The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-10
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longer than that of any town in the coun-
try. William Kilby was appointed to the
office in 1890, ana his direct descendants
have handled the mails of the little village
ever since his retirement in 1910.
A correspondent of the New York
Times, who styles himself Some what OF
an Authority on Grip" stated the other
DAY that since he has been careful to
keep his feet dry he has not suffered from
influenza. and that having previously had
il four years in success on he is certain
that the aiment was always contracted
through the feet. Another correspond
ent now bobs up 10 observe that he has
mad influenza five years in succession, and
that he has two wooden legs!
A gigantic human skeleton, seemingly
of great antiquity, has been discovered at
Miamisburg, o., according to a correspond
net of the Washington Post. The skull is
almost gorilla-like in angularity and the
teeth are in an excellent state of preser-
walton, from which local archaeologists
assume that its owner was a root-eater
and did not fare on flesh. The body had
evidently been buried in a sitting posture
for the knees were drawn up and the head
had fallen between them Beside the
skeleton was a fiat stone, about three
inches long and two inches wide, with a
AtOtC drilled through one Gnu apparently
for the fitting Of a handle. The use of
this stone as not apparent to the local
scientists.
An aggressive real estate boomer of
Barton county, Missouri, prints the fol-
lowing grewsome advertisement in a local
paper: "Wanted-Fifty cadavers of Bar
ton county's two-by-four citizens who are
gentlemen of leisure, and who put in their
10 u
citizens and of value that Barton county
land IS too high, etc. These bodies can
be used in the dissecting rooms of the
medical college, Columbia, Mo. for the
benefit of science, and their absence from
our county win double the value of Bar
ION county realty in twenty-four months.
For the above reasons, l win pay the party
delivering the bodies to me the sum of
$1.75 each, which is a liberal price to
their wives for their useless remains. Come
early"
When the ENJOYS of NJ. De Rothschild
paid the war contributions of Paris at the
close of the seige, an alleged counterfeit
% thaler bill slipped in among the 200.O0 900
francs that were brought 90 Versailles
The quick eye of a Persian official at once
detected it and The bill was thrown out
Rothschilds people insisted that il was
they would return TO Paris with all their
rolls of notes and sacks of coins. Prince
Bismarck who was present, said: Herr
Director, accept the bill. l will myself
make up the deficit. A great war about
nothing more tangible than a caste in
Spain has just been concluded between
TWO great Powers, and 1 can't afford just
on the heel of it to turn around and de-
clare war on the house of Rothsehild, the
sixth great European power, on account
OF false Is thaler note" Your excel
lency is right" returned one of Roths-
chlld's agents, with a smile, particularly
as the note whether good or bad. was
made in Prussia"
-F'orT some time past the cavalry in the
Russian army have been regularly exer-
cised in the expeditions laying Of tele-
| phone and telegraph wires for military
| purposes. The men generally work in
parties of three, the foremost rider carry
ing on his back the roll Of wire, which
| unWnds itself as he gallops forward The
| two horsemen following him carry lances.
| on which the sharp point has been re-
placed by fork, and with these they
catch the wire and dexterously throw it
over the branches of the trees which line
the highway. In the rare event of there
| being no trees, for in Russia nearly all the
country roads are shaded by double line
! of them, theeWire is thrown over bushes
| or hedges, or even, when carried across
| country is laid in the burrows of the fields
! The wire used is covered with a non-con-
| Quoting material, so that isolators are rem
| dered unnecessary, and it is sufficiently
| heavy to prevent its being blown off the
| trees. The line can be laid as fast as the
| horses gallop, over twelve miles an hour
| being quite a usual achievement
T-1.-
stands entirely alone in his specially. He
is James Toughill, who has charge of the
piling of coin bags at the sub-treasury.
! Not only does he have charge of the pill
| ing of the bags, but he does it all him
self, for there is a secret connected with
this work, the Philadelphia Record saws,
that is known only to one man besides the
| Philadelphia expert in the country Ii
does not seem, at first glance, to be a diff
cult task, but those who have tried it
and failed can be counted by hundreds
While the first man to do the work proper
! ~ without knowledge of the secret hav-
ing been impaired to him is vet to be nam
ed Not so many years ago there was only
one person in the country who could do
the work. Where he obtained his exclu-
| sive knowledge no one knows. On trip
| to Philadelphia ne met Toughin and the
two became fast friends As a. mark of
| his esteem the original expert taught
Toughall the art of piling up money secure
| ", and that is as far as the knowledge
| has been extended. The work consists of
piling up bags of silver containing 1000
silver dollars each as high as the vault
will permit. When built by the experts.
this silver wall is as solid and substan-
tial as if built of bricks and mortar and
is well that is so Many men have been
hurt in attempting to learn che art, and
now Toughill and his friend who is in
the West, occupy the field alone
II have been much interested in the ar
ticles regarding Rudyard Kipling's knowl-
edge of engineering, shipbunding and other
technical topics said a well known bust
ness man of Manhattan the other day 10
the New York Times, "and l have begun
to believe that he knows almost every
thing that is worth knowing. You know
that he lived with his family on the old
Balesuer farm, about two miles outside
OF Bratleboro, VI, for about three years.
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