Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-07
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4 12AhLtoh AthaONS are EAll " AAfN btlA-
/ Portable headquarters at Liverpool and aeom-
\ Portable balance in the Bank Of England.
| THE clock in Trinity Church tower, New
/ York city, is the heaviest in America. 1t
/ takes two men over an hour to wind 1t up.
WHEN the emancipation of slaves in the
| British colonies took place in 1884 their num-
/ Der was $50, 993, and in payment for them
| Great Britain distributed SlOO,0OO,000 among
! their owners,
TIE saddle in which King Henry V. of Eng
land rode at the battle of Agincourt, now
hangs astride an iron rod near the ceiling
OF Edward the Confessor's chapel in West
minister Abbey.
WORK on the walls of the Mormon Temple
in Salt Lake City is about to suspend for the
winter. The main structure is up to the
square, but the central spires have yet to be
reared distance of 80 feet.
IL a certain province in Southern Russia
coin is current which is made in the form Of
wafer from the juice of a tree. Their value
is so microscopic that 100000 Of them would
be required to purchase an American dollar.
THE railroad uD Vesuyius has already paid
for itself. Trains run both day and night and
are wei patronized by both natives and visi-
tors. All go the top now, while in the old
time climbing was so hard that very few I'M
dertOOk it..
FIVE CARLOADS of Christmas trees passed
through Bath, Friday, and four Saturday,
co nsigned to New York parties. The trees
are all nr, and were cut at WaldObOro, Da-
m ariscOtta and Thomaston. There are IN
wards OF 1900 trees on q car.
Two Americans, representatives of several
of the leading distileries of the United
states, are in Toronto endeavoring to make
arrangements for exporting into Canada a
portion Of the enormous quantity of whisky
now lying in bond in the United States.
TIE following appears in the Washington
correspondence Of the Council Bluffs Konpa-
reI: at is rumored that Frank Hatton will,
at the close OF his term of office, go to Chicago
to assume editorial man agement of the Times.
which rumor is pleased to say has been pur-
chased by leading Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy Railroad official. The secret has leaked
out very recently, and we cannot vOuch for its
truthfulness."
EXTERMINATIoN of the wolf is not consid-
cred possible the continent of Europe.
Many neighborhOOds have been cleared at one
time or another, but after some years of quiet
it is found that the wolves have gathered again
from all quarters. There is in fact steady
migration of the brutes from Siberia upon
Europe. Asiatic species are constantly iden-
tilted IN the NOsges and in the Pyrenees. The
eradication of this plague must be begun in
China.
A TRAVELLER in South America says every
The measure Of the TespectabilIty of a funeral
there is the number of mules to a hearse.
After a hard rain in Rio the streets are flood
ed, and big negroes earn tips by carrying la
dies and gentlemen from one dry spot to an
other. 1t is said that the only place a Brazil
ian does not smoke is in his coffin. The common
beast Of burden in Rio is the head, after the
Holland style, and the most common owner Of
that head is woman.
THE Des Moines Qa.) Leader reports a Curl
accident in South
switching on an old track recently some cars
jumped the track, ran up to a fence. forced it
down, proceeded through a grove of fruit
trees, broke sixteen OF them down, ran over a
coal house, and finally struck a brick house.
The rear car broke down the twelye-inch
wall, forced its way through the bedrooms
and finally emerged ON the opposite side.
The walls having been torn out, portion of
the house fell, loading the cars with bricS and
debris. Fortunately the family escaped with
out injury.
a FAMILY of South African natives, who
are on their way to a Boston museum, landed
at New York Monday. They consist of Con-
quI, the chief of the Chubba nation. who
stands 4 feet 5; his wife Arbecy, and their
children, who are very small indeed. The
youngest, an intelligent infant years old,
still nurses. Their language approaches the
chattering of monkeys. They were clad in
eOlOred blankets and wore little or no under
clothing, and seemed to feel the cold. The
Chubba nation is located near the equator.
IneY nave DGen on eNQlD1IlOn at the w est
Minister AQUARIUM, London.
ONE of the leading real estate men in Wash
ington says that there are about 1900 houses
in that city whose titles are held by govern
ment employees. Only small part of them
are paid for. The change in the administra-
ton will force the sale of many of these
houses next spring. The throwing of an I'M
usual number of houses on the market at that
time will have the inevitable result of tempo
rarily depressing the real estate market, so
that those who are DESTROYS of buying places
there VIII 90 well TO wait until then. Already
there has been formed number of real es
tate pools for the purpose of taking advantage
of the situation next spring.
ALEXANDER MASON, a well known man
about town in New York, particularly fire.
quent lounger about the Morton House, was
coming out Of his residence a few evenings
ago when he met half dozen friends who
were about to enter in a body. They started
back on teeing him. He asked for an expla-
nation, and they read to him the death notice
of Alexander Mason at house just two doors
away. And it was not a fictitious notice
either But the strange part of it was that
the dead man of the same name was utterly
unknown to Mr.. Mason. He had been his
neighbor for years, vet he had never seen or
heard OF him. This shows how true it is that
il large cities like New York One-han Of the
Inhabitants do not know how the other half
live, or even where.
THE most important man in the Senate in
the eyes of the office seekers is Senator A. P.
Go rman, of Maryland. He is run after near
ly as much as if he were already a Cabinet
officer. He is a slight figured man of the
blOnde-type. His angular, sharp face is
smooth shaver. He is very reserved, and in
all his methods Of business shows great quiet
ness and decision. He was years ago a page
in the Senate. He is the only page who has
risen to the post of Senator. He, as was
Gen. Garfield, is great admirer of base ball
In earlier life he was the manager of picked
nine. He never misses good opportunity to
witness game now, and has special weak
ness for good ball players. Office seekers who
desire his influence would do well to get
themselves well up in the national game be-
fore making their application.
BASE BALL has lost much of the interest
which attached to the matches between
strong amateur clubs. 1t is now chiefly a
battle of pitchers. but an amended rule gives
the batsman some little chance. Instead of
the round bats heretofore used, the players
are to be permitted to wrap the handles Of their
bats and to latten the sides for eighteen
inches from the end. This will make a bat
approaching in style the kind used in cricket
and will encourage scientific hitting or
''placing" of the ball. With the round bat
there is q great deal of chance work, even
with the best of players, but with fiattened
face it will be possible not merely to hit the
ball, but to direct 1t to parts OF the field where
there are no players. The new rule is very
| likely to add interest to the game, besides
making it a safer sport.
FOR some months disease closely resem-
| bling hog cholera has been playing havoc
| with swine in Northern and Western Con-
necticut, and the epidemic is slowly but
steadily spreading. Early in the summer
/ farmers in the town Of SouthDury lost many
/ hogs by what was at that time considered an
/ entirely new and unknown disease. As this
| trouble, however, was local and did not
/ spread with any greatrapidity, comparatively
! little notice was taken Of it at the time. Many
/ of the symptoms were different from those
! OF ordinary hog cholera, but the percentage
| Of fatal cases was great, and recent develop
ments go to show that this epidemic was
| merely a new form of that disease. From
| Southbary the disease extended to surround
| rate that threatens an epidemic throughout
| the State. The farmers think the disease was
| started by hogs imported from Central New
| York.
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