Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

a sIGNBoARD marked 'Six miles to Mont
gomery, Ala" was found, it is asserted lin the
mountains after the recent tornado, $50 miles
from Montgomery.
A SINGLE cattle ranch in Fexas, at the head
OF Red river, is said to contain nearly $4,000
acres more than the entire State Of Rhode Is
land contains IN territory
THE Governor Of the State of Colima, Mex,
has commissioned Emilio MahlO to map the
Lake of san Pedrito with a view of draining
it. 1t is supposed that this lake is the cause
Of the annual yellow fever epidemic.
RELIGIOUS sectarian agitation in Finland
has assumed serious proportions. One John
Kulasy, native of Osterbotten, has set up as
Pope, and is selling indulgences. An ennis
sary of his was recently murdered while en-
gagged on propaganda mission.
HENRY WILLIS, of Battle Greek, is Michi-
gan De Lesseps in all except achievement.
He is so years old and has been at work four
years to get a canal, III feet wide and 10 feet
deep, built from Lake Michigan to Lake Erie
Such a canal, he says, would admit vessels OF
1000 tons burden, and if built where he sug-
gests would drain million acres of swamp
land, making the best of soil for cultivation.
He is still confident that he Will live to see
boats crossing Southern Michigan.
SOME precious Mohammedan relics have
lately been retored to Mussulman worship by
ing-carpets, etc.-said to have belonged to
MOhammed his daughter, and the Prophets
companions. They were taken at the siege
of Damascus by TimOur in l40l, and passed
through many hands, till the British annexed
the PunJab and Kept the relics IN Fort La
hOre, where pious Orientals had to get a pass
to pay their devotions to the sacred treasures.
HENRY IRVING relates that on his last night
in Philadelphia he found his entrance to the
stage blocked by several strange men, who
did not heed his request that they would move
away. Then Irving grew angry, forced his
way through, and demanded Of the man near
est the stage, "WhO are you, and what do you
wantf' baggage" was the scant reply. He
took this for an insult, and not as an equiva-
lent for luggage" Alter the play he found
that the intruders were pOrters waiting, by
his own orders, for trunks to take to a train.
A GERMAN journal relates that a celebrated
musical director conducted the Funeral
March" from the 'Eroica" in black kids and
crayat, while he wore a white tie and gray
gloves during the performance of the re-
mainder of the programme. This gave rise
to a sugg sstiOn that in future he conduct the
Pastoral symphony in knee breeches, round
straw hat with cOlOred ribbons, a shepherds
crook instead Of baton, Mendelssohn's Scotch
symphony in a checked plaid and bare knees;
Raf's symphony SIN the Summer" in a light
linen jacket, etc.
A NEWFOUNDLAND DOG, jumping from its
feet high, fell upon the neck and back of a Ia
borer who, in a bent position, was digging a
hole in an adjoining garden, and injured him
severely. The owner OF the dog gave couple
of sOvereigns TO the injured man, who, not
content with this S0tdtiUn, brought an action
for damages in tile County Court, but was
non-suited. He appealed to the Court of
Queens Bench. Lord COleridge called his
claim 'prepOsterOus,' but gave 1t grave
consideration, and affirmed the decision of the
Comfy Court Judge.
A PARTISAN correspondent says that the
archaeological researches on the site of ancient
Carthage, conducted by Messrs. Solomon
Reinach and Ernest Babelon, have brought to
light a number of objects OF historical and ar
tistic Importance. ConfOrmably to the in
structlOns Of the French Institute, this scien-
tific mission has been chiefly occupied IN de-
termining the relative levels of the Roman
and the Punic soil on the site of Carthage.
The great accumulation of rubbish and stones
which forms the upper layer of the Cartha-
genan soil renders the work of excavation
long and difficult. Five metres deep a series
of wells, cisterns and cellars of the Pune |
epoch has been discovered.
THE city Of Lyons has just fallen herr to the
large fortune of Nine. de Cuzieu. a lady SO
years of age, who had long been known as the
most eccentric inhabtant of that city. For
thirty years she made it her business to en-
bitter the lives of the various projects and
mayors by ingenious annOyances, the conse-
quences of which she escaped by her marvel
GUS knowledge of law. Once, in order to
spite neighbor whom she disliked, she had
high tower erected from which she watched |
his every movement, ringing an immense bell |
at any hour of the night. On another Occa-
sion she invited a number of her acqualn- |
tances to meet NJ. DucrOs, the Project of |
Lyons, at her house. When they arrived they |
were led, with great ceremony, to pig on a |
dunghin. All her eccentricities, however, |
will be forgiven in view of her requests, |
amounting to 100000 francs, which, how |
ever, will benefit those Of her own sex only.
IT may interest those DESTROYS of enjoying a |
hale old age to know how Mignet, the French |
just deceased, lived. He rose at 5,
prepared his first breakfast himself, worked |