The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| izatiOn very generously, the Jay Gould chal-
| lenge cup will be competed for at the regatta,
which occurs next Saturday and already there
| have been number + interesting entries.
| large crowd Is expected on regatta day, and
/ unless it rains the club will have very lively
| time
| Some ONE Interested in stirring up English
alarms has discovered in the Memoirs of Mar
shall Ney record Of the fact that in 1905, when
| Napoleon, designing the invasion OF England,
gathered an army at Boulogne, it was daily eX
| ercised in the operation Of emblrking and dis
| embarkng and that it was found that in ten
and half minutes $4,000 men, with all their
stores, ammunition, artillery and horses were
| embarked, and in thirteen minutes we're landed
| again
| SARAH BERNHARDT's LATEST is a dress of sal
! mon-colored satin trimmed with silver passe-
mentere. There plain skirt front with three
half circles Of passementerie then long red
| ingote, opeaing to show this front part of the
same material with ornaments of the same pas
Sementerie on each side; tight-fltting peaked
bodice with plastron, trimmed with bows of pale
| green satin; tight sleeves with small puffingS
on the shoulder, and simars bows and loops of
the same ribbon in the hair.
A KENTUCKY gentleman of an inquiring mind
has been trying to find out what the average
girl talks about when on the street. He has
| found out that if you hear 100 bits of CONVEX
SatiOn between two women there are sixty
chances that they are talking about says he
says l. or says she, with the probabilities
largely in favor of says he. Then there are
thirty nine chances that they are talking about
matters of dress, and only one chance in the
hundred that they are talking about something
else. "
MosT of the ladies in Saratoga 1t is said, have
discarded the hustle in honor of Mrs Cleveland.
One lady who recently arrived at the springs
| with 300 dresses and two trunks filled with
| bustleS has not opened of the trunks
After reading that Mrs Cleveland had said the
| m fgn - to Ahln at hsar
dreSsmaker and had 300 new dresses made, in
the making of which the buStle~ was not con
sidered as factor. Of course she is million
alre IS wife and-thlS must be said beneath ones
breath-has much more money than brains.
THE Widow Morley, of Montreal, who had
some trouble with the court last year, her
neighbors taking exception to the large number
| of cats she kept in her house. has again come
| to grief on account of these pets. After leav-
| ing the city, she had her colony transported to
st. Laurent, but residents there also took dis
| like to so large q feline population, and caused
| the municipal council to notify her landlord
| that the nuisance must disappear. The land
| lord has, in consequence, instiStuted proceed
| ingS against the widow to expel her from the
| premises When the court bailiff went to seize
| the cats he only caught thirty out of some
| seventy.
| THE sudden report of revolver and the
| spectacle of a Well-dressed woman pointing the
weapon at her own head caused q tremendous
| scare IN Jhe church OF Pornlc, IN Brittany, at
| Sunday morning service The cure rushed to
the would be suicide wrenched the revolver
| from her, and held her until the police arrived
| She explained that she had been deserted by
her lover, a native of POrniC, and had Travelled
up from Anglers to track him to his lair. DiSap-
| pointed, she had come to the church to confess
her sins before she died, but, finding the cure
engaged had decided to kill herself without
waiting. The woman was released upon her
promising to leave Pornic at once
| THERE seems to be a general impression
| abroad that Henry Gillig wiz succeed in reor-
| ganizing the American exchange and be able to
resume the direction of it, Mrs Leslie is sup
| porting him very strongly in the efforts he is
making toward this end, and as she has the
lease OF the London building it is fairly safe to
predict that Mr.. Gillig'S efforts will be crowned
| with success. AS will be easily remembered a.
| story was put around, q year or so ago, to the
effect that Mrs. Leslie and Mr. Gillig were en-
gayed TO be married. There no truth what
ever in this statement, the association being en-
| tirely business one and having no sentimental
| character whatever. Mrs Leslie believes in
| Gilligs business ability and seems to be deter
mined TO give him another start.
| ACCORDING to a writer in the Star of London.
the genesis of the London Times famous Paris
| correspondent dates from town in Bohemia
called Blowitz. Oppressed at an early stage of
| his llustrious career by the want of distinction
| in the plain name of Opfer, ne ennobled himself
| by the addition of Won BlOwitz'' to his undis-
| t1ngushed patronymc, thereafter for some
| time being known as Herr Opfer Won BlowitZ
As such he passed at the congress of Berlin in
1873, when his services were appraised by Prince
| Bismarck at the price of dinner which was
| loudly trumpeted to the world by himself in the
| esteemed jOurnBl he represents. Soon after he
| settled down in Paris, however he found that
, his Germanized name was an obstacle to com
plete success; SO, with the hexibillty of charac-
| ter for which he has always been distinguished
he gallicized it, and is now plain d. d. Blowitz,
| with Just enough Of the soupcOn of high origin
| indicated by the de.
THOSE who have met and talked with Addi-
son Cammack, at Saratoga, of late, and who
have been watching him up there, freed as he
| is from immediate attendance on the market
declare that he is great deal better natured
than he used to be, and so far as his disposition
goes, at least, is very much less of a bear than
| he has been. just now, with Wall street quo
| tations dancing upward very merrily, Mr.. Cam
| mack is probably good deal less of bear also
| from Wall street point of view. The benign
| influence on his manners is traced to his mar
| riage and to the extremely attractive offspring
| which are now his most cherished possessions
| The change in MIR Cammack is more apparent
| than real. He is not more good-natured than
| he used to be; he only shows it little more
| Even while he was bachelor be did a great
many kindly things of which very little was
| known. They still tell up at the Windsor hotel
| the story of an old waiter there who had waited
! on Cammack for a long time, falling suddenly
| ill, and being told by the doctor that unless he
| was able to go on q sea vOyape he couId NOT
possibly hope to live more than few months
| The facts coming to Cammacks knowledge he
gave the old man a check for $500 and told him
| to go back TO 1relaad and to send for more
| money whenever he needed it. The old man re-
| turned to Ireland, and at last accounts was still
| living.
| PROBABLY no woman In the world is the sub
| ject of more frequent aud more absurd stories
than Mrs. John w. Mackay, the wife of the
California millionaire. favorte yarn is to
the effect that she once kept miners boarding
house in Virginia City. and that her future nus
| band was one Of the boarders. As a matter of
| fact Mrs. Mackay never kept a boarding house
| either at the place mentioned or elsewhere and
never met Mr.. Mackay at all until he had
| acquired the greater part of his wealth and was
| living at the best hotels Of the country More
| over, Mrs. Mackay comes from an exceedingly
| good family Her father was Col Hungerford
| an officer in the United States army during both
| the Mexican war and the war between the
| states At the end Of the war he was personally
| compGmented by President Lincoln and re
| ceived medal at his hands. Mrs Mackay was
| educated at st. Catharine's academy in Beuicia
! Cal, and her first husband was Dr Edmund
! Bryant OF Brooklyn. She was widowed at 49,
| met MIR. Mackay shortly afterwards at her
| father house. The match was love match
| and the union has always been n peculiarly
| happy one. Her daughter by the first marriage
as is well known, recently married Prince
| Colonna Of Italy, and her sister some time ago
| married Count Tefener Of Rome Mrs Mackay
has two or three sons, and She iss.aying abroad
chiefly on account OF their education.
| UNDER the influence Of tho craze for decor.