Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-09-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

SOM Arizona mining companies are
about ~ use the electric light in their
mines.
FoEKIGS capitalists have Just bought
large tract Of timber land in southeastern
Arkansas, said = contain 49o,ooPooo feet
81 timber.
A MINXKAPoLI, man has paid 5000
for medical treatment on account Of bite
by his dog. and vet has not sought salts
faction by killing the beast
4 PARTY Of Minnesota young women
have gone to the Argentine Republic 70
teach school. and they write back that
their first impressions are pleasant.
THg Boston POST says that a NermOnter
who stole COW from his neighbor's barn
found on getting her home that It was MS
own COW. which his neigh5Or had stolen
earlier in the night.
4 NV YORK musical writer claims to
have discovered that neither the star
~pangIed Banner nor Hail Columbia
are original American tunes. but that
both were stolen from old German authors.
A MASSACHUSETTS, man has tried the
experiment for twenty years. and j. con-
WINGED that a man can support family u
six on efght acres Of land cultivated pro-
uerlv. At first he thought the farm too
small. but now he finds it land enough.
Rgv. john BUTLER, colored, paused in
the midst Of "A sermon at WyandOtte, Kan,
recently. cried out dispatch to Heaven
quickly.n and fell forward over the bar at
the pulpit. dead. The congregation were
terrified. many ~ the women gong into
Mysteries.
ACCORDING 10 "a Kentucky paper light
ming struck c0ntribution-box as it was
being passed around in Breathitt county
church recently, and scattered the frag-
mcnts in all directions. All the - and
80 bills must have been consumed by the
electric fluid. for all that was found in the
shape Of money was a plugged quarter
r with one side engraved for "A slceye-but-
ton.
The three fugitive slaves who arrived
IN Boston last week from Cuba say that
they were held on a plantation ten miles
east Of Santiago. called AtikO. and owned
by Mariana Nalanti. who has about 10
slaves. 81 Of whom are women. They till
the soil pick fruit and make sugar ana
are Obliged 10 labor from O'Clock IN the
morning until in the evening, their
meals meantime beng nine bananas each.
The meanest man yet has been found in
Bangor. according 10 the COaDlercidL lie
was going into the suburbs Of the city
about a mile with his team. and an ac-
Uaintance who wished 70 20 70 the same
place asked for a ride. On getting out Of
the wagon the passenger asked how much
the bill was WELL" said the owner Of
the team. '-as was going the same way.
/ guess two cents will be enough" lie
took the money, too.
TIKI following suit seems to be treated
seriously in Cincinnati: Mrs. +. II. Wal
lace. the only daughter Of Cornelius D.
Thorpe. Of New York, born in Butler
county and educated in Cincinnati, claims
a fortune Of SIS. 10000 from King Will
liam. Of Holland. who reigned in the latter
half Of the seventeenth century. Mrs.
Wallace informed a reporter that she
would prosecute the suit in the New York
courts this fall. The Kingdom Of Holland
j. said to have offered a compromise Of
81, 900, 90"
THERE j. a Chinese portrait painter IN
Chicago whose name is Dong Tong, and
whose professional success has been such
that he vas able to exhibit 10 a reporter
the other day, with pardOnable pride, an
order book containing the names Of thirty
citizens 0f Chicago. On the walls Of his
apartments hang several portraits ~ oil,
which seemed 10 the reporter 10 be really
rood works Of art. Their most cOnspicu-
Gus characteristic j. the smOOthness Of
the surface, which looks ike water color.
Moreover, that D. the point on which the
artist considers himself far superior 10
his American rivals.
CHINA, SAYS "A recent traveller, Is almost
everywhere "A land Of the dead. For thou
sands II wears the inhabitants have been
assiduously employed in burying each
other In the north there are few grave
wards. and the person who dies IS placed
in the most convenient spot which offers
itself. and that may chance to be IN the
centre 81 field Of rice or on the roadside.
If his relatives be rich they at once raise
huge mound Of earth over him; II they
do not happen 70 have "A great amount Of
dispOsable funds they put the coffin down
In the field or on the roadside, thatch IT
with "A little straw, and leave 1T Till the
money for "A mound can be got together;
or they erect over it little structure OF
loose bricks and tiles. The wind and rain
do their work. and SO the traveller secs all
over the landscape mounds Of earth Hank
ed BY exposed collins.
AN enterprising Partisan photographer,
NJ. a. IGIlL- ki5lNfh 4 lhittb > - "a
day or two ago, with the object Of taking
photographs Of the wild beasts in their
cages. The existing photographs Of these
animals, taken as they are from the space
outside Ehe case, necessarily show the
bars, which spoils the effect. NJ. Planet,
the proprietor Of the menagerie, accompa-
MED the artist in his adventurous round;
and the animals as a rule behaved very
well. A splendid group, consisting OF
lion, a liOness and two cubs, was particu-
Iarly successful, the ''sittcrs" not moving
a muscle during the operation. The Loop
ard, too, proved an excellent subject. The
tigress, however, exhibited a specimen Of
her temper in two vigorous dashes on the
Photographic apparatus, in one Of which
NJ. Petit received savage blow Of her
paw on the leg. This, a French paper
states. is the first time that wild beasts
have been photographed in their dens; and
il is believed that the results of NJ. Petits
dangerous experiment will be Of cOnside-
rabie service to animal painters and
sculptOrs.