The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


an accom- plshment something out OF the ordi-
nary. These little ones, Of course. cannot
handle an ordinary violin at first and begin their
lessons on miniature affair. Usually they
know nothing of music when they be- in. and
have TO learn that and the technique Of the in
strument together. Girls make better violinists
than boys, and the violin seems 10 be essentially
feminine instrument.
A GERMAN PROFESSOR has been experimenting
with tobacco upon the animal world. and they
all like it, Goats, stays aud namas delight in
| II; they do not, indeed, smoke like the Grand
LANAI but they devour cigars with infinite
relish. The brown bear, unlike the lady who
writes to the papers in the dull season. has not
only no objection to having cigar smoke
| pulled in his face" but seems TO welcome it as
an appreciative idol drinks in incense. The lion
sneezes, but, ike a snuff-taker. asks for more
OF what makes him sDeeze. OF course, it is
| possible that the professor may have been min
| lSterlng to their worst vices. and sitting the
low beginnings OF penitence and remorse In
their shaggy breasts, but that is not his view.
DETECTIVE GREER of Greenville, s. c., ar
rested at Birmingham, Ala, recently, an aged
white woman and q beautiful young girl, who
is supposed to be Kate vanoochi. who was kid
mapped from New York city some days ago.
Greer first located the woman, who Travelled
under the name of Mrs. Rogers at Toccoa, Ga.
but the woman told such plausible story he
turned her and the girl loose. He afterward
gained further confrmatory information that
she was the woman wanted. and followed her
rested there, but after hasty Investigation
were released by the judge. They left for Ar
kansas. Detective Greer followed them
thither, convinced that he is on the right
track.
MORE than twenty five years ago. while was
in the Thirty-ffth Massachusetts regiment,
strutting around in Virginia, was sometimes
| troubled with cold feet, says a writer in the
| Boston Journal At ore time while | was
| stamping on the ground in the effort to warm
my extremities, comrade in the same regi-
! ment said to me: IF your feet are cold try
| this. He raised his foot from the ground and
| struck some ligdt blows with his hand on the
| upper art of his leg, just above the knee
| did the same, with both legs, and instantane
| ouSy felt flow of warm blood coursng down
| ward, and the feet became comfortably warm.
Tine experiment was repeated with good effect
| In the comparatively warm climate of Virginia
and also with equally good results in the more
rugged atmosphere of New England.
The family aspect of the Barring disaster is
one of its most interesting features, says cable
| letter to the New York Sun. The Barings now
| hold three peerages-Ashburton Revelstoke
| and Northbrook, and are extensively intermar-
RED with the English ari stocracy Many of the
| Barings enjoy fortunes drawn from the Louise.
| This is tue ase with he Earl of Northbrook and
| LORD Ashburton. But one member, a son of the
| late bishop of Durham, who married Miss Min
turn OF New Nork, has signaliZed timself at this
crisis by voluntarily putting back into the house
his whole fortune, considerably over 81. 900, 900
| lie was out of England when the difficulty &C.
CURED, cabled his intention of doing this and
| was received on his arrival at the Metropole
| by several OF his kinsmen, who, before
\ he EN- red, heard him in the street
Sharply taking cabmans.to task for an over
| charge. The present is not the first shock
| through which the great house has passed.
| Alexander Barring, the first Lord Ash0urton.
! who negotiated with Daniel Webster the fam
GUS American treaty, carried the house success
| fully through more formidable difficulty than
| the present one, which came upon it shortly
after the peace of 1915. Lord Revelstoke is a
| son by his second wife of Henry Barring whose
| first wife was Miss Bingham of Philadelphia
The boldaess, now called rashness, of his finan-
| clal operations is traced by London people to
the the b o9d OF his father Henry who was noted as
the boldest gambler of the day, when gambling
| was fashionable vice of many English gentle
| m n
| THE PROBLEM Of making a light steam car
rage has been attacked in a promising way
says the Boston Transcript by NJ Serpollet,
the French engineer whose instantaneous
| steam generator was brought to notice a year
| or two ago. This generator consists of strong
| spiral tube, from which a fine jet of water
| issues over fire and instantly expands into
steam; explosion being impossible, and steam
| being brought at once to full pressure. Such a
| boiler is especially adapted for Hght vehicles
| Nd. Serpollet has been experimenting with it on
tricycles, and in his latest effort he employs it
| on large Dhaeton, capable of carrying six
| persons on its two seats with a seventh pas
senger on a stool in front. The carriage
IS elegant IN appearance and very com
| Portable. The boiler is under the rear seat and
| the Il e-box receives fuel automatically from
chests on each side, while the water reservoir
| and the engine are placed under the front seat
| The normal horse power is four, which may be
| simultaneously increased TO SIX. A speed of
| hfteen miles an hour is obtained and grades of
| one In twelve are easily surmOunted with q full
| load. Water may be- carried for trip of about
| twenty miles and fuel for thirty five miles, and
! with a charge of fuel and water the total weight
OF the carriage is 2, $50 pounds. Coke, of which
about thirty pounds is consumed per horse
| power per hour, is preferred for fuel on city
| streets on account of its smokelessness. This
| novel vehicle is readily guided through crowded
thoroughfares and is permitted on the streets
| OF Paris with no restriction, except that the
| speed shall not exceed ten miles an hour.
OF THE ENGLISH marriages celebrated in the
current year, Just upon ZOO out of each ], 900
were solemnized in the Church of England The
| proportion of marriages only civilly celebrated
| has IDLY increased for twenty years Dast
But Qeavng aside all considerations Of the
natural desire OF church communicates to
celebrate their marriages by their own clergy)
the civil wedding ceremony can never become
really popular so long as 1t remains so bald and
brief and uninteresting as 1t now Is. The
Friends are accustomed to unadorned rites
yet even they have of late years almost ceased
to marry in their own meeting houses. The
Quaker ceremony is of the simplest. Bride and
bridegroom sit side by side in silent PRAYER
for some time; they then rise and respectively
call on the friends assembled to witness
band and wife. That is all; but that
sutfices for the law, provided the proper notice
has been previously given and the presence of
the superintendent registrar of the district is
obtained, and his book signed The Hebriae
wedding service is the one which seems to me
TO convey the most useful lessons to the assem-
bled company. That service asks no VOW of
obedience from the wife, but impresses on her
the obligation she is under constantly to show
respect, love, amiabiity and fidelity toward her
husband; it requires from the bridegroom a
promise of fidelity to his wife, and. furthermore
an engagement to work for her and be respon-
sible for her future material we'll being / do
not know that moral lessons of this kind are
ever of much practical effect; but, if they are
1t must be more profitable for all The old mar
ried men attending wedding as we'll as for the
bride lroom. to hear read over what they
promise at marriage in synagogue than in any
| other service with which am acquainted
ACCORDING to Mrs Fen wick Miller, there IS
an improvement in the English marriage mar
ket. Rates are looking up, after years of de-
preston. The registrar generals report for
1859 (only recently issued) shows that the mar
rage rate was higher for that year than it has
been in any previous year since 1884. For the
five years above mentioned it has descended
slowly but steadily, in a way that seemed to
point to some underlying meaning, some half
| hidden cause. making itself slowly perceived bv
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