The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
a curious custom prevails IN some
provinces Of Holland during the carnival
season. Young women OF The working
class. especially domestic servants. who
have no sweetheart OF their OWns are In
the habit OF hiring followers" -Cr their
sunday out. or for the whole OF the car
ulvaI period. These lovers are by no
means 70 De had very cheap often two or
three maids VIII club together and snare
a lover among them IL he comes TOO eX-
peIsive for one girl. This temporary low
er mas many duties 10 perform OF course
he must De gOod-lookiug and Weil-iressed,
ana an eIncient and inQetatlgable dancer,
mt 20 be seen with anywhere he must,
likewise possess good converse ti0nal
powers Besides receiving a variety Of
valuable presents from his girls he is
found by them in victuals and drink.
II a young woman can afford 10 engage
a swain all TO herself so much the bet
ter, for the hireling often develops into
a real lover, and ultimately into hus-
band II can thus be said that in some
districts Of Holland the girls do all the
w0oing.
At the recent Colonial Loan Exhibition
in New-Haven. Conn, says the New York
Tribune, were some interesting relics of
Washington and Lafayette Among them
was wooden Workbox which. while on
Vislt 10 some friends in Delaware, Ia
iayette carved with his own hands as
gift for the daughter Of Joseph Tatnal.
OF Wilmington. on the cover is inscribed
the motto, My Mistress doth possess both
Beauty and Virtue" An original miniature
OF Washington, painted from the life by
| }. Bammage, was loaned by Mr.. Stabler,
! OF Maryland. II was a gift from Washing
| ton 10 his wife, and has a lock CT his hair
under the glass at the back. An initial
is engraved on the glass.
y nh
/ lngton's was also shown, in which
| he expresses regret for some delay. and
! excuses himself by saying that he had
/ been called away to take command OF the
! continental Army. The exhibition was
| given by the Colonial Danes. and the pro-
| ceeds will be applied toward the found
/ ing OF genealogical corner in the IL
| brary Of the Historical Society of New
| Haven.
! A continuance has just been patented
| which enables a person in one apartment
to see everything that goes on in some
other room This knowledge is gained
| without any one else finding IL out. says
| the New York Journal This strange de-
| wee consists of a peculiar Arrangement
| or tubes and adjustible mirrors. and the
| result OF their use is astonishing. The
| closest watch can be kept upon a prisoner
| without his having any idea of the truth
| A merchant in his private Office can Sc
| cretly and thoroughly post himself re-
/ SdluluS the actions or MS employees when
they DO not think he can see them at all
| In tact, the things this invention will re-
| veal are without limit. II is scientific
| Application of the traditional all-seeing
| eye Another invention of a very similar
| character enables a person on the outside
| or building TO see everything going on
| in given room of the house. This de-
| vice consists mainly of tubes and would
De OF great value TO bank directors, who
| could see just what the cashier or
any of the clerks We're doing at any hour
| OF the day without having them dream
tnat they were being watched. Thus any
dishonesty on the part of an employe
could be detected before he had chance
10 get away with the funds. This con-
trlVance can also he arranged to go
| through the floor so that a person on one
story can see distinctly what is going on
! below stairs Some other inventor who
thinks IL desirable to know what is going
on around him has patented a cane and
| telescope combined. When used as a walk
ing stick it looks like any other, but if
the possessor wants to see something at
a distance, he detaches the handle and.
10. ne has a telescope which can be ad-
Justed TO any focus he likes by means of
tubes inside the cane He can also turn
| II into an opera glass If he goes to the
theater or if he desires TO see some pretty
girl on the next block. Another ingenious
person, who is evidently fond of hunting
and has on occasions lost the rest of the
party mas patented a riding whip and
telescope combined. This continuance
NOhAA ne must uStLul 10 SpOrtSmen. III
would enable them to see game that was
out OF their range of vision. 1t would
also make 1t practically impossible for a
man TO get lost, even if he were in totally
unfamiliar country.
In the present age or literary or polit-
ical, or even religious disputes are car
ried on in the columns of a daily news
paper, or if the dignity of the subject
demands II in the frowning pages of a
n~fn lxr ,ntaFrff.r Ill.
spectacle and proportiOnately dull saws
Temple Bar. Certainly it is far easier 10
strlhg together few more or less unin-
telhgible sentences on the chance Of their
passing safely between the Scylla of the
scissors ana the Charybdis of the waste
| paper basket than to conduct an old
fashioned controversy. 1t is also far
cheaper because formerly even if the dis
putant preferred writing 10 fight
| ing, he wrote and DubIished
more or less at his own ex
pense and risk-a system that had a good
| deal TO say for itself, as most editors will
agree. A seventeenth century faddist
would sit down and write on his favorite
subject, proving that he alone was abso-
Iutely rlght and that everybody else was
NATURALLY in the wrong, in perhaps sixty
TO 100 pages octave, and when he had come
10 an end he would survey the production
with pride and publish it as a pamphlet
II Is WIN pamphlets that we have now
10 zeal. II Is worth noting that the or
IGN OF the word is quite unknown. though
philologists have not been at a loss for
plausible suggestions, a necessity for
guessing being the philologist's raison
detre. Some have tried to trace it hack
to papyrus, some to paume feuillet: some
have looked upon it as a contraction of
par un tilet, derivation which is at least
descriptive of pages stitched together Inv
thread. Pamphila, first century wri-
ter, has also been held responsible for
TINS watf of a word and other theories
have been started, which, as nobody has
ever run them to the earth. are still dis
porting themselves in the pages of etvmo-
logical dictionaries. Curiouslv enough
there is almost as much latitude allowed
IN the definition of tbs word-common
objects are proverbially the hardest Ia
| detine-though when we are told thar a
pamphlet is ANY little book or small
volume, whether stitched or bound. whatb-
er good or bad, whether serious or In
dicrous. we at once see that the defni-
ton will not hold; that it is aItogefbar
too comprehensive. Would any one think
for instance, of calling Shelley's "Adon,
ais as originally issued, a pamnbIet
or Gray's 'Elegy," or Johnson's "Pas,
selas"? Yet these are Small volur1es ;,
little books" For my own part co.,
TESS a dislike to the word and a hesita