The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-02

ed, the damage being beyond repair. Opals,
known as the unluckiest stones, are so
sensitive that heir beauty is frequently
destroyed by their wearer's proximity 10
an open fire. The luster of this stone is
caused by the presence of myriads of lit
tie assures which defect the light into the
characteristic prismatic colors of the gem.
The tiniest of these assures is likely at
any moment to destroy the stone.
Pearls are subject to countless diseases.
A moderate heat is sufficient to trans
form them TO a heap of ashes, and if they
are accidentally brought into the proXim-
ity Of an acid they become irretrievably
ruined They are easily broken, and,
when frequently worn, soon lose their lus-
ter.
For a month";" says Miss Lillian Bell
writing of Paris-one of her bright letters
of travel-in the January Ladies' Home
Journal 81 have been in this city of linn
tied republicanism; this extraordinary ex-
ample of outward beauty and inward I'M
cleanness; this bewildering cosmopolis of
cheap luXuries and expensive necessities;
this curious city of contradictions where
you might eat your breakfast from the
Streets-they are so clean-but where you
must close your eyes to the spectacles of
the curbstones; this beautiful whited
sepulchre, where exists the unwritten law,
| Commit any offense you viii. provided
you submerge it in poetry and fowers;'
this exponent of outward Observances,
where a gentleman will deliberately push
you into the street if he wishes to pass
you in crowd, but where his action is
| condOned by his ineXpressible manner of
raising his hat TO you, and the heartfelt
sincerity of his apology; where one man
will run mile to restore a lost franc, but
if you ask him TO change a gold piece he
W
ished with the beauty, and the greenness,
/ and the smoothness and apparent ease of
| living of all its inhabitants; where your
mind is filled with the pictures, the mu-
sic, the art, the general atmosphere of
culture and wit; where the cooking is so
good but so elusive, and where the shops
are so bewltching that you have spent
your last dollar without thinking, and you
are obliged to cable for new letter OF
credit from home before you know it
this is Paris"
Judge Blank Orwell, let us say OF a
certain county seat of a certain county in
the great and growing state of Michigan,
after ten years of widowhood. had taken
to himself a wife. and, says the Detroit
Free Press. the lady was so meagerly pos
sessed of personal pulchrltude that the
! judges friends of the first degree took 1t
upon themselves to criticise him for mar
/ rying so homely woman.
81 don't see how he ever could have done
it," said one friend to the judges old
maid sister
That's what everybody seems to
think" admitted Miss b.
"Then what in the name of goodness
did he ever do it for?"
"Oh, well, there was mitigating circum-
stances" said the sister in a judicial tone
Mitigating circumstances? don't
know what you mean"
''Wen, she was worth q half million
dollars Wouldn't you say that was very
mitigatng?" and the friend was forced Ia
admit Il it was.
ut is the domestic service problem that
is driving so many people into hotels and
| apartment houses" said the woman look
| ing for cook to the New York Times.
| Il cannot get a girl who is willing 90 do
] what she is told. one will do this and an
other will do that, and you have to do