Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

4 BLOCK Of ice found on the bank Of the
Tuscarawas river after the breakup con-
tanned five unusually large water snakes fro
zen fast.
\ BILL has been introduced into the House
Of Commons to humanize the children, com
puted at 10000, who live on barges and in trav-
cling vans.
THE property pawned last year at the forty
two French H0Hts de Piete was valued at
nearly 100000 Of which that pawned at
Paris amounted to over S6.00Os)O0.
Thirty one Of 81 participants in the civil
service examination for clerks to serve in the
Philadelphia post Office ans wered the require.
ments and the two highest are women.
Mr.. MAGNIS, Governor Of the Bank Of
France, gave a grand reception lately at his
official residence on the anniversary Of the
banks foundation, eight-four years ago.
THE Congregational Church in Waning-
ford. Conn, has adopted a resolution forbid
ding its members to drink intoxicating
liquors, but explicitly excepting hard cider.
ANOTHER Coroner's verdict. 1t was rem
dered at Pekin, H., on the body of a man
found in the river, and declared ethat the
late deceased had come TO his death by blow
on the head. inflicted either before or after he
was drowned
on the occasion OF Baker Pasha's battle at
Fl Teb, an English officer placed revolver
to the head OF an Egyptian and ordered him
to advance. The Egyptian putting aside the
weapon. said. in an astonished tone, Il adj
tancer' adding proudly, mo; am an Egyp-
tian." and he took TO his heels.
Is writing about some time doctors, the
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal says that
Or. Henry Kittredge of Tewksbury, was Of a
family so noted for surgical skill in successive
generations that several PHYSICIANS in New
Hampshire applied 70 the Legislature TO have
their names changed to kittredge so as to ac-
quire the hereditary prestige.
THE South African Asdical Journal. which
describes itself as a "bantling" complains
that the ethical tone Of Cape Colony is even
worse than it is in England. For patient
To suggest q consultation is TO mOrtallv offend:
for one doctor to help another Is unknown:
and patients, in the temporary absence Of their
own attendant, are left to the tender mercies
Of chance"
CAPT. AUSTIN, who calls himself a crack
rifle shot. was cowardly enough to attempt
recently in England the feat Of shooting
potato of his Wife's head. He succeeded in
his first shot, but at the second his bullet
struck the unfortunate woman in the fore
head. where il glanced, saving her from death.
il il true, but making irIghtful scar three
inches long.
CONSIDERABLE excitement has been aroused
in the Jewish communities Of South Russia
by the appearance at KischineG Of an ener-
getie refOrmer named Joseph Rabinovitch.
He declares Christ to have been the real
Messiah, supporting his theories by numerous
citations from the Bible and the Prophets.
RabinOyitch is an enthusiastic and eloquent
preacher, and is winning numerous prose-
lytes. He is mathematical generally by the
Jewish press.
YEARS AGO John Q. Adams loved the pref
test girl in Alabama. Her parents forced her
to marry a man named Jackson, who took her
to Texas, where she became the mother OF
married early, had not been idle. He acquired
considerable local renown by becoming the
father of twenty-One children. Recently his
wife died. He has gone to Texas to marry
Mrs. Jackson. The families viii live on the
cooperative plan.