The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-06
NATURAL FRUIT FLkYORS.
ITEM on INTEREST.

ACCORDING to the ArgonGut egstation in the
Alps recedes downward from year to year. For
| merly Alpine roses grew at an altitude of 1900
feet. Now they are sldom found higher than
$500 feet, and are at that hight stunted.
Beeches have gone down 1900 feet. Various
| berries, which once fourished 800 feet above
sea level, do not grow in higher attitudes now
than $500 feet.
FOR SOME REASON OR OTHER the average col
! ored jockey is so brimful of superstition that
he can hardly get down to weight Jack Crit
tenden, the we'll known Pennsylvania colored
Jockey, now living at Gloucester. would rather
lose every race for year than a snake or
bullfrog. The stable boys discovered this the
other day and one of them placed dead snake
IN JACK s bunk The poor little fellow, when he
touched the clammy reptile, grew ashy in his
terror, flew out of his stable into The night aud
no lnducement strong enough has been found
for his return. He firmly believes that the dead
snake was an evil omen, and that he is
hoodooed Yesterday somebody slyly placed a
dead frog in Jacks pocket. The Jockey firmly
believes That the frog jumped into his pocket
aud died 10 prevent d recurrence of this kind
he cut every one of his pockets out yesterday
afternoon aud sewed up the openings.
FRANK WORK, says the New York Morning
Advertiser tells a remarkable story about a
ruby that he once owned. When young man
he invested 5000 in a ruby in this city. He had
it set in bird claw by the son of wel-known
ieweler. Shortly afterward he attended a Tam
many Hall ball. and the ruby disappeared from
It's setting. week or two ago the jeweler
happening to meet him said: Come down to
my place and III show you an
old friend" " Mr.. Work dropped in at the Jew
eler's place last week, and was there shown his
identical ruby of fifty years ago. 1t had been
LETT to be Set and the jeweler had recognized It,
Mr. Work also recognized it, All that he said
was: How much is that ruby worth nowf''
Between $1,000 and 81, coo, " said the ieweler
Besides the remarkable episode itself, one can
learn from this paragraph how much rubes
| have appreciated in value in the past half
century.
The NEW GERMAN CROWN is thus described It
IS a beautiful work of art, and OF great mag
nificence. 1t has been designed and the gems
In it selected by his majesty himself, in con
junction with the German painter, Herr Emil
Doepler, Jr. The gems came f ON the famous
collection in the possession in the house of
Honeuzollern, which is chiefly distinguished for
It's magnificent pearls and diamonds. some OF
the finest specimens of which have been
mounted in the Emperor's crown. His majesty
has had the crown made to exactly fit his own
head. Curiously enough, be it said, that al
though It has been the custom in Germany
TO hand down sword and sceptre
from one sovereign to another, a
there are crowns IN the HobenZollern treasury
| OF various rulers-haS been wanting. This want
the Emperor William II. has now supplied. At
first it was the intention OF his majesty to have
| given to the crown the same form of design
| as that of the first crown of Prussia, but the
| idea had to be abandoned owing to the size and
| shape of the stones. The whole broad frontal
| of the crown is bordered with large diamonds
| mounted on beautiful gold leaf work, from
| which rise eight diamond hoops, each set with
! four dlainonds IN the shape OF rosette, with a
row of fine large pearls the whole being
| crowned by a cross studded with brilliant dia-
| monds. There are also numerous other gems
' on the crown.
IT IS CURIoUsLY INTERESTING to contrast, in
the Letters of Marie Bashkirtseff," the por-
trait that young lady draws of herself with that
which NJ. Coppee gives in his introduction to
the volume. In one of those endless letters
with which she favored NJ. de Maupassant Marie
says in answer to one or MaupassanU's letters
Thin? ., no. am not thin, but neither am
| stout Worldly, sentimental, romanticS In
what way do you mean? 1t seems to me that
, there is room for all this in one individual; all
| depends on the moment, the occasion. the cir
| cumstanceS. am an ouportunist, and above
| all, | am subject to moral contagiou; thus it
| happens that poetry fails me. just as it does
| you. My perfume? Virtue. Vulgo, none at all.
Yes, gourmande, or rather difficult to please. My
| ears are small not regular, but pretty; my eyes
! are gray. Yes, l am musician, but not as
| good pianist as my schoolmistress ought to
| be" And here is NJ. Coppee's portrait: 81
| have only seen her once, and only for an hour.
| | shall never forget it. At % she ap-
| peared much younger. Rather small, but OF
| harmonious proportions, with a round, exouis-
| itely modelled face fair hair, and dark eyes that
| seemed burning with thought and devoured by
| the desire to see all and to know all; mouth
| that was at the same time f1rm good and
| dreamy, with trembling nostrilS like a wild
| horse of the Ukraine, Mdlle NJ Bashkirtseff
| I'M pressed one from the first with the rare sen.
sation that with sweetness she combined
| strength Of will; with grace. energy. Every.
| thing in this adorable child showed the superior
! spirit
AS AN after-dinner speaker the Emperor has
no superior in Germany. He speaks readily
without notes, expresses himself with yigor
| never descends to conventional commonplace
| and, above all, gives the very best assurance
| that his words are not prepared for him. have
| heard conspicuous speakers in England and in
| our own country, and, if comparisons are not
| in this case invidious should say that the Ger
| man Emperor need not fear to meet such an
| audience as even a New England society dinner
| assemblies. One of the prettiesJ speeches have
| listened to was delivered by the emperor in an
| swering the toast to his wife in the provinces
| where she was born. 1t was during the great
| confined naval and military maneuvers of
1870 at which the United States was repre-
| scented by Commander Ward and Great Britain
| by Admiral Horribly. The emperor's words
| were; L desire to express to you, my dearest
SIT, the gratitude felt by the empress and my
SELF Tor the kind words we have Just heard; at
! the sa ne time our thanks are due for the day
| we nave PASSED and for the reception which
the province has prepared for This day
| was, however, not needed in order to assure
US OF the warm friendship we have
round mere. The bond that unites me to
TINS province and chains me to her in a
manner different from all others of my empire,
Is the Jewel that SPAR les at my side, her
majesty the empress. Sprung from this soil,
the type of the various virtues of German
princess, it is to her that owe if am able to
meet the severe labors of my office with q
happy spirit, and make head against them
Inc words of the emperor were unexpected,
and to no one more so than to his wife whose.
face beamed with happiness at the compliment
she so publicly received. Nor did any one who
| listened to the speaker at that dinner think to
question the spontaneity and honesty of the