The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

FLOWERS are rented instead Of purchased at
Washington, and clever florist recently used
the same flowers at an early afternoon lunch,
at a o clock Tea and at a card reception in the
evening.
IHE CAR, upon receiving the report of re-
cent duel between officers in the army. said:
"Duels in the army are absolutely necessary,
ana desire that reports OF such escapades
shall not be brought to my notice"
THERE will be some big racing during TIE
coming season by the Atlantic greyhounds. 1t
Is now settled that the new steamer, the Males
tic, sister ship of the Teutonic, will be started
from LIVERPOOL regularly nose and nose with
| the City of Paris. There will be racing regu-
larry then between the Teutonic and the City of
| New York, and the Majestic and the City Of
Paris. IL is the general belief among steam
| ship men that the latter ship has never devel-
| oped her highest speed though she easily holds
the best record to day. She is, by long ODDS
| the favorite.
RUSSIAN PEASANT In the Simperfool dis
| trlct had two sons, of whom the younger was
| his favorite. The elder, not liking tins. took
| Sl,OOO that the old man had secreted and hid
| IL III cornStack. When the old man discov-
cred his loss, few days later, the elder son
acknowledged having taken the money and
! offered 10 give it up if the father would prom
Use thereafter to treat him the same as he did
younger son. The father agreed, and both the
hurried off to the cornstack. But the mice had
peen there before them, and the money was
destroyed.
WILLIAM BENJAMIN ROWLAND, a cartman,
recently died at phthisis at a London hospital,
and when the doctors made post mortem they
found steel knife blade run into his skull for
an inch and broken off there. IL had been there
SO long That the bone had healed over the spot
Where II had entered. The blade had passed be-
tween Tie convolutionS of the brain, which was
uninjured. The nearest incident that could ac-
count for the presence of the blade in the mans
brain had occurred nine months before when
ne was thrown from wagon and had his head
severely hurt,
IHE NEWS comes from Teheran that the shah
mas aftanced to his youngest daughterthe little
page who was his constant companion during
ms recent European trip, and the nature OF
whose relations to his master was something of
mystery The great festival given in honor
Oh the event IS said to have surpassed in splel-
DOR anything in the Arabian Nights The
favorite received from his master the gift of
magnificent estate in the neighborhood of
ieheran, and with it a document 1pronouncing
The d1rest cnrses upon any sub seqlIent ruler of
Persia who should deprive him of it.
THERE are 1900 rner and 600 women en-
ployed as street sweepers in Paris besides $500
more workmen enga ed in draining paving
planting, and similar service. The foremen of
ene sweepers get 81 a day, their deputies so
cents. and the rank and file about IS cents for
ten hours work. The women work shorter
hours and get about IS cents per day They all
nave TO nnd their own tools. 1t is pro-
posed TO Increase the wages of the sweepers
ana TO retire them on a pension of 500 per
year when they reach IS years of age.
"ONE of the most curious drawbridges in the
world, says an officer of a West India fruit
steamer, lis in the harbor called st. AIMS Bay
in the Island of Curacao. It IS a pontoon bridge.
and one OF the pontoons tisi-a steamer. The
steamer was built in Camden, Ne 1t is scow
~ feet long, IL wide and 2 deep There is a
single shaft that runs clear through the boat
and has 4O-inch screw propeller on each end
The shaft is turned by two 9x12 steam engines
When the draw is to be opened the captain of
the steam pontoon casts off the lines, gives a
toot on the whistle, and sets the propellers
whlrllng, and thereupon half the bridge swings
around far enough to let the coming ship pass
through. Then the wheel is reversed and the
gap is closed
In the twenty years since the fall of the
French empire there have been twenty-five
cabinets, as follows representing each by its
leader: