The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ordinary style at Paris, Bordeaux, Lyons, and
| Marseiles.
The BLOODHOUND at the New York dog show
whicl has the distinction of pretending to hunt
Jack the Ripper received a good deal of at
| tentIon- His wrinklel face, long ears aud
| sole -nn-lo looking mug. had al OF the light an d
agile points Of a British detectives counte-
nance.
COUNT GLEIcHES of London has been writing
his impressions Of New York. He found only
| one thing which London could copy to advan-
t3ge; ana that IS ths cab drivers fashion of
olanketlng his horse when the animal is stand
ing in the cold. In other things he thinks New
! YORK much behind European cities.
The Naples correspondent Of the London
| Telegraph says of the Buffalo Bits show at
that place: Col. Cody is thinking of taking
ms Indians up Mount Nesuvius some moon
| light night and giving them a war dance round
the crat-r. These Indians have never seen
volcano, though they have heard of such as
places where the devil keeps up mis- fires"
AMONG the decacies which graced Queen
Victoria's table at Christmas was a turtle 100
years of age, which had been brought from the
Ascension Island a week previously by the gov
eminent crdis r Wye. SO thoroughly did her
| majesty enjoy the soup produced from the fat
| or the reptile that the Wye has just been
despatched to Ascension. a distance of many
| thousand miles, for further supply of turtles.
CoBLENz, the favorite reSid nee of the late
| Empress Augusta. benefits by her will in the
| sum of 5000, most of which is to be applied to
| the improvement of the river 'front.' an improve
| ment which it certainly needs. The empress
| mas lert collection of correspondence, and this
may, at some future time, be published as sup
| Elementary to her memoirs the manuscript of
| winch was few days ago delivered to the en-
peror Her majesty, it is found, has carefully
preserved letters from many literary and scien-
| tiic celebrities, on whose behalf she more than
once grew almost enthusiastic.
WHAT an immense amount of wealth has been
accumulated by the Hebrew citizens of New
York. says the New York Star. The other
evening at the silver wedding OF Joseph c. Levi,
| at his handsome residence on Ninety first street.
| l saw an example of it. OF the hundred guests
| present, but quarter were of Gentle origin;
| the remainder were relatives or friends of the
| host. Nearly every individual of the latter
| class is well known in the mercantile world
| and is rated from $4,000 to 81 100000 The
| combined wealth of the company present, ex-
Guiding the Gsntiles, did not fall below $685.
! 0OO000.
AMONG the pictures which belonged to Wilke
| Collins, and which are to be sold at Christie's
on Saturday, is veritable gem. This is a view
| Of the Bay of Naples, by William Collins, in
| which the painting Of deep blue sea is posi-
| lively perfect. Tbs little picture excited the
| rapturous admiration of the late Sir Robert
| Peel, who made a fabulous offer for it to the
| artist who was his intimate friend, but Mr.
| Collins declared that be would keep for himself
| the best picture in that line that he had ever
| painted, and atterward refused another most
| tempting BID from that fine Judge, the late
| Jacob Bell.
| THE statistics of visitors to the Grand hotel.
Paris. during the exhibition year 1889 are inter-
| esting reading. An extract from the books of
| the immense hostelery on the Boulevard des
| Capucines shows that during the qrdnde aimee
| 3I,9l2 visitors stayed in the house. OF these
1920 were French, 9, A English 3, 1862 Belgians
| and 23O3 citizens of the United States. The
| Germans, strange to say, stand at the top of
the other six nationalities with 1912. A CORE
| spondlng return OF the cheap trppers" would
no doubt give an equal preponderance of En-
l glish visitors OF this class over al other ne-
| tlons.
THE inventive genius of this country seems
| never to sleep. The two latest ideas apply to
the decoration OF walls. One stamps out great
sheets of metal, which can be either polished
hammered or grained, and which. according to
! the customers fancy, may be made to resemble
| copper, bronze red gold, silver or brass 1t is
! fire proof, water proof, insect and rat proof
! The other makes wall covering of FURNISHED
and faceted steel. The metal is one of the new
| iron alloys, and neither rusts nor discolors One
| form is almost perfect lace work, while another
| resembles the Miianese armor of the sixteenth
century. 1t is hard to say which of the two
| systems produces the most striking results.
WAS talking with lawyer last night about
| the profits of contractors on public work, SAYS
| writer in the New York Press, when he said:
IF the public knew what profits are made by
1 contractors there would be a big revolt against
l the present system of letting bids. As rule
| there is combination or onSDiracy among the
| bidders by which, in any event, the public gets
| the worst of any bargain made am engaged
just at this time in prosecuting a suit against
| contractors who had much to do with the new
| aqueduct The suit relates to another Job done
| by rhem in different location. Let us say that
l the total amount of the contract was ST. No.
600. The evidence shows that on that amount
| they made profit of 5000, 900. OF course they
l Ia q a l,,cio
| with the engineers and superintendent and in
spectors of the work, but the evidence shows
| that thls colluslon cost mere trife, not $1,000
| all told. The affair will all come out in few
| days.
| A DISPATCH from Kingston, Ont, says Prof.
| Greene of the Deaf and Dumb Institute at Belle
vile, Ont. who died Tuesday, was the first ma n
| to whom the "Chatauqua salute was given
| Unable to speak word" said to-day Bishop
| Vincent, who was there, "by gesticulations
most graceful, by BEAUTIFUL and rarely elouu mt
facial expressions, he gave us a series Of Incl
| dents from Bible history, and did his work so
| well that the people were enraptured When
| he was through they applaudsd in the usual
| way and it occ lrred to me that a deaf man
| would not be profited by the clapping of hands
| and proposed bringing out our handkerchiefs
to wave as testimonials to his eloquence About
1900 handkerchiefS were made ready for the
signal, and whea l CAV the word they flew into
| the sunny air of that be .utifuI day and tears
came to the eyes of the nun for whom the
| t0ulOuSlFdliOu WAS 1uC6QQ01. Since then {
Chautauqda when have a particularly
dumb man we give him the Chautauoua
] salute"
| REBECCA W. TAYLOR, widow of the late Joseph
| Taylor and mother of the distinguished poet
author and diplomat, Bayard Taylor, died at
her home in Pennsylvania at / o'clock Tuesday
| morning. after a short illness The deceased
| was born at Wagontown, Chester county. Penn
sylvania, of English and German parentage
! Oct. 10, 1899; consequently she in her 91st
year In 1878 she married Joseph Taylor and
| moved to Kenneth Square, where she has re-
sided ever since, celebrating in 1868 their golden
| wedding Here her family of children was
| reared, and by her thorough unselfshness
purity of character and obliging disposition she
has always been great favOrite in the comnu-
| nifty, and was known and held in veheration by
most of the citizens as Aunt Rebecca y
She always had a friendly greeting for her
| legion of friends and admirers ana
the citizens of Kennett, as well as in other
parts of the world, viii learn with deepest RAJ
greet of her death. During her long and active
life she never had any severe sickness being
very active, both mentally and physically She
has been sufferer from rheumatic afiiiction
for the past twenty years, which has confined
her to chair for a long time, but she has been
| bright and cheerful under her affection Sine
was the mother of eleven children six of whom
grew to manhood and womanhood and attained
considerable distinction, especially Bayard who
died while acting as United States minister to
Germany. Another Col Frederick was killed
l in the hattie of (fettyShIrp The. othar fOrr