The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

de Leon AnnibaI.
THOMAS EDISON says there is more than
$780, 100000 invested IN the electrical industry
in the United States. The electrical supply
business alone-the mere making Of the tools
20 90 90 ousine's wtth-amounts to between
$500, 600 and 100000 year. Nearly
SJO,OOO miles of wire ara used TO convey LOCO 900
| messages day over more than 10000 tels-
Phones What does the ghost Of Ben Franklin
The Philadelphia Times calls attention 70 the
rapid disappearance Of our representative old
men. Few of the presidential cabinets remain.
| With Bancroft went the last OF the Polk cabinet
and with A. H. II. Stewart OF Virginia the last
| OF that OF President Fillmore. Until the death
| OF Jefferson Davis there were two survivors Of
Campbell Of Philadelphia, who was appointed
| postmaster general from Tennessee.
MRS CARRIE WILLIAMS, silk culturist of San
Francisco. says the industry will be brought
INTO prominence at the worlds fair Over
500 eO0000 is employed in the business annually
| IN the whole world, and Americans have not
IaKen enough interest in it, A company of
| Japanese, direct from Toxic has purchased
| tract OF land in San Diego county, California
ana viii engage in this industry. San Francisco
mas Woman's Silk Culture Society, the only
one IN the United States.
EDMUND NEY of st. Louis, granddaughter of
Marshal Ney, says he is probably the only de-
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States. He has been in this country for sixteen
years. and after investigating a number of
| claims OF persons who said they were relatives
| always found there were no grounds for such
claims. There are but few descendants of Mar
shal Ney left in France, but there are some in
! Germany. where they fed to escape persecution
| after the downfall of Napoleon.
PRINCE HENRY OF PRUSSIA has been working
lately in the home Office at Berlin, and many
journals have rushed TO the conclusion that he
Is being instructed ia craftsmanship" with a
view to his becoming regent of Prussia in the
event OF the emperor's death The regency of
Prince Henry would simply mean government
by the Empress Frederick, which would be
dangerously unpopular in Germany and no idea
could be so obnoxious to the emperor. who is
believed to have nominated the king of Saxony
TO be at the head Of the council of regency in
the event of his own death while the crown
prince Is minor.
WHEN the Princess OF Wales stayed for sew
eral weeks at Torquay, five years ago, as the
guest of the late Duchess of Sutherland, her
daughters were so ferociously mobbed whenever
they appeared in the streets that they were
literally hunted out of the town. The Duchess
OF Edinburgh had a singular experience of Brit
1sh snobbery at Plymouth last Tuesday as, hav-
ing driven into the town, accompanied by the
duke, their carriage was surrounded wherever
1t stopped by staring, chattering crowd of the
so called gentry and it was followed from
place to place with amazing pertinacity. The
duke and duchess are not likely to attempt any
more shopping IN plymouth after the
ance to which they were subjected.
Col WILLIAM j. Brown, lineal descendant
of Stephen Hopkins, one of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence, died recently at
his home in Brooklyn. He was 90 years old and
bad been ill for some time, but his death was
due to heart disease. Col. Brown was born in
Rutland Vt, and was a son of Gen A. L.
brown. O wellknown figure ia the politics of
that state. He was educated at the Norwich
Military Academy. When the war broke out be
organized regiment of colored men and was
appointed colonel, but two days before he
was TO start tor the front his foot was crushed
In an elevator in A. T. Stewards store in New
YORK city. He was unable to fight after that,
but he had charge Of the drilling of troops at
Perth Amboy and organized three regiments.
IN ONE of the leading academies of New York
city a charming girl of good birth and social
position Is privately preparing herself to adopt
stage dancing as a profession. She is from the
ovetttowtng ranks of suddenly reduced gentle
women. When financial disaster came and
work was necessary for maintenance, the cues
ton arose, what she could do best Dig she
could not and begging was an impossbility;
but since babyhood her feet had been been in
spired. She danced as others sang and poetized.
So, pocketing pride aud prejudice, the little
lady determined TO be honest brave public
opinion, and burnish up the sole talent nature
ha given her. Everything points TO brilliant
artistic future, and those who have seen this,
the first society woman ever assaying such
step in America, aver that she will rival Elssler
and Lola MonJeZ
AN AUTOMATIC MACHINE, which FORMS fills,
weighs and seals packages is being introduced
into houses where large guam titles of finecut
TOD tcco, SOFA, staroh etc, are put up. The
operations of the machine are curious and novel
IN every particular and yet quite simple. The
machine consists of a series Of forming blocks
receptacies, folders, gummers and feeders, all
working in harmony, so that the packages are
being smoothly and continuously produced
Inc forming bio cks successfully size the paper,
which instantly afterward is wrapped around
them folded and gummed at the end The
paper sacks are then plunged into receptacles,
| filled, folded on top aud sealed. The manifest
saving in labor thus effected would seem to
warrant the claim OF the inventor that, if the
| machine is worked to its full capacity it will
pay for itself in 275 working days.
THE approaching debut of Miss Elise De-
Wolfe as a professional actress recalls to
everybody who associated her with Mrs,
James Brown Potter on the amateur stage,
some eight years ago, some interesting auec.
dotes OF them both. The rumor that Mrs.
Potter is writing a book descriptive of her
| experiences in society both on and of the
stage, and both before and after debut as
an actress who wanted to earn her own
| living has, it is now conceded produced quite
as much stir as did Mrs. Julie Cruger's clever
| diplomatic fiction. Among the ladies' who have
won fame on the amateur stage, Miss Eliza
Proctor Otis, Miss DeWolfe, who is about to
| transfer her ability to the professional
| stage; Mrs. Daniel P. Griswold, Miss Oliver
Sumner Teal, Miss George Shipper and the
Misses Lawrence are the best, in my opinion
| For leading and emotional parts Mrs. Griswold,
| Miss DeWolfe and Mrs Teal are all that could be
desired, whilst have rarely seen ingenue SOU
brette parts performed better on the profess
Sional stage than the interpretations given by
| Misc George Shipper.
BISMARCK, ''the barbarian as he was known
| among the French during the siege of Paris is
an ardent admirer of the fine arts II love
| music above all, - he told Max Bemer of the
Hamburger CorreSDOndenten two weeks ago,
| especially Beethovens. House music is my
greatest delight, for the trouble of getting a
certain ticket at a certain time, and sitting in
certain narrow seat 10 an opera house, is not to
| my liking. Up TO the early part of my thirties
| when met my wife, who is very musical was
| always sorry that had been Obliged in my
| student days to omit music lessons from my
course. AS gymnasiast-and to-day every one is
| talking of the overwork of gymnasiasts-I had
| daily thirteen hours of study, and besides the
| ordinary instruction an hour of English and
| French, so l had to let music go untouched
| That was misfortune for me, for, like all Ger
mans, am tuned by nature in harmony with
| music. For Goethe's poems l have always felt
| unbounded enthusiasm. Even now, when
cannot sleep nights, light the lamp and read
| his verses, as well as Schiller's. Uhland's and
| Chamisso's. OF the whole profane literature
Faust is my Bible Clsvigo, Stella, the Elect
| i've Aff1nities, are not sympathetic with nv