The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


sengers with season tickets without nd
veriisements. The Western Railroad had
increased the number of advertisements
Until a season ticket was as thick as
pocketbook, and commuters refused 10
carry them.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat says:
Twenty carloads of Missouri eggs have
been sold 10 go 10 Cuba, and are now in
cold storage awaiting shipment. A COM
pany which shipped last year twentyfour
carloads of chickens in one loJ from Mis-
souri, and Illinois to Manchester, England.
is now filling an order for forty carloads
10 be sent in one shipment 10 the same
destination this fall. The forty cars will
be filed with what are known in the rapid
ly developing industry as 'bToilers' and
'roasters.' While these sample export or
ders are being filled Missouri eggs by the
ton are being frozen TO furnish the Klon-
dixie with delicacies. Twice i'm six years
the pioneers in the poultry and eggs buy
ing and shipping business have seen it
double in Missouri. To-day that indus
try stands upon basis and is conducted
with an elaboration of methods which the
world at large little appreciates"
One Of the greattst novelties at the
Parts Exposition, says the Boston Her
aid, viii be the giant SWING that
will be erected in the Champs Elysee
near the Eiffel Tower. Besides it the tow
er will receive quite setback, for the sup
ports of the great swing VIII overtop il by
nearly two hundred feet. their exact hight
being 1,176 feet The structural work VIII
an be of iron, riveied together to insure
the greatest strength. There win be no
element of danger whatever in the huge
skeleton. The tops of the two supports
will be bolted together. From them huge
pendulums viii hang, each supporting a
car. These will swing az a hight of 400
feet from the ground from a point nearly
500 feet away from one side of the huge
supports to point equally distant be
yond the supports. In other words, the
total distance covered in the swinging will
be nearly a quarter of mile. The cars
derive their speed from huge motors be-
meath the structure, and are stopped at
intervals of three minutes to permit load
ing and unloading. Each car will carry
forty people.
Cheaper railway fares are now con-
spicuous feature in Russian railway policy,
says Engineering. There are now open
to traffic in that empire $3.50 miles of
railway, and no less than 7.400 miles are
either under construction or decided upon,
about one-half Of the latter being state
railways. In 1886 the total number of pas
sergers carried amounted TO 81, SS5, 900, and
this figure had risen to 655, 100000 in 1895,
owing to the introduction of the zone sys-
TEN of fares. Under this tariff the third
c.ass fare for $50 versts, or 100 miles, is
nearly x cent per mile, and from between
100 and 200 miles il is 1-3 cent per mile.
and from 200 miles upward the rate is per
zone, according TO sliding scale, apply
ing both to fare and length of zone. After
200 miles the first eight zones are 1871
miles each, or % versts; the next seven
are % miles wide each; above 997 miles the
zones remain at SO miles each and the fare
is barely 10 cents per zone. Second-cass
fare costs about half much third
class. While these fares are extremely
low, especially for long distances. a fur
Their reduction is under consideration.
With regard to the twelve variations
in spelling the name of the great English
bard, Baconiana records that in the bond
given TO enable the poet to marry he is
called Shagspere In the bill of COM
plant of 1883 of John Shakspere, in con-
nection with the Whmecote property, his
son is alluded to as Shakespeare. The
father signs his cross in a deed to Rob-
ert Webb, in which he is described as
John ShaXpere, and his mother makes
her mark as Marye Shaksper. His father
is mentioned in the will of John Webbe,
1913, as John Schackspere. In 1907 he is
alluded to in the town records as Mr..
oIidhSp9ls anu WilGll tlSCttl IlSil Ddltills
in 1868, he is referred to as Mr.. John
Shakysper. The only letter eXtant ad-
dressed to Shakespeare was written Oct
% 1898, by Richard Quincy, his towns
man, and is addressed to Mr.. William
Shakespeare In 16O4-5 he is referred TO
in the court records as ShaXberd In 1908
the Corporation Court speaks of him as
ShaXpere. But when he petitioned the
Court of Chancery, in 1918, in respect to
tides, he described himself as William
Shakespeare, thus giving no less than
twelve variations.
The patriarchal age of 81 years, 10
which Sir James Bacon has attained, says
the Law Times, will recall to recollection
some well-known instances of longevity
in the cases of eminent members of the
bench and bar Sir Edward Coke who
died in his SD year. was Is when he sug-
gested, in 1923, the famous petition of right,
which he succeeded in carrying through
the House of Commons. The famous Sergt.
Sir John Maynard, in 1859. in his S9th year,
was selected to fill the post of first commits
sioner. of the great seal. Lord Lyndhurst
was born in 1772; he died in 1868. Lord
Brougham was born in 177S; he died in
1868. On the Irish bench. Right Hon.
James Fitzgerald, who filed the great post
of prince sergeant, an Office now abolish
ed, which had the precedence of the attor-
ney SeneldlSnlp, was upward OF ~ at MS
death, in 1890 Right Hon. Thomas Lee
troy, who was Lord Chief Justice of Ire
land from 1852 to 1866 was, ON his retire
ment from the bench in the latter year, 81
years old. Lord Norbury, an Irish chief
justice of the Common Pleas from 1900
till 1927, died in 1881 in his 92d year. The
first Lord Plunkett, an Irish Lord Chan
cellor lived to enter on his Goth year. and
the late Right Hon. Francis Blackburne
was in his seth year, when. in 1866, he was
appointed for the second time to the post
of Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
Continuing her adventurous records,
Among the Tibetans,' in the Leisure
Hour, Miss Isabella L. Bishop describes
the strange home life of these people
Family life" she says, presents some
curious features. In the disposal in mar
riage of a girl, her eldest brother has more
say than the parents. The eldest son
brings home the bride to his fathers house.