The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-12
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diluted with milk, and sugar or salt added
according TO taste.
One of the many spear thrusts that re-
Quilted in the death of Lieut.. Robert Gren-
fell al Omdurman penetrated his watch
The timeoiece was returned to his family
VINO have placed it in jewelers. hands to
mount as a memorial of their relatives
heroism and fate. The spear thrust had
penetrated through both the outer and in
ner cases and driven some of the works
right through the face of the dial stop
ping the hands at S;39, indicating the time
at which the charge took place and the
precise moment of the wearers death.
"A French writer has suggested that
there ought to be another mark of punctu-
alton, the point d ironie, to end sentences
written in sarcastic vein. To this prop
osition the New York Commercial Adver-
tiser adds that leach emotion should have
Its little mark-a heart for emotional pas
sages, a dove for the aspirations, a tear
for pathos, with, of course a few purely
arbitrary signs. Literature would be-
come symbolic. A man could look over
few pages of a book and see at a glance
what kind of stuff he was about to plunge
into"
The official kiss is not exclusively a
masculine prerogative. There are times
when court etiquette demands that women,
too, shall kiss. On the occasion of the
Crown Prince of Greece's wedding, the
bride, Princess Sophie of Prussia. the
Kaiser's sister. was obliged to bestoW no
fewer than $50 kisses. The King of Greece
received three kisses, so did his Queen, so
did the Empress Frederick and the King
and Queen of Denmark and Kaiser Will
helm and the Empress, while all the
Princes and Princesses present received
one kiss apiece
Maj. Potter, chief clerk of the Homo
lulu foreign Office, recently made a con-
tract with the government to take at their
face value all the foreign office stamps
on hand at the time when that Office
should go out of existence. This vir-
tually withdrew the whole issue of these
stamps from sale, to the great disgust of
stamp collectors all over the world. Mai
Potter will make thousands out of his cor
ner il he shall not be interfered with. 1t
was expected that the foreign Office would
go out of existence after annexation, but
ii still continues. Stamp dealers have,
therefore, set about devising some plan to
break Maj. Potters contract.
News was received to-day, says SYRIA
cuse, N. Y, dispatch, that Alonzo c. Yates
OF this city, wen known in Milwaukee
through his marriage to his cousin, who
was Miss Leila Yates of that city, had
died this morning at Nice, France. Yates
was a remarkable man In so far that he
spent in less than three years fortune of
$4,000, coo, which had been left him by his
father. He had almost gone through his
fortune when he married his cousin. She
brougt him dowry of $4,000 which the
couple lost no time in spending. He had
fondness for wine and fast horses, and 1t
was this that made wreck of what was
once a magnificent specimen of manhood,
and who had the reputation Of being the
finest reinsman in Central New York. 1t
was this, too, which is supposed to have
caused the separation between the couple
last year on their return from a trip
abroad, as on their reaching New York
Mrs. Yates took apartments alone at
hotel and announced that they had sepa-
rated. They have lived apart ever since.
Mrs. Yates is said to be living with her
parents in Milwaukee. Yates was twenty
seven years old.
An English paper tells this story to
illustrate the tenacity with which Lord
Kitchener carries our his purpose: During
his recent sojourn in England he entered
into personal communication with most of
the great firms engaged in the manufac-
ture of railway plants, with a view TO
securing the construction Immediately of
the bridge which is to span the Atbara.
The answer given him by all the firms
was pretty much the same-they were full
of orders, and could not guarantee deliv-
cry before July at the earliest. To an
ordinary official this would have been con-
elusive evidence that the plan would have
to be abandoned. But the organizer of
conquest in the Soudan is not an ordinary
official Finding himself baked in his
project in England, he Immediately ON his
arrival in Cairo cast about for means
of overcoming the difficulty. He found
there in process of dismantling an iron
bridge which had done duty on the Egpy-
tan railways for some score of years or
more and, finding this was still Service
abe, he promptly annexed 1t, and 1t IS
already on its way to the Atbara to be
erected over the river
Much has already been written con-
corning the women of the Philippines, for
the subject is engaging, says Manila let
ter in Golfers Weekly For all their
dark faces they have figures the grace OF
which is accentuated by the very gar
ments they wear. They have lustrous
dark eyes and luxuriant black hair, IN
which they take great pride; it is long,
thick and glossy, Amounted with cocoanut
oil, cleaned and washed with lime Juice.
and usually worn in a coil or knot held
by a golden comb or ornamented pins
Hats and bonnets are unknown among
the Filipinos, so no doubt many an Ameri-
can husband wishes he lived here. The
native women have finely shaped feet
that never knew stocking; they wear
low slippers of an Oriental pattern, some-
times wooden shoes. The dress of Fill
pino woman usually consists of a single
garment with wide sleeves; a pima cloth
handkerchief is generally worn around che
neck, and every one wears a rosary or a
crucifix. Housekeeping in the native sec
ton is quite primitive in its details. Love-
making, courtship and marriage are here
conducted in the manner common in ORR
entail lands, the lover serving the father
of his future wife. Fifteen years is the
customary age for marriage here in the
Philippines.
MOT many people," says a coal miner
quoted by the Washington Star, ''are prob
ably aware that the coal mined in the
United States annually is worth more than