Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-10-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

EUROPEAN landlords predict hard
winter. because American wild geese have
flown home.
THE fund, amounting to So, 367, raised
to relieve the families that were made des-
titute by the cyclone that swept ROches-
ter, Mimi, has provided new furniture for
233 families and built between thirty and
forty houses.
The Hon. John Quincy Adams, who
has been five times the Democratic can
didate for Governor of Massachusetts. is
announced to preside at a Republican
meeting shortly to be held in the town of
Quincy, his residence.
y PUMP manufacturing firm in Middle
town, Conn.,. has issued a circular an
nouncing that it will after November 10Th
employ no man who is addicted to the use
of alcoholic liquors. There is a boom for
the pump business concealed in that order.
In New York there is hali-witted fel-
low. known as Johnnie Lookup" on ac-
count of a defect of vision that compels
him to keep his eyes constantly turned
upward. ''Johnnie" has attended funerals
for thirteen years. The poor fellow, when
asked his reasons, only answer that he
'can't help it, but he hopes it twill help
MN hereafter"
THE first cotton factory in California is
to be erected in Alameda county. The
cOmpany's capital is $600,O00. Most of
the cotton is to be transported from Texas,
butultimately southern California will.
it is expected. supply all the cotton
needed. The widow Of Colonel Strong.
the first cotton raiser in California, has
grown 1870 bales on her ranch this year.
THAT no one is a prophet in his own
country, was shown before the Mayor OF
st. Petersburg, who, in the Municipal
Council. proposed the honOrs to be given
, to Turgeneff. A tradesman member Of
the Council, said 10 have been a butcher.
objected to them in the following words:
WHO'S Turgeneff: He was Westerling.
He was not one of us. He only scrubbed.
Tine Lord be with him.
\ YOUNG Canadian girl who had her
picture taken by an Ottawa photographer
refused to receive and pay for it on the
ground that it was not correct likeness.
The photographer. angered by her refusal,
added mOustache and a cigar to the pic
ture and placed it on exhibition in his
window. The young lady thereupOn en-
tered an action for $1,000 damages, but
the matter was compromised by the pho
tographer paying her smaller sum.
THE occasion of Queen Nictoria's re-
cent interdict against excessive card
playing in the royal palaces was that,
during the residence OF the Duke of Teck
at kensngton Palace this season, the
games were often continued all Sunday,
and other days all night. Enormous sums
were frequently lost. In the days of
Charles III. gambling could hardly have
been more popular. The royal memOran-
dunn recommends a correction and refOr-
nation from these excuses.
WILLIAM b. BRONSON, of Waterbury,
Conn.,, was sentenced, in New Haven, on
Tuesday last, to three months in Jail, his
wife to six months and his son to six
months. They had been convicted of
neglecting to provide medical attendance
for married daughter and sister who
had died in childbirth. Judge Culver.
surprised at the jury's finding, asked the
foreman for recommendation to mercy.
as the evidence was that the prisoners
Offense was due mainly to ignorance.
LORD BACoN's signs Of short life are
quick growth, fair, soft skin, soft, fine
hair, early cOrpulence, large head, short
neck. small mouth, fat ear, brittle, sepa-
rated teeth. Some of his signs of long
life are slow growth, hard, coarse hair.
rDuIl. 1fetklHu skitl- IuIIbAS III the
forehead, firm flesh with veins lying high,
wide nostrils. large mouth, hard, gristly
ear, strong, contiguous teeth. He adds
that early gray hair is not significant,
some of the longest liyers having turned
gray in early life.
By previous marriage with Levy, the
cornetist, Minnie Conway, who is now
Mrs. Osmond Tearle and member Of the
Union Square Theatre Company, had two
children. boy and girl. The boy is an
exceedingly bright little fellow. but he
has not vet been made to understand the
WAYS and wherefOres of his mammals
marriage with Mr.. Tearle. In Denver
fortnight ago a gentleman took the child
in his Ian and asked him what his name
was. II don't know" replied the boy.
naiveIv: s.firs' it was Joe levy, and zen it
was Joe Tearle, and dess it's Joe sOmfn
else now.
THERE is no occupation more sought
after in England than employment in the
civil service. The emOluments are not
great, but they compare favorably with
those which commercial clerks and clerks
in banks receive. They are also more Sc
cure, and retiring pension may be looked
forward to, thus precluding the necessity
of clerks pinching themselves during ac-
tive service TO put by something for
rainy day. During 1882 26, 400 candidates
were examined for appointments. The
number for 1881 was p, 243. In 1882 5,940