The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-21

man, have all been seen in white lace
Princess gowns, decollete and sleeveless,
with diamond tiaras and neckla ces, many
of them carrying little lace muffs trim
med with flowers to hold their opera
glasses, handkerchiefs and bonbonnieres.
There is nothing novel at the opera this
year except Alvarez and the leas:
| Alvarez to my mind, would have been
better received had he not been engaged
TO fill Jean de Reszkes place. There new
er has been but one Jean de Reszke. He
is the greatest tenor and artist this world
has ever heard; so says Fink, and all
the musical students and critics of the
/ universe.
The feas We're left by the aristocratic
dogs that held a show and invaded our
! beautiful Opera House a week before the
/ opera commenced.
There are many predictions that it is
/ the death-knell to the Metropolitan. just
| as the dog show in the old Academy of
/ Music brought bad luck to that building.
If any of you contemplate visit TO
! New York within the next few weeks, do
! accept my suggestion and call at Knoed-
/ ler's Art Rooms and see the beautiful min
4 iature collection. All of the best ones are
/ by Mr.. Baer; the artists say he is the
/ best miniature painter living. BE works
! from life, and not from a photograph, as
| Amelia Kussner does.
The French painter Chartrain has a fine
4 exhibit there also.
/ The doors are open TO all, free of charge.
/ Mr.. Henry Clews, the banker and brok-
er, is quite a character of New York city
He is the author of Thirty Years in Wall
| Street" a book that sheds light upon that
/ mysterious region-a region that always
! reminds me of a lol of muskrats indus
triously moving about in their u1d5r-
| ground tunnels.
| But I started to say that enc Of the
sights Of this town is TO watch Mr.. Clews
lecturing crowd of his customers. who
/ are seated III comforta BILE chairs, listening
to his words of advice to buy or TO sell,
while their eyes are glued 10 a blackboa! a.
watching a skilful boy who works like
! lightning. placing thereupon the figures,
/ opponents of losses or gains. Their faces
are al times beaming with pleasure, and
again resemble lost souls. This morn
ing as | was passing by. | popped in 10
see what was in the air, and Mr.. Clews'
| duicet tones were procla ming that platI-
| tude. that to buy cheap, and TO Sc dear"
| was the theory of success, and that now
was the time to climb into the wagon, as
! Union Pacific preferred and common, AMI
Northern Pacific preferred and common,
! Great Northern, etc, etc, were about to
| take a start upwards
Ignorant as ! was, / thought he was
talking about an excursion party to some
elysium fields and l was tempted to bay
a round-trip ticket.
The Molineux poison trial is still drag
ging on. Barlow S. Weeks is the only
Northern man in this case. Osborne is a
North Carolinian, and has added to his
laureIs by mis- inexhaustble energy and
brilliancy of intellect. George Gordon
Battle, opposed to Osborne, is also a son
of North Carolina, and is Indispensable
to his leader, r. S. Weeks.
| The architectural taste here has been
stimulated by the Dewey arch and also
by the magnificent marble building Of
the appellate division of the Supreme
Court situated on Twenty-fourth street
and Madison avenue. The architect IS
James Brown Lord, first cousin to James
Brown Potter. and brother-in-law to De
Lapcey Nicoll Every one who visits New
York should go to see this building. 1t
is like an old Grecian temple
The Metropolitan Museum is attracting
crowds to see the Aztec collection, lately
donated to the museum by the Duke de
Loubdt
The Legislature and the prize fights are
in session.
Dr. Parkhurst has adjourned. Mr..
Plat is busy In the Senate and Croker