The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

HE DECLINE or french cookery is said to
have begun about 1850. The restaurant then
began TO deteriorate through the Partisan diner
losing his aesthetic sense and many of the best
chefs being attracted to London by the high
offers of the English nobility and clubs.
TURKISH SOLDIERS are said to be very poor
marksmen. Recent target contests in the
Turkish army demonstrated" that not one
soldier in twenty could hit a man at twenty
PAGES target about four feet in diameter
placed thirty rods away, was hit on an average
only once out OF thirty shots.
AN EASTERN BARBER, who recently went west,
says: "A clean shave is an abomination almost
exclusively confded to the west. 1t is quite an
unusual thing in the east, and is something I'M
heard of in Europe. A clean shave means really
taxing of a certain thickness of the skin. aud
the man who will submit to this torture for the
looks deserves no sympathy. To clean shave
man without drawing blood is to prove ones
self an artist. and that is why a western man is
popular in the far east"
A WOMAN in the Washington Post thus solves
the woman question: What man exists who
desires to claim that the source from which he
sprang is inferior? AS long as man is born of
woman he is going to respect and reverence
her, II for nothing else, for having given such
shining light into the world as himself It's q
case OF Hobson's choice! Bound to do it on his
own account don't you know? But he does not
want her just like himself He is ever glad to
acknowledge her as an equal, and even superior,
out when it comes to similar he rebels and
draws the line! And in truth what a monoto-
nous world it will be when we all dress after
one style, and act the same at all times and
places. l AN glad won't be alive. Are not
you? Say yes"
EX-Gov ADAMS of Colorado heard Parnel
make several addresses in ireland and says of
him: "Parnell has an ideal face He is a
forcible and convincing speaker and to hear
him is to believe what he says. He made a
great speech at Thurles, Tpperary county |
stood immediately in front of him. He has
only one distinctive gesture, using his arm ia a
swinging up and down motion. ParnelI does
not depend on rhetoric TO convert his hearers,
but talks in q clear, logical way. He is almost
great man. But there is no question that
Parnell is beaten, and l am satisfied the Irish
Gauss will lose by his retirement. The O'Shea
affair was certainly bad enough, but | am
simply sorry he was caught. His moral con-
born leader; great self-poiss; different from
the others He is brave man and is afraid of
nobody
ZONE THING that strikes me about Washing
ton" said stranger TO Star reporter. lis
that time seems to be of little value here. I
never saw town before Of any size that had
no big clock IN the steeple or elsewhere to in
form the pedestrian public of the hour In
this city have not been able thus far to dis
cover any, save couple outside of jewelers.
stores IN the shopping quarter. The very people
on the streets promenade in leisureIy way in
stead of skurrying along as they do in New
YORK and Boston, or even in proverbially old
Philadelphia One sees an illustration of the dis
regard Tor time prevalent here in the mere Law
ing out of the paths in the reservations. I
haven't yet been aole 10 discover a vay of en-
tering the Smithsonian institute without going
In half a dozen other directions en- route so
complicated is the serpentine system adopted
10 those grounds"
TIE Liverpool Elevated railroad, running
along the line of docks, is rapidly nearing com
| pletlon. Two miles have been built in she past
| SIX months and is expected the line will be
open for traffic next spring The line When
! completed will be between five and six miles in
| length. Liverpool newspaper proudly re-
marks that this viii be the longest piece OF
bridge work in the world. The Liverpoolians
| appear ignorant of the dozens of
miles Of elevated roads in New York city
This dock line preserves some peculiar
| difficulties three drawbridges being needed
( across deck entrances In the part already fin
| lshed. The motive power of the road will be
| electricity The current will be generated at a
! central station and conveyed TO the motor cars
| by means of q central rail. A contract has
| been made with an electrical construction com
| pany for working the trains at a fixed sum per
! tram mile for two years. At present the dock
| me transportation Is by means OF conveyances
like the Fifth avenue stages, with seats on the
| roof
| The OCTOPUS or deVil-fish that has been in
Testing Great Egg Harbor bay, Tuckahoe river
| and the Atlantic ocean Off this isl and for n
| month, has been seen again, says an Ocean CITY
! IN. j. correspondent of the New York World
| While party of Philadelphians were going TO
| Somers' Point in Capt. Mark Lakes sailboat
| the great invertebrate was seen complacently
| reclining upon the sand bar that extends from
| just below here and partly across Great Egg
| Harbor bay, when the tide is low in the direc
| ton of Longport. One of the sailing party
| John d. Mahoney, called the attention of the
men upon fishing schooner that
was anchored near Bresly's point to
! the devil fish, and the fishermen pro-
ceeded to the sand-bar with the intention
| of either capturing or killing the monster
| When they approached the octopus it took to
| the water. The crew of the boat hoisted all sail
| and dashed after the great fish After running
| for about fifteen minutes the invertebrate 1oun.
| dered upon an island near Longport. The men
upon the schooner Rover lowered small boat
| and. arming themselves with every conceivable
| kind Of weapon, started TO attack the devihsh
| When the boat was almost upon the shore tho
| octupus passed under the bow, nearly upsettinR
| it, and reached the ocean thoroughfare and was
| out of sight before the thoroughly astonished
| ard frightened mariners could use
| a weapon. After recovering from
| the shock chase was given the sea
| monster, but it made its escape into the sea-
near the inlet Those who have seen the devil
| fish say it is terriblelooking creature. There
are various statements as to its SIZE some say
| ing that it is fully fifty feet long while others
| think that it is not more than thirty feet hong
| 1t had the head OF an enormous serpent the fins
| that extend from its sides. Within a recent
| period the fishermen along the coast have no
ticed an unusual scarcity of food fish, and thew
| think the devil-fiSh has scared the timid deni-
| zens of the deep away from their usual haunts
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