The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| wrapped around them.
ONE Huolarnen, of Helsingfors, Finland, was
during his life believed to be on friendly footing
| with the devil. His will leaves all his land and
| property to that individual, and the authori-
ties of Finland are much troubled about what to
| do.
NEW USE has been found for the district mes
senger boy. The walters in down town New
| York restaurant went on a strike recently, and
the proprietor rang for a number of boys, and
thus temporarily supplied the places OF the
walters until others could be engaged.
AS THE QUEEN REGENT OF SPAIN was driving
with her two daughters recently, she noticed
an aged priest tottering out of house. The
carriage was stopped, the priest helped to a
seat in it. and the queen and her children got
out and walked. The crowd who saw it were
delighted.
THE Pttsburg steel casting company have
produced a cast-steel shell, the first ever made
in the world. Steel shells have been made in
England, but they were cut from forged ingot
and then bored, making them necessarily very
| expensive. The company has received an ex-
perimental order for 500 shells.
MRS. LAURA ORMIsToN CHANT, the English
woman suffragist, has arrived home safely. An
English paper says she is looking in the very
| best physical condition, notwithstanding that
| she spoke at 12o meetings AMI travelled 1900
| miles. She says American women think moth
| INK of going 1000 miles ITO speak at meet
| ing"
| AN ENGLISH WOMAN is responsible for the
suggestion that along with other improvements
| to theater seats, there be an arrangement by
which they can be sunk through a trap in the
| floor into saloon below so that men can go out
between the acts and see man without tread
| ing on the toes of all the women seated near
| them.
| AFTER a recent performance of Carmen" at
| Covent garden, London, Minnie Hauk was
,taI. xr,tI, Of La, a,
| leaves in solid gold, in honor of the tenth an
niverSary of the first production of that opera
| in England. One of the subscribers to the
| testimonial was Nine. Beet widow of the COM
| poser.
A NEW BULLET proposed for the English army
| is of an unusually small calibre and is encased
in an outer sheet of nickel, which increases its
power of penetration. 1t is used with rifle of
| greater thickness of barrel in which a heaYer
| charge than usual can be fired. Several hun
| dred of the rifles have been made for expert
mental use.
| ONCE YEAR the colonial governor of Green
| land receives from Copenhagen a file of the
newspapers of that city for the entire year. He
| reads these in the order of their dates, one
| days papers for each day of the year, and
| though he thus keeps himself whole year
| behind the times, says he is none the unhappier
| on that account
PLANT called the Laughing plant" or, in
| scientific parlance, 'CdnndbGliS SatiUd,'' has
been discovered and it is alleged that when lit
is eaten in It's green state or taken as tincture
| made either from the green or the dried leaf as
| powder of the dried leaf or smoked as tobacco
| it is potent In producing exaltation laughter,
| and cheering ideas.
| ACCORDING to the London Court Journal, Sir
| John Millais is now engaged upon three
| quarter length portrait of Miss Vanderbilt in
whom, it is said "he has founnd a face which
| he can paint at least sympathetically. It is
| probable that the picture will be finished this
| month, and that it will be exhibited at the
| autumn exhibitions in London.
THE SUIT in San Francisco of Fung Lee for di-
| vorce from her husband, Chan Lee, is said by
| the Chronicle to be the first appearance of
| Chinese in divorce court in the United States.
| This is an error. Several years ago the late
| Charley Hee Sing. who kept a sailors boarding
| house in this city, applied for divorce from a
woman whom he had married in England.
AMERICAN TOURISTS travel in Europe this sum
| mer more economically than usual probably
| because they have learned to travel like the
| natives. By following native customs, choosing
! hotels most frequented by the natives, and by
| other devices, Americans are not made subject
| to foreign imposition and find travelling less ex
pensive than they have been led to suppose
ACCORDING to an English authority the
language of the parasol is: Indifference, handle
| resting on the shoulder; 81 dare every danger q"
| hign above the head; Il would lean on your
| arm" dropping it to the right; Il brave every
| thing for YOU" shut; II love you" carried in
the arms; Il could beat you" held by the
point 81 despise you" held like a cane; Il hate
| you," beating the toes.
A SENSATION was caused at the Douglas
Mass camp eetlng the other day. when a
man arose and said he a convict and had
| recently escaped from the Rhhde Island stats
| prison He said he was determined to live a
| better life, and, to prove it, he would give him
self up to the authorities and serve the rest of
| his term. The pi,on chaplain happened t. be
| at the meeting, and, fearing that g mans
resolution would give out after tue the ex
| element was over, telephoned for officers and
| captured the man before he had chance to
| weaken.
| PROF. HADLEY Of Yale believes that America
holds the record for the fastest railroad time
| The trip of the West Coast flyer the 400
miles between Edinburgh and London aver
| aged $50 miles TO the hour The professor has
| the record of q trip on the West Shore railroad
| between East Buffalo and Weehawken, also 400
| miles, when the average was 81 miles an hour,
| and during part of the trip the train attained
| the remarkable speed of 80 miles an hour. The
American trip was made in July 1885, and &C
| cording to Prof Hadleys collection of such
| achievements, it has never been beaten
ENGLISH DINNER GIvERs are substituting
cloths of more costly material for the plain
white damask. The Court Journal announces
that Mrs. Naylor-Leyland had a green velvet
cloth at her last dinner party with wreaths of
| glasses. Mrs. Dennstoun of Golfhill had a
white satin cloth on which were placed large
sacks of white satin tied with silver cords, from
| which wealth OF white flowers seemed to be
| tumbling out Black roses mixed with pink
and yellow ones, ant yellow iris with tall grasses
are also much used for table decoration.
SHOULD the bill granting Mrs. Irene Rucker
Sheridan pension of $1,000 per annum, intro
duced by Senator Farwel become law, it will
become the only case where this amount is
given to any person except the widow Of an ex-
| President of the United States. Mrs. Logan
| Mrs. Hancock and Mrs Blair each receive 81, 900
| as the widow of a major general A pension of
| $1,000 was given Mrs. Lincoln on July IA. 1870
| and on Feb 2. 1882, the amount was increased
| to $4,000. Mrs. Grant has received the same
| amount since December, 1885, and Mrs. Garfield
| since 1881; Mrs. Polk has received the same sum
since 1881. Mrs. Tyler has received this amount
| since 1870. and had previously drawn 81 200 on
| account of her husbands services in the war of
| 1912.
FIX EXPRESS VICTORIA seems to have been
handsomely provided for. "Fredericks pri-
vate fortune was e750,O0O invested in English
! funds In addition to this. she has a mante-
nance and five palaces, all the expenses of
which will be borne by the state. The Berlin
! palace, which she has occupied since her mar
| riage will be her town residence. In addition,
she has the Villa Carlotta ut Potsdam, n schlcss
| at Wiesbaden, an old castle at l1ombourg, and
| the Castle of Bornstadt She is now busy pre-
| Toarinp for n monument of the latt, n