Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AN ALABAMA MAN has child with
three tongues. Of course, it's a girl.
AN UPRIGHT JERsEYNIAN at Trenton
makes salmon out of Albany sturgeon.
THE NATIONAL Lawn Tennis AssOcia-
ton will begin tournament at Newport
August y.
THE PROPER THING at Elberon is to
have Punch, Truth, Saturday ReUielc, etc,
living conspicuously on the drawing room
table, so very English you know"
A WASHINGTON DETECTIVE arrested
a Boston detective as he stepped from
train, installing him for a "orOok,"
Probably it was not an unnatural mis-
take.
A MAN failed in trying to commit sui
eide. at Mansfield, Mass, and next day
railroad train ran over him accidentally.
MEN who can swim easily elsewhere
are often drowned in the lakes of Wyo-
ming, where a high altitude reduces the
buoyancy of the water.
A CONNECTICUT RAILROAD has an
order that dogs shall be carried only in
the baggage cars, The rich women going
to the country are angered. One Of them
rode on a brOken-dOwn chair among the
trunks with her pet rather than leave it.
THE INTOXICATING power of lager was
in question before a Memphis court and
numerous experts testified to capacity
for % to 80 glasses a day without intOX-
icatiOn, and one witness said 8 glasses be-
tween and p. IN, made him blind
drunk.
THE CENTENARY of the Bank of Ireland
was celebrated on the 2Sth of June. Each
of the officials and clerks received a bonus
of 10 per cent. ON his salary in honor of
the occasion. The amount distributed
was about $4,000.
AT QUITO. the only city in the world on
the line of the equator, the sun sets and
rises at O'Clock the year round. Your
clock may break down, your watch get
cranky, but the sun never makes a mis-
take here. In one part of the city it s-the
summer season, and in the other part it is
winter.
"SAM'' NEWELL, an old miller, on
Rocky Fork, o., says Foraker wouldn't
have been nominated for Governor, if it
hadn't been for him. He wasn't at the
convention and took no part in the pre-
liminary canvass, but when Ben" was
four years old and fell in the mill race he
pulled him out and saved his life.
No MORE accidents from toy pistols
''Amuse yourself says an advertisement
in La Vie MOderRe, ''with the new cleo
trio cannon, giving fifteen detonations "A
minute, without powder and without dam
GER. Sent anywhere in France with a
charge for 1900 shots in return for pos
tai order of twenty francs.
IN THE House of Lords, among the
baronets, and in the various illustrious
orders of knighthOod of England are to be
found the names of numerous soldiers
who owe their positions to their success
full sheddings of human blood. Not a
single medical man has seat in the gid
ed chamber, and there are not more than
a dozen medical baronets or knights in
the three kingdoms.
THE London Crystal Palace is in decay.
The great building, still a marvel OF con-
structiOn and convenience, still singular
ly impressive and curious, cannot much
longer hold its place among the sights and
wonders of the city. 1t has never paid
since it was bought to be used as a place
for popular entertainment. The company
has the structure and vast grounds upon
its hands like white elephant.