The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


A DIPLOMAT, as defined by the New Orleans
Picayune is one who can receive an insult
without letting everybody know about it.
OF THE Mississippian who has had the ague
for tweuty-seven continuous years the Burling-
ton Free Press says: "He is entitled to all the
satisfaction he can get out of boastng of it,
Mrs. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, when she gives
dinner parties, uses a solid gold dinner service
set with uncut gems and with some courses
Dresden and oevres plates worth more than
500 apiece.
A MOVEMENT has been started in Maine to
secure q sufficient appropriation from the legis-
lature to enable the entire militia force of that
stat 10 attend the centennial celebration in
New York.
THE great car drivers strike in New York
cost the city over $500 600 $500 men lost $4,000
wages the railroad companies lost S203, 100. the
theaters $50 900, the stores in the shopping dlS-
tricts $3.50 O0-and yet it WAS failure.
WITH the thermometer below zero and
binding snow storm raging, several persons
were baptized in an Illinois river this week.
Afterwards they walked in stocking Ieet'
nearly quarter Of q mile to the nearest resi-
dence to change their clothing.
Mitchell ALLEN, Woodbury., Conn, owned
horse which had been raised near by. After
some time it was sold in Bridgeport. Years
after Dir. Allen surprised to see il walking
wearedly past the house; 1t went 70 lts Ola
pasture made its way in, lay down and died.
IT is against the law in Mexico for any one to
read newspaper aloud; but no one cares for
that as few people want to read them anyhow.
You can get more news in Mexico by sitting
down half an hour at a popular cafe Uhan you
could get by reading a Mexican paper Tor a
month.
THE work of establishing observatory on
Wilson's Peak, in California, is about to be
begun. The f3-inch telescope used at willows,
Cal, on jan l. TO observe the eclipse OF n tne
sun, is to be placed on top of the mountain, and
a small temporary house erected for the Cd
servers.
THE Rock to which a chain was attached dur
ing the war of the revolution to prevent vessels
going up the Hudson river will have to be re-
moved in making excavations for the PeeksKlll
bridge in the highlands. 1t VIII be taken out
entire and preserved at either West Point New
burg, or in the rooms of the Historical society
in New York.
QUEEN VICTORIA is so fond of fresh air that
she is in the habit of sleeping with open win
dows even in the dead of winter. The Empress
Maria Theresa of Austria was more peculiar IN
this respect. Her writing table even IN winter,
was close to the open window, and the raining
snow often drifted in and fell on the paper on
which she wrote. 1t frequently happened that
the hands Of the hairdresser were partly frozen
while attending to her majesty couture.
THE disappearance and rescue of Capt. Pruden
in Montana, who was lost from camp recently,
in company with government mule, was an
exciting and peculiar adventure. Pruden was
found by Fire Wolf one of the Cheyenne scouts
sent out to look for him. He had been lost ten
days, and in all that time had nothing to eat.
The mule was set free to Craze every day, ana
at night returned to the place where Pruden
was, and by its warmth kept the man alive
THAT old soldiers are treated well in Maine is
shown by the following facts: The Maine state
treasurer. land agent, bank examiner, insurance
commissioner, reporter of decisions, superin-
tendent of public buildings, one railroad COM
missioner, secretary Of the Senate, beside the
pension clerk, one clerk IN the state treasury,
one in the secretary of states office, clerk in the
adiutant generals office, messenger of the gov
ernOr and council, messenger of the House of
Representatives and most of the messengers,
workmen and watchmen about the state house
were all soldiers in the late war.
SAYS a writer in Chicago paper: THE min
isters Of New York seem to be, on the whole,
obscure have on many occasions asked well
informed people, Can you give me the names of
a dozen New York clergymen? have some
times set the number at ten, but never that
now recall have been able to find person In
Chicago or elsewhere who could name to me at
once ten New York clergymen. And vet in the
city of New York are know not how many
churches ~ 1t may seem unkind to quote the
remark Not to have known them argues thy
self unknown but it is appropriate
In the centennial year the number of pieces
of baggage handled by the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company amounted to l, GO0,O which was
the highest point reached up TO that time. and
was then considered a remarkable record for
the year, These figures, however, dwindle into
insignificance when compared with those of the
year Just closed. In 1888 the number Of separate
pieces handled reached g. 200 900, representing an
aggregate money value of at least $500 100000.
These figures include only outbound baggage
or that which has been checked and forwarded.
The inbound receipts amount to about 500
600 pieces, aggregating grand total of 5000, 900
pieces handled. OF this number, it is reported,
only three pieces were lost en- route from start
ing point to destination.
1T Is CURIOUS, remarks the London World,
ito hear the establishment expressed by those
who ought 20 know about lord Beaconsfed at
the statements in the Quarterly Rerieic con-
corning his debts. Lord BeaconSfeld,' the
World adds was a poor man all his life, for
the reason that, until shortly before his DEATH
he had never paid off his cary liabilities. The
fortune left him by Bridges Williams cleared
them off, and be paid every penny he owed
Lady BeacOusfield's fortune was hers only for
her life, and she was not able to leave him any
thing of importance; but in the early part of
his married life she assisted him with his cleo
tion expenses, and, except for his marriage the
probability is he could never have stemmed the
tide of money difficulties which always ham
perez MIN
PELIEGRINI, the caricsturlst of Vanity Fair,
who diei lately, pursued an entirely original
mes&od. Sometimes he would shoot his man
flying, at other times he asked and obtained
sittings Public men were both afraid of him.
and afraid of being neglected by him.
A sitting" with him was not sit
ting at all in the ordinary sense of
the word. While his subject was with him
his pencil was never produced. 1t was a states
man. divine, a soldier, an artist, an author an
actor, journalist or a jockey Pellegrini re-
ceived him in his studio, chatted with him
made him at home, and finally said Good day"
The sitter was never allowed to be discorn posed
by sight of paper or pencil. Pelegrini, smoking
cigarettes necessarily. talked, gossiped drew
his man out and threw him off his guard by
compelling him to be quite at his ease. But
when the good by had been said he had got
al he wanted. Il got him here he used to
say. tapping his forehead A week, a fortnight
or even six months later he would work out the
picture.
THE METEOR which was observed so generally
in the east at dusk last week is thus described
by John Ingram Of Landing station, Lake
Hopatcong, Morris county, New Jersey in a
letter to the New York Times: ut was as near
as can tell. 10 70 70 minutes to o'clock as the
whistle at the powder mill blew for 6oclock
soon after the meteor appeared and exploded
My son William and | were busy slowing ice
when suddenly the heavens were liz Ip with an
intense glare. We looked up. and from the
southeast saw ball of fire apparently not
more than 100 feet from the earth II resem.
blci the headlight Of a locomotive and was
followed by long funnel shaped trail Of
greenish blue fire. 1t seemed TO be