Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-24

VICTOR HUGO is believed 70 nave fafel9
/ criticised adversely literary matter sub
mitted by writers for his opinion. BY
saying kindly word to and for each all-
thor he made of the latter an admIrlng
I friend of his own.
A RIOTOUS OUTBREAK occurred sunday
at the town of Chaves, Portugal, in connee-
ton with local grievance. A peasant
was killed and Colonel wounded. ms
/ differs from an Arkansas riot, as IN the
4 latter both the men would have been Colo
nels.
! THE APPLE CROP of Kansas is so large
this season that it is expected to yleid
more bushels OIL that fruit than ever be-
/ fore, despite the destruction caused by
/ wind and hail storms. On single tWlg.
+ about nine inches long, recently, nineteen
4 apples were counted.
! Up TO DATE all the bills and claims pre-
scented against the late Spanish Minister
Barca's estate foot up less than twenty
( five dollars, il is said, and financial en-
/ barrassment, unless it might have been
altogether prospective, is no longer
! thought of as an explanation OF his sui
eide.
AT A FAIR in Agram, Austria, where
the privilege of kissing the handsomest
woman in the town was put up at auc-
/ ton. the highest bid only reached the I'M
/ gallant figure of about ten cents. A mean
bachelor says that anybody who has ever
/ seen an Austrian woman Will condemn
/ this as eXtravagant.
IT Is PROPOSED in Dresden to collect
/ all the old steel pens and sell them for
| fund to educate poor children. The steel
! of pens is of the best and can be used IN
many ways. There is already IN Ger
D 49, Ffr~r0a 1ls VxTh lfAh :
/ the tips cut from the ends OF cigars for
similar charitable purpose.
IN the House of Lords, among the baro-
! nets and in the various illustrious orders
/ of knigbthOod of England are to be found
/ the names of numerous soldiers who owe
/ their positions to their successful she'd
| ding of human blood. Not a single medi-
| cal man has a seat in the gilded chamber;
/ and there are not more than dozen medi-
! cal baronets or knights in the three king
/ doms.
CAPTAIN RHODES is now reported as
/ laughing at the Niagara whirlpool. He
saws he "can just play with that water"
! Let him laugh. The Chief of Police at
! Niagara saws he will arrest Rhodes if he
tries to 20 into the water. If he would
I arrest some Of those hackmen who poster
people there the public would be better
I DEOHlcu. Leu hnOutS sUs InC hliAi pun
! will probably look after him.
A PHILOSOPHER Of the New York Her
dd thus sums it all up: Life consists
of cutting teeth in childhood, of the pangs
of upreuuited love i'm youth, of dyspepsia
in manhood of a fear of death in old age,
and an oppressive certainty that the law
yers Will contest your will and pocket
/ most of your money!" Cheerful view Of
life. He must have spoken just after dis
covering that he had taken bad quarter.
Mr.. ELAN r. JEwErT has offered to the
| Church Charity Foundation of Buffalo a
lot of ground in that city on certain con-
dtiOns, the principal of which is that a
chapel to the memory of the late Rev DIR.
Edward Ingersoll, to be called the "In-
gersoll Memorial Chapel at cost Of
not less than $4,000, shall be erected on
the property. and shall be ready for Occu-
patton within three years from date. The
Board of Managers OF the Foundation
/ have accepted the gift.
4 CHANGES in the James river have made
an island of jamestown, completely sep
arating it from the mainland, and about
all that remains of the first English set
Element of Virginia is the dIsmantled
tower of the old church. 1t was here that
/ PocahOntas embraced the Christian faith,
/ and was baptized by the name of Rebecca.
The font used on that occasion now stands
/ i'm the chancel of Christ Church, Will
Iamsburg. Here also POcahontas was
married in 1913 to John Rolph.
BRINDLEY. the ablest and most original
canal engineer the world has yet seen,
| was so illiterate that he could hardly
write mis- own name; while George Ste
| phenson. to whom we owe the greatest
invention Of the nineteenth century.
could neither read nor write until he was
Is wears old Would early education
have assisted ore impeded the genius Of
these two remarkable men? 1t is prob
able that, whether trained or unframed
in boOk-learning, Brindley and Stephen
son would still have been great men.
AN ELECTRIC MACHINE, designed to
1 register and record the votes of par
liamentary bodies, is to be placed in one
of the rooms Of the capitol at Washing
ton as an experiment, which, if it works
| satisfactorily, will likely be introduced
into the House of Representatives. BY
| this system yea and nay call of the
| House of Representatives can be made. it
is claimed, in less than a minute. The
machine prints the name of each member
and indicates on what side he votes. 1t
also indicates the absentees and those
/ who are paired.
As CAPS in some countries denote the
status of the feminine wearer, hair
dressing IN Japan tells of the lady's con-
ditiOn. There a girl at the age Of nine
wears her hair tied up in red scarf, the
| forehead being left bare, with the eNcep-
ton of a couple Of locks, one on each side.
| When she is of marriageable age she
combs her hair forward, makes it up in
the shape of a butterfly or fan and deco
| rates it with silver cord and balls. n
.-I,o h1rcb Al
twists her hair around a tortoise shell
pin. while an incOnsOlable widow cuts
her hair short. These last are said to be
rare.
A PARAGRAPH published in this column
the other day relative to feat performed
by VIM. b. Stewart in the way of micro
seOpical writing has elected information
of a similar performance that seems to
cast that of Mr.. Stewart in the shade.
! VIM. 4. Shaw. stenOgrapher for ext nited
States Attorney General Wayne McNeagh,
has written in the space of postal card
a correspondent who has seen it, he says
| 1862 words, being st. Matthew's Gospel,
from the first word down to the word
'him" in the 9th verse of the ninth chap
ter. The correspondent adds: ''The card
cannot be read with the naked eye, though
it was written with such and very fine
mapping pen"
AMONG the "reminiscences indulg-
ed in consequent upon the death of
Judge Black we find the following
incident: ''The acquaintance of Judge
Black with Mr.. Buchanan began in lS43,
when they were introduced on the floor
of the House of Representatives. Just
as they clasped hands for the first time,
Mr.. MCGOWAN, a member from Philadel-
phia, pulled out knife and stabbed Mr..
BrattOn, fellow member, then editor of
a paper at Carlisle called the keystone,
now the Volunteer, of the same place.
Bratton jumped over his desk and ran,
MCGOWAN following, cutting at him as
they went. All around the floor they
pushed until separated by friends, but
neither was badly hurt. 1t was queer
enough that the personal acquaintance of
these men began under the shadow of
tragedy, and their official association dis
solved on the threshold of war"
BRIGHT BITS.