Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-10-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST

| heartrendIng possibilities OF politics..
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
| ARKANSAS has paid the United States
government an aggregate of nearly
| 50, 900, 900 in the shape of internal revenue
tax during period of 81 years.
In ANY theological system it is hard &c
get along without hell. Those who in.
sist there is no hell set up a substitute fol
it they call ''retributiOn," which amounts
/ to the same thing.
MIR. BARNUM has an agent in London
| on the lookout for curiosities. He must
| he man after Mr.. Barnum's own heart,
| for the Pal Man Gazette says: death
would have no sting for him if he ever
! could secure a man with a tail"
Two remarkable and curious walking
sticks are in the possession of Robert
Tale, of Norwich, ChenangO county, n.
Y. The walking-sticks contain 400 sep
arate pieces ingeniOusly wrought. The
| cane contains 1000 pieces, many of them
relics from historical spots.
JESSE POWELL, brakeman, living in
Nashville, Tenn, dreamt that his train
was about to collide and jumped from
what he supposed to be it. He was found
on the sidewalk next morning with neck
and legs broken and otherwise injured.
He had jumped from twO-stOry window.
THE gold dollar is too small and the
silver dollar is too large. The first is con-
stantly getting itself lost, and magnify
ing glass is necessary if the owner wants
to keep anywhere in sight of it. The
second is large enough to be employed as
a weapon, and can be used as a paper
weight or as ballast. but is rather clumsy
for money. Where are all the tinanciers,
that they cannot give us good dollar?
AN EXTRAORDINARY pearl has been
| found at Michel Bay. 1t is composed of
nine distinct pearls about the size of peas,
of a fine lustre and firmly bedded together
/ in the form of perfect cross about an
| inch and a half long, 1t is a perfectly
unique curiosity and is expected, says
the Melbourne AYuS, TO fetch tabu-
lOus price, owing to the extraordinary
coincidence of its perfectly representing
the symbol of Christianity.
"A YOUNG couple in their honeymoon are
dallying languidly with the grapes at the
dessert. She (archly And you don't
find it tiresOme, dear, all alone with
me. You are quite, quite sure that you
don't wish to 90 back to your bachelor
life again." He earnestly )-"Quite, my
darling: indeed, married life is so awfully
jolly, that, you know, if you were to die
tonight I'd get married again tO-mOr-
row."
Mr.. SHIRK, of Peru, Indiana, owns
seventy-three farms in Indiana that are
all in high state Of cultivation. He
also owns thousands of acres in Texas,
Arkansas, Michigan and Iowa, nine resi-
dences. business blocks without number,
81 hnft,sr cifrafo1 in, Ebfrarro
and indianapolis, three banks, several
stores, and as many mills, which he con-
ducts himself. The remainder of the
earth is gradually falling into Mr.. Shirk'S
hands, but he is a good man, and will
allow the rest of lis to rent from HIM.
LITERATURE is pursued under difficult
ties in Russia. Several months ago a
young man of some promise published Il
volume of poems, composed chiefly of Sc
lectiOns gathered from other published
sources, and Immediately on the appear
ance of the book, which had already been
permitted by the ordinary censOrS, the
author was hurried before the Minister of
the Interior and threatened with imprison-
ment and exile. The books were all
burnt, a search was suddenly made in his
lodgings, and he was placed as a ''sus-
pect' under the supervision of the police.
liz utdNN eiStlIlC MlISS art a SOuICc
of continual danger. On Friday evening
last while some of the officers of the Full
Ter Electric Light Company were making
a tour of inspection in Dayton, Ohio, one
of the lamps, by which the city is lighted,
went out. Superintendent Robbins, of
the Dayton Company, in lowering the
lamp to examine it took hold of the con-
Quoting wire where the insulation was
worn off, and fell as if shot. He died
three minutes later, eXclaimIng: ''The
life is burned out of me-"
ADMINISTER. who was inclined to be
absent-minded, while walking one day,
encountered young lady whose face
somehow seemed to be familiar to him.
Taking her to be one of his parishiOner's
daughters, and not wishing to pass her
without notice, he stepped forward, and,
cordially shaking her hand, entered into
conversation, expecting that her name
would Immediately come TO his recOllec-
ton. After comparing notes about the
weather, however, and other topics, he
had at length to confess, "Well, l know
your face quite well, but cannot recall
where | have seen you before" ''Oh,
please, sir, Pm your new table maid
was the unwelcOme reply.
LONDON Truth.-The Americans spe-
ciaIly complain of the airs of Lord Ons-
low. 'He,' they say, ''sOlicited an invi-
tation for the excursion, and then brought
with HIM three friends; he appropriated
an entire Pullman car TO his own use and
that of his friends, and tried To compel his
servants to dine and sleep in the car occu-
pied by such comparatively unknown men
as General Grant and Secretary EVarts.
Then he wanted precedence in the Mime
apOlis procession, and il was seriously
considered whether he ought not to be
placed next TO the drum major at the head
OF the band Americans are to blame
for standing this sort of nonsense. They
should have put his 1Ordship out on the
prairies, and left him to the solitary en-
jOyment of his dignity.
Mr.. w. III. HAIGH, of the GlOssop road
news, Sheffield, England. completed on
Saturday, September %, a four days sale
of his entire stud of horses, with car
riapes. harness. etc. The carriages.
which numbered 25S, included two car
riages built for the late Emperor Napo-
Icons state professions. They were sup
piled shortly before Sedan, and on the
downfall of the empire were among the
valuables sent to England. Mr.. Haigh
purchased them i'm London at over flOO
apiece. At Sheffield they were exhibited
for a time at sixpence head, and were
subsequently used for weddings. AT the
sale last week they were knocked down to
Mr.. Harrison, of GlossOp, near Manches-
ter, for s120 for the pair. They are now
to be exhibited i'm different towns, begin
ming at Nottingham.
JAMES p. VOORHEES,, who is son of
Senator Voorhees,, of Indiana, and who
was sent to the New York Hospital on
Thursday TO be treated for mental de-
rangement, is not an amateur of the stage.
For two years, his acquaintance say, he
acted with Mccullough, and at one time
played ''IagO" to McCullough's s'Othello."
Recently he was a clerk in the Senate
Chamber at Washington. He has been !