Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-02
BRIGHT BITS.

WHES Ben Butler was d BOY ne didn't have
much fun. But he's getting even now.-Ro-
chester Post Erprsss,
BUTLER still has his eve on the Presidency,
though you wouldn't believe u 70 look at the
-PhilIdelThid Press.
THERE are some workingmen who think
Ben Butler Is looking at them, but he isn't
Louisville Courier Journal.
WHEN Butler. during the campaign, kisses
a baby he keeps one eye on the mother. But
he really spoons over the baDy.-Sdn Francis
co Post.
"AHD will We not vote for Blaine, Pat:' Il
will not, DegOrrah. bat for Logan. Ana
why will We vote, thin. for LOgan:" "Becase
they tell me he's always G-nurthertH' the Eng
lish.'-ChristiaH ~ Work.
It is announced that Mrs. Belva lockwood
intends to have her Cabinet made la Pom
padOur. cut bias, with seven rows Of knife
pleatug down the front, and labot Of span
Ish lace. with ruchlnEs OF scotch null and
aid.
ANDREW CARNEGIE has much amused the
British journals by the certificate Of character
he gives the Queen in his Round the Norlt ::
Victoria, probably the most respectable
woman who ever occupied throne, such
character as one would not hesitate to intro
duce to ones family circle
IT'S now the hunter takes his gun
The nelds he rambies over,
From early dawn to set Of san,
In search Of snipe and plovcr.
4 gloomy, disappointed wight,
A bandaged hand caresslng,
Returns he sadly home at night,
With several fingers missing.
-S0merUille Journal
SrNSEr.-
/ saw the day lean DER the worlds sharp G. ge,
And peer into nights chasm dark and damp,
High in his hand he held blazing lamp,
Then dropped it and plunged headlcng down
the ledge.
With lurid splendor that swift paled to gray,
! saw the dim skies suddenly flush bright,
Twas but the expiring glOry OF the light
Flung from the hand Of the Adventurous day
Ella Wheeler.
BIG brown eyes and auburn hair.
OF such was the farmers daughter,
How to fiirt and use her eyes
No one had never taught her.
\ soft mOustache and a handsome face.
OF such was the bankers son,
He thought he'd teach this child 10 dirt
For the sake Of little fun.
Alas, he found to his dismay,
just when twas time to part,
While he was teaching her to fiirt,
She'd robbed him OF his heart. Lire,
The happiest hit Of the season was made By
a lady at Waverly the day Gov. Bate and
Judge Reid spoke there. The Judge became
very nervous at the crying OF baby, and
asked if it could not tie made to stop crying
Its mother paClhed the child, and II was still
awhile. but IL began crying again, and the
Judge said: .sLet that child be taken out: it
has no business at a public speaking The
mother promptly said: "oir, my child Is cry
ing t. hear Gov. Bate speak, The Judge
looked an unutterable look. as If he wished he
were a baby, and "a girl baby at that" as an
old COnfed. said when he was about to go into
a fght.-RemPAts Ledger.
u TILL you what" airily exclaimed Per-
kins, as he sat down to the supper table, Il
was in a tight place this afternoon Yes /
know you WERE" interrupted his wife, in
clear cold utterances that cut like a knife; Il
saw Won coming out of it, And then it flashed
across Perkins mind that he had incidentally
stepped into a saloon with friend for the
purpose of examining a doubtful political
statement with the aid Of a magnnying glass,
and his contemplated anecdOte slipped from
his grasp like money at a summer resort,
while the supper was finished amid a silence
so profound that he could plainly hear nap
kin ring.-R0ckldHd Courier.
THE Presidents experience-President Ar
thur and few friends were enjoying the air
and their cigars on the veranda Of the White
House one afternoon last week when the con-
yersatiOn turned on the experiments recently
made by q French physician on the head OF
murderer Immediately after the execution.
The French scientist Is OF the opinion that
the head retained consciousness for several
minutes after ii was cut Off, remarked Gen.
Sheridan. who had read description OF the
experiment. Gentlemen said the Presl-
dent, removing his cigar, Il know a still more
singular case. decapitated, on the sugges-
ton OF Col. Ochlltree here, cOlOred Federal
official down in Texas, and be made more
noise after his head was of than he did be-
FORE WAS he sensible Tor any length Of
time after his head was off, asked one Of the
party. Il don't know whether ! can say that
that he acted senslbly or not, but II IS fact
that he retained sufficient consciousness, four
months after the decspitatiOn. to east Is votes
for Jim Blaine at Chicago, first, last, and all
the time. Didn't he, Tomf" Col. Ochiltree
blushed and was silent.-TsSGs Siftings.