The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


ITEMS OF INTEREST.
1T is SAID that insurance men look askance
at married men by the name of Russell when a
life policy is desired. There are forty Two
widows by the name of Russell In the New York
directory, and it is said that no less taaa 10 are
lvlng there and in Brooklyn.
A RECENT VISITOR to Ibsen found him in a
shabby dressing gown buttoned over gray
trousers. On his feet we're felt slippers and his
mar was IN great disorder, as were his big side
WHISPERS His face appears comical at first
sig; [. but there is line OF satire between his
clean shaver lips.
THERE is female in Louisville who has very
costly and elegant diamond ingeniousy set in
one of her beautiful upper front teeth When
she smiles-and she always does-the brilliant
rays that come from her hands me mouth are
brighter than the differing beams that shoot
from the electric headlight on a sternwheel boat
az midnight.
The Bon Marche in Paris possesses probably
the largest kitchen in the world. It providei
food for all the employees of the house, 1000 in
number The smallest kettle holds IS quarts
tue largest 315 quarts. There are 50 frying pans
sch of which i capable of cooking 300 outlets
at time, or of frying 20 pounds OF potatoes
When there are oueietS Tor breakfast : 500 eggs
are used The coffee machine makes $50 quarts
of coffee daily. There are GO COOKS ami 100
kitchen boys employed.
mated at oyer 1I,000, 900 pounds, worth at
first hands Sl35 O00OOO This enormous GUAM.
tity IS grown in lands between the parallels OF
30' north and 800 south latitude mainly N
British India and the nelZhborng islands, in
Liberia ana other parts Of Africa, in the West
Indies. Mexico, Central America and Brazil
The domestic consumption of the United States
amounts to SOL, l32, 100 pounds, which is valued
here at S12 lac, O0Q, and of which 80 per cent
comes from countries geographically belonging
TO this continent.
FARES ANTON BEHANNEsEY, the Syrian boy
preacher, has mysteriously disappeared in Chi
cago, and it Is feared that he has been kid
mapped orfoully dealt with. He has lived for
the last four months with the Rev A. j. Mark
seat 2SI Oakley avenue. Wednesday morning
at O'Clock he left Mr.. Marks house to keep an
engagement with Lawyer -. W. Wood in the
Methodist church block, and has not been seen.
by his friends since, and no tracs of
him can be found The boy came
from Damascus about two years ago
with four other Syriaus and engaged with them
in the business OF selling oriental goods. They
prOSpered, but when they came to dissolve part
nerShIp recently quarrel arose over the divi-
sion of the profits Behannesey had also in
Cured the enmity of his couutrymen in the city
oy his efforts to convert them to CHRISTIANITY.
Wednesday Elias and Rosa Shamhoom, two'of
his former companions, left for New YorK
their way to syria, and 1t is thought they NAV
have kidnapped the boy if no worse fate has be
fallen him. His affairs in such condition,
MIR. Mood says, that it is absurd TO suppose thai
no NAAAAhHiJ ACib OlAO NitJ Vi lis
friends.
OWING to the fact that so many English citi-
zens spend the summer on the continent, says
the Richmond DtSpotci. the different church Of
England societies detail preachers of that faith
to take Their own vacation On the continent and
at all the resorts the preachers conduct relig
louS services each Sunday. have met num-
Der of these ministers or rectors, and they seem
to be very jovial set of men, In contrast to
| our own preacherS in the United States they
| not only frequent the gardens and drinking
| places, but they do not hesitate to sit in the
smoking rooms of the ho els and indulge in
| "grog whisky and water. "Why
nOt?'' said one of these preachers to me, as he
| slipped his grog and smoked his pipe. Nv Q en-.
| JOY the good things of this world, but do not
aDuSe them" They are evidently the same
kind of persons that Thackeray so wildly de-
scribes in his novels | observe when handed
card by any of these preachers that they inva-
riably give you their club as we'll as private ad-
dress, and this is particularly true Of London
and the outskirts. One of these preachers
seemed much surprised when told that it was
a rare exception in the United States for min
lister of the gospel to belong to a club.
EVERY DAY for years past might have been
seen on the steps of the Church of st. Sulpice
writes the Paris correspondent of a London con-
temporary, venerable medicant with a hump
on his back, which, by the way, did not dimin-
ish with age, but, on the contrary, grew in a
most abnormal manner. It was not until the
beggar was gathered to his fathers that an ex-
PLANTATION of the phenomenon was forthcoming.
Pere Antoine was canny old man who did not
make ducks and brakes of the aims which he
received. He spent very little and invested his
steadily Increasing captali in shares, which, with
a certain amount of gold and silver, ha kept in
bag securely tied over his ragged coat. A few
months ago he was taken i'll suddenly, and one
night while deiriOus he jumped out of a win
dow and so put an end to his days. neighbor
Immediately possessed himself of the bag and
found that 1t contained share certificates and
money to the amount of nearly $50, 900. I'm
luckily. however. for him he soon ascertained
that Pere Antoine and two relatives to whom
he had bequeathed his savings in a will. The
good neighbor sent them the contents of the
bag, with the exception of $4,000, which he re-
tanned for himself and the words: Your uncle
| is old rascal" which he forwarded on a
| piece of note paper with the parcel, led to his
| discovery. Ele was prosecuted for theft and
was condemned to two years imprisonment
THE latest charity craze in London says
writer on the Chicago Post, is the educational
food fund, of which the school children are the
benefclarieS. The contributing societies are
the Bread and Food Reform League, the La
dies Vegetarian Society ard the London
Schools Dinner Association. As can be mag
med these societies, agreeing upon the central
idea of charity, disagree as to dieteticS. The
society first named is for bread or nothing"
the second would eschew the. product of the
bakery, while the members of the dinner asso
citation hold to the theory of mixed diet and
noon dinner The first report of the educational
food fund is just out, showing that the ex-
perimental dinner for school children
can be made a success. The meals were fur
nshed at a halfpenuy each. In one section of
the room vegetable soup was served and in the
other sweet milk and wheat bread with butter
or jam dressing. The supply was abundant, the
material good and the cooking of the very best
character. 1t is stated in tie report that teach
ers favor the plan means TO better attend
ance than heretofore. Many unfortunate llttie
children who have no breakfast attend school
for the promised dinner on which they manage
to subsist a whole day The best part of the in
novation is the credit system a child of good
standing being allowed to go in deot for a whole
week of dinners which are paid for out of the
Saturday and Sunday earnings