The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-10
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have turned over ten steamers to the
British admiralty to be used as troop
ships.
Pigs milk is under discussion in the
French Chamber of Deputies, a petition
may be permitted as nourishment for ba-
bies. Some doctors favor it.
kid boots are going up in price in
England. The reason given is that too
many young animals have been killed to
provide them 1t is said also that patent
feathers will soon be a luxury OF the rlch.
The Russian armored cruiser Gromo-
boy. built at St. Petersburg, will carry
no less than sixty-four guns of all de-
scriptions, including four S-inch, sixteen
e-inch twenty 3-inch, twenty 3-pounders
and four machine guns, all being quick
firers.
The Cuban Planters Association has
distributed circulars all over Spain, say
inc: ''Spaniards will find a home in Cuba,
the only thing different being The govern
ment. Cuba can easily support 6,OOO'UO
people, whereas at present there are only
800. 900 in the island.
Last years consumption of whisky
was the highest ever reached in the United
Kingdom. according to the English tenn
perance journals, being more than gal
Ion . head for eXerT. mar. woman htH
child Compared with 1878, there mas been
an increase in deaths from chronic alco-
holism of S21a per cent. among men anu
of 1862 per cent. among women.
Sir Redvers Buffers brother-in-law.
Lord Townshend. whose death occurred
lately. was forty years ago very re-
markable figure in society, under the
name of Lord Raynslam-heir to great
titles and estates. a Liberal member OF
Parliament a philanthropist when philan-
thropv was questionable and q social re-
former before social reform had become
a catchword The sufferings of women
and children were the evils which eSpe-
ciallv appealed to him. He counted no
labor too much if he could restore the out
cast and the lost He would throw up any
engagement to travel me whole length OF
England to rescue a prosecuted woman
from a wife-beating husband. Since he
left the House of Commons, now many
wears ago he had been almost completely
lost to the public view.
The famous Cafe Procope, where now
the Partisan students mold their meet
ings and arrange plans for a pro-Boer le-
gion and similar nebulous schemes, is one
of the most interesting spots of old Paris.
I
die Just opposite the house of Moliere
and within a stone throw of the home of
GuiIlotin, who invented the guillotine. In
deed in the passage which runs by the
house the then new instrument of destruc-
ton was tried on sheep. 1t is mere, too
that Voltaire used to come. Moliere,
whose plays were brought out at the thea
ter across the way was there, of course,
and rAbbe Provost author of "Monon
Lescaut." Robespierre, moreover, and the
nota bilities of the reign of terror patron
lied il, and in more recent days Gam
BETA, while the last name inscribed upon
its walls is that of poor Verlaine. 1t is
very quaint old place. with paneled walls
thick with age, which has to snow me-
mentoes of almost every period through
which it has existed. and portraits of the
more celebrated men who have made it
their cafe de prediction.
Among the boarders in a convent at
Toulouse, France is Hortense Schneider,
famous in her day as the creator of most
of Jacques Ofenbach's opera bouffe he
roines Particularly is her name associat-
ed with the title role in La Grande
Duchesse De Gerolstein." Nine Schneider
contemplates taking the veil and hesitates
only over the final preparations. She is
not certain that the life is entirely suited
to her and is at present only a boarder
among the nuns, with whom she will in
all probability associate permanently 1t
is said that she now hesitates only be-
tween a purely religious order and one
given to active charity. Her whereabouts
were discovered only the other day, when
1t was decided to ask her to attend the
first performance of the revived La Belle
Helene" in Paris. 1t was promised that
she would be received like a real grand
duchess. But she refused. Her convent
life was too absorbing and she could not
be dragged buck to the Paris she has seen
so rarely in recent years. 1t was in 1864
that she created the title role in La Belle
Helene" and it was three years later
that she was heard in la Grande Ouch
esse." She retired from the stage In 1875
and her husband an Italian count, took
her to his own country, In which his fam
fly had position. She soon tired of that
and, leaving her husband and new home
behind her went back to live in France.
on a farm near Paris she lived for five
years or more, attending zealously to her
garden. She tired of that after her health
was broken and none of her relatives was
left to live with her. Then her thoughts
turned to religion and she is now about TO
take the final steps of her entry into the
convent Schneider is now more than 60
years old.