The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

] JUDGE FIELD Oh the supreme court Is very
| accomplished man. He Is thoroughly versed
/ in modern Greek. reads Turkish with avidity,
and can converse tiuently in French and Italian.
! ONE OF the interesting places in Paris is
| Desert agency for music hall artists in the
| Faubourg ST. Denis. 1t is a curious little old
| fashioned house, somewhat dingy and ill-kept,
| but the agency does an astonishing busnr IS.
/ In one room are 20, 900 photographs of NJ. Des-
ert s clients actors, singers and reciters An
! idea Of the magnitude of his operations may be
| got from the fact that not long ago NJ. Desert
| made a contract TO supply a London theater
! with an entire company for a certain spectacle,
/ receiving therefor $1,000 month
The HERREsHoFFs of Providence, R l., have
| launched yacht for E D. Morgan of New
York which is contracted to steam at a speed
of twenty seven miles an hour. AS the Javelin,
which is the new boats name. is only ninety
eight feet long, fve-day transatlantic steamer
ought to be within the range of possibility In
this connection it is appropriate to state that
the builders Of the City OF Paris have designed
a steamer which they will guarantee to cross
the Atlantic in five days by making an average
speed of twenty three and one-haf miles an
hour. The proposed vessel is said to be $50
feet long and nave width of seventy feet.
She will have engines Of about $4,000 horse
power.
BERLIN's MATTRESSES have declared them
selves for the woman's rights movement. They
did it two weeks ago with such turbulence as
Berlin has not seen in meeting since the days
of Ferdinand Lassalle, and they took steps to-
ward realizing IN everyday life the purpose of
their declaration The meeting began in the
Arminius hall at midnight. for at that hour
Berlin's Mattresses are first relieved of their
killing duties. They found in the hall several
students intent on raising row, and at once
showed their spirit by throwing three dis
turoers through a window and another
through a doorway. Then they explained
their wrongs. Their wages, their statements
showed were hardly 81 25 a week; their tips
al " the landlords and thai
hours of work were from a. m to - p. m, or
later When they appeared in fancy dress, as
for instance in the carnival season, they were
obliged to pay enormous prices for the costumes
to the landlords. Heavy fines were imposed on
every waitress who broke anything, 50 that, in
TACT no waitress got much more than IS a
: month with which to pay for her board and
lodgings. landlord who protested against
these statements was tossed out into the garden
Cigarettes and cognac were passed while
committee outlined a plan for a mattresses
protective unoD the object Of which will be to
strike unless reforms are immediately forth
coming. The Msrseillaise was sung, the com
mittees report was adopted, and then the wait
resses adjourned to the garden, where, over
beer, they discussed it until o'clock in the
morning Berlin landlords who live from the
trade of officers and students have been thrown
into state of fear and trembling by this
declaration OF rights, since even a tenn DOrary
absence of "Huda" and Meta" and Anna"
would ruin their trade. which is more depend
ent on the piquancy of the mattresses tnan on
tu6 ludlIt} OF the Deer.
THE HEALTH BOARD, cooperating with the
police, recently ordered Miss Elizabeth Petty,
the eccentric old woman of ample mea ms who
lived alone with dozen cats in a house she
owned at 70 Commerce street, Newark, to clean
the premises, an operation which had not ap-
parenty been attempted for over a dozen years
says the New York Morning Journal Miss
PeCty had always been regarded a miser, but
1t now turns out that no one could have been
less careless of their money. Whenever she
received cash from rents or interest on
her mortgages she was in the habit
Of wrapping it up in small bags and
upon returning home, tossing it to one of her
cats, whom she regarded as more honest than
men, with the remark: Pussy, put that away
Tor me. " short time ago the woman reported
that burglars had entered the house and robbed
it. Supt. Brown placed Detective Cosgrove on
the case. In Miss Petty's room he found half
dollars, dimes, and quarters scattered around,
the small army of kittens using them for play
things, and under the carpet edges, in the cracks
OF the wainscOting, and other out-of-the- way
places were wads of bills. The superintendent
concluded that the old woman lad been robbed
by others than burglars and ascertained
from her the name of the person she
A mad reluctantly employed to clean the
tcolored), of 105 Fourteenth avenue and he was
arrested. DENLY denied stealing money from
the house, and implicated William Ward of l13
South Canal street. Ward was also taken into
custody, together with Sidena DorcheT (col-
oredl who is Wards reputed wife. Another
colored woman and a white man were also ar
rested. Ward, who has done time in state
prison. offered to help the detectives in
finding the other parties implicated, and was
permitted to go with them for that purpose
When arraigned before Justice Hayes
DENLY stated that when the carpet was taken
up the floor was found ito be full of silver" He
admitted getting Sl5 Of il. 81 got a straw hat
full of silver out of the place in one day, said
Ward. II got $50 in one day, and DENLY must
have got enough to buy a house and lot'' Big
rolls of bills are also missing, and the police ex-
pect TO identify them when found, from the fact
That they believe the edges were gnawed by
rats, scraps of the notes being found in the
cracks OF the wall.
IT is WORTH WHILE to put together some re-
cent examples of heroic unselfshness as an an
tidote TO pessimism. and an evidence that there
is something better in this hurrying life of our
time than the materialism, the selfish money
getting, power Rrasping spirit that seems on the
surface to be its dominating influence, SAYS the
Springfield Republican. There were two col
lege boys, young John McKeow and Fred
Brokaw, who gave their lives in vain attempts
to save others from drowning. McKeown was
but a lad-rch, with home, friends, and all that
makes the future bright; and Brokaw with his
college course behind him was equipped to
begin his work of man. McKeown sprang
into the lake where his playmate was strug-
Cling and sank with him, and Brokow obeying
an unselfish impulse. rushed into the surf and
died with the helpless girl he hoped to save 1t
adds no glory to Brokow's end To know that the
girl he tried TO rescue was a servant no more
than it detracts from the honor due MoKeown
that he strove to save a playmate-it was the
same noble obedience to what seemed the call
of duty. Nor is it worth while to comment on
what might have happened had either or both
OF those heroes known better what to have
done in such an emergency; it is lamentabie
that they did not, and wise for all of us to take
the lesson TO ourselves, but these are secondary
considerations. These young men we're
equal to a supreme call upon them, and this is
their title to honor McKeown and Brokaw
were of the class from whom the world has a
right to expect great things; they had had much
given them. as much almost as it is possib a 10
put into the lives of young men in our time; but
their courage and self-sacrifice did not come
from their training, but from a deeper source
common to cultured and uncultured alike
Other recent instances snow this. Harry Rus
sell had been mechanic, a printer, and was at
last bookkeeper in New Orleans, aud was woh
toward his Goth year; but when a fright
| ened pair of horses tore their wav
through a crowd of women and chill
| dren Watching the Masonic parade st Johns
| day, this everyday man grabbed the horses by
| the DTS and before he was thrown down and
trampled to death had so checked their speed
| That they were stopped by Others Russell
| Brokaw, his sacrifices saved some Of those he
| sought to protect 1t is enough to tell this
story and pass on 30 our last case: it's lesson
cannot De made any more impressive by COM
nleht. Edward Bowers a 16-yesr-old school
| ooy OF Easton, Pa, was near the Lehigh river
| inc otner day, where two other lads were
swimming and got beyond their depth.
boWers was cool as well as brave, and withal
good swimmer When he reached the strug-
cling lads, by pushing one and coaxing and en-
couraglng the other. he brought both to shore.
Inc tragic element is lacking in this simple