The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! "OSCE GOOSE" writes as follows to the New
| York Sun: Pour years ago was merchant
| tailor. owned three houses and coed business
/ a Murray Hill dude got in my debt $50: could
| not get him TO pay me. / advertised the bill
for sale. He then sued me for $1,000 damages
then put the bill up in my shop with a note on
lt-bad debt for sale-he sued me again for
s5,OO0 Tho judge at court said it was libel,
ana an outrageous libel Ny lawyer and his
lawyer now own two of the houses | once
owned. After settled the cases met the dude
with a suit Of my clothes on. then licked
him. Sued me for this. and for this now have
a mortgage on the other house The only
tnlng ever got from this one of the Four Hun
dred was his measure. | have il yet. IL is not
for sale My experience is this: would sooner
nave bad debt than good lawyer. | now
sell for cash.
The decree nisi obtained by Capt. O'Shes
against his WIFE says London letter. will
assume the character and force of an absolute
divorce in six weeks, which fact is greatly in
ere casing discussion Of the question whether Mr..
farhell VIII avail himself OF the opportunity
onered to make the lady his wife It has all
along oe=n admitted that the couple have in
Tended to be married soon as they could
Legally do so, but 1t is now stated that the we'd
ding is extremely unlikely to take place, not,
however, through any dissemination on the
part OF Mr.. Parnell. 1t is learned upon excellent
authority that the objection proceeds from
Mrs. o Shea, who, it is alleged. has become dis
gusted with Mr.. Parne1's conduct, and now
Delleves that the gentleman is actuated by no
hlSher motive in wishing 10 become her hus-
band than TO obtain possession of her money to
bolster up his personal cause.
A FEW EVENINGS AGO a prominent publisher
walked into the Players Club, Philadelphia, and
seeing Edwin Booth, sought an introduction.
After a few moments talk the man of books
got down TO business, and offered the
actor the sum of $4,000 cash and .geuer-
Gus royalty If he would consent to write the
story OF his life, telling something about the
people be has met, his views of players, male
ana female, and something about the stage of
tomorrow and the qua lificatlons necessary for
actors thereon Mr.. Booth, always taciturn,
stitiy replied: mo; nor five times that sum
would induce me to write a line of it, l shall
never write a book. 1 detest writing Some
times | think don't even like to act" He had
said this without removing his cigar from his
teeth, and after finishing the last word turned
and walked leisurely away, leaving the pub
Usher In cloud of tobacco smoke to marvel at
man who could thus stolidly refuse small
fortune by simple act of pen-work
The following poem of three stanzas of four
lines each has often been alluded to as one of
the most unique of literary curiosities, says the
Chicago Tribune. Each stanza contains every
letter in the alphabet, except the letter Sc"
which all printers will tell you is one of the
most indispensable of letters, its relative pro-
portion of use being 100 times to j 4, ks, II
and 40. The one coming next to E'e" in num-
Der of times in use is IA, " which is used 80
times while the letter in question is being used
lSO CluoS. Inc poem winch mas caused the
above aggression is entitled:
THE FATE OF NASSAU.
Bold Nassau quits his caravan,
hazy mountain grot to scan;
Climbed Jagged rocks to spy his way,
Doth tax his sight but far doth stray.
Not work of man nor sport of child
Finds Nassau in that may wild;
Lax grow his joints, limbs toll in vain;
Poor wight. why didSt thou quit that plain?
Nainly for succor Nassau calls,
Know Zillah that thy Nassau falls;
But proving wolf and fox may Joy
To quarry on thy Arab boy.
SAW the Duke Of Clarence and Avondale.
heir presumptive to the throne, as he was leav-
ing TO join his regiment after a one-day visit
upon his father at Marlborough house, SAYS a
London letter The lad was looking particu-
larry gloomy, and it is safe to presume that he
did not half like the idea of leaving the tempta-
tons of London for the gloom of the mess
room at York 1t has lately begun to be sus-
pected that the duke is subject to chronic
blues, as he cannot be tempted to smile and
evidently has terrible woe gnawing at his
heart. Once it was said that he was
yearning his royal young soul away out
OF hopeless love for an American
girl, but now it is becoming the general notion
that his is one Of those miserable natures that
ENJOY the pangs of regular grief A large
share OF the British nation would, it is safe to
say, like to see Jolly young Prince George on the
throne instead Of [ c tall and bilious Albert
DuC tudG ueSlfe cannot be gratlted unless the
elder brother succumbs entirely 10 mis- sorrow
and fades away in fine bit of the dumps"
When saw the duke he wore the latest fashion.
lonaole coat a long trock, or Prince Albert "
left unbuttoned. This garment, let it be OBJ
served, is to reign throughout the coming sea-
son as the fashionable thing for street wear
In the new United States Senate there will be
no less than thirteen natives of New York
Here are their names: Stanford and FELTON, of
California, Davis of Minnesota Sanders of
Montana, Paddock of Nebraska, Stewart of
Nevada. Mcpherson of New Jersey, Hill and
Hlscock Of New York, Casey OF North Dakota
Dolph OF Oregon, and Squire of Washington
Mcpherson OF New Jersey and Casey OF North
Dakota were born at York. Livingston
county. the former in 1888 and the latter in 1897
Next to New York stands Ohio, who viii have
eight of her sons in the Senate Pennsylvania
and Kentucky will have six each; Vermont will
have five; Tennessee, Georgia, Massachusetts,
Maine and Virginia will eachlhave four; North
Carolina and Delaware will have three each.
illinois, New Hampshire, Rhode Island South
Carolina and West Virginia will have two each
and each OF the States Of Arkansas Alabama
Connecticut, Louisiana, MARYLAND Missouri
Iowa and Indiana will have one native in the
Senate. Four members Of the new Senate and
only four, were born beyond the limits of the
United States. Senator Mcmillan was born in
Hamilton, Ont, and Senator Gallinger first saw
the light OF day at Cornwall, in tn same PROV
ince. Senator Jones of Nevada was born in
Herefordshlre, England, and Senator Pasco of
Florida was born in London.
TAKE THE LINDEN TREES, for instance. saws
the New York Ledger, speaking of long-lived
trees. One Of these is still standing at the vii.
lage of Villars-en- Moing, near the town of
Morat. This was a noted tree at the time of
the battle between the Swiss and Charles the
Bold. in l476, and the measurements made bv
experts show that it was even then 500 years
old. Another linden tree at Neustadt in Wur-
temberg, can be proved by extant Documents
to have been considered noteworthy In A. d
1896 but botanists are able to prove that its age
exceeds eight centuries. There is a Chestnut
tree at Tamworth, in England. which was
known as landmark when King Stephen as
cended tie throne in 1885. 1t is fifty-two feet
in circumference, five feet from the ground
and it must, so it is computed, long since have
celebrated its thousandth anniversary. There
is still older oak near Santes, in France. for
this has girth near the ground of nearly
ninety four feet From the center of this tree
to the circumference have been counted some
1000 concentrc annual rings, which makes il
about 1000 years old This is perhaps the pa
triarch of the forest Of all Europe There is
however, cypress at Sonima, in Lombardy, as
to which botanists of high authority are in
cned to credit the local tradition that it was in
existence in the time of Julius Caesar.
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