Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS DE
BERLIN is more densely populated than
Naples, Prague or Vienna.
THERE is a dog at North Chatham, y.
/ Y. whose owner saws he climbs trees
for game. That dog should disown his
master.
THE Northern Pacific Railway will IS
sue passes very sparingly when opened.
/ 4 round trip fare on the completion OF the
road will be worth 5000.
MEN who can swim easily elsewhere
are often drowned in the lakes Of Wy
Oming Territory. where high altitude re-
/ duces the buOyancy Of the water.
They are agitating the divorce question
/ in France, and the story is told that
Young divorced woman married again.
and found that her second husband had
hired her first as valet.
THE French Radical quotes the follow
ing extract from Andre Berthet's lay cat
echism to prove that this catechism may
be placed safely in the hands Of children:
''What is GOdf | don't know. Who ere
ated the world: l don't know. Whence
| comes humanity and where is it gOing$
| don't know. When and how did man
appear upon the earthy | don't know.
What becomes of us after death: don't
know. Has not religion taught us all
/ these things? Every religion teaches
| them in a different way, and each one
| says, Believe me, am the truth
/ IL ALABAMA CONVICTs are employed
| in the coal mines, and the report Of the
/ State Health officer shows that during six
| months the death rate among them has in
/ one Of the mines reached 81 Ter 1000, all
negroes. and i'm another $50 per 200 for
. l.. ny Ion 70
per 900 per annum. THAT is to say
\ the officer remarks. ''if the same death
/ rate was kept up they would all die in
/ less than three years" The quarters are
/ imperfectly ventilated and much over
/ crowded, the clothing and bedding are eX-
/ tremely filthy, the means for ablutlOn are
/ inadequate, and the cooking arrangements
deficient.
THE STAGE COACH which runs between
| Santa Barbara and Los Alamos, Cal,
winds in and out and round about ugly
/ corners and projecting rocks. On "Slip-
I perry Rock where the descent is forty
/ five degrees, with sheer preclplce OF two
! hundred feet on one side. the horses started
! to run. The driver realized the lmpossI-
| bilitv Of stopping them. There were sew
/ eral miles of steep grade below, and it was
narrow, rocky, and crooked. To stay in
| the stage was to be killed. He shouted to
| the passengers inside to Jump out, and he
set the example, which they followed.
/ The stage a minute after went into the
chasm, dragging the horses along.
ATTENTION has been called anew in
Paris to the order Of the Barefooted Clares.
/ There are eighteen OF these nuns, and
| fourteen are under twenty-five years Of
age. The reason Of this. according TO
| statement just made by Baron Pallet, is
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severe that nearly all the inmates die
young. They 90 barefoot on the cold stone
flooring; they never warm themselves at
a fire, even the kitchen fire being placed
beyond their access; they eat meat only
on Christmas day; they sleep on narrow
board; they must spend ten hours every
day upon their knees, and they are only
/ allowed to speak to one another on rare
occasions,
THE TWO LAND YACHTS in which
their owners have been making a trip
through New England are large. stoutly
built vans. containing all the requisites
for camping out. The travellers thus
journey along comfortably until they
come to a delightful spot, and then make
a stav of such duration as their fancy
fixes upon. Each vehicle is fifteen feet
long by seven wide, with cover like
tent, but lined with felt as protection
against bad weather, and rooted with
zinc. In transit the sides collapse. and
everything is packed snugly. Four SER
wants are taken along, and the cookery is
all that skill can accomplish, and the
stock of horses includes two for the sad
die The wagons were imported from
England.
A STATELY and handsome man regis
tered at California watering place as an
English lord. With him were his wife
and two daughters. They took the best
rooms in the hotel, ordered extra delica=
cies in food and the finest wines, and in
every way common to such resorts spent
money without stint. 1t was soon dis
covered that their claim to aristOcracy
was fraudulent, and they departed as
soon as the exposure caused a cessation
Of social eXaltatiOn. But they paid all
their bills. gave the menials generous
fees. and betrayed no other reason for the
deception than a desire TO be liOniZed. In
that they were fully gratified. Their
identity was not ascertained, and 1t is
only certain that they possessed wealth,
education and politeness.
WILLIAM HICKS, his wife, and five chill
dren became wildly insane at Charleston,
ILL.,. and we're committedAto an asylum.
The oldest daughter had gone home sick.
Her mother refused any medicine, claim
ing that she had a revelation from heaven
that she could wash all sins and ills away
with salt and water. Hicks got the idea
that the family were band Of angels I'M
der the especial care of God. The chill |
dTen took TO repeating passages Of Scrip |
ture and speaking of themselves as angels. |
Mrs, Hicks had been losing sleep while |
waiting upon her sick daughter, and dur |
ing all this time she was laboring under |
such intense religious excitement that her |
nervous system became OyeTstrained and |
as she had powerful influence over the |
other members Of the family they also be- |
came insane.
AN UPRIGHT INDIANIAN, on returning |
home from a visit to the home of his |
fathers and mothers in Kentucky, says he |
saw III snakes about the size OF lead |
pencil playing on a smooth bit of sand bar |
at the mouth Of a run that empties into /
BrOmWelps creek, near his farm, They |
were gambOling on the sand after the |
fashion Of lambs or kittens, Sometimes
they would wrap themselves into ball as
large as his two fists and 90 rolling around
until it would tumble into the water and
then the little Wiggiers would unWrap
themselves and scampeF out onto the land
again. Three of them were killed by be-
ing squeezed TO death in the balls. and
finally they got to hghtingj whereupon
their mother, who was lying on a log
watching their sport, came down and
stopped the row, When he went near