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

IIEAlS VI lNlE4tAE4SI ..
Mr.. SURGEONS popularity as an au-
thor exceeds ANYTHING known in the his
tory Of English literature OF his John
PIoughman's Talk" first published in
1865, 320.0O0 copies have been sold.
OSTRICH chicks are Matching out at the
ostrich farm near Anaheim. Cal, at the
rate of one a day. When they first come
out of the shell they are about the size of
a half grown duck. They have good appe-
tites and grow rapidly.
NASHVILLE has passed city ordinance
against fortune telling. An astroloEist
told an alderman that he was 10 marry a
widow worth $Ij0,O00. He married one
who is i'm debt to the tune of $4,000, and
he doesn't want to see anyone else.
WILLIE LYONS, of Des Moines, Iowa,
while PLAYING with the works Of a clock,
applied his tongue to the cogs after he had
started the wheel. The tongue was drawn
i'm. and boy and clock were insepdrable
until iewellcr took the wheels apart.
GOVERNOR JARVIS, of North Carolina,
first rendered the position of Associate
Justice of the supreme Court Of the state
to the Hon. David Schenck, of Greensboro,
and he declined on the ground that the
salary was not sufficient to support his
family properly The Governor then
rendered the position To ex-senator Merri-
mon, and he accepted it.
Mrs. LANGTRY heads the poll with SO
votes in a beauty competition in England.
Miss Daisy Vein runs her closely with
los votes. Miss Fortescue, the tiance Of
Niscount Garmoyle, receives ll9: the &C.
centric Mrs. Weldon, %, and 1.-THE peer
less Evelyn Rayne," only IL. n new
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who is the handsomest man among her
Maiestys subjects.
THE famous little boat Maid of the Mist,
which recently took the perilous trip
down the Niagara rapids, has been
brought back across the country and
launched at the former starting place. 1t
has been decided to repaint and repair
her. and send her down the rapids again.
The date fixed is October 10, but may be
changed. She will not be used for adVer-
Using purposes on this trip.
AT ONE of the colored churches in Char
IOtte. y. c.. on a recent sunday evening,
a woman shouted 50 energctically that
she disIocated her jaw, making her mouth
stand open to its fullest capacity. She
left the church and went through the
streets with her mouth standing wide
open, followed by the greater part of the
congregation, in search of doctor, and
one being found the unhingcd member
was forced back into its place.
MIR. CARLISLE" Congressman W. Il.
Cox. of North Carolina. is reported as say
ing, "is in one sense too great man to be
the best kind of presiding officer. He is
a great lawyer, and, like all other great
lawyers. sees both sides of case 50 clear
" hat he never becomes strongly parti-
In fonsanupuep bp lacks some of
the qualities of a great leader. Mr.. Ran
dali is a great leader. When he rises in
his seat, waves his hard, and says Rise,
gentlemen the members rise. some of
them hardly knowing why"
ACCORDING to the New Orleans Times
Democrat. the Seminole Indians, located
in the Everglades of Florida, do not be-
lieve in Lincoln's proclamation nor the
Fifteenth Amendment. \ few months
ago Chief Tiger Tail became displeased
with one of his cOlored servants, and
brought him into Fort Myers to offer him
for sale When informed that the ne
groes were all free, he calculated:
'.White mans Niger mebbe free. but In
dams niger no." Whereupon Tiger
Tail grasped the darkey by the nape
of the neck, pushed him into the canoe,
and padded back to the Everglades.
THE Times war correspondent in China
is Mr.. Il. A. Colquhoun, a Scotchman, who
wrote the book of the season, Across
Chryse." For the .StaRdurd another
Scotchman, young Cameron, is on the war
path. He was connected originally with
the Indian press, and. having exhibited
considerable capacity in the Afghan cam
paigns, has since been one of the Standard
staff. Mr.. Forbes will probably not go,
as he is at lOggerheads with the Ddity
NetrS, and is about becoming a Benedict.
Besides he was late in entering the pro-
fessiOn, and is now much past his prime.
JUDGE DAVID DAVIS was once making
a deposit at a Washington bank, and
stood counting a large pile Of money at a
desk. \ welI-dressed young man stepped
M and, with a bow and smile, said
Judge. YOU have dropped bill" sure
enough, there lay clean, crisp, genuine
81 bill at the depOsitor's feet. Thank
YOU" blandly answered the Judge plac-
ing his pOnderOus right boot over the bill
on the floor, and calmly res uming his
counting. The sharper. taken aback by
the GOODNESS of the proceeding, disap-
peared. and the Judge was s. ahead by
the transaction
THERE is something singular about a
cinder. boy will stick his head out of
a car window and ride a hundred miles
with cinders flying all around his head,
and he will never get cinder in his eye,
while a quiet lady, with 4 veil on. in
seat remote from an open window, will
have a cinder in her half-closod eye before
she has gone a mile. and she is all broke
up. 1t beats all what difference there
is in people about cindcrs. \ hOmely
woman might get a cnder in her eye, and
nobody would pay any attention to her
any more than tell her not to rub her eve
very much, but let "A handsome young
woman catch a cInder in one of her beau
tiful eyes. and the first tear that comes to
the eye softens the heart of every man in
the car, and they all want to probe for ii
and offer some assistance.
THE Signal Service Bureau has a chief
10 second lieutenants, 80 sergeants, 30
corporals and 800 privates. In addition
To these there are ten captains and first
lieuteuants who are regular army officers
and are detailed for some special duty
from which they are liable TO be recalled
At any minute. These men are scattered
an over the country at the different
stations. of which there are about 500,
one-half of them being managed Nolunta-
rily by amateur savants. Included
i'm the force of 100 clerks in the bureau
in Washington. who receive ana ar
range the reports sent in three times
day from all the stations, and VINO keep
record Of all that concerns the bureau.
The bureau is also publishing series OF
papers, such as Prof. William FerrePs |
Movements of the Atmosphere" Onay |
Taft Sherman's Meteorological and |
PHYSICAL Observations on the East Coast /
of British America" Lieutenant Dun |
wOody's Geographical Distribution Of |
Rainfall in the United States" and other |
works that might not be published except |
through the medium Of such an institu-
ton. :