The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

atASCuSS4pu dS 10 the llciLCaS VI NOtlAS. III
one bill il is provided that each voter may
hand in a signed ballot for each candidate.
In Toxic, which would have sixteen rep
resentatIves under the new system, and
would, at the same time, be one electoral
district, every franchise holder would cast
sixteen ballots. There is no provision for
minority representation.
Senator Mark Hanna wears as a
watch charm gold nugget which if sold
at assay office appraisement would afford
him money enough to live at the Airing
ton one week at least, says the New York
Words Washington correspondence. 1t
is present from a group of admiring
friends who called at his residence in
Cleveland a few years ago. Strangely
enough, the gift came from some church
folk of the Methodist persuasion. The mug
get is about the size of a hickory nut and
is one of the largest taken from the Klon-
dixie country.
"A country summer home for Chicago
school teachers is expected to be a GER
talnty before the next summer vacation,
SUFFICIENT financial encoura cement having
been received to warrant the choosing of a
suitable site. That has been found near
Berlin, Wis, where a farm of 400 acres,
with large colonial house, can be bought
for $4,000. A railroad company, whose
ANAC uAio ACdI iIS IdTIn, mas agreed TO
give $4,000. and the town of Berlin. in
consideration of the expected local benefit
from the home. will give $4,000 more.
The investigation being made into the
conduct of the Kensington Museum has
shown, among other things. that the au-
thorlueS were not above manufacturing
false antiques. One of the staff is said
to have concocted from genuine old panels
a Nernish-Martin cabinet, for which the
museum paid nearly 5000 A chair bought
at the Hamilton palace sale, and said to
have belonged 10 Cardinal Wolsey, has
been proved to be of the last century and
to have been made in Ceylon. And there
are imitation Della Robbias. and modern
antique agate cups which have been
bought for ten times their value
The Baltimore News says: picking
around through the papers of the Eastern
Shore reveals, among other things of in
terest, that Snow Hill has an Innshore
street, Molar Harris is a Cambridge boy,
Mr.. Polight is Fredericksburg citizen, Otto
koenrumphf lives near Greens borough
Jake Kiker is a citizen of Worton, Cecil
county has a Hogan's Alley, Roaring Point
IS in Wicomico, for many years Mrs.
Mary Solloway was sexton of Emanuel
Church, in Chesterville, Elkton has Par
adise Alley, Kent County people pay s.
apiece for polecats, Apes Creek is in SOM
erset and Caroline county boasts a Pine
town"
Two curious autograph letters are for
sale in London. One of CampbelPs 0s1D
contains this: II hate Napoleon even as
the very devil, but when I think proper TO
abuse him I will do ii in original language
and moi for hire" The other is written
by Lamb. 1t must be about some contri-
button to a magazine Lamb writes 81
had 70 guineas a sheet from the London;
and what Z did for them was more worth
that sum than anything. l am afraid. I
can now produce, would be worth the less
er sum. l used up all my best thoughts
In that publication, and do not like to go
on writing worse and worse, and feeling
that I do So"
1t is not unusual to find cats that take
Pleasure in walking up and down the key
boards Of pianos, often causing fright to
timid folks at night, says a Wilmington
(Del.) correspondent of the New York Sun
There seems to be some fascination for
the cats either in the notes of the piano
or in the thrills sent through the cats
by the vibration of the wires. Mrs. H T.
Price of this city has a cat that does not
follow the usual way of enjoying the
piano It does not climb upon the key
board, but simply squats on the piano
stool and strikes the keys with it's front
paws. 1t taught itself the trick, and at
every opportunity makes music for itself
1t has not yet attempted to sing, but il is
young yet and may try vocal music later.
The optional dispensary bill passed the
Alabama Senate few days ago. 1t per-
mits counties to go into the business of
selling liquor under certain conditions The
principal provisions of the bill are sum-
married. as follows: l. No liquor is allow
ed to be drunk on the premises on which
it is sold. ?. Liquor cannot be sold be-
tween the hours of 8 p m. of one day and
6 m. of the next day 8. A man can
make only one purchase in one day. A.
Liquor cannot be sold in quantities less
than half pint. 5. The dispenser. or the
man who sells, receives a salary which is
independent Of the amount of his sales
As he makes no profit by increasing his
business, he has no temptation to solicit
trade, sell to minors or keep open on Sun
day The bill Is favored by prohibitionists,
who, finding that the blind tigers in pro-
hibition counties are not suppressed, hope
that by the dispensary law some relief
from unsatisfactory conditions may be
obtained. The dispensary law is looked
upon as the less of two evils
DIR. Alfred Russell Wallace says in
the London Chronicle that tropical re-
gions, as a whole, are more conducive
10 nedltu llldI the NSiHpGidtc IGSlOuS. ne
attributes his own long-continued good
health (and he is now 75) to twelve years
residence in the tropics when he was
young man. and threatened with lung dis
ease. The pure, warm air restored him
to a permanently sound condition. He
says European soldiers in India have bet
ter health than the sedentary native
classes. British soldiers in the Soudan
stand up TO the work; thousands of Aus
tralian gold miners endure intense heat,
and Hollanders have flourished for gener-
ations in the Dutch colonies. He be-
lieves the region on each side of the equa-
tor for a thousand miles to be "the most
healthy and the most enjoyable abode for
man, where with the least labor he can
obtain the greatest amount of necessaries
the comforts and the luXuries of life, and
can at the same time develop and cultivate
his higher nature" But work, he adds,
is necessary to health there, as elsewhere.
The use of the diamond saw for cut
ting stone is facilitating the erection of
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