Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-12-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

IowA's new capitol, which is built of Mis-
souri, yellow and gray stone on granite foun
daton is 1863 feet in length by 240 feet in widti
and % feet in height to the top of the cornlce
| to the top Of the bah over the main dome, 30
feet. The editce cost s2,362,53l.
AN inquirer asked what he should do will
a horse that was troubled with periodical
dizziness, and the editor answered in thes'
words: ''Our advice, based on perusal
| Horse Doctor would lie TO take the hOrs'
some day when he is not dizzy. and sell him u
! a stranger
THE assertion is made by the Rev. E. K
Hale, over his own signature, that public
schools in Boston are closed by local schoo
committees to give an opportunity for licens
! ing liquor sellers. By Massachusetts law NJ
! saloon can be licensed within given distance
| OF public school, Hy the opportune closing
| Of one of the schools for a few days clever
| saloons obtained a license, and then it was re
| opened.
THE death roll of the British Royal Society
for the last year is a striking testimony to thu
| longevity of scientific men. Out of thu
twenty-one members who have passed away
| the youngest Was ifty-tiye, and the oldest, 81
| Edward Sabine, the father OF the Royal 80
ciety, was in his ninety-siXth year. There
was another mOnogenarian, but the octo'
genarans on the whole had it. There were nc
less than nine OF them.
HERE is little story respecting Keats, just
published in the Pan Mall Gazette: "Misi
Charlotte Reynolds tells me that he was pas
siOnatey fond OF music, and would sit fol
hours while she played the piano to him. II
was to a Spanish air which she used to play
that the song Hush! hush! tread softly was
composed; and so sensitive was he to proper
execution than when wrong note has been
PLAYED in public performance, he has been
to Z no WOul1 down
in the orchestra and smash all the tiddles.' "
IT is proposed to hold in London next year
an International Health Exhibition, which
shall also illustrate certain branches of edu-
cation. 1t will occupy the buildings erected
for the International Fisheries Exhibition
The object of the exhibition will be to Illus
trate, as wildly and in as practical manner
as possible, food, dress, the dwelling, the
school, and the workshop, as af1ectlng the
conditions of healthful life, and also to bring
INTO public notice the most recent appliances
for elementary school teaching and instruc-
ton in applied science, art and handicrafts
LAND fronting Grand avenue, st. Louis
has been bought for a hotel to accommodate
5000 guests. Its dimensions are to be 645 feet
by 245 and it will be seven stories high at one
end and five stories at the other. The head OF
the hotel company speaks Of IL as the largest
hotel in the world. but of course he will eX-
cept the Rockaway Point Hotel, which is l,2OC
H.
so much money that nobody has been able to
operate tia vast carayansary that has bank
ruDted one set of stockholders. and Is costing
the bankers who hold it an enormous loss OF
interest money.
NJ. DE LESSEPS had not been many days in
Paris after his English visit when an English
correspondent was able to record formidable
list Of occupations that he had been engaged
in. He had been to the Italian opera, TO three
dinner parties, and had gone out daily to ride
with eight of his ten children. Moreover, he
had ''gOt through all the office work that ac-
cumuated in his absence, been interviewed
by journalists from all parts of the world,
given cues to friendly editors, checked house
keepers accounts, and embraced a poetess
who called on him on Thursday to read q
poem in 400 lines of which he is the hero"
CAPT. J. CROSS BURRELL, Of the British
army. asserts that the recent kilograms pic
turing Manitoba as dissatisfied with Britain's
rule are misleading, If not absolutely untrue.
To a Missouri Republican reporter he said
"Ihe mercury has been so degrees below zero
at times when / have been under canvas. The
winter in that climate continues seven
months, and the summers. though tine are
not very hot. In the winter our milk is de-
livered in blocks of ice. the same as water in
blocks of ice in the summer season In No
vember all meats are bought in frozen joints.
They are thrown into the woOdshed and re-
main fresh all winter"
RESPECTING the early postal facilities in
Texas a writer in the Galveston Neaes says:
1.-THE intelligence of the death of President
jackson was brought to Galveston by the mas
ter of an Italian brig, whose craft had stopped
at the mouth of the Mississippi and received a
New Orleans paper containing an account of
the death of old Hickory Neither the Cap
tain nor any of his crew being able TO read
English, the paper was untouched until three
DAYS after the arrival of the brig at this port,
when it was accidentally discovered, and the
tidings were given to the people of Texas four
teen days after the Presidents DEATH"
A ROBBERY under extraordinary circum-
stances was committed few nights ago in
the streets Of Paris NJ. SOrianO, a Spanish
Project. was being driven in a cab from the
hotel where he had been staying to the rail-
wav station. Among his baggage on the cab
was a trunk containing important papers,
5000 francs in gold and jewels, and objects of
art to the value of $4,000 francs. About half
way to the station the driver was startled by
one of the trunks falling upon him. He pulled
up and was replacing it when he saw that
the strap had been cut and that large trunk
was missing. This proved to be the one in
which the treasure was packed. So dexter
ously had it been distracted that neither the
driver nor his fare had remarked anything
until one of the other trunks had fallen as de-
scribed.
WHERE and by whom was the MaYfower
built? is the question which has been agitat-
ing the minds of a number of BOstonians for
some time past, and it is still unanswered.
The Mayfiower seems to have been quite a
poDular name during the sixteenth century.
as several vessels appeared to have registered
under it. 1t is for this reason that the early
history of the one particular Mayflower in
which BostOnians are Interested cannot be
traced. There are really only two things
known about the Mayfiower which brought
over the first Pilgrim company beyond the
fact viz: l. that she was of $50 tons; 2, that
She brought over some of Sienthorp's compa-
nv to Charleston in 1880. She was not the
Mavfiower which in l64S brought over some
negroes to Barbados, for that ship was al
most double tonnage. viz: 800 tons.
IL the South Carolina Conference they told
the following story of the Rev. Mr.. Dunwody:
ssAfter his superannuation he lived at Cokes-
bury, and preached frequently in a church
two or three miles in the country. A negro
boy brought his horse on Sunday morning and
hiiched him to a tree in the yard. Mr.. Dun
woody took his saddle on his shoulder, and his
umbrella and switch in his hand, and went TO
the tree and saddled his horse, and rode away
to church. One Sunday morning the boy was
tartlv, The time coming for the aged minis
ter To go, he gathered his saddle, umbrella and
switch. and going to the tree, his horse not
being there, he walked away to the church,
carrTinr his saddle. Going to the tree where
he usually hitched his horse, he hung up his
saddle. took his umbrella and switch into the
church, preached, and, coming out, took his
JUDGE WESTON, of Leadville, Col, has just
returned home from Mexico, where he was
defendant in peculiar damage SUIT. Con-
tractors who had supplied lumber for his
mines there not having paid their employees,
he was sued for the sum due them, 1896. He
had to ride twenty miles to court, and there
the three Judges dismissed the claim against
him Rnt after he had returned TO his mine
an officer appeared and summoned him again
to court as the Judges had changed their
cision was reversed, and the Judges told him
that he could appeal to a higher court upon
depositing with them the S236 adJudged
AGAINST him, and in his anger he retorted that
ne would I've blanked If he would do Il, but
that he would deposit the money with some
honest merchant. Thereat the offended pre-
siding Judge drew a dagger. but Judge Wes-
ton Instantly covered the court with Two re-
yoIvers. and while the three Judges dropped
mounted his steed and was soon hidden in the
mountains.