Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-10-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST

THE New orleans girls have a fancy
collecting necktie samples from their
beauX, which they work up into cray
chair covers.
II MUST be pleasant for the New Orleans
people to learn that cows which supply
their daries with milk are forced to drink
water from the city cutters.
THERE has been a heavy advance in
house rents in New Orleans this fall.
Houses that formerly rented for S2J ana
$50, now rent easily for So month.
SINCE the first of this month Hawaii
has issued and received double or reply
postcards. The Danish colony Of Green
land also issues and receives such cards;
and the Republic of Guatemala. though
it will not at present issue them. gives
currency to those Of other countries.
AT meeting in the Louisville EXPOSE
ton building it was proposed TO borrow
Sj0,OOO,OOO from English capitalists,
pledging cotton farms and their products
as security, and with the money TO erect
cotton factories III convenient points IN
the South. This subject is to be discussed
by the Cotton Planters Association at
their next meeting, in Nicksburg.
y MAN in Louisiana has horned horse.
The animal is in all respects Il we'll
formed two-year-old colt, without the
slightest popularity with the exception
of his horns, which are about fifteen
inches long. protruding from either side
Of his forehead about two inches above
the eyes, and curying back beautifully
like a Rocky Mountain goat. II is TO be
sold 10 a Snowman.
THEY are not always unwilling slaves
. hl l1a fgrru in
the possession of Ali Saidi, the Cairo deal
er recently arrested by the English, were
six women. three Circasslans and three
negresses. Five of them received their
freedom. but the siXth-a beautiful Cir
cassian girl-refused to accept freedom.
her ambition being, perhaps, TO become
the slave OF some wealthy Egyptian
Pacha.
The building Of a new city hall in Rich
mond may destroy what was the house Of
Edmund Randolph, who was Governor of
Virginia and member of Washington's
Cabinet. 1t was in this house that Eliza
beth Patterson received letter from her
home at Baltimore. telling her Of the ar
rival of Prince Jerome BOnaparte. She II
once resolved to capture him and on the
same evening took a stage for home. enc
did become his wife. and, but for TIE IN
tcrdict Of Emperor Napoleon, would have
been Queen of Westphalia.
ABRAHAM and Joshua had been invited
10 a splendid dinner. Il was impossible
tor Joshua not to make capital out of
such an opportunity; accordingly he
managed to slip a silver spoon into his
boot. Abraham was green with envy at
JOshua's success. for be had not even
manipulated salt-sPoon. But an idea
struck him. MY frents,'' he cried, II
will show YOU some bricks" Taking up
a spoon, he said: You see dees spoon:
Vel. it ecs goner' he cried. passing it up
his sleeve. you will find it in JOshua's
food" 1t was found.
THE latest Internal machine is describ-
ed as the invention Of a Bridgeport man,
who says that the United states Govern
ment has refused to patent it because of
its dangerous character. 1t consists of
brass belt, hollow and lined with steel.
1t Is loaded with compressed air. and by
a simple motion of the arm of the wearer
shoots through an aperture i'm his vest Il
pellet of concentrated poison. warranted
to penetrate the hide of an OK and TO kill
in five minutes. 1t is nOiseless, and the
hole made by the pellet in the skin Of the
victim is almost invisible.
THE women's department in the Boston
fair has created surprise among those who
think that women cannot invent. Some
of the contriyances are ingenious. 4
California woman has devised "A tahlo !
bedstead. There are Il double piano stool. /
Il bride rein. an improved chimney, a /
birch bark life preserver, a yentilating
screen, life-size doll babies, carpet |
stretchers, fioOr-clinging dustpans. kid /
ney cures and stove hampers, a photo |
graph album, pan greaser, a lock |
against burglars and an autumn leaf |
catcher for cisterns.
OF THE maidstone, which, in the West. |
IS popularity believed to insure its pos
SCISSOR against hydrophobia and death by |
snake bite, the Terre Haute Express says:
'Madstones are very rare, and very few |
are known TO exist. There is one in Des 4
MOines. one in keOkuk .One in Louisville. |
and one in TaylOryille, Ill. Many people |
loubt the stones existence. Where the /
nadstOnes come from no one seems to 4
know. Their pos SCISSORS are not able to \
ell. An old Indian chief sand that the 4
stones were found in the stomachs Of eX- /
remely old buck deers. The stone is pO-
-ous. and when it is applied to a wound |
he virus passes through it into the ban
lages.'
\ CHICAGO hackman, who has pleas
INT face and winning ways, has, accord
NJ to the Chicago Herald, gained S40,0
rom his business in the past ten years.
His eye falls on coUntryman getting out
If train to make his first visit to the
,ity. The hackman engages to show the
stranger around town for a dollar. Ere !
hey reach a clothing store he has per-
uaded his customer 10 buy new suit of
lOthes, and then the two must necessari-
Y 20 to a shOemaker's to ret boots to
match. And so the hackman trOts his
nan around until the city has been seen.
nd the rural visitor feels grateful to the
nan who has taken so much pains with
i'm. In the evening the hackman goes
D the traders and draws his commissions.