Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-09-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A SOUTHERN gentleman has trained a
pair of pet snakes to catch mice. His
premises are free from mice, and the
snakes are family pets, taking food from
the hand fearlessly.
IT is said that for twenty-five years no
saloon has been allowed in Edwards
county, H.. and that during that time the
county has contributed only one criminal
to the penitentiary.
ONE of the largest pearls in the world
was recently discovered IN the pearl fish
cries off Lower California. 1t is the size
Of a lime, measuring one inch in length
by three-fOurths of an inch in thickness.
A LITTLE GIRL, the Chicago Tribune
says, uncOnsciOusly and tOuchingly testi-
fed to the excessive drudgery of her
mothers life when, on being asked, els
your mothers hair grayY' she replied:
Il don't know; she's too tall for me to see
the top of her head, and she never sits
down.
THE revised figures for marriages in
Paris during 1882 are as follows: Between
young men and young women 1879;
young men and widows, 1,2O6; widOwers
and young women, LILO; widows and
widOwers. 904. The number of divorces
is given at -. The last is an instructive
figure which New England papers might
do well 70 copy.
ONE of the most singular freaks of the
eruption at Java was the carrying Of an
enormous bed of solid ice from a subter
ranean lake in the midst of molten lava.
The bed Of ice was surrounded by a thick
envelope of sand and scOria, which are
such nOn-cOnductOrs of heat that a red
hot stream Of lava running over it will
not melt the snow,
THE people of Brooklyn, Conn, deem
their old oak the most beautiful tree in
New England. 4 hundred years ago its
top was cut off to use in CRUSHING in'
hayseed and the young tree then put off
many branches near the ground. Some
of these have grown to a length of sixty
feet, and are very large. The trunk is
1J12 feet in circumference.
DISCIPLINE in the Annamese army is
illustrated by a story at Hue of an officer
who had ditch dug and filled the bottom
with swords and pixies stuck into the
ground point upward. His men were
then told to fling themselves into the ditch.
Only one man Obeyed. He rushed in, and
the swords and pixies collapsed before him.
They had been held by the most slender
of threads,
Hon. ID. W. VOORHEES, is attorney for
a young woman in Terre Haute, Ind,
who is suing a merchant in Greencastle,
in the same State, tor $50, 900 damages for
alleged breach Of promise of marriage.
The merchant, who recently married, de-
MES that he ever engaged to marry the
plaintiff, but says he did employ her to
make him some shirts, and compliments
her highly upon the neat and skillful man.
ner in which she did the work.
ONLY a few months ago Judge Black
said to one of his friendsi ''When ! am
gone, want you to be able to say of me
as was said of Samuel when he left the
Judgeship, the record of which runs thus;
Whose OK have ! takeny or whose ass
have / taken? or whom have | defraudedy
whom have | oppressed? or Of whose hand
have | received any bride to blind mine
eyes therewithy and | will restore it you.
And they said, thou hast not defrauded
us. nor oppressed us, neither hast thou
taken aught of any mans hand"
SENATOR Don CAMERON. who is driv-
ing through England, writes to his father
that his health is improving. He says:
This is a great apple country, and the
trees are loaded down with fruit. They
make great quantities of cider, and the
orchards are profitable. Cultiyating hops
is profitable business. 1t seems to me
that we ought TO raise them with equal
profit in our country. | am sure that if
we had persons who thoroughly under
stood taking care Of sheep we could make
it paw, and at the same time improve our
lands. | intend to hunt up shepherd in
Scotland and try it at Hummelstown."
"GEN. SCOTT was then just in the prime
OF life,'' said Captain Adair, "and he was
one of the finest looking men who ever
Visited the place-tall, well proportional
and sOldierly. his wife was proportion
ately large and equally fine looking, and
we had the great pleasure OF seeing them
Feeonciled here mt the Red, after a sepa-
ration of many years. They had taken
pains to keep widely apart, having the
ocean for the greater part of the time be-
tween them. But they came separately
to the Red Sulphur Springs, met here,
and went away together and passed the
remainder Of their lives together. 1t was
2 great happiness to us all here to have
been la even a slight degree instrumental
in this reconciliation between so brave a
soldier and so beautiful a woman
Ahs. MARY YOUNG, of Bangor, Me-,
celebrated her one hqndredth birthday on
Monday with a reunion Of her relatives
from all parts of the country. Her chill
dren were nine sons and four daughters,
and all lived TO be men and women and
had families. all being married by their
grandfather. the Rev. Winthrop Young,
Free Will Baptist minister, who died at
Canterbury, n. H., at the age of 81 years.
He had ten children, five sons and five
daughters. Mrs. YOung's father, Samuel
Jackson, had four sons and four daugh-
tiers, she being the youngest and the last
survivor. OF her children nine are sill
living. the oldest so years Of age, and
eight were present at the reunion on Mon
dag I'm the family are 90 grandchildren,
40 great grandchildren, and great-great-
grandchildren.
A VERY curious thing about deaf mutes
is the rapidity with which they learn the
meaning and use of slang words and
phrases. The ordinary street language of
the day seems to be every bit as familiar
10 them as il is 10 people whose organs of
hearing are not impaired, ana ihey win
saw. in their own way, ''you bet your
bootsrp or ''yol bet your sweet lifev'
with as much ease andGgraGe rs II they
had il at their tongues end all their lives.
one Of the afflicted young men, when
asked for an explanation Of this remark
able fact, said the deaf mutes got theiF
knowledge of slang from the newspapers
that they were great readers OF the papers,
apd snapped up new phrase or word
just the IaO1Gert it made its appearance.
They not only use slang II writing, but IN
their sign language.
A PRETTY young woman in Topeka got
an anonymous note the other day signed
"Admirer." The writer protested his
ardent affection, and requested the young
lady to meet him at a certain corner that
NIGHT. She handed the note To her mother.