The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| Offering by one man.
! In a Scotch asylum there is a woman one
form OF whose insanity before she was incar-
| eerated consisted in having her horses shoes
| OF solid gold with gold nails, each set Of shoes
and nails costing $500.
The Daughters Of the Revolution. in san
| Francisco, have received in reply to their re-
quest a small box full of earth taken from the
| crave OF lafayette In Paris. They will plant
| a tree Of liberty in it. The box was sealed
with the arms Of the city Of Paris.
An English paper which has been taking a
ballot on the subject OF favorite names for
! boys and girls received 4 600 replies A list of
| thirty one boys and thirty-three girls names
was submitted, and the voting showed Harold
ana Dorothy to be the two most popular ap-
| pellations.
Miss Marie Corelli the well-known English
authoress, was sitting in the Champs Elysees
| IN Paris one afternoon last week, and had
taken out her purse to pay for the chairs,
When man tore the purse from her hand
ana ran on Two other men ran after the thief
| shouting thief" They were the accomplices
| OF the first one.
me throne OF Behanzin, King Of Dahomey,
together with the collection Of curios brought
nome by Gen. Dodds. has been placed IN the
Musee photographic at the Trocadero in
Paris The throne is carved out of a solid
| piece OF wood and entirely covered over with
carvings OF not very delicate character rep
-SSSAANAt6 eAAO Mug anu MS court.
Che of the latest fads for rich women is to
have cast made of the hand, the ear the
nose or the foot. as the case may be- of
course each selecting the particular feature
Whlch Will best repay immortalizing. The
hand IS the member which receives the most
universal notice. beautifully posed white
plaster hand resting on a velvet drapery has
place IN more than one fashionable boudoir
New York shopkeepers are giving palms to
their lady customers as premiums instead of
| chromos, and shopping street now looks
IKE procession Of palmers 1t is said these
PAINS were first found in the oasis where the
| city OF Palmyra stood in SYRIA on the bor-
| ders of the Ara bian Desert the site of which
| Is occupied by modern Tedmor. Zenobia had
royal robe made OF the finest leaves slept
on couch OF palm branches and lived in a
PAIN power or tent during her excursions.
In London the guests Of the Thirteen Club
| decorate their buttonholes with TOY skeletons
and their shirt fronts with green ties. A
waiter freaks dish as the signal for dinner
70 De served ana guests pass under a ladder
70 tne dining room. Each guest finds a coffin
SNAPPED salt cellar and skull at his plate
together with a small mirror, which he
smashes to show that he has no fear of under
going seven years bad luck in consequence
Inc menu is adorned with pictures of witches
bats and black cats and the chairman begins
by spllling salt and inviting the other diners
TO do likewise Each toast is proposed In
| thirteen words. and each response is sun
posed TO take up thirteen minutes.
Easter day falls on Lady day this wear for
| the first time in the history of the United
States. The last time these two DAYS fell to-
gether was in l742, aud they will not clash
again until 1851. Lady day has somewhat
lost us slgnlhcance and Importance Of late
years and it has never been such special
DAY IN this country as in some Others where
the leasing and renting system are more gen
eral. 1t is STILL however, the first quarter
DAY OF the year, and although for convenience
rents and premiums are generally made paw
able on March 81, the law in some states sill
recognizes March p quarter day. Easter
mas TO tall exceptionally early to come in con-
tact with Lady day, and the coincidence will
cause inconvenience in countries where a
legal holiday and legal pay day will be
simultaneous.
at he Importance of fish as a food product
has not been fully realized in this country"
said Mr.. R. D. Hume, a large salmon packer
OF California and Oregon, who is in Washing
Ton, TO a Post Reporter The protectiye
legislation af Great Britain in this regard
can be initiated with profit in the United
states. we ma that in the rivers OF the
eastern coast OF the United States that sal.
mon have become practically extinct; in fact
some OF the rivers were nearly barren more
than forty years ago. while on the Pacific
coast the rivers of Oregon and California.
which were formerly alive with these excel
lent fish, now show great decrease In the
supply, so much so that the canning of sal
mon which was formerly a profitable bust
ness, is now carried on only at great risk to
the operator, while in Alaska. owing to the
destructive methods Of fishing, already the
Garner locations are showing signs OF dimin-
ution, the take being much less last
season, though greater efforts were made
than ever before. In Scotland, with an area
OF rs, 900 miles, there was derived in the wear
1892 from the rentals OF salmon fisheries more
than 100000 to say nothing OF the profit de.
rived from the sale of the fish. Legislation
LOT Iol the protectlon OF salmon In England began
during the reign Of Edward l., over six hun
dred years ago, and has been supplemented
Dy acts OF nearly every subsequent ruler
ms shows that despite our boosted progress
we have been backward In the preservation
OF our natural resources, also that much of
our development has been secured by waste
1uIly dlscountlng the future to the detriment
OF ourselves and succeeding generations
This country contributes some thousand
dollars worth OF material yearly to the pro-
motion Of a fad long prevailing in Germany.
says the New York Sun. The rage for col
lectlng postage stamps, common enough here
Is much more widespread in Germany and
for some time past collectors have been using
Cancelled stamps for decorative purposes
Millions of stamps are used annually in Ger.
many to paper walls. A room of moderate !
size may be papered completely with 1O0O0
stamps OF the ordinary size. Persons who
indulge in this fancy exercise great ingen
uity IN the arrangement of the STAMPS and
remarkable color effects may be produced
by tasteful denominations When the
stamps have been affixed to the walls of n |
room tedious piece OF work, the whole is
vanished, in order to protect the Daper
ing from damage. Stamps andl parts of |
stamps are used in decorating tables and
cabinets. Those who do this sort of decOra |
ton laboriously cut out the head of WASHING.
ton from the current 2-cent stamp and pasfe
the little vignettes by the hundred upon the |
table or cabinet to be decorated Then
thousands of the tiny figure -" are cut from |
the lower corner of the stamp and disposed |
so as to form border about the reDeated |
head of Washington. Scores of other 1e
signs are treated in like fashion and stamns |
OF various colors are arranged IN accordance
with the taste OF the decorator One man
in New York, not himself a professional |
dealer in stamps, sends nearly 95 900 600 I
stamps per year to a dealer in Germany
The same dealer has an agent in |
Baltimore who sends him vastly larger |
quantities. They are sent to the agents |
from all parts of the east. Children in |
search of pocket money, women in neel of |
pin money, Sunday schools and charities of |
one sort or another collect and send these |
stamps to the agents in patches Of 10000 90 |
900. $4,000 or 100000. The usual price is 10 |
cents per 1000, but the red 2-cent stamns |
fetch less because they are easily oDtainable |
and also because their dye is not well fixed |
The Columbian stamps of small denornina-
tion fetch 30 cents per 1000. Rare stamps |
fetch more OF course but the German dealer |
makes no special effort to OBTAIN such STAMPS |
here. Many other dealers in Germany have
long been buying large quantities OF stamps
IN the United States but as some failed 10 ,
pay for their purchases it is now little dim |
cult to obtain large quantities save through |
resident agents The craze for stamp decora- !