Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

EDWARD KING notes a decided movement
in France in favor Of local autonomy which,
By the way, is not unlike the same movement
! IN England.
THE Methodist Woman's Missionary socie-
ty In India is about to start newspaper IN
the interest OF the rzenana mission, ana $780,
0O0 mas been raised for the purpose.
AT ONE of Mrs. Senator Cockrelps recent
receptions in Washington. Roman punch was
served in baskets formed from scooped- out
oranges, the handles being tied with yellow
| ribbons.
IT HAS BEEN ESTIMATED that an iron car
wheel Will travel some 1000 miles. while
steel tire will run the enormous distance OF
/ ZOU.OOO miles before wearing out; thus, tnoueh
costing so much more, steel has greatly the
/ advantage.
| The QUEEN REGENT OF SPAIN has decided
TO wear her black wooden garments upon all
| occasions, although by doing so she changes
the etiquette Of the Spanish court, which pro-
scri0es mourning apparel for all those acts
Whlch the person exercising supreme power
! performs in his or her quality OF sovereign.
! ENGLIsHwOMEN who have more plate than
the butler can take care of use their queer
| little salt and pepper casters as foundations
for velvet pincushions, and hide their rings in
The hollow. Decanter stands are also made TO
support plncuShlpns, and pOsslbl- IN time the
| big salVers will be employed as baby baskets.
The cake baskets nave already been seized
| upon and made to do duty as holders for large
toilet cushions.
| ALTHOUGH BANKER. and one of the best
business men In the world, The late LORD
Mayor of London, Sir R. N. Fowler, writes so
atrOcious hand that a sentence which he in
| ten ed TO be read as follows, Il regard the
| conduct Of the government in this matter as
| absolutely inhuman," was, owing to the ina
bihty OF a printer to decipher what was
tran -, nFsgl a
| compass tale. My grandmother is the best
narrator of amusing Incidents"
| THE CLAIMANT has just delivered lee
| ture in Dublin. He drew an immense au-
dlence who hailed him as he came on with
cries of Halo, ROgerr' and "Wagga- W ag
! ga" All the other performers with him were
missed on. sir Roger was IN evening dress,
and is described as tall of stature, portly In
| build, or dark com pleXion, and as solemn as a
professional undertaken in appearance. His
| powers of oratory are not good. his voice is
| bad. and his twenty minutes address was OF
the plainest character.
IT is REPORTED from Barrow in Furness
that on Thursday afternoon Lord Edward
Cavendish and his three sons went for ride
on the sands, near Holker hall. when his lord
! ship and one of his sOas suddenly found them
| selves among the quicksands. Both horses
| began to sink rapidly, and were soon unable
| TO extricate themselves. His lordship pls-
mounted, and sank ID the tTeacherous sands
| nearly up to the aFmpits. His perlous po-
sition was noticed by some fishermen, who at
once proceeded to the rescue with quantity
| OF straw and ropes. Both Lord EDWARD ana
the two horses were eXtricated, though not
without difficulty.
THE family sllverware bequeathed by
George Washington to his adopted son, George
Washington Park Gusts, Of Arlington, is now
| in the possession of the grandson Of the latter,
! Gen. GUSTS Lee, President of w ashington and
| Lee University. to whom it descended by will.
4 During the war it was transferred from
Arlington to Richmond, and thence, on danger
1 threatening the capital OF the Confederacy, to
| place near Lexington, Va, where 1t was
safely hidden in custody of an eX-SerReant OF
the Fifth United States Cavalry, who had
| served It'll Gen. Custis Lee in the old army.
| The faithful soldier, at the end of the war,
/ delivered all the articles over to the care of
| Mrs. Lee, to his own satisfaction and 20 her
| great joy.
IT IS SURPRISING how many British states
men of note have once at least completely
changed their political views. Lord Castle
reagh began burning Nationalist, and
drank, in 1880, at dinner to she Northern
! Wing Club, ''to the RevOlutiOnn 1t will not
| surprise any one If, 100. in another decade,
| his great nephew, Lord Randolph Churchill.
| should veer round. Again, the late Lord Der
| by mainly carried. as Wing and reformer, the
measure reducing the preposterous number OF
/ Irish Protestant prelates. His own SOM
| change of views aud that Of the late Sir
| Peel are notorious. as is the fact that Lord
/ BeacOnsheld was not always an ardent Tory.
/ or Mr. Gladstone an advanced Liberal. Lord
/ Russell never wavered England cannot point
to a more consistent Political career.
LOCKERS ON see most of the game, and &C
| cordingly it has been reserved for a CORE
spondent to chronicle the latest addition to the
| staff of the Bank of England. The cashiers of
this establishment, so he writes. are often re-
| quired to give evidence as to the identity of
| persons accused of passing forged or stolen
| checks. When they are questioned on their
| Oaths in a court of law they sometimes are
! unable to swear that the prisoner in the dock
Is the man who presented the check for pay
| ment, as they have only seen him for an in
| slant and in the midst of hurrying crowd.
| In future they will be spared the difficulty
| If at any time they have any reason whatever
| to regard the payee OF a cheek az a suspito
person, they will only need to make a sign,
| and he will be instantaneously photographed
| by q concealed operator. There Will be am
| pie time for this while the notes or gold are
/ being counted out.
DURING a rehearsal of the "Jota Aragon-
ese," as arranged by Glinka, at St. Peters
burg, recently. DIR. Hans Won Bulow stopped
the clarinet player in the middle of phrase.
and said: "You have made mistake; play f
| natural instead of L sharp" The player re-
marked that the passage had been so played
ever since the piece Was written. "NeVer
/ MIMI tldf, ansWefeu Won butOW. II don't
| need lesson in counterpoint" The incident
| caused much excitement in m uslcal circles
| The professors of the COnservatOire protested
against their chief composer being corrected
| by Won BulOw, and the Grand Duke Constan-
/ tine, honorary President OF the Musical So
| cIety, sent his AIDE de camp to tell the con-
| ductor that not q note OF Ginka's music must
| be changed. Won Bulow did not, however
| let the matter rest there. Before raising hIs
| baton 10 direct the.piece at the public con
cert, he called out to the clarinet player "You
will play sharp, by orderI'
! CONSIDERABLE attention has been lately di-
rected TO the commercial and industrial value.
at least prospectiveiy, of the tupelo gum and
willow oak tnnbers of Mississippi After va
| rious and thorough tests the first named has
| been pronounced almost as soft aud light "a
| cork. and the whitest timber in the valley III
/ is extremely light, cannot be split, while Al
| the same time It. is very tough, tenacious. and
| will bear a heavy strain, its various qualities.
/ rendering 10 specially valuable for bucketa
| pitchers, trays, OK yOkes. and almost all kinds
| OF water vessels, web as for many other
purposes. The water or willow oak is said Ia
| be second only to the hive oak, le almost "A
| hard when seasoned as is the latter and for
| the rim and spOkes of wheels Is alleged 10
have no superior, while for shipbuildIng h
! will almost equal the live oak in its frmness
| and durability. Tests have been made OF the
crushing capacity OF this wood, and a SO of ia
| transverse strength, with remarkably favor
able results the published data showing that
il IA one-third stronger than any white, red.
or black oak, and only one eighteenth less