Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-08-22
GENERAL EOFEe.

The LOUISVILLE C0nf1eT-sf0Wf7ldt suggests
that Arab take a pyramid and a camel and
start little Egypt Of his own somewhere.
The Herdic coaches that were run on
Broad and Market streets, Philadelphia,
have been withdrawn because they did not
pay.
The Hartford Times uukindly remarks
that "fox hunting in Newport is like chas-
lug an AlderneY COW round e bArnyard and
calling it buffalo hunt"
At Salt Lake City fish have become so nu-
merous in the city water bitches, that the
water masters have been instructed to pro-
vide means to prevent them coming through
from the main streams.
The Mayor of Grand Forks, Dakota Ter
rItory, is reported to have put his mother
IA law to an excellent use. He is alleged to
have made her BIS victim In a swindling
operation In which 100000 is involved.
She will prosecute him accordingly, with all
the m aieVolence which her daughters rela-
tionship with him will justify.
The sins of "Chinatown," San Francisco,
are summed up in one months record of
arrests, to wit: Visitors to tan games, IS;
keeping lottery agencies, ID; visitors to lot
terry places, II; having lottery tickets in
possession, ID; keeping opium places, 3;
visitors to opium places, 20; battery, 20; OBJ
structiDg sidewalk, /; total, 161. or these
Al were sent to the county jail and 2 to the
house of correction. Cash received from
fines, 81, 279.
About 1000 ounces Of mutilsted silver
coin has been redeemed at the Philadelphia
mint, and the business of the debasers has
been narrowed down until only three classes
are great sufferers from the mutilation.
The saloon keepers and the brewers are nat
urally at the head of the list, but next in
order are the churches. The authorities
state that great deal of silver that cannot
be passed In any other manner finds its way
into the church contribution plate.
The extravaganza of the Russian Grand
Duke Nikolai Nlkolayevitch, commander OF
the army of the Danube in the late Russo
Turkish war, is such that the Gar, his
nephew, has adopted strenuous measures 10
keep him from mourning further debts. The
Grand Duke can only dispose of his salary
as Field Marshal, the 900 rubles due him
annually as Russian Grand Duke being con-
fiscsted by the Emperor, who employs the
money IN defrsying his uucle's household
expenses and satisfying his creditors. The
Gar himself is extremely economical.
at Craig-Y nos Castle a complimentary
address was presented recently to Nine.
Adelina Patti by the inhabitants Of the dis
trict which the prima donna has made her
home in Wales. The address conveyed an
expression of the pleasure and pride which
the inhabitants Of the district felt in having
as their neighbor one so famous, and who
also took so deep an interest in all that per
tanned to the welfare of the neighb0rhOOd.
The company were entertained at luncheon,
Nine. Patti personally expressing the great
pleasure which the presentation had afford
ed her.
The writer Of this paragraph remembers
trying to pay Charles Mathews graceful
compliment: "My friend, Mr.. Douglas
Thompson" said l, ''the we'll known pro-
lessor OF elOcutiOn, tells me that he believes
you could play the part Of Hamlet better
than any actor on the English stage.n
"Give my compliments" returned the I'M
grateful comedian, "to your friend, Mr..
Douglas Thompson, the well known pro-
lessor OF elOcution, and inform him that l
shall endeavor to retain his good opinion
by never attempting the character In ques-
ton. "-LO7idO1 Society.
A Tennessee convict has just left the pen
itentisry after serving six terms, sggregat
ing thirty five years. He is now seventy
FIVE years old. Is is forty years since his
first sentence began. No officer or prisoner
is now in the penitentisrY who was there
when he first appeared as a convict. He
has been married four times, and four
times he has known the sweets of divorce.
Though he goes out without a relative or
friend to greet hia, his spirits are light. He
never has been sick In these years OF i'm
prisonment. He announces his purpose to
live decentlY the rest of his days.
Some days ago, while the workmen at the
White House were engaged in tearing up the
old brick sewer running under the building
prior to substituting an iron pipe sewer of
modern design, they discovered large stone
well, which was filled almost to the surface
With debris. and which had evidently been
dug for many years. The old sewer, which
was built when the White House was origin
ally constructed, was laid directly over the
well, showing that the latter must have been
built over hundred years ago None OF the
employees or servants at the White House
knew of the existence Of this well.
A woman called at the City Clerks Office
in Portland, Me-, a short time ago, and
wanted a marriage certificate, and when The
Clerk asked the mans name, she said she
did not know, but he was outside, and she
would ascertain. She soon returned and
told his last last name. "What is his first
name ?" asked the Clerk. There" said
she, 81 forgot to ask him l will go back
and learn it." A month after she called
again, aud wanted to know II the m an could
marry anyone but her on that certificate.
The Clerk asked her II she was not married,
and she said no the fellow had stolen the
certificate and had run away with her
daughter, and she wanted to know If he
could get married on certificate that she
had paid for.
There is said to be more dress than ever
before at Bar Harbor, Mount Desert. a
correspondent writes: Gas general thing
It is not the women this time. They, in
their close fitting Jersey jackets, look
finely; but the young swells who appear in
three or four different suits a day show
their strong Intellectual development. The
hotel sWells affect white flannel SUITS which
are soon changed for some other rig. Some
OF them come out in red stockings, white
knee breaches, and blue jackets or blouses;
gray bicycle suits are plenty, with the short
skirted blouse, jacket, coat, or whatever 1t
may be called plated and gathered at the
waist with belt. It is the fashion every
where for young women to wear great
bunch Of wild flowers at their waists, dali
sizes being preferred"