The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


In a train in Cuba says an American trav-
eler, a young fellow passing a mother and
her radantly beautiful daughter on his way
out Of the car, dotted his hat. stood straight
and tail before the couple he had never before
seen, and. with the dignity of a veritable Don
QuiXote. SAID in Spanish. old woman. keep
that daughter Of heavenly beauty for the IN
worthy one before YOU Then he STROBE away
and nobody assaulted him. The aged sonora
responded pleasantly: j will faithfully keep
her. Possibly the fair sonora S fan moved a
nJtle more rapidly at the compliment, but no
body thought amiSs of the episode. or for that
matter, anything at all about it, except my
self
Thirty miles from the city of Kumamoto,
Japan. is the volcano Aso San. This volcano
has the largest crater in the world. 1t is more
than thirty miles in circumference and PEG
pied by 10000 inhabitants. Think of walking
for miles among fertile farms and prosperous
villages, peering into school house windows
and sacred shrines well within the shell of an
Old-tlme crater. whose walls rise 800 feet all
about you. Hot springs abound everywhere
In one place / saw the brick-red hot water
utilized to turn rice mill The inner crater
is nearly half a mile in diameter, and a steady
column of roaring steam pOurs out of it. The
last serious eruption was in 1884, when i'm
menSe quantities of black ashes and dust
were elected and carried by the wind as far
as Kumamoto where for three DAYS il was so
dark that artificial light had to be used.
Evidence may assume different shapes, says
the Boston Transcript, but it is seldom that
a wife introduces in court pasteboard box
filled with her own hair as evidence of cruel
and abusive treatment at the hands of her
husband. This is what Mrs. Annie Sutton of
East Boston did in the Suffolk probate court
al hearing on her petition for separate sup
port and a money allowance from her hus-
band, John Sutton. The box was IA inches
long, wide and deep and was filled with
hair Mrs. Sutton testified that her husband,
IN htS OF rage, had pulled out her hair and
that she had preserved it until she now had
the box full. The husband denied that he had
pulled out his wifes hair and was astounded
al the introduction of this extraordinary evil
dence. Judge MCkim reserved his decision
on the question of compelling the husband to
provide separate support for his wife.
According to English papers bricks and
stone may yet be superseded by the use of
glass bricks, or rather large blocks of glass.
says the Boston Journal. They would not
necessarily be transparent, and as they would
be cast Of large size the process of erection
would move forward with great rapidity
Glass has the reputation of being moisture
proof and indestructable and as it need not
be OF fine quality. it is estimated that il would
be as cheap as brick or stone. 1t will readily
be noted that the glass may he COlOred to suit
the whim OF the buildeEa and man may easily
live in a house rejecting all the colors of the
rainbow Another innovation is the prepare
| ton of a mixture of broken glass Of various
| cOlOrs with other substances which would
| yield a mass of irregular cooring and capable
| when in plastic condition, of receiving
| decorative designs for pillars, CoTnices and
| other architectural forms.
A London correspondent delares that prac-
tically nobody from Europe is coming over to
| the worlds fair, nobody, that is that travels
| frst-class. This assertion. he says is not
based upon guesswork, hut is the result of
| careful inquiry. The steamship COmpapies
| know everybody that is going. Everybody
! that crosses the Atlantic comes that way. and
their passage Is booked long time in ad-
vance. But not half a dozen extra paSSen-
gers have heen booked on account of the fair
| j he travelling Americans, who nearly always
take the precautiOn to engage room for their
return in advance. have more than three
quarters filled all the large steamships up to
the last of September I he American Line
| the Cunard Line and the White Star Line all
| say that their bookings are no heavier than
they were last year. but if anything lighter
7 he French and German lines report prac-
tically the same state of affairs and it is pre-
| Sumcd that any person who contemplated
coming over before the last OF September
would he booked already. At the same time
the tide of travel toward Europe promises to
: c much lighter than usual not on account of
The world fair 50 much it is thought as on
account of the dread of a probable outbreak
of cholera in Europe.
The longest speech on record is believed bv
the Pail Mall Budget to have been that made
by Mr.. De Cosmos in the legislature Of Brit
iSh Columbia, when a measure was pending
the passage of viii IN would take from great
many settlers their lands De Cosmos was
in hopeless minority. The Job had been
held back till the eve of the close OF the ses-
sion; unless legislation was taken before
noon of n given day the act Of UOnfisca-
tion would fail. The day before the eXpira-
| tion of the limitation De Cosmos got the floor
about 10 o clock q. m. and began y speech
against the bill. Its friends cared little, for
| they supposed that by / or > o clock he would
be h OuCh. and the bill could be put on its
passage. One O'Clock came. and De Cosmos
was speaking still-had not more than en-
no
saying lin the second place" Three O'Clock
he produced a fearful bundle of evidence
and insisted on reading it. The maiOrit; he
gan to have a suspicion of the truth-he was
going to speak till next noon and kill the
bill. For awhile they made merry over it
but as it came on to dusk they began to get
alarmed. They tried Interruptions but soon
abandoned them. because each one afforded
him chance to digresS and gain time 4 hpv
tried TO shout him down. but that gave him n
breathing space. and finally they settled down
to watch the combat between strength OF will
and weakness OF body. They gave him no
mercy-nO adjournment for dinner. chance to
do more than wet his lips with water, no wan
dering from his subject, no sitting down
Twilight darkened; the gas was lit: members
slipped out to dinner in relays and returned
to sleep in squads but De Cosmos went on
| The speaker, to whom he was addressing
himself. was alternately doing snoring and
trying to look wide awake. Day dawned and
the majority slipped out in squads to wash
and breakfast. and the speaker still held on
1t cannot be said that it was very logical elo-
quent or sustained speech. There were
digreSSiOnS in IL, repetitons also But still
the speaker kept on; and at last noon came IN
a batied majority, livid with rage and imDo-
tence, and single man who was triumphant
though his voice had sunk to a husky wbis
per, his eyes were almost shut and were
beared and blOOdshot. his legs tOttered under
him, his blackened lips were cracked and
Smeared with blood. De Cosmos had spol5en
twenty-six hours and saved the settlers their
lands.