The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-01

Metz has new sensation. There
has been a non-commissioned officer in
the garrison who found keenest delight
in splashing ink over the backs of
women's dresses. In a few days as
many as seventeen gowns were ruined
by the fiend. The man was arrested,
but the prosecutors were unable to
convince the court-martial of his guilt
and he went free.
The last age in the history of a
popular singer or actress is usually the
sale of her Jewels and dresses. Sibyl
Sanderson's wardrobe and household
furnishings were lately sold in Paris.
The clothes were of extraordinary cost
Illness, but the prices they brought were
very small, the first days sale amount
ing to only $4,000. The largest price
fetched was a table service set oft with
lace which brought 500.
There are many Christmas super
stitions, long held as articles of faith
that are to be recalled. says Country
Life in America. How that oxen kneel
in their stalls at midnight on Christ
mas Eve, in alteration of the Nativity,
and for one hour have the power of
sDeech--for that one hour, too, the lost
spirits have rest. Judas sleeps, Herod
ceases to elank his chains, the daugh-
ter of Herodias may pause in the
dance, in which she is condemned TO
spin forever. and Pilates ghost ceases
its wanderings on Mt. Pi1atus. II
was believed. too that the sound of
church bells could be heard wherever
a church had stood, though no trace
remain, and that. on that pregnant
light, one sleeping in a manger would
see his future in a vision.
Families in Scotland and Ireland
that are entitled to use the Celtic and
Gaelic title the before their names
guard that privilege jealousy. The
last of the Irish duelists, the late
O'Gorman Mahon, was indignant at the
| number of his collea CUES in the Irish
party who claimed the prefix and by
way of ridiculing their pretensions to
craftsmanship assured the British Par
Lament there were only three person.
ages properly entitled to 1.-THE Pope,
the devil and The O'GOrman Mahon.
The O'Connor Don. The McDermott,
The O'Donoghue, The McGillicuddy OF
| the Reeks, The O'Grady and The O'Sul-
Ivan are regarded as entitled to the
| distinction as heads of old Irish fam
| lilies, clans or septs. There are also
| some in Scotland, notably The Nc
| Nab" whose ancestor had a boat of his
own at the time Of the flood, being too
proud to accept the hospitality of Noah
in the ark
| M. Mounet-Sully, the famous ira
gedian of the Coincide Franchise,
is applying for admission to the Acad-
| envy of Fine Arts The actor states
that he is starting his candidature for
a seat in the academy mentioned by
way of test. He says that in old times
some actors were members of that
body, but after Grandmesnil's death, in
| 1915, no more players were admitted.
NJ. Mounet-Sully now wants to see il
an actor like himself, honorably
known, as he thinks, an officer of the
Legion of Honor and senior member
of the Coincide Franchise cannot raise
a claim to enter the Academic des
| Beaux Arts division of the French In
stitute as well as painters and COM
| posers. He is, therefore, making the
matter not personal, but one of prin-
cipie, in the interest of his profession,
| for he thinks that players have every
right to be considered notable artists,
as we'll as the men who paint pictures
and write operas.
| Mr.. Booth Harrington believes that
| Americans have a mistaken idea OF
the quality of English humor. In an
article in Harper's Weekly he holds
that the conviction of many Americans
that Englishmen have no sense of HUI
| NOR is based on the assertion made
| many years ago by an irresponsible
| paragraphist. The idea was accepted
seriously, fed by the habit of imper-
vious countenance exhibited by our
English visitors and by Punch's singu-
lar practice of explaining puns in pa
rentheses." For those who have been
reared in this creed, he says, "the pre-
vailing humor of the London streets,
from the fanciful Difference of retail
clerks to the diabolical subtleties Of
| the cabnen, must suffer the explana-
! ton that London is the chief city of
Ireland - 9 And the London stage
could not but strike home with Sc
ries of pleasant shocks: for surely it
affords more surprises of humor than
any other in the world"
When London daily newspaper
lately started a missing lady of their
own and offered a reward of $500 to
anyone who could find her, complaints
were heard that every ood-looking
young girl in London who ventured
abroad alone, found herself pestered
| by young men anxious to know If she
was the missing lady. Now the hid
den treasure craze seems likely to end
III trouble. A young man who was
found the other day proving round
a farm in Essex under suspicious cir
cumstances declared he was looking
for the hidden treasure. On the
strength of this assertion the police
allowed him to go free, but insisted on
his leaving the farm premises. This
opens up all sorts of possibilities. Pros
pecting burglars have only to mutter
the words, hidden treasure" to es-
| cape arrest. while the real searcher
after buried treasure stands an excel
| lent chance of losing HIS prize by the
interference of the police.
The young King of Italy is sup
posed by court gossipers in Europe to
have gained not little of his Spartan
hardihood from a grim old Col Oslo
to whose tutorship the young Prince
was intrusted at II years of age. IN
til then the lad had been taught Eng
fish and German by nursery govern
esses of those nationalities, but no
French. His father could not forgive
France for gobbling Nice and Savoy.
Col Oslo not only set the boy to study
ing French, so that upon his recent
visit to Paris he was heard to speak
the tongue like a native, but put him
through course of sprouts designed
10 counterfeit his delicacy of health,
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