The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

the following: Harry Caufelt, the
handsome and debonair young Mis-
souri, Pacific, torakeman, has waded in.
to capitol society up to his neck and
is showing the local pacemakers in the
1S-years-old class up in great shape.
Harry's there with the two-step glide"
"A student of the Chicago Directory
finds that there are in the city ZOO
Adams and not single Eve. But of
Gains there are SIS and Ahels s. The
city is well supplied with patriarchs-
100 Abrahams 10 IsaacS and 600 Jacobs.
And of Solomons there are ITO. There
are Is Darlings and but 2 men whose
name is Kiss, and there is a total of
90 Loves, but not a Lover. although
there is 1 Mormon. The most abbre-
waited surname is Re. Some of the
other odd names are Papa, Morning.
star and Paradise. The only man in
Chicago who. according to the direc-
tory, is a Fake is Fred L., one of the
assistant states attorneys. 1t seems
that after all the men in Chicago are
divided in about the same proportion
as the men of the world, according
TO New Testament differences. There
are 25 Hopes, Faiths and l poor lone
Charity among the names. There are
S Pains and only 1 Well.
"A dispatch from Columbia. Me-,
to the Chicago Record Herald, says
The directors of the Columbia Fair
have secured for exhibition purposes
a quilt which is valued at $4,000 and
contains 200 pieces of goods cut from
dresses and neckties worn by famous
men and women. Each piece is ac-
companied by an autograph letter.
Among the contributors to the quilt
are Alice and Phoebe Cary, John G..
Whittier OI1ido
Jean Ingelow, Mark Twain. Elizabeth
Stewart Phelps, Charles Egbert Grad
dock, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William
Black, Henry Ward Beecher, w. D.
Howelis, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe Gen.
Lew Wallace, Paderewski, Patti, Mary
Curtie Lee, Mrs. Tom Thumb, Mrs.
Robert E. Lee, Gen. Grant, Gen. John
A. Logan, Gen. Fremont, Gen. Rose
Grams, Gen. Sterling Price, Gen. Fitz-
hugh Lee, Grover Cleveland, John G..
Carlisle, Senator Vest, Mrs. James K.
Polk, Mrs. Jefferson Davis, Gen. Joe
Wheeler, Joseph Jefferson, Thomas w.
keene, Sol Smith Russell, Fannie DAY.
export and Julia Marlowe.
The following powerful description
of a drowning mans sensations is quo
ted from Francis Howard Williams
story in the August Lippincott, called
de Profundis:" salt water is run
ming out of his nostrils, and his eyes
are void of all save blackness and
throbbing yellow spots-not all yellow
white and yellow; daisies, daisies; A
field full of them. How familiar is
that old upland rounding against the
blue! He Dlucks a flower for his hat
hand and lifts his bare feet high lest
the sharp grass cut his toes; boys in
! the country learn to be so shrewd in
these matters. All, a meadow lark!
It's third of a century since Dali
Iymple killed it with a stone, and
he wishes now that he hadn't. What
pity, too, that he didn't do the
square thing in his settlement with G.
Q. Jarvis & Co. last winter. He got
them on the hip in the stock panic and
broke him up. Mrs. Jarvis was giving
piano lessons to keep the family afoat
at last accounts. Mr.. Dalrymple
thought how he should like to send her
sung check-if only he sould get to
his desk-his desk with its neat ink
stand and clean plotting pad, which
seemed SO far off and unattainable.
Tick, tick No, not that! The roll
OF the organ, out from the chancel
and far down the nave-the long, with
drawing roar of the ebb. HE was
pushing hard against watery masses,
hut his muscles quivered and refused
to act. What is this strange impot-
ence? The rushing in his ears is as a
sigh of Cod
Among the changes made in the
army uniform is one with which the
officers who are entitled to wear the
device are greatly pleased. 1t is that
the aigulette is to continue a part of
their decoration. There always has
been morn less mystery connected with
iorir Of IT.
though it was commonly supposed that
the aigulette was originally a cord
which supported a pencil used by
aides and adjutants in writing military
orders and dispatches. It's utility, of
course, has long since ceased, and it
has become only an attractive orna-
mentation. The clothing experts of the
army possibly have discovered the or
igin of the aigulette. At any rate,
they have run across an ancient ira
dition which might be accepted as
bearing upon the subject 1t seems
that the Spanish Duke of Alva many
years ago had cause to complain of
the conduct of body of Flemish
troops. He Issued orders that, in view
OF their misconduct, the individual
members should be punished by hang
ing wherever they We're found, without
regard to rank or grade. The Flemish
soldiers replied that to facilitate the
execution of this order they would
thereafter wear on the shoulder a rope,
| TO which would be attached a nail.
This convenient appliance they adopt
ed, but their subsequent conduct be-
came so brilliant and exemplary, it
| is said, that the rope was tronsform-
| ed into a braid of passementerie and
became a badge of honor to be worn
by officers of princely households and
| others who were of notable career.
In the United States army the aigu-
| lette, which may or may not be a
descendant of the Alva decoration,
will be worn by adjutants general in
spectors general, officers of the Record
| and Pension Office, aides to general Of
| ficers, regimental adjutants and the
adjutants of the artillery districts.
1t may be said of P. T. Barnum
that he was the Majordomo or Lord
of Laughter and Fun, the protean Dis
penser of Amusement, says Joel Ben
| ton, in an article on p. 7. Barnum,
gust Century. How we'll he became
rious incident certifies Some years
before he died an abscure person in
some remote part of Asia wrote a let
ter. which he dropped in the postoffice
near him, directed to Mr.. Barnum,
America" The letter reached its des-
tination without an hours delay. The
great Snowman unaffectedly enjoyed
being known from the very beginning
of his celebrity. and when he found his
celebrity was a tremendous factor in
his success he did eVerythine that he