Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-09-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST

The voting population 81 the state OF
Indiana now numbers IJ9. 833, an increase
Of 4S.C07 in six wears. The colOred voters
have increased about - per cent, and
now number lO,2JS.
a YOUNG woman in Oshkosh, who mar
ried a man while under the impression
that be was an architects assistant
became discOnsOlate upon discovering that
be assisted the architect by carrying
bricks up a ladder in bod.
SOMK workmen digging a ditch near
Muncie, Ind, few days ago, found AT
"A shallow depth the skeleton Of huge
mastOdOn. the femur measuring over
feet in length and Is inches in diameter
and the ribs over ! feet in length. The
bones are in a good state Of preservation.
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE CoLERIDGE has
declined to deliver an address before the
United Bands Of Hope during his stay in
Chicago. saving that his time Will be 50
fully occupied that he will be unable 10
acccde to the request, much as he Is in
terested in the movement for which these
bands are organized.
A PITTsBURG jury gave a verdict
against railroad company for the amount
of money stolen from a passenger in
sleeping car. ''Since the defendant" the
Judge charged, ''sOld ticket for 81 in adj
ditiOn TO the regular rates Of passage, Of
fered the facilities Of sleeping as an III
ducement to pay the extra money 1t
bound itself to protect its patrons while
they were asleep and for the time being
helpless
SINCE Hon. George II. PendletOn was
''read out" Of the Democratic party in a
formal way by the Cincinnati Enquirer,
L., 1. ,I.f in h4l I'll
scmi-unc0nscious condition. He was seen
sticking folded patent medicine circular
in the bung-hOle Of an empty vinegar bar
rel the other day, and when questioned,
simply remarked that he was only voting
the Democratic ticket. II is terrible
thing 10 be ''read out"
The Malone PGiiadium, in its issue for
the current week, prints the following:
"a farmer in Essex county had five Of the
fresh-air fund boys from New York, and
"a tough lot they proved 10 be. The first
forenoon they were on the farm they hung
the farmers large pet Newfoundland dog
10 an apple tree, and in the afternoon they
placed his light wagon across the railroad
track as "A train was approaching, and
the wagon was Knocked into smith
Green's"
MIR. GLADSTONE has "A great liking for
his old clothes, and wears suit long after
the trousers have become "baggy'' at the
knees. When new suit has been OBJ
tanned for him and placed IN his dressing
room, he eyes it askant and puts on his
old friends every morning as before. Then,
after "A few days, his servant enters the
dressing-rOOm stcalthily at night and car
rics away the old suit, thus compelling
the Premier TO appear next morning clad
in the new garments.
THE charming little story Of Mr.. Par
nell, the patriotic fisherman, and the
sturgeon is really too edifying TO be passed
over without notice. Certain guileless
Irish fishermen caught sturgeon weigh
ing three hundredweight in the shannon.
Had they been SaXOns they might have
sent their prize to the Queen; being, bow
ever modern Irish patriots, they for
wardcd il 70 their uncrOwned King, Mr..
Parnell. The Irish leader wired his thanks
and sent the fish 10 the Fisheries EXhibl-
ton And yet these patriots were not
satisfied. On the contrary, they wrote TO
a local paper pointing out That they mad
once sent a sturgeon to the Lord
Lieutenant, and had received "A handsome
check in return. Mr.. Parnell took the
hint, and sent them 60.
BALTMoRE's ORIOLE pageant, which,
owing to the storm, was necessarily post
poncd, filled the hotels and boarding
houses to overlooking. A Louisianian,
having been asked in what respect the
Baltimore Oriole differed from the New
Orleans Mardi Gras, replied: eve new
or publish where the procession VIII start
or where IL will end. We say only that
il will pass through such and such streets.
We have four mystic associations, each
of which has separate evening Tor ITS
pageant and ball. Heretofore we have
been doing our constructing in one Of the
large cotton sheds; but this year we are
erecting substantial twO-story building,
$50 feet long and 1863 deep, as manuiac-
tory for our pageants."
A correspond Of the PAU Mall Ga
zette has interviewed Mary Anderson, and
obtained from her the following opinions
about English actors: ~ am much too
young and inexperienced TO venture
upon any criticism. Mr.. Irving | know,
and am confident that he will achieve "A
great success in America. My admira-
ton for Miss Terry is unbOunded; she is
charming; she plays with such winning
grace. with such tenderness and pathos,
as will never be eNcelled. Mr.. Stirling is
above criticism. Mrs. Kendall. too, de-
lighted me i'm Impulse and that, UNI
fortunately. is the only time | have seen
her PLAYS of the French school, such as
Fedora, which have seen at the Hay
market. sFrou FrOu,' La Dame aux Ca
mellias,, and so on, dislike. The Prin-
cess, and the Savoy think the most
pleasant little theatres. Mr.. Booth, she
added, lis my complete ideal OF an actor
"A correspondent writes from st. Peters.
burg: 'eThe larger and more important
hotels here could be converted into pris
ons I'm an hour. Some. even 10 the very
doors. seem hewn out of solid stone. No
body thinks Of laying carpet on grand
staircases.' You walk on granite. Long
and badly lighted corridors lead TO rows
of rooms in which there is an abundance
of furniture, but where the high ceiling,
waxed floor, and something not easily de-
scribed in the appearance of the walls and
the general arrangement leave sense of
frigidity on the hottest day. Strong are
the staircases, gloomy the corridors, but