The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TIE EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA has lost all inter
est in dress and courtiy ceremO isls OF state
since her sons death. The wonderful parure
OF dia uonds in process of construction for ner
at the time OF his death wss sold. She travels
incognltO about the continent in plainest garO
but her love for roses remains unchanged, and
! e stIll delights IN their perfume and tinJings.
Accordingly, during the royal lady's stay in
/ Lainz SchlOss, over 500 rose trees we're brought
from Count Hohenstein's collection 10 meet the
great demand for her favorite flower. There
| are advantages ia being an empress
An ENORMOUS VOLUME. thrice as large as the
bulkiest family Bible that ever graced a
handicapped table in a country parlor
reached the national capital a few days ago In
! god letters on its broad back were tae words,
/ history Of Members second session. Fifty
| first Congress" In this book will be recor ed
not the private history of members, but all their
public acts. Every time member votes, every
time he lntro luces a bill or PETITION, and every
time he is recorded as not voting or paired viii
be recorded Ia ne huge book, and future BIZ
| ographers will find air ady prepared Tor the
/ use a vast amount of data If the size of the
volume IS aay indication of its importance il
| ought to be preserved IN a treasury vault.
| ONE Of the minor sensations Of Broadway.
New York, for Ihepast week or so has been a
young woman who sits in a large show window
an Gay 10 x shooting at a mark with a newly
| invented toy pistol. She fires 4.OO0 or 5000
shots day, and scores bulls eye without al
lowing the tr1u npn to rutfe her air of calm in
oinercnce the slightest degree. The crowd
| OF oreatnless and pushing spectators on the
sidewalk do not catch a glance OF, her eye from
morning 70 migat, and she goes on popping
away with the regularity of a telegraph
sounder. The exhltiOn has an absorbing fasci-
nation for the small boys. Some of them
watch the young woman for hours, and are ap-
parently never conscious of the hustllnz and
humping which they get from the passing
crowd. q at..5T =
ANY NUMBER of bills have been lost in both
houses Of congress, leaving no trace behind.
I Hiarl Gle ~
is even more .teresting than an absolute dis
appearance In the Forty-third co gress a
bundle OF papers connected with claim in
which Representative Cobb of North Carolina
was interested was mysteriously lost, and Mr.
~ bb went so far as to accuse Representative
Lawrence of Ohio, afterwards controller of
lhe treasury, who was opposed to the claim,
with having secreted it. Five years afterward
bundle arrived at the capitol from North
Carolina. IL contained the missing documents
and bad evidently been discovered by Mr.. Cobb
himself among his own effects, although he did
not vouchsafe an explanation.
THE FACT that Judge Brown, who has been
appointed al associate justice of the supreme
court, shot and killed burglar formed a ext
Tor number OF interesting ST Jries in the cloak
room Of the House the other day. Judge
Rowell of Illinois related personal experience
that might have had a tragic ending. He said
that ne mad always made up his mind at
when ne heard b rglsr ia his house .e would
quietlYlet the nocturnal visitor depart in De ice
but that when his first burglar actually came he
acted very different y. II was awakened one
night" he sail, ''at my home in Bloomington
by the noise OF a man in my room. rolled out
OF bed and rushed toward him. He ran into
little ball room and followed. Just as l reached
the door he turned and fired at me- the bullet
burying itself ia the janb of the door. OF
course stopped. for mad neither pistol nor
cane, and the burglar went out of the window
through which he mad entered. That bullet is
in the door iamb to this day"
A ''oURLED DARLING" just turned 20, who
numbers among his other possessions wealthy
father, yellow mustachs and a lot of London
made clothing, said to the New York Star mau
the other night: My dear fellow, wish you
would put the things say to yoI in the paper
10 might help the other fellows and as Won
won't print my name, il won't hurt me, Just
say for me that it's very bad form to wear
patent feathers in the morning, and positiv 'ly
brutal to appear in a sack coat and a nigh silk
tile. Another thing, always wear flower in
your buttonhole. but under no C rcumstances
let 1t be red one. Don't talk to the waiter
who serves your dinner. Don't drink cocktails
after O'Clock p M, and, above all Things,
don't carry a newspaper through the streets
They don't do ii in London, but ey } it mere
New Yorl society lacks reserve-I guess that is
the word. At any rate they lack sonnet ling
here" Then the uarro -chested, pale faced
Hover of McAllister rolled and lighted q
cigarette, d with solemn little bow, went on
his way rejoicing.
Go INTO ANY of the Offices of presidents of
great transportation companies in the last
week and you could not help noticing, says the
New York San. the pretty square cards beauti-
fully autographed, which Uttered the desks Of
the presidents and the immediate subordinate
officers. The presidents OF all the railroads, the
presidents OF all the express companies and OF
great insurance companies, and all other men
influential in the business world all had a
sacheltul OF these prettily engrav cards.
They were the annual passes which entitle
them to travel on every road in the country
gratis. These passes came from all parts of the
country, and tue filling out of the list takes the
time OF one clerk one month before the begin
ming of every year. OF course the presidents of
the railroads coming into New York and the
presidents OF the express companies here have
to reclprocate, and they also have sent out
wagon l)ad OF these annual free passes. It
should be added that the Western Union issues
quite as many. The railroad passes permit
free travel, the express passes the sending of
free PACKAGES, aud the telegraph passes permit
the sending of free messages, no matter where
the holder may be In the United States The
de igns in the passes are sometimes very pretty
and the collection this year. as seen in President
Thomas e. Platt's off1cs the other day was a
curiously beautiful one OF the lthographic art.
The most unique and expressive is a card sent
out by John Hoey OF the Adams Express Com
pany. On the face delicately engraved is a
SKULL and above it in fine letters are the words
Dead Head"
Ex MARSHAL LUsK of North Carolina was in
Washington the other day. Mr. Iusk retired
from Office about seven years years ago. He
had a little money when he became marshal
and added to it by carefully outstanding his
salary. Upon the appointment of his successor
he looked around for promising field in which
to invest his few thousands. He decided that
land was the thing. 1t was real and could NOT
get away So he tut q Of his money into
North Carolina acres. The result of his invest
ment was that until short time ago he was
land poor" His mountainous domain, it is
true, was extensive and picturesque but il was
not productive. Mr. LuSk had to hump himself
ike bullock of India in order to get
enough money together to buy food ana
ralment and pay taxes on his property But his
turn came at asst Vanderbilt, the great paper
man, became enarnored of 100 of Lusk's acres, |
ami bought the tract of hi ii at such a fl yure |
that he cleared about S35 900 on the transaction
These things we're told to bright young North |
Carolina girl who is mployed in the department |
OF Justice, and who is a friend of Mr. Iusk |
They were formerly pretty near neighbors for |
NO Tn Carollaa. Size expressed herself as |
pleased at Lusk's good fortune but wanted to |
know if Vanderbilt got off with only 100 acres |
she was asked what she meant. Her replt was:
20, am from that part of the country and |
know whal kind of Ian spreads itself out in
those parts Why, the usual method of pro-
cedure down there is for the man who purchases
l0O acres from. another to stand over the seller
with shotgun to prevent him from giving a
deed for 100 aeresl'
ScHIIEMANN was very superstitious for a man
OF learning. When he was poor clerk in Am
sterdam he dreamed of tho number I1164 He
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