The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


OF ceremonies at the imperial court. Count Eu-
/ lenoerg told his majesty of a young music
teacher in Karisbad who had lost her piano in
the late flood The girl was poverty stricken
| In her loss as the piano was the only means of
earning her daily bread. the story touched the
| Kind nature Of Emperor William, and he at
| once proposed to take up g collection for her
| benefit. Placing 100 marks on a plate, he passed
| II around the table. and quickly secured enough
money to purchase the young woman new
piano and TO give her fresh start in life. II is
need ess to add that the happy teacher is now a
''Schwa srmerin" for his majesty.
DR. SASBoRN of the state insane asylum at
Augusta, Ne. has a wide sympathy and feels
deeply for his charges at the asylum We were
making a tour of the hospital with him the
other day, when he stopped to speak to young
man who seemed very deaf. You are better
| To-Day, Samuel, said he, patting him upon the
back. You are much better, aud am glad TO
| see it. Good-bv." when that man came here
three days ago." said DIR. Sanborn, he could
| very violent and had to be kept secure. AS his
mania passed he became deaf. He has been
here before-comes perodically-and each time
notlce the popularity in his hearing. II is a
curious case What strange action of the brain
is 1t that in insanity awalzens his sense of hear
lug! In his mania his hearing is exceedingly
acute. In his sanity it is exceedingly dull The
brain is wonderful world"
THE question of Cleopatra's beauty is an old
one. but it has been brought into fresh promi-
nence by Sordou's Cleopatra" and Mrs. Lang
try s revival of Shakespeare's play. The only
authentic portrait of Cleopatra that is known
TO archBologists is a bust which appears on a
series OF coins 1t is on the reverse, and bears
Divine the Younger" while on the diverse is a
portrait or Antony. Dictator for the Third
lime, TriumVir." The workmanship Of the
coin is far from good. and this accounts in some
measure for the undeniably plain appearance
OF the queen. Yet the likeness SO far as the
features go, is true one, for the other coins of
~ NwrrNa erfrra
her the same features-an aquiline nose,
strong chin, long neck and narrow shoulders.
The fact is that her beauty was not so remarka-
BILE as one would think from the spell cast over
Caesar and Antony.
THE grave of Annie Rutledge, the early love
| of Abraham Lincoln will soon have fitting
| monument. The body, which for nearly fifty
| five years has rested in the cemetery at New
Concord, ILL.,, was recently exhumed and buried
| in Oakland cemetery in this city. 1t was to
rescue from oblivion the emains of woman
| SO closely and dearly related to Lincoln that a
subscription was started some months ago
among the citizens of Petersburg for the pur-
pose of erecting a suitable monument The
difficulty in the way was in discovering the
grave, which had been beaten down by the
storms OF years. Old settlers say that storm
any time within year after the funeral would
| bring Lincoln the most violent paroxyisms of
| grief. Annie Rutledge died at the age of 10 of
| broken heart, caused by the desertion of
| Henry Mcneil, her lover. 1t was then that Lin
| gagged, but Miss Rutledge died before the date
| OF the marriage arrived.
| JUDGE JOHN D. PARK of Norwich, ex-chief
| justice of Connecticut, has a handsome New
| foundland dog that is a professional thief He
| steals fish mostly, and prefers cells. He trotted
| into the fish market Of Capt. Sam Comstolk on
| the west side of the CITY, mile from his home
| the other day, picked up package OF eels that
had been prepared for customer, and with the
bundle in his mouth set out leisurey for his
| home on Laurel Hill. The captain started after
| him. saying in a soothing tone: 80, doggie;
good doggie!" but the good doggie rolled one
| eye at pursuer and went on A clerk fol-
| lowed the dog and stole into Mr.. Parks back
door and related TO him the story of the dog
| and eels and the chase through town. The
judge cheerfully paid for the eels, thus COM
pounding the felony. ana had them for dinner.
! Capt. Comstolk has lost several packages of
eels in the evening from his store lately, and it
| is his opinion that Judge Parks dog knows
| what became of all Of them.
"IT Is remarkable" says q contributor to
the Boston Post. ''what ability has been shown
by the descendants Of Timothy Pickering His
grandson Charles who died in 1875, was the
| distinguished man Of science who wrote the
| Races Of Man and Their Geographical Distri-
button and other scientific works, and was
naturalist to the United States exploring ex-
petition under Capt. Wilkes Timothy Picker
ing's great-grandson, Edward Charles Picker
ing, is the well known astronomer who is d-
| rector of Harvard observatory and has gained
| the nlgneSt Sclentlnc honor6 In Europe as well
as IN this country, while another grandson,
| William Henry Pickering is also noted as
| tronomer connected with this observatory.
may add that Henry w. Pickering is uncle of
| the distinguished astronomer DIR. Benjamin
Apthorp Gould, whose great work in mapping
out the stars of the southern hemisphere has
given him worldwide reputation"
SENATOR MOODY has been making the same
sort of a fight in South Dakota that Mr. Pierce
made in North Dakota, the only difference being
that Moody was beaten a month ago, but ap-
parently seems unable to realize the fact. SEN
ator Moody has been disappointment to his
colleagues. He was elected senator from Da-
kota several years ago, when that territory be-
gan knocking at the door for admission to the
union, and before it had been divided into two
parts He had something of reputation then,
and in Dakota was regarded as a great man.
When he came to Washington and took his seat
and yet the very first thing he did was so small
that it seemed to extinguish him entirely
and his standing in the Senate since
has not been high. This initial senatorial
act of Mr.. Moody was the appointment
of his own son as page on the floor Of the SEN
ate. The boy was sworn in Immediately after
his father, and that act seemed to put blight
upon the senator. Members of the Senate will
stand good deal OF nepotism, and they can
bear with equanimity the appointment of sons,
nephews brothers-in-law, step-fathers and
other more or less near and dear relatives to
places on the Senate payroll; they can even
| look with conplacency on the fact that the wife
| Oh senator Reagan draws SO q day as private
secretary to her husband, but they resented the
| idea of a man appointing his own son page
and soon after securing his appointment Mr.
| Moody found that he had done very unpopular
| thing. He made a speech soon after being
sworn in, and good idea of the impression
| which he created can be gained by a remark of
| a colleague, who said; IF Moody keeps on he
VIII be as big a man as his boy some day.
A CARRIAGE, the driver and groom OF which
wore the wellbnown imperial livery of the
Emperor of Germany, says the SUMS cable
letter, was standing at the stage entrance of the
kings schauspielhouse on Charlotten strasse
Berlin, on Monday morning at O'Clock, and
three hours later it was still there, and an at
tendant from the theater was heard to tell the
coachman that the kaiser expected to be
through with the rehearsal within twenty min
uteS. The kaiser as stage manager was some
thing entirely new. Soon after the kaiser came
out In civilian dress and drove hurriedly away
Five minutes more and a cafe near by was
Swarming with actors and actresses from the
theater, who seemed anxious to unload their
minds of something unusual that had happened
II will not forget it If l live for a hundred
years, cried the soubrette, who looked as il she
had seen forty summers at least. His
majesty actually thinks l should play old
woman parts. and added he would order that I
should be placed in my proper sphere" and
turning to her companion, an actor whose name
has been mentioned frequently with reference
| to Amberg's theater in New York she contin-
ued, land what did he tell you9m s.Hfis ma iestv