Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-01

tricity was supplied from bi-chrOmate
battery concealed in the case OF mana
organ, which was carried about by gem
tleman in attendance upon the lady eX-
hibitor. Wires running from the hand
organ supplied the current to the lamps.
1t was discovered by Bloomington
physician, the other day, that the internal
organs of Samuel Fuchs, aged twenty,
who sought treatment for lung troubles,
were all misplaced. his heart being on the
right side, and his other interior mechan-
ism outside of their proper spheres.
Heretofore he has enjoyed good health.
An employe of the telegraph company
at Manila had narrow escape recently,
having taken sugar of lead in mistake for
ammonia. He telegraphed to Hong Kong
for doctor, who came to the ONCE ana
sent him advice by cable, which resulted
in his recovery. The distance IS ABOUT
500 miles. Probably this is the first time
that doctor has prescribed for patient
900 miles away.
a nautical mile, or an English admiral
ty knot, is 6.OsO feet The United States
coast survey, always most accurate in
such things, has adopted lS53.24o metres,
or 6OS0.2I feet as the standard mile, which
is popularity "a minute of latitude" but
more accurately the siXtieth part OF
degree on the great circle of sphere
whose surface is equal to the surface of
the earth. A minute of latitude, accord
ing to the head of the coast survey, would
be 1876 metres at the poles, and lS42.-
49, metres at the equator. one minute OF
the equator would be 1S55.345 metres, or
60S7.l5 feet.
A Louisville miss was very anxious to
see Miss Langtry in the privacy of her
own apartments, and resorted to a fine bit
of strategy to accomplish her ends. Stay
ing at the same hotel as the beauty, she
arrayed herself in the cap and apron of
one of the bell girls on duty, and patiently
waited for a call to attend the room. In
short time there was note to be car
ried. Fortunately she was admitted, and
stood waiting until the note was read and
any answer TO be given. The pretended
bell girlsreturned, and is still raving over
the ''marvelOus beauty of the peerless
Langtry."
The journalists in Washington are en-
joying a story that is told at the expense
of New England Congressman, coun-
try lawyer, one of that class of people
who imagine that the function of every
newspaper man, whether he be reporter,
editor or stakeholder, is to ''pick up
items" This gentleman was introduced
some time ago TO Mr.. Haskell. whose in
come as one of the proprietors of the Bos-
ton Herald runs into four ciphers, and is
said to have a very comfortable figure in
front of them. "Ah,' said he, benevO-
lently, ''glad to see you, Mr.. Haskell.
You're down here, l suppose, picking up
few items for your paper"
Some thousands of persons assembled
in the neighborhoOd of the Adelphi Hotel,
Liverpool, to witness Mr.. Ewing Bishop,
well known in connection with thought
reading entertainments, take up chal-
lenge by prominent local gentleman to
discover a pin seereted by the latter with
in a radius of 800 yards from the hotel.
The pin was hidden while Mr.. Bishop re-
manned in the hotel in the custody of a
local clergyman. At O'Clock Mr.. Bishop
came out of the hotel blindfolded and
drew his challenger with him, the connect
ing link between them being a piece of
piano wire. Having traversed three or
four streets, Mr.. Bishop entered the Nep-
tune Hotel and discovered the pin inserted
in one of the window sashes on the upper
balcony.