The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-30

satisfactory as far as ID went. but the wo-
man still looked dissatisfied. Then the lit
tie man threw 1t around her shoulders,
with an idea of making her still more COM
Portable, perhaps, but tfat did not suit
her and she shrugged away from him.
Then, as he had done all he could. be let
his head slip down on his chest and went
10 sleep, smiling amiably, while the wo-
man, sitting sidewise on the seat, with
his Overcoat around her, looked cross.
The selhshness of some women is be-
yond bearing" said one of the passengers
in the car. looking across at the little
| dried-up man without an overcoat and
the healthy. fuT-blooded woman beside
him who had taken it, But the man looked
absolutely happy and contented, and the
woman miserably unhappy and discomfort
ed, 1t could hardly be said that she was the
most TO be envied.
Queen Victoria expects to celebrate her
leightieth birthday at Windsor in May, be-
| ginning the day with a special service in
the mausoleum which contains the body of
the Prince Consort. A banquet is announc-
| ed TO be given that evening in st. Georges
| Han and 10 be followed by a Performance
/ of "Lohengrin" by the Covent Garden
! Opera Company. 1t is said that next month
! the Queen win give her loyal subjects the
| chance of seeing the rooms in Kensngton
| Palace. where she was born and spent her
! childhood These apartments have been
! furnished as nearly as possible as they
were al that time. Another royal birthday
which surpasses the Queens in point of
| figures was the eighty-hrst birthday of
King Christian of Denmark, celebrated a
few weeks ago.
Not long ago the Princess Charles of
Denmark. says the New York sun, was
waiting at a railway station TO receive a
| distinguished guest, when she saw a re-
porter, scrbbling industriously in q note
book. The Princess and the reporter caught
each others glance for moment. then the
| royal lady began to make an entry in her
own notebook. With glance toward the
! reporter, she tore out the leaf, dropped ii
on the platform and walked away. Of
course the excited journalist seed it.
! Opening it, he read: II wish l were a re-
porter" He Is still wondering
In Germany the continental custom pre-
| walls that wives should give their hus-
bands a wedding ring at the nupual ser
vice in return for the one they receive
from the man they have accepted. Mar
ried women being generally supersutious
as TO the removal of their own wedding
rings, it will surprise nobody to learn that
Teuton DANES are very touchy as regards
| the respect paid by their, spouses 10 the
token of bondage they have accepted, If
it be removed from the wedding finger
and carried about in The waistcoat pocket
OF purse. woe be 10 the husband should he
be unfortunate enough to be discovered.
A story comes from Berlin about q GER
tain poulterer of Messen, the loss Of whose
wedding ring utterly destroyed for a time
the domestic peace of his home. At last,
however, he was able to vindlcaie his
character. His wife was receiving money
at the till one day when female customer
walked in to the shop.
Have you lost your wedding ring?" she
asked the poulterer.
The eyes of the jealous wife were fixed
upon him. lie boldly replied in the af-
firmatve
Web" said the customer, with an artful
smile there it is. The wife glared Il
bought sausage here the other day, and
while 1 cut It up for supper my knife came
upon this ring l presume II fell from your
finger while you were making sausages."
At the earliest opportunity the poulterer
went to the jewelers. and had the ring
made size smaller.
Lady Curzon MARY Letter. is still the
subject of the rhapsodies of the Hindoo
scribbIers and orators According TO one
of the latest outbursts, the goddesses are
| hiding their diminished heads since Lady
Curzon's arrival. Also she has something
of the beauty-no, the Hindoo writer puts
it the other way; a diamond set in gold and
a full moon in clear autumnal sky have
something of the beauty which belongs to
Lady Curzon, though they are manifestly
inferior ITO see her is to respect and
revere her." concludes the gentleman
New York city spends annually, says the
Kansas City Star, about 100000 for cat
flowers and Towering plants. A single
rose grower sends in every season above
100000 buds. Many are American Beau
ties, with stems three 90 six feet long
which sell at 81 TO SO apiece wholesale.
one rose gardener in a New Jersey sa-
burb makes it a point never to sell a
flower of less than the first quality and
his flowers average little more than 81
apiece the year round.
First and last, New York requires over
5OOO0.OOO roses yearly. They are highest
at Christmas and Easter and lowest in
early June, when country gardens round
about are full of true June roses The
very cheap flowers with which street ven
ders tempt you are leftover stock of the
regular shops, or culls from the morning
wholesale market on West Twenty-eighth
street. 4r u,
Between 100000 and 2O0,OoO,OOO violets
come to New York between October and
June The blue Marie Louise, or Parma