The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

soME MEN have queer way Of wearing hair
on their faces. One man in this city. says the
New York Sun, wears two little puffs on his
cheeks. a young man, whose place of business
is on Twenty-third street, wears his moustsche
as two widely separated points, the middle OF
his upper lip being shaved. Brooklyn man
reverses this arrangement, for be is clean
shaver except for thumbs breadth OF hair
rarely, one sees the Bowery boys tuft in the
hollow OF the under lip, Charley" as 1t used
to be called.
THE type of coast defense vessel now in high
favor with the naval authorities, says the Phila.
delphia Record, will carry either four s-inch or
two l0-inch guns fixed on disappearing car
riaRes. With total length of but $50 feet and
freebosrd of twenty-four inches such vessel
would present little or no target for the guns of
an enemy's ships. If convincing tests of
efficiency should be desired they might easily
be furnished, since the guns carried by the new
ships would penetrate l41f inches OF steel arInor
at 1000 yards range, or could drop shell on
the deck of vessel hull down below the horizon.
The Romans in the tina Of Cicero and Angus
tus took an early breakfast, from to 4 o'clock
in the morning, a luncheon at II to /, and at
about O'Clock the coena, or principal meal OF
the day. corresponding with our dinner.
Roman dinner at the house OF q wealthy man
consisted chiefly OF three courses. All sorts Of
stimulants to the appetite we're first served up,
and eggs were indispensable to the first course.
Among the various dishes were the guinea hen,
pheasant nightingale and the thrush The
Roman gourmands held peacocks In great esti-
nation, especially their tongues. Macrobius
states that they were at first eaten by Horton
siuS, the orator. and acquired such repute that
single peacock was sold for so denarii-the
denarius being equal to about II cents OF our
money.
THE trunk line roads are at present deeply
concerned in trying TO solve the problem OF
getting through trains from Chicago to the east
without passing through the big switching yards
at important centers like Buffalo, Salamanca
and PittSburg, Gays the New York Tribune.
Railroad men say that there is more time
wasted In switching a through train at these
points and more expense involved than in haul
ing the cars all the rest OF the distance The
Pennsylvania railroad people say that it costs
more TO make up train and switch it at Phila-
delphia than it costs to run IL from the outskirts
of their yards at Philadelphia to the western
destination. 1t is proposed to build loops
around the principal switching points, but to do
this the question Of avoiding the breaking of
bulk is required to be answered. The trunk
line executive committee is working hard on
this matter, it involves the most important
part Of the economy Of operating through
freight traffic.
THE ice boat is racing machine pure and
simple, says PedrsdL's Weekly. Its hull-if the
few timbers forming that spider-like structure
| can be 50 called-is put together In such man
| ner as to obtain the greatest possible strength
consistent with hghtnesS. Every village along
the Hudson appears TO have a few of these
boats. The season for the sport rarely lasts
over thirty days, and some winters afford but
week of good racing weather OF course, there
are many fine days scattered through the sea-
| son, which the individual ice boat enthusiast
| watches for and takes prompt advantage of
The main bStacles to the sport are light winds.
| rough ice and snow. Accidents are rare, and 1t
| is seldom that any more serious harm comes to
| the sportsman than thorough ducking or a
| frost-bitten hand or nose. Toe most serious
| accidents occur from collisions where the boats
| meet on opposite tacks. or when one, stopped
suddenly by some unforeseen obstruction. is run
| into by another too closely following its course
| The authentic runs Of some Of these boats are
really marvellous. Swift express trains are fire.
| quently overtaken and passed as IL they were at
| rest. mile a minute is often made by flyers.
The ROMANCE OF the British peerags is closely
| bound up with the fortunes of the city of Lon
don, says the Cincinnati Enquirer. 1t would
| surprise many persons 90 learn how many of
! the proudeSt mobiles trace their descent back to
some city merchant OF old and often, beyond
time to a poor, struggling London prentice
William Osborne, the cloth workers apprentice
| who leaped from London bridge to save his
masters daughter from drowning and in the
| end married her, founded family whose head
| bears the title OF the Duke of Leeds Another
| interesting incident, concerning ancestor of
the Earl OF tevershAm, has just been recalled,
in connection with the repair Of the tower Of St
| Magnus, London bridge. 1t seems that 800 years
ago Charles Duncombe, poor prentice who
| had often to wait tor his master on London
resolved that il ever fortune smiled on him he
| would present to the neighboriug church a
| clock which should be a convenience to others
In after life he became wealthy goldsmith,
Lord Mayor of London, and received the honor
| of knighthood. He did not forget his less opu-
| lent days, but presented to st. Magnus' the
| clock which is still there. His descendant to.
day is the Earl of Feversham, to whom the
church of st. Magnus must possess peculiar
| family interest
WHAT they call tramp in the United States
and Ontario they call beggars or queteux in the
| province of Quebec says the Montreal Witness.
| There are two sorts OF beggars-those who
| carry bag on their back and the other sort
! who have horse and cart or sometimes team
! OF horses with Dig wagon. In the summer
time, in the country one sees whole families in
| these large vehicles. They use them as houses
when it is fine. The country beggar always tries
| hard to collect money only, but when he cannot
succeed he condescends to accept other things
| eggs pork, butter, flour and the like One OF
| these beRgars, with q vehicle, was begging a
| few DAYS ago in parish near Quebec Among
the effects he had collected from different
| farmers were two dozen eggs. Arriving at a
country store, the beggar stopped and bartered
his two dozen eggs for q pair OF stock.
ings and come food. In the store
/ at the time OF the bargain
stood man who seemed harmless in the eyes
/ of the beggar. AS the begRar was about iumn-
ing on his wagon, rejoicing, with the stockings
and food in his hands, the harmless man gave
him a gentle tap Cd the shoulder and addressed
him thus: Have you got license to trader"
The beggar said he was no trader, but poor
heggar ard that it was knocking him to talk to
him about traders license. The harmless
man-who, by the way, was none other than
the provincial tax gatherer-said TO the beggar:
did | not notice a moment ago your transac
ton with the country merchant, when you ex-
changed eggs for woolens aud foods? NV dear
dear friend, you are n trader in every sense Of
the word, and am under the disagreeable ne
cessity OF making you my prisoner on the
charge of having traded without a license