The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TIE SULTAN very rarely OF never leaves the
| grounds Of Yildiz Kipsk. except to 90 once
/ week to a mosque just outside. when the very
I striking ceremony known as the selamlick takes
l place Once year, also, he pays visit to
Stamboul, but the route there and returning is
never known in advance. He is in constant fear
/ OF assassination. Some grand duchess whom
he received al his court on his complaining that
4 his health was Indifferent. advised him TO take
/ more exercise and change of air and to drive
/ about the country. On her departure he is re-
ported to have said: What harm have done
1 that this woman should desire my desths
I Why does she advise me to run into such
dangersf''
| A Boston LAWYER who resides in the suburbs
is the owner of a dog that certainly possesses
| the instincts Of an attorney. Tbs other day he
I saw another dog carrying OF tempung-look-
/ ing bone. second dog followed at a short
distance The lawyers dog quickly conceived
/ plan of action worthy of an eminent legal
mind He imms diately brought an action
/ against the dog with the bone. The third dog
/ at once quickened his pace aud lost no time in
| lnstituting supplementary proceedings in his
own behalf. This assistance proved equivalent
70 decree for the plaintiff, for the lawyers
I dog left the third dog to bear the brunt OF the
litigation, and, seizinR the bone. fed to his own
/ kennel: where possession was truly nine points
| of the law.
BECAUSE the Bell telephone patent expires in
1898 a great many people think that after that
date there will be a number of rival companies,
cheap, a. least very much cheaper than they are
To-Day This Is very pretty idea 20 entertain,
Out practically it doesn't 60" The original
patent was for the simple principle of telephon-
/ lng-tne transmission OF sound waves. Many
patents on Improvements have since been filed.
IL TACT. each detail of the modern telephone is
covered by patent which the Bell company
| owns. The patent on the most important feat
ure OF the telephone the Blake transmituer,
does not expire until 1895, and it is owned by the
Bell company, The company also owns in
/ nj AIN Ia vain
mechanism. and controls enough others to make
| IL almost an tmpossibility for any other COM
pany to enter the field and endeavor TO compete
with it. Telephone rates will not be reduced for
many years.
! BY THE BY. there has never been so much
vogue given to milk as there is just now. In
fact there are hundreds of cIubmen who have
| never seen as much since they went from one
bottle to another. You are asked to have
| glass OF hot milk or glass of hot vichy just as
you are asked to have a cup of tea or some
creme de menthe. In ut-glass gobler, stand
| ing on bright-hued plate, the milk and vchy
Is particularly appetizing, and it is marvellous
| how much of it the men drink. Now this isn't
| the result of preaching a temperance sermon
| III IS the result of Offering simple drink in an
| attractive manner. Service in this world means
so much. and really it seems to be more appre-
ciated by men than by women. A boiled potato
| ana piece Of beefsteak on a hot plate, with a
| gtterlng silver fork and bright steel knife
with the butter in dainty little pat. and the
1
napery, is more appetizing than dinner of
twenty courses served in a careless fashion.
| DR.. JAMES o. GREEN, the gentleman who re-
ported having found the dead body of Robert
| Ray Hamilton in a river in Wyoming, is the
| Oldest son of DIR. Norvin Green, president of tine
| Western Union Telegraph Company, and is we'll
| known to the members of the Union CLUB
| where he spends much time when in New York
He is about 80 years DID, 6 feet inches in hight
and of very slender figure. His face is strik
| ingly handsome, aud the brown curls which
used to curl tightly on his head are now some
| what grizzled. He has most pleasant and anna
bic manners, and his accomplishments are such
that he IS man of mark in whatever company
| he happens to be. He gave up the practice of
| medicine when he left Kentucky, fifteen years
| ago, TO be his fathers secretary. While in the
| service of the Western Union he got in on the
| ground floor of the Edison Electric Light Com
pany aud bought shares at $685. He is said to
have sold out his holdings at something over
$4,000 per share. At any rate, he retired from
business some ten years ago with a comfortable
| fortune. Since then he has spent much Of his
time abroad. he is famous hunter, and there
are few better horsemen In America than he. 1t
was to him that Pierre Lorilard gave that
famous geldng Parole for a saddle horse. A
few years ago he married the daughter of
| Abram S. Hewitt.
THERE has lately appeared In MarseiIles
France, says the New York Times, a machine
Of the velocipede type that can be used either
on the land or on the water, as the rider NAV
desire. Inc mechanism is very simple and
looks very much like that of an ordinary tr-
cycle whose wheels are formed of two iron
plates placed opposite each other and held in
place by cross bars, The wheels are grooved
| on their circumference and have a thick rubber
band for use on the roads. For use on the
water the wheels have on their periphery a
dozen little copper paddles similar to those on
the wheels of a side-wheel steamer. The ma
chine is capable of high speed ashore and
afloat it has made nearly three miles an hour
with no greater exertion than is needed for a
tricycle., on a good road. Its stability is re-
markable, and its efficiency in rescuing people
in the water has been fully demonstrated. A
man has chung to 1t while in the water, and has
carried along without upsetting the machine
Two men have been kept afoat by depending
entirely upon its buoyancy. Experiments, SO
far, have been sufficiently successful 30 warrant
a greater perfection of the machine. Air-tight
compartments are to be added, the paddles en-
| larRed and the wheels made lighter. In this
manner it is fully expected to increase the
speed in calm water by IS per cent. In rough
water this excellent showing is naturally not to
be expected although it still remains true that
it can take one person easily on the dry land or
in the water.
In ONE of Mr.. Depew's recent speeches. says
the Sun, he referred to the fact that British
papers give but slight heed to American affairs,
and said: You will see columns about British
politics in the New York papers. but hardly
ever a lire about American politics in the Lon
don papers When was abroad last summer
| l spoke of this very thing to the editor Of
British daily. He made answer by pointing to
| a map near at hand on which the British possess
sions all over the world were marked in red.
| We deal mainly he said, with European
affairs In which we are concerned, and with the
| affairs Of the countries under our own rule in
every quarter of the globe. We take up ques-
tions that interest hundreds of millions OF
British subjects in India, that concern our
| powerful colonies in Australasia, that affect
our North American dominion (Which is bigger
than the United States), that bear upon our
territories and protectorates in Africa, from
Cape Colony to Egypt, and that need attention
in a hundred other regions and islands under
the British flag. Our papers must look after
| while at the same time watching for danger sig
terested in the United States from commercial
point of view, but the general course of Ameri-
can politics and the questions under debate in
| the United States do not concern U.s. and it is
difficult to comprehend them. There is no other
empire In the world like ours; there is no other
government with as many interests at stake as
this, aud the British editor must be excused if
he does not closely follow all the affairs in which
Americans are absorbed Thus spoke the
editor of British daily paper to me when Twas
abroad last year, and perhaps his remarks will
serve as an answer to questions that are often
asked here"
ENGLISH PLAY-eoERs of sixty years ago had
reason to feel thankful for the visit which
Fanny Kelly made to Paris during the autumn
| of 1919. Much against the wishes of her father
the captain, this young girl of IL had taken to
the boards at Cheltenham in the June previous.