The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-09
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
TIE QUEEN OF PORTUGAL, who is a splendid
horsewoman. rises early and may often be met
riding i'll the country about Lisbon at an hour
when many of her subjects are still asleep. OF
late she mas been accompanied in these matud-
nal rides by her sister, the Princess Helena of
Orleans. The princess will accompany the
queen to Cintra when the court removes to the
beautiful rural palace of La Pena.
THE Princess LOUISE of Schleswig- Holstein,
who is to be married with much pomp and GER
emory, has royal trousseau. Not the smallest
item consists of a number of eXquisitely fash
Toned corsets. They are made of the new ma
terlal called 81 X cOutllle, and are bound with
plush and lined with silk. the boning and the
cut ing each perfectly exquisite of their kind.
One pair is IN pink and the other in blue, and
there are petticOats to match each color in
similar kind of material The pink one has one
deep founce of silk yelled with Valencennes
lace and baayeuse Of silk and laca. the blue
one is made in the same way except that it has
two narrow tiOunces beaded by boulhonees of
blue silk.
APRoPos of the death of Gen Sumpt. com
mandant of the Paris Invalides, romantic
story is told of his marriage. In 1870, just at
the time when the war broke out between
France and Germany, the general. who was
then only a lieutenant colonel, became engaged
to Mile. Peetn, daughter of the celebrated
physician to the Bonaparte family. He kissed
his betrothed and rode away like q gallant
knight to battle. Long months atterward he
returned with both arms amputated. and he
offered 10 release his fdncee from her engage
ment. NJ le. Pelletin's reply was to throw her
arms around her mutilated hero's neck, and the
marriage that ensued was as happy as even q
I'M de steele novelist could desire. Marshal
MacMahon, who was among the mourners as
at the funeral appeared to be deeply moved
with grief AS he turned from the graveside
he said audibly: "A few more gallant fellows
GIN pt md rhn sian
have seen the walls Of Paris"
JOHN GUNG, a Chinese Iandryman on Missis-
sippi street, st. Paul, branched out last evening
in a new role The Chinese are not a success as
pugilists a rule, but the pigtailed hero of this
incident must have been taking lessons from
some one, because he showed himself well up
in the latest style of:the art in encounter
with a Rice street tough named Murphy,
which occurred near the saloon onwed by
a man of that name Murphy weighs fully 40
pounds, and the Chinaman Will scarcely go
more than 1875 pounds. TIE latter, however,
after re uesting Murphy TO desist without eff
feet, sailed into him like a cyclone, landing
scientific swing on his neck and brought him to
his feet with a left hand upper cut that simply
paralyzed the behOlders and placed the re-
doubtabe Murphy horse de combat. John
Gung is the most admired Chinaman who ever
appeared on Rice street. After the encounter
| he accepted an invitation to drink and ne
| quaffed the liquor he boosted that he could
| 'lic6ee Mclean alice time"
| AN OLD WESTERN HUNTER had been shooting
| prairie dogs, on which there was bounty of
| 10 cents per head. In making his morning
round he would pile up the dogs he had killed
IN one place. 90 on to another place and make
another pile, and so on until he was ready 20
return, when he would skin each dog aud take
his skin to camp. RATHER was concealed
beneath one heap of dogs, and as the hunter
was pulling out dog the snake bit him on the
arm twice. He at once FASTENED toward camp,
a mile distant, having previously taken the
precaution to bind his handkerchief above the
place blJten and around his arm, and twisted it
as tight as possible with his rife rod. He was
quite sick before he reachel camp Sd that ne
was OOliged to rest several times. In his tent
he always kept cure for snake bites in demi-
john. On arrival, for once in his life, he really
mad a good excuse for getting drunk, and
started in in earnest. When he felt the meii-
cine beginning to work strongly on him he
loosened the bandage on his arm, allowing
the blood from his arm TO circulate. having
the effect of at once SOLDERING him up Letting
the good work go on, he again resorted TO his
'mljOhn this lime keeping 1t up until he was
eloriously drunk. Shortly afterward bis part
ner, returning, wished to send for u doctor,
but no, he said, lam all rig t. In few days
tie swelling went down, and excepting little
sickness a. his stomach at times he was as well
as ever Asked if the bite of the snake was
painful, he described it as the singing of a
hornet, only hundred times worse.
ONE WHEEL CYCLE eight feet high, that a
green horn can learn to ride in minute and
then write his name in the dust with it in fifteen
feet Of space, not to mention speed capacity
Of two miles in sixty seconds on a good track,
is the astonishing invention which Victor Beran-
ger of Worcester, Mass, editor of LIE
Courier de Worcester, claims to have
produced after two years of hard work
Last year his brother in Montreal rode
the phenomenon seventy three miles in one
hour on an ordinary highway, and that was
at the rate of much more than mile minute
Mr.. Beranger himself, on a wager Of 800. will
leave worcester some day next week IN the
| presence OF number OF witnesses, so he says
at the same time the Chicago flyer" on
| the Boston and Albany railroad leaves for
| Boston. and he promises to arrive at the Hub at
least fifteen minutes before the express train
reaches there, notwitht landing that he
| will have to travel sixtysix miles by
| highway as against forty four by rail
| If he does it, in the face of the fact that the
| highway between Worcester and Boston is ipsDo
| way prepared for such lightning trip Mon
| sieur will have furnished the world the biggest
sensation possible short of an actual flying
| machine. Mr. Beranger may be an enthusiast
| but he has made applications for patents in five
| countries, and his patent in this country is
already assured. The new cycle will certainly
| 1t will be sold for $40 and its weight
| will be about fifteen pounds less than
| the ordinary Warwick safety " The
inventor claims that to propel this ma
chine requires from seven to ten times less
power than is required on the ordinary bicycle
indeed, the difficulty he seems to fear most is a
vast excess OF power, which will make the
machine unmanageahle TO the ordinary person
through IFS terrible speed. If the one-wheel
cycle according to the inventors designs is
practicable its availability for people who now
adays ride bicycles merely for pleasure may be
questioned, unless it can be easily controlled
ana Kept at Slow rate OF speed. According to
Mr.; Beranger thirty pushes q minute the
PEDALS equals about forty miles hour. If
machines OF this sort are to 20 cavorting about
the country at even that rate, new problems in
mghWay regulation are to be solved. On the
other hand, ii these machines can be propelled
on prepared roads ct much greater speed than
IS attained BY locomotives, the commercial
| opportunities for them may be immense. But
meanwhile Mr.. Beranzer has to demonstrate to
l the world the success of his invention.