The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


shone 90 hearts desire in floor and cell
ing even as Odin's house on the Ida field
shone to hearts desire with the light OF
spears and axes.
The little band of religious enthusiasts
who went recently from Missouri to Pales-
tine. expecting there to witness the second
coming of Christ, are in a bad way. The
pilgrimage was the result of a tract by
Mrs. Ida Dickinson, called THE City Of
the Great King" 1t convinced some ar
mers in Belham Township, Mo. and Others
in Michigan that if they went 10 Jerusa-
lem they could see Christ come again in
all His glory and that the faithful would
be caught up 10 Him" The pilgrims were
headed by Mrs. Dickinson and her hus-
band. They sold all their possess 'ons AMI
started for Palestine a little less than
year ago. A letter has just been received
, from them. The pilgrims are crowded in
TO one small house. They are pennilees
and i'll, but they are still hopeful that the
Lord will come and they are waiting.
Some Paris newsps pers lately started
The story hat a compromising letter from
Gen. De Ganiftt to the French prenteder
was included in the evidence Of an Orlean-
list plot in TIE hands of the high commits
sion. The French war minister puts an
end TO the story in a l5tler addressed to
the editor of LIE Figaro. Il admit that I
leans, and to avoid all misundersts nding I
insist on stating the exact facts. In the
month OF November or Dec mb5r of 1898
the Duke of Orleans did me the honor of
writing an invitation 10 me to hunt at
Wood-Nori on. I replied to the Duke of
Orleans that / was not rich enough 10
accept his very kind invitation. A few
days later, through my friend the Mar
quis du Lau, the Duke of Orleans made
me the offer to pay the expenses of the
trip. l replied, verbally this lime, that I
was not poor enough 10 accept his gra-
cious offer. Since that moment l have
written no letter whatever to the Duke of
Orleans
"A big shaft of granite will soon be
erected by the government of the UniteI
Staes at North Perry, Me. The purpose Of
the erection is to mark the geogr apni al
spot which is midway between the north
pole and the equator. On the stone is the
inscription: This stone marks latitude 45
degrees north, halfway from the equator
to the north pole" The shaft will rise
near North Perry's solitary church, and
will be the most curious sight in the vi
entity. The people of the village-5C0 in
all-are so taken by surprise that they
can discuss little else than the oddity of
the governments proceeding in so dis
tinguishing their settlement. The North
Perryans are not precisely men of science.
Most of their time is devoted TO working
| in lumber camps and guiding parties OF
| hunters, and perhaps not one of them has
| ever dreamed he has been living in a town
| built upon such a site On the day of the
! unwilling" North Perry will take a hol-
iday and celebrate their new honoTs with
a picnic.
Admiral Dewey's new Washington
home faces the south, or in the parlance
1 6f t.
surrounded by a pretty lawn. has plenty
| of light and air is furnished plea antly,
and has a big dining-room. These were the
| things the Admiral said he would like in
| The house in which he will spend the re-
mainder of his days. The ground plan is
| z feet wide and Y feet long, and the
apartments on the principal floor are so
| arranged that they can be thrown into
| one, giving a clear sweep from front to
| rear. The first floor has but three rooms
the parlor, finished in gold and white
| the library, finished in antique oak, and
| the dining-room in mahogany. The sleep
| ing apartments occupy the two upper
floors. In all there are seventeen rooms
| and four bathrooms. The walls are brick
| with stone trimmings and the architecture
| is simple, quiet and diginfed. West o.
| the AdmiraPs home is that Of David r.
Mckee. with lawn between, and Secre-
tary Roots home is near by. Dewey s
house was built twelve years ago by
James f. Fitch for his own USE
Frau Charlotte Emblem, sister OF
Heinrich Heine, who died Oct. IA in Ham
burg, would have entered her one nun
dredth year ON the 18th. Although some
what feeble. she retained to the last sight,
| hearing and memory in perfection. She
mad remained attached to the Jewish faith.
| The venerable lady was the sister to
| whom the poet referred in his letters SO
| u
| 1892 she married a Hamburg merchant,
Moritz Won Embden, to whom she bora
| four children. Heine was present at the
wedding and subsequently wrote an ac-
count of it to Moses Moser. The eldest
| son, Ludwig, was appointed in the poets
will custodian of his correspondence and
private papers. Frau Emblem was the
last of Heine's immediate family to visit
him on his deathbed, and 1t devolved on
her to carry his dying message 10 their
mother. She had for many years past
been the object of quite a Heine cultus,
and admirers of The poet from the ate
| Empress of Austria downward, made pill
grimages to her home. where many in
teresting Heine relics are preserved.
The Chicago Timcs-Herald says that
during The coming W inter- there will be an
army of 3500) men engaged in the remain
ing pine forests of Minnesota, Wisconsin
ket. The present supply of pine lumter is
insufficient to meet the demand, and it
wiz not be many years before consumers
will be obliged 10 go out of the country %
set any considerable quantities Of white
pine In 1892 the three white pine states
Minnesota, Michigan and Wis ousin-were
cutting at The rate of 7000O0),00O feet an
nually, which they had six years later re-
duced to 1.5O0 100000 fest. To-day the coun-
try is back on the basis of consumption
in 1899 and the basis of production in 1898,
and ID viii take some me to make up the
difference of 100000 COO. feet. The forests
of Michigan and Wisconsin are now so
nearly exhausted that they can never
make il up, and the entire burden will
rest on the Duluth and Minneapolis dis
trlcis in Minnesota. For the next ten
years these two districts can probably
produce as much pine as they are now
cutting At that time The end of TIE viii e
pine timber in the United S ates viii be in
sight.
An interesting discovery has recently