The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


steps to secure the destruction at Geneva,
In the presence of the Austro-HungarIan
envoy and his consular officials, of the
weapon with which the empress was as
sassinated, as well as the surgical instru-
ments used by the Swiss physicians in
making the postmortem examina ton has
acted In accordance with a custom that has
prevailed for the past fifty years-a custom
based partly on superstition, partly on
desire to prevent articles of this kind from
falling into the hands of dealers in curios.
"A curious meeting has occurred in Wi
chita, Kan, where Edward Larimer. flag
signalman of the Indiana, and sergt. Nc
Gee of the volunteer army greeted each
other. Both men were in drug store
where some relics of the Spanish-American
war were on exhibition and in the general
talk 1t developed that Larimer and MCGEE
wig-wagged TO each other at Santiago har-
Dor, MCGEE telling the squadron where the
guns were in MORO Castle. Neither man
had before known the other in spite of
the fact that the home of each was in Wi
chta.
The Burmese" says writer in the
Pail Mall Magazine, will sacrifice any
prospect of money making to go to a feast.
These are called pives, and often the enter
tainment is elaborate. l remember going
deal of dancing; that would have been
undignified. The dancers were paid, and
they tWirIed lazily or jumped .excitedly as
occasion required. Most of the time how
ever, was spent in chatter and smoking
Smoking is the only thing at which the
Burmese are industrious. They start smok-
ing at the early age of three, and they
smoke themselves into the next world
Girls smoke quite as arduously as the
men, and as the cigars are big, many
pretty mouth is strained TO accommodate
a giant cheroot."
The discovery in New York that the
ashes of Anton Seidl were still upon an
office shelf, duly docketed but save for
the casual buster of a conscientious char
woman, quite unclaimed and homeless, has
awakened considerable cutlery among the
legion of admirers of the dead conductor
Several musical organizations came for
ward to offer their buildings but this
Nine. Seidl would not permit. She very
wisely objects to her husbands dust fig
uring as bric-a-brac. Yet into her own
house she win not allow it to come. 1t is
all reminiscent of the man who swallowed
the fshbone in the Arabian Nights" In
dispensable as Anton Seidl was to the
spread of the Wagnerian gospel it seems
as if his ashes must remain for a long
time where they are, until those who
We're so loud in praise of him choose to
give a more substantial proof of admra-
ton by erecting a fitting monument to his
memory.
One of the big frontier six~shooters
used by the Rough Riders at the charge
of San Juan hill attracts a good deal Of
attention in the window of an uptown
store, says the New Orleans Times-Demo-
Graf. 1t is a type of weapon almost pecu-
liar to the West-single action, 45-caliber
with a barrel eight inches long and a
wooden handle. The real cowboy and vet
eran miner will carry nothing else. Both
despise a double action or self-cocking
pistol, and in the Cow country" 1t is a
conlTnon thing for ranchmen to take out
the triggers of their six-shooters and fire
them my manipulating the hammer with
the thumb To see al expert do this is
to witness a pretty piece of juggling. An
other oddly of frontier revolver etiquette
is in the way the weapon is carried. Many
cowboys sling it in a holster on the right
hip with the handle pointing outward. 1t
is drawn with a curious circular sweep
and comes up cooked and ready for busl-
ness. More than one ''tenderfoot" has
bored a hole through himself in attempt
ing to acquire this particular bit of leger-
demain.
-Flotsam and jetsam of past history oc-
casionally drift into London auction
rooms, as witness the sale in Covent Car
den by J. C. Stevens, of a set of gibbet
irons, says the London Telegraph. This
remnant of bygone age hailed originally
from Boston Gaol Lincolnshire, and bears
signs of having been freely employed be-
fore 1t FIRST passed into the hands of the
curiosity collectors. One leg of the iron
framework has disappeared, but It's COM
panion is intact, and otherwise the instru-
ment is complete, even to the aperture
above the headgear through which the
suspending chain was introduced. 1t was
the fashion as late as the year 1884 TO in
close the bodies of atrocious criminals in
these iron cages, and to display them, not
merely for the warning of the evil-minded
but as affording a comfortable sight to the
relations and friends of the deceased. At
this distance of time the instrument APP
pears 10 have lost a good deal of it's at
tractiveness, for it was knocked down for
the modest sum of four and a half guineas.
headsmans block, also employed at
Boston Gaol in days past, was old for
seven shillings.
This morning was an all-through au-
tumn morning, says the Hartford Times
of Sept. Is. The strong northwest wind
made 9ight fall overcoats comfortable The
season comes on apace. The summer birds
have flown, and in rural fields one no long
er sees the bold King-bird breasting the
summer south-wind, or the swallows skim
ming over the freshly-mown grass fields
or the big ponds; they are supposed to
have started on their long journey south
ward where in the tropics they win find
an abundance of aerial insect life such
as has now mostly disappeared in Con-
necticut. A writer in the New York Tri-
bune says the bobolinks fly en- masse, after
leaving the Carolina rice fields, over Flor
ida and the sea to Cuba, and thence fur
Their southwark oversee to Jamaica, where,
after a general rest and rehabilitation, they
set forth over much wider sea 10 the
shores of Brazil. This seems somewhat
questionable-as does the Tribune's other
statement, that bobolinks have in late
years found their way westward into the
Mississippi valley, and that in their south
ward migration these western bobolnks
first come back eastward to Connecticut
and thence move on South. in company
with the merry madcaps of our New Eng
land grass-ields. But it may all possibly
be true. 1t requires a great deal of care
ful watching of birds and their habits, to
establish such alleged facts.