Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

IF there is one person in the world whom
lazy delights in meeting upon the street 1t Is
another woman wearing dress, bonnet or
CLOAK similar to her own. The eager scrutiny
TO winch the stranger Is subjected attests her
ueiIgnt IN Judging the effect Of her own dress
upon living model.
MRS. WHITNEY's brother is & quinto-mil-
llonaire, but is not at all spoiled by it, people
say. He is IN his 50th year, has pleasant man
ners, aud the one thing in his life he ls nor-
dlnately vain of is-not his money, not his
Sl'OoO,0OO house. not his palace car and ms
pictures, but-his sister, the wife Of the Sec
rotary of the Navy.
The cities of Chelsea, Taunton, Holyoke
and Lawrence, Mass, on Tuesday voted to
sanction the saloon by licensing 1t, and the
cities of Fall River Haverhll, New Bedford,
GLOUCESTER, Sprin gield, Waltham, Northamp-
ton, Brockton and Cambridge, which were
carried last wear for license, have decided TO
reverse their policy for the coming year.
THE war still RACES around the body of the
poor Abbe List. 1t lies still inferred at Bay
reuth, but the dispute as to ultimate sepul-
ture has not yet been settled. Four dfferen {
claims are made for the honor OF providing
him with last resting place. The Grand
Duke OF Weimar's request has been perempto-
rlly refused. 1t rested merely on sentiment
and courtesy.
THE following is the sort of feminine chat
cars: "A bow OF the new salmon pink and
Me green, you know, on Eyes, nut one,
knit three and turn, them "It's so hard to
decide what to get for Charlie" " A doll
would please her more than ANYTHING else
Lhey are just exquisite. so delicate and
thought | should die yesterday, such a
1am!-" 81 crocheted nine of macrame-"
and so on, ad infinltum.
THE cupboard in Sir John Soane's museum
which has been kept locked ever since the
founders death, and as to which a consider
able amount of interest has been shown, was
opened recently. On being opened the cup
Doard was found to inrlose a nest of sixteen
drawers. A careful examination Is now being
made of the contents OF the drawers. which
appear, however, at first sight to contain moth
ing of public interest. but only documents re-
latlng to various buildings with which Sir
John Soane was professionally connected and
10 well known family dispute.
The mania for collecting postage stamps
seems to be gaining more ground than ever in
France. Among the most famous collectors
In France is man who has over a million
postage stamps preserved in 1870 richly bound
volumes, and another who keeps two clerks
employed in classifying and arranging his
enormous collection. Added to this, there are
in Paris about $50 wholesale firms employed
In the trade. and one of the best known of
these has lately offered from ego to f40 for
certain stamps of the year 1886. Tuscan
postage stamps dated before 1860 will be paid
for at the rate of f6 each. while stamps from
Maurl thus for the year 1S47 fetch ESQ and
French stamps of lS49 are quoted at e each.
AN ingenious doctor, named Garre. living
in Basic, Switzerland has acquired much no.
toriety by collecting old boots and shoes to
study human character from the way in
which they have been worn. Carlyle showed
the philosophy that could be extracted
from old clothes, but DR.. Care confines HIM
self to old boots. He calls his discovery
''ScarpolOgy." a word hitherto unknown to
photographers. He furnishes an alphabet
illustrating the characters of the wearers of
edges and toe caps are worn away prove the
wearer capable of murder. Girls who wear
-four" shoe on a ''siX'' foot should be
avoided by matrimonially inclined young men
as plague,
1T has been found necessary to close the gall
lery of antiquities which has been lately
brought to Paris from the excavations among
the ruins of Susa, the old capital of the Per-
sian kings. The atmospheric influences were
rapidly destroying the beautiful terra Gotta
objects, which had existed uniniured since
the times of Darius and AauaXerXes, some
1890 years ago. The wonderful enamel was
blisterlng and cracking. After some cOnsid
Grafton among the experts 1t had been agreed
to try remedy that had been found efficacious
in similar cases. The endangered objects will
be thoroughly smeared with pure spermaceti,
grees c. The spermaceti will penetrate into
the enamel and fine transpare ut glaze will
be formed that will defy the Influences of the
weather.