Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-10-09


President Barrios, OF Guatemala, has been
In Office twelve years, and on salary Of
| 81, 900 month has managed to save little
triie of $4,000, 900. He could pay the ma
tional debt Of his country and have Sl,OOO,-
600 left, but heavy odds are offered that ne
| won't do It.
The first marriage under the new law OF
Canada, permitting marriage with Wife's
sister, has taken place at Cape Breton, n. 5.
The persons married were New Foundland-
| ers. and had crossed to Canada to be united,
as their marriage would be illegal II per-
formed in the colony in which they i've.
Colonel jerome Bonaparte's house on h
street, Washington, which has been in
| course of erection for the past two years,
will soon be completed. 1t is In the Queen
Aune style, with low ceilings and small
panes Of glass The mantels are wonderful
in construction, and hard woods are useI
throughout the building.
The skeleton Of a large mastodon has
Just been unearthed upon the farm Of 10
seph Mitchell, near Paris, KY, but nearly
all the bones crumbIed upon being exposed
| to the air. Some Of the dimensions are thus
given: Fore leg, from ankle to top Of shoul-
| der blade, IA feet z inches; shoulder blade,
! 3 feet inches wide; head, 5 feet in length;
| bird leg, % feet inches; length from head
to tail, 40 feet.
At recent auction sale In Paris 1909
shares in the defuncs Credit de France, on
which nearly 81, 200, 900 had been paid, were
offered at franc apiece. No bidder would
| take them at that price. Ultimately specu-
/ Toko - Ill fbonaauh abaFae
| and agreed to take the lot A holder man
advanced the bid, and finally the collection
| of securities, which had been brilliantly ad-
| vertised, brought about So 40. Even then
the purchaser was out IS 40.
The Washington monument has been
completed to the height Of 80 feet, leaving
245 feet vet to be completed. The present
| weight OF the structure is about 5000 tons
of 2,24O pounds. The tapering off Of the
monument is now so rapid that the addi-
tional weight to the top will probably not
| exceed 10000 tons. Col. Casey says that
he will recommend that Congress at the
next session make a sufficient Appropriation
for the entire completion Of the monu-
ment.
The ex-Empress Eugene has been several
days in Vienna, looking after the painting
Of portrait of the Prince Imperial. Canon,
a well known painter of that city, had been
intrusted with the work, and her visit was
for the purpose of looking after certain
details in its execution. She had already
transmitted to him the uniform which the
| Prince wore during the Zululand campaign.
It is said that she received absolutely no
calls during her stay, except those OF the
painter.
An ingenious mechanic who lives at James
town, N. Y, has constructed perfect loco
motive, which is said to be the smallest in
the world. The engine is only eight and
| quarter inches long, with tender ten inches.
| The pumps throw one drop of water per
| stroke. AS much as 5S5 screws were re-
quired to put the parts together. The en-
CINE itself weighs one and half pounds
and the tender two pounds and two and
! half ounces. The mechanic was at work
upon the locomotive for eight years, though
odd intervals of time only were given to the
labor.
Canadian volunteers in camp are not
exempt from trials, and one son of Mars
succumbed to the grief excited by his pri-
vations. The breaking down occurred
while the chaplain was preaching on Sun
day. The clergyman noticed the powerful
emotion of the soldier, and, after service,
| asked the young man the cause of his
distress, supposing It to proceed from some
struggle with his conscience. "Oh," said
the sobbing private, 81 do so miss my
feather bed, and don't like sleeping on
the hard ground" The chaplain is dis
couraged.
Alexander Dumas was among the most
decorated of authors. He was often twitted
for the number of patents of chivalry which
were lying on his secretaire, and for the
| crosses, stars and colOred ribbons aTtistically
arranged on the chimney piece of his study.
"Why, my dear Dumas" exclaimed one of
his friends, who deplored in secret the
emptiness Of his own button hole, 'what do
all of these baubles remind you OFF," "Oh,
of the fable of the fox and the grapes!' re-
torted the author of "Monte Christie" put
ting his interlocutor to confusion.
Many good stories are told of witty old
Father stinson, Bsptist'minister, and this
one: He was chaplain of the Ninth New
York Cavalry, whose Colonel liked to take
bis regiment through the puddles. One
day the chaplain rode around them; so the
| Colonel at the close of the drill said to the
officers: "If Chaplain SHnson is afraid to
ride through muddy water for fear Of soil
| ing his clothing, will carry him across the
| puddle myself.' "Thank yOu," the chap
lain said "but as the government provides
horses, don't see any reason why should
ride on jacksss."
The Baltimore american says that this is
the season Of the year when the tramp
moves southwark, and, like other birds OF
passage, seeks the genial South. The tramps
have been spending the summer in the
North, some Of them going as far as to Can
| ada: but soon the frOsts will render that re-
gion inhospitable, so now they come, not
| Fastening, but quite leisurely beating"
their way toward the Gulf Of Mexico. The
farmer will now look after MS pigs ana chlcK-
| ems. A lazer set will come several weeks
later to take up their winter residence in the
| jails and warehouses;.
Emile lola, whose father was an Austrian,
was lately visited by distant relative from
Vienna, who thought he would do him
favor by bringing him bundle of German
| papers containing criticisms of Zolas novels
| and theories. But lola did not seem anx-
ious to open the bundle. 81 have" said he,
| "long ago begged my publisher and my
friends not to send me any more criticisms.
| For long time | received whole packages
every day. l am aware that the Germans
| discuss my writings much more In detail
than the French, but it is the French who
buy my books, and that is to me the princi-
pal consideration. l write for the public,
not for the critics"
Mr.. Gladstone has again denied that he
sympathized with the South in our civil
war. From Canterbury he was recently sd-
dressed on the subject by gentleman who
had heard a lecturer. in arguing that Mr..
| Gladstone's foreign policy was nearly always
wrong, declare that he had sympathiZed
with the Southern cause. This gentleman
wrote to Mr.. Gladstone asking IL it were
true, and from one of his secretaries re-
ceiyed the following response "In reply
TO the note which Mr.. Gladstone received
from you, am directed by him to inform
| YOU that the statement sttributing to him
| sympathy with the South in the American
war is not true, and is contrary to authentic
facts long ago made public"
The London Telegraph says that some
weeks ago a young gentleman Of good
parts and great promise, the eldest son of
a well known Bucharest banker, Mr.. Rosen-
| thai. blew his brains out because he had
| the misfortune to lose sum Of 10000 lei
| about aSOO-betweenihis fathers house and
the chief post office, whittier he had been
epioined to convey that amount in bank
| notes to be registered and dispatched to one