The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ANAvERAoE waltz, says Our Homestead, takes
dancer over about three-quarters of q mile
square dance makes him cover half mile
girl with well filled programme travels thus
in one evening: Twelve waltzes nine miles:
four other dances, at half-mile apiece which is
hardly fairly big estimate, two miles more;
the lntermission stroll and trips to toe dressing
roo to renovate her gown and complexion,
half mile; grand total l11S miles.
ILLINOIS has a county. Calhoun, that is said
to have no railroad. telegraph or telephone
within Its borders, and there are some parts of
kentucky tfat appear to be almost primi-
tive as in the days of Daniel Boone. The Hon.
w. M. Bechner, of Winchester, recently rode
over 100 miles on horseback to attend court in
Hvden, the county seat of Leslie county. Hy-
den is nifty miles from any railroad
station and shut in on all sides by mountains.
It's people make a scanty living by floating saw
logs down the river, and their life is simple and
rude in the extreme.
A MACHINE for watering streets. lately de
vised, presents externally the aspect Of an
| ordinary street car. in order that it may not
brighten horses, but IL consists in reality OF q
large iron plate reservoir filed with water. This
| latter is distributed over the track and at the
side by means of horizontal pipe containing
numerous apertureS This pipe Ia jointed at the
| extremity near the car, and can, through q sim
| pie maneuver, be lifted against the side Of the
car to allow the passage or the few ordinary
vehicles that happen to be on the street during
the hours in which public sprinklnE Is usually
| done, Two men standing in front mAneuver
the car and the pipe.
RECENTLY, says a Helena paper, the finely
bred Gordon setter Faro, owned by John
| Kepple of Helena, Mon, entered the Capital
| gambling house with $40 bill IN his mouth
| Going to one of the faro tables the dog dropped
IL on the queen. To say that the suave dealer
was surprised would be putting it mildly.
But recovering himself after a few
moments, he asked the dog if he
wanted a copper on the $40 The dog
| barEed as il in the Affirmative so, placing
| copper on the money the dealer made the turn.
! The queen came up g smiling loser, and the dog
won. Taking two $40 bill in his mouth, Faro
| gave them to his master.
! TIE railroad car which Lincoln used whsn
ever he went to the front during the later mill
tary operations in Virginia, and which bore his
body to Springfield Ill. after his assassination,
now remains, a battered relic in the yards of
the Union Pacific railway at North Platte. Neb.
| The car was built expressly for the
| President at the United States military
car nG shops at rc alexandra w. in 1894
varied career. It WAS used by the higher
officials of che Union Pacific their private
| car, and special building was put up at
Omaha to house it while not In service. Next
| IL was permanently sihe-tracked and used by
the Union Pacific division superintendent TO
| live in, ard after a time 1t was converted into
| an ordinary day coach for passenger service.
Now its usefulness is outgrown and IL is ex-
periencing the fate Of an antiquated warship.
THE day, other in Beekman street, states the
New York Sun, motherly looking cat was
calmly sitting on the curb Watching the antics
of her four kittens which were having glorious
time rolling about and nauIing one another.
The kittens kept at their sport for some time
| Suddenly one Of them, firing of further play
] wandered away toward large paper bag that
was fiuttering in the wind on the walk. Eosing
| around the bag he presently espied an
| opening into which he crawled
The attention of his fellows was
soon directed to the new attraction, to which
they speedily FASTENED and, entering one by
| one, the four kittens quickly found themselves
| housed in this unusual domcile. They made no
| effort to leave it, observing which the old cat
| who kept eye all the time on the maneuvers
| of her progeny, walked toward the bag
| smelled and looked within its interior, and see
ing her kittens at rest, she picked up the parcel
| with her teeth and walking down the street
| disappeared In a hallway with the bag and her
| tots enclosed.
IT WAS not until the reign Of the Empress
l Josephine OF France that the pocket handker-
chief was tolerated at all as an article of public
use, states the Chicago Tribune. No lady
| would have dared TO use one In the presence Of
| others. Even the name was carefully avoided
| in polite conversation. An actor who would
have been Kissed of the boards Il was only
that Mile. Duchesnois. a famous actress
| dared to appear with q handkerchief
in her hand. Having to speak
summon courage to refer to it as "a light
/ tissue" A translation of one Of Shakespeare's
plays by Alfred de Vigny was acted, and the
word was used for the first time upon the stage
and produced a storm OF indignant Kisses from
all parts Of the house. The Empress Josephine
although really q beautiful woman had very
bad teeth, and to conceal them she was in the
habit Of carrying small handkerdhiefs trimmed
with costly ,laces, which she raised gracefully
to her lips to conceal her teeth. The ladies of
the court followed her example and handker-
chiefs rapidly became an important part of the
feminine toilet.
Nor so very many years ago a woman violin
player was a great rarity. says Public O1inior
Now, in addition to those playing this nstru-
ment, many may be found who handle the viola
aud the cello. Then there are the fiutists the
clarinet players. the corpetists and the from
bone players; and even the French horn has
| its devotees among women musicians. There
are also some fine drummers. who handle all
| the various Instruments of percussion
with the accompanying Instruments that
make light music effective. AS a natural
consequence of the proficiency attained in the
use of these various instruments there are now
| several lady orchestras in this country, many
amateur ones, and some with an excellent
standing as professionals. Among these the
| Beacon Orchestral Club Of Boston is the largest
| having fifty members, only twenty five of
| whom, however, are strictly professional. The
founder, manager and leader Of this organiza-
tion is Miss Marietta Sherman. Another very
successful Boston club is the Fadette Ladies'
| Orchestra, with Mrs. Carrie B. Nichols as leader
| and Miss Ethel Atwood business manager.
| This club has twenty picked players
/ There are also two ladies' mill
tary bands in Boston-Howard's and War
ren's. The first woman in Boston and
| probably in toe whole country to organize a
lady orchestra" for business purposes was
| Miss Marion Osgood. An attempt has been
made TO organize an American Ladies' Sym
| phony Orchestra" but as yet no oboe or bas
| Tla for ho