Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-09

in the local bank by saloon keepers.
Arab Pasha and the other exiles have
expressed themselves highly satisfied
with Ceylon. and. further. a wish to have
their sons admitted at once as boarders
in q government college there. This VIII
BE- done.
The Chinese papers state that Li-Fu-
Yen. wife Of the ex-Viceroy Of the prov
ince Of Chilli-le. being seriously i'll, her
husband had sent for Miss DR.. Howard"
II is added that this lady, who appears TO
be established in Peking. is gathering
good practice amSng the titled ladies OF
China.
A statement that, on the near extinction
OF the Dukedom Of yelling t0n, property
in Belgium, Of the value Of 100, 900 francs,
bestowed on the Iron Duke in 1915, with
the title Of Prince Of Waterloo, by King
William /. Of the Netherlands, would re-
vert 70 the Belgian State. appears in the
Belgian and French papers
There are no less than sixty-seYen daily
political papers published in Paris, but
the circulation Of all these journals put
together probably does not equal that Of
the TWO most widely read London news
papers. II appears that the periodical
publications Of all kinds brought out in
Paris number more than 100.
Not less than 5000 marks on Cincinnati
houses stand as records Of the deluge Of
the Ohio river in the third week in Febru-
airy. 1888. The owners and occupants
point 10 them with pride. and il is said
thai a spirit Of rivalry leads to frequent
Taising Of these lines, until the historical
accuracy OF them all is doubted.
A rare present that the King Of spain
has received from Prince Charles Of HO-
henzOllern is the urn containing the ashes
and bones of the Cid. This precious YES
sci is Of marble. and had long been pre-
served at Siglnaringen. 1t has been sent
10 BurgOs. where the grave Of the Spanish
hero is said TO be located. II was received
with solemn ceremonies.
The body of handsome young girl has
been found on the railroad track near the
city Of Taganrog, in the department Of
Jekaterinoslaw. in Southern Russia. Be
side the body lay paper on which was
written that the girl had beena member
Of the revolutionary party and had turned
traitor. For this she had been condemned
to death by the revolutionary committee.
At recent card party at the house Of a
popular London dentist the counters used
were false teeth. At first the ladies pres
ent seemed very sensitive about touching
the little white heaps, but as the evening
wore on, the more false teeth each tair
dame possessed the happier she seemed.
When the counters were tOtalled up at the
end Of the game, there were only three
more than had been originally given out.
A stranger in Persia, during a heavy
drought, noticed a schOOlmaster march
out Of Schiraz with his school in process
sion at his heels. He asked where they
were going. The schOOlmaster told him.
and added that he doubted not that God
would listen to the prayers Of innocent
children. III that be so. my friend .
quoth the traveller, Il fear that there
would be very few schOOlmasters left
alive"
A little balloon, filed with hydrogen
gas. was recently sent up from Paris by a
tradesman, who attached to it his card
with his name and address. The other
day he was surprised to hear tidings Of
the balloon all the way from Russia. NJ.
JaTochewitch. a priest at Tchigi. in the
Government OF GrOdnO and district Of
Bielsk, picked it up in that remote region
only three DAYS after ii had been launched
from Paris.
Albert Jones Howell, Of Chicago, was a
sufferer from insomnia. During five nights
he did not sleep a wink. but on the sixth
he slumbered sOundly. Refreshed and
encouraged, he told his friends that be
had conquered the disease. "But if il
should RETURN said he, Il would commit
suicide, for | had rather die than spend a
week awake" That night he was sleep
less and in the morning he took his lite
with a pistol.
BOgardus, the rifleman, has a twenty
acre home in Logan county, Ill There is
a small orchard, a house that needs
painting. and some rather dilapidated out
buildings. Bogardus is not rich, He
made few thousands on his foreign trip.
but is saving that to bet on future
matches. One sOn-in.laW farms the place
in summer, and tends bar for another
man in winter. A third daughter is the
wife Of saloon keeper in Chicago.
An interesting incident attending the
funeral Of the Ritter Won Wertheimstein,
a wealthy Jewish banker and financier oil
Vienna, was a visit paid by the widow to
the BurgOmaster with a check in her hand
for 100000 francs, which she gave him fol-
immediate distribution among the poor OF
the city. The Ritter Won Wertheimstein
started in life as a poor and obscure young
man, but railroad building and other
enterprises. conducted on a large and
successful scale, made him one Of the
wealthiest men in the Austrian empire,
and raised him to the rank of Baron.
Several Of the French papers announce
that an active Legitimist propagandism
is being carried on in some of the poorer
districts of Paris. Emissaries are sent
round by the MOnarchists to distribute
relief to the poor i'm the shape Of tickets
emitting each holder to receive a loaf of
bread at any Of four specified bakehouses
in the neighbOrhOOd. At the top of the
ticket is A regal crown with lilies, while
at the back is a autographed manifesto
signed "Henry w Portraits of the
Comte de Chambord are also given away
to the recipients Of the bread.
The Government agent in RajpOOtana,
India, reports that case Of ''suttee" has
occurred at U2ma, Notwithstanding the
stringent prohibitions issued by the
English authorities against this cruel
practice. The widow whose life was sac
rificed on the funeral pyre was the wife
of Sham Sing. the Sheik Of the village.
All persons concerned in aiding in the
execution Of the fatal rite were taken
into custody, and have been prosecuted.
The brothers and sons Of the deceased
Sheik have been sent to prison for seven
years. All Of the other guilty partici-
pants have been sentenced to imprisOn-
ment for three years.
Cold and rainy summers, such as have
afflicted England of late years, occurred
in the last century and probably in every
century. History repeats itselfin weather
as in all else. About 1850 Lord Chester
field writes to his son from Blackheath,
near London, in June, that he is seated
beside blazing fire, and in 1884 COwper
writes TO his friend Newton on June u ::
This unpleasant summer makes me wish
for winter. The glOOminess Of that season
is the less felt because expected, and be-
cause the days are short. We have now
frosty mornings On July he writes /:
Last Saturday the cold was so severe
that ii pinched off the shoots of our peach
trees"
The cure of the agricultural troubles in
England will gradually be worked out by
the elimination Of the tenant farmer, ex-
cept on the very great estates, thus leav-
ing two classes instead Of three to live on
the land. Already those -proprietors who
are personally farming many acres of
their own unleasable land express them
selves as well satisfied with the result
The labOrer will necessarily rise in i'm
pOrtance with the departure Of the far
mer, will probably obtain an acre or two
of land. and will find his condition ma
terially improved. America and Austria
liza will benefit by the advent of the ten
ant farmer, bringing with him skill, char
acter and q little capital.