The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

/ sale of women there has not been stopped
only carried on a little more privately. He
| quotes CircasSian 'autles at $4,000 each, and
| Nuban nlaidens at about 500 apiece.
THE MAGNITUDE of the job of making the
| guns for our ne~ navy MAJ be realized wnen IL
s said that the lathes alone for turning the gun
bores viii co Sf25,0o0. The naval board
/ awarded the contract TO machine company at
Plainfie d, " j.. ami to Iuifill the contract the
company mad to enlarge it b. man building by
nearly one-fourth This is probably the only
| place 10 or near liew York where anything con
nected with "a new war ships Is under way.
Mrs. THEODORE TILroN is a sad and lonely
! woman. with silver-streaked har. a careworn
face and stopped figure, who frequents Lincoln
park in Chicago with her gr6ndc lidren.
| Every pleasant morning in the year she goes to
| the pleasure ground but is seldom recognized
| and never seen speaking 10 any one She lives
| with her married daughter, who contributes TO
| the family income by water color paintings
! many of which are very lovely in conception
| and treatment.
THIS YEAR the French and Italian artillery
maneuvers took place near the boundary of the
| two countries, in Savoy. The officers met and
fraternized, but, rs neither had leave to depart
| from his country. they designed a dinner at
| which the long table stood one-half in Italy
one-halt in France and a red cord which run
across the middle designated the division They
had q jolly time, each in his own country and a
good dinner with plenty of wine altogether and
toasts TO each other
IT is TOLD concerning R. J. Burdette that he
once received a letter enthusiastically praising
him as the writer of the verses beginning
"Out on the borders of moonshine land" He
wrote three or four pages If grateful &C
acknowledgement, flatteriny the taste of his CORE
spondent. and saying that he always thought
signed his name, then he added "P 81 didn't
write those verses. They were written by my
friend, James Whitcomb Riley
A CURIOUS ANEsrHETIc used by the Chinese
has recently been made known by DR.. U. Lam
buth in mis- third annual report of the Soochow
hospital 1t Is obtained by placing a frog in a
jar OF flour and Irritating it by prodding it. IN
Ger these circumstances it exudes a liquid
which forms paste with the -four. This paste
dissolved in water has well marked anasthetic
properties. After the finger has been immersed
In the liquid for a few minutes it can be cut to
the bone without pain being felt.
NIX's MATE is the name of a submerged
is and in Boston harbor, upon viii h an obelisk
was raised some years ago. 1t is said that Nix's
Mate was sailor who was hanged for piracy
upon the spot which afterward took his name
nearly 800 years snce, Notwithstanding his
strong proteS tations of innocence. He pre-
dicted that the island would sink within the
year il he was. as he claimed, unjustly Murdered
by the law. Within short period many feet of
water were rolling over Nix's Mate.
THERE will soon be one railroad in the United
States with no grade crossings. as fast as the
work goes on of making e division of the New
| York, New Haven and Hartford line between
! New y DIRK and New Haven four-track road tie
crossings at grade abolished On the Shore
! Line division of the same road the work of lay
| ing second track is likewise accompanied by
! the abolition of grade crossing, so that within
| few months there will not be a single grade
| crossing left between New York and New Lon
| don.
PAUL POTTER himself would have been as
founded at the price brought by his picture of
| The Dairy Farm at a recent sale in London
$50, $50 The picture is four feet long and less
tnan twenty inches nigh, which makes the price
| about sos square inch, which is nearly high
| a rate as that Of the blenheim Raphael. The
! Dairy Farm is a brilliant example of a master
whose pictures are comparatively rare and are
| always in request, Although there is record
| OF Potter ever having brought such price
| before.
| THE Intercoloniel railway of Canada has
adopted the accumulation system alone the
| trains between Halifax and Quebec, and now
have more than forty cars fitted up with electric
| lamps, which are of sixteen candle power, and
vary from eleven to twenty two to "a car The
| accumulators charged at four different
points on the line, running about 500 miles with
| the one charge, and the results thus far OBJ
tanned are very satisfactory, but to provide for
| emergencies oil lamps have been retained in
| each car.
MISS AGNES REPPLIER returned the following
answer to the question Shall women vote? sent
out by contemporary to several literary
lights: II think may safely say that woman
Suff age has my distinct sympathy. as a neces-
sary evil in these fretful days. l wish, indeed
| that all women could be spared the painful
struggle for existence, the stress and strain of
life; but, seeing no chance of the Arcadian
calm. do believe they should not be sent Grip
pied into the race. Since they must run with
| men-Instead of being carried dryshod over the
course-lt seems to me that a fair start, mu
tual goal and an equal prize are not too much
| to ask"
The test of armor plates which will shortly
take place at Annapolis will be an interesting
| proceeding. The original purpose was to make
| the trial that of armor manufactured by Ameri-
| can works, but as no such specimens were
| offered plates by feet and 1011 inches thick
were purchased from foreign MAKERS. One was
I furnished by Cammeil & Co. of Sheffield, and
| is the compound of hard steel face on wrought
| iron back. The others are plates of Schneider
| & Co. of La Creusot, one being entirely of steel
| and the other an alloy of steel and nickel. All
| three plates will be attacked by 6-inch and
| probably also by an S-inch breech-loadng rifle
| with the best armOr- piercing projectiles, and
under the same conditions
| THE RESIDENTS of West Baldwin a country
| village near Portland Me-, are divided into two
factions known as the ''Whangdoodlers" and
The Tuts," and a collision between these bodies
| has produced sensa ion. The cause of the
| trouble is rather romantic. Walter Noble a
| young 'Whang iooder," fell in love with Edith
| Dearborn. a neighbours Edauehter. The elder
| Dearborn, however, happened to be Tut"
| aud opposed the match most vigorously He
| selected for her Arthur S. Bowers, a good
| Tut" So Byron Noble and Linwood Cram
took up the cudgels for the discarded sutton and
| the ''Whangdoodlers," and, it is said gave
! Bowers terrible thrashing They are at least
under arrest on this charge The girl too, was
plucky and 'Whangdoodler" at heart and
she has left her fathers house for that of her
lovers parents. Local feeling runs high over
the affair.
AN IMPORTANT DECI SION respecting engage
ment rings has been rendered in France by the
judges of the Mines court. Some time ago
these legal gentlemen had before them a di-
vorce case, at the termination of which the
wife claimed. through her lawyer, the jewery
presented to her by her husband before their
marriage. Among the valuable articles thus
rigidly retained was her engagement ring The
litigation at length came to an end, but the
affair as costly, and the judges took long
time to make up their minds. They have at
last given a decision in favor of the wife and
have appended to their Judgment the following
weghty remarks: The ring offered for the
purpose of recalling the engagement of two
persons constitutes the most personal and the
most irrevocable of all souvenirs given in view
of marriage"
THE DAYS of Nine Pompadour were DAYS of
extravagant house furnishing. When Louis
NV. came into power everything united to sur
round him with SPLENDID. His reign was adorned
by great statesmen and great generals eccle-
SiaSticS and of lteraLure and cciaDoa IJ;c