The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-13

number Of anecdotes regarding Ristori.
She was only IA when she appeared as
Francesca ia Rimini. and 20 when she
first acted the role of Maria Stuart ia
Schiller's play, on which occasion the
manager advised her 10 leave tragedy
alone. Thirteen years later the French
Emperor begged her to learn the French
language at the expense of the govern
ment, and become member of the The
alter Francois; but she was too patriotic
10 accept on one occasion in Madrid she
was asked to plead for the life of a sol
der who was to be shot the next day
The ministry refused her request, but in
the evening, when she was acting Medea
she appeared during an intermission in
the Queens box, Frustrated herself, and
secured the desired pardon.
The Independent says: IAN inustra-
ton OF the ridiculous way in which hon
orary degrees are sometimes conferred IS
sent to us by an Ohio subscriber. There
is in that state a chartered institution
called Richmond College. We are told
that the college has been practically non
existent as an institution of learning for
several years. Some forty or fifty stu-
dents have been in attendance at a sort
of select school in the college building for
year or two. But there have been no
candidates for the bachelors degree, we
believe, for two years. The college charter
is still in existence, and for a show the
so-called president conferS each year hon
orary degrees on whoever will take them.
This year the degrees of NJ. A. and ID. D.
were thus conferred. We hold that this
is an injustice to those who are pursuing
courses of study and to those who merit
the honor in consideration of distinguish
ed services This is not a solitary case.
Many so-called colleges are guilty of the
same offense.
Devil Dan" the terrible fighting cat
of the treasury department, was picked up
on the street by Admiral Dewey several
years ago. says Washington dispatch 10
the Chicago Tribune Miss Ethel Will
iiams, who was then a clerk. was coming
to the department one morning when she
noticed a gentleman stoop down and pick
up a kitten near the corner of Eighteenth
and H streets. As she reached the gentle
man she noticed that the kitten was about
as poor specimen as she had ever seen.
Admiral Dewey. for il was no less per-
son, remarked that he wished he had
place to take the sick kitten, as he hated
to see it left on the street to die from
neglect and starvation. Miss Williams
tod him she would take the kitten and
see il was properly cared for. He thank
ed her and handed her his card. The
young woman brought the kitten 10 the
treasury and turned 1t over to Mai. An
derson, to whom she told her story That
kitten is now Devil Dan" the most vic
ious fighter among the many cats in the
building. If he has ever been whipped it
is not known officially.
To this day # is a very common sight
in South America, in Brazil especially, to
see children smoking their cigarettes says
the Baltimore Sun. AT school the teach
err will occasionally interrupt the session
for a smoker, his pupils putting away TO
keep him company But it IS not geuer-
ally known nat a similar fashion once
prevailed in England. Every one has read
that Hawking introduced tobacco into
England, ana that King James inveigh-
ed against it. Elizabeth liked to sit on
a low stool and watch Sir Walter Raj
eigh putting away. Once she bet him that
he could not tell the weight of the smoke
in his pipe, but the philosopher Won Ia
Anne's reign almost every one smoked. In
Charles It's reign children were sent to
school with their pipes in their sachels
and the schoOlmaster called a halt in
their studies while they smoked" In 1902
Jorevin spent an evening with his broth
er at Garraway's coffee house, Leeds and
writes: Il was surprised to see his sickIy
child of 3 years old fill its pipe of tobac-
co and smoke it as calmly as a man of
three score; after that a second and third
pipe without the least concern. as il is
said to have done above a year ago"
There were about 40 coffee houses in Lon
don besides five chocolate houses in
Anne's time. Smoking was general in
them, and IntoXicants could be also OBJ
tanned, as well as coffee. Bishop TreIaw-
ny was much hurt because Bishop Bar
nett had accused him of getting drunk in
one of them on the Both of Januarv-a
day of grief to tories and all good church
men.
The Domenica del Corriere of Milan
Italy, states that Pope Leo XIII, like
many other good people, prefers being
considered to be in robust health, and not
infrequently vigorously, though humorous
ly, protests against the fictitious and
alarming reports current in the secular
press. Whilst he always makes use of
a strong cane while walking in the gar
dens of the vatican, he no sooner observes
some stranger approaching that he swings
his stick from hand to hand, scarcely using
it. He has excellent sight, and can read
without glasses He is quite delighted
when he has once more shown that he
can bear all the fatigue of religious cere-
monies, official visits and the not slight
weight or the pontitical robes during some
great function He is even careless of his
health during restless nights When in
bed he wears warm stockings and gar
mentS OF the finest flannel and when he
is seized with a poetical inspiration he
rises and. without waking his faithful val
e. Plo Contra, who sleeps in the ante
ROOM goes to his desk and writes down
a Latin distich by the light of the lamp.
and will sometimes lnger to compose more
verses In this way he has occasionally
contracted cold which, of course. al
once, by the sensational press, is reported
as serious attack of sickness. Formerly
the Pope would not hear of other means
of warming his apartments than the old
fashioned brazier but lately he has WELD
ed to the remons trances of hiss physician
and the rooms are made comfortable bv
proper stoves.
Prof Croft, the Psychologist, writes
from Ghizeh to the Paris Daily Messenger
about the Pharaohnic mummies at The
Ghizeh Museum confirming the tradition
that the scenes described in the first cban-
ters of the Book of Exodus took Mace mn
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