The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"A resident of this city has pair Of ca
naries which absorb a great deal OF her
time" says the Springfield Union. The
Oldest bird is over Is years OF age ana
has been entirely blind for two years. II
has 20 be put on its perch at night. ana
in the daytime is fed regularly II II
wants something extra between meals, 1t
fiutters a faint Peep" Age has made
it baldheaded, but that it is well taken
care of is shown in the continuance of its
life. Not many persons would have the
patience 70 attend to il. When food is Of
fered, it feels with its bill along the fin
gers which hold it and then eats freely.
The second bird is also bald-headed, with
a few feathers sticking out like sidewhis-
kers, which give il a comical look. 1t is
not blind, but sings little. Both have sep
arate cages, Kept together, the seeing
one is master of the situation and pecks
at the blind bird, who cannot defend him
self So they are kept separate
-Frenchmen everywhere appear to be
suffering from an unfortunate halluci-
nation over the 'affaire Dreyfus.' says
the Philadelphia Press. Latitude and
longitude, time and environment seem alike
unable to overcome this strange heredi-
tary disease. A leading Australian &C.
clesiastic, who is a Frenchman by birth,
recently returned from an European tour
and was asked what he thought of the
Dreyfus case Here is his reply: 1T is
an agitation fomented by foreigners, and
backed up by foreign money with the
unmistakabe object of shaking public
confidence in the general staff of the
French army, and of practically destroy
ing the army itself 1t is not known by
outsiders, but it is known in France, that
millions of francs have been spent to
bring about the disintegration of the
army"
In the North American Review ar
ticle Andrew Carnegie thus holds up
China as an example for the United States
to initiate: Just consider her position
solid, compact, impregnable: if all the
naval forces were to combine to attack
her what would be her reply. She would
fill her ports with mines, she would draw
her ships of war behind them, ready to
rush out as favorable opportunities might
offer to attack. But she would do more
than this in extremity; she would close
her ports-a few loaded scows would dc
the Dusiness-and all the powers of the
world would be impotent to injure her
seriously. The fringe only would be trou-
bled; the great empire within would
scarcely feel the attack"
1t is rather amusing" remarked the
head of the biggest bureau de change in
London to writer in London Answers
TO notice the various methods in which
men OF different nationalities carry their
worldly wealth. The Euglishman carries
his all loose in his right-hand trousers
pocket-gold, silver and copper all mixed
up together. He pulls a handful of the
mixture out of his pocket in a large. opu.
lent way, and selects the coins he has need
OF. The American carries his "wad OF
bills" in peculiar. long, narrow pocket.
book, in which the greenbaeks lie fiat. the
Frenchman makes use of a leather purse
with no distinguishing characteristics
While the German uses one gayly embroid.
cred IN silk in the fair hands of some
Lottchen or Nina. The half-civilized cap
italist from some torrd South American
city carries his dollars in a belt with cum.
ningly devised pockets to battle the gen.
tlemen with the light fingers. Some OF
these belts are very expensive The ItaI.
| ian of the poorer classes ties up his little
| fortune in a gayly-colored handkerchief
| secured with many knots, which he Sc.
crets in some mysterious manner about
| his clothes. A similar course has charms
for the Spaniard, while the lower class
Russian exhibits preference for his boots
or the lining of his clothes as a hiding
place for his savings"
"A part of a Masonic altar that once
brought the Scottish bard, Robert Burns
in dire disgrace before his lodge is now in
| the possession of a Chicago woman, Mrs
| w. F. Funch, and is treasured by her as
family heirloom, says the Chicago TIL
bune. Mrs. Funch is by birth a Canadian
of Scotch origin. In the days when her
grandfather. George MacRae, was young,
he attended the same lodge as did Bob
bic Burns, and was one of the ''lchts" OF
The town. One night before lodge meeting
the poet and MacRae sat long together,
Bousing at the happy,
And gettin' fou and unco happy.
| And then, arm in arm they sauntered