Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-09-15

IN LOUISVILLE, ny. Inc clCzens OF tnab GU.
declare that they saw brilliant display O.
the aurora borealis at midday last Thurs
day.
A Nevada paper reports that Senator Fail
has purchased 81, 0OO, 900 worth Of real es
tate on Market street, in Carson, and tina
he will erect some ''pslstial" buildings
upon 1t next spring.
Mr.. 81. T. Walker, of Montgomery, Ala.
is the proud owner of the silver-headed
hickory cane once carried by President
James K. Polk, 1t having been presented tC
him by the Presidents widow.
The Lord Chamberlain, in view of the
fact that heavy opera glass falling from &
height on human skull may seriously dam
| age the latter, has ordered a small orna
mental gilt wire netting to be placed upor
the arm rests Of the boxes Of LondoT
theatres.
A wealthy old English farmer says that
he has always selected his farm hands after
putting them through whistling exercise.
He never knew a whistling laborer find fault
with bed or board, complain of extra work,
or be unkind to children or cattle. He is
thoughtful, light-hearted, economical and
| good natured.
The State engineer Of Louisiana has &C
complished considerable in the way of
levee mending. The levees broken between
| Baton Rouge and the mouth of the Red
river have all been staked off. The mendlng
OF the Pointe Coupee crevasse will be the
| most difficult and expensive of all the
| broken levees.
The vine harvest Of Tuscany is extremely
large this year. Growers, from its abund-
ance, are selling all the old wine they can at
any price, fearing they will not have barrels
| enough to hold the new. 1t is said further
that the quality of the harvest is excellent,
especially in vineyards where the grape is
allowed to come to perfect maturity.
A Wyoming county Postmaster put up a
bulletin the other day reading: Hereafter
this post Office will be open from 6 a. m. to
IL m, and from l p. m. until p. m. All
persons requiring any further sccommoda-
lions will confer a favor upon the Post
master by either getting their mail at some
other office or taking measures to have the
Postmaster removed"
Lieut.. Frederick schwatka, United States
army. of Arctic fame, and Miss Ada j.
Bracket were married at the home of the
BRIDES parents, In Rock Island, ILL.,, on the
9th inst. The bride is the niece of Colonel
Albert G. Bracket, Third Cavalry Mr.
Schwatka's regiment), and it was while she
was visiting her Uucle in Wyoming in 1881,
that she and Lieut.. Schwatka first met.
On the assumption that II there is any
one thing upon which a New Jersey man
can speak from full knowledge 1t is the
mosquito, this remark from the Newark
Advertiser is OF value: "The September
mosquito is not large, but he uses his adj
vantages to their full extent. For persist
ence, activity, poison and thirst, he far out
strips his summer cousin, and the number
is also greater"
A story comes from Staunton, Va, that
one day last week a stranger asked Chief of
Police Waters If he knew of a Mrs. Eliza
beth Bailey in that city, explaining that he
had, twenty-five years before, when a boy
eight years old, run away from his home in
Staunton, and had not heard from his family
since. Capt. Waters knew the lady, and
took the stranger to the house, and there
was joyous meeting of mother and son.
Sir Bernard Burke, the well known Irish
herald, has frequently been asked, "What
is the surname of the children of Queen
Victoria ?" and he says: 81 feel persuaded
that the royal house Of SaXe-C oburg has no
surname. When the adoption of surnames
became general, the ancestors of that illus
trious race were kings. and needed no other
designation than the Christian name added
to the royal title" The Plantagenets and
the Tudors were quite another case, and the
sotriquet Of the former originated their sur
name.
An Alexandria correspondent writes:
'You have no idea how costly some things
are here. The only article that is plentiful
and cheap is the shy and scrobsttc flea. This
bird grows to monstrous size here, and he
is wonderfully plentiful. He carries a biting
apparatus with him that is a good deal like
stwo-inch anger, and makes hole in you
straight to bed rock like an artesian well,
only not so comfortable. II some of these
chaps could be moved over into Pennsyl-
vania and set to boring for oil the chap who
imported them would make millions. If
the 1eas could be made to take real In
terest in the oil business, they would fetch
it, IL they had to go plumb through to Chi
ma"
The word tailor, in the phrase "Nine tai
lors make a man," had originally, says an
exchange. no sartOrial reference at all.
From Queen Elizabeth-who is said to have
acknowledged an address from eighteen
tailors by saying, "Thsnks, gentlemen,
both"-t0 Carlyle, the saying has been mis-
taken. The original word is "taler." The
exact spelling is not known, but it is con-
nected with the "tallyp or "tsle" of Milton's
shepherd; or 1t may be "tOllers." In some
parts of England, on the death of parish
Toner, the church bell tolled once, three
times, etc., according to the age OF the dead
person: say, once for an infant, three times
for a girl, but always nine times for a man.
SO passers by would say, when the bell had
stopped, "Nine talers make man."
A deputation of the National Temperance
League made an appointment to see Cete-
Wayo in London. When the committee
reached the Kings apartments they were
informed that His Majesty could not receive
them that day because at the Queens
request he was Sitting for his portrait. His
excuse was in this form: SIT is wish from
my mother. the Queen, and l cannot disre-
gard it, much as | should like to see the
gentlemen. 1t is to me as urgent as a
matter of life and DEATH" A London Jour
nal suggests that Ministers of State would
do well to follow the Kings example. They
should have artists attached to each of their
departments, deputed by "their mother, the
Queen" to begin painting their portraits
directly deputa,ion arrives. By this simple
eXpedient they would save themselves q
vast amount OF time and trouble.
Mr.. Papineau owns park on the Ottawa
river at Monticello, Canada, and several
years ago he opened 1t to the public. He was
glad, he said, to be able to provide place for
innocent and beneficial recreation. But his
experience has been sucR that now he
threatens to shut the gates. He has found
that among the many respectable and we'll
behaved there are always some who pilfer
fowers and fruit, break down shrubbery
and scatter remnants Of provisions about
the grounds. He will give the visitors one
more trial, and he expostulates as follows:
'sPeop'e should educate themselves to that
respect OF property which is such beauti-
full feature in the character OF all classes in
Europe, and which ciuses private as well as
public parks and gardens to be freely
opened to all corners, and where the most
scrupulous regard is shown to the wild as
well as the cultivated and rare plants and
flowers, none being ever touched"
When Sir Frederick Leighton signified
his willingness to add his name to the list Of
contributors toward the erection of Long
fellow bust In Westminster Abbey he added
the words, eff there is a precedent for such
a step In connection with a poet not Of
English birth" This point has been taken
up by Mr.. Bennett, of the committee
having the affair IN charge, and The follow
ing reply to Sir Frederick is mad pu lie:
"As to the admissibiiItY OF q bust OF
the poet to Westminster Abbey, feel
no doubt about this. Americans are not
foreigners to us, but one with us 10 blood,
language, and institutions, and In a common
glory In all our achievements. l feel assured
nothing will bar out from our Poets Corner
bnr "a hu no