Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-10-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

DE LEsSEPs is shrewd. He recently
opened in person a gaily painted piano.
rama of the Panama canal, which is on
exhibition i'm Paris.
AN American in Paris speaks of the
people with less politeness than candor
He SAYS: Il try hard to sympathize with
this great people; but they are so idiotic-
alIv conceited, so gnorantly supercilious
towards my people, and those of every
other country, that it is hard work"
TIE three great coal fields of Alabama
are the Warrior, the Cahaba and the
Coosa The principal of these is the War
rior. which extends over somewhat less
than 5000 square miles. The entire strata
covers an area of about 5000 square miles.
II is not yet Known what Mr.. Irvings
retinue here will be. In his recent tour
i'm Great Britain his travelling turnout
consisted of four railway carriages for
his company of siXty-fve performers,
auXiliaries, attendants, suffers. camp
followers, critics, and so forth. This is
moving like a flying column, and recalls
the time when lrVinG's professional pre-
decessors Travelled in the Thespian wagon.
\ POKER sharp says: IF you should
happen to run across Dick Proctor, tell
him to bet pair of aces very nigh before
the draw. \ pair of aces is much the best
average hand. You can bet with abso-
lutte certainty that it is the best average
hand in five, six. or seven-handed game.
1t stands to reason, then, that it is sense
to bet the best hand when you have it. l
can make a machine that can play poker
aud beat the best average player. There
is nothing IN the game"
In HIS speech in fremont Hall, Boston.
on Wednesday, Butler said: "A man who
has got to my time of life, and who has
welded as much power as l have in my
life. whose name. for better or worse, will
be remembered in history and traditions
long after some of the Presidents of the
United States shall have been dead and
buried and forgotten, and the worms have
eaten them, what should | care about it
the Presidency ! am ambitious; | adj
nit il freely. | am very ambitious to 20
TO my Maker with the record that | have
done the best | could for my state. nv
country and my kind, and that what |
did was as equally done for the poor and
lOwly as for anybody else"
CHIEF JUSTICE BEGLIE. of British
Columbia. recently said to a Jury which
had failed to find murderer guilty: ION
vour conscience will rest the stigma of
returning such a disgracelul verdict. and
onp at variance with the evidence which
Won have sworn to find the guilt or inn0-
cense of the prisoner. Many repetitions
of such conduct as yours will make trial
by Jury a horrible farce, and the City of
Victoria. which you inhabIt, nest of
immortality and crime, encouraged 10y the
immunity from the law which criminals
will receive from the announcement of
such verdict as yours. Go; nave
nothing more to say to you" 10 the
prisoner, who committed the murder
with 4 sand-bag, he then said: "1Ou are
discharged; go aud sand-bag some of
those iurymen; they deserve it,
MUCH excitement has been caused at
Rome lately by the elopement of the
daughter of "A certain Duke and Duchess
with a poet. both being still in their teens
The sutton was not considered an eligible
pdrti for the young lady; therefore the
lovers decided to elope. Escaping from
the supervision Of duenna, they started