The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

until her present time.
JOIN c. PAIGE, the insurance expert, says the
the total loss, including insurance losses, by
Bostol's Thanksgiving day fire will not exceed
$500 He Is satisfied that int origin of the
nfe had no relation to the West End Street
Railways electric system, and also that the
true cause will never be known
THE SERIES OF original maxims which Alex
andre Dumas has commenced in a Paris journal
should prove pquant. They will probably be as
good as anything that has been done in that way
since LaRochefOucauld. Here is one OF the best:
| double advantage of doing away with ingrati-
tude and abuse at the same time"
THE FASHIONABLE NODE OF thieving in the
British metropolis at present is to personate an
inspector and insist upon examining the drains,
wa eFplDes, Over-h ad wires, gas-piping, or
| Imagination of the thier. As soon as they enter
the house they contrive to appropriate any
portable valuables that lie in their way.
THE DETROIT Free Press says that young
man near Kokomo, Ind, who was Tilted by
three different girls in one week, bought a big
wolf from the Cincinnati Zoo, turned the beast
loose IN a swamp at home, and there hasn't been
any nighttime sparkling IN that township since
the Oct. ! He proposes TO also have a
panther on deck some time this month.
The DOCTORS of Brooklyn have followed the
lead Of their brethren of Jersey City and estab-
lished Physicians Protective Alliance. The
society has grown until it now numbers AGO
members. The bills turned in during the first
month by the members aggregated S32. 100, and
Two black lists have been printed, in which are
the names AMI addresses of ,4l0 residents of
| brooklyn who are in arrears for their medical
| attendance
PROBABLY the most completely fre-proof
buildings in New York are the new stations of
the Edison Electric Light Company There is
absolutely nothing in them that could make
blaze bigger han could be extinguished by a
| bucket of water. One of them, an instance
cost $4,000, and the total cost of the carpen-
ter work upon IL, which included all the doors
ana ndows, glazing, and work of that sort,
was only $4,000. ls3r
THERE was en- amusing incident the other
day in Justice Feibleman's court at Indian
apolis. A case was on trial and one of the
attorneys called: Bring out McGinty." Hero.
mat Will do, was the response of the court, as
The Justice reached for an inkstand. II don't
want any OF those old Jokes in this court room"
But McGlnty is witness IN this case" pr
sisted the attorney, and then Michael McGinty
stepped TO the frJnt, and was sworn to testify.
The GERMANS have been the pioneers in scien-
titic forestry, as in so many other lines of prog
ress With total forest area of only 81, BAG, 900
acres OF which ll24,000 belong to the state
tee German empire has no less than nine
schools OF forestry, and during the three years
ending with 1883 it published III books on the
various branches of the subject. There are
also ten periodicals devoted to forestry, and a
general association of foresters, with annual
meetings. and ten local societies.
JOHN CLINE a Harrisburg brickIayer, has
portions of brick and mortar, picked up In the
ru n of the palace of the Caesars Palatine hall
at Rome. Italy, by a son of the late DIR. O'Con-
| nor, who has just returned from a tour of Eu-
| rope The material of the brick is similar TO
| That OF which American fire brick is made, but
| this ancient brick is only an inch thick and IL
and the mortar are 1,eOO years old. Mr.. Cline
prizes the rel cs OF eighteen centuries only an
| old bricklayer could such curiosities.
THERE need be no more Leander-like or
Byronic swimming across the Bosphorus if the
project contemplated by a French engineering
| company be taken up seriously and carried to
| completion. This pan comprises nothing les
| than the construction of q colossal bridge 800
| meters or S12 yards, hong over the historic and
| picturesque channel that flows between the
| shores OF Europe aad Asia, connecting the Sea
| Of Marmora with the Euxine. The project has
been talked OF many times these twenty years,
but 1t was not considered that the bridge would
be useful enough to justify the enormous ex-
| pense which it would entail
IT is A COMMON THING for engineers to use
kerosiue TO remove the scales which form on
the inside of boilers. The oil is poured into an
empty boiler, and the water is turned on. The
oil, floating on the water, co eS in contact
with the scales before the water does The use
of kerosene for this purpose in one of Mil
waukee's Strengthening establishments where the
steam Is used in cooking ham, beef and auSage
produced unexpected results. Tho Kerosene
| min gled with the steam, and the cooked meats
| smeled as though they had been dipped into a
| petroleum well. 1t was some time before the
cause of the seeming phenomenon was dis
covered. 10
HERE is Mr. Laboucheres account of his ex.
perience of Russian infuenzan-if Russian in
tiuenza it be that is now loose in England: 81
like to be in the fashion, so bore my fate with
equanimlty when discovered that had caught
| the preva ling epidemic. All of a sudden I
seemed to have caught cold, and took to
| Sneezing, etc. Then came a cough, headache
| and an ail-overish ache. Knowing that it was
| not dangerous, L proceeded to doctor myself
| by the light Of common sense. To prevent any
| fever, at once administered to mVsel thirty
grains of quinine. That settled the fever n
meet the cough, took unlimited squill pills
That settled the cough. To meet the cold |
| went to bed, heaped on my bed blankets and
| took nothing but Stops. That settled the cold
| In four days | was quite well. | give INV ex
perience for the benefit of others who NAV he
| attacked" .i~it ~
THERE'S girl here in New York, SAYS tn
san, who owes her figure to the art of the
tailor and to the chief product of the southern
states She is the sort of woman who loses a
charm with every pin she takes out of her
gown. Instead OF suffering under SO much
cotton, IL Is mystery to me that she doesn't
90 in for fattening which is quite possible if
one will only be a little careful. woman can
be fattened exactly as is a Strasbourg goose
Brlllat Savarin said Commanding is favor
able to beauty" The thin girl has only to eat
correctly and live correctly to get fat In the
first place she must learn to be lazy and thou h
she must walk little, it must not be too fast
nor must she 90 too far She must eat ali the
fresh bread poSsibls, potatoes, in fact ali
starchy foods, game, gravies. sweets nuts and
creams. Sac must let tea and sour wines
alone; and if her head is pretty good, she must
stick to champagne If she guards her diges-
ton, she can with good result keep boS of
| pain, sweet chocolates on her dressing table
| aud nibbie at them whenever she gets a chance
| Do you know how the darkys in the south saw
the little pigs get fat? It's picking round the
| kitchen do which, being Anglicized means
eating a little very often. Rubbing tends 70
make flesh, and Russian bath once a week.
will tend TO keep it firm.
Mrs. HErTY GREEN has enjoyed the reputa-
ton for long time, says the New York World
of being the most shabbily dressed millionaire
who wanders within the precincts of Wall
street, and any one who has seen her and made
a comparison mentally with the appearance of
| mechanics wife going to market Saturday
night is convinced that her reputation is we'll
| deserved. Russell Sage wears inexpensive
clothes, but they are not only neat but i1snsliv
| have the appearance of being recentIyy
| purchased The only millionaire rival Mrs
| Green has in point of snabbiness is Old .Ioe
| Robinson, who was one of the contra,torS
| engaged in the construction of the TTnion
| Pacific railroad, and is said TO be worth
| 81 O0O.OO0. He down Wall e..-~4