Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

NEW HAMPSHIRE records one divorce
for every ten marriages.
4 WELL-DIGGER in Alabama found a
gnIn-wiper thirty-fiye feet below the sur
face.
FREDERICK GERHARD, a New York
cigar seller on Third avenue, Will petit
ton the LEGISLATURE 10 let him change his
name.
THE OLDEST TREE now alive in Hart
ford is believed to be over 800 yeaTs old. is
twentv-four feet in circumference at the
base and Is hollow. II Is a sycamore.
BATTLE CREEK a woman stole a
watch from her employer. and, while her
premises were being searched, slipped the
watch into his pocket. and then had him
arrested for SANDER.
HERE is a puzzle that has been bother
ing the heads Of 1t. Louis mathematicians:
Which moves ahead the faster, point at
the bottom or one at the top OF car wheel
revolving on the rails,
MARY RICHARDSON, Of Illinois. nearly
died recently from the effects Of a bee
sting on her iugular vein. The flesh
swelIed up on the inside Of her throat so
that she nearly choked to death. For four
hours she was unconscious and in ter
rible spasms.
COMMODORE WILLIAM BRADFORD
WHITING, Of Milwaukee, having joined
an association for the purpose Of prose
cutting alleged claims 10 a Bradford estate
Of a value Of $122, 0O9, coo, now resigns the
Vice Presidency. and intimates that the
project seems doubtful.
But few English travellers have left for
the continent this year. switzerland may
be more crowded than usual, but the
Mediterranean has no charms for the
timid. who think the cholera viii cross
over TO Italy. Some few have gone 10
Norway. The weather in Scotland being
fine. great numbers Of tourists viii be at
tracted thither.
THE NUMBER Of Israelites in a Polish
town creates the wealth Of the place. The
more Jews, the more il considers itselfopu-
lent. In each there is sure 10 at least be
one who deals in everything, from sheep
skin cloak to a stem winder, who buys
provisions. keeps a public house, and
knows by heart the history and lineage Of
all the families Of the country round.
PEDDLER tried to coax a Michigan
farmers wife into buying some Of his
wares by patting her under the chin and
saving that she was a nice little woman.
Her husband soon returned, and she told
him. With a friend he overlook the ped
dler, whipped him, threw his pack over
a fence, took him back to the house, whip
ped him again, then tried him before a
mock court, and fined him three dollars,
which he paid. His retaliation is suit
for damages,
The ALLAN HOUSE, the Richmond
home OF the poet Edgar Allan Poe has
been purchased for transformation into
hotel, TO be kept by woman at one time
a leader Of fashion in that city. The dust
Of wears has lodged upon everything in
the room in which Poe wrote "The
Raven" CObwebs depend from the ceiling
and cling to the walls in picturesque fes-
ICONS. 1t is an OctagOn-shaped apart
ment. with windows on either side Of the
fireplace, seeming to open into similar
rooms. But there are mirror panes in the
window sash, instead Of transparent
glass. The room Is spacious and papered
in fiOrid style.
AN AMERICAN actress, now on a visit
to London, impresses Truth as being
"such a sweet little thing" She looked
about fifteen years old, with a pretty,
round face. large. blue eyes, and a dear
little mouth. And, in social entertain
ment. she ''balf recifed, half chirrupped.'
The impTessiOnable writer was Gu
rious to know how she managed her voice.
She said that she had heard Of a wonder
full Professor at Philadelphia who had a
peculiar method Of producing the voice by
means Of muscular exercises. He taught
her. and then she went home TO the woods
and s.passed hours and hours listening
% birds and initiating Them"
LoBD BtHysFORD is small in stature,
a careless easy.geiGg fellow, with good
face and bright ewes. He is brother Of
the Marquis Of Waterford, and bei3cI@gs TO
a family Of fighters. William, the son
selected for the army eeTVice, would
sooner scuffie than eat, 1t is nothing TO
hear that one Of the BeresfOrds has
broken a bone. Charles William de la
Poer BeresfOrd. the naval commander, is
a favorite Of the Prince Of " ales, because
he il zone Of the bows" William BeTes-
ford is said to like nothing better than TO
prowl about Of an evening with some
other military officer, put their caps IN
their pockets, turn up their collars, enter
a saloon. and engage, unrecognized, in
rOugh-and-tumble fight with priyates.
SIX MONTHS or more ago stranger APP
peared in one Of the stores OF an adjOin-
ing town, says the Concord Monitor, and
asked for mutilated or punched coin. He
purchased all that was exhibited and de-
parted, Subsequently, during most of the
time mentioned, he returned at intervals,
seeking further installments Oh damaged
currency, 4 short time ago he made an
other visit and entered into explanations,
substantially as follows Il am clergy
man. and one Of my deacOns has been in
the habit of putting all his punched coin
into the contribution box. But / have
cot even with him by collecting punched
coin and paving him wholly in that for a
supply Of ere wood. He is cure0 now,
and puts no more punched coin IN the
bOX.'
PAUL BERT, recently Minister Of PUBLIC
Education in France, publishes an article
in defense of YiVlsectiOn. He says that
savants do net resort TO painful expert
ments upon the bodies OF living animals
except with heavy hearts. They do 1t
unwillingly, and are often forced to con-
troll their own sufferings while so engaged.
They are also bitterly opposed to all per-
version and abuse Of such experimental
ton by heartless or incompetent persons.
Science, however, he says, cannot dis
pense with yivisectiOn. 1t is for the bene-