The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

OUIDA has shocked London taste once more.
She will not visit that city again, she says, till
| the old church near her London house is washed
and frightened. Its dinginess is what gives the
| church peculiar beauty, according TO the
London eye.
CHANG YEN HooN, the Celestial Minister at
| Washington, has given up Chinese dinners and
now has all his meals prepared on American
! and European methods. His favorite meat is
roast beef, with plenty of vegetables, preceded
| by thin soup
AT TOWNSEND Erie county New York, stands
an oak tree &C years old, and in good healthy
condition. There are eight small trees growing
| from the branches, two standing alone and the
| other six together. They have been in the tree
for five years. They grew from adventurous
buds and are specimen of an uncommon freak
| of nature.
| AT INDIANAPOLIS, as gentleman was walking
along the street, accompanied by two young
ladies' one of the girls stepped on parlor match
and in an instant the dresses Of both were
| ablaze from head to foot. By prompt action on
| the part of the gentleman the flames were
| smothered before the young ladies were seri-
| ously burned.
| MANY of the most brilliant men and women in
American literature are old. Lowell is 20;
| Parke Goodwin, ~ Joel T. Headley, Washing
tons historian, is "a; Mrs Darlington" 75
while Francis Parkman, the historian, Dr.
|
Woosey, Margaret Preston, George Bancroft
and many Others are far advanced in life.
JosEFFY the pianist, has been receiving a
good deal OF social attention in Washington of
late. He remembered having met Mrs Cleve
land when she was a schoolgirl at Aurora, N. Y.
Have you forgotten how we girls bothered you
for your autograph" asked Mrs. Cleveland. 81
don't believe you ever knew that twas my good
fortune to secure no less than twelve Of these
autographs, one OF which, written on the mar
gin OF the concert programme, is still retained
by me as souvenir OF that occasion"
TITS PROPOSED by the New York Board of AL
dermen to pass an ordinance making it unlaw-
full for any vehicle to be driven through the
streets of the city at a greater speed than five
miles an hour. 1t will be a msdemeanor to
drive around a corner at a greater speed than
five miles an hour and also if any cart or other
vehicle be driven against any person. The pas
sage of such resolution is made imperative on
account of the large number of accidents that
have been the result of fast and careless driving.
THE wind sometimes plays some queer FRANKS
in Chicago. The other evening as a gentleman
was on his way to his suburban home in En-
glewood, his overcoat. which was unbuttoned
tapped about behind his back and he suddenly
came to stop He felt violent jerk from be-
hind as if some one had seized his garment, and
at the same time heard a ripping and tearing
sound close to his person. A second s investiga-
ton showed him that the tail of his OyercOat
mao Deen thrown ana wrapped ABOUT a laInDDOSt
by the force of the wind, and there held so
securely that more than yard of it had been
torn from the parent garment.
THE BISHOP of the largest diocese in the world
lately arrived in New York His diocese is
about ZOO miles long and nearly as wide, and
his parishes are not sufficiently prosperous to
pay for horse for him Rev William Taylor
was sent out by the Methodist Episcopal Mis-
sonary Society. with the title of Bishop of
Africa, early in 1894. He started for a trip home
on Feb. 26, and when he landed on the Cunard
dock he appeared to be in excellent health
notwithstanding that so much is heard of
the unhealthneSs of the climate. In fact. he
thinks the unhealthiness of the interior of At
RIGA, on the West coast, has been exaggerated
If a sound man goes out there the chances are
that he will remain sound. 1--WE numbered 40
when we went out there. Accimated? None
of them have been sick. Why, in these three
years there have only six men and six women
died Some have come home, and our force
now numbers AZ men, % women and 10 chill
dren." He reports the missionary work as be-
ing reasonably successful, 36 stations having
been established among the different tribes