The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
/ Sir Fleetwood Edwards has become
Z Queen Nictoria's keeper OF the privy
/ purse, and Col Bigge is to be the queens
| private secretary. These two offices (the
duties OF both being very OnerOus and
I until Sir Thomas Biddulph died in 1873
when Sir Henry PonsOnby (whO had then
I been Tor many years her majesty's pri-
vate secretary succeeded him as keeper
I or the privy purse. still retaining his for
mcr post Since Sir Henry's death the
/ two places are to be kept separate
That lions prefer tights TO skirts is
apparent from the tenor of an interesting
interview with Carl HagenbeCk IT, the
London Daily Graphic. For Mr.. Hagen
[ beck declares that during a period Of
forty-three years he has only had one ac-
cident IN MS business. 1t was caused by
one Of lis female performers entering the
lions den with a new dress on. The lion
had always seen her with tights and not
understanding what the dress was. lit il
20 satisfy his curiosity. Unfortunately,
he included In the mOuthful a portion of
me wearer infiicting severe injuries upon
his fair trainer.
A successful surgical operation was re-
Gently performed to save the life of
big Shanghai rooster. belonging to Shoe
maker maker keillian, a farmer Of MELVILLE,
BUCKS county, says the Philadelphia Rec
ord. The big bird. which was the pride
OF Mr.. keillian's flock, had made itself
sick through Overeating, and il was nee
| essary to cut its craw and remove the con-
| tents TO save the birds life. 4 Bristol cor
| respondent describes the incident thus:
/ Mr.. Shoemaker Keillian his heart was
made light Off a few days ago when he
thought nc. was going to lose his Big rOos-
/ ter the Pride Of his flock of chicken, which
/ he made a successfully operation upon.
| The Rooster eat to much for its digestive
capacity and relief only come when its
/ craw was cut open and contents removed.
I And as soon as he made the operation New
/ Life sprang into the Rooster and II COM
mence crown and after sewing up the in
/ cision Il was let lose and ran around as
\ well as usal after sewing is up"
\ Every large city in the United States
! has an adjacent tributary region Of
] greater or less area, while New York
/ has the secondary loyalty not only of the
region Immediately about It but of the
! whole country, says the New York Sun.
] Philadelphia has for its tributary region
/ the country southwark for fifty miles
! and westward for 200 miles. Baltimore
| has Tor Its own Maryland, Virginia, North
! Carolina and Northern Georgia. The far
/ southern states are divided in allegiance
! between New Orleans and New York.
| New England. save those parts within two
! hours ride of New York. is true to Bos-
/ ton. Cincinnau's influence extends east
! ward TO the Alleghenies. southwark
| through Kentucky and westward into
! and through Southern Indiana, while It
| IS the undtsputed metropolis of Ohio, save
! perhaps that part which looks to CIeve-
! land. Chicago's rule extends eastward 70
! Ohio, southwark to the sphere to influ-
ence recognized as that of St. Louis and
/
has its faithful adhcrents i'm Missouri
! ana the contiguous states. Denver would
| IKE to be thought the metropolis of the
! region between the Mississppi and the
/ Rocky mountains, but shares il with ST
| Louis and Chicago. San Francisco is TN.
only city in the whole region west of the
| ttftochIes, ana even draws trade through
the mountain passes.
The lofty chalk cliffs of Dover 10
| which, as seen from the shores of France.
! England owes its poetical name Albion II
seems, from reports In the English pa
/ peIs, are IN danger from encroachments
| OF the sea. says the Chicago Inter ocean.
| Shakespeare's cliff. situated short dis
| lance from the town, and recalling King
| Lear, was perforated half century ago
| by 2 double tunnel cut through the solid
| chalk by the railroad from London TO
| canterbury, the Dover station forming
| the terminus of England for connection
| with all Europe. In May, 1917. a huge mass
| Qf this cliff, 254 feet in hight and fifteen
| Ieet thick, fell to the base, and not long
| after another mass about one-fourth as
| large fell. Not only is the cliff perforated
| by a railway, but Notifications extend to
| IL from the hoary Dover castle built by
Jullus caesar and made almost impregna-
! bic In anticipation of Napoleon's invasion
/ In the subterranean passages of Dover
castle an army of men can be placed.
| ms part OF the coast is, therefore. not
! only historically interesting but is of
! immense strategical value and vast sums
! or money nave at various times been spent
/ IN DulldlnS sea walls and otherwise no
| tectng the cliffs and keeping the h r
| clear. Some eighteen or twenty ac. IF
! parliament have been passed in the iast
| 80 years in regard to Dover and it,
| GINS and harbCr, and now another great
! sea wall of concrete is thought to be nee
essary to protect the cliffs from the raw
ages of the sea. The advocates of this
| scheme will ask the government to grant
! the labor of 800 cOnvicts in building the
| sea wall. The stretch of cliffs between
| Dover castle and st. Margaret's bay af-
! fcrds a panoramic display of the ship
! ping OF all nations unequalled anywhere
! else in the world. Land reclaimed from
! uhe sea here would be of immense value
! Tor residence purposes, once permanently
! free OF danger from the cliffs or the sea
In point of prospect, however, nothing in
| England will ever rival the view from the
| noble cliffs of Dover, whence, on clear
days, the coast Of France lies in a SHIN
mer of white beyond the straits.
No visitor to West Point fails to notice
! the few links of the iron chain that lie
4 around the monument up near the hotel
1 says the New York Press. They are the
| remains of the great chain which was
| stretched across the Hudson river during
| the revolution, to prevent British war
! ships from sailing past the forts and land
| ing an army or marauding parties Few
| people know that just above the entrance
| to tuxedo Park, on the east side of the
! railroad track, are the ruins of the buil6-
! ing in which that chain was made Thcv
! are known as the old Augusta forge The
| western gable and the south wall are all
| That are standing. 1t was never ANYTHING
| but low stone building a few feet souar5
ahQ Dullt by country mason. 1t was called
| a forge because there iron was reduced
from the, ore by the old fashioned char
coal method, and its counterparts Were
| common all over the country within tba
! last half century. 1t was owned by the
| STERLING Iron Mine Company, one of the
| large iron manufacturers of the dav Here
! was reduced the iron taken from The mine
! four miles west. and the links hammered
| out by hand. When it became apparent TO
| the continental war department that a
| chain was necessary to prevent vessels 90
| ing above the neutral ground. Secretary
| PICKERING consulted Mr. Townsend. one If
/ the iron kings of the day and an owner Of
/ the mine, and shortly after Cen Putnam
/ gave an order for the chain In less than
! SIX weeks the links were delivered to tbe
| nrA