The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-13
NATURAL FRUIT LEVoRS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A Boston EDITOR, who printed recently q
poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, received
from the west a letter addressed to the poet:
and day or two ago publisher in that city
| who had put an edition of The Complete Ang-
Ter" on the market, found In his mail q letter
addressed to "Isaak Walton, Esq"
A GOOD STORY comes from the American
board Of foreign missions, which lately held its
meeting at Pittsfeld. Mass. of a pious lady of
| that city, who reported to the committee that
she could entertain few members. but that
| one OF item must be a missionary from the
| Cannibal Islands, and that il he was a little
! gnawed' she would not mind it. The commit
| tee did the best it could: il sent her Mr.. Nord-
| hof of the FIJI Islands.
| Mrs. PHILIP BEYER of Minneapolis recently
sued her husband for the cost of 3i2 meals at rs
| cents each, which she had furnished him during
| TWO years of courtship, and was awarded $50 in
| full. The cause OF the "whittling down. by the
court does not appear, but the point is OF inter
est TO all gentlemen in the ante-nuptia state OF
existence as warning that it may be wiser to
| lunch at home or adopt a system of meal TICK
| cts, which his inamorata can punch as used in
stead OF permitting the account to run loose
| AN ENGLISH SYNDICATE recently sent an ex-
| pert mining engineer TO look up the old gold
mines in Portugal He struck one of the old
Roman mines worked in the days Of Caesar
Augustus. In those days they cut down the
| vein. and this vein was 600 feet deep before nav
| rock was reached The mine was open for an
| area OF ten acres or more up to the surface
| every foot of ground having been taken Off
| The debris around these old mines could be
worked over at a profit we're they in America,
but In Portugal it would cost too much for the
| transportation Of machinery.
SIR HENRY PARKEs' resignation of the pre-
lniership in New South Wales is owing to a
curious condition of politics. Sir Henry, a free
trader, was kept In office by coalition OF his own
| minority party and thirty six labor representa-
| tiVes, believers in the single tax and an eight
| hour law. To please these men, but against his
| own Judgment and convictions. Sir Henry in
| cluced In pending bill an eiRht-hour provis-
ion. The ministry fell in opposing motion to
| recommtt the measure in order that an eight
| hour clause might be stricken out, part of the
| free traders having Joined the protectonists in
| opposition to the eight-hour idea. Thus SIR
Henry falls In defending a measure in which he
does not believe.
A SIGN Of the growing Anglomana in the
older states of America is the spread of Eng
lsh customs in the colleges. at Brown Uni
versity in Providence, they have long worn the
| English academic gown, and now the regulation
cap and gown. as worn at Oxford and Cam
bridge, is to be introduced into Harvard and
Princeton. At Harvard the innovation will be
confined TO the senior c,ass on its special ami
versary day, and the decision has been made v
the class itself At Princeton the regulation is
apparently general, and has been determined
by the college authort .es. This imitation of
English customs is very distasteful to the aver
age American, and yet 1t goes on fast in the
wealthy and cultured sets in the eastern states.
Generally no official dress is worn In American
colleges any more than in American courts.
LARAMIE CITY he's great scandal Dudley
Diggs. the office man at the rolling mills and q
prominent Wyoming citizen, has sued for d.
vorce. No less than eight correspondents are
named, and it is understood that the petitioner
will ask for heavy damages from some of these.
Mrs. Diggs, who was the daughter OF New
York broker. and VINO is highly accomplished,
Is in Salt Lake en- route to California to ask
court OF that state for release from her matri-
monial alliance. She was driven from home
horse owner and club mao, is one of the CO.
respondents, and II. K Evans another. Nearly
all the rest are members of the English colony
which has simply melted awav since the affair
| took on a legal aspect. One report is that
| Whitahouse is in Salt Lake, and it is added that
| he is to marry Mrs Digs as soon as q divorce is
| secured. All the parties are members of the
thirty-third degree of Laramie's "Order OF Nc
AlIister, and the revelations have caused a
! great sensation.
AN INDUSTRY Of great promise In Japan for
purposes of export is the manufacture Of
cigarettes. Japanese tobacco, though not suit
able for pipes or cigars, makes excellent
cigarettes, pronounced by the majority Of
smokers to be only q little inferior to cigarettes
made with Turkish tobacco and the advantage
is very distinctly on the side Of the Japanese
article in respect of cheapness its ratio of price
to that of the Turkish being as three to five ap-
proxlmatey. During the month of May last
the export OF Japanese cigarettes to Shanghai
aggregated $50, 500, from which 1t may be in
ferred that the foreign residents of China are
beginning to appreciate the Japanese article
But unfortunately, as Is usually the case with
everything exported from this country, the
necessity OF keeping up the quality of the arti-
Gle is not appreciated. Adulteration with leaves
OF the lotus, the goba, and SO forth has been
resorted to- with the result of greatly injuring
the reputation which the cigarettes were inst
beginning to earn. The Toxic News Agency
sddres es word of timely warning to the
short-sighted manufa cturers
"A BEAUTIFUL and peculiar custom still pre-
walls in some parts of tn Tyrol," writes a
tourist. When girl is going to be married
before she leaves her home to 20 to the church,
her mother gives her handkerchief. which is
cal ed the tear handkero hief' 1t ia m de Of
beautiful sp linen, and has never been used
It is with this that she dries her tears when she
leaves her fathers house and when she stands
at the altar. After the marriage is over and the
prine mas gone with her husband to their new
/ home, she folds up the handkerchief,
and places it unwashed in the linen closet.
| where IL remains untouched. Up to now it has
done only half its duty. Children are born.
/ grow up. marry, and go away to their new
| homes, each daughter receiving a tear handker-
: chief from the mother Her own still remains
where it was placed in the linen closet the day
OF her marriage. Generations come and go.
The once young, rosy bride has become a
wrinkled old woman. She may have outlived
her husband and all her children. All her old
friends may have died off, and yet that last
present size received from her mother has not
fulfilled its object. 1t comes at last, though-at
last the weary eyelids close for their long Sleep
| and the tired wrinkled hands are folded over
the pulseless heart. And then the tear hand
kerchef is taken from the long resting place
ana spread over the placid features Of the dead.
This may have made you feel somewhat sad
even brought the tears TO your eyes, as ir did to
mine when first heard 1t, but it is a beautiful
Idea for all that"