The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

An AUTHENTIC INCIDENT in the career Of Gen.
Robert E. Lee, says the Youths Companion. is
told as an evidence of his sweetness of DISPOSE
ton and natural kindness. One day he was
inspecting the batteries over the lines below the
city of Richmond, and the soldiers had gath
cred in group to welcome him. This action
drew upon them the fire Of the Union guns.
The general faced about and advised the men to
go under shelter. But he did not do this him
self. Walking on, although in apparent dan
ger. he picked up and replaced an unfedged
sparrow which had fallen from its nest near by.
The act was instructive, but perhaps indicates
a really higher endowment than ability to con-
duct notable campaigns.
Discussion of revolutionary lineage prompts
some one to tell the Washington Post about
Mrs. Caroline Rosecrans Wade, who is now liv-
ing at Jefferson, o. She is the relict of the late
Senator and Vice President Benjamin F. Wade,
and the daughter of Depew Rosecrans, who
was drummer boy and one of five brothers
who FIT in the revolution" The other broth
ers were Col. Daniel Rosecrans, who went west
early in the century and who was the grand
father of Maj. Gen. w. s. Rosecrans, register of
the treasury; Maj. Jacobus Rosecrans, who
was the first one to be inferred in the old mano-
rial burying ground at Saratoga, n Y; Capt.
Benjamin RosecranS, who for thirteen years
Immediately after the revolution was mem
Der of the legislature from Saratoga, and John
Rosecrans, who was killed by being thrown
from his horse while in action. The Rosecrans
family were among the first who settled in the
when the Hollanders took possession of the
Hudson valley.
We are now assured that the business wo-
mans dress is to consist of pair of trousers. a
roundabout coat and a hat; and we are told that
a woman of taste will never be satisfied with
such plain garb. But why should it be plain?
inquiries the DveSsmdker. We can make the
trousers of red or yellow, the roundabout of
blue or green, and we can put all sorts of trim
mings and laceS and ribbons on them. We can
fbarO Of val NV r,0af rio1
whatever. We can make the hat very dainty
and iowerY. We can get up all sorts Of fancies
for the identifying of the business women's
dress, after the woman's natio al council
has come to a decision about it. We can make
it plain if anybody wants it that way, but you
may be sure that few women will wear it that
way for any great length of time. We want
color in our attire; we want delicate material
Tor it; we want ribbons and frils and flowers
upon it. believe that the fashion plates of the
new dress will look just as pretty and stylish as
those now got up.
THE recent resignation Of his chair In the
Senate by Mr.. Reagan of Texas has served to
recall the incident which led him to leave Ten
nessee, where he was born, and settle in the
Lone Star state. 1t appears that one day he
went to mill with grist to be ground and, after
he had waited in line until his turn came, he was
rudely addressed by man who proposed to
step in ahead of him, and threatened to throw
bin out of the window unless he would yield
his place. Mr.. Reagan, the story goes,
borhood was more or less terroriZed by this des-
perado, and in fear of his life rushed for him,
butted him in the stomach with his head, and
literally lifted him off his feet and flung him
through the window. When the desperate
disappeared, the consequence of his act flashed
upon young Reagan's mind. He instantly sup
posed that he had killed a man. that he would
be hanged for it, and scared to death, he rushed
down stairs, unhitched his horse and lit out
across the country for Texas. The man was not
killed. but got good shaking up. He soon
RI nd wa q tn in
after life.
WILLIAM M. SPRINGER is one of the ablest let
ters-on in American politics. To see him make
a speech in the House is to be convinced that
there must be bloodshed before he is through.
Yet Mr.. Springer-is internally placid as
mud turtle in the SUM- One day last winter he
was making speech on a partisan subject,
when. as excitement seemed TO get the
aisle and across to the republican side,
| gesticulating like a Dutch windmill and
| yelling his awful threats at that side of the
house. Strangers in the gallery began to move
restlessly in their seats and wondering why no.
body on the floor seized the desperate man be-
| fore he committed some overt act of madness;
and they shuddered the terrible speaker,
with cliuched fist and livid face stalked up a
republican aisle and seemed bent on having the
| life of Congressman Cannon. Here, bending
| low over Mr.. Cannon, Mr.. Springer seemed
surely about to strike his brother Illinoisan full
| in the face, when all of a sudden he brought his
| speech to a close, and, still bending over Mr..
Cannon. said TO him in a low calm tone: Joe,
smell of that rose in my buttonhole. Isn't it
| sweet?"
| An extraordinary freak of nature, a child born
without eyes is attracting great attention in
1 New York City. The child is a son of Mr. and
| Mrs. Adolph Zeucker, of 223 Stanton street. and
| was born two weeks ago. Both father and
mother are good specimens of humanity. Where
the eyes should be there are only two sunken
hollowS. The eye1ids were there, closed as
tight as though they were glued together other
wise the child was perfectly developed. A few
| days afterward line began TO make its ap-
| pearance across the hollows as though the lids
| were getting ready to part. The line began to
expand until finally the lids could be
| slghtess sockets, in the center of which could
| be discerned tiny blue spot which is supposed
to have been substituted by nature for the
| pupil of ordinary eyes. The father then took
| the child to the Eye and Ear Inf1rmary at Thir-
teenth street. He was told that nothing could
| be done for it. Dr. Weeks of the Eye and Fer
Infirmary said that the case was an exceedingly
rare one. There was, he said, rudimentary
eye on the right side. but none of any kind on
the left side. There have been instances where
children have been born without eyes, but it
was due to disease before birth. The case, he
said, would be brought before the society next
Monday.
A TELEGRAPH OPERATOR, writing from Mexico
says that the cost of maintaining the wire used
on the interior lines of that country may safely
be calculated at three times the expense in
Cured by the government in landing it at Vera
Cruz or Paso del Norte and the poles have otter
to be cut in far distant forests and hauled slowly
and laboriousy over long stretches of dry and
seething plains When all this Is done, and the
line is erected, however, the troubles of the
telegrapher have only just begun. Travel
ers in Northern Mexico, passing on horseback
over the vast, treeless and melancholy plains
stop at night, to camp, and finding the tele-
graph poles accessible and admirably seasoned
cut them down for fire wood The rancher, too
goes with his peon servants and calmly cuts
down a nils or two of wire whenever he wants
to fence in an inclosure Besides tiny worm,
called the "jengen." which insidiously honey
combs the poles until they crumble into dust,
there is woodpecker which sits up near the
top of the pole and amuses himself for days in
pecking around the pole until the top and wires
and cross-arms come tumbling down. The
linemen are almost afraid to shoot him, fol
they say that where one dies forty come to
the funeral. In some parts of the country,
especially in Tabasco, the woods are full Of
monkeys whose favorite diversion, when no,
in quest of food, is to betake themselves to the
telegraph line for gymnastc exercise, and
hundreds of these abie-bodied animals may
sometimes be swinging on the wire,
festooned, monkey fashion, by the looping oil
their tails. The continuous vibration of these
antics starts the iron nails used on the Gross
arms, which are thus often torn down, bringing