The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
PRINCE BIsMARcK's present hobby. according
to Germon interviewer. is a little wren which
flies about his room and eats out Of his hand.
This is the only interesting fact of the latest in
terviewer's Herr Bewer's) story, except the ex-
chancellor's reply to some strong anti French
talk ON his questioner's part. Prince Bismarck.
it seems, broke away from his subject with the
words, I'VE cannot anuihilate the French race.
Germany will never lead prophylactic war.
and, for the rest, the whole war question Is one
OF chemistry. The enemy of Germany who
first absolutely secures the best powder will be-
gin"
GOLD MINING in the colony of Victoria shows
decided tendency to decline. Between the
last two decennial censuses the number of
miners fell from So ABS to 80, 1e9 and the popu-
lation on the gold fields from go 4aS to 80, 944
and this in the face of an increase In the total
population of 1871 900. Eight years later-that
is, at the close of 1SS9-the mining department
estimated the gold miners to number "a, 041
only This total was very nearly equally di-
vided between aliuyial and quartz mining-the
latter however, slightly preponderating, The
Chinese miners who only count for 8, 2S1 in this
number. are nearly all engaged in the alluvial
mining
CHoPsTIcKs, far from being awkward, are the
most convenient as well as the cleanest table
utensils, once the secret of their use is learned.
IL cannot be taught in words. There Is an indie
| scribable knack of fixing one stick firmly and
Ringing the other with the first and second
| fingers so as to play exactly upon the fixed
stick, which renders the little implement per
feet, except, of course, juice or gravy and soup.
You can even ont with them by inserting the
points close together and then forcibly ssparat-
| ing them; and as for hardness and precision of
| grasp, in little wager at this very restaurant
| even myself picked up with the hashi twenty
| two single grains of rice in one minute from a
| lacquered tray, being beaten by Japanese lady,
whose swift skill dexterousiy conveyed as many
as forty-nine.
''THE regular champagne glass; said man
about town to Chicago Tribune reporter, is
| the straight-up, thin glass with a fivepointsd
| star ground in the bottom Of it. Men who drink
nothing but champagne won't take it out of
| any other sort of glass. My attention was
| called to this by an old WINE man. l asked him
| what the star had to do with the wine, if any
thing, and he told me it was for the purpose Of
| testing the wine. He said if the wine was the
| pure article 1t would sparkle from that star in
the bottom Of the glass as long as there was a
drop Of wine Ia the glass, bat if the wine was
| bad it would become fat the minute it was
| poured into the glass. l asked him good
wine wouldn't sparkle anyway unless it is still
wine, and he said yes, that was so, but, all the
same, he insisted that no wine drinker would
take his vintage out of a glass that hadn't the
| star ground in the bottom of it"
| ACCORDING to the Isle of Wight Guardian.
the island one day recently was the scene of a
strange dramatic performance with power
| IL. (fc0e-
| We've Ward, DIR. Dabbs, and a dramatic visitor
| a MIR. John Lumsdaine, together with young
| lady, Miss Ethel Goddard, and this powerful
| dramatic company were engaged-fn what?
| They were reading through a new play of DIR.
Dabbs' and Mr.. Righton's, entitled, "Dante, " to
| secure the copyright The admission was
| guinea, which was paid at the door, and the
audience consisted of one person. And so the
/ qualifications of the absurd copyright law were
complied with, and the right of the authors to
| the title Dante is legally secure against all
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chance of seeing it, for nights are dull and the
| articles are quite in our way-such is the
| lament or the paragraph writer.
| WHAT is the order of precedence in the British
nobility The order of precedence, as given by
the best authorities. heads the list of notables
with the severed zn Next comes the Prince of
| Wales, after him the sons, the the gfandsons,
| the brothers, the uncles and the nephews of the
sovereign, in the order named Then follow the
Archbishop of Canterbury, the lord high chan
of Arma h. the Archbishop of Dublin, the lord
high treasurer, the president of the privy coun-
Gil. the lord privy SEAL the lord great chamber
| lain, the lord high constable, the earl marshall
the lord high admiral, and the lords stewards
and chanberlains Of the royal household
Ii those officials are nobiemen they
them are dukes and the eldest sons of royal
| dukes, marquises and dukes eldest sons not of
the blood royal, earls and younger sons of
royal dukes, a marquis eldest son and the
After him come viscounts, earls' eldest sons, q
marquis younger sons. the bishops of London
Durham and Winchester, and al other English
bishops, according to seniority OF conservation,
| followed by the bishops of Meath, Kildare and
all other Irish bishops. The secretaries of state
| If noblemen. come next, and are followed by
| barons. the speaker of the Commons, commits
| sioners of the great seal, and vast number of
| household officers judges, elder and younger
| sons too numerous to mention. After these fol-
| low the commanders of the various orders of
| Rath "a IF Patr
| the Knights of st. Michael AMI st. George and
| their sons elder and younger, and the list is
| closed by esquires, officers in the army and
navy, clergymen, barristers, citizens and
| burgeSseS
THE LATEST NOVELTIES in footwear discount
| in daintiness the famed Cinderella slipper and
would be valuable treasure trove for the modern
| Prince Charming to secure as souvenirs. The
| most remarkable are those made of lace, I'M
| lined so as to reveal glimpses OF silken hose
through the meshes, and instead of being the
| impracticable, shapeleSS affairs one would i'm
| agine, they are pointed-toed, narrow little
| few times they may be worn The meshes of
the lace are gold or silver thread, and its pattern
| is trac d with strong old or silver cord. The
high, pointed heels are of course. finished in
imitation Of the metallic thread used in the lace.
! They are designed for the use of brides and
| brides maids, and are to be worn over white or
| cream silk hose. Black shoes with gold tips
| and heels are very pleasing accomplishments to
| the black and gold dresses so much worn, and
another odd and brilliant slipper is of deep vel
! low satin, covered with gold gallon and with
| gilt heels With these stockings Of the same
| peculiar shade of yellow are worn and the
| foot thus looks small cork SOLE stitched
| with white finishes, white kid shoe adorned
| with gold and diamond buckles and black heels
| A favorite make has q high flap coming over
| the foot. with huge gold buckle in 'front.' and
| Louis XIV. bows OF two colors, edged with gold
| beads knotted in circular form, are much EN-
| ployed. Physicians have waged such relentless
1 war on high heels that they are doomed, so far
| as boots are concerned, but the slipper heel is
| still fearfully aud wonderfully made Their
| origin, 1t Is said, may be traced to Persia,
| where, in ancient days, their hight varied from
| eighteen inches to two feet. Many years later
| similar fashion came in vogue in Venice its
| amusing motif being that by this means Jealous
husbands thought they would be able to keep
| their wives at home The supports we're called
| chapineys," and to appease the jealous pro-
| tected danes were made highly ornate. Their
| different degrees Of hight determined the rank
/ OF the wearers. the modest ladies' of a being
allowed to wear them half yard in hight.