The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

I1AsSAN DEN ALI Oh MOROCCO Is seeking q con
cession TO make Morocco exhibit at the expo
sition. He says he will spend $4,000 in showing
the people. manners, customs, amusements,
ETC., or his country, and in bringing to Chicago
tribe OF Berbers
L. TAKAQU1 and K. IKEDA, two representatives
commissioned by the Mikado of Japan, have
been in Chicago seeking detailed information
concerning the exposition. They were greatly
pleased and said their country would make a
fine exhibit and that init would be a number
Of the,private art treasures of the mikado
FACT not generally known to the public
has gained added interest through the death in
France of Nine. Bartholdi, mother Of the we'll
known sculptor and designer, who died few
days ago at the advanced age OF 80 years. She
1t was who stood as the model for Bartholdis
statue of Liberty Enlightening the World"
which now occupies such a prominent position
IN the harbor of New York.
SEVERAL GENTLEMEN were slipping wine and
enjoying good dinner at city hotel yesterday,
says the Pittsburg Dispatch, when the CONVEX
satlon turned to the subject Of good feeders. II
don't think it is true" remarked one of the
men, that large man eats more than a small
one. l understand Grover Cleveland, who is
sensitive about his fat, doesn't devour much
food daily as a thin, lank man like Senator
Evarts That may be true" replied John
boyle an Ohio newspaper man. who was one of
stephen A. Douglas. the Chicago lawyer? He
is son of Lincoln's opponent, and man
OF large dimensions" They all admitted they
didn't even know Douglas had a SON. ssWelI
continued Boyle, Douglas was one of the big
gest eaters ever saw. and he is not gour-
mand, either. l remember made a stumping
tour with him once in Illinois. and when we
went to hotel he would order dinner that
would satisfy the hunger of the average man.
" hen the waiter put the dishes down before
him he would say: Now duplicate everything
you have brought The waiter would be dunn
founded, and sometimes explanations were
nee led. Douglas had large body 10 support
and he needed the food to do it."
THERE is an old tavern down near the Della.
ware river with which history associates the
name OF William Penn in connection with his
FIRST landing on Pennsylvania SOIL which has
dispensed good cheer in liquid shape for over
two centuries The present dispenser of nut
| brown sle in the cosy little "tep room" is not
| as old as the tavern but his hair and mustache
| are white and he has dealt in intoxjcants for
more than two score years. In that he is not
| peculiar, but in the fact that in all those years
he has never asked a man to take drink or a
| customer what he would have to drink When
a customer walks up to the bar, he stands like
| statue until the order is given and then he fills
| 1t promptly but without q word The other dav
| two noisy and freshly familiar young men blew
! into the barroom with draught Of cold air and
| returned the inquiring look of the bartender
| with a brazen stare. Atlas one of them banged
/ the bar with his fist and roered, We'll why
l don't you ask us what we'll have to drinks'' II
never asked q man that question In my life
replied the old bartender quietly, but with a
| can give your order, or get out" When the
| customers had gone out the old man was asked
| whether he followed his rule on principle
'Yes, sir" he replied, lit is on principle am
| opposed to treating. because 1 dent think it's
| right"
| THE Pacific extension of the Great Northern
railway promises to be as rich in scenic wonders
as the Canadian Pacific. 1t is the only trans
continental road that reaches the suramit of the
Rocky mountains on what is known IN engineer
ing as per cent. grade, or one foot 10 the hun
| dred. The extension leaves the main line at
Havre, town seven miles east of
\ gan Indian reservation over the great
divide" 1t has been found necessary to
build over Cutbank river trestle 149
| feet in hight and 800 in length, and across
| the canyon Of Two Medicine river a trestle 2I2
feet in hight and Isl in length. The latter is
| said to DO the highest wooden trestle In Amer
| ica No tunneling has been made in the
route over the mountains. From the summit
| down to Essex. eighteen miles distant the
| grade attains the maxiknum-1.S per cent, or
ninety five feet to the mile. The maximum
curvature is TO-. The mountain peaks are very
steep, and often rise to great nights More
than one OF the lofty peaks west of the summit
bears the scars of snow slides, which must
nave rushed down the mountain sides with ire
mendous force as trees were pulled from the
ground and can be seen lying at the bottom of
the mountains heaped upon rocks and other
DEBRIS just where the snow melted in the
| spring. The engineers hope to see the track
lad as far as Spokane by May next,
! @. S. CLARK, who has been studying the
Kelley cure at Dwight writes to Milwaukee
| paper: The chief ingredient in the Kelley
! cure for the future is amans will power BY
| his coming here he has voluntarily arrived at
that necessary stage where he admits his utter
| weakness to fight the awful battle, He goes
| through the treatment with an earnestness
| born of trust and faith. He knows he has been
| placed on his feet in from two to three DAYS in
stead of that number Of weeks as heretofore
! He knows he has, for the first time in years not
the faintest desire for the stuff that brouy ht
him to Dwight, and he knees in supplication
| and anxiety for relief. He goes away
| entirely built up, and with the expert
| ences of the dark past, and the known
| departure of the terrible appetite
! he can look all mankind squarely In the
| face and know he is released With all these
| new blessings his, the man who would deliber-
| ately proceed to rekindle the fire of his earthly
| hell would be an migrate, suicidal wretch, and
| death should, as it certainly would be his
| earthly portion This, to my mind constitutes
the Kelley cure, and in giving it l would bid all
| unfortunates to hope. Come here il you be-
| lieve you have lost all control of yourself Go
| through the mill of manly and heroic endeavor
aud il you are still a man believe you can be
saved. Many leading business men of the
| country daily roach here perfectly sober They
have come because they realize the old fight is
coming and they are determined to escape
| it and beat the devil at his own game. And this
they do nv fastening bithar -