Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-27
ITEMS OF iTEREST.

sio osn poslIlOA OF bauresses as " PAN
! i've of fire.
SPEAKER HUsT an. the New York Assem-
bly,, says that # the .owd of Lobbyists tha'
usual infest the Asnbly chamber wan wan DO 10
view the proceedings future they mus lI + he !
| so through spy-glas He has ordereo tN0
| doors closed against TIN.
A NEW YORK oLEo Glory boasts that IL
employs the highest tant in its laboratory
having secured the svices of the French
chemist who bleached famous sacred eie-
| phant. A man who ca counterfeit an s eie
| phant ought to do fairl,well in counterfeit
| ing butter
The Edinburgh Court has stripped tine
wings from its feet and longer flies hlther
and yon across life's big It'll efeld. Sir wal.
| ter Scott used to linn uphe stairs to see lts
| editor, CHRISTOPHER Mort and De Qulneey
many time I'm ell its inE prooi-sheets, DuI
the oid Courdfet is dead aiast.
SOME INTEREST is being Seited among ge-
olosists In Kent. Eng, by te great depth 10
which boring has been sbk at the Dover
Guard prison for water supply. Inc OorlBs.
! which is close to the sea, ha now reached
depth of 1000 feet, being 7C feet below the
| THEY have high license WI avengeance IN
Decatur, Ill. Liquor sellermust pay $500
| year, and there S a heavy lnalty If cards,
| ulce, or d0mlnoes are paye in the drlnslhg
! places. No screens are allOed in saloons OF
barrooms, and there can be paint, letter
| ing, or curtains to Obstruct Be windows
RUMoRs float around Birmingham about
the sale of Debardeleben'sJ amestown ore
| property to a company comlsed of English,
South Carolina and local GA talsts, ana 1t is
sald the intention is to erecifHrnaces ana
! steel plant. There Is no don't, however. tnat
the trade is pending If not elsummated.
A Ca AU4A UoUK coUNTYcH1EsErH AXER
| went to Buffalo the oshrr3ax ans bTcnNht
home fine i'm ported sas chssss. AZ
| praised 1t but bis wlfe, who, Ifter tue praise
had ceased, said she had foud her hHs"anos
| private mark on the cheese, He hat paid SSc.
a pound tor the very cheese tat he had MADE
and sold for &c.
ONE of the rumors in diplOatio circles for
some time has been that the japanese Minis
| ter was maniac on the SUBJECT of watches,
that he owned 800 watches, an that he spent
| every cent he could get in heir purchase.
| The State Department authorizes the denial
| of the rumor, though it admits hat the Min
| lster "takes special interest n the manu- =
facture of watches"
The ENGRAvER for a jewelry fra in Maiden
lane, New York, lett a $500 watch in
| chamois skin case on lis work
bench Saturday night when ,h1 store
was locked up. Monday mOrnig when
The doors were opened the watch wamiss ng.
| Nothing Sc was disturbed. N1Oneould ac-
count for the lost watch, and so iJ was re-
| placed by new one at the engrapr's ces .
| Four days after the loss. the watchyas found
| bright and new at the entrance to rat-hole
in another room, 20 feet from the ngraver' 6
| bench. The chamOis case was missing. ana IL
had evidently been dragged away rats.
F. c. STEVENS. of Attica. N. Y. son of ex-
| Congressman Stevens, is engagedin the i'm
portation OF HOstein cattle frOl Holland
and Friesland, and has told lew York
| newspaper man something of lie expert
| ences. He had last year the larfst herd oil
| HOlstelns in this country, numbering ESQ head
! up to the time OF his annual sale. The record
| OF his famous COW Echo 10 still wonder tC
| milk producers. Sne produced On the first
| years trial 1920 pounds Of mix. and ther
AZ er a rest OF six weeks dry stated on an
| other years record which slowed 2S,7;
pounds. He was offered $4,000 or the COW
and refused it. Shortly afterwIrd she gave
| birth to triplets and died.
A VISITOR to the exhibition Il musical in
struments at South Kensington is struck by
the fact that while there Is apparent a grea
ana continuing i'm prOvement il the cOnstruc
tIon of the pIano-fOrte there isnot the small
| EFT improvement in the violin q any instru'
ment of Its class No one his succeeded II
demonstrating the Mathematics Of the queer
/ shape of the fiddle. Innumeable attempts
| have been made to improve uTpn the model o
! Stradivarius, Tut all have ptifully failed
| Every curve of his models-their thickness
| their bulge of back and belly and even thu
queer, unaccOuntable J-shped openings
must be initiated with abct servillty II
order to produce fine instrument SOM
| even assert that the amber ylrn'sh is essen
tial. Is H. that the makers " CremOna at
tanned absolute perfection and no further I'M
provement is possible?
The MEMOIRS of the notorious Cora Pearl
"Queen of the Paris demimonde," are abOu
to be issued. She claims tiat her father wa
Mr.. Crouch. the author Of kathleen Ma
vourneen" She fed from home at the age o
IA and commenced her career in Paris. Sh
had as successive lovers he deceased Crow
Prince Of Holland. the Dukes OF MOrny. Ora
mont. and aderOusee, and other arlstocrat
whose pseudony SIN are thinly disguised il
letter. TO her, now published in the memoirs
The letters con ain melange of passion an
politics. A living European celebrity pai
her $4,000 to suppress letter from HIM
Core, who is now A. years old. | yes IN broke
health in a small but comfortable house. Sh
declares that her long enjoyed income of 500,
600 has been dissipated L he reference to MI
Crouch is regarded as pure fiction. IL O
Il kind common enough among characters o
Cora Pearls stamp. They claim poets
princes, and statesmen generally as tn
authors Of their being.
A PaU Nan Gasetts correspondent writes
an your issue OF the 2Sth you stare that ia
Palace of Compiegne will shortly be opene
for the first time since the Franco ermal
war. This is an error. Compiegne has TO
some time been grafuitously thrown open L
The pub ic, and very beautiful and interest
ing chow place it is. visited II while stayinl
al Chantllv lat summer with which d ace
also PleTrefonds, CompiegDe is now cOnheete,
by railway. | was shown not only the splen
did reception rooms. famous for the entertain
ments (Otten not too reputable) OF the Secopt
Empire, but also the private apartments oc
cupied by the last imperial family. The plac
is a eritabie museum, full of choicest al,
Beauvais and GObelns tapestries Sevre
vases, statuar,, etc. The gardens, also opel
" the public alike Sundaysand wOrking DAYS
are delightful. The charm Of Compiegne
that. alike within and without. you may wan
der about. with certain exceptions, unaccom
panied and at leisure"
A WRITER tells The following story Of Gen
Lew Wallace; "When Wallace left Constan
tinople he was presented with an elegan
painting entitled The Greek Slave Wbe,
he arrived home it became nOised about tina
he had Greek slave OF great beauty OF form
and feature n his house. The BOOSTERS locke,
askaut. whispered Of scandals. and the rumo
was soon on the treet that Mrs. Wallace wa
Jealous OF the Greek maiden. One old citi
zen, more Audacious than the rest, appeare,
a. the Generals residence one afternoon An,
asked to see him. He was given A cord a
welcome, and, after a short conversation. dur
ing which he appeared To be i'm AZ ease n,
hesita'ed, stammered, and said: General
there Ia cOnsiderah G talk about Won going on
The people say you have Greek slave II
your house, and have been delegatod 10 In,
out the truth OF the matter! Yes / have
Greek slave replied the General: come i'm Il
the parlor and | viii introduce her 10 Won
The blinds we're thrown open, and the beanti
fnl picture in all IT. loneliness, dazzled Tn,