The new brake, in
stead of operating on the wheel of a car.
| operates on the car track The motorman
controls the brake in a manner very sim
! liar to the present brake. When it is nee
| essary to use the brake the shoe is drop
| ped to the track. This action lifts up
| the weight of the car, and the entire
weight of the car, except the wheels, which
remain on the track, is sustained by the
/ brake apparatus The Inventors claim
| ~ %
when going at full speed can be stopped
in case of emergency in twice it's length.
! With the brakes now used, the shoe, be-
ing applied directly to the wheel causes
the wheel to slide, especially when the
| tracks are slippery or when the brake is
! applied tightly.
Henry Mansfield Werner died at the
home of his mother and stepfather, John
Henderson, in McKeesport, at 10 o'clock
Monday night, says the Pittsburg Dis
patch. He was 2S years of age. When
| a small boy he lost both arms while try
| ing to jump upon freight train. Instead
| of becoming a public charge, he prepared
to make the most of his meager opportu-
mites. One of his arms was off near the
shoulder and the other at the elbow. On
the longer one grew a formation like a
| finger. He learned to hold a pencil with
| this and with comparative ease could sign
his name or write a note Not being pos
| sessed of means, and being too honorable
| to beg, he was compelled to work for a
| living. In the summer he worked on an
ice wagon, and handled the tongs ana
| great blocks of ice as readily as though
blessed with hands. In the winter he
| drove team for a coal dealer, and used
| a shovel in loading and unloading, as well
| as anybody. Mr.. Werner was well known
to everybody in McKeesport. He was of
a cheerful, sunny disposition. In spite of
his affection, no person ever saw him dis
| heartened. Death was due to consump-
ton. To the very last he was the same
| good-natured, patient sufferer, and no
young man was ever called away from
McKeesport who had more friends than
this crippled lad.
Mr.. Charles A. Witchell. writing in the
February issue Of knowledge discusses
the language. good and bad. of birds.
Malice and love are not, 1t appears, read