The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Commercial Exchange recently, addressed to
Burke & Clevenger. that was dated at Christi
ana, Penn. on Nov. Il. 1884, and bore the re-
ceiving mark OF the Philadelphia postofflce of
the same date. MIR. Burk has been dead nearly
as many years as the letter has been on its way,
and since it was written the Lancaster county
| correspondent has retired from business The
| letter was an acceptance of the Philadelphia
| firms bid for a carload OF wheat which the
| surviving partner would be glad to get to-day
| at the price then quoted.
SAYS California horticulturist: The butcher
bird is the most sagacious and at the same time
the most cruel of birds. A pair will follow you
while blowing, and il you overturn rats nest
they will Immediately pounce upon the
wretched creatures, kill them or drag them
| away and spike them in the sharp thorns of an
orange tree, to be devoured at leisure. The
other morning saw butcher bird with snake
| fully foot long. He had him by the back of
the neck, and with it flew up into an orange
tree. He then nailed the reptile to thorn
| and sat and watched it. He let the snake
almost wrigge off when he flew at it and
| would fix 1t more firmly. They kill their game
| by the wholesale and treat it in this fashion
| For that reason. because they are destructive
to gophers and rats, they are considered the
| friend of the orange-grower. These Innocent
| looking little gophers are very destructive to
the orange. Whenever you see an orange tree
| blooming in protusion you can tell the roots
have been attacked and destroyed by the
gopher"
| The CoNvoLUTIoNs Of the BRAIN not its size,
are the measure Of intellectual power, said
Prof Otis 7. Mason of New York the other day
| Taking up pencil and sheet of paper he
added: Here is a rough outline of the island Of
Manhattan as the white men found it Eorigi-
| nauy. You could not moor SO many vessels
| along its few miles of shoreline. Now, this is
the outline of the island as it is at present all
fringed with long wharves projecting
an unlimited number OF ships can
| find room for their accommodation. In the
| original outline you see figure that may rep
resent the brain that does little thinking But
| observe, when run my pencil point in and out,
| in and out between the wharves which mans
| ingenuity has devised and built, how am trac-
ing the convolutions of his wonderful cerebral
| hemispheres What commerce is to New York
the blood is to the brain, and the more compli-
| Gated the convolutions the greater the surface
| for the vessels through which the blood travels
| and the more elaborate the intellectual re-
| sources
THERE was a modest and retiring looking
gentleman sitting on one Of the plush sofas at
| a New York hotel the other day. It was f.
! II. Patterson of Pineville, KY. On the little
finger OF his left hand he displayed curiously-
| set amethyst ring. 1t was not an expensive bit
of jewelry, but odd enough to attract the atten-
| ton of close observer. That ring has an
| historic value" said Mr. Patterson. 1T was
present to member of my family from Louis
| XVI My wife is a granddaughter of Owens Of
| Mt. Sterling, Ky, with whom the exiled
monarch stopped while in this country
incognto in the time of the first Ma
poleon. While at her grandfather's house
the king one evening just before parting took q
| glass of wine and dropped half dozen Jewels
in it; then, after drinking the wine from of the
| precious stones, distributed them among the
| various members of the family as a mark of his
personal esteem. This particular stone finally
fell to my wife's sister. who died in Ashevie, N
G., recently, and by her it was presented to me.
| 1t has been all through the war and has been
considered lucky stone. At any rate nothing
would induce me to part with it,
| In CHANGING SCENERY in the second act of the
new melodrama called The Power of the
Press, recently running at New York theater.
| the lights are turned down very low. In fact
| they are practically put out, and the audience
| is left for few seconds in Egyptian darkness
/ A subdued feminine litter usually runs through
| the auditorium when this occurs. This litter
became roar Of laughter the other night when
distinct sounds OF kissing arose in various parts
| OF the house. 10 was first modest osculatory
vibration from remote section of the orcheS-
ira circle. 1t sent thrill up every spinal COL
| umn in the immense audience. A second later
/ pronounced smack was heard in the balcony
| which created a great sensation. Then followed
| succession Of base limitations in the gallery
| sptinkled with loud cries of Come off ~ Now
| you jes leave me alone!" Take our arm away
| Charley" etc. The beginning was attributed
| to the presence of some ventriloQuist, but the
| hilarious end ses med to justify the means
| When the lights were turned on there were a
good many rosy faces in that crowd. but nobody
seemed to be unhappy. 1t was a great hit.
Soon after our arrival writes one of ex-Sena-
tor Warner Miller's party in Ncarauga, it was
arranged for the explorers to start over the
| canal route on Tuesday, April z To give US a
| proper send-off the governors Of America City
and San Juan, as the representatives of the ma
| tional government, gave us dinner on Mon
| day night. Before the dinner was ended the
| start over the canal route was postponed until
| Wednesday. The dinner party would have at
| tracted attention could it suddenly have been
| transferred to New York, on several accounts
| Probably no feature of it would have been no.
| ticed more than the dress of the explorers. We
al had dress suits, it is true, but the suits had
| been through sbipwreck on Roncador coral
reef, while in headgear there was variety
| that included one silk hat, two colors
| of derby three colors of SLOUGH, and pictur-
esque number of straw. There was one pair Of
patent leather shoes and many qualities OF calf
skin. The dinner was served at the Hotel San
Juan. look at the front of the hotel a two
story affair, that reminded one explorer of
| hotels in the back counties Of Virginia was not
promising, but once within all fears about the
| menu and service, if any had been entertained,
| vanished. On arrival we were ushered into a
| room off the bar, and a good old fashioned
soul-stirring cocktail was administered, with
| caviare sandwiches. No better beginning for
a feast need be asked for than soui-stirring
cocktails with caviare sandwiches. The
guests al became well acquainted aud friends
while yet the farewell of the cocktail had not
| vanished, although some. being natives, could
not talk English, and but two Of the explorers
had acquired the Spanish tongue, From the
| COCkI6lo VIC IuarC0ou through q vfne-COver6Q
arbor draped beautifully with flags and lighted
with lamps and candles to a house a long way
off, where we found great room omen on the
| left with a U-shaped table laden with flowers
occupying most of the sIaos Mr. Miller sat at
the head of the table, with Gov. Sacassa OF San
Juan at his right and Gov. Saenz of America
City at his left. Both hosts were
colored gentlemen. The rest of the
guests, and they included the Miller party and
the prominent citizens of the town, white and
colored, were intermingled about the table
very skilfully. The menu was a work of art
1t was written in French and English on cream
linen note paper with red ink dashes between
the courses, aud was decorated with a wide slip
of ribbon on which the flags of Nicaragua and
the United States we're tastefuliy embroidered
The guests promptly pocketed the slips as
mementoes. We began with ''potage oxtail"
and ended with 'diverses liqueurs " The wines
included Sauterne, claret, sherry, port. and
champagne. The foods included oyster patties
roast turkey and currant pie. It is likely that
the governors smiled when they put pie on the
list. They we're both capable of enjoying a
practical joke, and no pie-more especially cur
rant pie-is eaten by Nicaraguans. Some of the
Americans eat it, however. with apparent rel
| ish. The rest ate everything else with absolute
| relish. San Juan del Norte is village of less
than !, 200 people, the most of whom are unedu-
Gated negroes from Jamaica. Imagine the
mayor of a backwoods village of that size in the
ates getting up dinner of six courses which
| three members of the Union League Club should
privately as well as publicly pronounce really
| good.