Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-10

central SQUARES Of public property: Inc
sslsnd grabber'' puts fence only on the oI h
side boundary of his strip, but grazes on TUG
whole Of it TO the exclusion Of other settlers
A CERTAIN NJ. Bibbero is reported to be IN
training on Tyneside. in England, with the
intention of committing suicide next sum
mer. Undeterred bv the painful fate OF CAP
tain Webb this foolhardy foreigner Is ueliu-
eratelv preparing himself for an attempt -
swim across the Niagara rapids. IN tllls
view he is undergoing course OF strict tlalns
ing and taking rowing exercise. for the W a'els
Of the Tyne are too cold at present even lG5
one in whom the love Of swimming Woulu
seem TO be so strong.
TIE Chicago Druggist saws that the IN
creased duty on brushes should be abolished,
as American bristles are vastly inferior to the
foreign product. ''The American Eog mas
reached too high q state OF cultivation 10 no
service in the plebeian calling of brlstle pre-
Queer. Nature has apparently ordained Ihat
the hog shall be eminent in bnt one character;
he may be either brlstle or pork producer
-eminence in one be ng at the sacrihce OF
distinction in the other.'
AN effort is being made in California to
break up the systematic grabbing of valuable
timber lands by companies. which hire dunn
my locaters to cheat the government Six
men have been indicted for such frauds IN
Humboldt county, the most valuable region,
and the United States officials propose 70 Sc
cure their conviction. These land grdbDefs,
it is said, have secured large tracts OF timber
lands by the grOSSeSt frauds, TO the detflment
of real settlers. who would improve the eoun-
try and build homes.
GEN. GORDON, the commander Of the Eng
lish forces in Egypt. thus expresses his views
as TO a future life: Il think that this life is
only one of a series OF lives which our incar-
mated part has lived. | have little doubt OF
our having existed; and that also in the
time OF our pre-eXlstenee we were actively
employed. So, therefore. / believe in our
active employment in future life, and like
the thought. We shall, l think, be far more
perfect in a future life, and, indeed go on to-
ward perfection, but never attain 1t"
THE New Haven Eeaos relates the following
story of ex-Gov. Hubbard Years ago at
Hartford he was member of a coterie which
met periodically to play whist. One of the
/ party who was locally famous for his slovenly
I habits and sOiled dress, astonished his friends
one night by appearing with a beautiful white
rose in his button hole. Addressing Mr..
I Hubbard, he said: Hubbard, did you ever see
/ a finer rose than that2 Now where do yOu
/ imagine got that rose" Mr. Hubbard looked
( quizzically at the flower resting IN its dirty
4 loop hole and ans cred: Looks as though it
might have grown there.
/ TIE shops that have sprung up all over the
country for the sale Of druggists goods, par
ticularly patent medicines. at reduced rates
/ have touched the regular dealers in tender
place. In New York, on Thursday, at a meet
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not to purchase from any wholesale druggists,
manufacturers or agents who sell to any per-
| sons who are proved to be undertaking the
[ prices of the New York and Brooklyn Union.
4 1t was also determined not to purchase from
/ prOprietors who retail proprietary medicines
| at less than union rates. or sell to retailers at
! less than manufacturers prices, or sell TO dry
goods stores.
! An English Judge, the late Nr. Justice
| Byles, always took his notes of evidence in
l~1,o ,o Cd tn
get through cases with most exceptional
| rapidty. At Bristol AssZes. a few years
/ before his retirement. he was once quite
I ored by his own hieroglyphics. and after q
/ delay of some minutes he turned for aid to the
/ reporters box. "Can YOU gentlemen kindly
| assist me with word here: ] have not put
| in the yowels, and what | have got in my
/ book looks as If the witness had said: Go and
| call the BABY" The witness had been refer
/ ring to a policeman, which the Judge had
| rendered hobby"
AsALUTARY REFORM in reference to noble
mems degrees is contemplated at Cambridge
! University in England. The Council Of the
Senate have reported that they are of opinion
| that there are no sufficient reasons for con-
tinuing the practice of comforting the COM
/ plete degree of B. A. upon Peers and sons of
/ Peers who come to the university in their
| youth, and recommend that Peers and the
sons of Peers who may hereafter enter the
| university and desire TO proceed to the degree
/ of b. A should be required to keep by resi-
| dence the same number of terms as other stu
| dents in arts under the same conditions.
THE following story is told Of Judge Gray,
now in the United states Supreme Court: "a
man was brought before him who was justly
charged with being an offender Of the mean
| est sort. Through some technicaHty the
| Judge was obliged to discharge nm, but as
| he did so he chose the time to say what he
1 thought of the matter. i believe you guilty.
| he said, and would wish to condemn you Sc
| verely, but through petty technicalty am
| obliged to discharge you. | know you are
| guilty. and so do you. and / wish you to re-
| member that you will some day pass before a
| better and perhdDs a lgiSer Judge, when you
| will be dealt with according to justice, and
not according to law"
THE passage in Queen Victorias book re-
specting DR.. Norman Macleod's sermon on
the war in October, 1870 when he obliquely
| applied to France the denuncations of Isaiah,
| is not pleasing to French readers. One Paris
| newspaper says: Her most gracious Majesty
has revealed her political sympathies, and
| shown that she Is still a German by birth and
| breeding" Another speaks of the stupid but
| widespread prejudice which made the cause
| of Germany that of justice and morality
| agaiuet corruption, and adds: 1--WE have al
! WAYS considered thar IHIInUO Di7tIaI Uh ;
| greatest adroitness at the time of the war was
his creating a belief in German virtue and
| French vices. There was never greater sue
| cess in OBTAINING before assasslnatlng."