The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-07
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/ stock exchange as Louis Quinze. He got this
/ name since he attended the Vanderbilt ball a
mighty monarch. In fact, his associates on the
exchange do aot speak to MIN as Mr. Clsws,
I they want 70 know how Louis Quinze is to-day,
John He Csxs he f1pny fslloTs 81 tbe sS
change have dubbed Mr. Foster Mr. Gle s.
/ partner, as The Dauphin," and Of John Henry
Clews they speak as the Half Sovereign"
IT IS RUNoRED that the women who love bar
barrie and oriental things are going to ad pit
| Bernhardt's example and mingle fur with
gauze. In one act Of Cleopatra" Sarah wears
a Il -er skin bound about the hips over drap r
l les OF gauze. This will be soon sprung upon
/ swe ldom b. some Of the daring bsiles. Fancy
| skirts Of green guaze, with a scarf Of ermine
about the hips. That surely would be effective.
/ Or picture some Of these golden brown furs
over yellow gauze Another trick of Ssrah's
| has been caught-that OF swathing bodice on
| instead OF lacing or hooking it. The ungodly
/ cheese-c!o. is very susceptible OF this treat
/ ment, and the girl who is slender and 1.-THE
| some can make an effect BY her mummy-like
| folds. The soft material is would about the
bust and shoulders in a SORT of surplice fashion,
THOUGH no definite rule can be 10 d down, for the
wearer must study her form and decide what is
most becoming to her style.
TIE CHORUS uncertainty of racing" said a
prominent turfman. never received a better
| illustration than in the sale of the Belmont
| horses The result recalls frequent expires
sion OF the late millionaire banker and horse
people questioned him on his opinion about
future events. tnat the man VINO made turf pre-
| dctions courted ridicule. the enormous prices
which have been paid of late for crack thor
| oughbreds led not few of the men who hold
heavy financial interests in horses 10 predict an
entire upset in prices The Belmont sale has
that Potomac would bring $40. coo, and it was
expected that the prices paid for Raceland,
Prince Royal and st. Carlo would all amount to
enormous hgues. The strngency of the money
"a dluI a efaf
horses. Nearly all of the horse owners are di-
rectly interested in Wall street. and as fifty odd
pool rooms have been closed as tight
drumhead for the past six months in New York,
cash is not as plentiful as it used to be among
the bookmakers"
A THROUGHPUT MAN of advanced years who
sits all day in musty Office in Chalmers street,
New York. and writes answers to correspon-
dents concerning the game of poker for we'll
known newspaper, sad that he had not d of
lae that there was decided falling off in the
number of poker stories. 81 am afraid, " he
said, that 1t Is due to the excessive imagina-
ZION on Ihe part OF poser enthusiasts. 1t Is
very oiff1cult thing to hold ones self down to
facts when dealing wit the national game even
under the mo favorable conditions. A feeling
OF suspico comes over me nowadays with two
thirds of the letters that reach my table. feel
more like puzzle editor than a man who has
made 8 study of the noble game aud realizes
that certai amount of respons bility hangs
upon his decisions. Many of the stories alb ut
poker are pre- osterous in the extreme. OF
course, all things are possible in a game in
which luck plays such conspicuous part, but
nothing will ever make me believe that straight
hushes are as common as they are represented
to be. Ihave played poker steadily and loyalty,
IN and out of the family circle, for twenty-three
years. and I've only held one straight flush in
all that time
The average southern negro. says a writer in
northern paper, is not good juror He has
not the education, habits of thought and phi
lOsOnhV n take ont of him tha idaa that ha
must decide in favor of the man he likes the
best. One among many illustrations of this
statement was in recent murder trial in the
south A well-known man about town" was
accused of deliberate aud unprovoked muir
der, and his acquittal by the jury was looked
upon in the community as most f1agraut mis-
defense was distinguished lawyer who would
be absolutely incapable of bribing a juror
or of making even an indirect or re-
mote promise but who would not
be foolish enough to object if one of his col
ored friends and admirers should be called and
accepted as juror. One of the jurors in this
particular case was cOlored man who worked
at hotel where the leading lawyer for the de-
PENDANT was frequent guest. The lawyer was
liberal gentleman, who always gave fat fees
for ''shines" and other services, and of whose
generosity the new-fedged juror had often been
beneficiary. When that colored brother got
on the jury the 9th r employees about the hotel
smiled sI unanimously and passed the opinion
tn 1t would be impossible to convict the de-
PENDANT. There would be one juror to hang
out until doomSday.
Mr.. F. P. DAVIS, division engineer in charge
of the Nicaragua canal, as sent in a report to
the Nicaragua Canal Construction Company, in
which he says that all practicable routes have
been surveyed and the final location nearly COM
| pleted for all dams, embankments and locks
| Borings have been taken TO the bottom of the
| ca al and to the b ttoms of all foundations
many of them being from 200 to 800 feet deep
| Surveys have been made for a railroad from
/ A riNa Ooh ,l,.xel
| cred an impossible swamp between the San
Juan lagoon AMI the Bernard lagoon. Ten
| miles of railroad were built, Of which six were
| laid through swamp. Great difficulty was expe-
! rienced in the construction of a telegraph line
the first ten miles of which passed tar ugh a
| deep swamp. The work of clearing for the
canal was begun last January, the choppiug
| being done at dis dvantage in tue wet
weather, so that the wood might be burned In
April. About eleven miles were chopped to the
full width OF 1856 feet. The breakwater at Grey
town Dor was bui by drivin piles out into
the haroor for distance of LOCO feet and build
ing stonework with rock and gravel filling
arouni them. The breakwatsr will be extended
| l,0O0 feet farther. but the addition win be en-
tirely of stone. The wall will have a sea
depth Of thirty feet, and the harbor will
f 6e dred led to the same depth uni
ports favorably on the health of the employees.
He states that only two-third+ Of per cent of
those admitted to the hospital with diseases
| contracted in the country have died the
diseases are not, as generally supposed, en-
tirely malarial, since only 81 per cent. of the
cases treated in the past three months have
been due to fever in any form. cable dis
| patch to President Miller announces that actual
canal excavations have begun on the canal and
| that there are twelve feet of water on she bar
| at Greytown. 1t is expected to increase this
! depth TO twenty feet in the next four weeks
This will enable all vessels to discharge at the
company's docks.
| ADENvKR MILLIONAIRE has just died and left
a New York widow who will CAIN her dowry.
She is an actress of Spanish pedigree and self
reliance that none knew the power of better
than the m an who has just died, leaving for
tune estimated at S3,OOO,0Oo. VIM. B. Daniels
| made his fortune not in G dorado mines but in
good old-fashioned mercantile pursuits In
1880 Donna Madixxa, now a member of Au-
| gustln Days company, was the principal of a
| scuool OF oratory in Denver. Sue is as beautiful
as dream, and as full of the Castilian fire of
her rase as any dark-eyed maiden that ever grew
| 10 Womanhood within the shallow of the Span
| ish Pyrenees Daniels, W. o was a widower
went all to pieces, so to speak at first
| sight, and after a reasonable courtshiD
married the fair elocutionist. In six
months they separated an octoroop
| houSekeeper at the Daniels homestead whose
relations with the millionaire were said to he
somewhat off-color, being the final breaker on
which their marital bark went to pieces. Mrs
Daniels took the stage under the NAM of
Donna Maddixxa anu has been succ ssf ii.