The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

sO.5; in Germany a5.1 These figures lead natur-
ally % the reflection that while Americans may
live faster IN this world than some Of their IN
temporaries, they show admirable judgment in
dying slower
JAMES 4. KELLY. whose Illustrations in the
Century and 81. Nicholas dozen years ago
were so much admired Is now busy with
colossal statue OF an American woman calling
The figure Is now being modelled in clay and is
over twelve feet high.
a KNOXVILLE BARBER shavef a man recently
who resides in the Smoky mountains, and whose
beard has been growing since the battle OF
Gnicksmauga. The man. whose name is
Iiarmer. was in the confederate army, and
shaved the day before the battle. ami bad not
shaved since. lie said he had got tired of wear
ing so much hair aud wanted it removed.
BENJAMIN ScHAFFER informs a Philadelphia
paper that, having lest favorte dog and spent
the greater part of the day in seaching for it,
he dreamed that night that he saw the animal
fastened up in a barn some distance from where
be was employed. in Montgomery county, and,
going TO the spot next morning, there was his
| lost pet just as he had seen it in the dream.
THE MAKING of wooden shoes is quite bust
ness in New YORK. Not only is there a big tie
nland for wooden soled shoes required by
workers in certain trades. but for the wooden
saoots such as are seen in pictures of life
Abroad French and German women are the
principal buyers of wooden shoes These shoes
cost about 81 % pair They are mostly worn
In the east side tenement districts.
ALL TIE designs for the watkin- Eiffel tower
are now in. About 200 specifications were APP
piled for by intending competitors. and no
doubt close on that number Of designs have
Deen prepared. There are many novelties of
construction exhibited, more than one for
instance, rising from three legs, instead of four
and another, which attains TO the ambitious
altitude of 1,550 feet, takes the form of a colos
sal Gothic spire.
A CITIZEN OF Calhoun county Illinois. boasts
that there is not railroad telegraph, an ex-
press office or a bank in his county The county
jail has not had a criminal inmate within t1e
last i've years. The grand jury of the county
has found only three indictments within the last
Two years. and these We're against persons who
nad Illegally sold liquor. The county has only
TWO terms of court a year, aud term never
lasts over three days r. ~
STORY is told by the Bo ton Advertiser of
| gentleman who is now aud has been for some
years past engaged IN rearing an elegant man.
sion OF stone dozen miles or so out of Boston.
Much care has been taken and no expense
spared in its erection. The other day he went
Out 10 see how the work was progressing. and
visited the library. II is noble room and had
been surrounded by elegant bookcases of carved
OAK In elaborate sign. The owner gave one
glance about the spacious and beautiful apart
Inent and then exclaimed to the contractor:
What made you build the bookcases so hghg
Cut them down two feet aud put cupboards
underneath. Do you tn nix AM going to buy
books for all those shelves:
In ZURICH, Switzerland. the other day one of
the law courts closed a novel ease. a beggar
who opened the garden gate in front of house
where he intended to ask for relief was attacked
by the watchdog and bitten in the left arm.
Soon afterward he commenced a suit against
the owner of the place. calling for heavy dam
ages on the ground that the wound he had re-
ceIved rendered him permanently un lble 10
earn his living. The defense was that he could
neg Just as well as ever, and that the injury III
question, far from being disadvantage, only
increased his chances in his profession. But the
court held that the proprietor OF a house is re-
sponsihle for the security of the people who
come to visit him, even when the object of the
visit IS to make an appeal to his generosity. 50
the beggar won his suit
WHEN the Duchess of Marlborough goes
abroad in New York in her victoria she attracts
very little attention. The victoria is an exceed
ingy graceful one, with 4 wicker BODY and
dark green wheels The duchess drives from
one end of Fifth avenue to the other unrecog-
nlzed by anybody but her friends. No matter
now closely people study her photographs they
are still unable to identify the mistress of Blen-
helm This is because the duchess of MARI
borough has lost nearly forty pounds since her
marriage. All her photographs were taken
when she was at her former weight, and hence
she IS scarcely recognizable. Her figure has I'M
proved tenfold, and she looks far more beau
t1ru than when she left America. She had
shown an inclination TO grow filatronIy but she
has resum ed proportions that are almost girlish
The last thoughts of Arthur Schopenhauerl
have been found in a note book in the Hotel
d Angleterre the hotel where he died on Sept
%, 1850 Some OF the maSims are characters.
tic. For example, he says; Each nation mas
but one great poet-its first set little store
by novelist who does not love evil for its own
sake When you make a new friend think OF
the future enemy who is already in him Not
one OF the fortunes OF the inauisition is equiva
n hat of he
free man would be monster. If dared 10
promulgate a code, il would pass but one
sentence for all crimes: Live. wretch And
the punishment would hetoo inhuman Every.
thing has been sung Everything has been
cursed There is nothing left for poetry but 10
De the glowing forge oStwords. Style exhales
the odor of the soul. Inaths age of machines
repect one that will keep cows
The FRENCH MINISTER OF MARINE has inst
made arrangements for the ship building which
is to take place in 1891 the total amount Of
credits to be asked for in the budget of the de-
partment being about 81, a20, 900. The ships
upon which this sum is TO be spent as we'll ia
government as in private dockyards, comprise
ten ironclads, one first and two second-class
ironcad cruisers. two first and four second class
cruisers, two torpedo cruisers, five torpedo
boats, two ironclad gunboats, one dispatch
| boat twelve open sea torpedo boats or sixty
| eight in ALL OF the ten ironclads four--the
| Neptune, the Brennus, the Treh ouart and the
Magenta-are in course OF construction and Of
named the Carnot. The first-class ironclad
! cruiser. the Depuy de LONE is to be pushed
| forward at the Brest arsenal while first-class
| cruisers, the Alger and the Isly, are to be fin.
| lshed at the same arsenal. rs s9
| ATTENTION has been called again TO the great
number of men of really aristocratic lineage
who are to be foundiin New York. says the Sun.
| They are not the society counts and barous
| who figure in the newspapers and are promi-
| nent ia social matters, but they are a1iet
modest, retiring, and IN the main highly chilli
waited nobemen. who have been driven from
| their own countries either by prosecution or
domestic misfortuneS. Some of them have left
| home under political cloud bat these men
affiliate with socialists and anarchists mora mr.
| less, and are not known among their o,Iiet and
well-bred brethren who live on the extreme
| east and west sides Of the town MANY a man
| of noble lineage is TO be found among tha
| Pensioners of the small east and west sida
! Catholic churches aud few of them make
| their headquarters in modest little cafes and
| restaurants in the French and German ullarters
| of the town. There are among the teachers Of
| languages, music, and riding in New York
members OF families that have been lannon's in
the histories OF France and Germany The
men themselves live with a philosophicai nc
ceptance OF fate, and are simply waiting for
the tide to turn so that they return to their
native shores. Their Importance is known nv
the Difference which their countrymen ALWAYS
| pay them.
A RAILWAY COMPANY in AlIachenv Ia ,,,ao4;n.