Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

a RESOLUTION has been adopted by the
Congregational Church Of Wallingford, Conn,
forbidding the members ito drink liquor Of
any sort except hard cider
THE newspaper columns headed Born. .
Married, ;" and "Died" have been variOusly
paraphrased in the West. One paper has it
"Hatched, Matched, Despatched" and another
"Buds, Blossoms, and Cypress"
A JEALOUS HUSBAND slapped a mans face
in a Providence street car because the mans
ewes had been staring at his wife's face. The
car stopped block further on, and a little
girl entered and led the man away. He was
totally blind.
DETROIT has been Boosting of its oldest in
habitant. There seems to be no doubt that he
is Jos years old. He was born on st. Patricks
day, G779. and was in the Irish rebellion of '9s.
He drinks whisky and smokes a black and
wlcked-lOOklng pipe.
LATE last month fourteen fishermen from
villages at the mouth Of the NOlga were carried
out to sea by the floating ice and remained at
the mercy of the ice for three days, when they
drifted ashore in safety about 30 miles from
the point they had started from.
THE famous Rosedale mines, in Yorkshire,
England, which have been closed for a long
time, have just been let on a twenty-One
years lease to company, and they are to
be worked on large scale. Valuable beds Of
erty.
4 NUMBER of members of the New York
Stock Exchange have entered into an agree
ment pledging themselves not to lease any
offce after the first of May whose landlords
demand an increase of rent. 1t Is expected
that at least 500 brokers viii enter into the
agreement.
Az immense ditch is to be cut in the Arkan-
sas Valley, in Colorado. 1t will be sixty five
feet wide at the bottom. and Will take 50
much water ont of the Arkansas that that
stream Will not be able to cause very dam
aging floods At points below. 1t will be about
sIXty-five miles long.
AT the meet OF the SOuthdOwn fox hounds
at FOrtslade, in England, the other day, a fox
went straight for Poynngs, ran into the
church, and took refuge in the pulpit. He was
quickly brought out of the sacred edifice and
turned loose, when he was Immediately run
into by the hounds and killed.
BARON and Baroness Alphonse de Roths-
child were lately summoned from Paris to
London on account of the illness of Baroness
Lionel The night express had just gone, so a
special was ordered. Again. on reaching
Calais the boat had just gone; again a
special boat was ordered, and at Dover
special train.
THE President OF the Arcopagus. the SUI
prcme Court Of Appeal in Greece, receives
81 $50 year. the Vice President Sl,0s0, and
the thirteen assistant Judges 1870. The lower
order of Judges get from $500 to $3.50 The
government admits that these salaries are in
adequate, but apparently cannot at pres
ent pay more.
A MAN named Chenworth, who lives in the
village of Cowboy, Kan, owns horse which
he sends to a store three miles distant for pro-
Visions a nqte tied to the horses name has
a list Of the articles wanted. They are strap
pen in a bag to his back. The animal never
stops to nibble grass, but goes the whole dis
tance at brisk trot.
A YOUNG Partisan who lately came suddenly
to his end by the knife Of comrade was
found to be curiously tattooed. Reneath his
breast a serpent raised his head in the direc-
ton Of the heart, and all around were in
scribed; Il have been deceived in the past;
the present tOrments me; the future frightens
me- The death wound was at the words, II
have been deceived in the past"
WHEN George Warrell, of Rapid City,
Mimi, went to be married he found his pro-
gress impeded by a river swollen by the spring
floods. With a rope around his body-one end
held by friends on the bank-he swan the
stream, and then, on an improved raft,
tOwed over his clothes and two saddles-One
Of them his wedding present to the bride.
Then the horses were guided across, and the
wedding was celebrated.
A BACHELOR FARMER IN Arizona adver-
tised in the san Francisco papers for a wife.
The reply that pleased him most came from a
Young lady employed in a dry goods store
lie presented himself. was accepted and ten
DAYS later the pair were married. Soon after
returning to his home in Arizona the farmer
took his wife down to Almeda to visit his
brother. when, to the amazement Of all, II was
found that his brothers wife and his were
sisters.
s'IF lady really wishes to disguise herself
at a masked ball." says London Truth, ''she
must learn to speak in falsetto voice; cover
herself up in a domino with hood coming
well over her face. into which the lace bottom
of the mask should be thrust; wear spec
tacles; alter her stature by either very high
heels or no heels; put on three or four pairs
of gloves; pad herself out if tim; and change
her habitual mode OF walking. In Italy,
where masked balls are most freQuented BY
all, ladies alone who adopt all these rules
avoid detection"
A CORRESPONDENT writes from Paris: "But
of all the balls the most curious are the beg
CARS balls. Notwithstanding the troubles
and trials they have to endure through the
day, when evening comes they dance, and are
as happy and merry as though they were rich
and perfectly free. They have their halls,
and meet for pleasure three times a week;
and contrary to the general belief they are
reported to be exceedingly moderate in eat
ing and drinking, even those whose pockets
'
the lay. The medley Of blind. lame, para
lived, One-armed and defOrmed persons at
these balls is one Of the sights Of Paris"
The papyrus collection recently bought by
Archduke Renter of Austria is now being ex-
amined, under the direction Of Herr Kara
baczek. at the museum in Vienna. Hitherto
]. 500 papyri have been examined, about half
of them being perfectly preserved. This is
but a small proportion of the mass. There
are two papyri dating from the beginning of
our era. Then comes fragment of Thucy-
dides. This, having been written at the end
of the third century after Christ. is Of great
value, as the oldest manuscripts of Thucydides
are OF the eleventh century. There are a
Latin papyrus of the fifth or sixth century,
fragments of Greek Gospels of the fourth cen
tury. and large number Of Arab and Greek
A SINGULAR instance of kieptomania was