The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

In the condition OF sick persons during |
storm must have been noticed by many. |
The significance of this is pointed out by |
DR.. T W. BurwOOd, who, on the uneX- |
pected death Of an aged patient after only |
q few hours of unfaVCrable symptoms, had
his attention called 10 the fact that a
strong gale had been raging during the
night. with a fall OF barometric pressure |
OF nearly TWO inches. DR.. Burwood reflects
that the barOmeter's extreme range of |
fully Two inches must mark a change
of about 40 pounds per square foot in the |
weight Of air resting on the earths sur !
face. He therefore asserts that large part |
OF the sudden deaths recorded in The NOM !
ing papers VIII lie found to have followed |
rapid fail of barometer pressure and !
that this viii explain many unlooke1-for |
fatalities that have puzzled even medical |
men.
Queen Natalie, the divorced wife of
King Milan of Servia, has departed from
Florence says the Courts of Europe, but
she has left no end of a futter in the |
snobbish circles of swelldom. The chief |
topic of conversation for the moment is |
whether or not Miss Fairchild a rudy |
Boston beauty, who had the misfortune
10 be favorably looked upon by her royal
highness during her stay there, is for |
saking all true American traditions by
accepting the post of lady-n- waiting to
the Queen. Miss Fairchild has made the
sensation of the season in Florentine villa |
society by her brilliant wit, her lurid sort
of beauty and the wonderful agility ana
grace Of movement which the enVious
suspect may be traced to a certain teach
er of Delsarte who had such a rage in
Boston years ago. At all events, there is
a collection of photographs taken by a
rich dilettante representing some strange
and graceful attitudes struck by a figure
clad in the regulation raiment OF long
folds and graceful angles which bring
Vividly TO mind American physical culture
calisthenics. More than her wit or her
beauty this serpentine gliding movement,
air of buoyancy and premeditated grace
OF movement has fascinated Florence, and
1t IS quite to be expected that the jealous
ones should say that il is no great honor
to the lady-in-waiting to a countless
Queen.
Princess Eulalia of Spain writes the
Duchesse de Behmere, has always got
good deal of pleasure oit of life, and as
she grows older seems SUN more deter
mined to have a good time Not content
with the receptions, dinners, excursions
and all kinds of amusements planned in
her honor by her friends among the
French aristocracy at Paris, she has now
actually taken to The automobile and pre-
fers a spin on her machine to any other
paSt4me. The automobile was a present
1t has been said, from the Comte de Dion,
| the proprietor of the largest automobile
plant in France, but this was denied with
some aSperity by the in innate friends
of the infanta, who took umbrage a the
report Euialia herself has certainly been
seen riding with the Count in the Bots
and no one would have thought twice on
the subject il the Nicomtesse de Jauzes
and Nine. Leon Y Cavallo had not ap-
| peared so anxious not to allow the world
! think FlllaIi9 had fakpD a
| 1t is said that on the day of the royal
| lists row on the Auteuil race course the
| infanta had gone thitner In an automo-
| bile together with an Older lady both
! being guests Of the Count who drove
! the machine. After Count Dion had been
| arrested he made several Intellectual at
| tempts to communicate with his guests,
| who, suspectng what had happened, pre-
! pared to go back to Paris through the
! Bots by themselves. Tie muscular Eula-
| liza knew all about the automobile and
| steered it safely through the swarming
| mass of vehicles in the Avenue des Aca-
| cias and the Champs Eysees, finally land
! ing safe and sound at the hotel where
| she is staying.
| There is a curiously complex situation
at Racine, Wis, over the ownership of a
silver dollar of the coinage date of 1894.
| says the New York Post. 1t is said that
| only four of these dollars ever left the
mint, and they are consequently very val
| liable The dollar in question was given
| several months ago by woman whose
| name, if known is kept secret to Ladislar
| Altman, clerk in the dry goods store of
l.. T. Hartnett, in payment for goods
! bought. The woman did not know that
the dollar was worth more than its face
| value; in fact, she had hesitated about
| using it ali for fear that it was not gen
| uine The clerk without knowing now
Isafsr sin
| piece and put it into his pocket handing
| over to the cashier a dollar of his own.
| For several months thereafter he carried
| the 1894 dollar about as a pocketpiece One
day he showed it to a friend At a bank and
| was informed that it was worth not less
than $500 In order to verify this estimate
he sent it to a COin-buyer in Chicago, who
promptly offerd 81 500 for it. The clerk
| still did not sell, having heard that a sim
liar coin had sold for a still larger sum in
| New York. But, though he did not sell
| he talked, and the story reached the ears
of Mr.. Hartnett. his employer. Mr.. Hart
nett promptly claimed that the dollar eth
| er belonged to the funds of the store. or 10
the woman who had rendered it without
knowing its value. He demanded that 1t
| be returned and held for the woman If
| she could not be found he claimed that
| the coin belonged to him. The clerk claims
that he was justified in substituting his
/
calls attention to the fact that had the
coin proved a bad one, he would have been
held responsible. Both sides have en-
ployed attorneys and a lawsuit seems in
| evitable.
-Tattooing is just now the popular pas
time of the leisured world of Europe. One
Of the best-known men in high European
circles, the Grand Duke Alexis of Rus
STA, is most deliberately tattooed. Prince
and Princess Waldemar of Denmark
| Queen olga OF Greece, King Oscar of
Sweden, the Duke of York, the Grand
| Duke Constantine, Lady Randolph Church.
i'll, with many others of royal and distin-
guished rank, have submitted themselves
TO the tickling, but painless and albeit
pleasant sensation afforded by the i'm
proved tattooing needle, which is now,
adays worked on a simple plan, aided by
the galvanic current, the genius of the ar
fist supplying the rest of the operation
The present fancy for being tattooed main