The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1t is a rule al the well-known banking
house Of Coutts & Co, London. that none
Of the bank clerks wear mustaches, it
has long been considered. a point etiquette
that all the gentlemen employed at the
bank should wear frOck coats during bust
ness hours.
Elena SAM, the Spanish contralto. who
sang for many years at the Paris grand
opera, died recently az Nice at the age
of IS years. Her retirement from the stage
was said at the time to have been due TO
the attachment that the late King Alfonso
XII of Spain showed for her
In a recent treatise on alcoholism by
Trull it is stated that in England Is per
cent. of all cases of pauperism are due
to drink, and in Germany 80 per cent In
Germany drink leads to !, 60O-cases of sui
eide year, and supplies the insane asy-
lums with 5000 victims
Cinderella is again, for the third year
in succession, the favorite subject for the
British pantomime constructor Out of 100
pantomimes this year there were twenty
"Clnderellas." 'Dick Wilmington" comes
second with seventeen. Edinburgh alone
provided an original subject in ''McWhap-
Manitoba is suffering from a girl
famine" Servants, apparently, cannot be
hired. The young woman who acts as
general servant in a private family can
easily command SIS a month at Winnipeg;
the parlOr maid, $18; the cook, $25, and the
laundress, SIS 90 800. A number of Scotch
lassies We're brought to the province last
spring, and already over so per cent of
them are married.
With view 10 ''popularizing the army
in the provinces" the British military au-
thorities have arranged for series of
annual autumn tournaments, to be held
alternately in Manchester, Birmingha
Leeds. Liverpool Glasgow and other large
towns. It would seem that even where
men below the standard are taken in there
is still difficulty in drumming up recruits.
Hence this splendid display of military
glory.
A Fort Scott boy with the Twentieth
Kansas Regiment writes home: "Aguinal-
do has sure got the natives here on his
list. So much ignorance is displayed on
tho islands that the Insurgents think you
cannot kill them. They say if you shoot
al Aguinaldo he just shakes his clothes
and the bullet falls out of his clothes. I
would like to get a crack at him at about
200 yards with old Betz. I'll bet that l
would soon end the war;
arrangements have been completed
whereby a band of forty Creek Indians
will be sent to Paris in 1900 to give ex-.
hibitions of the game of ''toli"-a sport
which combines the principles of golf and
shiny with the brutality of foot ball.
Only about twenty Indians are required
TO play the game, but, as about fifty ex-
hibitons are to be given, it will be neces-
sary to have a score of substitutes to take
the places of those who may be injured.
The most wonderful sight to the ma
tives of Santiago seems to be an American
girl so great is the contrast with the
senoritas of whom glimpses are caught
behind the window bars An American
girl laughs in public, converses and walks
with a gentleman on the street. wears red
or black robes, and even rides a bicycle
unattended Full feminine evening dress
in the American style is considered equally
remarkable in the old Cuban city, which
has changed so little in 400 years.
The subscription for a monument TO
Wagner in Berlin has been closed. having
reached the sum of about $4,000. and the
competition for the design has been open
ed. The site has not yet been decided
upon. The committee having the matter
In charge intend to get a popular vote on
the question from the people of the city
The competition for the List monument
in Weimar has been opened; only German
and Austrian sculptors are invited This
is to cost not TO exceed $1,000 and will
be erected in the fine park that surrounds
the List museum
A San Francisco dispatch of March L.
says: Elida Wilbur's long sleep, it seems
is about to come to an end, not through
the door that leads into the Eternal Valley
of the Shadow, but back to the scenes of
this world. The girl who for thirteen
months has lain in heavy stupor not I'M
like death is showing sings of conscious
ness and the doctors, who have given her
up over and over again, now believe she
will recover Miss Wilbur went into a
trance on the night of Feb. IT, 1893. She had
been engaged to James Dunphy for some
time, but differences prevented the mar
rage That night Dunphy and Miss VIII
bur quarrelled. The next morning she vvas
found in the strange sleep in which she has
been ever since. The gas was turned on
and people said it was case of suicide
that had barely failed Dunphy is the FIRST
to rejoice that the end of the mystery is
asked
that the first thought her awakening CON
scious brain shall receive is that he wants
her to be his wife.
The Aud LIGHT Church at Kirrjeniur
CThrums), Scotland. made famous bv 7
M. Barrie seems to have fallen upon evil
days. William C. Conn, the little minis
ter, has resigned because the older mem
bers of his congregation said he was "too
broad having preached in the pulpits
OF other denomina tions. Although the
presbytery acquitted him of all blame
Mr.. Conn could not be persuaded tn re-
main. There are, by the way. only TWEEN
ty-seven churches in Scotland ana two in
Ireland which are now included In the
synod of United Original Seceders." a
a fact which reminds the Philadelnhia
Press of the reply made by an Old Scot
when asked after the welfare of his
church: 'Weel," he said. I'VE ken I this
way; first, there were a hunnerd o. ms
Then there was a schism an tina left but
hfyt. An then there was a hersy trial
which took ava twenty-five Then a
deeSruDtiOD left GOlU NV hratoor ~,