The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-07
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minister lived, so they went to the edge
OF the bank while the minister stood on
the opposite bank and shouted the service
at them.
"A Frenchman has just succeeded In
transIating La Dame auv CameIas" into
the mandarin dialect under the title of
The Lady With the Tea Flowers: A
Study of Partisan Manners" So great
has been its success that leading native
paper in Shanghai has offered a good round
sum for the serial rights.
The guardians of a London workhouse
have adopted plan for classifying pau
pers. About four years ago the inmates
were subdivided with reference TO their
moral character, their behavior or their
previous habits. Now further step in
advance has been taken by providing two
comfortable and well furnished wards for
those above 65 VINO have become charges
on the state through the incapacity of Old
age.
Victor Chevalier, a clever criminal in
Paris, was run down in a shrewd way.
He was known to be exceedingly fond Of
a pet parrot, and the police were instruct
ed to look for a loquacious bird of this
kind. After a few weeks search the talk
alive parrot was discovered in the Mont
watch on the house, and in time the crimi-
nal appeared to have an affectionate chat
with his bird.
The popularity of golf in England is
proving a godsend to the farmers and
landholders in the near vicinity of the
larger towns, In many cases fabulous prices
have been paid for club grounds and lands
which have hitherto been considered
worthless for agricultural purposes have
acquired a particular value and are be
ing sold or leased for sums of which their
owners scarcely dreamed before the gem
eral introduction of the game.
Some time ago the United States in
stituted inquiries through the embassy at
Paris concerning the location of the grave
July is, 1871, in Paris, and was buried with
highest honors by the French government
but the place of his burial cannot now be
determined, although a thorough investi
cation of the records has been made. 1t
was thought that he was buried in Picpus
cemetery, but it has been determined pos
lively that such was not the case.
Another instance of English barristers
dispensing with their wigs in hot weather
is reported, and this time it was members
of the parliamentary bar. There were
nine of them before the parliamentary
committee on Irish railway amalga ma ton
the other day, when Sir H. Penrose F'itz-
gerald the chairman, remarked: "If any
learned gentleman would like to take off
his wig he is at liberty to do So" The lay
was broiling hot and instantly the nine
wigs rested on the table, and as other bar
risters entered the room other wigs went
10 swell the number in temporary disuse.
"A few years ago the Russian million
aire Ssuworin, publisher of the newspaper
Novoe Vremya, furnished the means for
a new theater in ST. Petersburg that was
to be run in the interest of good dramatic
art. 1t succeeded so wen that the profits
which two years ago amounted to 1000
rubles, increased last season to ten times
that sum. The increase was due in large
part to the popularity of Tolstoi's tragedy
Gear Feodor Ivanokitsch," which, though
written thirty years ago was suppressed
by the censor till 1898. Last season is was
played seventy-seven times in st. Peters
burg and fifty times in Moscow.
In the big department stores, says the
Philadelphia Record, it is common for a
in value to 25 cents and order 1t sent home
C. 0. D., but in one of the largest stores
the record for the smallest sale of the kind
was made recently, when woman ought
a two-cent piece of tape and ordered it
sent to her home, to be paid for on delv-
cry. The purchase was small enough TO be
placed in the pocketboo carried by the
woman. This small package was placed in
a wagon along with bundles ranging in val
ue up 10 hundreds of dollars and was car
ried three miles to its destinati ton, where
il was delivered upon the payment of two
pennies. 1t has been estimated that in
wear and tear on the wagon and use of the
horses and consumption of the drivers
time it cost over % cents to deliver that
package.
Psychologists tell u.s." said a New
York lawyer to a Washington Star writer
recently, that no two faces are exactly
alike, and 1 think they are correct. al
though we often hear of one person be-
ing the exact image of another. That this
is largely a matter of Imagination can be
proved by investigation. 1 have in my
office clerk who is constantly mistaken
for myself; several people say he resem-
bleS me so closely that l must be Joking
when l deny the relationship. In order
to ascertain how much reason there was
for these statements took the fellow to a
photographers one day last week and we
both had our pictures taken together and
l could defy anyone to point single point
of resemblance My clerk, however, re-
CARDS the matter as a good joke, and 1
half suspect he acknowledges relationship
in good many cases intentionally. so as
to cause complications. I have shown the
photograph to several people who have
made the mistake, but it has no influence
upon them whatever and it is impossible
to convince them against their will"
Some time ago it was discovered that
the mere proximity of certain substances
to Photographic plate would cause a
chemical action similar to that of light
and that not only were plates logged by
improper packing or metallic fittings in
the camera, but also that pictures could
be made in the dark by such means In
a recent lecture before the Royal Insti-
tuition at London, DR.. w. ]. Russell gives
an account of a number of experiments
that he has performed in this field, and
presents theory accounting for the ac-
ton on the plates. He found that a num-
Der of metals, including magnesium, cad
MUM, zinc, nickel, tin. lead and aluml-
mum; certain alloys and organic sub