The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

a welding occasionally to which no suspicion of
mercenary motives attaches
FROM $50 to 200 bottlenosed whales were
driven ashore below Barnstankerness. Scotland,
the other evening. About twenty boats took
part Ia the exciting chase, and the finish was
witnessed by large number of people. Some
OF the whales were unusually large.
Nor EVERYBODY is rich enough TO lose $500
without knowing it. but this is what a Fairfield
lMe.) woman did Mrs. H. A Small recently
found railroad bond Of $500 that had been laid
away in an old book for the past ten years, and
winch she had forgotten all about.
HERR PossART, the German actor, before
stepping on the stage, bends his body forward
until it forms right angle with his legs. shakes
ms mead vigorously, and tn en- stands up straight
again This apparently acts as a throwing
on OF his own individuality and assumption
OF that of the character which he is to play.
PAUL WHITE a prosperous Colorado ranch
man, about month ago advertised for wife,
giving an accurate description of himself and
ms surroundings, etc. His mail has been 50
neaVy ever since that it has been nece SsarY to
put 1t in barrels at the postofice, and Mr.. White
was compelled to bring his far II wagon to town
10 maui 1t home. He has not yet made a selec-
ton.
IT HAS been calculated that the mobilization
of the French, German, aud Russian armies
would cost $4,000, 600, and their maintenance
III JIG llOlu WOuIO cost IDOQJn- A
war of six months duration would, therefore.
use up, for these three countries alone, the sum
of 8, 30OO00,000. Besides that every nation in
Europe, including England, would have to arm
and hold itself ready, which would cost millions
more.
THE POWER of one of the greatest political
figures of the day, perhaps of all time is said
TO be on the wane. THE Empress Dowager of
China has been shoFn~ of her prestige by the
reoelllous independence of the young emperor.
he refused to see the bri lie which she forced
upon MIN, and has been issuing vigorous de-
crees on his own account He has been censur-
ing the old ministers right and left, particularly
Chang Chi Tung.
AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE came before Lon
don police court. On servant girl being
charged with stealing two pairs of boots It was
stated on her behalf chat frequently she was
Tor time unaccountable for her actienS; that
on these OCCASIONS she did most inexplicabe
things, and that once, a doctor having certified
that she was ad, she lay three days in a coffin
ready for burial, signs of life being discovered
al the end of that period
A sPIRITUALIsr PROCEEDING out of the ordi-
nary run took place at the Metropolitan temple
in San Francisco the other evening in which A.
| y. Cleveland and Mrs Louise Beatty were mar
RED as the medium said, by the spirit of
Thomas Starr King. Two thousand people
| gathered to witness the ceremony, and listeled
attentively to Mrs j. J. Whitney, who arrayed
IN costly costume decked with diamonds pro-
claimed herself a minister invested with all
necessary authority TO tie binding matri-
monial knot. She claimed to speak only as
Starr King S spirit dictated, and, after peat.
ing the usual Unitarian service, pronounced the
! couple man and wife.
BROOKLYN can now boast of a travelling shoe
shop" Its stock, of course. is small, consisting
of about 100 pairs a push cart serves as the
store, and day or two ago. when representa-
tive of the Shoe and Leather Reporter ran
no DfafA r-TNri ssr,rr
twenty or twenty five people were gathered
around him, many of them women. They
would examine the shoes, glance at the size
pay their quarter, and take them home without
trying them on. The seller called them shop
worn goods but the Reporter believes that
some of them at least we're pretty fair looking
secondhand shoes blacked up ana put in shape,
for shoe dealers, it says, could sell scores of
shopworn shoes at 80 cents pair at a special
sale.
SEVERAL THOUSAND GYPsIEs of Croetia recently
held an Open-air indignation meeting at Orda
to protest against the measures to put stop to
their wanderings, the authorities having even
threatened If necessary, to set fire to their en-
campments The orators warmly defended the
tlme-honored privileges of tn race, especially
the free vagabond life Inherited from their fore
fathers from Jimme memorial The meeting was
unanimous as to the necessity of appealing to
some protector to intercede forthem. The ma
jority looked to the Ban of Croatia Count
Kheun- Hedervdary; but there was a strong mi
nority in favor of applying to the Archduke
Joseph, the king of the Hungarian gypsies, while
Few of the more radical orators recommended
emigration en- maSse from Croatia to Bosnia
and Herzegovina. This suggestion was rejected
on a show of hands, whereupon free fight en-
sued between the Banites and Josephites and
there was no decision.
THE LAST even distant relative of Aaron Burr
is dead. He was a halter. He was born in
Western New York as long ago as 1910, and
Ia q mi RI
trade. He patented hat machine in 1852 I'm
to that time hat bodies had been made by
hand. Burrs machine SO revolutioniZed the
business that III 1856, 6,0O0,0 900 hats were made
upon his machine. For many years he virtu
ally had a monopoly of the hat trade. and
when his patent expired, IN 1872, he had amassed
a great fortune. At the breaking out of the
war he practically organized the Els worth S
Zouaves, and contributed literally to the mill
tary establishment. He was in many respects
a singular man, but pus hing, energeuc citizen
He was an active director in many large in
StitUtions in New York. His father was Aaron
Burrs first cousin, and his grandmother a
sister of Jonathan Edwards. He sprang from
that large Burr family that once lived near
CoOperStown
AN INTERESTING ANEcDorE of Daniel Webster
is given by Hon. Charles X. Tuckerman in his
article on "Bygone Days in Boston, in the
North american heUie,c. Webster was delv-
ering address in Faneuil hall on the neces
sity for individual exertion and unfinchinp
pdlIlOtiSlu 10 avert the dangers thdt threatened
the political party whose principles he espoused
when he perceived a terrible sway of the packed
assembly, consequent on the rush of those en-
deavorIng to enter, and noted the danger that
might ensue The orator stopped short in the
middle of a sentence, advanced to the edge of
the platform, extended his arms in an authori-
tatve attitude, and, in stentorian voice of
command, cried out, Let each man stand
firmr' The effect was instantaneous, Each
man stood firm; the great heaving mass of
humanity regained its equilibrium, and, save
the long breath of relief that filed the air. per
feet stiffness ensued That" exclaimed the
great orator, lis what we call self-povern-
ment!"-so apt an illustration of the principle
he was expounding that the vast audience
responded with deafening cheers.
THE Boston Correspondent of the Book B,tyer
quotes an amusing letter sent by T. B. Aldrich
to Prof. E. S. Morse. ex president of the Ameri
can Academy for the Advancement of Science
Prof Morse is ere dted with handwriting so
illegible as to be quite indescribable The Letter
reads as follows: My Dear Mr.. Morse-It was
very pleasant to me TO get a letter from you the
other day. Perhaps l should have found il
pleasanter ii had been able to decipher it.
don { think that mastered anything beyond the
date (which knew) and the signature (which
guessed att There's a singular and perpetual
charm in letter of yours; it never grows old
il never loses its novelty. One can say to ones
self every morning; There's that letter Of
Morse's. / haven't read it vet | think III
take another shy at it to-day, and maybe | shall
be able in the course of few years to make
out what he means by those It's that look lie
WIS and those is that haven't any eyebrows