The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

editors Of the Ladies' Home Journal on Jan, 1.
A CANADIAN WOMAN and not professional
faster" kept alive by medical art--has lived
thirty-days without food Matilda Grapin So
years or age, living near Montreal, lost her
reason some time ago, and one day missing
from the place where she was employed as a
servant. Nothing was heard Of her until last
thursday. when farmer working in the fields
found her under tree. She was nothing but
living skeleton. For thirty five DAYS she had
existed without food her OILY sustenance being
water from brook. She may recover.
THREE COLOSSAL STATUES ten feet high, Of
rose granite, have just been found at Aboukir
a few feet below the service The discovery
was maze from indications furnished to the
government by local investigator, Daninos
Pasha. The first two represent in one group
Rameses II, and Queen Hentmara seated on the
same throne. This is unique among Egyptian
statues This third statue represents Rames s
standing upright 10 military attire q scepter in
his hand and a crown upon his head. Both bear
hieroglyphc Inscriptions, and both have been
thrown from their pedestals face downward.
Their site is on the ancient Cape Zephyrium,
near the remains of the temple OF Venus at Ar
since. Relics OF the early Christmas have been
found in the same locality.
MINNESOTA has au slectric well near a place
called Red Wing. According to the story the
drillers had drilled about $50 feet when they
lost their drill rods and diamond drill. Tie
whole business had dropped to nowhere in an
instant There was quite force of air coming
out of the hole, and the men said there was no
use going any further, because there wasn't
any bottom. They concluded to fish for the
rods aud drill, but as soon the rods were
dropped into the hole they began to SILVER in a
queer way. One of the men took hold of the
bar with a pair of leather gloves and he was
knocked down. Then another man touched the
rope and got a shock, because it wet.
There seems TO be a perfect natural store
house of electricity, 1t is generated in some
way In that pocket where the drills went.
AT Of ali
are called the blue Hens Chickens" but not
one in a hundred can tell you why they are so
called. The epithet is said to have had its
origin in the following: One OF Delaware's most
was Capt. Caldwell, who was motor
ious for his fondness for COCK fight
ing. He drilled his men admir-
ably; they .c. being known hroggnoat
same Caldwell held TO the peculiar theory that
no cock was really game unless its mother was
blue hen. As tho months wore away Cald-
wells men became known the Blue Hens
Chickens, title which only increased their
respect for the game-cock captain. Tho nick
name became famous and after the close OF the
war was applied iBdiscriminately to all natives
Of the Diamond state"
PLANS for the exc :ci 'es dedIcatory of the ex-
position buildings at Chicago. during the week
OF Oct. e 1892, are fast being matured.
One Of the chief features prac ically decided
upon is anocturnal procession of aoats on the
illuminated lagoons at Jackson park. The
floats will represent a Chronological epitome of
salient historical events by centuries, from
1899 until the present time. Altogether there
will be between forty and fifty floats, costing
perhaps 500 each on an average. The last one
| will represent Chicago welcoming the nations of
the ca tn. All Of the boats will fairly blaze with
| electric lights, and thousands of iucandescent
| lamps under the water will give them the ap
pearance of floating on lake OF fire. 1t Is be-
| lieved that fully 500. 900 people will watch this
| gorgeous spectacle each night from the banks
| lagoon king choral
| eroises, etc. will oocur in the manufactures
| building, which will be fitted with seating &C
: computation for 10000 to 100 90 people 1t is
\ now Thought that from 120M TO $4,000 troops
| will participate in the dedicatory exercises.
| The expense of the dedcatory ceremonies will
| approximate $4,000
| HoPpSER, the portrait painter says q writer
in "a Century of Painters" hal to contend
| with chronic state OF i'll health arising from
constitution naturally weak; and much of his
| proverbial irritation, II not produced, was az
| Rravated by the ailments which attend dis
| eased liver. He must have been often tried by
his sitters He told the critic Clifford, as an ex-
| ample Of hfe annoyance how q wealthy stock
| broker drove up to his door, whose carriages
empted into his hall In Charles street a gentle-
| man and lady. with five sous and seven daugh-
| ters-all samples of "pa" and ina, AS well
! fed and as city bred comedy family as any
within the sound Of Bow Bells well. Mr.
| Painter" said he. here are. baker
| dozen; how much will you demand for painting
| the whole lot Of us. prompt payment for dis
| count ~ why" replied the astoniShed painter
| Viewing the questioner, who might be likened to
superannuated elephant, why, that will
depend upon the dimensions, style composition
and -" "Oh, that is all settled ~ quoth the
enlightened broker. I'VE are all to be touched
off in piece, large as life, all seated upon
our lawn at Clapham, and oil singing "God
| save the king"
| Mas. VIRGINIA @. MEREDITH. chairman of the
| executive committee of the board of lady mau-
| ayers calls for women artisans to work upon
| the interior decoration of the woman's building
| at the Columbian exposition. In her address
| at the recent woman's congress. she said: THE
Chicago directory has appropriated &c %, 900 for
building t. be used b, the board of lady man
| ayers for official and other purposes 1t is mag
| nihcent in proportions and beautiful in design.
The architect is a young woman, Miss Hay
den, aud the statues or figures that ornament
women. 1t is hoped that the interior decora-
| tons will also be By women; and upon that
point should like to speak particularly to this
| would doubtless be glad to make the carved
| balustrades, the fret-work for screens, the o.
| namental hardware, hinges. keys, door-kn0bs
| aud mural decorations hundred
| parts of the interior decoration that ia itself
brain and woman's hand. Will not each of YOU
| do something to disseminate knowledge of this
opportunity among women who are skillful in
the practical and ornamental lines OF house
| furnishing and decoratlonf The president of
| of the board, Mrs. Potter Palmer, has
| earnestly and cordially invited the women of
! az IN do for bui y,