The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

mis- furnace naQ Deen DullL Dy tne
Principle Company, composed of Eng
fish capitalists, as early as 1925. on land
owned by Augustine Washington, ag-
gregating about 1900 acres, and con-
tanning iron ore, Mr.. Washington be-
coming the owner of one-sixth of the
furnace property in consideration OF
the transfer of his land to the COM
pany.
An American can boast of being the
first to cycle across st. Marks Square
at Venice, which feat he accomplished
under difficulties a few weeks ago.
Everybody ran to see the astonishing
sight of a bicycle rolling across the
fine granite plaster of the square. The
bold adventurer was followed at full
speed by several policemen, shouting
and gesticulating in vain. OF all their
cries he took no notice, whereupon
squad of tWenty-four conStableS was
sent after him. They, by a series OF
admirable strategic movements, drove
him toward the Piazetta. where he
was obliged to halt before the canal
and the high steps of the Ponte della
Paglia. He and the cycle were bundled
without ceremony into gondola ana
taken to the Town Hall, where he was
fined rs lire ($5) for disobeying the or
ders of the police. He said he consld-
cred the sum small in comparison with
the glory of having been the first
cyclist to cross st. Marks Square.
Our next viceroy will probably be
the young Duke of Marlborough.
writes a Dublin correspondent. Early
Cadogan has been resigning ever since
he took the reins of office here, but
circumstances have been continually
occurring to prevent this resolve being
executed. He wished to retire last
year, but the impending visit of the
Prince and Princess of Wales caused
him to postpone this occurrence Later
the death of Queen Victoria stood in
the way of resignation, and now 1t is
understood that the King wishes Lord
Cadogan to retain his position until he
(the King is enabled to fulfill his
promise regarding his visit to Ireland.
which will probably be in April of next
year. Twenty-Five years ago the
grandfather of the present Duke of
Marlborough was Viceroy of Ireland,
and a most popular one, too. No
doubt the memory of that notable
reign will cause the young Duke to
make every effort to gain the affec-
tons of the Irish people. The Ouch
ess of Marlborough daughter of Mr..
w. X. Vanderbilt-would be likely to
take well in ireland, though it will be
something new to have an American
Lady Lieutenant.
But few persons are aware of the
fact but it is true, nevertheless, that
the egg of the partridge is one of the
most nutritious things in the world,
says the Montreal Herald. They are
not used for eating purposes except in
very rare cases, and then it generally
happens in remote rural districts.
These eggs, of course, never find their
way into the market, because they are
never taken from their nest except by
such persons as rob the nests because
their principal food supply comes from
this source. Quail meat comes pretty
high in the market at all times, and the
average man will find it more profitable
to spare the eggs and wait for the
birds when the hunting season rolls
around These men would pass a hun
dred nests in one day without disturb
ing an egg. The sport of hunting the
birds is an additional incentive The
average negro does not care so much
about this aspect of the case. He fig
ures that the white man, having the
best gun and the best dog, will beat
him to the bird. So he goes after the
eggs. One partridge will lay anywhere
from a dozen to- twenty eggs, and
nest is a good find Many families in
rural sections feast on these eggs In the
laying season. 1t is peculiarly rich.
1t has a good flavor, is very paiatable,
and, in fact, is altogether very fine
thing to eat. Many people think II mas
more nutrition in it than the fully de-
vcloped bird.
The Spanish journals relate the
perhaps unparalleled matrimonial ex-
periences of a young Spanish woman
named Isabella CaporaI who in six
years has lost by death six husbands,
and now awaits in modest patience her
wedding day with seventh, says the
Baltimore Sun. In 1894 Senorina Isa-
bel, then a young girl of q, migrated
to New Orleans, and soon married a
theatrical manager named Freeman,
who died in a few months from yellow
fever during a starring tour. In order
the better to conduct the company his
widow, after few weeks. married one.
of the actors, Spaniard named Hany,
who was fatally stabbed on their we'd
ding night while trying to mediate in
a brawl In the boarding house. Three
weeks later another of the actors led
her blushing to the altar. He was a
Mexican named Lopez, with whom the
offended laws of his country had a
crow to pluck. Arrested, he sought es-
cape by leaping from train, was
killed, and for the third time in -
months poor Isabel became a widow.
Very soon, however, a fourth husband
came along. He was an American NAM
ed knight, but the Cuban war con-
signed him to an untimely grave and
Isabel to the arms of fifth husband
in the person of a South Carolina lum-
Der merchant, who was killed among
his own timber. About the sixth hus-
band there are not many details, but
he met his end untimely, like his pre-
decessors- in a steamboat accident
Standing like Niobe, all tears" Isabel
is for the moment a widow for the
sixth time. But she is young, possesses
a small dowry, and a business man in
Charleston, greatly daring, has implor-
ed her to name the seventh wedding
day.
"A German paper has asked several
celebrated composers to give the his
tory of their first works, saws the Na,v
York Sun. Grieg's account is of much
interest MY first attempts in connno-
sition,' he writes, belong, all of them
to my schoolboy days, and were given
to the flames long ago. Then followed
the apprenticeship to the Leipzig Com
servatoire. But l left this celebrates
Institution, so far as concerns skill In
composition, just as ignorant as / en-
tered The fault may have been mine.
but unfortunately, IT is the truth,
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