The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AMONG the county and territorial authorities
at Helena NJ T., there is much wonderment
about an applicant who wishes to become cit
iZen of the United States. The case is that OF
Lieut. Col. Leslie Smith. commanding the post
at Fort Maginnis, who for thirty years has been
officer Of the United States army, drawing
the pay and emOluments Of his various grades,
and who will retire with pay and rank OF colonel
in the United States army next May, lie has
never been entitled to the right OF suffrage.
This is the only case Of its kind known in the
United States army.
A New York DEMOCRATIC CLUB has sent Mr..
Thurman an ancient bandana which was i'm
ported by merchant who kept store in Salem,
Mass. in the last century and is said to be 10
years old. In acknowledging this gift, Mr..
Thurman writes: II shall carry this handker-
chief as my particular bandana, and hope to
transmit it to those who follow after me. A
handkerchief as durable as this will doubtless
resist the effects OF the reveroeratlng detona-
tons to which the old Romans bandnnas are
exposed. and there is reason TO believe that his
hope will be realized.
A LAWYER living ina town near Waterbury,
Conn, states fact which viii illustrate the
thrift and frugality which characterize many of
the old families which have not been touched
by modern extravaganza and love of display.
In that town three estates have been settled
within fOw months, aggregating property to
the amount Of 100000, and yet, he says, If all
the household furniture of these three families
amount received for it would not have amounted
at the outside price to over $500. 1t is too often
the habit now to have thousand-dollar furnish
ings for hundred-dOllar estates.
THE anti Boulangist French are cavilling at a
fondness of the general for pIatitudes said TO be
evidenced in his new book: THE people can
not avoid making foolish choice if they fail to
discern their real interests. y Logical and APP
propriate solutions Impose themselves by virtue
of thase very qualities on public opinion.
Progress continues IN: assured march toward
| its destined end" The destinies of a great
country occasionally work themselves out in
dependently of the wishes and desires OF its
children "WoInan's Influence is great in this
France of ours. ut is not absolutely necessary
to have sword in ones hand always, to be
able to use rife on occasion"
A BosroN SCHOOL TEACHER who has made
notes of some Of the queer sayings of her pupils
| gives as samples the following: Asked to de
scribe the character of Alexander the Great,
| one said, He was proud, of medium hight,
| with small eyes, and head inclined a little to one
| side. think, Miss Blank, it was the left side y
| In giving an account of a battle, another said
| '"The soldiers fought with such bravery that
after they were killed they crawled along on
| the ground and slashed at the legs of the
| enemy" Here are three more: Henry VIII.
Of England married his brothers deceased
wife" In the first century Pompeii and Her
| culaneum were covered with an eruption. "
| ''Ih en- there was a resurrection of Pompey s
| SOllS III SPAIN
| A New ENGLAND correspondent writes to the
| New York Mail and Express an interesting let
| ter on the Girl shoe sewers of New England
and the way they live" There is probably no
| class of workers in New England about whom
| less is known than about the shoe shop girls -
| and there is probably no class of working girls
| whom one studies with more surprise and favor,
once one begins to know something about them
Among those who know nothing about them
| there is apt to be the impression that they are
| of the most common and most ignorant class Of
| workers. The reverse is apt to he the truth.
| Going outside of the great manufacturers, like
| Lynn, where feminine toierS crowd upon each
| other many thousand strong in given area and
| into the outlying towns of Massachusetts
| and Maine, is fairly astonished at the in
| telligence and refinement met with among shoe
| shop workers; and this is the rule rather than
| the exception. and was more marked a dozen
| years ago, perhaps, than now. In some towns
| girls whose near relatives were among their
| wealtheSt citizens and professional class were
| found stitching" in shops. In this respect the
shoe shops seemed to furnish later industry
| somewhat analogous to that the mills offered in
| an earlier generation. In intelligence the girls
| found in them were lar superior to those found
| in the average city shop of daintier wares. The
| writer to the Mail and Express does not show
| all this, but many could show it who have
| troubled themselves to look the matter up be
| fore the workers began to increase and dete-
| riOrate.