The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-24
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D ~ Mnlch the ladies' OF the conA regatlOn.
and their friends took part Prizes were
Z awarded for the best washed towels the
Z competitors being elleWed three minutes
I 70 the task.
{ There is one curious outcome Of the
] Tidy craze that perhaps m ght have
4 been predicted. a New York artist SAYS
j thaL never IN his recollection have he
{ ana his fellow painters been so overrun
3 by young women who desire TO pose as
l models as they have been since Du
l Maurler's novel came into vogue
I Ten thousand tons Of freight, including
i l,5oo live sheep, al cattle, and hour. cot
/ ton, lard, wheat. and the ike in enormous
} quantities IS the cargo OF the Ulsternore.
l four-masted steel ST mer, 90 feet long,
/ y feet vide. and g e Tstesp now max rg
+ the journey from Baltimore 10 Liver
pool She can make $50 miles a Gay. ala
Z her cargo is worth almost 10000
/ Arizona legislators have sent a mem
] oral 10 congress requesting that the
I lands covered by the perified forest be
J Withdrawn from entry until the aovisa-
4 bihty Of making a public park OF IL can be
. settled The lands are in Apache county.
4 are ten miles square, ana are covered
I by trunks Of trees. some OF which meas
. ure over 200 feet in length, and from
I seven 70 ten feet in diameter.
/ THE signs are" says the New York
sun, that the 'Napoieonic revival IS
] to be succeeded by an even greater revival
. OF Washington memories The best OF
7 all the American signs are among the
school children, who perhaps hear even
. more about the Father Of His Country
T than the children of any past time ever
heard though It must be said that the
at any time since American independ-
Z ence was won
Hinton St George, the somersetshire
| estate Of Earl Poulett is offered for
| sale. The earl is the Ineal representative
1 Of Sir Am Paulet, the jaller OF Nary
] Queen Of Scots. and is father to NisCOunt
] Hinton, who griuds the organ in the Lon
don streets. The estate comprises over
{ 1900 acres; the old castellated manor
house lies in a park OF 1903 acres. It
( contains a picture gallery with go paint
/ ings, some by Rubens. Correggio. Murillo,
Rembrandt and Naudyke. Everything
on the estate is in perfect order, and for
I 1t all. pictures. furniture. and helrlooms
I included, 100000 are asked.
The Troy Press has been informe q
1 by q local manufacturer Of fine grades
1 Of linen collars that he has come 10 the
| thousands of dollars that newspaper
| pays better than any other form Of ad-
yeriising. He prefers it even TO that OF
high grade magazines, and is entirely
/ without faith in fiaring announcements
/ on buildings, fences or bill-bOards He
says the high prices eXacted by first
/ class magazines necessitate a heavy out
| lay Tor small advertisement. while the
same amount of money put into a good
| family newspaper enables one 60 make
2 most conspicuous and attractive show
ing. The testimony of the Troy manu-
| facturCr is in accord with the experience
OF shrewd, intelligent advertisers who
| know how important Il is in these mod
ern days to Keep in daily communication
with the purchasing public.
The Norddeutscher Lloyd. says the New
York sun, is the largest steamship com
pany in the world. its vessels measuring
1900 tons more than the Peninsular and
Oriental, which comes next. 1t began
in 1855 by running three small steamers
between Bremen and England, ana three
years later opened a line to New York.
1t now has twenty-five lines, including
TWO to South America, FIVE 10 Eastern
Asia, and one to Australia. 1t has IS
steamers. with total of 242357 tons. OF
the other great companies the Peninsu-
lar and Oriental steamers measure ri. $50
tons; the NaVlgazlOne Generate Ital ana,
,U3T; the Messageries Maritmes ia $50;
the Compagnle Generalle Transa ian
tiquS 1880; the Hamburg-A American.
1866 5S6: the Austrian Lloyd, 1S7, 822: the
Anchor line, 1902; the Allan line, l2IS5l
the Cunard line, 1893, and the White
Star line, 1926 These figures are for
1883.
On the authority of Nile. de Lescure.
who hear1 it from the herOine'S own
lips, a writer i'm the Guardian tells the
true story of Mile. de Sombreuils saving
her fathers life from the gu-llotine. NJ.
de SOmbreuil and his daughter were con-
demned to death at the time OF the Sep
TENDER massacres, and were waiting IN
the cart, surrounded by the mob for
| their turn to mount the scaMOld. Nile.
de SOmbreuil turned to the crowd and
| asked what harm a weak old man like
her father could do the nation. Some
of the men answered that If she would
/ drink glass OF DlOOI 10 the nGtiuA lut9
would let him go, ana passed IN a glass.
She drank it down Immediately The
crowd took her and her father from the
cart: they escaped and made their way
to England She thought at the time
that she drank blood, but afterward she
concluded that it was red wine for she
saw no one stoop to MI the glass. To
her death she was never able, however,
to see red wine in a glass without shud-
der.
II wonder how many Of the men who
come in here and use these orange-wood
toothpicks," sad a man in New HorA
hotel, know where they come from, ana
how they are made? They are made pN
the cleverest whittlers' in the world, ana
every one of them is of hand manufac-
| ture. The peasants in Spain and Port
ugal make them, and they first found
| their way into this country through the
! medium Of steamship officers. 1t is a
fact that hotels IN all parts of this coun-
try are using these orange-wooSd silYers
now in preference to either quills or the
old-fashioned toothpicks, and the demand
for them here has been perfect godsend
| 10 the peasants who make them on the
'-9i was in spatn and saw
the peasants making them. They
could turn one out with three slashes
Of the knife, and it was their custom TO
90 them up in packages of twenty and sell
them to tourists and steamship officers
esy. At that time the peasants made
them in their leisure moments, but now
I am told many peasants make THEN
I
see the demand for them has increased
TO such an extent that the peasants can
sell all they make The steamship Off
GERS can sell them here az q profit OF
about d cent on each package, which
amounts to considerable when a large
| number of packages are sold.
"A peculiar phase, OF the matter is that
not a cent of duty is asked for OF paid
on them They were formerly received
, in such small quantities that no atten-
ton was paid to them, and the steamship
officers are still able TO get them in free
because toothpicks are the last thing
customs officers are looking for. And
as toothpicks they are really excellent
They are strong and flexible. and. IL
stead of breaking, tear, SO that there Is
I no danger of the end suddenly breaking
/ off and remaining in the tooth, cnardc-
teristic of the old brittle toothpiclSs. II
is a xvonder to me that some one doesn'
| make q business of importing them.
believe the steamship officers have a
monopoly of the business up TO date
and am sure that there would be money
! in IT for somebody If he snatched the
business out of their hands.
PRICES BAKING POWDER.
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