The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Just competed a journey mainly on morse
back around Asia, having ridden 1855
miles in two years and a half. He visited
IN turn Siberia, Mongolia, China, Tong
king, Anam. COchin-China, CambOdia, ST.
am, Burmah. Assam, India, Kashmir.
returning to Russia by the Caucasus. He
was wounded four times by savage peO-
PIE, nearly died from thirst in the desert
rode elephants. oxen and yaks. He visit
ed Buddhist monasterfes in India and as
serts that he discovered the secrets Of
the fakirs.
Perhaps the most remarkable feat OF
building-moving was that successfully ac-
complished in Chicago recently, when a
large stone church. with massive square
tower, was lacked up from its founda-
uOns and moved a distance of fifty feet
TO another lot. The church was moved
in order to admit light into the rooms of a
big hotel in Michigan avenue, at the
corner of TWenty-third street. The no.
tel directly adjoined the Emmanuel Bap-
fist church, and new owners of the no.
tel figured that the rooms next the church
would be worth vastly more if they had
more light. They paid for. the. entire
cost of moving the church, bought new
land for it to stand on, and also bought
the lot from which IL was moved. The
moving was done with entire safety ana
success
The average English newspaper man
does not know much about the United
Dul MS knowledge Is elcyclODde1ic
compared with that of his French BROTH
er, says the Boston Transcript The Lii
bre Parole, a Paris paper, remarks that
Spain repulsed Bismarck, and certainly
will not retreat before Sherman, the
brother of the slayer of the Colorado
Indians" The staying of the Colorado
Indians is not mentioned by history as
among the exploits OF the late Gen.
Sherman. In fact, Gen. Sherman laid no
claim to being an Indiau slayer. He once
said that if the army killed half as
L ..rs- IL
there would not be enough of them to
go round The Paris editors thrust at
Gen. Sherman is almost equal to Victor
Hugo's hatred of Gen. Grant as the exc
cutioner of John Brown"
The sharks drove a hump-baeked
whale into the nets set by w. d. Gori of
Capitola recently, after giving him a
merry chase for his life, says the San
Francisco Examiner. When they got the
whale tied up, they left him and went off
to seek other prey. GOri came down to
his nets in the morning. and found. In
stead of the bass for which he had set
his nets, the whale, for which he had no
particular use. 1t was a question of saw
ing his nets. He and his men found the
hump-back a tough fellow to deal with,
and finally had to resort to dynamite,
which was driven into him with a pointed
gas pipe. The huge fish, which was over
forty feet long, dropped Immediately to
the bottom of the bay as soon the the ex-
plosion occurred, carrying the net with
him. The seine was worth about 500, and
the oil to be secured will not cover half
the cost.
The Villa de Medici, which the French
nation has owned for many years in the
Eternal City, is a beautiful building,
standing in the middle of a garden filled
with statuary and fine old trees, COM
manding a view of the famous old city.
and fitted up with superb furniture, ta-
peStrieS and pictures, the remains of the
former greatness of the powerful Medici
mil anf
young Frenchmen-a painter, a sculptor
and an architect and a carver of precious
stones These lads are chosen by a COM
petition held at the School of Fine Arts
in Paris each spring. The examinations
are very searching, and the successful
candidates are greatly envied, for, having
won their honors, they are housed, fed
and provided with a studio and an ample
sum of money to pay their expenses for
four years-all by the French govern
ment.
Probably the oldest time-piece in the
country is the clock which compacently
nights in the building of the Philadelphia
Library Company at Juniper and Locust
streets, Philadelphia, unquestionably first
and foremost in it's collection of histori-
cal relics. How many of the daily visitors
to the Philadelphia library stop to read
the legend on the card which informs
them that this clock was made for and
belonged to Oliver Cromyell, the pro-
tector, or think of examining the two
other timepieceS which occupy spaces
in the reading room of the library? Yet
the Cromwell clock has been part of the
furniture of the Philadelphia library since
it was presented to the company in 1888
The remarkable feature of this piece of
mechanism is that although fully 14O years
of age, it still keeps perfect regularity
1t is one of those old-fashioned time
pieces which stand on the floor, with its
face about half foot above the head OF
a man of average hight. The face is
plain, polished brass, with a steel circle
containing the hours in Roman figures
The minute hand is ornamented by a
sort of scroll work There is really moth
ing particularly remarkable about its
workmanship or its general appearance
Its style is familiar to everyone as thar
of the grandfather clock of ancient date
Its mechanism is simple in the extreme
there being but a few brass wheels a
weight suspended by a piece of Irvine
ana pendulum; In very fine script let
Ters at the bottom Of the. face is the
VINO constructed the timepiece
New York sculptors, says the World
of that city, are now busily engaged in
modelling the hands of women of society
either in plaster, papier-mache, bronze or
marble, according to the expense desired
They give these objects of art aWav 10
their friends, who use them as paneT.
weights, 1t is said. The left hand is chos-
en- as usually the more perfectly formed
however, what nature lacks, art supplies
ana beautiful hands in marble are the
rule, rather than the exception. The hand
is always gracefully posed, and the turn
OF the wrist is visible. 1t is sometimes
reproduced life-size, but slight reduction
is in better taste, and half the size of
the original model is considered hest The
fad is not confined to women who possess
beautiful hands. The chisel is brought
into play and unsymmetrical hands and
fingers that do not taper succumb readily
to the sculptor's skillful work The re-
suit is beautiful hands for all. Invariably
the good points in the model are ac-
centuated and the defects conveniently
overlooked. The clasped hands of Eliza
beth Cady Stanton, the pioneer of 'swo-
mans rights and her co-worker Susan
b. Anthony, have been perpetuated in
marble. At the suggestion of Lille Dew
ereaux Blake and other moving spirits in
woman suffrage ranks, the souvenir was
modelled to denote the common interest
and loyalty to their cause which mark
the friendship of these two women. Calve
has recently INDUCED in the modelling
habit, and her plump hand in fac-simile
IS the proud possession of a few intimate
friends. Yvette Guilbert, who left moth
ing undone which would attract atten-
ton to herself, also added her name to
the sculptors list. The late Mrs. Paran
Stevens was noted for her beautiful hand,
She was among the first women of New
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