Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-05

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A Salisbury, n. T., colored girl, who
i had been Tilted by her lover, killed snake
GROUND it up and made cake of it. which
sshe gave her lover to eat. The snake eggs
Tin his stomach Matched, and in severe
lit of coughing few days ago, he threw
Eup snake twelve inches long.
Queen Victoria is much opposed to fe1
male practitioners of medicine in Eng
Hand, but She has nevertheless approved
sthe proposal of some native gentlemen OF
! bombay to provide a guarantee fund, by
gmeans of which qualified medical women
: may be given practice in India.
In an English bankruptcy case recently,
sit appearing that the creditors entertained
some slight objections to the smallness of
&the dividend, three pence in the pound, an
Enquiry elected that all but E56 OF the
amount realized by the joint estate, 1910,
zhad been dissipated in law charges.
Some kind-hearted ladies in Chicago
shotel made up purse of $50 to give to a
zhousemaid, who was said to be very i'll.
NO sooner had the servant received the
money, however, than she recovered sutf1-
Eciently to elope with the porter, who
sleaves a much disturbed wife and children
behind.
An American who was married in st.
Peters Church, Eaton Square, London,
zhanded the officiating clergyman, after
{ the ceremony, an envelope containing S25.
SThe rector opened the envelope immedi-
fately, and said to the groom that the usu-
5 al charge was six guineas 1881 90 on
Ssuch occasions.
The first instance where physicians
s are mentioned in the Bible is II. ChrOni-
kcles xvi, II: "And Asa, in the thirty
4ninth year of his reign, was diseased in
zhis feet until the disease was exceedingly
8great; yet, in his disease, he sought not
sthe Lord, but the physicians. And Asa
Slept with his fathers"
4 Each Berlin beer glass must bear the
3standard half litre mark upon the side,
Showing where the top of the beer and
1.-The bottom of the foam must meet. Of
ten a German will look at his glass and
&sarcastically inquire: sis this glass o.
Nbeer?" Without word, the mug Is
titled to the standard line.
8 'Half the modern French anecdotes, .
Says the London World, 'Eare simply
#washed versions of the stories told by Ra
*belais. Boccaccio, or less reconcile au
#thOrs. What are now attributed to NJ. d.
Bismarck or NJ. de GOrtschakOf used
fifty wears ago, to be fathered by Rouge
amont or Talleyrand or Metternich."
3 The late Earl of Stamford was not {
very rich man, as noblemen go. For al
that, his hall at Enville was furnished
3throughout with solid silver chamber ser.
s9vices, and at Durham Massey, another OF
his seats in Cheshire, the andirOns. and
#other fittings of some of the principa
departments were of the same metal.
81 A Californian recently tied four
Spound stone to a cows tail to keep thai
8member quiet while he MIXED the cew
after they got the broken teeth and
Hblood, etc, out of his mouth, and
'Sbandaged his jaw, he said that he should
ssnever repeat the eXperiment-the end OF
1.-THE tail hit hard enough blow without
the stone.
Point Reyes, peninsula thirty miles
north of San Francisco. on the Pacific
coast, is the great dairy district of Cali
zsfornia. 1t consists of about 100000 acres
ION which the grass is kept green all win
ter by sea frogs. The butter from Point
5Reyes brings cents pound more in the
Hmarkets than that from other districts.
3 A New York saloon keeper has monkey
Exclaimed to his bar who is well trained to
grab up customers change when their
#backs are turned. The other day an Irish
imam whose change was not forthcoming
&began playing with the monkey, and, cuff
&fng it alongside the jaw, 81 30 tumbled out
Sof its mouth, much to the saloon keepers