The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTGREST.
CONSIDERABLE inconvenience fs caused to
vessels going up and down the Thames by the
electric search light from the forts command
ing the Lower Hope Reach saws the E{ec 'ricdl
heuler. The navigable channel in the Lower
Hope is only half a mile wide. and is invariably
crowded with craft. Wien the search light
from the fort is thrown dead on a steamer the
moment it is remos ed The sense of darkness is
inten flied, and if at the time a sailing vessel
should happen to be quite near there is nothing
for 1t to do but to stop the engines until the
effect of the brilliant light has passed away.
JANE, as borne by the royal families Of
Europe, has always been name of i'll omen,
says Americdn Notes and Queries Lady Jane
Gray was behea led for treason; Jane Seymour
was one Of the victims of King Hal; Jane Beau
fort, wife of James l. of Scotland, was savagely
murdered, Jeanne de Nalois, wife of Louis
Nil, was re pudlated for her want of personal
beauty; jeanne dAlbret. mother of Henry
~, was poisoned by Catherine de Medici; Jane
OF Castle lost her reason through the neglect of
her husband, Philip the Handsome, Archduke
OF Austria; Jane l. of Naples caused her hus-
band 10 De murdered and married his assassin,
and Jane H. OF Naples was one of the most
wanton OF women.
THE TELEPHONE has been put to many uses,
but it has remained for the Chicago telephone
to reunitea family after a separation of TWEEN
ty-iva years. While careesslg looking over a
N--~J $500
week, Miss Helen Wheeler happened TO run
across the name of w w. Wheeler. That be-
ing the name of a brother whom she had neither
seen nor heard of for many years, she deter
mined to call upoe the telephone as soon as the
first opportunity presented itself The next
day she rang up 5094, and, after asking sew raj
questions, found TO her utter surprise that she
was really talking to her brother, who had been
lost sight of by the family for over twenty fivs
years. The telephone has been unjuStly cursed
BY many impatient business men, but there
w ha n fu Mt will n.
ways think kindly of it.
TIE well-known love of seals for musical
sounds too often leads to their destruction.
When the Esquimau hunters sees none of his
prey about he begins whistling, and sooner or
later is sure to attract an appreciative seal
within reach of his harpoon. Lying at full
length at the edge of the ice. he continues
whistling low, pIaintive, calling notes, and
presently few of t1e animals will draw near
to the spot, lifting themselves as high as they
can out OF the water and slowly stalking the r
heads to and fro. as if keeping time to the
music By and by one seal m IRE daring than
its fellows will come very close to the hunter,
who then jumps to his treI and Stays the Great
ure, while its mates make off as quickly Us pc j.
sible The whstling is general y more success
full when performed by another Esquimau at a
short stance bshind the hunter, lying motion
less on the ice.
A MELBOURNE LADY who was invited by Lady
Salisbury to her last reception has !, Nned a
vivacious description OF the scene. LORD Sails
bury struck her as looking out of his element
in a uniform with star and garter-ribb0u. His
head is that of q scholar or ecclesiaStc rather
Luen that of politician and a man of the
world. He would look better in the
lawn of a bishop or the gown and NOR
cardboard of an Oxford head" The
Duke Of Portland is summed up as big,
merry, and little loud. ""And here" she adds.
lis Leonard 'Courtenay,' evidently in perfect
delight at being encased in a gold-lace coat, for
hear he is personally very vain; and Mr.. Secre-
! tary Matthews-nOt the awful red-nosed spec
| tacled guy that Harry Furnss makes him-out
| a remarkably handsome man with strong curly
| hair and the wickedest pair of eyes l ever saw
| in the head of man"
THE first hard porcelain made in Europe-for
majolica, Palissyware, and others of the sort
| are pottery and not porcelain-was the lovely
| Dresdenware, and in that line nothing has ever
| been made to exceed its beauty. Its flowers,
| its ribbons and ornaments are perfection in de-
! sign an color. There is a rumor that real lace
| is put into the clay before firing for the parts
| representing lace, but how that may be we do
not know. 1t owes its existence to an accident.
| The chemist who had been imprisoned by the
> elector in order TO find the secret of making
| gold and of the elixir of life. having come
| across some substance resembling porcelain
| IN the bottom OF crucible, was unable to
get IL of pure tint till a rider one day found q
| peculiar white clay on his horses hoofs,
| which he had dried and sfted and sold for
| hair-powder, and the unfortunate chemist
| using it and observing it's weight, experimental
| with it, and straightway the great Dresden
| ware-or Melssen as it is more correctly called
became success, the first sculptors and
| colorists of the day lending their art to its
| perfection. Cruelty, or rather tyranny. has
| often attended on Dresden china; for Frederick
| the Great. having sent great quantities of this
| whit earth to Berlin. TOOK captive the best
| workers in the Meissen and sent them after it.
| never allowing them to see home again; and
| presently he obliged the Jews in his dominion
| to buy the chi IA he thus manufactured by re-
| fUainp them MARRIAGE liChnSAS fil hey cd
| procured service thus gaining an immense
| annual revenue.
| THE unsuccessful attempt to remove the
| Emperor OF Russia from this sublunary sphere
| by the explosion of thirteen bombs seems to
| excite more surprise than Indignation. Francis
Joseph is 81 years old and has been on his throne
| forty-three yedrs. The simplest solution of the
| bomb explosion business Is that it was an ener-
! getic expires sion of opinion by some of MS
| beloved people" that he had been on the
! throne long enough and that his elevation to
: some higher sphere would be desirable Curl
| ousy enough. with the news of this attempted
| assassination, comes new version of the tragic
| taking OF of Rudolph, son of Francis Joseph
l. IS too wildly absurd TO be worth repetition.
/ but with 1t is furnished the indubi-
table proof that he was consider
! ably nader than most March hares, and
that his insanity was an Inheritance from
| his mothers side of the house, which has sup
pile imbecileS and idiots to propagate royal
families all over Europe for a couple of cen
| turieS. IL the mad Rudolph had lived he would
| in due course have ascended the throne This
would not have been remarkable since there is
not so called royal house in all Europe that
is not tinged with the hereditary insanity in
! duced by the too-closely consanEuineous inter-
| marriages. All the intelligent, ulivated and
educated people in Europe know this, consent
10 it. and are even intensely loyal to their
lunatics. But what would these intelligent peo-
pie think of us Americans if we should select
our chief executive from some insane asylum
and should further declare that the Office should
be hereditary in the ia ui y, with succession to
| the eldest lunRtc in tue lot? We should be re-
garded as a nation Of IDIOTS: and vet the same