The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"A AlS4lOE at the 6SuLLdl L ali N4OC -
Gently gave small pocket mirror to Sui
ivan, most pugnacious monkey. The
monkey saw his image reflected in the
mirror and reached out savagely for the
fellow behind the glass, and. not finding
him, took revenge upon the mirror, caus-
ing the monkey keeper no end of trouble
in his endeavor TO prevent the monkeys
from cutting themselves with the broken
glass.
"A very eccentric old man was buried
at Pere la Chaise the other day. He was
known to almost every celebrated painter
in Paris during the last half century as
Pere Jacquette. For many years he had
kept a small bric-a-brac shop in the Rue
du Sentier, where ne had amassed con-
siderable wealth by rather singular means.
He had somehow or other contrived to
form the acquaintance of Corot, Jonkind,
Boudin, Fortuny and many Others equally
famous when they were quite unknown,
and obtained from them in return for
small loans Of money a great number of
their early works, which he subsequently
sold for immense prices.
1t is said of the late George du Maui
rier that ne was once so moved with COM
passion at the miserable appearance of
a pavement artist" that he told him 10
go and get some hot soup, promising to
As soon as the man was gone Du Maurier
rubbed out the conventional landscape and
the soldiers and sailors, and drew a set
of society pictures in white chalk. The
money came in at great rate, and when
the man returned he had nearly a hat
full. He was grateful, but his professional
pride was touched. It's all very we'll"
he said, but you don't call this kind
of thing art, do you?" And with a filthy
rag he obliterated the mastery drawings
in lire.
When the British steamer Camper
down, which has just reached Baltimore,
was eighty miles off the coast, her lookout
sighted a man in an open boat, and, nat
urdly enough preparations were a once
made .far a rescue as heroic as the calm
state of the sea would permit. says the
New York Times. As the Camperdown
approached the boat, however, il was seen
that The lonely voyager was content with
his surroundings, and, as the steamers
captain was well up in his Kipling, he did
not do anything rash. When the big and
little vessels were close together CONVEX
sation ensued. and the man in the boat
revealed that he was Capt William A.
Andrews, who had sailed from Atlantic
City two days before, bound for England
He said he wanted nothing, as he had
plenty of everything, especially whisky
and he was all right. Capt. Andrews then
sang out: Good Old America! Good old
England! You are bound for America. and
l am bound for England. Get out of nv
way or 1 will run you down" and-the
Camperdown got out of the way
Everything that concerns the Paris ex-
position is interesting and details as they
slowly fit across the Atlantic are fraught
with the most absorbing qualities Many
of them have sort of Munchausen CLAM
or about them like the balloon that is to
| have hotel attached and remain in mid
air throughout the exhibition. One of the
most remarkable things, though, will be
! the revolving palace" This structure
| designed by NJ, Oh. Devic, will consist
of a hexagonal shaft $50 feet in hight.
| divided into twenty-five stories The en-
| tire palace is to be covered with nickel
! plate, aluminium, ornamental thing and
| glass Illumination will come from twen-
| ty thousand incandescent and two thou
| sand arc lights of varied colors arrang-
! ed so a s to bring out clearly all deco
| ratlve lines, balconies, turrets pillars and
| statues. In the Hottest part of the palace
| are to be chime of sixty-fOur bells and
| a powerful organ played by compressed
| air. Above these, and browning the whole.
/ VIII perch the weather Vane-a cock fir
| teen feet high and formed of 1900 mean
| descent lights. The entire structure is to
! turn on a pivot and be moved by hy-
N'A'ANiiS oPbdl aus, always at the same
! speed making complete revolution once
| an hour
One interesting result of the expert
ments that have been made by Prof. At
water is the proof of The wisdom of GER
tain food combinations which man has
| adopted" writes E. w Mayo in Aims
lees. Bread and meat, or meat and DO
tatoes, so, web together, because each sun
DlpmpnfG ne at hnF ,t,I,..- =
meal and herring, with the other articles
| which make up his familiar diet, supply
the needed elements in healthful and eco
| nomical proportions. Pork is altogether
too largely composed of fat to make a
meal by Itself but pork and beans bal
| ance each other Web The beans are made
up almost entirely of protein and carbo-
| hydrates 10 offset the fat of which the
pork mainly consists. In certain rural
sections OF The country staple sup1er
dish is cornmeal mush and milk The ex-
pefIments prove that this is one of the
| best proportioned, as well as one of the
| most economical of foods. While exneri-
cree has been a good teacher in, leading
US to favor certain dishes, it has misled
us in regard 10 others. The hog and hom-
| my diet Of the South, for example Is IN
| desira bic alone, because il is deficient in
| strengthening power, as compared with
ITS fuel value. The rice of the H;ndus
| and the potato of the Irish are likewise
open to the objection of providing too lit
| tie protein and too much carbon to be ad-
vantageous as the sole material of a diet
Aside from the matter of providing the
nutritive clements in correct proportions.
there are numberless considerations of
| taste and individual preference to be taken
into account in determining the diet of
| any particular person"
During the sixteenth century some fan
tastically ornate clocks were produced,
but the richest and most intricate of the
period was the second of the worId-famed
Strasburg clocks. Besides an ordinary dial
il had a celestial globe indicating sidereal
| time, yearly revolving calendar for the
| century. month days, names of saints and
dates of movable feasts. Above this caIen-
dar there appeared daily in succession fig
ures on cars representing the days of the
! week-ApoAo on Sunday, Diana on Monday
| and so on. A figure of death struck the