The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

yeomanry. and most of the positions ara
| honorary.
At a performance of Faust" in Cork,
Ireland the gentleman who enacted the
part of Mephistopheles was so stout that
the trap-door was too small to permit his
descent to the Internal regions, and all
of his person above the waist was still Wis
ible over the stage. One of the gallery
gods noticing his dilemma, exclaimed:
! "Begorra, the place is full"'
Too many fashionable patrons of a
squalld laundry in West Thirty-seventh
street, New York, attracted the attention
of the police. And so it came to pass that
Hop Wah, .angud, mild-mannered ORR
entail, was held for examination on the
charge of running an opium den 1t was
the strange smallness of the bundles taken
to Wah's laundry that first attracted the
suspicion of the police. Women elegantly
attred came in their carriages, and men
accompanied by their Wallets were fire.
quent callers.
Mrs. DUDE, a native Zulu woman who
was educated in an American mission
school at Natal, says that on coming to
this country the strangest thing to her
was the quantities of clothes that the
women here have. They seem to be al
ways buying new clothes or having them
made in new styles. "Now in Zululand,"
she says, "those of us who wear clothes
wear them until they are old. American
women demand much attention. You want
the men to wait on you so much. In
Africa it's different, 1 tell you; the wo-
men wait on the men there. Not but
what 1 guess I like the change little"
she admitted, meditatively, "but you go
to the other extreme here. When you
| il feel
so much; that is because you have been
petted until you do not know how to be
strong"
"A club is about to be formed in Phila-
delphia, according to the Record of that
city, which will permit its members to
smoke pipes only. Every week a meet
! ing will be held, and new brands of tobac-
CO viii be discussed, and the merits of
| this or that mixture will be considered.
| Those who have taken the matter in hand
| declare that in less than a year the club
room will be fitted up with pipes from
every quarter Of the globe, and the rooms
will not only be cOsey comfort but will
| be of great historical value. Several IF
! the proposed members have collections of
! pipes in their possession at present which
will form the nucleus of the new clubs
| collection. The person who at the end of
| the first month submits the most readable
and valuable essay on pipe-smoking and
tobacco will be chosen president. This
competition will be open to all.
The United States government shaves
its senator's; likewise it cuts their hair
| and trims their whiskers, says the Wash
! ington correspondence of the New York
! World. Three negroes, one drawing $1,000
! per annuIn and the others receiving Ss40
| apiece, are paid 10 keep our senators well
! groomed as to their heads. No one has
ever been able to tell precisely why the
| government looks after the personal APP
pearance of its senators. As the dsburs
| ing officers of the Senate said to-day, this
is the custom which has prevailed from
| time immemorial. 1t is assumed that the
| custom is adhered to because there is
/ precedent for it, and the Senate is welded
| to precedents. If Clay, Webster and Cal
| houn had worn their hats in the Senate
| il is safe to assume that the Senators of
| this day would have followed their lead
| The Senate barber shop is on the ground
floor of the building and IS handsomely
| fitted up. Each senator has a certain
! hour for being shaved, and the barber
| never has 20 strain his vocal cords by
| calling "NeXtr' over on the House side
things are different. Representatives pay
! for their accommodations, and as a Sc
| quel the half-dozen BARRIERS, who have
/
a century, are all freeho,ders.
-Adelina Patti and sibyI sanderson are
the two richest prima donnas of the time,
says the New York Sun Nine. PATHS
| fortune came from a long and active ca
| reer, which has scarcely yet terminated,
| as her concert appearances from time to
| time in London are highly successful. An
| attempt was made not long ago TO per-
! suade her to come next year to this coun-
| try but she was unwilling to take the
| journey. Miss Sanderson Win inherit her
| money through the death of her husband
! Antonio Terry. BY the terms of his sep
| arauon from his first wife, Mr.. Terrys
| daughter is to live with her grandmother.
although the father and mother were both
to see her at certain times. She is the
| only person to share with the second Mrs.
| Terry the large estate he left The first
! Mrs. Terry was a woman of wealth, and
| left fortune to her daughter. Miss San
! derson has almost recovered from the
| stroke of paralysis from which she suffer-
| ed soon after her marriage. She is said
! 10 be quite as beautiful as ever, and there
! are no traces of her Illness to be observed
| beyond a slight difficulty in walking It
| is thought this will soon disappear Nine
! Patti has recently confessed to Sc years.
| and is at least that old. Miss Sanderson
| is still quite young. She has been before
| the puDHc IOF some Llne, although she Is
| only now in the early sos. Probably
| Miss Sanderson will be found to be the
| richer of the two when her husbands es-
| tate is settled. Her retirement from the
| stage at the time of her marriage was
evidently permanent. She has sung once
| or twice at private concerts, but kept to
her intention never to appear again pro-
| fessionally.
"A brochure, by Mary Foote Hender-
| son, the gifted wife of ex-Seiiator ]. B.
| Henderson of Missouri. on a proposed new
| White House, TO be located on Meridian
| Hill, has been distributed at the capitol
! II presents a half-tone of the proposed
| structure, the entrance combining certain
| features of that of the capitol on the west
side and the entrance of the new library
| of Congress. The style of the White
! House, as designed, would be classic. or
| rather the American adaptation of the
! Roman classic as first evolved in the cap