Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

IL a sermon at Baltimore Archbishop Ryan
said that care for the poor is not only d.
vine and ecclesiastical law, but it is the high
est wisdom of the political economist. zone
half of the world does not know how the
other half lives" he added, "but that other
halt will soon let them know. and assure
them that they do not intend to live so any
longer"
TEXAS pays the vet eraps of its war OF indie
pendence a small pension, and when the act
was passed it was thought $4,000 year
would be sufficient: but it is now shown that
double that sum is required. The Galveston
Heacs, considering this matter, says that the
roll must certainly contain the names of a
great number of alleged veterans who are
spurious, and il calls for searching revision
Of the lists.
AT Lassen. w. T., on election day the votes
OF ten ladies were challenged, on the ground
that they had not been naturalized. A written
opinion was obtained in favor of the accept
ance of their votes, for the reason that their
husbands had been naturaliZed, but the judges
of election laid it under the table, and the
votes were rejected. women cast One-tnlrd
Of the votes, it is stated, at Seattle wv. t.
where 1926 votes were Dolled.
AN attempt made in the Roman Academy Of
Medicine to reassert the claims of Casalpinus
as discOverer of the circulation of the blood
has been followed by an able defense Ct Har
vey by DIR. George johnson, of London. Mr..
johnson shows from C9salplnus' writings
that his notions were gained from Aristotle;
he stated, moreover, that the blood passes to
the heart during sleep, and returns 10 the eX-
tremities in the waking hOurs-a remark
which leaves the Italian considerably behind
hand.
SOME TINE AGO a large elm tree in Hyde
Park, London, was cut down and was being
sawn into planks, when in its very heart was
found BIRDS nest containing three white
eggs with little brown spots upon them. 1t Is
supposed that when the tree was very young
the parent birds had built at the junction Of
a bOugh with the trunk; that this bough had
been removed by the wind or IN some other
way, and that the natural growth of the wood
had by degrees surrounded the nest and its
contents.
THE reasons for Hindoo loyalty to the Brit
ish government, as naiYely set forth by a ma
tive journal, explaining why English is to be
preferred to Russian rule, resemble very
much those given by Commodore Vanderbilt
for Dreferring candidates for conductorships
who had already a diamond pin and gold
watch and cham: "When the English came
they plundered; now they are satiated. If
Russians come, they must come hungry. We
prefer a boa which Is satlated to a hungry
black snake, though the boa may be larger"
ARCHITECTS who have been consulted on
the subject say that the sweeping changes
made forty years ago, during the restoration
of Holy Trinity Church, at Stratford. the
church in which Shakespeare is burieG, OBJ
liberated many of the snclent landmarks,
and they recommend that, in the making OF
the changes now proposed, great care should
be observed, and all the historical features Of
the edifice should be most strictly preserved.
Among the recommendations contained in
the report are the opening up OF the north
and south transepts, the removal OF the GAL
lerles in the nave, and the erection of a vestry
on the site of the old chantry, the estimated
cost of this work being 100000.
in ToudOn Rafarse Gqve
eAIr. Gladstone burst into our editorial room
the other day with his ak in his hand and a
broad grin on his face. Il say he exclaims.
you haven't gone to press yet, have you?
NO. That's right. I've brought you some
thing for the paper. l was cutting down
tree with my boy Herbert, and he was telling
me about the row at Birmingham. l re-
marked that it was wrong OF the boys to fling
the benches about. "1e s, pa" he said, that
was a redistribution Of seats that the Tories
couldn't be expected to approve Of" Not bad
for Herbert, was it, chr Put il in if you can.
Tia, tar And the hale and hearty old man
danced down the stairs four at a time and
went of to Downing street in the highest
glee."
BUDOLPH GRIMM. a Randolph street gun
smith: F. Hersey, music teacher, and VIM.
Haisch, of Chicago, entered into a contract
with Sebastian Happach, a restaurant and
saloon keeper on West Randolph street, to eat
one quail a day each for thirty consecutive
days, Happach to pay Tor the QUAIL ana for
all the additional Refreshments, liquid and
solid, which they can dispose of If they sue
coed. The first of the three men failing to
devOur his quail, however, pays the entire bill
IN to the GATE of failure. His companions
continue to dine daily on quail subject to the
same conditions. The trio began Tuesday,
and ate the quails with great relish. They
are large, powerful men, blessed with good
appetites. and are confident that Happach
will pay for their dinners for the month.
LIEUT.. HOLM, who is exploring East Green
land, Is now supposed to be in winter quarters
as far north on the east coast as he was able
to Journey last summer. One of his purposes
was to meet as many of the east coast natives
as possible. We know very little of them, as
most East Greenland expeditions have not
met them at all. Lieut.. Holm spent last
winter on an east coast island fifty miles north
OF Cane Farewell. where some EsquimauX
live very comfortably on the salmon, herring
and seals with which the nelgh9orlng waters
abound. Holm sent back word that sledges
were useless for east coast exploration, as the
shore ice is never thick enough TO travel on,
being broken up every day or TWO Dy storms
or incoming Ice. He Travelled north last sum-
mer by boat aud land. and hoped to return
next year with rich additions to our knOwl-
edge OF East Greenland.
THERE is a proposition to build a continu-
Gus line of railway from London to Bombay,
a distance Of about 5000 miles. The line
would cross into Africa at Gibraltar, and
from Taugiers connect with lines already in
operation in Algeria, across Morocco via Tunis
and TripOli to Cairo. thence by way of the
Isthmus Of Suez down the river Euphrates
and along the Persian Gulf shore to a cOnnec-
ton with the Indian system OF railways
which runs to Bombay. The project has been
devised by joint commission OF English and
French engineers, and it will be continuous
land line from London, excepting the crossing
Of the straits of Dover and Gibraltar. When
it is completed America Will be compelled to
get Gould and Vanderbilt to combine long
enough to build the railway line to South
America via the Isthmus Of Panama, in order
that the New World may not be eclipsed by
the old.
REPRESENTATIVE BELF0RD, Of Colorado,
the Red Rooster Of the Rockies" Is, accord
ing to a Boston TraUeEIer correspondent,
NATURALLY sloven. His clothes hang on him
with no evident purpose save to protect his
body from exposure. His collar has no stiff
enirg. and the bow knot of his cravat, if he
by accident shall have remembered to don
that article. is usually deposited under his
left ear. The sleeves of his coat are so long
that they hide his hands. doubtless to conceal
the black enamel of his finger nails, and his
trousers are frazzled at the ends and overlap
his shoes. His shirt bosom is always unartis-
tically frescoed with tobacco stains. and in
the matter of head-gear his soft black felt hat
presents the appearance Of having run the