The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ALL France is very much interested just now
in the future of young widow, the Princess
Letitia. who is the only manageable princess
of the Bonaparte family. The princess is a
woman of somewhat imposing beauty. She
has a rather large figure. incli0ed TO embon-
point, a ford face and thick. black hair. Her
lips are full, almost to the point of sensuality.
OF her shoulders and arms il has been said that
theY might furnish models for a sculptor, for
they are superby developed In manner the
princess is most vivacious, but she has I'M
pleasant way of making cutting and sarcastic
remarks. She has expressed O desire to marry
again, and Paris is curious to know whom she
will select for husband.
THE Salvation Army has been in existence
just thirteen years. 1t had its origin in SEN
sational way 10 the English town of Whtby, in
the rough coal mining district of Yorkshire,
where Gen. Booth, at that time Rev. William
Booth, was doing humb lie mission WORK. Eng
land was then in arms, expecting to jump into
the RuSsO-TurkiSh war. IL occurred to Booth
that he might attract a crowd by issuing de-
claratiOn of war himself, so he preparedSse ne
forthwith, sprinkled it plentifully with hal elu-
lahs and posted 1000 copies of it about town.
The device tickled the British sense of bumor
there was a "redhot, rousing meeting" 10
quote Gen. Booth, 1.-THE penitent fell down in
heaps, and the Salvation Army sprang into
life full grown.
SOME of the farmers of the Eifel, the district
that lies between the frontier of Belgium and
the Rhine, adopt novel plan for soaring the
birds from the wheat. A number of poles are
set up in the cornfelds, and wire is conducted
from one to another Just like the telegraph
posts that you see alon ,side the railway From
the top OF each post there hangs a bell which
is connected with the wire Now, in the valley
a brook runs along, with a current strong
enough to turn small water wheel, to which
the wire is fastened. AS the wheel goes around
it jerks the wire, and so the bells in the differ
ent nelds are SET a-tnkling.. The bells thus run
mysteriously brighten the birds from the grain,
and even excite the wonder of men and women
until they discover the secret. This simple
continuance is found to serve its purpose very
we'll
NJ. HERRoUET. pharmacist of Mans, France,
has retired to the secllsion of one of the French
prisons for three months. the b tier to consider
the evils of substitution. A physician had pre-
scrtbed hypodermic Injection of apomor-
phine for a child months old. The prescrp-
ton was presented to NJ. Herrouet for dispen-
sing, who, having no apomorphine, substituted
morphine hydrochlorate, under the impression,
| as he admits that the result would be the same.
The physician. ignorant of the change, admin
| lstered the injection; the child Immediately
soninR shortly afterward. NJ. Herrouet was
prosecuted for homicide by mprudence and
the court decided That three months solitary
and careful thought would probably convince
| him that it is always best to dispense a pre-
| scription as written or not dispense it at all.
Substitution on physicians prescriptions is not
COnHucu 10 fTGuc6.
| Two PRETTY YOUNG CONNECTICUT GIRLS startcd
west the other day for land where beans are
more plentiful than in the Nutmeg state as
| they hope either to get married out there or
win fortune with their own hands. They are
| Miss Laura De Sion aud Miss Ella Longworthy
of the rural village of Derby, and they are
| bound for Portland, Ore. A squad of their
| friends. young people, accompanied them to the
! Derby railroad station, waved handkerchiefs,
threw kisses, and babe them God speed
| They will make several stops on the Journey,
| and expect to reach Portland in October. Miss
| Longworthy has been employed in the Office of
| H. H. Wood, president of the Derby Electric
Railroad Company. and Miss De Shon was
same day comedy and fashionable young lady
| of Norwich, Miss Fusie G. Hyde. daughter of
Lewis A Hyde, cashier of the First National
| Bank of Norwich, left that town for Turkey
! Constantinople to-day. She goes with three
other missionaries. Miss Hyde mas been noted
local Christian worker for several years.
JOSEPH REED. the Philadelphia publisher, who
has returned from trip in the remote regions
of Montana, is spending few days in New
| York, says New York letter to the Philadel-
| phla Times He brings a tale about species
| of rats which he found west of,the Rocky noun
| tains, which rather surpasses the snake stories
| of the most imaginative of natural historians.
! 81 have seen some odd things il my life,' said
MIR. Reed, but nothing to equal the trader rats
| of the Rocky mountains. When | was in
| Brazil few years ago was obliged to use do
| rnesticated boa constructors to rid my house of
| mice. In that country cats cannot exist on ac-
| count of the size, number and rapacity of the
| tieas They actually eat the felines and de-
| stroy them, but boa constructors are fond OF
mice and can be trained to catch thsm.
came back to this country and told that
story aud was not believed. | then spent sew
eral months 10 the winter season in the wilds OF
| Montana, and when the snow was forty feet
deep the mosquitoes we're SO numerous and
! bloodthirsty That was frequently obliged To
| bury myself in the snow up TO my shoulders in
order to escape the pests. When / related this
experience in the effete east | was again
laughed at and not believed although it is a
| well authenticated fact that in the ce-bound re-
gions of Alaska mosquitoes frequently XII
horses and cattle. Therefore l do not expect
to have much credence placed in my tale OF the
| trader rats although l pledge my word that il
is entirely true. These animals have penchant
for stealing all sorts of articles for which they
can have no possible use, but they never purloin
anything without leaving some other article IN
its place This exchange may not be profitable
to the person robbed, but it really does seem as
| if the animals were troubled with a conscience
| and feel that they should make some return
| when guilty of theft. At the back Of my shanty
| in Montana l had keg of twenty penny nails,
which are really large iron spikes The trader
rats carried these away one by one until hall
the contents of the key had been taken, and in
place of the nails they left pebbles, leaves aud
twigs. each stolen spike being represented by
| exactly one of either Of the articles | have
| named learned from the people in the local
| ity that they never vary in this practice.
! found the spikes in the nests to which they had
carried them, and by watching have seen them
l bring back the pebbles, leaves or twigs and
| place them in the kegs where their thefts had
! been committed.