Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-24

ears. and had no apertures where his ears
should have been. He was able. however. 20
gather sound through his mouth, and could
hear conversation that was carried on in an
ordinary tone. HIS hair was black At birth,
Int vvas interspersed with oddly shaped gray
spots. some Of them resembling dimlnufiye
human hands and ears. These singular mark
ms never changed. and his black hair never
turned gray. Eads had fourteen children.
The oldest. Sged IS, has not q gray hair IN his
head, his hair being as black as coal, while
Of 70.
A NOVEL scheme OF assisted emigration,
says London dispatch, has been started in
Germany By 3 society composed wholly Of
noblemen. The society proposes 70 send in
digent members OF noble German families 10
Chill, where they will have 81 the advantage
OF 3 fertile soil and favorable climate, ana
the prospect Of exchanging their landless
titles for the hands OF the fair senoritas OF
that country. They viii be taken to Chilli at
Il the expense Of the Gillian Government, which
also agrees 10 supply the exiles with land Tree
/ OF charge. and to maintain them all IN suit
/ able stgle for one year from the date Of their
arrival.
II the distant island Of Malta some work
men have made the notable discovery that
petroleum fumes are injurious to health, =
/ statement which they advance as 3 sufficient
reason for demanding higher wages. There
must be something in the Mediterranean air
that sharpens the senses and tho mental per
| ceptiOns. for such an argument has never
| occurred to the thousands OF workers IN petro-
/ leum in this country. On the contrary. it has
/ generally been considered that the fumes Of
| petroleum. when not in excess, were efica-
ciOus in driving away malaria and Zymotle
diseases. These ills Of humanity are almost
/ unknown in the oil regions, where the Odor OF
/ crude oil is all-pervading.
TIE headquarters Of the gamblers in Paris
is a beer shop in the FaubOurg st. Denis.
| where, in the last fortnight in June, all the
| shady knights Of baocarat assemble. The
| house looks very tidy and respectable. and nc
/ games are allowed there but ackgammon and
| dominaes. Numbers who frequent this cafe
4 are not aware that they are in den Of card
| sharpers. The latter, the PHILOSOPHERS, and
| their collaboratOrs, styled in England bon
| nets, keep their appointments mere, Trans
| act their little business, and make their ar
| raugements for the season. without paying
| any attention to the detectives, one or two OF
| whom are always present in disguise that
never decelTes those interested.
a CURIOUS INCIDENT occurred at Kingston
\. Y, on Saturday afternoon last in eOnnec-
ton with the severe rain and hail storm thai
| visited that section of the Hudson Valley. I'm
| mediately after the heavy fall Of hail son o.
/ Mayor Bray, OF Kingston. went TO the lawn
/ fronting the handsome residence OF that ON
| cial and shOyeled up three trimming pallfui
| Of the lev chunks, some Of which were over al
| inch in diameter. He then placed them IN {
| tub with an ice cream freezer, and IN shor
| time the Mayor, his family, and few invited
| guests sat down and partOOk Of several quarts
| Of ice cream thus frozen from hailstOnes which
1 fell from the sky during midsummer shower
| 1t is safe to say that this is the first case OF
| record where a Mayor has toasted on lct
| cream made under similar circumstances,
ABBAs PASTA. somewhere about 1853, sem
a challenge to the Jockey Club to run any
number Of English race horses against hi
Arabs for sum not less than $4,000. The
q gOui0
| cept such bet: but some merchants at Care
made bet with his son Haleem Pasha, VINO
| inherited his fathers stud, which cost nearly
| five milliOas of dollars to collect anu Dreed
to race eight miles for 81, 600 q side. The CAIRO
merchants sent to England and bought from
| TattersalI an Irish mare, Fair Nell, without
a pedigree. which he had used as park ano
covert hack. The race came on within Two
weeks of her landing in Egypt, and IN the
eight miles she beat the Pasha's best ARAB
over a rough. stony ground, by full mile
doing the distance IN lS1z minutes, and pulling
up fresh.
AT q seance in Dublin, thought reader
bOasted that he could find a marked pin hid
by one of the audience. Several of them came
forward among whom was confederate
The pin was hid by a Trinity student in an
adjoining room, in the presence Of the com
| mfttee. among which was the cOnfed-
crate. The student suspecting this man
| from his looks, slyly took away the PIN IRON
| its hiding place. On the return TO the plat
form the thought reader gazed in the hider':
Ease. and putting his hand to his brow, was
| blindfolded and led the student to the hiding
| place, but of course could find ny pin. He re-
| turned, acknowledging his defeat, and look
ing daggers at the confederate. "Now. gen.
| tlemen." said the student, 'I'n undertake e
| say that if this 'diviner of the human mind
| will do as / tell HIM half the audience, with
| out a single hint from me, will know where
| the pin is" and, turning to The thought reader,
| he said. est down." He did so. There was
| a yell, and jumping up, the thought reader
| hastily pulled from the seat OF his trousers
| the marked pin.