The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-23


with them. There are business suits with
sack coats, suits Of cutaway coats ana
light trousers, and a Prince of Wales
looking figure wears a dress suit,all mark
ed at ridiculously low prices. Now. will
you believe il, you can hardly pass thai
corner, there is such crowd of men gaz-
inS with wonder an admiration at those
stylish-looking, but cheap suits. There
has been a crowd there for weeks l am
not sure but ii stays all night yet one
thing that l am certain of is that there
is a much larger crowd of men al his
place than there is of women at the shop
across the street. where there are the
loveliest French gowns in the window"
Her minds a garden where do grow
Sweet thoughts like posies in a row;
Her soul is as some lucent star,
That shines upon us from afar;
Her hearts an ocean, wide and deep,
Where swirling waves of passion sweep
Aye, deeper than the deepest sea,
And wide as Woman's mystery;
o man, the mariner, beware
Yet will l chance a shipWreck there
Robert Loveman, in the Cosmopolitan
On the day that Alexander the Great
was married no fewer than 20, POP persons
in one ceremony were made husbands and
wives, says the Chicago Times Herald
This seems impossible, but the event real
ly took place, as historical records tell us
This monster wedding occurred upon the
conquest of Alexander the Great of Persia
which was then ruled over by King OAR
ius.
Alexander married Statira, the daughter
of the conquered King, and deoreed that
100 of his chief officers should be united to
100 ladies from the noblest Persian and
Medean families. In addition TO this, he
stipulated that 10000 Of his Greek soldiers
should marry 10000 Asiastic women.
When everything was settled a vast pa
vilion was erected, the pillars of which
were sixty feet high. One hundred gor-
seous chambers adjoined this for the 100
noble bridegrooms, while for the remain.
ing 10000 an outer court was inclosed, out
side of which tables were spread for the
multitude. Each pair had seats, and
ranged themselves in a semi-circle round
the royal throne. Of course, the priests
could not marry this vast number of cou-
pies, so Alexander the Great devised a very
simple ceremony. He gave his hand to
Statira and kissed her-and example that
all the bridegrooms followed.
Thus ended the ceremony, and that vast
number were married. Then followed the
festival, which lasted five days. the grand
eur of which has never been equaled since.
The passion for fine Christian names
leads to the adoption of some very curious
cognomens, says an exchange A clergy
man was called TO chrsten an infant The
mother told him she wished TO call her ba-
by "Veda." My dear madam, remon-
strated the parsOn, that is the name of
the sacred book of the Hindus you might
as well cali you child The Koran. " "Oh!
well w raDEV lilo
is uncommon" and Veda it was.
In Virginia there lives family of six
daughters whose names have been con-
ferred, and originated, for the most part
by an eccentric father They were Virgin
ia, Vienna, Vetura, Velucia, Veronica, Yer
melia and Verbalina.
Comparatively few persons like their
own Christian names but in an instance
where a grown person chose her own name
1t certainly seems that any other person
might have chosen as well for her. Frances
M. Butler states that when at boarding
school she had a schoolmate who gave heI
name as Sissy"
The following Is a story of Bismarck
for which an aged Swedish lady is the au-
thority. Nearly sixty years ago, when q
girl, she went to Berlin, where she eX-
pected to meet a cousin, then studying
at the university there. The cousin appear
For several days he was a constant and
a charming companion.
1t was only when she was on the eve OF
departure that he made the explanation
you see, my dear cousin, l am not your
cousin. My friend, your cousin, is so very
| busy preparing for an examination thai
he has asked me to take his place. My
name is Otto Won Bismarck" In 1886, wher
| the lady made her next visit to Berlin, she
| called on the chancellor, who remarked
81 have to thank you that l once succeed
ed an seeing the Berlin museums. l have
never seen them again"
One mouse is generally enough to STAN
pede an assemblaEe OF women, and the
| commotion attendant upon the appearance
| of two or three rodents is of course, in
| creased in proportion, says the Chicago
! Chronicle. 1t does not matter that the mice
| may be young, as was shown in stree
car during one of the recent cool after.
moons. One of the passengers was an ell
! derly woman who wore an old-fashioneC
| fur cape with an immense bearskin collar
| Evidently the cape had just been taker
| from a chest containing moth balls, for the
| odor of these preventives was powerful
| The car was crowded, principally by wo-
| men, so the elderly passenger was com
| PEELED to stand, and the ear jolted OF
| swung around a corner she swayed hang
! ing to the strap, sprnkling the glistenine
! particles of insect destroyer on an who
| were near. At length the car gave par
| tcularly bad lurch and sonnet hing fel
| from the cape into the lap of lady neal
! by. This something proved upon close In
| spection to be a tiny mouse. Following
| closely came several more, distributed
with remarkable fairness on the nearby
! passengers 1t didn't take over a half
! minute for every woman in that car C
! grab her skirts and get on the seats, tn,
| overflow taking refuge on the platforms
| Their screams attracted the conductor who
came inland threw the little mice out or
/ the street. Meanwhile the innocent cause
! of all this trouble calmly unfastened hel
cane and shook out the remains of a nest
which had been snugly built by some
motherly mouse in the long fur The own
er of The cape then seated herself as calm
| Nv as you please and the other women fin
ally subsidized.
Edward, dear" cooed Mrs. Barkham
according to Judge, the other evening al
dinner, Il am very much afraid thai
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