The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

President OF the OnlLeQ states IN meerSchaQm
has just been completed and will be sent to the
Paris Exhibition.
THERE is a tremendous rush in Vienna for
portraits Of the Baroness Marie Vetsera, but,
although the photographers have orders for
thousands of copies they can supply none, the
plates having been destroyed and all the pic
lures bought up by the court.
PARIS is to have beauty show where the first
prize will be $1,000. and the public will be in
vited to make bets upon the different contest
ants Leghorn recently mad such show, but
the exhibits were so unsatisfactory that the
audience broke up the affair by kissing them off
the stage.
MTD6LETowN, N. Y, has blind man, who
buys and sells horses with good judgment, after
carefully feeling the animals over with his
hands. He can take care of his horses and
hitch up team almost as readily as any man
in his employ He once unattended, made the
trip to New Y ork city.
A PYTHON over 20 feet long crawled upon the
deck of the Norwegian ship Brine at Singapore
a short time ago, and routed everybody that
attacked it until the whole crew combined and
by attacking it on all sides succeeded in pinning
it to the deck with a harpoon. The snake
weighed over 20 pounds.
QUEEN VICTORIA and one Of her daughters
were driving in Windsor few days ago when
they heard a blind street musician playing
abide With Me- upon an accordion. The
her, and all England is up in arms at this royal
encouragement Of an instrument of torture
A PECULIAR ACCIDENT was met with this week
by Oliver Tucker whose home is at Elderville,
Ill. He was climbing a tree. when 1t
split allowing him to drop into the opening,
which closed uQon him, crushing him terribly.
one OF his eyes was squeezed from its socket
At last accounts the unfortunate man was living,
but In most critical condition.
AT A RECENT BEGGARs' BALL in Vienna there
were 5000 persons present, all in beggars'
costume. The more beggarly the costume the
greater the applause that greeted it, and at the
close prize was awarded to the person wdo
was adjudged to have made the most success
full hit in costume and manner. A person who
caricatured a well known actress won it.
THE GEAR is said to wear always ring in
which is embedded a piece of the true cross
that was given to an ancestor of the car by a
pope long ago. The car is said to be supersti-
tlous about this ring, and once, when he had
started upon long journey and had forgotten
it, he had his train held while a messenger
went back upon locomotive and fetched it.
''QuARTERED'' OAK, of which so much was
heard during the early part of the ceiling in
vestigation at Albany, is made by saving the
oak log first into quarters and then laying the
round side down and saving each quarter up
into boards. This method Of working up the
log gives to the boards a peculiar figure in the
grain that is lacking in oak prepared in the
tIulndAy way ny CuLlllle tl1o WuOlC lOE up lEJO
strips.
II DALMATIA chrysanthemums are largely
cultivated to supply chemists with the sub
stance from which the well-known ''Dalmatian
insect powder is made. The island of Lesina
is the chief seat of cultivation, and the flower
most generally grown is {. cipeTdfj09fOlilJ
Tree. 1t Is said that other local crop pays
so we'll the product of single acre of ground
selling for from 500 10 $500, and the govern
ment yearly distributes plants at very low
rates IN order that the industry may be still
further developed
THIS IS THE WAY the Tombstone (Ari) EDitaoh
CONNIE IS on the defeat of a proposed Sunday
law: The eastern element got setback in the
legis AZURE yesterday by the defeat of the much
tai led about Sunday rest bill, AMI all the advo-
Gates Of tDat bill can now take a long rest. OF
course, Arizona wants eastern people to come
out here and help develop this grand coun ~,
but, to use a little slang, they oug5t to go a
little slow and not be too fresh by starting
III immediat ly to reform US heatheus whether
or no. 1t might be that some of us don't want
10 be gooi
FOREST COMMISSIONER THEODORE B. BAssELIN
has introduce logging by steam into the woods
of Lewis county, New York He has built a
steam sleigl which is capable of carrying Is. coo
feet of logs, equivalent TO the loads of fifteen
teams of horses The contrivance resembles a
boz car. The motive power is furnished by a
boiler feet high and weighing four tons, and
two engines of 300-horse power each. There are
four drive wheels weighing two tons each, and
an arrangement by which the exhaust steam,
condensed into water, falls continually before
the runners Of the sleigh turning the snow into
ice. The machine costs $4,000, but is expected
to be profitable investment on account of the
saving in cost of teams and men.
A CORRESPONDENT writes to the Electrical Re
UieU: con passing a clothiers widow some
days ago was amused to see one of the usually
lifehke and beautiful O. boys that are engaged
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passers-by bearing printed notice pinned to
his chest: Il shall blush to night On inquiry
of the Knight of the shears / found that he
had small set Of storage cells in his shop and
a lamp inside the waxen head of his dummy
and that a. intervals he switched on the light
for second or two. This having become tedious
and the blushing, therefore, somewhat erratic
and uncertain when trade was brisk he had
requiStioned the bottle jack from the kitchen
and with an attachment from the bottom of it
had made the jack do the blushing at regular
intervals, without more trouble than was re
CURED in winding it up from time to time. Re-
suit crowds round the window, and a novel ad-
vertisement.
The interesting question which so many have
asked as to what Mrs. Clevelands future will
be, was answered recently, says the New York
Sun, by one who knows both her and New
York well, in this way: Her reception was re-
markable, in that it came from every clique in
tnat mysterious compound known in the CITY as
soc ETY.. 1t was equally hearty in every case.
and by its continuance shows that it was not
her former official place that made her desira-
bic. but herself Mrs. Cleveland is a social ge-
MUS. She knows nothing because she l=arued
it, everything by inspiration. She is what few
women in this city are, a perfect entertainer
and perfect when entertained. But she has also
what possibly no other woman in this city has,
and that is the Unborn genius of that higher ii "a
of society which is essentially French. | mean
the SaiOn i.ea. Mrs Cley land will always be
acceptable in any circle Of the city, and could
be leader of any, but she will form circle of
her own. 1t will be circle distinguished in wit
and culture, as well as the higher social quail
ties In other words, Mrs. Cleveland will be
the center of a salon in New York.
ELECTRIC REFINING has been brought into
such bad odor by the fraud connected with the
electric sugar scheme that people will natu-
rally be disposed to look askance at all state
ments on the application Of electricity for such
purposes. Yet, if the CiirOnig4e IadustyietIe
is to be relied upon, the method OF NJ Moebius
for refining silver By electricity is likely to be
DrOu INT lnto extensive use. Ii is especially
suitable the treatment Of aurIferous silver
containing about II per cent of gold In an
ordinary eectrOlytic batn, composed Of a weak
solution OF nitric acid at per cent. Mr. Moeb-
iuS employs anOdes Of argentiferous matter
and a thin plate of pure silver as cathode. The
anodes which are about twelve millmeters in
Thickness, are placed in muslin bags, which re-
tain the gold platinum, peroxide of lead and
other foreign bodies contained in the matter
The current employed Is of 100 amperes with a
one volt. During the whole operation brushes
pass and repass over the surface of the cath.
ode, and cause the silver dep 1sited to fall to
the bottom. III the matter contains conner IL