Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The rabbits with which Windsor Park
was stocked a short while ago are making
sad havoc on the farms of those people
who are fortunate" enough to reside
near the royal demesne.
DIR. ISAAC BARTLETT, of Hope, Me-,
who is % years of age and still in good
health and active practice, has lived for
years on bread and milk alone, and says
it is the best food for every one.
SOMEBODY has brought home from Eu-
rope to New York an opera cloak made of
white fur and lined with quilted satin.
People have no idea what a nice garment
this is until they hear it cost $4,000.
On an English farm the roots of a syca-
more tree gave a chance for filth from
cesspOOl to percOlate along them to we'll
Milk cans were washed with the water of
the well. Many persons who were served
with milk from these cans died of typhoid
fever.
4 MAN lately committed suicide in
Partisan restaurant after making a hearty
luncheon. washed down with a bottle of
choice Burgundy. On a slip of paper
found on the table before him he had writ
ten in pencil: "Oysters are excellent for
the stomach, and old wine promotes lon
geYity, but politics disgust man with
life, and that is the reason why | am about
10 kill myself"
GEN. LAFAYETTE'S remains lie ne
elected and almost forgotten in the old
Picpus Cemetery, on the outskirts of
Paris. Very few tourists ever ask to be
shown there, and when they do make the
request refuse to 20 on being told that
they would be compelled to drive through
narrow. crooked streets, entirely deserted
save for the few solemn and glOOmy-lOOk-
ing converts which line the way.
The new edifice to be erected in st.
Petersburg as "A memorial of the late
Gar, and which is to stand upon the spot
where the Car fell, will be an old Musco-
vite structure of the seventeenth century
style. 1t will have six cupolas. resting
on columns of pOrphyry given by the
present Gar. The entrance Will be from
the opposite side of the canal, through
detached belfry and over bridge.
\ PENNSYLVANIA desperate got his
eyes on a deaf and dumb girl, whom he
discovered to be very wealthy. Having a
desire to increase his worldly store. he
set about making love to her and won her
heart. Making arrangements for an I'M
interrupted ceremony, he went after a
clergyman. whom he induced by the
moral suasion of a leveled revolver to
unite him in marriage to The young lady.
DURING the late overflow of the Nema-
ha river, Neb., it is estimated that more
than 5000 snakes were killed within a
mile of Falls City. They were chiefly
garter snakes. but water mOccasins, blue
racers and rattlesnakes were among the
number. A horse was confined in pas
ture surrounded by a wire fence IN the
overlooked district, and when released it
was found that several snakes had taken
refuge in his name.
PEOPLE in Calcutta, India, have been
noticing some curious phenomena in the
appearance of the sky. On Sunday, Sep
TENDER 6. two shocks of earthquake were
followed by a Iurld red light in the sky
which lasted for four hours or more, and
for four days atterward changes were no
ticed in the color of the sun. One morn
ing it appears unusually white, another
morning green, then blue, and at last ac-
counts it had changed to a blueish green.
AMONG the most recent inventions in
gunnery IS a Calling gun which can
throw a battery of 1O4 cartridges with
effect either upward or downward at any
angle. Not only can fort or intrench-
ment within $500 yards be thus rendered
untenable, but scaling parties, should
they ever be introduced into warfare
again, would have a new terror. The new
gun is base loading machine, worked by
a spiral, and Is now in the Colt Armory,
Hartford.
THERE is a great apple crop this year
in France. NJ. Herye Mangon, Deputy of
La Manche, in a speech delivered at an
agricultural meeting, has recommended
his cider-producing constituents to eX-
clude rotten fruit and TO use clear and
clean water as the best means to promote
the consumption of cider. The Normans
are not satisfied with the little favor
which their cherished beverage enjoys in
Paris. where six times more beer and one
hundred times more wine are consumed.
MEXICO will never be inhabited to any
great extent by Anglo-Saxons, according
to Don Patricio Milmo, wealthy CAPT
talist of Monterey, for the very good
reason that there is too much available