The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Mrs. SALLIE JOY WHITE Of the Boston Herald
/ claims the distinction of being the first woman
I journalist TO have position upon a Boston
/ newspaper. 8irs. White b gan her journalistic
| career m 1859, and has been steadily at work
ever since, stopping only long enough TO get
married.
The ROYAL BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF Eng
LAND is making elaborate arrangements to give
! Mr. Stanley a reception worthy of his position
/ aud worthy of Lin. 4 special Stanley commit
| zee mas the proposed affair in charge. Steps
| nave been taken TO have two gold medals struck
/ Of special and massive charac er. one for
/ Stanley and one for Emin.
| The BURNING Of all the papers dealing with
/ the founding Of the Congo Free state in the
! palace at LackeD, near Brussels, is a much
| more severe blow to King Leopold than at first
| slgLt appears Tnese papers were necessary
| Tor him TO show the exact part which he had
| taken as founder of that state, and their
| absence may cause him serious loss some day.
| GAYARRE. the famous tenor who has just died
In Madrid, could sing all the most difficult
| tenor roles with perfect ca e. but in the high
notes his voice had a metallic rIng, which
hndered MS success in Northern Europe. The
Madriienos were true to him to the last, AMI
| VIII give him a magnificent tomb at Pampe-
| luna. Mapleson called Gayarre the demon
| TENOR" beca -se he could sing everything.
ACCORDING 70 the report of the syndical
chamber Of the sweetmeat trade, France ex-
| ports now but $4,000 worth of sweetmeats
| england alone used to be her customer betore
| the sugar bOuntes for considerably more than
| that sum each year, but she is now rival in
| the European market But she still taxes
| large quantity of acidulated sweets, and the
| other great customers of France are Russia,
/ Turkey, Egypt. and the United States. Spain
| only takes tondants and chocolate. Four-fifths
| of all the sweets exported go to Turkey and
| Egypt, 70 be eaten in harems
THE VETERAN ANGLERS at Castle Garden have
invented a device which enables them to fish
| from the end of the pier while swapping rem
iniscences before the glowing fire in the coy
| ONCE OF Capt. Moore, the tug boatman. Like
all great Inventions it is marvel of simplicity.
| The ore-eId of the line is tied TO the top Of
| thin, ella tic stick. There is also a bell fastened
| to the top of the stick Whenever
| fish takes the hook and gives a yank on the
| line, down comes the spring stick, and Jingle,
! jingle, goes the bell. The luxurious angler
| stops in the mid lie of a story about the old
| fire ladies of 1862 and rushes out and pulls
in the fish. which has literally rung him
| self up,
WHILE REPORTER was drinking a glass Of
| soda in Fulton avenue brooklyn drug store
| las. Thursday, welldressed man walked in
| and hurriedly asked the clerk if tn re was a
| telephone in the store. The clerk pointed out
| the instrument and the stranger walked over to
| u, and, taking the eartrumpet in his hand de-
| hberately placed it t1 his left eye, closing { e
other meanwhile He seemed puzz ed that ne
| dld not see the object of his search, and at
| length, when somebody pointed out that the
| telephone was for speaking and hearing thr1ugh
he roa ed as loudly as he could into toe Orifice
| OF the ear arrangement His annoyance and
disappointment at the repeated failure were
| Iully compensated for when he was placed on
| the right track
| The soCIALIsTIc PRESS of Germany is exhort-
| ing all German workngmen to make a grand
| IN ppNrtM Ma in, of tna
| eight-hour working day. Dozens of working
| mems organizations throughout the empire
| have already made preparations in harmony
| with the sentiments of their organs. They all
| Will make May a holiday, and will talk and act
| as much socialism then as the police and the
| severe anttsocialist law permit. A great i'm
| petus TO the particular eght-hour movement of
| Is in Germany as well as in America and
| most other civilized countries was give by the
| congress of the MarXists at Paris last summer
| They are strongest In Germany and Austria
| They have considerable hold also on the work
| lngmen in France, where they are generally
| known as GuesdSts.
AN ALMOST INDISPENSABLE COLOR is that of the
sealskin before it is dyed. 1t is silvery gray
| furry brown and TWO or three other things all
at the same time. But it is strikingly pretty,
| and here In the East is SO seldom seen that
| those girls wearing the undyed skins may feel
| PRIDE at having something unusual and indvd-
| ual. A young Californian who came to New
| \ ork only short time ago received on Christ
| mas from friend on the Pacific coast a cape
| and muff of the skin in its natural color and
had great fun listening to acquaintance guess
ing what the animal was. By actual count.
| eight women and one man each made a differ
| ent guess, and, strange enough, the man was
| the only one to name the skin the first time.
| But he had hunted seals in his earlier days and
| ne ought to have known.
RATHAPURA. the city of gems, in Ceylon is
the center of a district twenty or thirty miles
| in alun oil .of o
| gravel six feet to twenty feet under the sur
| face exists Throughout this area gem pits are
| to be seen near the villages, some being worked
| now, Others being aba doned. The natives
| work there in companies of six or eight and
| pay rupee per man per month for the privi-
| lege OF working certain allotment, where thew
| begin by marking off square of about ten feet,
| Alter removing about three feet of soil, the
| sounding rod piece of iron about Il inca in
| diameter and feet long, is used to sound for
| the gravel. If successful, the digging is begun
| i'll earnest Hardly a basketful Of earth is
| taken out that does not contain something
| valuable, though, of course, the most precious
| gems are comparatively few in number
ONE of the genial characters and best known
club men of New York is Robert Stuyvesant.
whom everybody in Wall street affectionateIv
| calls Bob" He is lineal descendant of the
| famous one-legged governor of New Amster.
| dam, whose ashes rest in st. Mark church.
| yard, and is known all over town for his hObbv
| for collecting rare gems and jeweled scarfpinS
He is credited with having he largest collection
of these ornaments of any man in town He
has curious habit of having certain gems set
and reset dozens OF times a week. and keeps
| Tiffany'S artisans busy working out unioue and
cost y combinations of gems to crafty new
whims. He owns big slice of real estate that
| originally belonged to the old Dutch ruler al
| Gotham. He is a tall ruddy-faced good.
natured man, still youthful and is a capital
story teller. Carrying diamond pins in his over.
coat pocket and fishing them up unexpectedly
to dazzle his friends is one OF his whimsical
traits.
TIE Baltimore american relates that last
week female resident of that city called at the
jewelry store of c. II. Pepar, on West Balti.
mo street. to have a breastpn fixed. Mr.
! Pepar asked her name, so that he might put il
on the tag TO attach to the pin He asked the
lady to spell her name, which she did The
manner IN which he asked the question caused
| her to mention the fact that some years ago
| while residing in Hartford county, she had left
a watch with him to be repaired, but that when.
ever she came to the city she was either hurried
| or for some other reason she did NOT
| call for the watch. Four or five
| years passed, and she supposed the
| watch had been sold, and thought no more
| about it recovery until she called on Tuesday.
| when she was reminded of the watch by the
i manner in which he asked her to spell her ma me.
After few moments he went to his safe and
| produced an old-fashioned lady's open-faced
watch. He said: Madam, does this look anv-
| thing like that watcn?" She replied: No sir.
| it don't look like it, but it is mine" Mr. Pepar
| then opened the case and found paper bear
! ia1V'S I,a e.