The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-27
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CELEBRATED AUTHORS sometimes forget
their own work" said an eminent physician the
other day. This is usually one OF the effects
OF disease or old age. AS Walter Scott grew
Oh ne became victim 10 this kind of forget
poems was read to him he would ask who was
the author. 1vanhoe' was dictated during a
painful illness, and published before its aut6or
had quit bis bed. When Scott had become
| convaieseent he had no recollection of the
| story Toward the close OF his life Lime found
| great leasure in reading his own works. For
| getfuI that he was himself the author he would
frequently exclaim as he read: Beautiful
,Magnitcentn 4 wish / had written that ;.
hacaulay, the historian, had a friend whose
memory had once been exceedingly stronp,
ga age made It exceedingly weak If any
thlng Orlllant was said or read to him in the
| evening he would imagine next morning thar
/ the brilliant ideas heard the night before were
| his own. 1t was his custom to write them out
| ana show them to his friends as original
| matter"
ONE of the curious consequences of the infalli.
blllty of the anthropemetric system of identifi
| cation is the almost complete disappeararce of
International pickpockets from Paris Eight
| years ago 100 of them were arrested there
yearly; oy 1881 the number had fallen to thirty
Tour; II did not exceed dozen during the De ST
! year. Being satisfied that it has become i'm.
| possible for them to hide their anteced dents in
case OF arrest, and fearing also the increase of
PuiIoutllSuI on ndpltual criminals and
on those who have disobeyed a decree of expIIl-
sion, they prefer now to remain. of their own
accord, in foreign capitals. 1--WE have oar
choice, they say; 1--WE are not bound TO our
natlVe soil by ignorance of foreign languages
Ii we hesitate between the two fields of labor
the one at Paris during the opening of the ex-
position, the other at London during a regatta
the dlnerence of punishment in case of acct
dent will suffice to turn us from YOUR capital /.
pray excus q usr These remarks which were
made to me in 1887 by the leader of a gang,
credullty on the part of some of the police aII-
thorlties the fact of the disappearance of pick
pockets and the truth of the explanation that /
give OF 1t, have been confirmed officially, nota-
de la surete at Paris.
NO OTHER YOUNG WIDOW or young matron has
attracted so much attention in New York this
season as Nine de Barrios Her lavish enter
tainments have been the one topic Of converse
tlon among those who have been so fortunate as
70 De hidden TO attend them, and her grand
fancy dress ball, which took place little before
the beginning OF Lent, has been talked of ever
since. On that occasion Nine. de Barrios dressed
TO represent Cleopatra and wore ademi-trained
costume or pink satin covered with gauze sewn
thlckly with Jewels. There was bordering of
precious stones all around the low corsage, and
she wore an authentic Egyptian head-dress of
gold, rubies and Sapphires Nine de Barrios
was named Aparicio before her marriage. She
mas Two daughters who promise to make SEN
satlon in society as soon as they shall have
finished their studies. The elder Is a superb
type OF womanhood, with thick masses of glossy
halr reaching below her waist, magnificent eyes
and a spleudidly symmetrical figure. The second
one is thought by some to be even more beauti-
tul, but both are certainly far beyond the aver
age among the lovelest. Nine. de Barrios is
native of Guatemala, and is the widow of the
Inflated president of that turbulent country
After the tragedy that made her a widow she
went to New York to live and built her splendid
home on Madison avenue.
META PETITE and shapely fragment Of fair
femininity in an uptown flower shop the other
day, says the New York Continent She was
Miss Olivia Golibart, the dark eyed, dark-haired
Baltimore girl, who prefers to do ingenue parts
In imported melodramaS to posing as a society
belle in Baltimore. This latest debutante has
had an interesting and to a certain extent
varied career. Six months ago she was amem.
Der in good standing of the Mount Vernon set.
the most exclusive social company to be founi
in the quaint town of monuments and oysters
She participated in all the swell functions,
spent her summers at Newport and
did the thousand and one other
things that considered correct
and proper in the Maryland village. One day she
quietly informed her chaperon that she wanted
to act, and, what's more, she would actn Then,
deaf TO prayers, threats and entreatieS she
superintended the packing of her luggage
bought tickets for herself and maid, ana Jour
neyed direct to Gotham. Soc had rare luck for
novice. and, securing position in reputable
company, spent two months ION the road. ."
Now she lives in a Broadway hotel cuts her so.
clety friends, and spends her spare moments
hobnobbing with managers. 1t is said that
she will be a member of the Lyceum stock
company next season. Be this as it may, she
has neat income of her own, and, from finan-
cial point of view, is at liberty to satisfy her
rather queer whim.
AT THE VERY INCEPTION of the fur trade.
system of annual fairs or exchanges was in.
augurated by the government, which brought
together to the ostrogs once a year the entire
nomadlc population of fur hunters. and con-
siderable portion of the permanent shore
jewellers, for the purpose of barter. The prin-
cipal fairs we're, and are, held at Ostrownoie,
the eastermost and remotest trading post of the
old world; Ochotsk, on the sea of That name:
YaKoutsk, on the Lena river; Irkutsk, on Lake
Balkal; hlachta. at the central gate of the
Celestial empire; 1rbit, Tobosk and Nishne-
Novgorod, when the bales of fur and the mis-
cellaneous pro ucts of the Arctic seas find their
way eventually through regular channels to
St. Petersburg, Moscow and Pekin and at last
to markets far beyond. There is also at the
present day very considerable trade to the
AMOR, which, being ceded to the Russians in
1883 was again occupfsd by them after an in
terval of almost 200 years. Yakoutsk is the
focal point and entrepot of Eastern Siberia.
lying on the borderline which separates the
countries of the Yakoutsk and Tungusi-the
latter occupying the center of Siberia, and the
XakoutS the country north of them I'D to the
Arctic ocean. Originally, the Yakouts or the
Jakuts occupied as far south and west as the
Balkal and Angora, but were driven thence nv
the more powerful hordeS of Tungusi who were
in turn, subjugated by the Russians in 1910
about the time when the Manchus conquered
the Chinese empire.
Miss ELoNA EIBENsCHUTz, the young pianist
who has recently come before the London public
with such brilliant success, is of Hungarian
nationality, having been born at Buda- Pesth
on May 8, 1872. Like the late Franz List the
greatest pianist of his period, who was also an
Hungarian by birth, she may be said to have al
most stepped out of her cradle to the concert
platform, for her first public appearance was
made in Vienna at the not very mature age of
six Such technical training as she had then
received she owed TO her brother, Szga Eiben-
schultz, capellmeiter at Brunn and it was
exhibited to such very good purpose that
she shortly afterward appeared as a
wonder child at concerts given in LEIPZIG
Dresden, Berlin and other important German
towns Owing TO the very decided musical
ability which she had manifested it was de-
termined to place her under the charge of Prof.
Schmidt at the Vienna copservatore with
whom she studied until she was H. the Young
pianist, however, making occasional concert
tours through Russia. For the last four wears
she has been diligently studying at Frankfort
with NINE. Schumann, appearing at intervals
IN some OF the leading continental cities and
playing with marked favor such works as the
concertoS of Beethoven, Rubenstein and Schu-
mann. As will have been inferred, she comes
OF musical family and inherits her musical
taste from her father, a cultured amateur
musician. Her brother, Sziga, as already men
tloneo. is capellmester at Brunn, and her sister