The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


AN unusually interesting marriage recsotIy
took place at Liverpool. Tbs bride and bride.
groom, both colored persons. had travelled from
Lagos, about 1900 miles, 10 order that the care-
mony might be performed by the Rev T.
NIchoison OF Brighton, formerly chaplain at
Lagos. '-'--- -
CONSIDERING that the total Jewish population
OF France is something under 1000, it ia
little singular that the projects Of sixty-rwo out
OF the eighty-four departments are of the Jew
Ism faith. Public attention has inst haen
aroused in the matter, and it is creating a grave
sensation.
IHE SMALLEST CIRCULAR SAW in practical use
Is tiny disc about the size of a shilling, which
Is employed for cutting the Sits IN gold pens
IheSe saws are about as thick as ordinary paper
ana revolve some 1000 times per minute Their
~. ,seiiocIIy Keeps them rigid, notwithstand-
ing their extreme thinness
MOST ELABORATE PREPARATIONS are already
being made for the census operations in India
next year, especially in connection with out
iyIag countries like Cashmere and upper Bur
man. Indeed, it is feared that the idea of
Sa1a = III bne census IN the latter country may
lave lave 10 De abandoned. owing to the occupation
oelng so recent, and to a census never having
Deen taken under the native kings.
AT THE PRESENT MOMENT the Chinese govern
ment Is on the lookout in London for several
capable men in various branches to 90 ont To
6eking as professors on tolershfy good salaries
Durlng the past year or eiSffteSn months abour
dozen gentlemen have tftsns sent ont from
England IN That capacity TO thevarious arsenals
Where schools for the training of young Chinese
ero e;sIaaohsned but severslnor wanted,
ana one for International law.
A RETURNED MISSIONARY who has been MANY
years in Japan has Just been SHOWING, some
curious effects of culture in that countrv II
Ssoms that the Japanese have seized upon the
lqea OF secular education with, great ayidity'
Mnlle only 1000 children go 10 School where Re-
nSious knowledge is part of the curriculum
over 100000 attend where the teaching is
purely agnostic. The young men deyeIop a
Keen love Tor metaphysical doctrine and re-
search but their favorite authors are Min
spencer, Darwin, and Huxley
dAD's HILL is for SALE The house that
DICKENS coveted all his life, until he got it; the
mark of his ambition, the cherished home of bis
MANHOOD, the spot associated with all thar is
pest OF Englands great, popular novelist is
omered TO any one who cares to invest some
PP1o'OOg IN IT, Tor that is the price set on it,
Prooaoly some American with reverence for
DlcKens VIII buy 1t. Englishmen no longer have
q reverence for Dickens. They do not read his
BOOKS; they do not visit his house. they do not
cnerish his memory. No other writer since
onakespeare has SO shown them to themseIves
ana once he was their idol. Now, none so poOr
10 40 MIN reverence The change does not
SPEAK se wen Tor his countrymen; but we cannot
one OF the worlds best writer's is for sale and
some OF his admirers should purchase it and
K,ep IL Tor that revulsion of sentiment to hin,
whlch is sure to come.
A DISCUSSION is going on in the Pail Mall
Gazette about the advantages or disadvantages
OF the cold tub in the morning To Judge bv
tne e1fuslveness of the cold-tubbists saws the
new YORK Press one would suppose that IfA
WITHOUT a cold matutinal tub is hardly worth
living. The fact is that what suits one person
out whether this be attained by means of warm
water or OF cold water is, so far as health is
Concerned, matter of absolute uninlportapce
one 1nlng, however, is certain-the warm
euDoer VINO soaps himself all over is a good
ueai cleaner than the cold-tubber who dlspenses
with soap. Mere sponging may be invigoratInp
out without soap it is not cleansing This Is
Wn ila Mr. Laoouchere thinks, and quite agree
Win nln believe. however, in a combination
OF warm and cold Tubing. Wash all over first
Win the warm water and soap, and then sponge
OH with cold water. This is bath fit for the
GODS and the goddesses, too.
AN ENGLIsHMAN who has spent some time at
Colombo has given correspondent of the Bir
im1ingham (England) Post an idea of the present
life and surroundings of Arab Pasha. He
states That the Egyptian exile is falling into a
state OF dependency. A few years ago he was
aitogetner Jovlal and we-conditioned fellow:
now ne looks dyspeptlc and unhappy and wears
his AZ years as though they were many move
While his companions seem to live in ease and
comfort, and are determined to enjoy the life
TO which fate has for a while CONSIGNED than,
Arab is restless, unhappy, and oppressed with
a morbid fear that he will die in exile Occasion
ally he exhibits little interest in the possihilitv
OF growing Ceylon products in Egypt. In the
ordinary amusements of the isle he takes little
interest, and the monotony of his life seems to
be only varied by occasional drives to the honses
OF the more popular members of Colombo So
cleCy, Visit to the cinnamon gardens or an in
frequent stroll along the Gale Face beach His
family take life more easily His wife and his
daughters and his sons Zone son excepted. who
remains altogether with his father spend CON
siderable time in Egypt.
Some of the French gamblers on the west
side OF the town" said well-known republican
politician who haunts Eight avenue. New York
play the most remarkable poker that I have
ever seen, and have seen lot of it in nv time
The French we're always reckless in games of
chance, ana 1t Is not to be wondered at very
much, since the French government has fIoated
all OF its great schemes of late from the
Panama canal to the Paris exposition on the
lottery plan, and they are all taking up poker
here. There have been 80 many queer THINGS
at roulette that the French colony il giving II a
wide berth, but poker seems to be pie for the
multitude. They hammer away at 1t early and
iate, lose their tempers with every deal, indulge
in sarcasm every time the pot is raised and
1aober like magpies. They play O dollar limit.
and seem to have no accurate notion of the
value of hand. They always raise to the limit
on a four flush, and very often on an inside
straight, and il one happens to get hold of a
losing full hand or real flush he goes broke
with degree OF enthusiasm and excitement
that strikes the more phlegmatic Saxon as
being the height of absurdity There ia one
thing about it. however and that ia the
Frenchman enjoys his game good deal more
than an American, if appearances 90 for any
thing"
A LITTLE GROUP of men in the Hoffman house
barroom, New York, were discussing the
threatened advance in the price of champagne
when one of them. an ex-San Franciscan who
spent good many years on the Pacific coast
said: When Senator Sharon's daughter Flora
was married to Sir Thomas Heskette ten wears
ago, the scenes in their country house at Bel
mont, where the wedding took place would
have made the eyes of those people who think
an increase of so cents bottle will affect the
sale OF champagne pop out of their heads To
say that champagne flowed like water would he
as weak as it would be conventional There
was tidal wave of it's Some of the young men
had dozens of bottles carried into an
empty room, and there they played ninepins
with them until the floor was so covered with
broken glass and sloppy with champagne that
they couldn't stay there any longer And then
ever found out how much money in his fraudu-
lent Chinese certificate business. Some of his
doings surprised sesen the champagne-blase
circles of the Pacidc coast. For several months
during his giddy career, when he had more
money than he coulfase in any other way, he
tried daily chAn31sgne bath. 1t wasn't an
economical spongebath from quart of LIQUID
in a wash-bowl, eltl}ar.. His valet filled a bath
tub half full of the sparkling stuff and the
festive Billy who thought nothing was too good
for him. jumped In and kicked about in it as il