The morning news., 1898-12-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

At Instance from RlO de JanelfO OF
56 hours by rail new city has been built
up within few years. 1t has already
| 5000 houses and a large theater is being
| built. The name of the city is Bello Hori-
zonte, and it commands fine views of the
mountains.
Italian high schools have been open
for years to women as well as to men.
Every year a prize is offered to students
! in the teachers seminaries for an essay.
This year fifty women competed and only
five men. The women got the prize and
all the medals.
The last instance of boiling to death
took place in Persia in 1890 The offender,
who was guilty of stealing state revenues,
was put in a large cauldron of cold water,
which was slowly heated to the boiling
point His bones were distributed, as
warning, among the provincial tax COZ
ectors.
William E. Shipp and William H. Smith
studied together at West Point, graduated
at the same time, each rising to the rank
of first lieutenant. At the battle of San
Juan both were killed inside of fifteen min
utes and now bills to pension their widows
have been simultaneously introduced in
| ConGess
The remark is so frequently made that
"a man who refused to give his name was
knocked down by street car" or that "a
woman whose identity could not me learn
ed was run over by a grocer's wagon"
that the Springfield Homestead advises
people TO give their names cheerfuily and
avoid such penalty
-Truffies will soon be cultivated on SCI
entific principles and are likely to become
cheaper. NJ. Chatin, who discovered that
the truftie is mushroom, has announced
to the Academic des Sciencies at Paris
that the Due de Lesparre, brother of the
Due de Gramont, has found out how it
terminates and on what leaves its spores
Will become fruitful.
"A decided novelty in the way of news
| paper enterprise is announced from Lap
land. 1t is written upon a single sheet
| of paper and is published every Sunday
at a town with an unprOnouncable name.
| Up to the present the journal has only
half a dozen subscribers and every issue
is well filled with loud applause
old North Church. Boston, is falling
| into decay, and the vestry has made an
| appeal to the public to assist in its preser-
walton. Money is needed to paint the
| building and to repair the old steeple, from
which was hung the light which started
Paul Revere on his famous ride The
church was built in 1928 and is, therefore,
even older than the Old South Church
Along the Adriatic sea, swallows and
other migratory birds are caught every
year by the hundreds of thousands and
eaten by the Italians who spread nets.
IN winch as many as 300 to 500 of the tired
birds are caught at once. 1t is difficult
| 10 stop this wholesale murder. because
on sight of an official the hunters spies
give a shrill whistle and the nets disap-
| pear
The most talked-of woman in Paris at
the present moment is Nine. Jaque con-
sierge, or janitress, of great personal brav-
cry Within short time she has stop
| ped runaway horses in crowded streets.
saved young woman from being crushed
| under the wheels of an omnibus on the
boulevard des Italiens and pinioned until
1 the arrival of the police a man who wa,
| pursuing his wife with carving knife in
| his hand. Her courage has obtained for
her a silver medal from a humanitarian
| society.
The genesis of the war correspondent
is worthy of study, says the Philadelphia
Press The first of the species was Henry
Crabb Robinson, who, in 1903, represented
the London Times in Spain at the time
| OF the rising of the Spaniards against the
| French. He landed at Corunna .Julv 81
| I6O@ 1t Is interesting to observe his meth
! DDS as given in his diary date January
| 1909: The whole town (Corunna-the
| correspondent never left his place of land
| lhg) was in commotion-the English hur-
| rylhg away, at least those of them who
| We're not engaged in protecting the embar-
katlon of the others-the Spaniards look
ing on in sort of gloomy anger, neither
| aiding nor opposing them On going to
dine at the hotel 1 found the table d'bota
| hlied with English officers. After time
on looking round l saw that the room
was nearly empty, not a redcoat to he
| SEEN On inquiring of the walters. one
! said; Have you not heard? The French
! are come; they are ighting.' Having fin
| ished my dinner l walked out of the
| town We could hear fighting ar
distance. / walked with some
| acquaintances a mile or more out of town
and remained there till dark-long enougb
| TO know that the enemy was driven back
| for the firing evidently came from a great
er distance" And this is all of it. This
was the Battle of Corunna, and "The
Burial of Sir John Moore"
To remain young a woman must keen
her joints iimber,' remarked a fne-looking
specimen of womanhood in the car This
morning. 1 heard no more because the
seat sought was at the far end of the
car says a writer in an exchange. 1 pom
| dered the subject all the way to the office
and decided 10 give some simple exercise
TO Keep women young. Western newspa-
per woman whom l met this winter aid
that the morning bath kept a woman
young, and surely the two combined oueht
10 furnish the secret of perpetual yonrh
Ihese exercises are but four in nurnhe,
ana need not occupy more than ten min
utes. L nave said that the morning hath
need not occupy even thai amount of time
so II is ready very little which YOU give
Ior the blessed privilege of staving off the
effects of old age. Stand erect with hands
outstretched on level with the sbouldars
ana slowly raise yourself on your toes as
Iar as possible. Keep this position for a
moment only and then SLOWLY sink baol-
upon the entire foot Repeat this exercise
Tor twenty times or more and the,, cbaY,rr-