The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

/ Nearly 5000 tons Of tobacco are annually
/ consumed in France, according to recent sta
/ ts.iCs OF this some 5000 tons are used for
/ smoking. 80 for chewing and the remainder
/ for snuff This Is an increase Of 700 tons
over the consumption OF twenty years ago,
/ but there has been little change in the last
/ ten years except that the quantity Of snuff
/ used is gTa 1ualy diminishing. Nearly ninth
/ OF the tobacco Is consumed in Paris ami its
suburbs.
It is believed that there is a great field for
| the expectation Of our agricultural inple-
ments, the cheapest and most effective in the
/ world, to the Spanish American countries.
! I he machete. which is only a great knife
/ serves instead Of AK and spade IN many OF
/ those countries. The United States consul
| general for Ecuador believes that il clever
agents were sent down to show the people
/ now to use better implements trade could
] lie created al once.
A remarkable success of new submarine
toat built for the Italian government is al
/ legged in reports from Spezia. At the Official
! trial there several weeks ago two vice ad-
inlra4S and several other officers embarked
on the boat ana were shut In. The boat I'M
| medlately dlSappeare under the water, and
| thus traversed the entire length Of the guilt
/ returning to the surface IN close proximity to
the training ship Maria Adelaide against
which 1t felgned to discharge torpedo"
Paderewskf knows SHAKESPEARE from cover
to cover. He has a beautiful home in Paris
though his family consists only OF a son. who
! IS Is years OLD OF this 10y ne is passion
| ately fond. He does not, however take him
! with him on his tours The boy remains at
! home with his tutor. Pa1erewSki never
! signs an agreement, and he never failed TO
| keep an engagement except through serious
! Illness Among those who have Eeen con-
/ nectet with him in a business capacity Pad
| erewsk1s word is as good as his bond. His
/ mall Is generally Of enormous proportions
/ a large proportion OF it consists of begging
| letters.
During the Kaffir war, the late Gen Cure
ton ana three other officers were sitting in a
bell tent playing whist by the light of a andle
| stuck in bottle. a desultory fire was Kept
! up by the enemy, but Of this no notice was
| taken, although several Shots passed clear
! through the tent. Presently. however bull
let struck the bottle candleStick, putting the
| light out. The cards were CAREFUL laid face
! doWnwaris, and, calling out the guard. Gen.
lClreton ordered them to pour a Volley in the
| direction of the firing. he then procured an
| other Cottle, relit the cPnde and the game
was quietly finished, Gen. Cureton and his
! partner winning the rubber.
One Of the very few copies of the first folio
Shakespeare O623J was bought in London the
other day for 1915, which is regarded by the
4 Spring ield Republican as a low price for the
/ copy was ' cry ood one, and the Aylesford
cop, which Is very imperfect, rought $1,000
| hye years ago, and in lt89 the Perkins copy,
| also imperfect commanded S2075. In New
| YORK three years ago the very fine copy in
! the BraytOn ives sale was knocked down at
| 4,2Ol The most perfect specimen of the first
| 1Ollo is owned by Baroness Burdett Coats.
The British museum possesses three copies
of this edition; the LenoX library has one
which ranks next to the Coutts copy, and has
two title pages.
The hours of dining and the time of retir-
ing at night have, it would appear, been I'M
dergOing constant change in ENGLAND as
well as in other countries. in the course of tie
last few hundred years The fash.onatles OF
Edward Tvs court rose with the lark dis
patched their dinner at Ii O'Clock and shortly
after were wrapped in slumber. In the
Northumberland house book of 1872 it is set
forth that the family rose al 8 in the morning
breakfasted at :, dined at 10 and supped at 4
IN the afternoon. The gates were all shut at
ana no further ingress or egreSs permitted.
In 1870 at the University Of Oxford il was us
ual to dine at II O'Clock and sup at in the
afternoon. The dinner hour which was
once so early as 10 O clock has gradually cot
later and later, until now it would be thought
the excess OF vulgarity in the fashionable
world to sit down to table earlier than $3.50
clock, while others extend 1t to 9 or 10.
Many of the cosmetics and face powders
on the market nowadays con tain poisonous
ingredients and their Use is often followed by
serious results, ' said Prof. E G. Willows. of
Dayton, O., at the Laclede to a st. Louis
Glooe-Democrat man. "A fresh healthful
! complexion is greatly to be desired. but ITS
artificial counterpart is very undesirable and
! does not deceive any observer. The use of
powder and rouge is not only offensive to the
| eye DuI IL leaves Jne SKIN SallOW, dry and
rough, even if 1t produces no worse results.
Not long ago heard of young woman who
began using some drug upon her eyes to in
| crease their bTilliancy.- her sllIv vanity ron
dered her blind for life. YounI ladies' are
not the only ones who suffer from foolishness
OF this kind. l know of a gentleman who
died about six months ago as a result Of lead
poisoning FOR years he had teen in the
habit OF using some dye on his hair and beard.
and to this practice the physician attributed
his death.
1t is said that all the more serious problems
Of applying an electric motor to ordinary
vehicles have been solved, and that an elee-
trc parcels van which has been going ahout
the streets of London is not a toy. like former
electrical carriages, but practical success
says the New York Post. IT Is said to look
like an ordinary twO-horse van without shafts,
II is worked by accumulators which viii
drive it for nifty miles without a recharge
and it can attain the speed of ten miles an
hour he steering is easy and the cost Is
said to be half that of a horse van of the
same size and power. If ali this lie
true vast diminution in sthe num-
Der OF horses in the streets of all
large cities may be expectcl tefore
very long. The London Spectator Is enthusi.
astlc at the prospect, and says: Not only
will lOcomotiOn ana transport be cheaper I'VE
shall have 6-penny cab fareS) but the block
in the streets will be greatly decreased. The
horses take up no less or even more room
than the vehicles they draw, For a driving
tour there will be nothing like an electric
trap Tor II Will never he lai1 up by a bad
stable. Lastly. If the demand for horses is
greatly reduced, riding, the healthiest of all
exercises, will once more be possible for the
working gentleman
A curiously awkward word, if it be a word
is Mrs" says Sola's Journal. 1t is not
spelled as it is pronounced-no one but a.
Welshman a Pole would be equal to pro-
| nOunctng 1t as ii is speled-and its prOnunci-
alton is a clumsy contraction Of the good old
English designation mistress. In DAYS Of old
when. as Mr.. Austin Dobson has depicted for
us in so many graceful verses leisure had
not become, as it is now, almost a forgotten
luxury, and people were less anxious to elm
their speech, the full pronunciation was often
used, and mistress was not altogether
elbowed out of existence by the Vul gar
missts." But nowadays mistress" has
become as much term of opprobium
as of honor, and consequently the con.
tracted pronunciation OF Mrs" has Dre-
vailed and holds the field. Another point
worth noting in The history of the designation
is that about 1870 years ago and earlier Mrs. p
was applied quite imparually to unmarried
as well as married ladies' Even children
were sometimes styled Mrs" The burial
OF an infant daughter of John Milton. who
died at the age OF five months. is recorded in
the parish register of St. Margaret West
minister. and her name is entered as Mrs
katherine Milton" followed by a small ''c''
to indicate that child is meant. But this
may be regarded as an exceptional use of the
/ title.