The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE street car line between Vera Cruz aud
Jalapa is sixtythree miles in length Horses
are changed about every ten miles When the
grade is steep they are changed at shorter in
tervals. The distance is covered in about eight
hours, and the fare is 10 cents a mile. the SUI
perintendenU of the line is q man named Thrail-
Kill, who was one of Quantrells lieutenants
during the war.
The Mexican papers tell OF a miser named
Monecke, who recently died His relatives were
unwilling that his body should DO inferred, as
ne bad tattOoed his will over his chest with
some red pigment instead of using pen and ink
The court decreed that the remarkable human
document" should be copied, and the repre-
sentation duly atteSted in the presence of wit
nesses. This was done and the court has pro-
nounced the queer will genuine.
A LARGE number of human skulls and various
human bones, apparently of some unknown
race Of people, were brought down by the An
dersou river, in Meudocino county, California,
Two weeks ago during treshet, and landed on
a sandbar at the mouth OF the river. There are
for the presence Of these relics, and il is thought
the river unearthed somewhere in its course the
hurying ground Of some prehistoric race. The
skulls do not appear to be those either of In
dams or white people
LoTs of trouble has been caused in Pike
county. Pennsylvania. by the snow. Storms
have been continuous there since last November
and the drifts are fifteen feet high. No mar
riaXes have taken place since Christmas, and
several engagements have been declared of be-
cause the young men find it impossible to call
on their sweethearts. The schools have been
closed since Christmas, several shopkeepers
have had no customers since the first of the
year and the people in the ow-bound districts
live on potatoes, pork and milk.
ONE of the incidents that illustrate the help
fitness of humanity. when is sympathies arc
aroused, occurred in Dexter, Me- the other day.
barber in that town, who last summer mort
gagged his shop and tools in order to raise money
TO build himself new home. has been IN
fortunate since that tine and so was unable to
pay the note when due. Saturday the mortgage
was forecloSed and the officers removed the
furniture and tools from the shop. A sympa-
thizinR crowd watched the proceedings and then
went TO work to repair damages. One hunted
up barber chair, another razor mugs, etc,
and by the time the confiscated goods were all
removed the barber was ready to call next "
The same evening subscription was started
and enough money raised to buy a new chair OF
the latest and most approved pattern.
WHEN studio IN Paris wants to engage a
model the different models present themselves
with their properties and go through their va
rious little tricks like performing mice. One
woman will put on coffee sack apron and
take out Of her bag potato and knife and
peel 1t dexterously. She is q peasant. and will
engage for interiors, or, II you prefer, will ex-
change the potato for knitting, There are al
ways monks in abundance, the Capuchins being
like lightning change artist; graz their beads
and spread devotional look oyer their faces as
il it were plaster, A little st. Jonn will strip
himself in q twinSling, switch out O piece of
sheepskin, grid himself aud adjust crook OF
rattan. After these models have gone through
their little tricks the studio takes a vote and
the model that gets the most votes is chosen.
But" says recent girl student. even the
most irreverent OF studios. and that is SAYING a
good deal, the other morning was shocked by
a model who had just been exhibiting his posi-
nwna Al H.
out of a handbook a crown OF thorns, and,
putting 1t on his head, rolled ND his eyes
Everybody cried out, really shocked, for him
to get out, so in great huff he put his crown of
tAorns back into his handbook and stalked out
to the dressing room with the box under his
arm"
MEISsoEIER's PAINTINGS are all the rage In
Paris just now, and the stories in which the
artist is the hero seem to be innumerAble 1t
now turns out that he inherited his artistic
genius from his mother HIS father kept a shop
and thoroughly despised the aspirations of the
young man. Very WELL" said he one day, IF
instead Of learning my business and assisting
me to increase it for your own benefit finally,
, you are determined to enlist in tho army Of
! long haired and lonR-bearded tramps that die
Of starvation, you can go. But don't want
| you to die OF hunger. man can live on 10
cents day. I'll give you Is francs a month
That Is the best way TO enable you to find out
II you are really born painter, as you say.
But every time you are without the price OF
your dinner, come here and dine with us -
Meissonier accepted the offer. He began by ped
ding his sketches, but was not successful, and
the 10 cents day was not always sufficient to
keep him. Every time that he was sorely
pinched by hunger, he came to his fathers
house at dessert time. "Have you dined?" as
have come Just to join you in cup OF coffee"
was Meissonier's regular reply. AS Dumas
puts 1t, his stomach remained empty, but his
honor was saved. In other words he lied to
save his honor, and then went to bed hungry.
The attitudes that some large birls plac Q
themselves In would protect them in compare
lively open places, says a writer in CornhiH.
Unless one had seen it one would hardly give
the raptores credit for this but they practice IT
to perfection. This class OF birds has been nv
favorite study since boyhood, and shall never
be able to finish the study, for something fresh
is continually coming before me. The eagle for
one, places himself in strange positions, a mere
bundled-up bunch of feathers to look at. A
friend OF mine, who recently visited
Achill Island, the island Of the eagle, was
on.the cliff with his wife and some other
friends when q lady saw in a cleft of the rocks
close to her what she thought was a splendid
tuft OF feathers that had been blown there by
the wind. On STOPPING to pick them up out
from the cleft dashed magnificent eagle leav-
ing behind him tuft OF feathers as a memento
Vigilant as the bird is, he is frequently walked
over. After gorginR he gets drowsy; indeed it
Is only under these circumstances that sucn a
thing could take place. Falcons, hawks-the
larger specie-can compress their feathers and
look very slim il they think 1t necessary to do
do. AS to the owls, they can hump
up into any position they think
most suitable. IT is useless to look for these
self-preserving traits in any of the family kent
in geological collections, for the birds are SO &C
customed to see large numbers of people pass
ing or standing in front OF them that they treat
the whole matter with perfect indifference
They know that at a certain me their food will
b. brought them. and that they are otherwise
perfectly safe. Then the rapt Ires in a wild
ftate have bloom on their plumes like the
bloom on bunch Of grapes which Is not often
seen when ia captivity.