Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-10-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
SENATOR BUTLER, of South Carolina,
has placed his two daughters at a female
seminary i'm Charleston.
ARRANGEMENTS are being pushed for
the bicycle meeting at Columbia, S. c.,
on the 14th and 18th of November.
SNOW fell in Berlin fortnight ago for
the first time this season. Potsdam was
visited with a slight snowfall some days
earlier.
Mr.. ABBEY says that the board bill of
Madame Sembrich, husband and maid, at
the Windsor Hotel for single week was
$50 1t would be interesting to have an
itemized account.
JUDAH =. BENJANIIN'S friends, accord
ing to the London Times. are having his
likeness engraved; and among the subscri-
bers are Lord Cairns, Lord O'Hagan. Lord
Watson. Mr.. Justice Denman, Mr.. Baron
Pollock. Sir John de GeX, and many other
distinguished persons.
EXTENSIVE preparations are being
made in Paris for the reception of the
American bishops who are to meet at the
Vatican in November. The main object
of the meetings will be to adopt measures
fer the reorganization of the Catholic
Church in the United States.
THE record in the case of Mrs. Myra
Clarke Gaines VS.. the city of New Or
leans. just forwarded to the Supreme Court
of the United states. contains 81, 900 pages
of legal cap paper and weighs 1876 pounds,
and the importance of the matter inv Olyed
is commensurate with the bulk of the re-
cord.
BALTIMORE, having more than $40, 000,-
900 invested in oyster packing and over
10000 persons engaged in the business. is
taking measures to prevent the destruc-
ton of the oyster beds i'm the Chesapeake
Bay. 1t is proposed that the period of
rest for oysters shall be heightened and
extended from April until October l.
IL Alaska everything freezes solid by
the middle of October. The mercury in
winter falls to ~ degrees below zero, and
often lower. There are only about three
months that gold can be washed, from
May to August. There is not so much
timber as is generally supposed, and it is
of poor quality, recent prospector re-
ports.
THE London Echo states authoritatively
that Oscar Wilde is farmed out at the rate
of $50 for every lecture by an American
lecturing bureau. The London agent of
the American firm has distributed circu-
lars TO that effect to various literary and
social institutions throughout the cOun-
try. At all events he is very well man.
aged, and has drawn large audiences at
Manchester and other towns.
ALREADY does the Count de Paris feel
the burdens aud Inconvenience of his
new position as a pretender 20
the throne of France. Letters
and addresses besiege him from many
quarters. To an address from Antun he
recently replied that it was precious to
him as a testimony of devotion, "wheu
the union of all those who hope in mon
archv for the welfare of France may be-
come and is becoming so great force"
4 BEDROOM steward of the Cunard
steamship Servia was sent TO Jail for six
months for stealing a pocketbOok from a
passenger on board the vessel. The peck
etboOk contained a letter of credit for
$4,000, two drafts for $3.50 each, one draft
for $125, and several bills of exchange for
$1,000 each. The theft was committed
while the passenger was asleep in his
berth, and the thief was detected by his
effort TO negotiate one of the drafts at a
Liverpool pawnbrOker's.
ONE SAvTCHUK. a Russian, who lives
in Bessarabian province, is declared to
be 1870 years of age and to enjoy perfect
health and strength. His hair, which was
formerly white, has taken on a greenish
hue. His eldest son is more infirm than
he is, and his age is only 81. The village
in which the old man lives was founded
by him and a friend of his, and its 100
houses are all inhabited by their direct
descendants. There are fifty families in
the tribe of Savtchuk, and they live in
peace and quiet. without ever going to
law.
EVERY theatre critic has his own pecu-
liar style. The editor of mining camp
newspaper, for example, has this to say
of popular sOngstress: "As a singer
she can just wallOp the hose off any that
ever wagged a jaw on the boards. From
her clear, bIrdlike upper notes she would
canter way down to the bass racket, and
then cushion back to sort of spiritual
treble that made every man in the au-
dience imagine every hair on his head
was the golden string of celestial harp,
over which angelic fingers were sweep
ing"
THE story is told in Paris of an Ameri-
can lady who at an inn in Normandy was
deputed as being the best French scholar
i'm her party, TO make the arrangements
for their accommodation. She did her
best-which was long way short of per-
fection-but the clerk did not catch her
meaning, and his remarks were jarg0n to
her. Finally, in desperation, she said,
slowly and with awful distinctness: do
-you-speak- English?r "Wa'al, meow
you're Jest talkin'," shouted the clerk.
Guess I'd orter speak English. l was
raised ten miles from Bangor"
DETECTIVE WAPPENsTEIN, of CIncin-
matt, was called aside by seedy intelligent
man, who said: Il am the man who killed
Rose Amber" The detective smoked his
cigar unconcernedly, and the man re-
heated his astounding confession. But
the detective still smoked, and the
stranger continued: II want you TO ar
resi- me on the charge of murder The
detective drew forth his cigar and
answered: "What you want is TO lie
taken 10 Connecticut ON a free ticket.
Eve sent nearly thousand self-eonfessed
murderers out of this town, only TO find
them irauds.'
THE power developed by the explosion
of a ton of dynamite, says Science, is
equal TO 1860 tons raised one foot, or
1850 foot-tOns. One ton of nitro-glyce-
rine similarly exploded would exert
power of 10. 4J2 foOt-tons. and one ton of
blasting gelatine similarly exploded H.
$50 fOOt-tOns. Seyenty-One thousand tons
OfOrdinary building stone. if arranged In
the form of a cube, would measure only
ninety-six feet on the side, and if it were
possible to concentrate the whole force of
a ton of blasting gelatine at the moment