The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Berlin-a city with more waxworks ex-
hibits than any other-that in these places
the images of the late French President
Faure and the French flags surrounding
them have been draped in black. and that
the spectators as they pass by them give
respectful salute to the dead mans
memory.
-Canvasback duck were so numerous
in the early days in Maryland that en-
pioyers were obliged to enter into con-
tract with their laborers that the latter
should not be fed canvasback duck more
than three times a week. One man could
easily shoot 100 ducks in a single morning
in those days. Now the fowls cost S. a
pair. In London they are worth $25.
The Hardwicke manuscripts, among
which are papers that it is thought pru-
dent to withhold from publication for
many years 20 come, were offered for sale
at auction in London recently, but were
bought privately by the British Museum.
The Birmingham Post states that the price
paid was $4,000, and that the treasury
officials assured the museum authorities
that this sum would be added to the ordi-
nary appropriation for this museum.
A certified centenarian named Kohn
uASO ASNNuAiS III NlCAtlds dSGQ LIZ yGdI5
His age is attested by the public notary
and by the secretary of the Jewish COM
munity at Fraunkircken, in Hungary,
where he was born. He acted as guide
for the French staff on it's way TO the
River Raab in Napoleon Is time, He was
twice married and only twice i'll, once
when 100 years old and again when 1O9
He retained his sight, hearing and appe-
tite to the end, but was weak in the legs.
"A curious document has just been laid
before the Paris municipal council, says
the Paris Messenger. 1t consists of list
of the objects found to be missing on the
morrow of the ban given recently at the
Hotel de Vile by the councillors to their
electors and friends. Some 1900 guests were
invited and between them they made off
with six dozen silver spoons and CSC mis-
cellaneous articles, from plates to mus
tard pots from flower vases to napkins
removed from the buffet. Not few of the
dancers, too, took their champagn away
by the bottle in preference to consuming
it on the spot Otherwise the results are
considered satisfactory, the losses being
less this year than on previous occasions"
When a boy in Texas was called in
court as a witness and questioned as to
tell one lie l will be sent to the legis-
lature, and if l tell two of them they will
send me to Congress-" OF course, his COM
potency as a witness was Immediately Cd
jected to, says the Philadelphia Times, but
the court, after mature deiberation, de-
c.ded that there was no reason why his tes-
timony should not be admitted. This rul-
ing will probably be found fault with by
many in Texas and out. but there will be
many cynical individuals who will main
tain that if the Texas boy was right the
state is to be congratulated on the SUI
perior morality of its legislators and its
congressman.
~fancis Nichols of Minnesota, who has
organized a religious sect called the
Brethren in Christ, says that all the hu-
man race, except the 10000 in his SECT,
will be eternally lost The property of
the communicates is placed in a common
fund, of which Nichols has charge All
funerals of members of the sect must be
under his direction, and his travelling ex-
penses are, of course borne by the mourn
ers. Those who desire to KEEP lin the
kingdom must abjure all display in dress
and all ornaments are forbidden. The
members must not have any friends who
are not in the kingdom, and this rule is
said to be one of the most severe of all on
the women. No tie of relationship is rec
ognized, and persons in ones own family
must be Stunned if they are outside the
kingdom.
Some remarks of the eminent Col Jack
Chinn that were recently quoted by the
" ashiugton Post have excited criticism
in quarter whence it was least to be ex-
pected. says the New York Times. The
highly he valued his Confederate badge,
which twenty-five months of service IN
the field had given him the right to wear
and then gave details of a conversation
which he had had with a Union veteran
who advised him 10 put the memento OF
the lost cause out of sight. Il told him."
said the colonel, that | wouldn't swan
that badge for diamond as big as a goose
egg" adding, when asked why he was
proud of it. because there isn't bigger
in the United States who is entitled TO
pin one of them upon his coat" Almost
anybody would be apt to find fault with
the taste of this statement, but the Vicks-
burg Herald goes further and declares |
that 1t was inaccurate as well as injudi-
cious. Not a few old-time "befo' the
wah" negroes, ii explains are fully EMIT
led to wear the Confederate badge. LAS
camp followers the occasion sometimes
the lost cause, and it was often proved
with genuine heroisn-by some even to
the death. There is at least one on the
Mississippi pension roll. And if this re-
doubtable Col. Jack is as well entitled TO
the badge, or as proud to march in the
ranks of the survivors, as that Wilkinson |
county niger pensioner-he was a good |
one" Here would seem to be a situation
of some completely, and unless Col Chinn |
is less emotional than he is commonly |
supposed to be he is likely to be consider |
ably stirred up by the Vicksburg mans |
lesson in history.
Among the agencies intrusted by Eng |
land with the civilization of Africa is the |
Royal Niger Company. a chartered organ |
ization, with which many persons, titled |
and otherwise important, are connected |
says the New York Times. 1t does not |
claim to be in business entirely as a Their
aDeutic measure, but still its members do
lay a good deal of stress on their NH
lanthropic motives. Considerable aston
ishment, therefore has been created bx, a