The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1IGMO Of In EERE5J.
BY THE middle of this month the famous.
Haymarket theatre is to be sold in London
Grisi. Mario Rubini and Iamburini appeared
together there. And there Jenny Lind and
Christine Nilsson also won triumphs. This
historic spot is to be a hotel site
LONDON has found that suppliers and con-
sumers do not understand what is meant when
speaking of lighting gas, per LOCO cubic feet, or
per LOCO, In the future it is proposed to speak
and write per Murdoch instead Water sup
piled by meter is for similar reasons to be sold
at so much per Middleton. Milk per quart, says
the jocose Engineer is to be sold under the old
name.
AN interesting discovery has been made in
deep railway cutting at Andresy, near Paris,
France, where the workmen ran upon huge
Merovingian cemetery of the sixteenth century
As many as 600 tombs have already been I'M
covered, yielding a hitherto unheard of mass of
carved sarcophagi, knives, spears, vases, orna-
ments and pottery Of unique shapes and styles
of decoration. 1t is recalled now that the tiny
hamlet of Andresy, in the generation succeed
ing the introduction of Christianity, was an i'm
portant missionary center.
LARGE "ofacial" envelope containing
blotter, two paper American flags and a pic
ture of Morgan Backus, cashier of the San
Francisco posUofice, has just finished its tour
around the world The envelope was addressed
to Backus at Calcutta, with instructions to the
postal officials there to forward the letter to
Nice If it could not be delivered. From Nice it
made tour through Europe, going as far east
as Turkey. 1t finally crossed the channel to
London. 1t next turned up in New York. ana
from there it was dispatched to its starting
place 1t is now kept as postal curiosity.
A SEAL which once belonged TO Lord Byron
has just changed hands by the death and be-
quest to friend of person living near Smyrna,
whose family came originally from Missolonghi.
1t Is octagonal, and in each side has different
DESIGN and motto PA Af1ll In Oh hing
describes it, "On one side is a bust of the poet,
with the words Lord Byron On another is a
flower, with the words Forget me not A third
bears the representation of dog, with the
word Faithful On the fourth there is a ship
and the legend, Such is life On the other
sides the emOlems are an open hand, an eye, a
cock and horse, but the words in each case
are illegible."
CONTRARY to the proverb, a German savant
has proved by an elaborate citation of statistics
that the longest-lived people are those who lie
aoed late into the morning. An interesting
corroborston Of this theory is found in the life
| OF Prof. Blackie, the rugged old Edinburgh
professor, who does not go to bed till
after midnight and rises correspond
ingly late in the marning. Until re-
Gently Prof Blacke has not needed
a doctors services in thirty years DR.. Arnold,
| the famous head master Of Rugby, is on record
| somewhere as saying that the strongest weak
| ness so to speak, that he had to overcome was
his inclination to sleep late in the morning And
| now science comes gracefully to the moral re-
| lief of people similarly inclined to laziness
| though 1t must make Ben Franklin, with his
| Poor Richard" maxim about early TO bed and
| early to rise, turn in his grave.
| THE autobiographical "reminiscences which
Lord Wolseley recently gave out for publication
show that famous general to be hardly less val
| liant warrior than the doubtable Harry Vane
| Millbank. His lordship declares that he has
always been absolutely Indifferent to life"
and though he had bullets run through the
| laDelS and sleeves of wbila SHOTS
| carried the cap off his head, and he has
been laid low with wounds such as many
stronger man would have succumted
| to, he point blank refused to die, and he kept
! his word and held on to his decision In tLe
| trenches at Sebastopol Il was hit all over the
face, says his lordship, 'rlddled with the stone
and tnts and my left cheek was lying on my
| Jacket. l whispered had something in my
cheek. They said it was my jawbone, " and
with this same jawbone his lordship has since
slain his thousands and his tens of thousands.
THE other day the sun played curious trick
In the way of reflections for the benefit of a
score of members of the cotton exchange says
the New York Times They were standing near
one of the windows on the Beaver street side of
their hall when one of them called attention to
something new in the Office of the Farmers
Loan and Trust Company There on the wall
appeared picture of the Prince of Wales, bit
hazy as to outline but recognizable, and glaring
as to color with a vast expanse of red uniform
coat and a wealth of gold lace. No frame sur
| first no one doubted that one was
there. 1t wasn't likely that an institution of
the financial magnitude of the trust company
would put up such a big picture without a
frame about it. There was a good deal of sur-
prise, to b3 sure, that such an ornament should
be chosen for the otfice, for IL was a little more
decided In color than the run of paintings to be
seen down town, and this surprise was not
ended until somebody discovered the secret
On an opposite corner was huge cigar ad-
vertsement adorned with a painting OF the
AGINFN IterNf had hnnR. aNank
the sign to the trust company's windows, and
there the picture had been reproduced on a
thin white curtain so successfully that nobody
on the exchange at first suspected that q real
work or art" was not hanging on the office
wall.
THE strangest romance Of real life" recently
put in circulation about people OF whom most
of us have heard purports to relate the fate of
Lloyd Osborne's father. This young gentle
man is now the stepson of Robert Louis Steven
con and elaborated with him in Tho
Wrecker." He is the son of Samuel @. Os-
borne, according to this story. who was pri-
Vate secretary to Gov. Willard of Indiana in
1855, Samuel C.. Osborne married Miss
grated with her and his two children. a
son and daughter, to Arizona. After many
vicssitudes he reached san Francisco with 81
in his pocket and soon found employment, at
lucrative figures as an expert stenographer.
Osborne seems to have been a man of cult
waited tastes; he sent his son and daughter
hUTOdu 10 De educated. Wnon their mother
met Robert Louis Stevenson in Paris, on one of
the visits she making to the
Osborne boy and girl at school, she fell in
stantly in love with him and he with her
They were affinites; in short the windy
coast of the German ocean and the flat plains
Of Indiana had given them to each other Mr.
Osborne soon learned of the fascination and ad
vised his wife, this chronicler says, to come
home, get divorce and marry Stevenson She
did so, and on the day the decree of divorce was
announced Mr.. Osborn welded a beautiful
woman. Soon afterward MIR Stevenson and
Mrs. Osborne wore marriad. ME- Oshnrna g