The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-26
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No- only nav woman buy gloves with 3
poczet II the lsft hand che sufficiently are
70 d d 3 feS coias for car fare, but Il she IS
no-n-r s-e may by six-bUr on kids for a 8
-l-lt-> o41 t'eoF- A young woman Wno had
never heard CT such styles for mere b1biss saw
Ing Tar OF gloves teing fTtei 70 RE tiny
LA-efs O pretty EirI baoy N : BrOa iva
s--re lew csFs ago. and asked the clerk II tley
re gioses made 10 order. Tee cerk said no,
ttat tneF Kept six-bu-ton ki1 gloves for chill
drsn only a feS months oil and that recently
t9ere tad teen quite a sale. Their slze, she
sa-1- Is marked . O."
FASHIONABLE SOCIETY in New YORK has for
T two weeks discussed the report that Lady Man
/ oeFile has been making living for herself and
/ L-T impoverished noble husban1 by lntr01uc-
/ ing noocdies into London society and al
court, says the New York Star. She IS not tie
oh4y woman who has done such things. either
n Loa1on or New YORK. but recent co-rt
/ orcer forDld6lng ladies having the court eHfTee
70 present more than one person IN e season has
cnt on her income. The curious thing about Il
/ IS the defense Of her course that Is heard in
Murray Hill drawing rooms. New York people
VINO would resent such infroductions N New
1ork society. coHtend that Lady Vaudeville Is
Iuiy JustIfie1 IN using her position to help her
rage.
ACCORDING to the Chicago Journal. female
customer in hardware store rejected four or
fve pairs of shears because they squeaked-
She was finally suited with a pair that didn' I
squeak and went her way. As the accented
pair hEppeDed to be one of those first refused.
the salesman was asked how the metamOrpho-i is
was Effected. That" said he is one of the
very simplest OF the secrets of the man who
sens shears Observe this He picked up a
par OF scissors whicn ''squeaked' wofully
wnen worked Then be ran his fingers tho lght-
Iuliy down the side of his nose and rubbed them
over the scissors, which came together as gently
and nolseleSsly as though saturated with OIL
There is always a little oil collected in the
corners on the outside Of ones nostriis,'' he
said, and when customer complains that
pa OF shears squeak they can be oiled up
without exciting suspicion"
GEN. CROOKS DEATH recalls one of the most
picturesque incidents of the civil war, viz, the
capture of Crook and Kelly, both then general
oincers OF volunteer forces, by a handful of
confederates as the two officers slept in a hotel
IN ths city OF Cumberland. Nd. There were
iuliy l0,UVJ union troops IN and around Cumber-
land at the time. but few of McNeill's Partisan
rangers, q guerrilla corps party recruited in
Cumberland, crossed tue Potomac from Vir-
MIA, and at midnight made the Capture The
contederates, familiar with the place from
en- ldnood. clattered unchaienged through the
sleeping city, easily captured the sentry pacing
tne sas-ht street in front OF the hotel. and actu
any penetrated TO the bedrooms OF the two gen
erals. When the dazed officers awoke it was 10
ind themselves in the hands Of the enemy
Iney were mounted on horseback and quietly
taken out Of the city before the alarm spre adj.
ten. crook afterward married a sister or one of
his captors.
QUEEN VICTORIA is said 10 have great fond
ness for pearls. She has taken care that all her
daughters shall have fine pearl necklaces One
OF her first purchases. after the birth of each.
has been two or three pearls, and every year.
until their marriaZ e, she has added pearl or
Two 10 her stock until the n scElace she required
was really. In tlis quiet. economic Il way she
mas been enabled TO maze up almost q complete
rope OF pears for each OF the princesses aud
tnose who have seen the NECKLACES at court say
That the daughters are. so far as pearls go well
supplied with Jeweiry. Thereby hangs a tale
Some years ago her majesty bought
from well-kDown London ieEeler
res very valuable pearls, the unite
| cost OF which was not far short of 500
A little while after the purchase hal
| been made the merchant was surprised to re-
| celve letter from lady at court which read:
The queen wishes very much to know whittier
! pearls will burn Tue reply to this sornew nat
tartly scientific inquiry was an assurance that if
| her majesty wished to oxygeniZe pearls for her
| amusement sha would find that they would
burn 10 an ordinary fire. The rejoinder brought
tue secrot to light. Tee queen hal placed the
pearls on her writing desk wrapped in a piece of
tissue paper. AS she was writing one morning
sbe used the tissue paper to wipe her pen and
then threw it into the fire. The pearls. all up-
observed, went with IL. The asaes of the crate
were searched for them in vain. They had been
destroyed so utterly as to leave no trace. Tee
queen with her own hand had cast three
splendid jewels, worth more than the average
income of her middle-class subjects, into the
blaze