Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-14
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rested in Syracuse for making noise IN
the streets declare their willingness to 90
to the penitentiary. The Syracuse peO-
pie are perfectly willing that they should
90 there, and stay as long as they want to.
1t is rumored in London that when Miss
Mary Anderson produces "RomeO and
Juliet at the Lyceum, Mr.. Fred Leslie,
who has just retired from the role of Kip
Van Wrinkle" at the Comedy, Is to essay
the part of ''MOntagu."
a YOUNG gentleman writing from Long
Branch asks whether it is ''gOOd form" to
hold a bird with ones fingers while eating
it. There are dexterous people who can
easily dissect a snipe or WOOdcOck with
the aid of only their knife and fork. At
the same time there is an adage that Il
bird i'm the hand is worth two in the
bush.
THERE are about seven hundred mis-
sionaries in India, only twenty-eight Of
whom are medical men. There is loud
call for physicians in connection with
missionary effort. A missionary who is
also "a physician can accomplish much
among the natives, where one who
has no knowledge Of medicine will find
difficulty in obtaining hearing.
A STATUE of Lord BeacOnsfield has been
placed in the Conservative Club, London.
The statue is erected by subscription of
the members, and is the work of Count
Gleichen. The deceased statesman IS
represented in morning costume, stand
ING in an easy attitude, with arms folded.
and a scroll OF papers in one hand. The
likeness is said to be excellent.
A MAN in East DOugherty, Ca, has a
front tooth which he plugged with lead
with his own hands over 80 years ago. He
used an awl to clean out the cavity, and
packed the lead with the same instru-
ment. after beating it out as thin as posi-
state of preservation, and the neighbors
have never forgotten the profanity he
uttered while doing the job.
YEARS AGO, when David Crockett was
a member of Congress and had returned
home at the close of the first session, sew
eral of his neighbOrs gathered around him
one day, and asked questions about
Washington. ''What time do they dine
in the cityg" asked one. Common peO-
pie. such as we have here, dine at l. The
biz ones dine at 3; we Representatives at
4: the aristOcracy and the Senators eat at
J." ''Well, when does the President fOd-
der!" ''Old Hickory?'' exclaimed the
Colonel. "well. he don't dine till next
day."
THE Baptist ministers of Chicago meet
every Monday for social fellowship and
for the discussion Of some moral or religi-
Gus topic. After the discussion is over
they 90 to a restaurant, where they have
an upper room Of their own in which to
dine. When Professor Ensley of Howard
University recently sat with these minis
tiers they invited him to dine with them,
and he accepted the invitation. On reach
ing the restaurant, the proprietor of that
establishment, noticing that Mr.. Ensley
was cOlOred man, refused to admit him.
Some of the brethren were very indignant
about it.
THE alleged discovery Of the remains of
Noah's Ark may tempt few ofthe sensa-
tionaI cIergymen to preach fancy sermons
on that historical craft, setting forth the
discovery as cOnfirmatory of their pecu-
liar views on the deluge. Wiser preach
ers of the Word will wait to learn more
exactly than is now possible what has
been found, and how it bears on Biblical
truth. Even if certain wooden remains
have been found among the Ararat
Mountains, there is no positive certainty
that they ever formed part of the Ark, nor
can there be, unless NOah's monogram is
found carved ON the rudder post or else
where. 1t would be a sad pity If, after
the theOlOgians and psychologists have
given their various and conflicting views
on these remains, they should prove to be
the wreck of some antediluyian COW sta
BILE.
AT WINTHROP, Me, the Quakers have
introduced a wonderful innovation on old
customs. They are building a meeting
house which is actually to be beautiful.
1t will exceed in its decorative splendOr
any other Friends meeting house in this
country. Other meeting houses are bare
and implanted. This one will be taste
fully upholstered. 1t will also be finished
in hard wood. A bell is talked of, but il
is thought that the conservative ten
denotes of the Friends will be sufficiently
strained by the upholstery, the hard
wood finish, and the generally eccleslas-
teal appearance of the house. This de-
nomination has hitherto stoutly resisted
all innovations of this sort. The lndlca-
cations now are that the old rigidity of
Quaker customs will have to accept
modification, in order to keep the younger
Ouakers from running off and joining
other denominations.
THAT most curious patron of missions,
King Mtesa, of Uganda, is dead. He was
one of the most religious of African
III Ills ACAAEAOOS fACNo AAC W as
ssevervthing by turns and nothing long,
First he was a worshiper of false gods.
Then some Protestant missionaries con-
yerted him. After a while he drove them
away and became a Roman Catholic.
Then he took a within to threaten to cut
fbe Catholic missionaries heads of. At
one time the Baptists had him, and at an
orher time he was so near becoming a
member of the Church of England that
his decision hung on the answer to his
application to Queen Victoria to be allow
ed to marry one of her daughters. Even
though he offered to slay all his other
wives if this application should be grant
ed, Queen Victoria refused him. Then he
shut down on the English missionaries
and drove them away. Among his other
religious experiences was short term OF
high enthusiasm in the MOhammedan
faith, Some Arabs who happened TO jour-
ney through his dOminions found him
ready convert to their views. 1t is be-
lieved that this pOtentate died in the faith
of his fOrefathers.
A FEW DAYS AGO a carriage drove flu
riously down to the Cunard dock, and