Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

4 BLOOMINGTON girl walks about the
streets with pet coon. 1t is no worse
than poodle dog.
WHEN a menagerie tram had coils
ion. near Binghamton, the elephant hastily
packed his trunk with his pet dog, broke
out and made for the woods.
THE local journal of Cape May greatly
damaged its popularity by accidentally
using ''b" in place Of an s." calling
the place a "bummer resort"
THE government is to begin the manu-
facture Of its own gun-cOttOn at the tor
pedo station in Newport. 1t has hitherto
depended upon foreign makers and deal
ers.
TALMAGE refused to taste the wine
which was poured gratis for him at a
Kentucky hotel table. even though the
waiter assured him that. being weak and
homemade, it was not intoxicating.
THE statue Of Liberty Enlightening
the World'' is rapidly approaching com
pletiOn. 1t will be conveyed to America
in three hundred pieces, and it is said it
it is so fine that already Paris regrets
losing it.
IT Is the opinion Of the New York Globe
negro organ that President Arthur lis
the only Republican President since milk
and-water Andrew Johnson, who has
shown that he holds the race, as pOliti-
cal factor, in supreme contempt"
THE first duel fought in this country, it
is said, was with swords, between Edward
Dotv and Edward Lester, two serving
men among the Puritans Of New England,
and occurred at Plymouth, 1921. Both
were wounded.
IT APPEARS that over 10000 miles of
railroad have been built in the United
States since and including 1879. This is
about one-third of the entire mileage Of
the cOuntry. Last year alone the amount
raised to build these roads was over $780,
100000.
VISITORS TO Chautauqua find the lake
paradox. Although in the crest Of high
lands, so near to Lake Erie that they look
to see its waters pour down the steep de-
cIivity, the streams run southwark, and,
after long and sinuous journey of over
$500 miles, reach the Gulf of Mexico.
THE LATEST freak at the French sea-
shore resorts is an appropriate bathing
toilet for each day of the week. At Dieppe
the uItra-fashlOnables don the ''Huntress''
costume on Monday. the day sacred to
Diana: on Tuesday, Mars day, they ap=
pear in semi-military garb, and so on.
ssTHE seriO-comic university at Chau-
tauqua'' is what the New York Sun calls
the resort where there was recently a
great debate over the Garden of Eden be-
tween two clergymen, one of whom held
that Eden had been submerged, while the
other claimed that il was anchored to the
North Pole.
ALECK MCCLUNG, a noted Kentucky
soldier and duelist, carried a jeweled
sword through the Mexican war, and on
dying willed it to his nephew. But it fell
into the hands of his sister, whose daugh-
ter now has it and VIII not give it up. The
nephew is suing to get the heirloom, and
says he is willing to spend $4,000.
THE BOsTONIANs wish the Secretary of
the Navy to authorize the firing ola salute
of 100 guns at the CharlestOwn navy yard
on the Sd of September, that being the one
hundredth anniversary of the signing Of
the definite treaty OF peace between tnls
country and England, and the date of the
ODening of the institute fair in Boston.
BARON DE STEIGLTTz is the richest man
in Russia. His father was an apostate
Jew. who accumulated great wealth by
banking i'm Moscow, and he has multiplied
it many fold, in part by the handling Of
government loans. He lives about half
his time in Paris, and quite inconspicu-
Ously, being a man of quiet tastes and
mean person.
THE young Queen Of Spain has been
living very simply at Franzenhead with
her two little girls and her mother and
sisters. Every morning, in a plain gray
dress and black straw hat, she went 10
drink the water, and like other visitors,
She usually stopped at one of the confec-
TONER'S stalls that abound near the
springs to buy cakes and rolls for break
fast.
A GENTLEMAN who lately had business
in the General Land Office at san Fran
cisco. said his Christian name was
''Usual.v This was thought to be joke
by the Register, but the gentleman gave
this explanation of how he happened TO
receive it: His father was greatly de-
sirous of having a daughter, but, as
child after child was born to him, he was
disappointed. When the seventh child
was born, his father was compelled TO
exclaim, "A boy, as usual. / guess he
will have to go through life as Usual"
III Is reported that firm in Paris has
patented an invention for the instanta-
neous formation of steam, so that it can
be used at once in the cylinder Of the en-.