The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

EX-PREsIDzNT CLEvzLASD's successful venture
IN real estate seems to have inspired his sue
eessor at the white house with desire to profit
! oy similar Investment, as President Harrison
| mas recently bought two pieces OF improved In
ulanapoiis business property for Ssl,UOO-
TAMAGSo, the tenor was a baggage porter be-
fore his remarkable powers of voice were re-
vealed. lie does not favor his former craft,
however, when he is on his travels. If porter
demands what he regards as too much for
Carrying his trunk. he calmly shoulders iJ him
self with al his old-time skill.
The EXTENT and resources of the British en-
pire may be realized when it is stated that it is
nearly three times he size of Europe, and only
-,OJ0O0O acres less than Africa. At least fifth
OF tue worlds population are British subjects,
and close upon one-1af OF the tra1e of the
whole weird IS in their hands. f.
The London Times, which has for soma time
been managed jointly by the two sons of John
Walter is now in charge Of new manager.
Moberiy Ben, who was formerly the representa-
tive or the Times at Cairo, and has been cred
lted with having forced the English government
TO the bombardment OF Alexandria.
The ASSISTANT DIRECTOR of the Kew Gardens.
London, claims to have discovered the way to
raise sugar cane from seed instead OF from cut
tlngs, which has been the former method and
expects TO realize great results from the cross
ing OF breeds and the improving of the stock as
We'll as from the cheapening of cane-raising.
The CAR OF RUSSIA, as has been long known,
INDUCES in hypodermc injections of morphia.
His physician, however is said to have re-
marked lately that the car uses daily from
twelve TO fifteen grains of taa drug. All efforts
toward discontindance of the habit have been
Abandoned and his splendid physique is rapidly
failing.
THEY are telling in Vienna Of a female men,
Der OF the family OF a diplomat who, at a recent
gathering, asked the papal nuncio to let her
LOOK at the diamond cross he wore on his neck,
and then placing it about her own neck went to
see the effect in mirror before she returned it.
The Jewel Is regarded as a sacred emblem by
all Catholics and they were Mortified
| WoNEN have started in London a paper called
the lTOmea's Penny Paper, and are making a
| fuss because their representative a woman,
was denied admission to the press gallery of the
| House Of Commons. The sergeant-at-arms re-
| FUSED the admission upon the literally true
| ground that there was no room. but the WON N
| assert that she would not have been admitted
seyen had there been room, and upon that issue
the fight is fought.
| THOMAS ALvA EDISON who is often referred
to as yankee inventor is not yankee at all,
| though he looks more or less like one. He is of
mingled English and Dutch ancestry, aud was
| born at the village of Milan, in Erie county,
| ONO, Feb II, 1871, though in taking up his
| quarters at Menlo Park, n. j., he simply re-
turned to his family headquarters, as his
| Holland, established himself near Newark,
| Nj.
! PARIS officers going to seize the goods of a
woman against whom Judgment had been OBJ
| tanned found her lying apparently dead and
| prepared for burial in her rooms. They were
| about TO retire Wlen one of them could not re-
| sist the temptation 10 pinch the plump arm of
| the woman. The supposed corpse promptly at
| up on the bier and gave the impairment officer
| regular dressing down before she remembered
thar she was dead to her creditors, if not to the
| world. The execution was made at once, and
| the goods sold.
THE GERMAN EMPEROR rises early, takes
very light breakfast and goes for a little exer-
cse after which he takes q second breakfast,
this time OF an omelette, ham and eggs a NUT
ton chop or chicken. He dimes at 1879 o'clock
p. m. on bouillon or broth, boiled meat with
vegetables, followed by roast meat and pudding.
and if there IS company present an enIree and
an ice. His supper is of meat or fish and pud-
ding. His favorte dishes are potlets sdutees,
W tn potatoes or baked fish. Especially perch,
pike, sole, or turbot.
EMPEROR WILLIAM H., who has developed a
| mania for uniforms, has recsnty established
body guard to do duty bafore the apartments of
| the empress in the palace, and to act as her
escort on state coca sions, whose uniform con
| sistS. for palace duty, Of white Brandenburg
coat with cherry coiored facings. and huge
| shoulder knots in black, white and silver; a
white waistcoat coming down low, white
| trousers. and Jack" boots. There is also
| black velvet ee-cornered hat, with cockade
| and feather ia the Prussian colors. The escort
uniform has the hat replaced by helmet of
| polished s:eel, crested with golden eagle.
PaINcE ALBERT VICTOR, during his visit to the
| Maharaiah of Jeypore, was entertained by a
performance, some Of the features of which are
thus described: THE two elephants. on enter
ing the open space, chased away, it is said. the
thirty or forty spearmen who melted them to
the combat, ana thereupon they charged each
other. After fighting with equal success for
some time, they were separated with charges of
gunpOwder smoke directed toward them The
royal party then went To another open court
where the fights were carried on in succession
between pairs of quail. partridges cocks, black
bucks, hogs, deer, rams, Sambhur, bears. and
buffaloes The animals all in excellent
condition and fought with great fury, especially
the rams sambhur and boars."
THERE should be a moral with sharp point to
the following episode, and I'm k,sop like, it will
not be appended, but left to the reader to affix
A Fall River gentleman was last spring in
Detroit. He went on Sunday evening to attend
a fashionable church, taking with him his re-
| ligious views and handsome silk umbrella
| The latter he left iii the inside vestibule in
| umbrella stand with numerous others, while the
| former he kept with him. The service being
| long. he went out 4 few seconds in advance of
| the bsnediction, and, looking for his UNI
| breila, found it not. So being an honest man,
| he took the next best one and went to his hotel
recently, while in Boston, he stepped into the
| Parker house. There, with others on large
| settle hat rack stood mis- umbrella.
! SOME TINE AGO in an article in the New York
San oneconomy among young men Of taste and
| limited means, attention was drawn to the fact
| that trous of suitable material could be
turned inside cut and made over so as to serve
! the purpose of new ones. bright tailor near
! Union square, New YORK, saw tine suggestion
| and afterward hal sign hung in his
| window which told the passer by that the spe-
| cal5y of turning clothes for gentlemen was his
| To his surprise he found himself overrun with
| work, and on inquiry he was told that a very
| large proportion of his early customers were
| men who mad read the story. He says that al.
: ready that article has saved more than half the
! price Of a suit of clothes to more than 100 men
| in that city. and has brought a corresponding
| number of dollars &c him. f5o
| LILLIAN T. BLACK writes from Washington to
to the New York Tribune that st does not
seem quite fair that the Washington ladies'
should be stigmatized as indorsers OF that foul
mouthed Ibsen, who recognizes no law. human
| or divine. y She explains that "when Mrs
| Winslow first attempted to secure parlors here
| for her readings and Mrs. Wanamaker was
asked for hers, she refused, giving the reason
that she could not give patronage to an author
| whose works required such thorough deodoriz-
| ing. Mrs Morton and Mrs Hearst gracefully
| excused themselves when ths use of their par.
| lOrs was requested. The band OF Ibsenites
never daunted. through means of circulars and