Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-09-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
MI. JEFFERSON DAVIS is the highest
peak in Nevada, its altitude being 1900
feet.
THE falls of the Rhine have been illumi-
mated with the electric light by the hotel
keepers at Schaffhausen and Neuhausen
recently to increase the attractions for
visitors.
A SPLENDID DRESS was recently eX-
hibited at Port Elizabeth, South Africa,
which had been worn by a Countess of
Airlie at ball given by Prince Charles
Stuart in Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, in
1915, in honor of the victory gained at
Preston Pans. ..t 81. asa.
ANCIENT records disproye the popular
belief that green has always been the
national color Of Ireland. Not to men,
ton other testimony, a drawing in the
British Museum which was made in the
time Of Elizabeth, or at least registered
the colors as they existed in her reign,
shows the Irish flag as harp with strings
argent on an azure ground.
Lucy HOOPER writes from Paris that
there are literally no first class pictures
by certain famous artists TO be obtained at
any price in that city. A masterpiece by
MeissOnier, Diaz, Daubigny, or Rousseau
cannot be procured for love or money.
Their best works are all in the United
states III European purchasers wish to
buy fine modern paintings they must 90 to
America for them" she reports Partisan
dealer as saving. "They had an exhibit
ton called that Of One Hundred Master
pieces during the past summer. | could
have gotten UP a far finer one in New
York.
THE Corean Ambassadors spoke Ian
guage which only two men outside the
boundaries of Corea have ever been able
to learn. As a consequence the reception
of the visitors by the reporters was much
less brilliant than such affairs generally
are No views" could be extracted from
the Ambassadors on any subject, and 1T
is a positive fact that nobody in this great
CITY knows what those distinguished OBJ
servers think of our country and its instr
buttons. This unprecedented failure in
journalism has naturally bewildered the
public, and there is much curiosity to
know what the Ambassadors are here for,
and why they wear such peculiar clothes.
This is the way mOOnshiners sell whis-
ky: The purchaser puts his jug or bottle
in the hollow OF stump of a tree with the
price of the liquor. On calling back the
luz is full and the money gone. Then
they have what is dubbed the ''hOrn rack
/ ct" Alongside the road a big horn is
/ hung to tree. IL YOU want to buy the
/ corn Juice YOU blow blast. Soon girl
/ comes out of the bushes and tells you to
/ put your hand in her pocket. You ODey,
/ drop some money in the pocket and take
/ out your bottle and 20. Flirting under
/ the circumstances is at ones peril, as a
/ six foot mOonshineris in point blank range
with his hand OH the trigger of his favor
I tie persuader.
THEY are touching up the Federal capt.
toll, and in the Representatives, hall try
ing to make room for thirty-two additional
members. A correspondent says: ''They
are constructing a freight elevator on the
Senate side. to run from the cellar to the
first story, near the refreshment rooms.
Can it possibly be for-l mean, is the con-
nectiOn at all inferential? The House and
the House document room libraries are
seeking extra shelf space over the south
and north ends respectively of an alleged
statuary hall, and the Congressional and
law libraries have sought similar rooms
i'm the basement. Three Of the rotunda
pictures are being renewed-'The EN-
barkation Of the Pilgrims,' The Baptism
Of PocahOntas,' and DE SOtO's Discovery
Of the Mississippi"
WHEN JAY Gould was in the tanning
business up about StrOudsburg, at a place
called Gouldsboro, he was not so well off
as he is now. one day, happening to be
i'm Stroudsburg, he bought suit OF
clothes, which he needed very much, only
to find that he did not have money enough
to pay for it, In his dilemma the wife Of
the local innkeeper-a woman, by the
way, far above her statiOn-came to the
rescue and guaranteed the payment of the
tailOr's bill. In time Gould paid it. And
now every year the innkeeper's wife,
whose grOwn-up children have scattered
to the four corners of thecOuntry. receives
passes over all the Gould railroads in or
der that she may visit them. | have
every reason TO believe this fact. Let us
give the devil his due.-COr. Phitddelphtd
Record.
LONDON Life youches for this story of
the Due de Sesto, King Alfonso's intimate
companion: "a year or so ago member
of the Spanish diplomatic service married
a young lady of great beauty. Shortly
after his marriage he was somewhat sur
prised to receive notice that he had been
appointed to a high position in Cuba, and
that he was expected to undertake his
new duties without delay. The time was
so short that he was obliged to leave his
wife behind, and accordingly prepared TO
start at once. He bade farewell to his fam
ily. and left the house, but instead of leav-
ing Madrid, he managed to miss his train,
and returned home. somewhat late in the
evening. On arriving he was surprised
TO find the Due de SestO i'm possession, but
of course took care not to express any as
constituent. Presently, however, he rose,
saving he was going TO see his wife. The
Duke at this showed considerable per-
turbation, and tried to dissuade him from
doing so. What happened after this no.
BODY seems TO know, but the next even
ing the inquisitive Spaniard was
found stabbed TO death in his own dining
room. An inquiry, or an apology for one,
was held, and verdict was returned
that the unfortunate diplOmatist had COM
mitted suicide!"