The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The highest salariea woman in the employ
| Of the government is Miss Alice Fletcher, the
I ethnologist She receives S a day as special
| agent Of the Indian bureau.
In several reports made by various authOri-
ties recently. IS given considerable informa-
ton relative TO the progress when has teen
| MADE IN Continental Europe IN bringing into
use for driving street cars. says the Amer1-
can Manufacturer. The gas motors are
! strong. simple. practical and safe, and free
/ from smoke; they only require weekly
| cleaning. The starting and stopping are in
stants and free from shock. The weight Of
the car with twenty passengers, one driver
ana one conductor. is about six tons. The
/ distance Is three and one eighth miles, and
the highest ground is halfway, forty feet
| higher than Neuchatel; E9-horse power are
! fourth miles an hour The cost Of gas. with
one car, would be. at 81 ~ per L0O0 cubic feet,
= cent per passenger per journey.
An old bachelor who Just died in Paris in
house in the Boulevard Richard Lenoir, at
| the age 81 years hit upon an original idaa for
| lnSurlng proper attention from his servants
IN his declining years. Twelve years ago, says
| the London Daily News he went TO his law
! yer and made viii, under which be left his
two women servants an annuity Of Sl20 each.
| to be increased by so for every year that he
| should continue to live. The will has Just
| been proved, and the legacies have been al
! lowed at the rate OF SAC year each The
| old man was in the habit Of making great fun
! out of the mOtherly care with which he was
/ looked after. You may be quite sure" he
| would say, that they VIII not let me die If
| they can help il. " He seems to have over
| looked the fact that it was clearly not to the
| interest of the women that he should survive
| them.
People who pay out good deal Of money
| for inferior shoe-dressings will be glad to
know how to make good dressing for them
| selves at a very small cost. The following
| is said to be capital receipe. Take two
| drains of spermaceti oil. three ounces of good
| molasSes, and four ounces of finely powdered
| ivory black and stir them together thor
| oughly. Then IN half pint of good vinegar
| and the dressing is ready for use. 1t gives
| bright. clean surface. and makes the shoes
| look almost like new. Here IS dressing for
| rainy weather which Will make the shoes
| water proof. and at the same time leave the
| leather soft Of pliable. Take an once Of bees
| wax. an ounce of tIrpentine and quarter OF
| an ounce of'Burgundy pitch. Put them into
| half pint of cotton seed oil. and melt them to-
| gether over a slow fire being careful that the
mixture does not take fire.
When locomotives were first built. and be-
gan to trundle their small loads up and down
the newly and rudely constructed railways of
| England. the country roads were for the most
| part crossed at grade. and the engine driver
| had no way of giving warning of his approach
| except by blowing tin horn. This horn, as
! may be imagined, was far from being a suf
| tcient warning. One day in the year 1888 a
! farmer Of Thornton was crossing the railway
| track on one OF the country roads with a
/ great load OF eggs ana butter. just as ne came
| out upon the track train approached. The
| engineman blew his tin horn Justify, but the
| farmer did not hear 1t. Eighty dozen Of eggs
| and 80 pounds of butter we're smashed into an
| indistinguishable. unpleasant mass and
| mingled with the kindling wood to which the
| wagon was reduced. The railway company
had to pay the farmer the value OF his so
! pounds OF butter, his $50 eggs, his horse and
| his wagon. ii was regarded as a very serious
| matter; and straightway a director of the
| company, Ashlen Bagster by name, went to
a fr~snFa hpr
| lived to see if he could otinvent something
that would give warning more likely to be
! heard. Stephenson went to work ana the
next day had a continuance which, when at
tached to the engine boiler, and the steam
, turned on, gave out Shrill, dscOrdant sound.
! The railway directors, greatly delighted or
| dered similar contrlvanceS attached to all
the locomotives, and from that day to this
| the voice of the locomotive whistle has never
| been silent.
At the recent meeting of the Study of In
| ebriety Society DR.. T. L. Wright, of Ohio,
J read a paper on the Special Influences of
| Alcohol" moral and otherwise. Among
| other things he mentioned some curious facts
| connected with the habits of what NAV be call
| ed alcohol thieves 1t is recognized by alco-
! hOl specialists that certain persons almost in
| variably try to steal when drank who show no
! tendency to theft at any other time Not only
so, but the alcohol thief very generally goes
| for some particular object when the thieving
| mania is upon him. The HoSl al mentions
one man who when drunk showed a uniform
Partially for Bibles. He stole Bibles in
/ Vartably when he could get at them. Another
| had precisely similar passion for spades. A
| young man, who presumably had been
| previously unknown at the police court.
| stole a horse when drunk, and that
| in the presence OF its owner. AS he rod
| off with the animal he told his nam
! and address to persons whom he met on Jh
road. He finally stole the horse. When tn
! case came ON for trial the culprit was a.
quilted on the ground of drunkenness an
| consequent Responsibility. Thus encour-
! aged. he got drunk again and stole second
horse. a wear Imprisonment was now tried
instead OF acQuittal. Comm out OF prison he
! got drunk once more. and with insane con
siSte1cV too possession of a thIrd horse Whici
| did not be .ong TO him. On this occasion tn
| court once more resolved to try the effect OF
! pald But pardon was once more as use
| less as punishment for a fourth horse wa
stolen in drunken fit in a very short time
WhatWa the end of this young man career
| That is not yet known for he is said at tn
| moment to be spending a term OF i'm srison
ment in the hope that reflection may turn hiu
| INTO teetOtaltr "a cOnsummation devouti
TO be wished
The vogue of the danse du ventre in thu
west began with Paris Exposition OF 1889, say
the New YorX sun In the Cairo street ther1
were a number OF native Egyptian women
and they introduced the dance. 1t appealed
so strongly to the taste of the bouleYards
that before the exposition closed every con
cert hall in the French capital had its troupo
| OF dancers. They were not EgVBtians. no.
ever, and the llvariable presence Of a large
| negro seated among the women was 4.
enough to conceal the fact that the dane
were Parisans recruited usually from d
class known there as lilies dos barriere
which would answer best to the young cir
that frequent the Pell aud Dover
street resorts in this city. Tn
fancy of the boulevard was able to add
various interesting details 10
the 3rfOrman e which were never noticeable
IN the native dance az the exposition ana 70.
two years the danse du ventre was a furo
The stufy little rooms in which it was give
| were always crowded and the expressions
spontaneous opinion or comment which tn
! performance ELECTED from the soe ,tato
were startling specimens of what certai
classes in Paris life can think and saw Unit
the craze died out and the tickle favor OF Ii,
Partisan public returned to La Goulue an
her cahut. the pictures of these dancer.
! known under various oriental names stare
from every shop window. But when the
dance grew so common that the freQuenter
OF the Moulin Rouge were able to step p be
fore mirror and do il themselves in ordinar
street costume, its popularity as a spectacl
declined rapidly. The young wome,
who danced in New York recently prC
served the Partisan traditions of the ne
| Torrance. One of them was an Arabian b
the others are prOba) ply French. Whateyf
their nationality may have been their dancir
was Partisan in conception and detail and er.
bodied more OF the at nOsp here Of the MouI
Rogue than the lower Nile. The demeanort
the spectators in the theater at the Gran
'araf sol 1sl1 Vr-aes g,F3 . r..gF