Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-03

A descendant of Daniel Boone has been
taken TO a West Virginia poorhouse. The
unfortunate has fought adversely for 20
wears and now gives up the contest
O'Leary, the long distance walker, Is
lust now long distance from nome,
having arrived at Melbourne, Australla,
in quest of a new pedestrian to conquer
DIR. Tanner, the faster, has taken up
his permanent residence in jamestown,
Ny. and limits himself to three square
meals a day.and lunches between times.
One of the longest and most stormy At
lantic VOYAGES on record is that OF the
German ship Else, which has just arrived
in New York, 102 days from Liverpool.
The question of establishing medical
school in conjunction with Tufts College
and admitting girls to all the departments
of that institution are under Amusement
The old men in an Italian poor house
have revolted because they cannot longer
enjoy cabbage soup. They are still strong
enough to draw the line ut that vegetable.
A Mississippi paper says of candidate;
ale made most excellent matrimonial
insurance agent, and we cannot see why
he would not make wise and able legls-
latOr."
Members of the Quebec Legislature are
much given this session to having their
photographs taken singly and in groups.
They are determined to have an iron grasp
on posterity.
Judge Jere Blacks suggestion of Conger
as Republican Presidential candidate,
while it has not been approved with any
great heartiness, has added largely to his
reputation as satirist.
Pope Leo XIII. is described as tau,
spare man, with a deeply-lined face, who
invariably maintains a formal gravity.
His life is remarkable for its austerlty,
and his health, although delicate, receives
no care.
Mr.. G. p. A. Heady contributes to the
Paris Salon this year his portrait of Mrs.
Frederick A. Cover formerly Miss Lii
liam Norton and very charming group
representing Mrs. Col. Mackay, of Paris,
and her infant son.
General Weaver reports that he has had
five rousing greenback meetings in Michl-
gan. 1t only takes five Greenbackers to
constitute s'rousing" gathering, and the
presence of twenty-five is always called
an uprising of the people.
1t is said that the late Nathaniel Thayer,
of Boston, left an estate valued at 1900
600, and that the annual income of each
of his heirs will be 100000. The day Ne
fore his death he gave $4,000 to the Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology.
1t was rather odd at the grand ball, to
see the diminutive royal hIghnesses act
ing as pages to carry the heiress appa-
rents train. Royal highnesses Gas is"
royal highnesses are not usually employed
for such duties, but then the Hawaiian
court is SUI geReriS.-HOn0lalu Gazette.
Miss ParlOa, well known as lecturer
on and teacher of cookery, is instructing
New York housekeepers in bovine anato-
my. A whole beef carcass is placed upon
the platform and carved by butchers.
dressed in white aprons trimmed with
lace, under the direction of the lecturer.
The painting of est. Paul in Chains"
by MurillO, which was placed in st. PauPs
Cathedral, Cincinnati, many years ago,
at a cost of $25, 200, has been ruined. The
sexton, in trying to place screen over 1t,
| slipped from the scatfolding which he had
| erected and fell through the picture to the
! floor, fifteen feet below.
Before the exposure of Major Phipps'
dOings in the Philadelphia aims house, a
! finely engrossed memorial had been pre-
pared for presentation to him by the off,
! GERS of the almshOuse. A member of the
! committee OfOne hundred has now brought
! it from the maker, and it is to be given to
| one who was prominent in detecting the
| condition of affairs in that institution.
There is a building in New York city
five feet wide and four stories high. 1t is
built on a strip of land five feet wide and
100 feet deep, that was left on Lexington
avenue after that thOrOughfare was cut
through some years ago. 1t was not
owned by the person who possessed the
adjoining lot on Eighty-second street.
The two owners could not agree on terms,
| though the owner of the full lot wanted to
purchase. The latter built house on his
lot, and the former decided to build on his
| narrow strip of real estate. 1t is divided
INTO two houses, each 80 feet long, with
entrances on the avenue, and, of course,
practically shuts up the side windows OF
its next neighbOr.
In Justin McCarthy's new novel, ''NIaid
of Athens" the following dialogue is
given: "All great countries produce
stimulants," said VlachOs, sententiously
"France, wine; England, beer; 1 mean
great as distinguished from big countries.
The United States will one day be great
as well as big; then yours will be wine
producing country. Wine goes with
| mind" Then the three set to debate
the proposition. To Lord st. Ives the
grape made into wine was an article of
commerce, and he knew all about it.
For the poetry of the grape and the wine
it makes, for the poetic dreamings that
are born of wine, Lord st. Ives cared
nothing. He never bestowed a thought
on the subject. He would as soon have
thought of associating it with vatOnia or
tallow. To Paul Hathaway the sensuous
| properties of the grape when melted into
wine were simply an abOminatiOn.
Sobriety in man was to him the same as
chastity in woman.
A Sufferer from rheumatism,