The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! ACCOMPLISHMENTS only three voted. and
| similar number in the eighth. Much the
same was The result in every other ar-
/ rOndissement while in the Quarter Latin
which might be thought the very sane
tum sanctorum of womens rights, not
single member of the fair sex took the
trouble 10 vote. The sole exception 10
! this otherwise general Indifference was the
| first reimbursement which comprises the
! Hailes, or markets, where several nun-
dred women gave their votes.
A petition to appoint a commission 10
inquire into the sanity of Miss Alice Ham
nton, a granddaughter of Alexander Ham
| ilton sets forth the allegation that Miss
! Hamilton is possessed by the strange hal
! lucinaiOn that she is dead, says a Ne"
York dispatch. She believes that she IS
q phantom, and chat all those around her
are phantoms. Another deiusion, accord
ing TO her sister Miss Adelaide Hamilton,
of No. II West Twentieth street, is that
she is lost and must wander forever. She
also thinks that, being dead, she cannot
talk Only after much persuasion ana
great patience on the part of the ques-
toner win she answer any questions.
Miss Hamilton is now under treatment
She is a rich woman, being worth more
than $200,C00 and having, besides, lie
interest in several large estates.
was once offered for Senator Morrils life,
He told the story himself at a meeting
of the Vermont Historical Society about
four years ago In the early days of the
late war; he said, my picture was put
forth by a Virginia newspaper, with an
advertisement Offering a reward for me-
dead or alive, of So That was usually
offered for the recovery of runaway slaves
| They described me as a person who would
be expected to have been the author q
yankee Doodle" rather than of the in
fernal tariff of 1861 The picture was OF
course, pleasing to the old masters OF
the South, being after the manner of Ho-
garth and l have not learned that IL mas
been made immortal by preservation IN
any of their historical societies. 1t VIII
be for posterity TO say, if posterity should
ever trouble itself 10 say anything, Whe-
ther or not Nermonters made mistake
| in not surrendering me for the SO Nlr-
| ginia reward"
Sarah Bernhardt narrowly escaped be-
! ing swallowed up in the crater of Mount
Vesuvus during her recent visit 10 Ma
| pies says a Paris cable TO the New YORK
| World. Here is her story in her own
words: Before leaving Naples l wished
to have the strange sensation of seeing
Vesuyius by night. Ii would be my best
I chance before the Funicular Railway vui-
! CARRIED Vesuvius. 1 went therefore, with
! two attendants and a trusty guide, after
! the theater closed. We seemed, in the
stiffness of the night. like ancient Pom
| peiians, climbing TO face their inexoraDle
| father with the breast and head of fire.
! AS we proceeded the ground under our
very feet became gradually warmer. There
were frequent clouds of vapor and showers
of ashes. The giant sighed occasionally,
| emitting his hot breath of flame until res
| pira ton became difficult. l went on with
| out a word wrapped in contemplation of
| the grandeur of earth and the littleness OF
men, until the guide ordered a. halt. l
! begged for a few more PAGES. The guide
| yielded to my opportunities, and we Wen:
on forty or fifty steps, when the others
stopped. l pressed on until stopped by an
! anxious cry from the guide. I suddenly
| seemed to be in the midst of flame. My
| breath was choked by the sulphurous
| por and the lava was quite soft under my
| feet. But, look! See how my eyebrows
were scorched. I felt for an instant as
! if the day of judgment was at hand. But
the guide dragged me back from the abyss
to which I was being irresstibly drawn"
in the season of frolic and feasting it
may not appear inopportune to call atten-
ton to a historical fact which is said to
! have marked the origin of the menu or
| bill of fare, that important feature of all
| banquets and dinners says the Baltimore
| Sun. 1t was in 1888, at the German Impe-
rial Diet, held in Regensburg, under EN-
! peror Macmillan I. The Princes of the
| states were assembled to discuss the af-
| fairs of the nation, and particularly meas
! ures for upholding the general Interstate
| peace treaty that had been agreed upon
| at the Diet of Worms. 1t included the
establishment of kind of Supreme Court
/ If A~nf t1~.1f ion, h.
institution which became extinct only in
| 1906, with the dissolution of the old Ger
man empire. For, as in our own DAYS,
/ there was much talk of peace and treaties
| and still more banqueting and Teasing A
| great dinner was arranged at the magnif-
| cent town hall During the banquet Count
| Hugo Won MOntfort noticed that the Duke
| of Brunswick, William H. would from
| time to time consult a scroll of parchment
that lay beside his plate Wondering
| what 1t might contain, and, perhaps be-
| leving the witty Prince was looking over
! his notes for an afterdinner speech he
found, upon inquiring of the mighty war
rior, that it was a copy of the cooks pro-
gramme, or bill of fare. The valiant Duke
was quite an epicure and, as he stated to
| the Count, simply wanted to know the
succession of plates, so that he might be
sure TO preserve sufficient appetite for his
! favorite dishes. The Dukes gastronomic
| method soon became known, and ever
| since the menu forms part of great public
| banquets.
The United States navy department is
having ship model cutting machine con
structed, the purpose of which is to cut
| from a built up block Of white pine or
| other wood model of the hull for A
| government ship of the same form and
| dimensions as light skeleton form. says
| the Scientific American. This skele-
! ton is built up of ribs of wood of the
| proper dimensions, and sheathed with
thin wood. The cutting machine is about
So feet long, 20 feet wide, and weighs
! 10000 pounls. In a general way 1t consists
| of middle platform, on which is fixed
! the skeleton model, and above the skele-
| ion is placed a block of wood, from which
| the model of the hull Is to be cut on
either side of this platform are two beds.
| each IS feet long, on each side of which
| slides a saddle or carriage carrying an
electrically driven cutting mechanism
| with its operator. The work on the model
/ C. &C..