The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

It comes somewhat as a shock to learn
] from London News that the law IN Merry
tssnsla4l PAYS no heed 10 Ine traa-llon OF
2 been fined 10 shilllngs for kissing a girl
I under the mistletoe against her VII, al
| tnougn ne pleaded in extenuation that
| there, and he'd not made a fuss about
The other day Deputy Coroner Echerd,
] or COnnellsVille, Pa was just proceed
: ing 70 empanel a jury 70 investigate the
I mysterious death of Mrs. Josephine Hal
1 nday, when he was interrupted by The
I corpse eXclaimtng: Hello What's all THIS
! russ about?" He told her that she was
aead, ana that he was about 70 hold an
inquest on her; but she wouldn't have II
I that way Al all, and he was compelled 20
I postpone the proceedings.
/ Some wild men" have been observed
IN Brewster county, Texas, A sheep
herder noticed some peculiar. things in a
l tree, and, as he approached TO see What
II was, three men, dressed in nothing
| but hats made Of Spanish dagger leaves
/ Jumped out Of the tree and ran away. A.
hunt was organized to catch tllems but
the dogs refused to follow The trail and
/ the wild men were too fleet of foot TO
| De taken. They are supposed TO be
I remnant OF the Lipan Indians, who were
/ destroyed by Col Mckenzie on his law
/ less raid into Mexico in 1874 p ~ 2
/ a war correspondent. writing, after IA
| mllar association with Japan7s LEADING
/ soldiers, says: The japanese officers are
/ a mixture OF the French officers and the
] German sous officers. They live right
among their men, sleep near them, cat
I me same food in sight OF ALL expose
/ themselves to all kinds Of danger and
ndrQShip. NO wonder the soldiers have
me greatest. confidence in them i found
/ every Japanese general met 10 be brave,
generous, Kind, polite, ready TO give lis
! NE Tor his men and for his flag. When
the detailed history of the life Of some
! of these men is written it will undoubted.
/ ~ call forth the admiration Of the world"
Peter the Great was accustomed to
I impose severe penalties upon those Of
ms SUBJECTS who declined 10 shave the
enormous boards or TO cut the long hair
tnat until then had been fashionable in
Russia, says the New York Tribune. EN-
peror William who much resembles this
/ russian monarch, in his leanings toward
! a despotism which he intends TO be bene-
1 hcent, appears to take a diametricsiIy op-
poslte view with regard to the hirsute
/ adornments Of the people over whom he
rules, Tor German student OF the Uni
VerSity of Berlin has lust been punfshed
by the imperial authorities by fine of
I twenty marks-the alternative being seven
days imprisonment-for having had his
/ Ih ne 1 shaved. The student protested that
/ he mad decided to dispense with his hair
/ in order to facilitate the workings of his
/ brain. But the magistrates declined TO
consider this plea. declared that so grave
+ a deviation from a usual custom was cal
culated to disturb public peace, warned
! the barber VINO had done the shaving
( against a repetition of the offense, and
! prohibited the unfortunate student from
I appearing on any public thOrOughfare I'M
I less ne provided himself with a wig, or
( until his hair had grown
The million-postage-sta fable is by
/ no means the useless nonsense some .peo-
/ pie deem 1t, and the Edna Brown chain"
| can be utilized to good purpose, provid-
/ ed she IS not buried under this load of mail
/ deposit, says the New York Advertiser.
/ Some years ago a man Of ingenuity, if
| not OF taste set about collecting a million
postage stamps. He did not do so be-
cause there was any money in it, for he
/ knew such to be a fallacy. but it was done
/ in spirit of idleness and TO see what
mllnOn stamps would look like. at did not
take him long TO gather in the million, al
! many friends contributed to the scheme,
| ana then having proved how easy it was
TO collect" he devised a pretty way to
/ preserve the useless things. Having con-
/ siderable artistic ability he designed a
pattern for the decoration of a room, the
I panels, the tlafond or ceiling, and car
( rled 1t out in these cancelled stamps. The
foundation was heavy cartridge paper, and
the best gum arabic mucilage was used
/ to stick the stamps in place Not an inch
| of paper was left uncovered. And the tie
siSls We're so beautifully blended that
( when completed the effect was pronounced
unique by all who saw it. Until the exper-
iment has been tried, no one can imagine
/ how lovely the cOlOrs employed by for
I eign governments in their postage look en-
| snasse. This peculiar room decoration
was revelation at all events, and it
| completely robbed the million stamp
! business of its folly" from even a prac-
teal point of view.
1t is a well-known fact that the shrewd-
I est and most experienced publishers are
often mistaken about the commercial value
( Of manuscript submitted to them, saws
! the Chicago Record. Everybody knows
! that "Uuncle Toms Cabin was rejected
again and again before any one recog-
ntzed its merit, and yet it has had larger
/ sale and has been translated into more
| languages than any other story except
| Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress" Alice in
! Wonderland" was also kicked about for
| four years before it could find a pub
/ Usher, although its sales have been larger
| than any other book for children except
/ the melodies of Mother Goose" and We
| heard a story of a more recent publica-
ton, which affords equal consolation 10
authors who have rejected manuscripts
! While the copyright law was under con-
| sideration by congress, and it's fate was
| doubtful, an aspiring young author called
! upon the committee Of publishers who
came to Washington to promote its pass
| age, and informed them that he could con
| troll the votes of four five friends in
J the House of Representatives, which he
/ would bring to the support of that meas
! ure provided they would publish a book
| he had written and had offered to several
! of their trade without success. Votes were
| scarce and very necessary, but when the
| manuscript was examined by one after
! another of the publishers they promptly
| declined to take the risk, and as the biii
| approached the final stage, and was soon
| to be voted upon, they agreed to cast lots
| to determine who should buy the votes
| and stand the loss. One of the largest
| publishing houses in the world was the
| victim of fate, and received the condo
| lences Of its competitors. The votes We're
| were delivered by agreement and few
| months later the despised book was placed
| upon the market when, to the astonish-
ment of everybody familiar with the cir
| cumStances, it made an instantaneous
/ "hit" The first edition, which was small
| sold in a few weeks. The second was dis
| posed of before it left the press and now
the fifteenth edition is on the ia bles. OF. the
booksellers, the total having passed co.
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