Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

paign. Where will the next blow fall?
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
IL the new town of Maiden, in Meagher
| pronounced Mar county, Montana, every
/ child born so far has been a girl. except one.
/ Montana needs women more than men.
NEW YORK is about to have an addition Of
| lO,OlO,OOO gallons day to its present water
| supply This new connection with the CrotOn
water mains has its source in Rye Lake.
THE city of Paris has acquired a lease Of
! 1900 acres of the low-lying forest Of st. Ger
! main and the adjoining meadows, upon which
4 it proposes to experiment upon utilizing the
I sewage OF the capital
! THE japan Weekly Mail says the favorite
| puss OF a rich noble lady was lately borne to
/ its last home in a snow white coffin, covered
l with a gorgeous white silk pail. while its in
| cOnsolable mistress and large contingent OF
female mOurneFs followed the remains.
| Priests chanting a solemn litany met the bier
I and escorted 1t to Its grave. Another delunct
/ feline is cOmmemOrated by handsome mOnu-
ment at the gate of the cemetery just outside
/ Toxic.
THE WorkIugwomen's Protective Union, of
| New York, has spent in the twenty years OF
| ITS existence $4,000 to conduct 1000 prosecu-
\ tons for frauds upon working girls. In this
way $4,000 Of wages have been collected that
.
! These expenses are borne by the voluntary
donations of those who approve OF helping
/ those who help themselves in hard fight for
! life and against the temptations which Oeset
/ them.
! THE publication of the last grotesque in
/ dex exnurgatorius Of the Russian census has
! called attention to the extraordinary restrlc-
/ tons on literature in that country. There
] are only Eve or six firms in the whole empire
/ who have patent from the Crown to sell
books. All the rest exist on suHerance,
/ under permits arbitrarily given and arDl-
trarilv withdrawn by the local police There
/ are only two public libraries in the whole
country
I ssSTONEw VAIL" JACKSON's war-horse, a
/ sorrel gelding, once fiery, but now with less
I oxygen in his wInd-ppe is cared for at the
D Virginia Military Institute, 10 which school
/ he belongs. The other day lock of his name
/ was presented TO the Tennessee Historical
/ Society. Not since the war has the old steed
worn a bit. nor has he carried shoe. Since
/ ''all must die and all must pass, as well the
l lion as the ass" the veteran cannot live much
/ LONGER. and arrangements for stutllng his hide
/ have been made.
DAVIDSON COUNTY. Tenn, FARMER
| planted four acres in watermelons. BY the
| time his melons were ripe the market had
| dropped to ruinOus hgures. Adjoining his
melon patch is a beautiful grove. He gave
1 picDic and allowed no water to be brought on
/ Ihe premises. large crowd gathered under
the friendly shade Of the trees. The day was
hot and the people thirsted. but no water was
in sight. In the midst OF inns agOnlzing state
of affairs the farm rushed his melons in on
the grounds, and they went of like hot cakes
at high prices.
THE old fashioned game of battledOrc and
shuttlecock has lately been revived in the
environs Of Paris by few Of the great
| ladies. such as the Princesse de sagan, the
Duchesse de la Rochefoucauld, and the VS.
/ cOmtesse de Tredern, at their garden parties.
| Ii is undoubtedly a graceful exercise, espe-
| cially for slender people, and has the adVan-
! tage of being less heating and violent than
/ lawn tennis. The battledores are rldlculously
| elaborate. and have plush handles, round
/ which some fantastical motto is embroidered.
! The woodwork is of rose or sandal wood, the
/ shuttlecock being of the same color as the
/ plush of the battledore.
CHAUNCEY NJ. DEPEw, stout and bronzed
| after a trip to the British Islands, thus spoke
! to an interviewer about the Barney stone:
| 81 kissed the Barney Stone, which is in Blar-
/ new Castle. All that is left of the castle is
| snnare tower one hundred feet high. Upon
| piers projecting from the top of the tower
there is built around coping, leaving space
I of five feet between the coping and the face of
I the tower. On the bottom of the coping and
/ in the centre between the two supporting
| piers on one side of the castle is the Barney
/ Stone. In order to kiss It you would have to
l lean over the tower at such distance as 10
/ inevitably fall to the ground and break your
/ neck. and the consequence is that kissing the
] Blarney Stone is travellers tale"
/ WHILE French officers are claiming to have
/ solved the problem of aerial navigation, Ger
man aeronauts are by no means idle. At
/ Berlin, the railway regiment has lately
! formed special balloon detachment which is
| never weary of undertaking excursions in
| small balloons in order to ascertain the utili-
! tv of air ships in times Of war. An aerOnau-
/ teal society has also been established under
/ the Presidency OF Dr. AngerSteln- Inc otheF
day the inventor of new balloon astonlshed
! the neighborhOOd at Berlin by mounting his
| airy steed, which, instead OF the customary
! rOndOla, ventilator and anchor, possessed
/ ONLY saddle, attached to which were two
| ballast bags and a pair of stirrups. In a gay
! Jockey suit the inventor mounted his novel
/ Pegasus and arrived in due time, without the
| slightest mshap, at his destination.
NEAR Shrewsbury, in Canada, resides a
farmer named Leblanc, a French Canadian.
! On leaving home a few mornings ago to work
| in the woods, he told his wife to send their
daughter, u years old, with his dinner at
! noon After waiting until O'Clock, as no
| dinner arrived. he shOuldered his gun and
| started for home, but before he had gone far
! noticed an immense bear apparently eating
| something. lie watched 1T for moment and
| fired missing his mark. While relOading he
| could see that il was human being the bear
| was devouring. He then rushed up to within
/ easy gunshot, discharging his rifle INTO the
| hear which rolled over to reveal the body of
| his little daughter, disfgured almost beyond
/ recognition The flesh had been torn off her
Ie s and face, while she still held in her little
! hand the tin can containing her fathers din
I ner.
BRYAN & MACDONALD's steam shovel, on
section y OF the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
| Philadelphia extension, IA miles from Balti-
more, removed 994 carloads, or l,494 cubic
! wards of dirt in nine hours, the largest day
/ work on the line since the steam shOvels began
| their work. This was II trains of IA cars each.
| The haul is over one mile, and some OF the
| round trips were made by the engineer in
/ four minutes. The cut and fill are each one
! mile long, with an average depth of 45 feet.
| At night The men, 60 in number, including 30
| Italians had jubilee of music and dancing
| at tbe house of Foreman ParkersOn, and sew
| eral immense brush bonfires blazed on the
/ these onerations are in progress. THIS firm
are operating five steam shovels along the line
of the new road in Hartford and Baltimore