Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-05-02

of next month.
The new Greek Minister to England, Sii
Peter Brailas Armeni, is considered the
most able diplomatist in Greece, and is also
well known for his literary attainments.
One of the most successful hunters and
trappers of Maine has the use of but one
arm. With that he can bring down fox 81
longer range than almost any other man IL
Oxford county.
Forty thousand dollars were recently paid
by a Freuchman to an Englishman for the
latter's collection of old postage stamps
An exchange thinks the fool killer should
stand In the middle of the channel and kicR
both ways.
The story is told of an applicant for the
degree of NJ. D., In Providence, that having
said that under certain circumstances the
patient should be isolated, and having been
asked the meaning OF the word, he REPLIED
"WhY, put on ice."
Mr.. Stedman says of Mr.. Swinburne In
Harper that the English poet cared for little
IN youth except poetry, riding and swim.
ming-in the latter he has always been pro-
ficient-and, being bred by the sea, was
bold cragsman, scaling the steepest cliffs.
The sum Of IS 81, which remained Of the
fund used In celebrating in Portsmouth, n
n on the 22d of February, 1882, the cen
tenary of Washington's birth, was deposit
ed in the local savings bank against the BIZ
centennial celebration, and now, at the ex
piration of half the time, amounts to
$143 SO.
The New Orleans TImes-Denaocrdt of April
25 says: "For the same reason that England
has perpetuated In commemorative marble
the form of Cromwell, and has preserved ss
browning glory the fame of Hampden,
America will guard with an equal pride OF
possession the names of Davis and OF Lin
coin, of Lee and OF Grant" Possibly this
isn't true.
As illustrating the Importance Of making
the date on pulpit notices, says The COngre
qationalist, a story is current of stranger in
a certain pulpit who read the announce.
ment of the funeral of a lady buried nearly
a year before. and whose husband happened
to be in the congregation with his second
wife for the first time. The notice had been
on a pulpit shelf all this time, and some
how got mixed with others given for that
day.
It is announced that the wife OF Senator
Malone has won in Washington the distinc
ton OF wearing handsomer jewels than does
any other woman in official society. Her
diamonds used long ago to be matter OF
comment; and when she returned from
Europe lately her husband presented her with
additions to her jewel case valued at $40
600. Well. be can afford it. So could any
other man II be had ever been in position to
wreck big railroad aud had done 1t.
Mr.. Henry W. Longfeilow, writing to 8
Canadian inquirer on the 9th of February
last, said: "The poem of 'Evangeline' ic
so far historical only as It is founded on the
dispersion of the Acadisns. The story 1t.
self, of q maiden separated from her lover
and, after lifelong wanderings, finding hin
diving in hospital, is legend or tradition
The name EvaUgeline is Of my own lnven-
ton, as are tire details of the poem. [ en-
sorry to say that never was at Grand Pre-
l. is related of General Jubal Early that
in company with brother officer, he hsd
attended church once where the theme o.
the preacher was the Judgment Dsv, wheI
the earth and sea should give up their dead
"What would you do, General, II all those
people the prescher spoke of should pop W
around vous" asked his companion. It wal
during the closing DAYS Of the Confederacy
and, after a moments silence, Genera
Early, with characteristic profanity, re-
sponded: 81 would conscript every -
mothers son of them
The St. Louis Republican calls attention t.
the queer character of our tariff as exhibited
in the duties paid on imported vegetables
T. says: potatoes, beans and cabbage
are the food of the masses; yet the govern
ment exacted of the consumers of these i'm
port duties to the amount OF 1914 OOO-in
creasing their cost to every poor consumes
by that much. Strangely enough sauer-
kraut paws no duty; It is admitted free
while cabbage, which is the raw material o
which 1t Is made, pays tariff OF ten pc
cent"
When the crowd rushed to the Jame
house after the shooting, Mr.. Craig sent on'
of his most trustworthy policemen there
He was taking a view of the situation, ant
happened TO pick up sort Of purse that wa
living on the table In the room where JESSE
law The seven year old son of the dead
man told the policeman to put 1t down. He
paid no attention to him. The boy picked
up large revolver, cooked It, aimed 1t a.
the policeman. and said: "Thst is my mann
mas. Did you. put IT. down." Wasn't h'
a chip of the old block?
A modern Jonah, whom prosperous COM
muniiies would do well to avoid, has jus
shaken the dust OF Nevada from bis feet
Before starting thence for Oregon he made
this concise but comprehensive statement o.
the ill-luck which has bounded him: IS
went 70 Maine and the ice crop failed
went to Florida and the frost killed all th'
gardens and orchards; | went to Mississippi
and they had a flood; l went to California
and the people began 70 die with SIN all-pox
Since l struck this State the Comstocl
mines have never paid dividend, and II
go to Oregon l am willing to bet they will
have drought"
The Boston provision inspector during
the first week In April seized and condemn
ed $50 cqrcasses of what is called "bot
veal" TIE term 'bob veal'' is used by
butchers TO denote a slaughtered calf too
young TO be properly used as food. In all
dairy countries milk Is SO valuable that 4
dos not pay TO raise the early spring calves
AMI in the Eastern States il is customary Il
XIII the c3lves at from three to six DAYS ole
and sell them for about the price the hide
will bring. The nasty things are, OF course
not fit 70 eat, but dishonest butchers and
merketmer drive great traffic In their fl ISL
"bobs" are clipped every Monday to Boston
from Maine and Vermont. The inspector
are determined to put a stop to the trs ffic a!
far as possible. They often fiud calves II
market in whose stomachs milk has never
been.
The London Lancet says: NERVOUS dis
eases and weaknesses increase in a country
as the population comes to live on the hosl
of the warm blooded animals. This is
point to which attention has not been ade.
quately directed. 'Meat'-using that tern
in fits popular sense-is highly stimulating
and supplies proportionally more exciting
than actually n0urishing pabulum TO tn,
nervous system. The meat eater lives a
high pressure. and is, or ought to be,
peculiarly active organism, like predatory
animal, always on the alert, walking rapidly
ard consuming large quantities OF oxygen
In practice we find that the meat eater doe
not live up to the level Of his food, and as
consequence he cannot or does not take II
enough oxygen to satisfy the eXigencies o
his mode of life. Thereupon follow MANY
IL not most, of the ills to which highl,
civilized and luxurious meat-eating classes
are LIABLE"
"a gentleman from Candelaria," says thu
Carson New appeal, Uniforms us that tn,
smallest baby in the world was born in tina
camp at noon on the Sd ultimo. The fathe
is a miner in the employ of the Northern
Belle mine and weighs 100 pounds TIL,
mother is a stout, healthy woman, weighinl
perhaps leo pounds. The child is male
as perfectly formed as any human being
can be, but upon its birth it only weighed
eight ounces. Its face is about the size o
a horse chestnut, and the size of its limb
can be imagined when we say that rims
worn on the little finger OF its mother wa
easily slipped over its foot nearly up to tn