Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-10-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


ITEMS OF INTEREST.
ALADY who figures in society soon ac-
auires an intimate knowledge of ciphers.
! THE Ored0niaR says Butler can never
| be the Presidential candidate of any but
| reyolutlonsts and communists.
THERE were about 100000 sheep driven
through Montana the past summer, most
of them going to Canadian purchasers.
AS the smoke OF the November elections
clears away it Will be found that the Nor
mon question is the one of most absorbing
popular interest.
A CHICAGO commercial traveller says
that in small village in Northern Michi-
gan he found a notice pinned on the door
of a store which read: "Gone to bury
my wife: will be back in so minutes"
"MR. CoNKLING, said ex-senator
Gwiu. the veteran Buchanan Democrat,
tbe other dav. .'has felt more than any
other prominent man the need of money.
Poverty. he recently told me, had been
the great bane of his llie."
GENERAL SHERMAN has received houses
and other presents worth $4,000 since he
became General of the army, exclusive of
| the Khediye to Mrs. Fitch, and since di-
! yidcd among the Generals daughters.
For the past IL years he has been paid
| $4,000 a wear, and ne will draw this sal
airy until his DEATH
OVER the door of Il small frame building
in which colored family is living in
GreenvilIe, Tenn, is pine board on which
is the legend. now almost erased by rain
aud storm. "A. Johnson, Tailor" A
little beyond the western border of the
town is marble monument that marks
the last home of ANDREW Johnson, Presl-
dent of the United States"
A SO-CALLED American duel has just
been concluded between two ladies at
Grosswardien, in Hungary. A married
actress, Mime. Gethfalvi, who has attempt
ed suicide in that city wrote letter say
inc that she had entered into an Ameri-
can duel concerning her husband, with
lady in Vienna, and had drawn the fatal
lot. Nine. Gethfalvi, however, is still
aliye, though her condition Is reported to
be hopeless.
In Yolo county, California, in the won
derfuIIv productive Sacramento valley,
where alfalfa fields are made to produce
as many as five crops of hay year, an
English syndicate, headed by Sir John
IN Il
tom land that has been subject to annual
overflow. This land is to be reclaimed,
and large force of teams are building an
immense Ievee around it. The work will
cost $500,00O.
CHARLES MACKAY, in the Pail MAJ
Gazette, gives the origin of the now much
used designation 'sMasher." 1t went over
to England from this country, into which
if had been introduced by Irish emigrants.
The word masher is derived from the
Gaelic uldiSe. pronounced maSher, and
signifying fine, handsome, and was origi-
nally applied in derision to dandy. 1t
is now in similar derision appropriately
applied to modern, undevelOped men,
whose sole aim is to dress we'll and ogle
ladies.
DURING the war, when Colonel niger
soil was released from Confederate
prison, he borrowed $50 from DIR. Cowan,
then a surgeon in the Southern army,
with which to raplenish his wardrobe.
For some reason Bob did not return the
money, and a few weeks ago DIR. Cowan,
now living at TullahOma, Tenn, saw the
story of Ingersolfs Indebtedness to him in
a newspaper, although he had not men,
toned the matter to anybody for years.
A fortnight later he received letter from
the Colonel indOrsing his draft for 5000,
and thanking him for the use of the
money.
The laborious statisticians of past days
calculated that the vocabulary of Milton
comprised about 5000 words, and that
about $4,000 were included in the Ian
guage of Shakespeare. An admirer OF
CARLYLE, fresh from the perusal of ''Sartor
Resartus," has, by making catalogue OF
the A and words which it contains, ar
rived at the conclusion that not less than
: 800 distinct words are used in that work
alone. The only word in the list which
could strike an ordinary Englishman as
an invention of the author rs that of
.sanvwhen.v which even now is house
hold word in the mouths of the peasantry
of southern England.
HANLAN is said to have accumulated n
comfortable fortune by his oars. He
lives well, but is no spendthrift, and
never drinks a drop of alcohol. He works
very nard. Il have Travelled 80 miles
TODAY" he is quoted as saying, land all
with my own wind and muscle. | went
about twenty of it in my boat, and the
rest on my legs. Oh, no; that is not eX-
ceptiunal. | do as much as that every
day, from early in the spring until late in
the fall. You see my races are rather
freuuent. and it is necessary that | should
dition. l am, therefore, in training all
the time. My diet is always as carefully
regulated as though | was to pull race
next day"
THE number of wealthy members of
Congress increases. Colonel Lyman, of
Massachusetts,, is one Of the new members
who will entertain deliberately next WIN
ter. He inherited great wealth. Wash
hos or
eron's house. and will give lavish recep-
tions. OF the new Senators nearly all are
rich, Bowen, of Colorado. is a mining
lord. Sabin. of Minnesota, went from
Connecticut 20 years ago, land is now very
rich. Dolph, of Oregon. is thrifty cor
poration attorney. COlquitt is one of the
best-tO-do men i'm Georgia, and Gibson, of
Louisiana, inherited wealth. There are
not many poor men left in the Senate.
Count out Blair, Frye, Kenna, Jones of
Florida. and Riddleberger, and the rest
are accounted rich.
DAVID DUDLEY FIELD is indignant
about the growing disregard of smokers
for tbesrights of their non-smoking fellow
beings. He has nothing to say against
tho use of tobacco as such, but confines
himself to the assertion that abstainers
have rights which every smoker who pre-
tends to be moderately consIderate of
others ought to respect. In the Continent
no asks how the smoker and the nom
smoker can reconcile their respective pre-
tensions. Nothing is easier, he thinks.
Let the smoker smoke unto himself, put
let one who does not smoke OF tahe 70
bacco into his mouth or blow it out OF his
nostriIs be free from the annoyance. The
non-smokers have their remedy in their
own hands. Let them resist every en-
crOachment on their rights. Let them re-
fuse to frequent places of amusement or
take passage in cOnyeyances where they
are not protected against tobacco.
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