Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-26
ITEMS o. INTEREST.

Democratic nominee for Congress IN the
First district Of Illinois, is commended there
as a second cousin Of ex-Gov. Samuel j. Til
I den-a name fondly believed to carry with it
mysterious influence. The nominee is a
wealthy stock yards man who has been in
business IN chicago two score years.
EVEN earthquakes would appear to have
some good qualities for those who know and
study them. In q report to the British AssO-
citation, Prof. Milne, OF Japan, the we'll
known sesmologist, plaintively states that
the last season was a comparatively poor
one, there being only fifty-seven earthquake
shocks between May, 1851. and MAY, lisa as
compared with eighty which were felt during
the corresponding period OF the previous
year."
a NEVADA EDITOR says that the silver dug
out Of the COmstOek mine would load a wagon
train 81 miles in length. And he concludes
by exclaimiug. with this CroaSr1s- Ike wealth
we Can defy the world" After reading this
II IS somewhat startling to find in another col
umn the statement that unless the dellnquent
subscribers OF the paper pay up promptly, the
editor won't be able TO get out the paper auy
longer. For he adds, 1--WE are near-y bust
ed now"
EXPERT TESTIMONY il lunaey does not seem
10 be regarded with respect in China. The
fekin Gazette relates that a lunatic in that
city, who, in paroxysm of madness. muir
dered his grandmother with a vegetable knife,
was summary executed IN the dis greeable
manner known as the "sllcing' process. The
imperial warrant says that PARTICLES and
matrlcides must be sliced" and contains no
saving clause concerning the insanity of the
prisoner.
u FASHIONABLE young lady, married last
week in Lexington, No, to St. Louis gentle
man, invited to her wedding all of her I'M
fashionable country friends, who presented
their compliments to the bride in the shape of
great baskets Of eggs, rolls of yellow country
butter and other country fare. There are
many heightened weddings given at which
just such questionable presents would. if
truth were told, be not only appropriate but
highly acceptable.
GREAT excitement has prevailed in the Rue
de Brelange for the past few days over the
rumor that mysterious noises were heard in
the room Of one Of the houses, No. %, in that
street. The crowds assembling outside the
house daily became 50 considerable on Satur-
Gay mat the police had to interfere. A de-
tectiVe detached to seek the cause of the sun
posed spirit rapping gained admission to the
room OF the woman Mira, and heard the
mysterious sounds. After a while, however
he discovered that Nine. Mira had secreted
her daughter, aged Z, ia cupboard contigu-
Gus 10 the room, where the little shirt
amused herself with hammering away at the
wall.
ITALIAN ECONOMISTS are beginning TO feel
anxious about the rapid increase in the num-
Der Of illeg innate births registered in that
country. 1t has indeed risen By some 10000
in the last ten years. but the returns show
that the births are very uLevenly distributed.
The proportion to the population is CHEST in
Venice and some Of the Weather towns Of
Lombardy; It Is very 'OW in AbruZZi and the
poorest districts. Itz cause is. therefore
probably TO be sought in a TEMPORARY rise of
the standard Of comfort among the bour-
geosle, which makes people. with their null
tIplylng wants and luxuries, afraid of the
responsibilities Of marriage more than any
decay Of the national morality.
Hermann HAUPT, barber doing business
on the South Side, Pittsburg, Pa, was sur
prised on Saturday to receive a cablegram
from Hesse Cassel. Germany. informing him
that one Of his uncles had lied and left him a
legacy aggregating $4,000. He was at first
10th to believe the statement, but a second ca
0legram from his parents confirmed the story
and requested him to come on at once and
publicly claim the money. Mr.. Haupt left for
New York on sunday night, after quickly ar
ranging his affairs, and sailed for the old
country. He viii reach his destination in
about twelve days. The uncle who bequeaths
the money was a resident of a little burg in
Hesse Cassel and when his heir heard from
him last was an old bachelor.
THE Groeers' Adeooate has the following &C
count of an ingenious Continuance to take the
place Of matches. and which, it says, Is now
used by the watchmen of Paris in all the
materials are kept: Take an oblong vial of
the whitest and clearest glass and put into it
piece Of phosphorus about the size of pea.
Pour some olive oil heated to the boiling point
upon the phosphorus, fill the vial about one
third fun, and then cork it tightly. To use the
novel light remove the cork, allow the sir to
enter tie vial and then recoTk it. This empty
space in the vial VIII become luminous, and
the light obtained is equal to that Of a lamp.
When the light becomes dim its power can be
increased by taking out the cork and allow
ing fresh supply Of air to enter the vial.
THE dredgers Of the mud scows In New
York bay find things of many kinds. 1t is
not all mud they scoop up. They are paid to
dredge for mud in the ship channel, and
dump it out at sea, but they spend most of
their time exploring the mud after every
scoop, and fishing out money and watches,
and knives, and the like; sometimes heads
and limbs and whole human bodies. Then
they manage to dump their Shiny cargoes
while the tide is running in, which brings all
the stuff back and deposits it with a different
distribution on the bays bottom. They are
DOTu on scows, brought up dredgers, and
can do nothing but dredge and PADDLE in mud.
They must have work to 1--we, and are careful
that their dredging shall do no permanent
good. Their mud is bread cast upon the
waters, which returns after not many days.
The dredgers have horrible legends in which
they believe, and their catch at every scoop
keeps up their interest and reinfOrces their
faith. These peculiaritie5 Of their trade
MAKES NuClE lives worth uNl1Rs Inc OIGQG-
ers' legends are never printed and therefore
do not get stale, and the dredgers' work is
never done, which gives him sure grip on a
livelihood.
THE London Truth says OF the ex-Empress
Eugene: ''Her old vivacity has died out. If
it had not, she would try TO subjugate it, for
she ascribes to her Impetuous disposition the
eliminating error Of the Emperor's reign, and
another event for which she Will mourn as
long as life and consciousness remain to her.
She has the generosity to admit the errors of
judgment into which she was hurried, and
which were attended with disastrous eonse-
quences both for her family and for the nation
over which. by an astounding freak of for
tune, she became the sovereign. The Empress
still thinks aloud, and talks often and rapidly
of what is on her mind. She i'll bears any
mental tension, unless in religious exercises,
and has not the resources of music. embroi-
derry. knitting or sewing which enabled Marie
Amelle TO begulle the tedium oil residence at
Claremont. Her infrmity prevents her walk
ing as much as she wishes. She lives alto
gether at Marlborough in the past and among
the objects reminding her of departed glories
Of the Emperor and Of her ill-starred son, of
whom she can now speak without falling into
paroxysms Of grief. The inner woman is
chastened by affection, and the outer woman
faded; but she is more interesting, perhaps,
than when she had the prestige of beauty, a
throne and Externally the most brilliant
court IN Europe"
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