The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

/ AN ELECTRIC LAMP that lights itself when
darkness comes on, and puts Itself out" when
day light appears is now the talk in England.
The lamp IS worked by a selenium cell on the
principle that the strength OF the current varies
with the intensity Of the light falling on the
selenium-
ETIQUETTE must be observed in Chinese res
taurants For example. when you drink tea
you must pour out little into the cup. rinss it
around and empty it upon the floor. Whether
this libation is precaution in behalf Of clean
illness or whether some god must populated.
know not, and it is needless to ask questions
about It, for upon all points pertaining to his
own life and customs John ChinamAn is strictly
| non-committal.
WRITER in the Hamburger NGchrichten de-
clares that on leaving Berlin when he was dis
missed from office. Prince Bismarck never used
the lrase lie Roi me reverra," as imputed TO
him at that time Prince Bismarck on leav-
ing Berlin" says the writer, certainly enter
tertained no thoughts of ever re-entering into
| official relation with his majesty the emperor,
nor did he ever have such thoughts subse-
quently. All statements to the contrary are
| pure invention
A wELL-KNowN FACE for many years at Him
melsbach's reading room, adjoining his saloon
at 955 Third avenue, was DR.. Cuno Dix dentist
| OF $50 East Forty ninth street. Last Sunday he
sat at one OF the tables, reading the sliegende
| Btdtter. While he was laug ing at one of the
| humorous illustrations his head fell back, and be
| gasped once or twice and died He was dead
before his friends, who were all around him
talking and laughing, knew that any thing had
happened He was a physician by education,
and was an exile of '4S He came to New York
In the same vessel with Carl Schurz.
THREE MAssEUsEs specially charged with the
task of sending the King of Persia to sleep, take
him in hand, undress him partly, put his night
| cap on, place him on two mattresses in the
| middle or the room and begin their task. They
| begin by rubbing his naked feet and his hands
in gentle, scientific manner. Presently their
| 90 A., - \
| hardly touch his skin. Then they cease; the
KING of kings is going to sleep. He sleeps; no.
ne moves; he wakes up, and the masseuses
| begin softly to rub him once more. The care of
| the sleeping king is undertaken by a number of
austere and elderly women.
JACOB MUSCLE and Leopold Ravens. pro-
prietors of the horse sausage establishment in
| Cherry Lane, Paterson. n. J., we're tried last
| week on a charge Of preparing diseased
horsefiesh for food. This Testimony prese nted
tended to show that they purchased diseased
| horses, killed them at their establishments ami
utilized the carcasses for meat. Much of the
| latter was sailed and shipped to Belgium.
There was evidence to show that twenty-sx
such animals were slaughtered in three weeks
at the establishment. The defendants were
convicted and sentenced to pay fine Of $50
each. In default of payment they were com
| mitted to Jail.
WHERE do women get so many more coppers
| than men?" was asked of a street car conductor
by New York Herald man. well you see it
is tais way" he replied, ''there never was
woman who didn't love to go shopping, and
then, of course, they are always on the lookout
Tor bargal S, and the consequence is where they
! trade everything is marked SO cents 81 81, 99IS
CENTS and on. 1t makes the women think
they are saving money and at the same time it
makes us an awful bother. for in every purchase
they MAKE they get lot of coppers. which
they, In turn, unload on us poor conductors.
den don'Ggive US coppers often, so we generally
shove ours off on the women"
NJ
lin the sensational stories about quarrel be-
tween Prince Bismarck and the Emperor Will
lam respecting the memoirs which the ex
chance Tor proposes presently to publish. The
fact is that Prince Bismarck has scarcely com.
pleted the arrangement of his vast accumu-
latlon of papers of all sorts and descriptions so
that he has not yet commenced to write Tor
dictate) his contemplated work. There can be
no controversy in the future on this subject be-
tween the emperor ard Prince Bismarck, be-
cause the prince is perfectly well aware that
by a law which was passed by himself it is a
criminal offense (high treason in fact) to pub
lish or 10 quote from any state paper whatever,
or to reveal any state or ministerial secret
without the special permission OF the reigning
sovereign"
| One AFTERNOON, while lying on a moscow
cred bank under cover of the sha1y WOO read
ing Rambles of a Naturalist Around Philadel-
| phia," noticed and became interested in a
| great army of small black ants travelling along
| the dry. sandy bed of the gutter below me on
| the roadside. Tracing the line of march back
| found they were leaving their old habitation on
| the side bank among the grass for some unex-
planned reason. They were not encountered by
| any unnecessary luggage not even provisions
| Their young, like magRots without legs. were
| carried. Thousands of males females and nell
tiers, the latter being soldiers and workers. COM
| prised the line marching forward Though
scattered, distinguished feature of order and
| indulgence appeared, as some were going back
| and forward, stopping an ant here and there, to
| give some order evidently.
| MRS. O'SHEA, who has obtained notoriety
| as great as that of Lady Hamilton herself. is
| the third and youngest daughter of the late
| Sir John Page Wood. Those who have come
| into contact with her describe her as a sim
| gulariy pleasing, not to say fascinating woman.
/ Although no longer young, Mrs. OShea retains
| much of her youthful beauty, and her figure is
| tail and graceful. Her face is OF the oval type
her eyes are a blush gray, and her hair is rich
| and brown. In her early days she used to take
an active part in amateur theatrioals, and DOS
| seSsed good Voice. Her eldest sister is Lady
Barrett Lennard, aud her second. the Mrs
Steele whom she cruelty brought into court by
the unfounded allegation against her OF mlsbe
| havior with the gallant captain. Mrs. Steele is
known to the literary world and the reading
| public as the authoreSS OF 'GardenhurSt" Sir
| Evelyn Wood is their brother.
The DRAMAT1sT H. j. Byron, who kept list
of condolences, replied to the critics who de-
| nounced the improbablities in one of his come
dies by telling him that the improbable incident
| of the changed children, the subsequent pro-
| duction of the doctors notebook In court to
| settle the right of the true claimant to the
| estates, and two or three improbabilities of the
| sort, were taken literally from the instructions
| In a lawyers brief in an action at law then in
| his possession, says the New York ISaturdny
| ReUietU. Here's another one: The wife of
| country doctor (who told the story in the lead
| ing medical journal at the time, giving his
| nanet missed her wedding ring on a February
| morning. She had been mixing food for the
| fowls. The ring was searched for everywhefe
| but i'll vain. On April she was eating an eg o
| at breakfast, and her ring was found embedded
In the bottom of the egg which was extra
| large and had bsen laid the day before.
LOUIS BONNER, a moulder at the foundry of
| Landon & Co., Lebanon, Pa, sat souarelv
| down in tub of molten metal yesterday while
themen were pouring it off," His companions
rushed to his rescue, dragged him out, and
| expected to see his flesh burned from his bones
| Instead Bonner brushed of what remained of
| his charred clothing and exhibited his skin
white and free from sign of burns. The men
cannot explain how it is that he was not horribly
| injured. The theory of perspiration which
| often saves moulderS from painful bsters
does not apply in this case, because BONNER sat
| in the metal long enough to have the effects of
| any moisture of the body overcome The
| FreDchman met with similar accident some
| time ago. Tae handle of a ladle of molten
| metal he was carrying broke and quantity of
| the fiery liquid went into his Shoe He FASTENED
| to tub of water. intending to jump into it,