The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

~ VI t-TF AolLaElr the ecc6n-
trio son Of Lady Mary. is said 10 have pos
sessed more snu1 boxes than would suf-
nee a Chlnese idol with a hundred noses-a
S ion which perhaps. was never
SIualed unless by that Of King George ",
VINO was not less exrraVagant and re-
cnerche in snuff and snun boxes than il
other things.
Another OF Queen Victor5a's servants
recently passed away at the good old age
OF " He was her majesty's herdsman
az the nome farm, and ne could remem-
Der me alterations being made in the
cdslie IN the reign of-Geprge III. He had
worked Tor four sovereiens in success
ION, ana would tell with pleasure the
story OF how he saw the Blues leave the
WINDSOR barracks for Waterloo.
Joseph Straw of Seward, winnebago
county, Illinois, has been granted a pat
ent for AN OK or cow horn guard" It
consists Of chain fastened to the upper
up OF the animal, and running TO the
UP OF the horn, where il is attached
70 cap that slips over the point. 1t is
so arranged that when the animal as
sumes a position of belligerency the lip
IS drawn up and gives him something
else 10 mink about
Max O'RelF' relates that while he
was teaching in an English school a
lady wrote to the head master: Dear
Slr-lt is our Intention to place our boy
under your care. but before we do so
we should Ike to know what the social
standard of your school is" To which
me mead master replied: Dear Madam
so long as your boy behaves well and his
fees are paid regularly, no inquiry will
De made about his antecedents."
Some years ago, when the William
Waldorf Astors were living in New York,
Mrs. Aston gave a lunch party to a num-
per OF little girls, who were friends of
her own little daughter, then aged about
3. After the entertainment was over one
little fair-haired maiden was wishing the
hostess good-by, when Mrs Astor said:
=, nope you have had pleasant time,
dear" "Oh, yes" was the answer; only
the peas were not cooked enough"
The pastor of the Nazareth church of
Berlin, Germany. refused to confirm
class of children the other Sunday unless
tney removed their buttOnhole bouquets.
On nearing this some of the parents ex
horted their children not to obey the pas
Tor, while others went into Mysteries. In
the meanwhile the pastor read minatory
passage of Scripture, which increased the
excitement, and then he sent for the po-
ice Finally all We're confirmed but two
| recalcitrants, and everybody left the
church Keeling angry or unhappy.
The inhabitants of DENLY Dale, near
Hudderstield have begun to prepare for
the making of another of their famous
pies. II is to be held in commemoration
OF the repeal of the corn laws in 1916,
ana II has been decided TO hold the cell
ebration on Saturday, Aug. l. AT the
| the oven and pie-dish will be submitted
and, If approved, tenders will be invited
from the boiler makers for the DISH and
the work will be put in hand at once. 1t
is proposed to make the dish ten feet
long SIX feet six inches broad, and one
FOOT deep.
The board of health of New York city
has refused permission to sell horse meat
in that city for food. A dealer has made
| application to establish markets in the for
nf ri L. ,1oi Il
| mat the foreign population was accus-
TONED TO the meat in their native countries
and that he could furnish the choicest cuts
| az nVe cents a pound, roasting pieces at
| tnree cents per pound and soup and stew
| pieces at two cents per pound. The re-
/ fusal of the board is baseG on the report
| of a sanitary police officer who insnecfed
| the slaughter house and found that only
| horses in bad physical condition were kill
| ed there.
AT Ottaford, in Kent, there was form
erly palace of the archbishops of Can
terbury, says the Independent in which
| w olsey is said TO have held his court. 1t
was but small place, and is now a farm
| mouse. picturesque enough, but exhibit
ing no special signs of prosperity The
| other day however, this little incident hap
pened: The farmer sent for carpenter to
| do some odd jobs about the house. and
among other things TO mend the knocker
me man took II Off, and said after
close examination of it; DO you know
what this knocker Is made OFF, why
brass, L suppose" No, it is pure gold"
rich prize had hung at the mercy of
| every tramp.
"A telegram from Bologna announces
the death at the age of 81 of Count
Mattel, the inventor of system Of med
| lclne which was stated to be a deVel-
opment of homeopathy. and which,
though It was regarded as quackery by
| the medical profession. numbered among
| IT'S adherents many well-known persons
| His formulate have been left to his adopt
| ed son., Count Mario Venturoli Mattel
| Count Matte was born a Bologna in
! 1910, and was made a count by Pho Mono
in i47 in recognition of his loyalty to
| the holy see. After a brief experience
| OF Italian politics, he devoted himself
| to the study of therapeutics. Some ex-
traordinary cures Were reported, and in
1890 Lady Paget introduced the Mattel
remedies, which were said to derive their
| efficacy from 'veget table electricitl'' to
English readers in The National Review.
| In the following year w r. Stead de-
| voted several articles to them in The
| Review of Reviews, and a committee was
appointed to test Their value in the case
| of five cancer patients. Disputes arose
| between the Mattel doctors and the COM
| mittee, and the latter reported against
| the remedies.
CASTOR Deschamps describes Napoleon
III as follows: IAN uncertain silhouette.
disconcerting by its contrasting qualities,
| softly rebelious to all the summary judg-
] ltACAllo VI illStOIys llOl eQu4NdleHt dSSuFeulX
| to the legendary tyrants, with whom Off
| cial lyrism and the blind hatred of pam
| phleteers have compared him-shade of an
emperor who had not, the virtues of Julius
| Caesar nor the vices of Nero: popular
! chief, who disappeared in a formidable
tempest of unpopularity; vague apostle of
| humanitarian socialism and representative
| of an absolute authority which he re-
| nounced by force of sincerely liberal pre-
judice; friend of peace. condemned by fate
| to perpetual wars; idol of democracy and
| instrument of despotism for its old-fash-
| Toned partisans; a disquieting, dolorous
tragic parsonage, a prince. acclaimed as
! the savior of a republic and cursed as the
inconsistent stranger of a nation; INSTALL
! ed in power by a plebiscite and expelled
| from the throne by a revolutions doubt
! full heir of a conquering dynasty and
| chmerical liberator of oppressed peoples;
| general of an army for a long time Vlcto-
rious and signer of our worse capitula-
lions; arbiter of Europe before he was Eu-
| ropes plaything and laughihg-stock; an
| ambiguous troubled figure, before whom
| our perplexed conscience refuses to form
| a verdict"
Awarded