The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-05
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of slowing his handkerchief away in
his sleeve, just as girls do. He slipped
it neatly between the sleeve and cuff.
1t is the common practice OF fashion
ables in London SOCIETY just now. A
few New Workers had the habit years
ago. eXcusing it on the ground that a
handkerchief in the pocket (any pock-
et) blemishes the physical contour.
The town of Moulins-sur-O rne has
the distinction. says the Gaulois. of
fury in the person of NJ. Germain-La-
cour. Moulins-sur-Orne is in the ar
reimbursement of Argentan, and the
people have just celebrated this unique
event by holding a fete in honor of
their Mayor. Long tenure seems the
rule in the district, for the journal OBJ
serves that Argentan has been repre-
scented in Parliament by the same dep
uty for forty years.
-Viscount Valentia, the Conserva-
tive member for Oxford, is an Irish
Peer who has never qualified to vote
in the election of Irish Representative
Peers. In this respect he is following
the example of Lord Palmerston, of
whom it was said that the reason he
never proved his claim to vote for a
fellow Irish Peer was that if he did
so his Tory enemies in the Irish Peer
age would avenge themselves by elect
ing him as one of their representatives,
and so consign him to the House of
Lords, against his will, for the rest
of his days.
Gloves" said a physician, make
an excellent and handy remedy for
nausea, for the headache due to train
g.. ...I~e - fnIy
ness. l went abroad last year, and on
the boat the first day out l began to
feel the approaches of seasickness. 1
took a Glove every hour all the rest of
the day, and by midnight the attack
had left me, and it did not return again.
My wife is much given to indigestion,
particularly when she eats pastry, but
experience has taught her that she may
now eat pastry with impunity, provided
that she swallows Glove now and then
for several hours after the meal"
In China, about twelve miles from
the village of Lion Chek, there is, ac-
cording to a writer in the Liverpool
Post, a mountain of alum, which, in
addition to being a natural curiosity, is
q source of wealth for the inhabitants
of the country, who dig from it yearly
tons of alum. The mountain is not less
than ten miles in circumference at its
base, and has hight of nearly two
Thousand feet. The alum is obtained
by quarrying large blocks of stone,
which are first heated in great furnaces
and then in watts filled with boiling
water. The alum crystalizes and
forms a layer of about six inches in
thickness. This layer is subsequently
broken up into blocks weighing about
ten pounds each.
"A thrifty Partisan has hit upon a
new system of safety deposit. A visit
was made to a police station in the
Faubourg Montmartre by M. Samuel
v, who came to claim a parcel of jew
els which he had lost month pre-
violsly, valued at 100000 francs. The
commissary consulted his register. NJ.
VS. Jewels had been found and taken
to the station by M. Leon D. 1T is
very curious said an employee, these
same jewels were lost on the same
date last year and brought here by
a M. Leon D., and claimed month
afterward by NJ. Samuel "" 1T is
very curious! Too curious!" said the
commissary. Explain this strange CO.
incidence" After a slight hesitation,
M Samuel v. explained that being
afraid of burglars while away for a
months holiday he thought 1t would
be difficult to find a more secure place
to put them.
The Grand Duke of Luxembourg cell
ebrated his seth birthday last week.
The Grand Duke Adolphus filled the
throne of Nassau for many years prior
to 1866, when his dominions were seized
by Prussia. but he retained his vast
private fortune and the immense fam
lily estates. and he has always been
one of the richest royal personageS in
Europe The Grand Dukes first wife
was the daughter of the Grand Duke
Michael Paulovitch, younger brother of
the Emperor Nicholas l, but she died a
year after her marriage, and is buried
in the magnificent Greek chapel on she
Neroberg, behind Wiesbaden. The
present Grand Duchess is a princess of
the Anhalt-Dessau family and niece
of the late Queen Louise of Denmark.
The Grand Duke divides the year be-
tween his seat in Luxembourg, his cha
teau on the Taurus Hills, his hunting
domain in Bavaria and AbboZia. His
only son has a family of several daugh-
ters, and his only daughter, who has
no children, is the hereditary Grand
Duchess of Baden.
Two of the best portraits of Leo
XIII. were painted by Franz Won Len
back, who relates his experiences with
the Pope in the Vienna Neue Freie
Presse. In 1884 he was asked by Count
Emmerich Arco to paint a portrait of
his holiness for a church fund in Mum
ich. The Pope readily granted per-
mission, sitting for the painter while
conversing with Mocenni so as to give
animation to his features, and also
allowing him to attend some receptions
of pilgrims. The portrait did not, how
ever, please the Pope. because it rep
resented him realistically as an old
man, seated and bent over. He said
that a Pope should be represented
standing, young, and dispensing his
blessing. This portrait WAS subse-
quently bought by the Bavarian gov
eminent for the new Pinakothek in
Munich. The other, painted in 1886.
is now in the Museum at Venice. While
sitting for his first portrait, the Pope
asked many questions about BIS
march, as he called him. Not long
afterwards he sent for Lenbash. and
asked him to paint for him a portrait
of Bismarck. The Chancellor, though
he hated to sit to painters, patiently
submitted to the ordeal. But the VI
tramontane press made such a fuss
over the idea of having Bismarck's
portrait in the Vatican that it remain
ed for long time in the Palazzo Borg
hese, and finally found it's way to the
Museum in Breslau.
1t appears by late advices, says the
Springfield Republican, that Joan of
Arc fbe Maid of OrIeans l. -. il.