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

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
TRAMP detected at Port Jervis, N. Y, in the
act of attaching to the trucks of a railroad car
a novel continuance for stealing a ride voun-
| teered the Information that, seated on the con
| trvance. he had iournled over 1900 mile .
1t was constructed something on the order of a
| swing.
DARWIN used to say that the most powerful
worker we know is the earthworm. Without
the earthworm we could not live. Earthworms
make the soil fertile. According to Darwin S
! calculations each particle of the earth to a
| depth of two feet is brought up to the surface
! at least once every hundred years. But this
estimate is too low. 1t has recently been calcu-
lated that this renovation of the soil takes place
| every twenty seven years There are from $50
| to 200 worms in each square yard Of earth ten
| inches in depth.
| In CHICAGO they are telling this story on Sam
Jones' Recently he was addressing a crowded
audience. and said: II want every one in this
! cOngre cation who wants to 20 to heaven to
stand up" OF course, almost everybody rose.
! Then he said: Now | want everybody who
wants to 90 to the other place to stand up" At
| first no one stood up, but finally long and
lank and skinny individual in the back seats
about as fat as an umbrella, arose and said: Il
don't exactly want to go to the other place, but
am willing to stand up rather than let the
preacher stand all alone"
WoRKMEN are engaged night and day on the
Empress of Austrias new residence at CORN,
as she insists on its being completed by Sept l.
The timber alone has cost an enormous sum.
! The palace consists of two stories,
containing thirty-fve rooms, seven Of
which have, by the empress express
wish, been completed in the severest Pom peian
style down to the minuUest detail Every cot
tage within view has been removed, and the
only remaining habtation in the neighborhood
is a small house belonging to the former owner
of the splendid park in which the empress
fairy like and romantic abode is being con-
structed.
Miss RACHEL GURNEY, Lord Dudley's
fisncee, has been brought up and educated en-
tirely by the Duchess of Bedford, and is quite
like daughter to her and the duke The
duke, it is said, who is very fond of her and
P PiSs her at $4,000 aS5 % as dot Misc
Quincy. besides being very handsome
Is extremely accomplished, and is
one of the best amateur singers in England.
Lord Dudleys income, though very large, is a
| tiuctuating one and just now is not to be com
pared with that of his father; and he has very
large portions to pay TO his brothers and sister.
No one could have raced and kept so large a
stable without spending money.
PERUVIAN MAIL ADvIcEs, dated July %, say:
Lieut.. w. E. Stafford has secured for the
Chicago exhibition a most interesting collec-
ton of the ceremonial costumes of Indian tribes
/ of Peruvian backwOodS, or Montana compFs-
| ing feather adornments for body and head
I
monkeys teeth, and woven garments of human
| hair ornameated with pearly discs made out of
shells found in fresh water lakes in the interior.
Lieut.. Stafford says he has seen dresses of many
savage tribes and even royal feather mantles
of kings of Hawaii, but they cannot compare.
in his estimation, either as far as artistic effect
is concerned or gorgeous contrasts of color
with garments of Jvaros Indians, who inhabit
northern mountains OF Peru
GERoME, the French artist, has many pupils
in New York, and they tell good stories of their
master. Here is one of the best, says the New
York Sun: A titled man about town, after
wasting much time in the Paris Latin quarter,
| finally managed by hook or crook to become
| enrolled as pupil of the great master. Day
| after day the nobleman came, took his place
! before the model and skerched as best he could.
| Finally Gerome paused before the new pupil
| one day and said You come here in the
! morning, what do you do in the afternoon?'
| "Oh, said the nobieman, II ride in the Bots,
see a few of my friends and then dress for
dinner" You do" unused the master Don't
you think you'd better do the same thing in the
morning also?" The next week a new pupil
had the nobleman's place in front of the model.
THE Prince de Lucinge Fancigny, whose sons
marriage was celebrated with considerable
pomp in Paris a few days ago, is a grandson
of one of the two daughters born to the Due de
Berri by his morgantic marriage with Miss
| Brown, contracted while in exile in
| England. When the Due de Berri was stabbed
| by Lowell he asked his wife TO let his two
| daughters be sent for, and embraced them be-
| fore he died, the Duchesse de Berri promising
| to treat them as if they were her own children.
| She induced Louis XVIII. to confer the titles of
| Comtesse de Vierzon and Comtesse d'Issoudun
| upon the two girls, whom she educated with
! her own daughter, afterward Duchess of Parma
| One of them married the Comte de Facigny
! Prince de Lucinge, while the other, who is still
alive. married Baron de Charette and is the
I mother of the celebrated general of the Pope 8
| Zouaves
| A MAN carrying two large paper bags and fol-
| lowed by boy with a bag and long paste
| board box was hurrying through the ferry house
| at the foot of Cham bers street to catch train
| says the New York Sun, when the boy dropped
| the box and liberated score of live crabs that
| had been carefully packed in wet seaweed. At
| the same moment the moist bottom of one of
| the bags carried by the man dropped out and
| set as many more of the lively shellfish free.
| Never did crabs make liveer time in scuttling
| on. and, while men laughed and women
| screamed, the man swore under his breath at
! the boy because he showed altogether too much
| respect to the sharp claws that opened their
! pincers threateningly whenever his hands came
| too near them. The little scene was but another
| illustration of the lack of sympathy invariably
manifested toward the railroad commuter and
his bundles
AT ALL the watering places one of the sights
OF the season is an entire family taking their
| promenade with caps of various colors for their
| head covering. If the father is portly man he
SpOrtS d Olue cap with gllt Danu giving MIN lue
err of a retired officer of the army. The
| daughters affect the white yachting cap, and
the children aresunusualy given to blue withia
broad white band. The effect is odd and not
| unpleasing, except when giddy maiden of
30 summers languishes under the style of Is
years. Graybeards who cannot bring them
| selves to adopt this juvenile fashion find memo
ries of their boyish DAYS stirring within them,
and look eagerly about them, half expecting to
see aga the plain cloth cap with tassel at
| the side which they wore in the days when
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part of their daily attire and Sanford and
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