Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-10-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


facture of oil, phosphate and leather.
In VIEW of the gamblers rings re-
moval of Chief of Police Campbell, the
st. Louis Globe Democrat says: Mis-
souri, NAV not be the robber State but
st. Louis is certainly the gamblers city"
POKER has almost superseded whist in
what might be called Its special domain
the Cavendish Club, stephens Green,
Dublin; indeed, so popular has the Amer
lean game become that stephens Green
has been christened "POker Flat"
Miss AGNES HUNTINGTON, a young
American cOntralto who has studied for
three years in Dresden, and has been
heard once OF twice i'll that city and in
Paris, has been engaged as SOlOlst Tor
concert in New York next month.
PROF. n. A. LUCE is State Superin-
tenden1 of Education in Maine, and the
other day teacher told her scholars
that he would visit the school in the after
noon. One little girl ran home and wild
eyed with excitement informed her mother
that the superintendent was loose and was
coming to the school that afternoon.
A RESIDENT of Wayne county, who
did not approve of his sons proposed mar
rage with a widow of his acquaintance,
secured pOstponement of the ceremony
after the guests had begun to assemble
by hiding the young mans wedding
clothes. The young man avOWs his de-
termination to marry the widow yet.
THE Marquis of LOrne has issued Il
brief farewell address to the militia force
of the Dominion of Canada, in which he
expresses the hope that they will keep uP
the discipline and foster that spirit which
now perYades all ranks, as, although they
may never be called out to defend their
country. these will be the best safeguards
for peace and security both at home and
| abroad.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS received a salary
from the United States Government for 80
years, and the sum total must have
amounted to $500, coo. At the close of his
Presidential term he had had % years of
office holding, and his salary had aggre-
gated $425,000; still, he had II years OF
Congress after this, and died at the capt.
/ toll at a Congressional session. At the
| age of II he went to Russia as the private
secretary of the American Legation, and
! he was in after years Minister to England,
Germany, Portugal, Russia and the Meth
erlands.
\ CORRESPONDENT of the London
! Standard says that the voyage from Liv-
erpoOl to New York could be re-
duced to AZ days by the construc-
ton of deep-water canal from
! Dublin to Galway or the Shannon. An
ordinary canal, which might be utilized
| for the purpose, already exists between
! the latter and the Irish capital. The cost
| of deepening and widening it would be
| comparatively small, and no engineering
| difficulties are presented by the character
of the country. The journey round the
| south coast of Ireland would, he says,
/ thus be avoided, and a great saving OF
! expense and time effected.
WASHINGTON is now getting the asphalt
/ for its streets from an asphalt lake in the
| Isle of Trinidad on the South American
| coast. This asphalt makes street as
/ hard as stone, and it does not soften or
crack under the rays of the sun. For two
years it has been used, and it is found far
/ superior to the old mi Xture of tar, sand
/ and asphalt. which the city used some
time ago. The lake fills the flat top of a
mountain and is black, smooth and hard
enough to walk on. When strip is dug
! out, the bottom gradually rises and soon
| the surface is level again. Thousands OF
/ tons have been taken away, and the sup
/ ply seems incXhaustible.
| DUNROBIN CASTLE, the autumn resi-
| dence of the Duke of Sutherland, in Scot
/ land, overlooking the wild North Sea,
/ where a large assemblage of guests, in
| Guiding many Americans, is now gather
| ed, realizes poets dream, both as re-
| cards its beauty and site. The old pOr-
/ ton of the castle, which is welded to a
more modern structure of French archi-
| lecture of Queen Mary's time, is the old
| est inhabited building in the British Isles.
| The gardens are worthy of the castle. The
4 place is full of insignia of royal houses,
/ and contains many remarkable portraits.
! Among them is the Orkney portrait of
| Mary, alongside curious likeness of the
/ terrible old Scotch pedagOgue, George
( Buchanan.
A PALATIAL COTTAGE at Mt. Desert
contains reception room with windows
on the four sides. They are furnished by
a Venetian firm, the glass, being of differ
4 ent colors, admits the most delicate hues,
blending perfectly with the furniture made
/ by the same artists; the glass is so con-
/ structed that, i'm looking through the diff
! ferent windows, the mountains and water
may be seen as they appear at the sew
/ eral seasons, SO that winter, spring and
/ autumn scenery can be looked upon in all
I its glory by the summer cottager. Soon
/ the fashion will be on Fifth avenue, and
| guests may have the fun of seeing orange.
! olive. green, purple, red and blue-tinted
women pass by. 1t is a lovely thing to he
able to look at a friend one admires and
see him or her in all the cOlOrs of the rain
bow. But for this are we milliOnaires.
PRESIDENTS ARTHUR, Hayes and John
Adams were born in October; Garfield,
Pierce and Polk in November; Andrew
johnson and Martin Van Buren, in De-
cember; Willard Fillmore in January
Abraham Lincoln, William Ii. Harrison
and George Washington in February
| jackson, Tyler and Madison in March !;
Grant, Buchanan, Monroe and jefferson
in April; John Quincy Adams in July;
and Zachary Taylor IN September. Out
of twenty-one Presidents not one was born
in May, June or August, and April takes
the lead as baving produced more than
any other month. As to deaths, Garfield
died in September. johnson, Van Buren,,
Taylor, Monroe, jefferson and John Adj
ans in July; Lincoln and Harrison in
April: Buchanan, Polk, Jackson and
Madison in June; Pierce in October; Fill
more in March; Tyler in January; John
Quincy Adams in February, and George
Washington in December.