The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! did YOU go about much in Florida" asked a
gentleman Of an acquaintance who had Just
| come up from that state. ''Well yes" was the
| reply; Il went over 10 the Suwannee river, cut
over the country, and shot gators on the
/ WithlacOochee, fshed for bass in Fsala Apopka,
! SAILED on Thonotosassa, skipped over TO Okon-
! lOCkhatchee, walked by the shores Of the
| WeOhyakapka, plucked flowers by Hickpochee' s
| llmpld waters, visited the sugar reIds on Toho-
! pekslga, sailed on the tortuous Kissimmee, was
buffeted by the waves Of OkeechObee. and have
/ also captured tarpon on the Caloos ahatchee /
] expected to visit Istokpogayoxie, Lockapepka
! HRtcheneeha and Ecautockhatcsee before LEI {
the state.
The NEWEST STYLE EMBROIDERY is in gold
thread like a spiders Web with a red and gold
spider and a blue and white-headed fly. A
black and yellow shoe Is worked in gray, and
has one of the new large bows. 1t was shaped
like mother hubbard shoe, but standing up in
huge flutes over the iustep, and discovering a
| lining of distinct cCloring Very fine floral EN-
broidery is introduced on black shoes in pin K
and green beads, and with this a large pink and
| green bow was worn; green and gold had been
treated In the same way. Bands across the in
step are new, and so are the suede shoes COW
cred with narrow stitched bands of a darker
shade. With these tiny buckles are principally
worn, with no bows at all.
E. S. CARMAN, editor of the Rural Nerv
Yorker and the foremost experimenter in agri-
culture of our country, has embodied the re-
suits of his fifteen wears experience in GROWING
| potatoes in book entitled The New Potato
| Culture published by the Rural Publishing
| Company. In this set forth the merits of
the treach system originated by Mr.. Carman
| ana now practlced by the progressive cutiva-
| tors. some of whom have reported phenomenal
| yields therefrom. The book is replete with i'm
| proved methods developed by the trench sys-
| tenn and by the ludiciouS of fertilizers all
| of which are described in clear and vigorous
! style. The New Potato Culture" can hardly
fail to be valuable TO every interested in in
tensive farming.
SUNDAY NIGHT hack containing gentleman
ratified up to the Leland hotel, Chicago. When
it arrived there he sent the driver to the clerk
with the request that he send blanket out to
him. The unbanketed gentleman was Adam
| Itzel, musical director of the McCaull Opera
| Company. He left Baltimore at O'Clock Sat
| urday night, and, being very tired left orders
that he was not to be disturbed in the mornn =.
| He slept long and late, and when he decided to
| get up he found that his clothing was missing
| Coat, vest and even trousers were gone, and
| conductor and porter were unable to account
| for their disappearance. Mr.. ItZell was forced
| to lie in his berth until he arrived in Chicago
| All the stores were closed and Mr.. ItZell, clad
| IN ms unmentlonables, got into carriage and
was driven to the hotel and. after getting to
| room, borrowed clothing until he could replace
| the lost garments
j. j. MURPHY of New York is at present in
| this country making arrangements for a UNIQUE
| tour around the world, says the Pal Mail Cd
| zette. He proposes to leave New York about
| American life-saving yacht, and will visit all
the principal ports Of the British Islands
! France, Spain. Italy. the Black sea; thence via
| the Suez canal to India, China and japan;
thence across the Pacific to San Francisco; then
down the Pacific coast and through the Mica
rauga canal, should it be opened for traffic and
up the Atlantic coast to New York. He will
take with him one of Edson's monographs and
several hundred cylinders, with the intention to
transfer to wax the voices of the various peo-
pies, particularly savages whom he may visit.
l "a NHri al CnG f NJ pofry Ir1N
back with him in a photograph the story of the
mutiny of the Bounty. as related by their de-
scendants. At the conclu on of his voyage
Mr.. Murphy will exhibit his voat and turn on
his monograph at the worlds show in Chicago
in 1898.
THE CLERK in the lawyers office, who used to
copy off all the briefs and other legal papers in
beautiful round hand that was pleasing to
look at unless you really wanted to read the
document, is thing of the past. There are a
few specimens left of urse, but they recog-
nlze the fact that the copying clerk is a mech
anism way behind the times, and they are lone
some. You will find them in the ld-tashioned
offices, and very old and slow they are for the
most part. The chances are that in the same
office there is huStling typewriter clicking off
more IN half an hour than the copying clerk
will get over in three times as long a time
There is still q chanCa for the coDYing clerk to
| show his skill in wills. Typewriter wills are
not yet IN fashion. But Of all the other legal
| papers filed in the clerks offices of the courts
change is appreciated The papers filed are not
half as bulky as before il took Ilace, and they
| can be read through in at least a third of the
time necessary to unravel the tapgle of the
| copying clerks round hand
IN A SALOON near the corner of Broadway and
Wall street, New York, counterfeit $50 bill in
| closed in frame hangs upon the wall II ia n
| greenoack, and nine persons out of ten would
| take 1t Tor the genuine article. Inspection
| under a magnifying glass shows that it was
made with pen and ink, and the one who made
| II must have been an expert of rare ability.
| There are others of these bills in existence
made with pen and ink and all precisely alike.
| one is at the treasury department in Washing
| ton IN the curiO room of the secret service and
| one the property of a gentleman in Cincinnati
A great deal of hunting has been done by the
government officials for the maker of these
bills, out with no success. A curious thing they
have noticed is that new ones appear periodi-
cally, about once in nine months or a year
Whoever is skillful enough with his pen to exc
cute tins fine work could make more money at
legitimate business than in making so bills,
the detectives have concluded, for this re-
quires long and painstaking work The conclu-
sion has accordingly been reached that this
counterfeitlng is simply a fad, or perhaps a
mania, with the person who does it, and is not
designed as financially profitable employment.
Perhaps the bills are made as curiosiUies and
are not intended for circulation. but somebody's
cupidity induces the poSsessorS to pass them
From whatever motive they may bs made the
| process would be stopped if the treasury Off
clalS knew the maker.
The ever-increasing difficulties Of locomotion
| in Paris, consequent upon the crowded state of
the thoroughfares, the bad driving and the i'm
perfect police regulations. says MIu.rdu's Mdod-
| zlne. raise anew the great question of the
Metropolitan railway. of which the necessity be-
comes daily more and more evident From time
to time the public is informed that some plan is
under careful consideration and has every
| chance of being adopted then comes a period
| of silence, followed by the appearance of some
other plan with the same announcements end
| ing in the same unsatisfactory result. At pres
| ent the plan proposed by the Eiffel company
| with what would seem the immense ADVANTAGES
| of being entirely carried out by private enter
| prise, without any cost to tue government is in
a state of examination What will come of il
no one can foresse. The government does not
willingly encourage private enterprise
and likes TO NEEDLE with everything
yet the high reputation of NJ Eiffel as
civil engineer ought to inspire some conf
dence. The contests at present, between the
partisans of an elevated railway, as in New
York, and those who favor an underground line.
as in London. NJ. Eiffel would use both means
and seems to combine them very iudiciouslv
In the opinion of biologists, wholly subter-
ranean railway would be impossible to establish
in Paris, from the nature of the soil in various
places, and the great difference of level; above
all, from the presence of a subterranean river
fed by the Seine, flowing through Paris from
east to west, which would absolutely prevent
the execution of any such attempt. This sheet
of water was partially visible in the last cen
NrNrF~ nnAFt ,nv, .