The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Dufour, who occupied wretched garrett
at house in the Rue de severes. Paris.
! was found dead in her bed in 1896 In a
bundle belonging TO her were found a de-
| post receipt for 10000 francs in the name
OF the deceased and government securities
! representing an annual income of 500
francs. 49,.
"A man named Gustave Marcelin. pro-
fessional beggar. was found dead in his
room in the Rue Puy GuilIaume. Avig-
non, in November 1892 A search led to
the discovery of French government bonds
ana various securities to the value of
$lOUOOO. He left paper requesting that
his savings might be divided equally be-
tween the city and the bureau de bienfais
ance.
Probably the smallest monarch frr the
world reigns over the Hindoo vassaI state
of Bhopal, and governs a people of more
than million souls. This dwarf is a wo-
man. DJihan-Begum by name but al
though she is about fifty years old, she
does not appear larger than a child of ten.
her dlminutive size does not prevent her,
however nom holding the reins of govern
ment with firm hand, and in her realm
| quiet and order are supreme.
The wealthiest living. professional beg
gar, Simon Oppasich, was in 1898 sentenced
TO seven years hard labor for perjury. He
was born without feet or arms, and his
| physical defects brought him exceptional
| sympathy and cash. In 1880, at the age
OF AZ, he had saved $50 600; and in 1888 he
had by speculation increased his fortune
| 10 $l25,OO0 in cash and some 100000 in
| Trieste and Parenzo real estate. Since
then he has quadrupled his wealth by
trading on the bourse. sss
The Louisville urier-JournalS saws
that B. f. Meek, the inventor and man
ufacturer of the celebrated Frankfort reel
stu works in his shop in Louisville,
| though more than so years of age The
| Frankfort reel is known to fishermen
| throughout the United States and in Eng,
land as, all things considered, the best
ever made. Mr. Meek and his brother
We're Watchmakers and were induced TO
attempt the construction of a reel by the
| urgent request of a friend who was an
enthusiastic angler. This was in 1885. Their
nrst reel was made an Frankfort, hence
It's name Many years later they removed
| 70 Louisville, where one of the brothers
died. and the other still works
| There has been an important wholesale
secession from the ranks of the vegetar-
ians says the London correspondent of the
| Western Morning News. The entire Do
| minican Order in England has received
| permission from Rome to eat flesh four
Gays week instead of perpetually alb
staining as heretofore. In cases of ill
health or specially hard work meat is to
| be allowed six days a week This import
ant decision has been arrived at after the
| closest medical and official scrutiny as
| TO the effects of perpetual abstinence from
| meat in variable climate like that of
England. The result is that vegetarian
ism has been declared incompatible with
good work.
The latest delicacy on the bill of fare
of the best hotels and club houses CT
Paris is kangaroo tail in Madeira sauce. ="
| The kangaroo tail is very muscular and
| f1eshy, and its meat is juicy and resembles
| in taste that of young veal. There are
deposits of fat, which give the meat a pc
| culiar, but very pleasant taste when it Is
| cooked or roasted in It's own Juice The
new dish, will be so much more popular
| as the cost is rather small. kangaroo
| tails weighing from to s pounds are sold
| at from so to rs cents. They are imported
in frozen condition from Australia, and
| the quantities recently shipped are quite
| surprising.
Ship canals have disappointing way
about them, as is illustrated by the his
tory of the Manchester ship canal to date.
| says the Baltimore Sun. Its total net rev.
| enue last year was SAG, 685 against the
net revenue of So, 545,0 900 estimated as prob
| able when the canal was completed five
years ago. The tonnage last year was
| 2,2S2,4 S5 tons, or nearly the 100000 tons
| estimated for in 1898, but the impracti-
| cability of collecting tollS--if people are
| to be induced to use the canal at all
| prevents the earnings from growing fast.
| The canal cost ST., 900 900, and would require
net earnings of $3,572, 425 to pay fixed
| charges and per cent dividends. The
| city of Manchester gets some return on
| it's investment of $25,000 900 in the shape
| of reduced freight rates and lower dock
| dues. 1'4
Says the Philadelphia Record: "An in
novation in funerals took place last Tues
day in Clifton Nights at the burial of a
| soldier when the body and its followers
were carried to the cemetery on trolley
| cars The deceased was Robert c.. Rus
sell of Company H. Sixth Regiment, who
! was a resident of Clifton and died in the
hospital at Lancaster. The interment
took place at Blues Church. on the Bal
timore pike, and being on a direct line
of the trolley they decided to do away
| with carriages and use cars instead. As
he was buried with military honors, the
car on which the body was placed was
| artstically draped with flags, accompan-
| led with the emblems of mourning. Fol
| lowing this were eight cars with relatives
| and friends. Every one has grown ac-
| customed to see trolley cars filled with
laughing, jolly crowd off for trolley
party but to utilize them for funerals is
something new"
European residents in Japan show
somewhat amusing anxiety in regard TO
the sufferings they must undergo if they
get into Jail after the new treaties go into
| effect, says the New York Times. A re-
cent memorial to the British government
| declares that this Is a most serious matter,
| likely to lead to veXatious complications
as soon as foreigners come under Japa-
nese law, and certain, if left unsettled,
| TO imperil the amicable relations subsst-
| ing between her majestys government
and that of his imperial Japanese majes-
| ty. The memorialists say that to imprison
British subjects under the conditions pre-
| vailing in Japanese jails, the cells of
| which are absolutely unwarmed in VIM
ter, and, in many cases, are mere barred
dens resembling nothing so much as those
| in which wild animals are kept with the
clothing insufficient, and the food such as
few, If any, foreigners can digest, will be