Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-24


witted lady, ''but our ruins will come soon
anough, and as to our curiosities, we import
them"
The silver wedding of the King and Queen
of Sweden will be celebrated on June 9th
next, and 10000 Of their subjects OF all
classes have started popular subscription
70 procure q fitting presentation memorial
for the occasion. Already large sum mas
been collected.
Rife practice throughout the army this
summer promises to be more energetically
practiced than ever before. It is vel
that it IL so, saws the Army and Nary
Gazette, for as our arms OF precision i'm
proves there is need that those VINO use
them should improve also.
The cost of the Transvaal war was e44S,-
$50, or nearly double the original estimate
OF It. That estimate placed It at 9228 40;
but in August. 1881, e170 600 were added as
supplementary estimate aud now the
further sum Of $500 is asked for to meet
the additional expenditure for ex'raordi-
nary transport services.
Baroness Ulrike Won Goethe Lewetzof,
the intimate friend and correspondent Of
Goethe, is still living, In retirement, at her
| castle Of Treb'iiz, near LobostZ. She Is the
| owner OF an extensive collection OF Goethe
| literature, and has recently commissioned
well known specialist to arrange and edit
for publication the letters of Goethe in her
possession.
There are now living four generations in
the direct male line Of the family OF the Earl
Of Albemarle-s remarkable fact in the an
nsls of the British peerage. The present
Earl was born in 1899: his only SOD, the Wis
count Bury, in 1892; his grandson, the Hon.
| Arnold Keppel, in 1858; and finally, his
great grandson, whose Christian n~me is
not yet announced, on February q, 1882.
Kossuth, who is row in his seventy
seventh year, is TO be honored in Buda-
Pesth by a celebration of the fiftieth ami
verssry of his career as patriot and journal
ist, when an album will be presented him
containing the signatures of bis admirers.
1t was In that city that he began as editor
and as orator, and there that he was i'm
prisoned for three years as political often
der.
There has been snow In Athens, and
generation OF Athenians has not known so
severe a winter. In the village Of Cephissia,
at the foot of Pentelikon. only few miles
from Athens, the snow was for days In Feb
ruary six feet deep. In Athens the streets
we're blocked for days with three feet Of
snow The day before its fall the streets
| had been sprinkled with water, owing to
the clouds Of dust.
Lord Butte Oothair) has, after many at
tempts, succeeded in purchasing from the
| town Of Rothessy the ruined chapel Of st.
Mary, and Will now have it rebuilt and fitted
up for use as q Roman Catholic chapel The
price paid was far ia excess Of the value OF
| the property, but bad been repeatedly re-
fused by the town because OF a dread Of the
revival Of sectsrisn snimosities.
Easter day fell on April 9, IN 1871. It will
not, however, fall on that day sgain after
the present year till 1914. In 1886 It will
fall on April 25. It's latest possible date.
| This will be the first time it has occurred
since the introduction OF the new style in
| 1852. It will then not occur again on April
| 25 until after an interval OF ffty-seven
wears, or in 1913: and then not again for one
hundred and sixty-three years.
The Emperor of Brazil has boom eyt-
tematically visiting and examining the fac
tories and workshops OF Rio and ifs vicinity,
with the object of judging, by personal in
vestigatiou, and by hearing the views OF the
proprietors and Of experts, of the claims put
| forth by the msnufs cturers for higher pro
tectfve taxation OF foreign products OF
similar kind aud of reduction OF the I'm
port taxes on substances employed in the
| Brazilian manufactures.
The Washington Star says: ut Is
rumored that President Arthur receives
more dainty souvenirs than any unmarried
clergyman 10 the land. His aesthetic blue
| bed room at the executive mansion shows
| uumberless handkerchief cases, glove
boxes, pincushions. scent bags, clothes
| brush holders, wall pockets and the like,
mostly labelled remembrance token OF
| friendship aud forget me not or bearing
similar suggestive legends"
Appointment physician says II mothers
did rot take up the senseless prattle Of
babies ard hurl It back at them under the
plea that If IS ''babY talk" children would
| learn sooner how TO talk plain. They re-
| peat the tumble OF syllables that they first
hear. That's the idea Instead OF saying
| of soapy water: 81 doesn't fink It tastes
| dood, you can Just as well have Mr.. Two
year. old observe "The taste Of soap COM
hined with aqueous fluid is not agreeable to
me-"
Manchester Times: ''Mournful effects Of
slang Mrs Loveapple bought new dress.
/ 1t was poult de sole of q delicate grass
| green.To match the dress she had pair of
| boots. They were also poult de sole OF
| delicate grsss-green. Inspired with the
| idea of pleasing her husband, she daintilv
| lifted the hem Of her garment and displayed
a foot worthy of Cinderella. What do
| you think of that, my dearP she tenderly
/ asked her liege lord. Immense y inno-
Gently responded the partner Of her life."
Judge William s. Shurtleff, Of Springfield,
Mass, in a case where wife sought seps-
ton from her husband for having shaken
| her, ruled that any uniustifiable personal
| violence on the part Of the husband gave
| ground foi the wife's living apart. AS the
| law acts on the superstition that the husband
| Is the proper master Of the house, it should
| insure that he shall not use his power inju-
rfousv. In commenting on the evidence,
| he remarked that the fact that the wife was
nervous and irritable only gave reason for
more tender care on the part Of the hus-
band.
A certain Chicago attorney, who has been
quite jealous in behalf of the gamblers,
does not seem to be held in very high re-
gard by Judge Smith. A case came up the
other day in which the former was counsel.
At the time of the call he was oct of the
room So Judge Smith made an exception
to his general rule, and waited a few
minutes. Tired Of waiting, the Judge said:
docs any one know where Mr.. D. isf"
The clerk responded that che could not be
far away, as his overcoat lay on q chair"
"That will do as well as himself; go on with
the case" said the Judge.
The OVERRIDING of the modern Ssthetic
business is illustrated in an exchange by
these incoherent words: Bridget, why hast
thou to me so well recommended by Mrs.
Bongtongs not as l bid thee these many
times eonformed to wishes Of mine express
ed 10 this respect forsooth that though time
beyond laundry day is by two days extend
ed, vet thee no sprinkle to the articles hath
given. Nor doth to me anywhere upon the
range appear the sad iron which ere this in
times that were to and fro to glide was
wont. Peradventure"- "Well mum, in a
Quaker family working was l once, but long
enough not l the language to learn; an IL IN
furren tongue We spakin' be, it's to me
intirely unbeknowest.n
Six years ago young man named John
Trimm, known as somewhat eccentric, left
Lewiston, Me-, for business trip to Port
land. He did not return at the time APP
pointed, and subsequently body found In
Portland harbor was Identified as his, taken
to Lewiston, and with due solemnity buried.
Last Friday Trimm entered an old friends
store in Lewiston in the best of health. On
INQUIRY being made he said be had been in
Minnesota during the past FIVE years, and
that he read in the newspapers accounts of
his drowning and his funeral, but did not
take the pains to inform his friends Of the
mistake, as he did not think It worth the
while tn make any fFlsg about the matter az