The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

III ne hlng OF Greece Delights IN tdh4HS |
recreation in the fields. He can plow, |
cut and bind corn, milk cows, and, IN |
short, could at pinch keep farm going |
sinsle-handed.
The Eiffel tswer is being put in readi- |
ness for the exposition. 1t is TO be gwen |
a coat of enamel paint in five shades, |
gradated from lemon carome on the sum
nit TO deep orange on the pedestal Two |
coats will be applied, for which nearly |
fifty tons of enamel will be required
French railroad companies have been |
ordered by the courts to provide their pas
sensers with season tickets without ad- |
refreshments. The Western Railroad had |
increased the number of advertisements
I'LL season ticket was as thick as a !
pocketbook and commuters refused to car
ny them.
Every boy in Germany, from the Crown
Prince to the meanest subject. is obliged
to learn some useful trade The present
Emperor mastered the art of bookbinding
though this is only one of his accomplish
ments, for he could probably earn his liv
ing as a musician if anything happened to
his throne.
-Accordink to an apparently authentic
article in a French periodical, not less
than 10000 aristocrats are at present con-
fined in the prisons of Europe. Russia
stands first with 1900 blue-blooded law
breakers while Italy deserves to be ac-
corded second position, her places of de-
tention harboring thousands of noblemen.
John Conquest, chief Inspector of the
criminal investigation department of the
metropolitan police al New Scotland yard,
London, is to retire from the force. Mr..
Conquest is known to the greater number
Of ha If Ia nd 10
was the detective attached to Mr.. Glad
stone during that statesmans second
premiership. In mat capacity he went
everywhere with the prime minister.
The largest omefet on record has just
been made at Kef Tunis. A company of
the Third African battalion stationed there
at the request of the neighborng farmers,
set out on an expedition 10 annihilate the
swaTms of sparrows which were devas-
tating the crops The soldiers brought
back as spolls OF war 5000 eggs and the
regimental cook contrived, with the hep
of other ingredients, 10 make an omelet
nearly seven feet in circumference
Mr.. McDougan of the London County
Council is afraid that the Thames will run
dry owing to the dams that are being
built in the upper reaches of the river
Whereas last year S43 100000 gallons of wa
ter a day passed over Teddington weir in
May and 429 100000 gallons in June, the
figures for this year are 55000O,OOO gallons
in May and 230,0O0O0O gallons in June. In
one day of July only 1l2,0G0,000 gallons
flowed over. 1t is feared that the result
Italy is protecting herself systematic
ally against hailstorms by firing cannon.
Several hundred villages on the slopes
Of the Alps and of the Apennnes have es-
| tabllshed firing stations, where two or
| three cannon are kept which are fired at
a signal from the weather observer. The
| results are said to be astonishing. In
| none of these villages did hail fall this
summer while neighboring districts nave
suffered from the usual number of storms.
One of the next International episodes
with which the world is to be treated will
be the ceremonies connected with the I'M
yelling of the giant statue of Ferdinand
| De Lesseps at the northern entrance OF
| the Suez canal on Nov. II, the thirtieth
! anniversary of the opening Of that cele-
bTated artificial waterway. The occasion
| will be one of great pomp and splendOr,
mingled with a sentiment of complacent
| victory by reason of the brilliant success
| which has crowned the undertaking Of the
| great French engineer
Lady Margaret Howard, sister of the
| Duke of Norfolk, has long been quoted
among Catholics as a splendid aype of an
| entirely unworldly woman. She never
| bought a costly ornament, and never
| dressed in the fashion A large income
! was disbursed by her every year in chari-
| ties and she was at no time happier than
| during her residence among the White
! chapel poor When the Duke of Nor
| folk was Mayor of Sheffield Lady Mar
| garet was his constant helper, while her
| invalid nephew, the younger Earl of Arun-
de-, has been the object of her constant
| solcitude.
His holiness. the Pope, as is well
known is extremely abstemous and to
this, in great measure, is due his rapid re-
| covery from an Illness which could not be
| anything but perifouS to an old man of 49,
| Like the rest of US, however, the holy ia
| Their has his little weakness. 1t is a very
| harmless one, namely, love for sweet
meats The Pope, by no means like a
child in mental power, in spite Of mis- years.
resembles one in his love for "sweeties"
This is of course well known to Italians,
, itch and poor, and a the time of the Pope's
Jubilee a mOtherly peasant woman gave
| expression to her affection for him by a
| present of an enormous pile of sweets
| wrapped in a large colored cotton pocket
| handkerchief 1t is said that none of the
| Pope's many presents pleased him more
than this.
The English bar has now in Lord Rob-
| ert cecil queen couuSel WHO eutSIeu
the profession with lord before his
name. There have been many noblemen' S
sons at the bar for a hundred years or
more-the famous Earl of Mansfield, TO
wit-who have attained the high honor
of the profession, but they have not been
| lords" When some twenty-five years
ago son of the Duke of Argyll entered
| a business house to prepare for a ner>
camille career-which he abandoned for
the stock exchanged make much talk.
His brother, Lord Colin Campbell prac-
ticed at the indian bar. The case of Lord
Coleridge differs from that of Lords Rob
ert and Colin Campbell as he began his
forensic career as plain Mr., but took an
entirely new departure by continuing In
the profession after succeeding to a peer
age.
If it were not for the vultures do not
know what Colon would be, says CORE
spondent of the Chicago Record. There is