The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TIE DUKE or PoRTLAsD, who won stakes 70
the vllus OF ga. 900 last year. has come down
this year to e25 O00 which, however. is el0. 600
more tnan any other owner secured, Alr. Houlds-
worth being second.
king MILAN, late Of Servia. has been in Scot
land forte1 days on visit to Lord Abinger at
Inverlocby castle, Inverness shire; where the
party included the Barons Z and r Erlanger
and Sir Frederick Stephenson.
THERE are. according to Gen. Niles state
mert. q. 900 weIl-armed Sioux. The policy Of
this indulgent government in providing uncivil-
lied and half-civlized Indians with deadly
weapons is dubious. for. a western bard,
whose name we have forgotten, once sagely re-
marked:
There amt no trustin' an Injun,
He's a cataWampus cuss,
And when he's doin' sOmethin bad,
He's wishin' twas sOmethin' wusS."
TEE MANNER in which Lord Cantalupe's
funeral at BOlbee was conducted caused the
greatest pain, not only to the bereaved parents.
but 70 the families Of Lord Salisbury, the Earl
| Of Derby and the Dukes of Bedford and Rut-
/ land, with whom he was SO closely connected
| 1t seems that only three persons were present,
| and the ceremony was characterized by extreme
! brevity. II is certainly an anomaly that the
| accident or dying Intestate can prevent the heir
OF an ancient family from being buried with his
| ancestors.
THE MARQUIS De BREUEIL, by the time his
! England, will have become an american
NOBLE, as he is engaged to Mss Garner, niece
OF Air and Mrs Lawrence Of New YORK, who
| always pass the winter at Pau and whose
| daughter married Lord Vernon three or four
years ago. Miss Gamers parents were both
| drowned while yachting, many years ago, and
sne, with her sister has been brought up by her
aunt, Mrs. Lawrence. The marriage viii take
| place at Pau In February
REV. AUGUSTUS ToLroN, the first colored Ro-
man Catholic priest ordained in the United
States, preached in 81. Patrick church, Twentieth
ana Locust streets, Philadelphia, recently, to a
| congregation that crowded the large edifice.
| rather Tolton reviewed his life. He said he was
| porn In 1854, of parents who were slaves.
! Whle yet child his home was visited by a
| missionary priest, who instructed the family in
| the commandments and baptized them. Young
| loiton was sent 60 school to the Sisters and
! atterward to st. Francis college, and thence TO
! Rome, where he was ordained a few years ago.
he is at present collecting for new church.
The EMPRESS FREDERICK, who has always de-
voted much ii me and attention to the study of
| all matters concerning health, is now deeply in
terested in DR.. Koch'S discovery and all at re-
| SUITS from 1t. She not only has taken the
! opportunity of informing herself on the subject
| from DR.. Koch himself but she visits in success
sion the hospitals where his method of cure is
| practlced, has the processes explained to her,
| ana oose yes with great attention the patients
| oelng treated. DR.. Koch is not gaining ground
| In Paris; be is disGrusted in Brussels still more
| creed that every case of incubation is to be
| notified to the authorities, and both physician
| aud patient carefully watched in every case
| Declaration as to the origin of the lymph is to
| De made with the greatest precision and detail
From every point of view / think, says Lon.
don Truth, it is time that we got rid of with all
my worldly goods thee endow." The married
womenS property act, 1882 has put it out of
| cate. Under the common law this declaration
| OF unlimited endowment was proper enough
& y0rl3 " d. rgad 81.
| band and it was only fair that she should enjoy
| theoretically reciprocal rights in her husband 8
substance But the act has changed all that
! Matrmony no longer affects the ladys rights
| IN her property. She need not endow her nus
| band unless she likes; why, then, should he en-
| dow her? The businesslike plan would be for
| eacn To state in figures the precise amount Of
endowment Observation-Disclosures it IS no
6leman endowing his cook or q duchess or
baroness endowlnR some Young spark whom she
he's fancy to make her husband.
The FIRST ANNIVERSARY of the death of Rob
ert Browning, "the writer of lays" as he once
dubbed himself, was recently celebrated by
| several friends IN London. and back from the
| portals of the distant and dim land OF shades
| comes the loved and well remem bered voice
| preserved by the magician of Menlo Park It
| was on April last year that Miss Ferguson at
| the studio OF Mr.. Rudolph lehman, succeeded
| In persuading Browning to speak into phono-
! graph, and it was at the Edison house. North
| cumberland avenue, that the experiment was
| made yesterday. The poets voice was heard in
| the tones that were so characteristic of him,
ana winch were so well known and so we'll
remembered by every one who was present
| The lines ne spoke into the instrument were a
| portion Of his own poem How They Brought
the Good News from Client to AK
| SOME ONE has been looking up the origin of
| some of the peculiar white oaths that people
use, and the result is interesting The oath ''by
Jlmlni" is not classical in appearance but it is
| clearly a corruption of the Latin 'tgemini'l or
twins" as applied to the demi-gods, Castor
| and Pollux. What does my lady mean when
she signs 20, dear?' She is simply initiating
| madame who says Mon Dieu'' with Gallo
| vivacity. When the man of the world calculates
the deuceW hekmagines that he Is talking
| English. o, no. He is talking Latin again and
| evoking the devil, designated in the word esdus
lus. When our rural friends gasp gosh"
with astonishment depicted on their counter.
| ance they are simply giving q sibilant ending
| TO the otherwise hard-sounding name of the
ueity When the gushing school girl twitters
| goodness gracious" if she would think "a
| moment and reverse the words she would never
use them again lightly. A little study of the
| true meaning of words might save a great deal
| OF unlntentional profanity
APRoPos of,barbers there is one not very for
| from the Knckerbocker Club who is quite a
| character. says the New York Star He ia
called the Barber Of the Four Hundred For
| many years he was in the club house itself h,t
Ior some time he had conducted establish
ment outside His claim that he shaves and
trims New York swelldom only is well founded
| l happened to stroll into his place one dav last
| spring and found DR.. Fordyce Barker. Perry
Belmont, j. j. Aston, Jr., and Harry LIE CSranda
cannon waiting their turn. His first customer
in the winter is ex. Secretary Whitney. who ia
| shaved there at $3.50 in the morning. Ex-Presi-
| oeuC Cleveland has also been seen In the shop.
About IL O'Clock every day carriages drive up.
| ana gentlemen whose duties seem to be elegant
leisure come for their daily shampoo. The
barber also does a thriving business at the
| houses OF his patrons. He is well up in society
| cnlt-chat, and what he knows in the wav Of
| backstalrS gossip would make the fortune of
many Photographer on society paper.
! LORD ToLLEMACHE had possibly the honor of
possessing, some time or another, the most
patriarchal family in all Europe OF his
| twenty-three sons, however, only eleven SIR
| Vlve him, as well as one daughter In 1884
| when only 10, he won a 100-yard race at Iord's
| against one of the most noted professionals of
| the Gay, and for some years constantly drove
| the London mail to Ipswich earning before he
| was 80 the reputation of being the finest whin
| or ms Iue. He never lost his intense love for
| field sports to the last, and nothing delighted
| MN hat so much as the success achieved nv
| his sons In the Ston cricket fields Possibly the
| proudest day of his life was that on which his
| son Mortimer, who was born when his father
| was DO, got into the Elton eleven at Is He held
| the modern battue in absolute detestation. His
! luncheon baskets were renowned for the firm
| gality or Their contents, for Lord TolIemacbe
lnslated on frugal fare while shooting lust as