Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-10-18
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The INV kimball House IN Atlanta
will contain 469 rooms.
\ NEW ORLEANS PAPER urges the re-
moyal Of filth from the streets LecaISe it
makes an unpleasant impression on
strangers.
IT Is ESTIMATED that the new buildings
to be erected in Knoxville, Tenn, in the
coming twelve months, will cost $1,000
O00. Northern capitalists are to build a
100000 hotel there.
WHILE removing the old Catholic par
sonage to Liberty street, Batavia, y. Y,
recently. the workmen found a rats nest
made Of about $500 worth of ''shinplas-
ters' in pretty good state OF preserNa-
ton.
\ CAT in the Tribune building, New
York. rides in the elevator from one floor
to another. mewing when she wishes 10
be let out. and never making mistake
as to where she wants to 20. She never
uses the stairs when the elevator Is run
ming.
\ CoLoRED PASTOR led his congrega-
tion to the diamond field in Houston. Tex,
where the boys were playing base ball on
SUNDAY. and there the brethren and Sis
tiers kneIt in PRAYER. They occupied all
the bases, and thus eflectually stopped
the game.
IL SOME parts of England and Scotland
insanity prevails much more than in
others. Nottingham being twice as mad
as Leeds, and London twice as mad as
Sheffield. Out OF 10000 inhabitants-Ot
Sheffield Il. Liverpool -. Manchester y,
Birmingham so, and London 10 are IN
sane.
GOVERNOR CROSBY, of Montana, says
that one day, when the Presidential party
were crossing dry gulch in northern
Wyoming, they saw written in charcoal
over the door Of a vacant cabin the fol-
lowing: "Only nine miles to water and
twenty miles from wood. No grub in the
house. God bless our home"
MGR. CAPEL was asked what struck
him most forcibly in this country, and he
replied. The precociousness of children
He SAYS that while in Baltimore the Arch
bishop took him to call on lady. While
making the visit a boy aged Years came
in the room. and his mother said, M y
son. speak to the Archbishop" lie Obeyed
readily. and, holding out his hand, said
How do, Arch:'
THE score of convicted murderers in
California cannot be hanged until the
Supreme Court has decided legal point
in the new constitution. They were con-
yicted on information and belief" in
stead Of on indictments presented by the
grand jury. The lawyers who drafted the
new constitution held that this was i'm
conflict with the Federal Constitution.
and the United States Circuit Court, TO
which a case was appealed, took this
ground.
THE latest novelty in the way of stage
curtains is at the Edinburgh Lyceum
Theatre. This curtain, which is the in
Vention OF Mr.. Phipps, the architect OF
the theatre, is made of wrOught-irOn
plates quarter Of an inch thick, and
consists Of two seams with a space be-
tween them Of six inches. The time taken
in raising or lowing it is less than min
ute, and Mr.. Phipps claims that bis novel
curtain forms an effectual fire-resisting
division between the stage and the audi
forum.
To PERPETUATE the memory of the
ravages caused by the German shells in
the large greenhouses of the Natural
History Museum in Paris, which were
unriyaled in the whole world, the follow
ing inscription has been engraved on one
Of the walls Of the building: 1.-The Jardin
Z DIES Plantes Medicinales. founded at Paris
in 1886 by an edict of the King, which be-
came the Natural History Museum in
1874, was bombarded under the reign OF
William l., King Of Prussia, Count Bis
marck, Chancellor, by the Prussian army
in the night Of Jan. :, 1871. Until then it
had been respected by all parties and all
national and foreign powers
CDR. CHARLES &. BEATTY. OF Steuben-
vile, Ohio, had peculiar method Of dis
posing Of his wealth. At first he prayer
fully set apart one tenth Of his income for
the cause of Christianity, but when the
financial revulsiOn Of 1881 wrought wide
spread distress he resolved that One-fOurth
should 20 to religion and charity. After
this. in view Of the fact that, as he saws
in the written pledge found since his re-
cent death. the Lord had blessed him pc
cuniarily 'beyOnd what he had ever eX-
pected or desired" he made a covenant
never to allow the principal of his fortune
to exceed $4,000, and that all above this
should be given away. Accordingly. the
value Of hi estate is $4,000. and the az
gregate gifts amounted to S5OO,000
A STORY OF Mrs. Carlyle's recently pub
Ished is that on a certain day Carlyle was
expected to arrive home after short alb
sence. Mrs. Carlyle had done "char-
woman's work. to get all in perfect order
for her husbands return. When all was
complete-his dinner ready, his armchair
IN its usual attitude, his pipe and tobacco
as he loved to find them, all looking as
comfortable AS pOSsible-MTs. CARLYLE sat
down at last to rest with quiet mind.
He arrived, and. latter he had Just greet
ed me. what do YOU think he did: He
walked to the window and shook il, and
asked. Where's the wedge Of the window +"
and until we had found that blessed wedge
nothing would content him. He said the
window would rattle and spoil all. That's
just Carlyle"
THE AMERICAN BEAUTY, Miss Cham
berlayne. continues TO attract great at
tention from the Prince of Wales. but
her native good sense prevents her head
being turned with royal flattery. and the
Young lady is nearly as friendly with the
Princess as with her husband. The
Prince admires Miss Chamberlayne i'm
menseIy, and, indeed, appears to have
taken the whole family into his affections.
He declares that MissChamberlayne should
have been born a Duchess-that her man.
ner and bearing are perfect, while her
beauty needs no praise from him. When
ever he is i'm the same place as the fair
AmericaiHe (which is pretty often he
dimes with the family nearly every day.
The Prince Of Wales is admittedly one Of
the most fascinating men in Europe, and
the Chamberlaynes are evidently much
fiattered by his attentions. MISS Chahn-
berlayne, however. is much liked by other
members Of the English royal family be-
sides the Prince and Princess OF Wales.
She has just returned from long visit 10
the Duke and Duchess of Albany.
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