The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-24
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Gaa
quired a craving for red ink. and. pro-
curing a fun bottle recently. she drank
the contents and died very promptly from
aniiine poisoning. II is a curious fact
that violet and red inks have an agreea-
bic taste, and that school children fire.
quently have the habit Of sucking these
inks from their pens II NAV be well 10
call attention generally TO the danger
that turks in this habit.
A crank named PIagnoI recently cir
culated in the Department Gard. in the
south Of France. a petition signed by
many tax payers, demanding a law 10
prohibit the wearing OF COrset5. or. at
least imposing a special tax on them,
II their manufacture could not be pre-
vented by law. The Paris press and the
corset manufacturers ridicule the petit
TONER. a member of the Corset Manu-
factureTs' Society gave a reporter of lie
Temps statistical data about the impor-
rance Of that industry. There are in Paris
alone s. wholesale manufacturers, and 40
cOrset-nakers. working mainly TO order.
employing all told over II 900 hands This
does not include the large dry goods
houses producing their own corsets and
not represented in the society. The an
nual sales of corsets in Paris amount
to more than S9C0l000 cOrsets at prices
varying from IS to 800 francs per dozen,
wholesale, and from . TO go francs per
pair made TO order
No credence need be accorded to the
stories which frem time to time find their
way into print describing in graphic lang
uage the recent escape or release OF
French soldiers alleged to have been de-
ldlleQ IN herman pIlSoHS on one pIEttAL
or another since the close Of the war just
a quarter of a century ago, says the New
| York Tribune. Mile. Corale Cahen, who
is decorated with the cross OF the LIE
gion Of Honor for her services in look
ing after the welfare of the French pris-
| oners of war in Germany, and who took
a leading part in perfecting arrangements
| for their return home after the conclus-
| ion Of peace, declares in the most posi-
| tive manner that not single French
| prisoner of war remains in any German
| prison, and that those who claim to
| have been detained as such subsequent TO
/ the signature of the treaty of Frankfort
/ are as much imposters as were those
/ last survivors of the Grand Army just
/ returned from. the steppes Of Russia;
| whose pretensions became a byword in
/ the reign of King Louis Philippe.
! A society man tells me that the finest
/ silver ware and table service in Gotham
/ is owned by Mrs. Paran Stevens. says the
/ New York Advertiser Tankards, punch
| bowls, fruit bowls and bOnbon dishes.
| with their individual supplement Of choice
small silver, are prominent always on her
1 supper table. Throughout the Wander
/ bilt, Astor, Belmont, Cutting, Van Rens-
! selaer an Hartman families the silver is
/ well chosen, with as great an eye to
beauty and design as to richness and
! splendor. In fact, no New York family
| of any pretensions opens its doors to any
| form of hospitality without selni-regal
/ equipment In silver. In the marked ad-
| vancement made in American manufac-
ture the craze is rapidly dying out for old
| silver and antique design. Modern Amer
/ to beat the world and owners of modern
/ fortunes prefer sinking their money for
its full value in home productions to
/ sinking an amount of capital abroad prin-
cipally for the value of age and associa-
/ ton. In no group of homes in the world
can be set forth more gorgeous treasures
/ in metal than in the homes of New York
I society
-Trilby ice cream is the latest thing out
| in Gotham says the New York Advertiser.
/ A Broadway caterer now molds his ice
] shane If n model
/ ever famous foot In these days almost
I any kind of fruit or flower can be initiated
/ in ice cream. \ cocoanut, brown, hairy.
resting on its broad palm leaf, with little
/ wisps and tendrils Of foliage clinging to
/ II, is so exact likeness of the original in
! size, shape and coloring, that one wonders
at the clever deception. y musk melon,
/ round and nuted, with its rough rind,
and two or three mutilated leaves attach
I ed to the stem, is also initiated cleverly
| in shape and coloring. At a luncheon the
other day the ice cream was served in lit
tie flower cups, the design being lavender
orchids modelled in candy and tinted. The
/ center piece for the table was a royal
| cluster of lavender orchids massed in
maiden hair fern, and surrounded by a
! Dank or ViOletS. A lavender satin ribbon
to which was attached bunch OF violets.
| extended from the centerpiece to the plate
or each guest. After the guests were seat
cd by drawing toward her the ribbon at
her plate each woman obtained the bou-
/ quet designed for her.
The highest salaried employe in the
| united states is supposed to be the presi-
| dent of the Equitable Life Assurance
! Society, Henry Il. Hyde, says the New
| York Press. He receives annually 100000
| John A. Mccall gets SIS, 900 to be president
| of the New York Life. Samuel Spencer
! receives $4,000 a year for telling Pierpont
| Morgan what he knows about railroads.
| Mr.. Cleveland receives $4,000 and a house
| and lot for being President. Mr.. De-
| pews salary as president of the New
! York Central railroad is believed to be
! $4,000. Cornelius Nanderbilts cook re-
ceives $4,000 a year. The sheriff of New
! York used to make $lO0. 900 and over every
year, but his wings have been clipped.
/ Masini receives coo a season for sing
| ing his mighty tenor in Madrid. Jean
| de Reszke received 5000 for singing one
Sohg.lhe oalut deme ure, from Faust
PATHS contract called for 5000 night
when she was at the hight of her fame,
| but she had to give $500 of it to her agent.
Taral. the jockey had made $4,000 in
of the French republic receives S250,000
year. Admiral Greer's. pay is $4,000. An
! the pay of an English admiral is $4,000
| a year. Sir Julian Pauncefote, British
ambassador to this country, receives $780,
1 600 per annum. Britains ambassador to
France, the best paid diplomatic person.
age in the world, receives $4,000 year.
Twenty per cent of the inmates of the
state prison at Charlestown, Mass, are
habitual opium-eaters, and Warden
! Bridges says that it is next to impossi-
bic to prevent the smuggling of this drug
| into the prison. says the New York Post.
| For one man found in his cell under the
| influence of liquor, twenty are found stupe-
fed with opium. The warden showed a
visitor the other day a little paper pack
age. not larger than the qnsharpesnedi
/ end of a lead pencil which contained
a fine powder. There is enough opium
there" Re said, ito satisfy several men,
/ and yet how are we going to detect it
/ when baked in the center of a. cake?''
| The prisoners are allowed to receive pres
| ents of fruit and cake. One of the con-
/ firmed opium-eaters IS always well sup
/ piled with the drug, but how he obtains
/ is has hitherto mystified the officials. His
/ only visitor is an old woman, but watchers
say they have never seen her close enough
1 to the man to pass him anything. During
her calls he invariably sits with his head
hung down and his hands between hi, his
| knees. apparently in deep detection. The
only conclusion possible is that one OF
brings him the opium. 1t is said that
/ comparatively few of the convicts have
the habit when they arrive. Once within
! the walls they soon learn the trick OF
| getting the opium. and use it as means
| Of becoming oblivious of their surround
| ings. or at least Indifferent to them.