Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-09-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AN Hawaiian schoolgirl wants to know
if a grass widow is one whose husband
died from hay fever.
GEORGE W. CHILDs. Of philadelphia,
boasts the ownership Of a clock that once
belonged to the Great Napoleon. All Of
Childs' greatest possessions and pro-
ducts were other peoples.
IMAGINE the injury to the sensibilities
and senses Of the Augusta Maine Uni
yersalists when they discovered that a
skunk had spent Saturday night IN the
cold air box Of their furnace.
THEY tell Of railroad conductor who
had 10 give up taking up church collec-
tions because he couldn't restrain himself
from calculating at intervals as he made
his rounds. "Fares. please: tickets, gen
tlemen."
II is f0und that the Edison incandscent
light costs about the same, to newspaper
offices that use il, as gas at 5 per thou
sand feet. and the effect Is much more
agreeable. Fifteen newspapers East and
West, now use il.
ONK r. NJ. Shields, inventor" says
that he has patented gun that ''shOOts
1000 balls at the explosion Of one cap"
.swili kill and wound 800 men out OF
Yards" and ellis a want long felt"
BosroN's drunken slugger, Sullivan he
has returned TO his rum is going to give
a farewell tour Of his sparring exhibit
tions and then 20 TO Europe. He is said
TO have made a contract with one Al
smith for 10000 to 900" for world
tour.
IL old times actors used to be hard at
work for years on the stage before they
attained distinction. Langtry announces
that she will study one month under
Paris professor" and then kindly come
to America 10 make another 100000 by
acting"
AN Irishman in Sprague. with bag Of
potatoes on his back and riding horse
back, stopped at the largest store in town.
IJpon being asked why he did not put the
bag on the horses back, his reply was:
..Ifs enough for the horse to carry me,
and, be jabbers, ! can carry the praties."
GABRIELLE GREELEY, the present
owner of Chappaqua, is "A tine-looking
Young woman Of rather retiring manners.
She was her fathers youngest and also
his favorite daughter. In her personal
appearance, however, she resembles her
mothers family, being brunette, while
THE state Temperance Alliance, Of
Iowa. has sent circulars to the clergymen
in the state asking them to deliver spe-
cial temperance sermon, and to take up
collection i'm the churches to aid the
alliance in its work, is suggested that
each church might make its castor or
one of its members life member oil the
alliance by the payment OF $40.
Lot fr,n Of uric lg oct
mated at 100000 dogs, but taxes are paid
on but half that number, so it has been
decided that all dogs shall wear collar
with the name and address of the owner
stamped thereon, and an additional stamp
as a receipt will be placed on il when the
tax is paid, Dogs caught promenading
I'm collars not Of the prevailing style and
stamp will have their serenity officially
disturbed.
CONDUCTOR HARRIS, of Boston, is try
ing to raise fund of $lS,00O to be placed
in the hands of trustees for the construc-
tion and equipment of a mission car, to
be used in evangelistic work among rail
road men. The car is to be constructed
after plans and models suggested by prac-
teal railroad men, and be so arranged as
20 furnish a room for meetings, and be
supplied with cooking and eating apart
ments for those engaged in the work.
The Rev. G. ArbuthnOt, vicar OF STRAIT
ford,on- Avon, writes to an English jour
nal. ''The silly season has begun, and
your contemporaries are amusing them
selves with reports that Shakespeare's
bones are about to be eXhumed. My con-
sent to such a course has never been
asked. and consequently never been given,
and the only ground for these rumors is
that, i'm acknowledging pamphlet from
DIR. Ingleby on the subject, ! said that If
public opinion was clearly expressed III
favor of an exploration of the poets tomb,
/ should offer no opposition. i am much
more concerned at present in repairing
and identifying the church in which he
lies. for which / should be glad to receive
any subscriptions your readers may ike
to give me-
Two packages of mutilatedmoney were
received at the Redemption Bureau OF the
Treasury Department on september 10.
One package contained what was said to
be $3.50. 1t came from Montana, Two
brothers were engaged in mining out
there. One of them saved money UNI
known TO the other and deposited 1t IN an
old stove for safe-keeping. Later on his
brother brought the stove into their cabin
and started fire i'm it. This was not dis
il was almost too late. The second pack
ace contained pieces of several 500 bills.
They were accidentally dropped into some
bay' A calf was eating it. The calf was
killed and the money extracted. Both
naekages will be made good, as enough
remains of the money TO denote its de-
nomination and the name of the bank is
suing IL,
TUF excavations which have been insti-
tuted in Rome by the Collegio Romano are
proving to be rich in Egyptian treasures,
An obelisk which was recently found, and
which has been removed to the Plazza del
COllegio Romano. is IN wonderful state
of preservation. 1t is covered from top 10
bottom with splendid hieroglyphics. IL is
the very counterpart of the one standing
in the Piazza of the Pantheon, and the Two
must have stood together in front OF the
Temple of Isis, where the one last eXca-
waited was found. From this and other
circumstances it has been found possible
10 draw conclusions as to the destruction
, &C. the Temple of Isis. The attempt of
ios nlooamachus Flayianus, in the year Ss4