Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


then no less than three different persons had
deliberately and clrcumstantially claimed the
authorship Of them.
THE Bartholdi statue is rapidly approaching
completion, and, if everything goes as smooth
ly as anticipated, the work will be open TO
public inspection two or three days before the
formal dedication; but at present no one 1s
permitted to get within pistol shot OF the ped
estal unless he have a pass from the commit
tee. About 10000 Invitations are to be issued
for the dedication.
THE Japanese in San Francisco are mostly
engaged in house service. A few of them are
nominal Christians, while the rest are athe
lists. "The tortures of HE'LL" they say, "are
graded according to the amount of money one
has" When asked why more Japanese
women have not come over, one of them SAID:
1.-The less women the better. A woman's
tongue three inches long can kill man six
feet high"
The Armour Brothers, of Chicago, have
founded in that city mission church and
school which promise to bestow great benefits
upon the needy public. The buildings are
nearly ready for occupancy. and include
nursery, a kindergarten, a library, bathing
rooms and free dispensary. The establish
ment will be maintained by the rentals of fif
teen apartment houses now being erected for
the purpose at cost of 100000.
SOME one in Hudson, n. Y, has written to
the Toronto Globe as follows: ''As 1 am a
very rich man and can easily afford it. have
decided to give the whole of North America
to my wife, believing from my knowledge of
wOman's nature that she will govern you all
wisely and well AS am the legal husband
of every woman in the world, this includes
every woman on the continent.-Ezra, King
of England, North America, the World and
the Church."
IT is not generally known that thriving
business is done by certain Boston tailors in
letting out dress suits. The charge for an
evening is SO. A deposit of SO or IS is de-
handed where the applicants are not known
to the tailor. Harvard College students are
occasional customers In this business; those
who have dress suits OF their own being some
times in want of a change. and those who are
not possessors of such luxuries, finding it
more expedient TO hire than to borrow.
ONE DAY the Czarina appeared In a new
corn -colored gown, which was much admired
by the Court ladies. A few minutes later q
young lady attached to the imperial house.
hold, Miss Feodorofina Ghika, entered, wear
ing gown exactly like it. A blunder had
been made bv the Paris dressmakers, but that
did not diminish the CzArina'B evident anger
nor the young lady's CONSERVATION, But the
Gar came to the rescue. 81 and my lieuten-
ants he satd, smiling, "also wear exactly
similar uniforms"
APHILANTHRoPIc New York firm has come
their cocktails in the morning and are pro-
hIbted. This firm puts up cocktails, either
OF gin or whisky, IN little bottles, which are
packed in neat pasteboard GASES, on which
are printed the name Of the ''tonlc," and the
words: "a good appetizer. Aids digest OF i.
Price Is cents. Directions: Empty contents
| in q glass, add little piece of ice, stir and
drink" The New Workers are said to be
fairly coming money with this tonic.
THE idea has been preached in New Orleans
| of having white balls there next winter.
| These gatherings are an institution with some
| of the clerks in Cuba, the custom being
| brought from Spain and France All the
| women must come dressed in white only with
| white ribbons and white laces and white flow
| ers. IL society in the Crescent City copies
this much from Cuba, says an exchange, il
might copy also the delightfully."- dreamy com
| fort of slow dancing. which leaves You when
your whirl is over almost as cool as you were
| when you began.
A VIENNA LETTER says: 81 cannot say was
| impressed with what L saw of the Austrian
army. 1t is supposed to shine in cavalry
which is certainly we'll horsed. But the men
are slovenly, and English prejudice will con
denim cavalry officers who wear spurs but nc
straps. The infantry was mostly understood
| weedy. mean little men hardly fit to make
| food for powder. The best display made al
Linz was by the engineers. large force OF
| whom were constantly engaged IN construct
| ing and dismantling pontoOn bridges acros.
| the rapid giant stream"
| A CORRESPONDENT says that the reason why
the young Emperor OF Japan is going to marry
| and take the reigns of government In his own
| hands is because his imperial mother has be-
| come disguised with affairs of State and
| wishes to resign the Regency. Her Majesty
| wished to make extensive alterations in the
imperial gardens and palaces of the Nan Han,
| but her Ministers said they couldn't provide
| the funds, She thereupon concluded that she
would not have the responsi bilities of office il
| she could not have itsrewards
THE "Green Corn Dances on the Tona-
| wanda reservation, three miles from Akron
w, were begun Saturday morning All
| the old Indian squaws participated. The war
| dances and squaw dances wound up on Sun
| day night with a grand powwow. Only the
pagan Indians celebrate these annual holl-
| days. A great many white people from a
| distance were there. The yelling of some of
the old chiefs struck terror to the souls of the
| young paleface women. Every pagan Indian
| has his war paint on and wears his colored
| feathers.
A WOMAN about % years of age, small of
| figure and light in weight, W as found the
other evening lying on one of the principal
streets of Tullahoma, Tenn, in what was
| thought to be dying condition. A large
crowd gathered around her and sympathizinQ
| friends took up a collection in order to take
She was carried to the hotel, where pPoper
medical attention restored her partly to con-
seriousness. Enough was gathered from her to
know that she was on her way to Bridgeport
| Ill She was out Of money, exhausted and
heart broken. In her valise were founn
photographs from keokuk, Ia. and San Fran
eisco. She gave her name as Fverine Meier
| tribe, and her address as Bridgeport, ILL., She
| saws that her home was wrecked bv the
Charleston earthquake.
WHO invented the word dude? A dozen ex-
| plantations have recently been printed upoa
| this important subject. 1t is assuming in the
| provincial press the consequence of the hoarv
| conundrums about Beautiful Snow, and
william Patterson. The simple fact is tina /
Mr.. Hermann Oelriehs, of New York who ia
| distinguished by a deep contempt for effemi
| macy in either dress or manner, sat one dav Al
| a window of the Union Club gazing abstract
eddy upon Fifth avenue. Other members oc
cuped other windows, also contemplating the
| passing show. Along came a very much over
| dressed youth with so affected manner and
| so mincing q gait that involuntarilv one OF
| the club men began humming an accompani-
| ment to the step, thus: "Du, da de- fu-du.
da. de. DIN " That's good" exclaimed Mr.
| Oelrlchs, with sudden inspiration. 81 won
dered what TO call 1t 1t ought to be called a
dude" And dude IL has been called. and ali
the Imitators and varieties OF it ever since,
WALKER BLAINEs moving out W est sug
gests to a Chicago paper that ''the Offices of
the big Western roads are getting to be favor
ite places for the sons of the rich men or the
| soi, 1If