The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

iNz WISHING cards through the post on New
Years DAY with ones friends and acquaint
auces Is fast dying out in Paris. The posta au-
| tEorites declare that there has this year been
an immense falling of, and il is well known
that several members of hight" have for the
! last year or two studiously avoided the prac-
tice.
A PERIODICAL for betrothed is the most recent
venture in Vienna. 1t is published twire
| month, and its contents are suited to its aims.
which really are advertising; for the editor tells
his prospective readers that every announce
ment of betrJthal or marriage will be inserted
gratultously, provided the happy couples will
| ony their trouSseaux of the Iradesmen adver
| tising IN his paper.
The FACE of the Empress Augusta as she lay
| IN her coffin was pale, but still she showed the
beauty waich distinguished her in youth. Tle
expression was extremely peaceful. The head
dress was a white lace kerchief adorned above
oy rosette OF the same color and stuff. The
| body was wrapped in the costly dress which
the empress wore at her golden wedding, and
was covered by heavy silk mantle Of gold
yellow, in token of imperial rank and trimme
with broad ermine.
FOLLOWING within week the famous tenor
Gayarre, there died in poverty in a modest
dwelling in an obscure street of Madrid. the
once famous baritone Gorgio Ronconi. Born at
Milan IN 1910, ROncOni was the friend and con-
temporary OF Mario. Some fifteen years ago he
lost ali his fortune, and he then obtained a pro-
censorship IN the Madrid conservatory, and
| upon the modest salary Of the post he had
| since lived. Soma years ago he suffered from
an attack Of paralysis, but was enabled partially
70 continue his teaching.
The HISTORICAL THEORY that Frankfort-on-
the-Nain was founded by tine Franks has been
| thoroughly shas up by the recent discovery
| there OF several relics of the Romans of the
time or Christ. Stone work ana glass of the
old Roman style have been unearthed under the
! ely. y sewer of Roman construction was
| found fourteen feet under ground. tile bear
| ing the INSCRIPTION, Leg. KILL, gave the best
clew to the date of the presence and work of
the Romans, Since it is known that the Four
! Ueenth Legion came back to Germa Y from the
north in tue year 20 after Christ and made its
headquarters at Mayence. Another proof that
che homans mad settlement at Frankfort was
furnished short time ago by the finding of
Roman sarcophagus under the Eschenheimer
LandstraSSe.
HOMER WILLIS, 12-year-old Williamantc,
Conn, lad was lounging along the road to
| school day or two ago, when he found an odd
looking shell bV the waysi,ie and he picked il
| up. He scrutinized it closely and his curiosity
was excited. He didn't know but it might be
new kind of tropical nut. So he laid it down
| ona rock, and, getting stone whacled the
Sheil several times with great force. Then sud
| denly the air turned black. the queer nut
| mysterlously disappeared, and a moment later,
when Homer had gained bis right mind. he
| tou himself on his back in the road. He dis
| covered that couple Of queer round holes had
| been bored through his upper lip. The surgeon
| who dressed the boys wounds said he guessed
| the old nut was dynamite cartridge and that
| IL mad belonged to Wilamantic sewer men at
] work on Valley street.
SAYS a special from St. Louis: There is one
newsboy Of this city who has been made happy
| he IS Richard Eagan, and is IS years old. He
was lost from East st. Louis when he was two
years oil |. He has no recon cton of his parents
ms mother having died when h9 was a baby
lie has been in St. Louis as far back as his
| memory goes. His first recollection is of being
with the sisters of st. Joseph's on Cass avenue
where he got good schooling Recently he
left there and began selling papers. Last Sun.
DAY ms picture was published. with fifteen
other newsboys, in a local paper The picture
was recognized by his uncle, Peter Matthews of
BeleVllle, H., who came here yesterday and
| took him home. He has an estate of 3d. 900
coming to him. He is bright boy and has for
the last six months sold papers TO his elder bro
Their, who is a clerk in St. Louis store but who
dld not recognize nim.'
COL Boz INGERsoLL's Sunday nights at
home are invariably attended by great many
| bright people, and they hear great many very
| bright things from the lips of the noted infdel
| in his peculiar line of disbelief, and on other
| topics, says the New York star. The colon Is
| particular hobby just now is to tell what he
would do IL he mad the ordering of things on
| earth. for one thing. he says, he would make
| health instead of disease contagious and for
| another. instead of having mud and slush in the
| streets he would fill up the holes in the pave
| col0nel s hobbies is to lament the dearth of
/ great men in this age by which TO Judge it's own
| greatness He declares that we have produced
no great literary charact 4rs no preat states
/ men, poets, artists, scientists or other men who
will make the age famous If it was not for
1 knocking over the fabric of the colonel's arcu-
| nent ON The one hand. and building up his ego
| tlsin on the other, would remark that the age
| has produced at least one great intidel And a
l great majority of the civilized world really
| thinks that is one too many.
| IT APPEARS that the national game of base
bail, in addition to its other excellences. has
| remedial virtues in the treatment of the insane
| So reports DR.. Selden II. Talcott medical sI1per
inendeut of the New York State HOMEOPATHIC
| Asylum for the Insane, located in Syracuse. in
| the nineteenth annual report of the workings
of the institution, just issued He states that an
asylum nine was organized last year uniformed
and carefully trained. An excellent ball ground
was fitted uD for their use. So great was the
skill attained, and so great was the Interest
ma lifested in this game that several chalIepes
passed between the asylum nine and other base
| ball nlues in Orange and othAr counties, The
asylum nine, during the season, played fifteen
games; won eleven, tied one and lost but three
| The beneficial effects of the national game
upon those whose minds have been depressed
or disturbed is very marked. The patients in
whom it had hitherto been impossible to arouse
a healthy interest IN anything seemed to awaken
ard become brighter at the sharp crack of the
base its. Even demented patients were eager
watchers of the game.
ONE of the brightest advertising men in
Chicago made his rise through the fall of
| another 1t was some years ago when, as a
| mere boy, he was tramping through the streets
| Of Chicago, broke and in search of any sort of
job which offered. His last nickel had gone
for food, and one afternoon ne was walking
through downtown alley, tired and disgusted
Happening to glance upward he saw a how
leaning out of window In a moment the bov
lost his balance and fell to the ground with the
customary dull sick ming thud The discour
aged man fastened to the BOYS side and dis
covered that death had been instantaneous
Looking up at the open window from which he
had fallen, the man counted the stories and then
sought the stairway near by Mounting the
stairs no dashed into the editors room and
blurted out: do you want boy?n Looking
up IN surprise, the editor answered: mo: We
have a boy" Then the man said: .iI'll het
you havent-your boy just fell from the win
dow and is dead. l want his place. Investi-
CATION found that the man was right. and he
was engaged for his pushing way Since then
he has risen by degrees and made money and
very few of his friends know how he gained ms
place
''JoHN Mosr's fame is not wide but it is of an
enduring quality" says one of Inspector
Byrnes men. The best people in New York.
by which 1 mean the solid, respectable and
business-like folk who make up the wealth Of
the metropolis. hate him about as thorourblv
as they do any in christeadom They bava
amused the notice DrettV rOunJIv on ono ~ -.