The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

the literary sectiOn OF the Par1S EAEOSltiOn
are the four inkstands used in completing
four great French masterpieces-the most
notable works of George Sand, Lanartine,
Victor Hugo and Dumas the elder. These
inkstands were given to Madame Hugo to
be disposed of at a charity sale, and were
bought up by Victor Hugo. Each of the
inkstands Is accompanied by an autograph
letter, testifying to its authenticity, and
bearing the date
The prohts of the gambling establish
ment at Monte Carlo were not as large
as usual last sea son, owing to the payment
of the Sc 100000 which the company had to
hand over to the Prince of Monaco for the
renewal of It's concession. The seasons re-
ceipts amounted to a little over 1900 0oo,
as against nearly S, 10000 for the preced
ing year. After the deduction OF its rum
ming expenses the company was able to
pay a dividend of only $40 per share.
The Illinois Audubon Society, now
three years old, is the youngest but the
largest state association of the kind. 1t
has nearly 10000 enrolled members. Near
ly all are children, there being about 500
adults, most of whom are residents of Chi
cago. new Illinois statute makes 1t a
misdemeanor, punishable by fine or i'm
prisonment, for any person to have in his
possession the body living or dead. of any
wild bird-the English sparrow, the crow
and the chicken hawk excepted.
A farmer named Van Ryn, In st.
Crox county. Wisconsin, says that he re-
Gently unearthed a coin which lay beneath
a ledge of rock twenty feet in thickness,
on Sand creek. 1t is of bronze, about the
size of a silver dollar. One side bears an
image and superscription. The other side
is much worn, so that little remains but
the letters IS. P. Q. R." The theory is
preached that the early French mission
aries and explorers would have been I'M
likely to bring with them old Roman coins,
and that the discovery indicates that Ro-
man sailors of the time when the coins
were in circulation as money found their
way to this continent, wandered far inland
and persisted. There have been stories of
similar finds in Indiana and other places
in the United States.
The government owns many thousands
of acres of land in New Mexico"
says a citizen of that territory who is
quoted by the New York Tribune. This
land has never been taken up. 1t is the
finest country in the world for stock rails
ing. The land can be secured for almost
nothing. A young man going in there
with few hundred dollars to invest would
make fortune In a very short time. He
need not confine himself strictly to the
stock business. There are a great many
good openings in mining. Many of the
mines have never been developed. The
wealth has never been estimated There
are deposits of gold, coal and iron 60 be
found A little energy and tte expeudi-
ture of some money would develop these
properties. New Mexico is the place for
the young man of brains and persever-
ance who wants to make money"
Chicago has hong cherished the dream
of through steamships to Liverpool, and,
according to dispatches just published.
there is now a serious prospect that the
dream will at length become a reality
says the New York Journal of Commerce
Even before the enlargement of the St
Lawrence canals two steamers did go
from Liverpool to Chicago, but it has been
almost uniformly believe that 1t would not
be profitable to employ ocean steamers on
| the lakes or lake steamers on the ocean,
or either In a canal The projectors of this
Chicago and Liverpool route are evidently
not quite sure that the impression is
| wrong, for they are said to be also nego-
| tiating with an ocean steamship line to
| transfer the cargoes at Montreal With
| the improvements fifteen years have eff
| fected in transferring coarse cargoes the
| Disadvantages of breaking bulk is very
much less than 1t used to be.
THE bronco" says the Rev. Cyrus
Townsend Brady, in the Ladies' Home
Journal rs an ugly I'll tempered, vicious,
| croSkgTained, understood, half starved
| flea bitten, abandoned little beast, and he
| gives the missionary abundant opportu-
| nifty to practice the sublime virtue of self
| restraint. As a horrible example of total
depravtty he beats anything that I know
| of. He is apt to do anything-except
| good thing-at any moment. When he
| appears most serenely uncon scious look
out for him, for that Is the hour in which
! he meditates some diabolical action. He
| bucks when he is ridden and balks when
| he is driven, but once get him going ami
he shows his mettle. He can go, and go
Ike the wind, and go all day, and live on
one blade of grass and one drop of dew
| and keep awake all highland Keep you
| awake, too-and go again all day and
| keep 1t up until he tires out everything
and everybody in competition with him:
| for when you get him started you can de-
| pend upon him. He never gets sick or
breaks down. and do not believe he ever
| dies, but 1t is ewfully hard getting him
| started sometimes.
The Paris correspondent of the Boston
Transcript, says: IT repeat the words of
a shrewd and Informed diploma list when
I say that there is not a continental gov
] eminent except that of Holland which has
| any real sympathy for the Beers or for
their cause. Under similar circumstances
they would have acted as the English gov
eminent mas done, and probably less for
| bearingly. More than one OF them would
| regret any serious diminution of the pow
| er and influence of England in conse-
| qUence of the war. But they and the
others are not averse to any small and in
cldental profit that may accrue to them
out of passing English preoccupauons.
There has never been any prospect of in
tervention, Joint or individual In behalf
of the Beers. The newly arrived ENJOYS
are likely to accomplish even less than
has the estute and diligent Leyds The
continental cabinets were simply seeking
a way to disappoint the republic and irri-
late England as little as possible when the
United States rather Unexpectedly re-
lieved them by asking the ques ton that
they were reluctant to put and receiving
the answer that they did not care to
hear"
"A Chicago dispatch says: John Gels
Ter, Chicago broker is probably the only
man in the world who ever let bee get
in actual touch with the inside of his
head Until a few days ago bee had been
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