Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Two Nevada cattle kings are worth
s., O0O, 900 each. and one of them signs his
name s'X.''
THE "art'' of the chiropodist first at
tracted attention in 1916, when a German
practiced on the cOrns Of the Queen Of
England.
No Northern salmon have been taken in
the Delaware for five years past, and the
experiment Of stocking the river has
proved failure.
ACCORDING to the Wien Med. Bldtter,
the most expensive drug now in the mar
ket is ergOtinin; it costs 50 30 grain, or
nearly $1,000 a pound.
DIR. JACHDOVICZ, Of Kew, Russia,
died recently at the age Of 106. He SUI
perintended his large and successful prac-
tIce until within year or two.
All SLAB, Chinaman Of rare. MOngo-
liam attractions, living in Lafayette, Ind,
has been expelled from Chinese society in
that city on account Of his betrothal TO a
white girl.
EIGHTY THOUSAND children in the
North of England form the "Dickey Bird
Society" They are pledged to protect
birds, never to destroy nest, and to feed
birds in winter.
ONE Of the chief features Of interest at
a recent county exhibition in England
was an iron watch, which had been turn
ed out by Kidderminster firm for the
purpose Of showing the extraordinary
malleability Of their metal. The watch is
said to be perfect.
THE big toe Of the girl baby of the Chi
nese Minister at Washington lately under
went the cruel operation Of being bent
almost double and bound in that position,
which. in the Celestial Empire, is an in
sigma Of royal birth. Slow music and
much ceremony accompanied the torture.
The Journal de PIOermet reports that of5O
pupils of the Girls Congregational School
Of st. Mario des Trois Fontaines 81 have
been attacked by a nervous disorder re-
semblng st. Nitus' dance. The cause is
stated to be religious excitement, and the
authorities have ordered the school closed
until the emotional excitement shall have
subsidized.
SIR WILLIAM THOMPSON, professor Of
mathematics in the University Of Glas-
cow, in recent address preached the
idea of the existence of a magnetic sense.
This sense he called the seventh sense, to
distinguish il from our other six senses.
The effect of magnetism on metals is well
, known, and he believed that the quality
of matter in the air which produces such
prOdigious effects on metals must have
its influence pom living body.
DIR. ZUKERToRT, the chess player, gave
a notable exhibition of his skill at the
Manhattan Chess Club, New York, on
Friday night last. Twenty-four chess
tables were arranged in the club parlOrs,
and the doctor undertook to play his "a
opponents at the same time. In four hours
the tournament had ended, leaving him
victor in Is games. He suffered three de-
feats two games were drawn and one
PLAYER withdrew after the first few moves.
The Ministry of Public Works in Paris
has received from its officials a statistical
account relating to the plantations now
existing along the sides of the great pub
lie roads, which are still almost as well
maintained as ever. The total length of
these roads themselves is about $4,000
English miles; and Of this distance no
less than 5000 miles are planted with
lines of trees forming an avenue. The
taste for boulevards has thus spread from
the capital and the big towns to the most
distant parts of France.
A CHASTITY story comes from Bohemia.
A man at Uscheno who was apparently
dead had just been lowered into the grave,
when the mOurners were Mortified to see
shrOud gradually appear, until the corpse
at last sat up. The man said
that throughout his illness he
had heard all that had been said.
He was aware that they thought him dead,
but was unable to make any sign. He
was taken home, and there is now every
prospect of his recovery.
THE marital knot can be tied in other
ways than by an elOpement in case stern
parents object. Miss Amanda Kingley
and Mr.. Henry Dufield, of Sedalia, Mo-,
concluded few weeks ago to make them
selves one, the objections Of the fair maid
ems father to the contrary notwithstand-
ing, and arranged the matter thusly:
After breakfast one morning Amanda
walked out Of her house and over to Mr..
Duflield's, followed by her angry father.
On the latter's arrival there he found
Justice Of the Peace performing the cere-
mOny. with one of the bridegroOm's
brothers in the hallway armed with gun,
another with an axe, and the happy man
himself holding revolver in one hand
and the marriage ring in the other. Old
Mr.. Kingley had nothing to say.
FiGarO says the favOrite German dish
is saucissenkartofiib Observation-Disclosures
wurst, which is crowned with wreath
Of black buildings and hashed meat. Be
low this a cOrnice of sauerkraut, inter-
mingled with picked beet root, forms a
ring which repOses on mould OF smoked
and grilled sausages. The mould itself is
surrounded by kind Of embossed Orna-
mentation, consisting Of seven kinds of
sausages, the names Of which are to be
found in the famous KOchbuch composed
by a professor of chemistry at Heidelberg.
A pea pudding fianked with potato dump
lings, forms the base of the dish over
which is thrown a quantity of currant
jelly and spirits, which is set on fire.
THE project Of celebrating the three
hundredth anniversary of the first Russian
printer, Ivan Feodoroff, who died Deem
Der II, 1888, has been receiving attention
in Russian literary circles. Feodorof, who
was at first a scribe, founded at Moscow