The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-01-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
TIE famous Russian woman bandit who has
for the last ten years been the terror of Servia
has been captured In a cave on the Roumsnian
frontier, where she was nursing her siok lover.
Young, handsome, aud perfect markswonan
she went about in mans dress, with her belt
full OF weapons and her rife on Ter saddle at
the head Of a band OF devoted Haiducks with
whom she committed her robberies Her peo-
pie warned her that she was IN danger of capt
urs, but she refused to abandon her lover, and
only surrendered after she had killed two genc-
armeS
A CENTRAL AMERICAN newspaper tells OF a
man living in Sac Paulo, Brazil, who is con-
siderably over a 109 years old and who is grow
ing young again. He has recently grown
new set Of teeth, and his hair, which had turned
gray, IS now almost black again He is in
active business as horse trader, and occa-
sionally he rides over ten leagues in q day. He
has been married three times, Is now a widower
and is quite wealthy. The paper casually re-
marks N the course Of its story that the old
man suffered greatly at one time with a tumor
'but this was cured by being gored by an OK 3"
A NAUTICAL JOURNAL published on the Pacific
coast asserts that the Nicaragua canal if com
pleted will never be used by sailing vessels for
reason which applies also to the Panama
canal. On either side of Central America, in
the vicinity of the proposed entrances to the
canal. is region of perpetual Gains and dol
drums, and sailing vessel would fiud it exceed
lngly difficult to get into the entrance on one
SIDE, and, after being towed through. would
have equal difficulty in getting away from the
coast into the region OF trade winds on the
other. A sailing vessel going to San Francisco
from New York or Liverpool would, it is de-
clared, make quicker passage around Cape
Horn than by going through the canal. 1t Is
also said that but one sailing vessel has ever
passed through the Susz canal and that was
lost in the Red sea shortly sfterward.
FROM the table in the last British board Of
trade reports respecting casualties to ships
which shows the ages OF vessels. it Is surprising
TO ina now very ancient many OF the craft still
doing service really are. Thirty nine sailing
vessels are between SO and 80 years old, IS are
between G6 and 20 years, 80 are between 20 and
lO0, and are actually above a century old
While these numbers represent only a very
small proportion of such ancient mariners still
sailing the Wintry seas, it must not be thought
they refer only to harges or craft engaged in
river or inland navigation. The Juno of Beau
maris, built le8 years ago, met with her mishhp
while on coasslng voyage, and the EndeavOr OF
Plymouth, a still! older craft, is seeking to act
up TO her name, came TO grief while on a VOYAGE
from DunHrk. What Is more surprising still
the same casualty list contains the names Of
two steamships, one above so years and the
other above 20 years old on consideration
however, il is obvious that these vessels must
have originally been built as sailing vessels. as
the periods named carry us much farther back
than the date at which the Sirius made her
famous voyage across the Atlantic. With re
gard to the ancient sailing vess, Is too they
must have little or nothing OF the original
structure left. AS long as there is one single
plant, however, the vessel retains her identity.
'THE women at our boarding house have
taken up little game" said New YORK wife
the other day. from which they derive consid-
cradle amusement. The mon at our house. am
sorry TO say. are not very entertaining Our
husbands are deeply sngrossed in business and
are generally too tired when they come home to
dinner TO Engage in small talk without a mani
fest effort. There are two or three unmarried
men who are laxative enough; often too talka-
tive. IN fact; but their conversation IL not half
as entertaining to us as it is to themselves. so
six Of us hat on this plan: We gather in the
p0rlor before going down TO dinner and there
we agree upon some well-known proverb or
familiar quotation. Our object is to bring the
conversation around to point where we can
introduce TINS quotation appropriately. Who
ever succeeds in getting off the quotation
first is the winner; and when each tries to win
she also tries to head off the others if she sees
an opportunity coming. IL is rare sport and
affords us plenty of fun. To drag the quota
ton in badly, appropriately, does not count ::
IL must come in aptiy so IS not to excite the
suspicious of theee youths that are playing
with them instead OF at them, as they fondY
imagine. TaSe, for instance, the quotation *
primrose by the river 3 brm, a simple primrose
was TO hin. and it was nothing more and try
to bring around TO that connection the oonvsr-
s2tion of young man which begins with shop,
takes flight into filtration and ends with the
theatsrs or horses. 1t takes some ingenuity, I
tell you; and the little mystery underlying all
our remarks. which is known only to ourselves.
gives the game additional interest for woman,
of course
In the current number OF Longmdn's Muoa-
zine, Z. T. auckland discoursss pleasantly about
the eccentric adjutant bird, concerning whose
Femar hable scavengtng powers some good
stories are told: During the months that the
od1ueant lives in Calcutta it is interesting to
watch him He appoints himself chief
scavenger or certain house or houses and has
first choice OF the contents of the dust bins
which each householder is required to deposit
outside his gate at daybreak TIL the oonservancy
cart removes them Tho adlutant's operations
may be more easily imagined than described
whilst the parah dogs of the quarter and a
hevy of attendant crows look on till his lord
ship Is satisfied with the boanes bouches that
h9 picks out with his sharp oeak losses into the
air. and swallows until his stomach becomes
30 full that he is obliged 70 take little walk
around to let matters settle themselves / re-
gret that have been recently deprived of n
story about che veracty of adiuCants that had
b en- believed by me for many years | had
been told that MIR. R, had seen an adiu-
tsnt walk quietly along wall to a sleeping
cat, which it pierced with its beak tossed mn IN
the air, and caught its mouth The adiutaut
may be called sacred bird, but as this epithet
might be misunderstood, as II 1t applied to Hin
doc mythology. must explain that he is con-
secrated to municipal duty, and is sapctified by
the protection Of municipal law ANY
one who kills an adjutant in ca
cutta is punished by fine Of gold nohur
or 81 shiliings. l never found this law in
the statute book any more than | ever saw
that fabulous coin, the good mohur 1t its ori-
ginal gold But there is no English magistrate
In Calcutta who would hesitate to Impose a fine
of gold mohur on any one convicted OF killing
an adjuten'. One of my old contemporaries in
the old college Of Fort William was SO nnod
although he had killed the adlutaut in his
father garden, and his father was one OF the
judges of the chief court OF Justice. There
used to be tradition that the British soldars
in the barracks lof Fort Williame once bleyy up
au adiutant by inducing it to swallow 4 mar
row bone in which there was a charSa ~ o,,- -