The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A celebrated case has been recalled by the
recent death Of Charles Osborne. the author.
He was the father Of Captain Osborne, who
behaved so chiyalrously in the famous pearl
case. The captain and his wife, says the
London Princess. are now living happily to-
gother at the cottage in Wales to which he
conveyed her after the trial One Of the first
TO congratulate the young wife on the birth
OF her baby was Mrs. Hargreaves, who has
again become her close friend.
In a short editorial on the fate Of Mai. VIII
sons party the London Daily News says the
waste Of war appears all the greater when we
see what each Of these men was worth in
spirit, in enterprise, in the best qualities Of
our race. In education alone the costly Ia
DORIS OF whole groups OF dons were IN some
cases brought to nothing by this butchery. 1t
seems pity to put so much work into pro
duct and then filing it away. The waste OF
war only begins with the waste Of taxes A
great battle is prodigallty carried TO its fur
/ thest verge.
Another incontestible proof Of the rapid ad-
vance Of the japanese in civilization of the
west is the following advertisement. which
! appeared in Toxic paper recently:-"A
young lady wishes to get married She is
very beautiful has rosy face, which is sur
rounded by dark curly hair. Her eyebrows
snow the form Of the half moon and the
mouth is small and pretty. She is also very
rlch. well read enough to admire the flowers
In the daytime at the side OF a life com paniOn,
or at night TO sing to the stars in heaven.
Ihe man whom she will choose must be
young, handsome and well educated and be
ready to share the same grave with her."
In Brussels there is now a restaurant en-
titled the Cafe de la Mort, the walls of the
subterranean chamber being hung with paint
lngS OF skulls, skeletons and cross bones. The
chairs are stools. the tables. collins, and the
beverage. which costs cents a glass. is
called microbes" A performance takes
place nightly in an adjoining vault. On the
1rf in rrcf
ing upright in a Cofin. As the aSSemblage
watches, his white bones are gradually seen
TO shine forth through his clothes until he be-
comes grizzly skeleton. death certificate
Is then presented to the principal actor in
, this optical Illusion, and the performance
closes.
Search is now being made in London for
the magnificent collection of Jewels belong
ing to the Infamous Nine. du barry, whose
association with King Louis XIV of France
constitutes one of the darkest shadows OF
thai monarch's reign. The Jewels valued al
more than 100000, were stolen in 1891 by bur
glars from the chateau of,Louveciennes, and
taken to England, where. caught in the act OF
attempting to sell them, the thieves were
arrested, convicted and hanged Soon after
| wards Nine du Barry herself was guillotined
| by tho revoluti0nists at Paris, and the lew
! elryl which had been left in the possession Of
| the English court, has since that time mys-
| terlously disappeared.
L L0 hdudTdJhu OF 1drlala, king OF Ule
| Sikhs, has promised to visit England next
| season. He is handsome man, % years of
| age, dark skinned, with black mustache and
scanty beard. AS a oholar the Maharaiah is
| thought great deal Of and far more i'm
| portant in the eyes Of an Englshman, he is
one of the pluckiest spoI tsmen in India
| which is saying good deal. His hIghness is
| a celebrated polo player, and hisracing stable
| is the biggest and the best in the country He
is a very good cross country rider, and has
| won mum Ders Of races on his own horses
| however, he never bets himself and his
winnings are distributed among those who
are employed in and about his stables.
The car has now given orders with regard
to the uniform Of the last reserves Of the cav.
| airy and artillery, which category consists Of
youths and old men. These branches Of the
service will wear the same uniform as the
line regiments, with the exception OF the cap
which bears cross. and the mum ers on the
shoulder straps. The infantry Qast reserve)
would in case of war appear in the cattan.
| the long coat generally worn in Russia, to
which shoulder straps would be added. From
this 1t will be seen how easy 1t is to mobilize
this last category Of men in Russia who re-
Qu1re little more than a rifle and cartridges
for outfit. In all the Russian fortresses mills
are being erected in bombproof buildings in
order that any amount of bread can be made
without interruption during a siege. These
things are more easily carried out in an auto
cratic country like Russia than In any other.
The members of the Paris municipal com
Gil have little diflculty in meeting any deficit
in their tudget. They are threatened with
one now, and consequently have resolved tn
put fresh tax on funerals. Strictly sneak
ing, of course this will take the form OF en-
HANGED fees to be paid by the public, as there
are no private dndertakers in the French
capital. According to the tariff which has
been In vogue during the present regime the
price of freehold grave, two square yards in
Size Is ~, but there is a progressive scale,
so that third yard costs 500 extra, and a
fourth the same amount again, while fifth
and sixth are charged $500 each and every
yard above sixth costs no less than S40O.
The municipality proposed to increase the
price of the urst two yards to 800. and to re-
model the scale of charges in other ways so
that it is estimated there will be an increase
Of 1927, 900 per annum.
The largest smiling ship afioat is the French
five-master, La France, launched in 1890 on
the Clyde, and owned by Messrs. Ant Dom
Bordes ct Fills, who possess a large fleet of
sailing vessels, says Chambers Journal In
1891 she came from Iqulque to Dunkirk in l0j
days, with 5000 tons of nitrate, yet she was
stopped on he Tyne when proceeding to sea
with $500 tons of coal, and comNelled to take
out 800 tons, on the ground that she was over
laden. There is not single five masted sail
I ing ship under the British flag. The United
States has two fiVe-masters, the Louis OF $50
tons, and the Governor Ames, OF I778
tons, both fore and aft schooners. a rig
{
ing five masts can he counted on the fingers
of one hand, but, strange to say the steam
ship Coptic OF the 5 haW. Sayil g. Albion Com
pany, on her way to New Zealand, in Decem.
Der. lA9), passed the Governor Ames in 14o
south 80 west, bound for California, and two
days later, in Go south 81 west, the French
five master La France, bound south Passen-
gers and crew of the Coptic might travel over
many a weary league of sea and never again
see two such excellent object lessons IN the
growth OF sailing ships in quick succession.
The largest three -masted sailing ship is the
Ditton, of $3.50 tons.
A curious and possible consequence Of the
general introduction of electrical and me-
chanical motors is suggested by a writer in
Harper's Weekly, who forecasts time when
the horse will he about as rare a sight on a
citys streets as an oXcart is now. Step bv
step nearly all the domestic animals have
been eliminated from the panorama OF the
city life, says the Chicago News Outside OF
the market places but one OF these animals
remains and even now his place has been
largely usurped by the ca bic rope the bicycle.
the electric trolley and the elevated steam
railway. The process Of usurpation Is still
going on-and where will it end? But for The
private carriage and the private dray the
| city horse would already be little more
| than a luxury. And, as the present
writer notes, the inventive genius of electri-
clans is already plotting TO devise safe plans
| whereby he may be thrust out of the shafts NJ