The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| A PRIVATE LETTER has been received from
I Frank Butler, the husband and manager Of Miss
/ Annie Oakley, the marvellous rife shooter Of
Buffalo Bills show, in which Miss Oakley is re-
ported being alive and well and entirely salts
/ fed with her obituary, which was published
under Paris date about ten days ago. At the
/ time OF her reported death Miss Oakley was,
ana IS stiit enjoying herself on some game pre-
serves in the vicinity of London, where she ex-
/ poets TO remain for some weeks.
! THE ABGHAsIANs, a mountain tribe Of eau
casia. follow the very primitive custom OF
I stealing wives for themselves. If young man
kdnaps girl he likes, he makes her his wife
whether she is agreeable to the match or not.
/ This gives rise t. frequent fights between the
/ families of the tribe, which never end without
human sacrifices But il the kidnapped girl
likes the man who has taken her. she acts as
the Sabinian women in ancient Rome did.
When her family declare war against her
groom, she runs to meet them. and to appease
/ them, and if they don't listen to her entreaties
she joins her husband in fight against her own
/ kin.
| a COMPANY Of wealthy men has been formed
TO open in st. Petersburg Living chronological
exhibition" Living specimens of the various
! races and tribes that populate the dominions of
! the car will be collected f r show. together
with samples of tn ir dwellings and the ap-
pointment of their houses, tneir shrines of wor-
ship, their garments, the food they live on, the
products of their peculiar industries, and even
their manners and habits of life, if possible.
Should this exhibition be successful. it will be
carried about to all tn important cities of the
empire The American show of the wild
West, in Moscow aud st. p tersburg last sum-
mer. gave rise to the plan of this undertaking.
Ex-PREsIDENr GROVER CLEVELAND has two
warm personal friends in Brooklyn in Harry
Polhemus and Dr. John G. Roeman The
former sends to the ex-chisf magistrate of the
nation every year half dozen pairs of as choice
canvasoack ducks as can be shot along the
bank of the Susquehanna. Mr. Cleveland is
and
fication at the receipt of the feathered tid-bits
Several years ago, POlhemus sent the first can
vasbacks to Mr.. Cleveland, and about their
Transmission good story is told. They were
sent up from the hunting ground
to a game dealer at Havre de Grace, with
instructions to pack them carefully and express
them to Washington. The enterprising dealer
slipped into the box one of his cards. and when
the box was opened in the white house, in the
Presidents presence. Mr.. Cleveland came to the
conclusion that mis- friend Polhemas had bought
the birds and sent them to him. He knows
better now, and the knowledge that the ducks
he receives every year from Polhemus are shot
by an old friend adds to their value.
THERE is a remarkable show at the Crystal
Palace, London, which represents the millennium
on small scale, says the Chicago Post The
lion does not lie down with the lamb, but the
cat and the rat, the mouse and the canary all
live IN peace and harmony together, and enjoy
the benefits of good educat on The educator
OF the animals is Miss Tina, who has taught
them some remarkable feats. The cats walk
the tight rope which has white rats and mice
ana chirping canares strewn all over it
Inc cats pick their way careful ly among
their natural prey without molesting them,
ana Will even carry some of them on their backs
without being once tempted to gobble them up.
They walk over the tops of chairs, pick their
way among mass of champagne bottles with
out displacing single one of them. and Jump
through rings of fire without the slightest hest
tatlon. Miss Tina trains her cats, rats, .ce
and birds from a very early age. She begins
with kitten when it is about months old and
manages them by kindness She never beats
them, and says they can be trained to almost
anything by perseverance, The rats and mice
become accustomed to the cats, and lose all fear
of them. All are well fed, and seem to enjoy
their life
They have snakes in Florida They are not
mentioned in the real estate advertisements,
but they go with the real est ate just the same,
and likewise with the ~gater. A yong man
who has gone down there to escape ,.ly cool
weathe that may strike here this winter was
out boating on the st. Johns river with a
little on Fsrent oo eUenng into and 1ba seeing
expresses. they decided to explore it.
They had rowed but short distance when the
creek narrowed so that there was barely room
to propsl the boat and none to turn
1t, and an underground of bushes hung
so low as to almost touch their faces pc
culiar rustling used them to ship their oars
and listen The noise was overhead 1t was
made by snakes. They had got into a regular
nest of serpents The banks re alive with
them; the underground was feStooned with
them; they were crawling and squIrming on
every hand; they we're dangling close to their
seads; they were wrigglng through the water
long snakes, Short snakes, harmless snakes.
poisonous snakes, fat snakes. lean snakes ugly
sn kes, lazy snakes. arbor Of materialized
delirum tremens The two oarsmen glanced at
each Other for second, then bending low and
moving cautiously, they rowed their boat. st IN
foremost, back to the st. Johns river. Until
they reached the more open water neither of
| them spoke aud they have no recollection of
breathing. They do not row there any more
In a barber shop the other day, says writer
in the New York Sun. l noticed a gentleman
| whose hair and whiskers were Jet black, in
! strong contrast to a skin that was wrinkIed and
| old. The barber who was attending me whis-
pered that 1t was the result Of hair dye, and
| went on to say: I'VE never put on hair dive In
| public. We go to mems houses or their rooms
| in hotels. or they come to us on Sundays when
| we are supposed to be closed. There is no hair
dye that is safe to use long, The best of all hair
dyes is nitrate Of silver. which must be applied
| TO The roots of the hair to make it black, and
! the long continued use of which will poison the
blood and bring on softening of the brain. If it
| touches the flesh it will blacken that also
| and can only be removed by chlorate
! of potash, which has nasty odor.
| 1t is remarkable what vanity men
| posse about appearing young, and how they
| will risk the use of such poisonous stuff to keep
| their hair from becoming gray. We have one
customer who has aruddy face, and who thinks
! LlAU on IulS account NO one suspects That ne
! dyes his hair and wliiskers. He will talk
| openly to gentlemen whom he meets of the
| dangers of using hair dye. give his opinion that
| it is q foolish habit and even says that he can
not understand now men will dye their hair
and thinks no one knows it is dyed, when!every-
body knows it. The curious thing is that he
thinks in talking this way to deceive others
into the belief that his hair is not dyed, when,
as be himself says, every body does know dyed
hair the moment they see it. The barber does
not live WHO can dye hair so successfully that
the great majority of persons cannot detect it
on sight"
AMONG the wild animals indigenous to Africa
which are profitable to commerce may be cited
the elephant first of all From the African ele-
plant, indeed, the worlds supp OF ivory is
almost exclusively drawn. The Ceylon elephant
has no tusSs at all, and the elephant of India and
| the Malay arcaipe ago, for what reason cannot
say, furnishes but little ivory to the market so
| little in fact that the Chinese, Japanese and
| Indians have to import ivory from Africa for
| the hundred and one graceful artistic objects
| which they manufacture. Next, perhaps to
| gold and diamonds, ivory is the most valuable
| and profitable African product. As rule, peo-
| pie are given to talking of it in a dsparaging
way as vanishing quantity and not a source OF
wealth to be permanently calculated on If
proper steps taken toward a
| judicious preservation of the elephant
| especially the females-and it's slaughter
| were to a certain extent controlled and organ
| lied, there is no reason why this magnificent
| beast sho uld become extinct any more than
| has the Indian elephant The Indian elephant