Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-11-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

An Oregon Chinaman named All Chung fell
in love with a German nursemaid. and on
being rejected became raving maniac.
SAN FRANCISCO has but just adopted the
new standard time, which, for the Pacific
coast, is ten minutes faster than that of the
city.
LATE discoveries have rendered insulation
so perfect that there is less loss of electricity
between here and Europe than there was
formerly between Philadelphia and Camden.
THERE is a new way of keeping the boys
straight in politics. An Illinois father has
mutilated the family Bible to make his son
appear less than 81 and prevent his voting for
the other party.
SEVERAL train loads of cannon and muni-s
tiOns of war have been despatched to Ham,
burg for shipment to the German stations in
West Africa. The government has ordered
series of small forts to be built there.
THE little books of rice paper that cigarette
smokers use for the manufacture of homGo-
paIhic smokes are handy things for people
who wear spectacles. The paper is sald TO be
the best thing in the world to wipe the lenses
with.
FARMING in Dakota Territory is danger
GUS rival to journalism. When the editor has
business on his farm he simply suspends Cir
culatiOn and writes: lowing to the fact that
the editor was out in the country threshlng,
THE British Cholera Commissioners have
made an exhaustive series Of experiments at
the birthplaces of cholera in India, and are
preparing report of their discoveries and
conclusions. 1t is believed that their report
will disprove DR.. Kochs microbe theory.
THE latest statistics on the comparative
longevity of the sexes shows that under 10
years there are more boys than girls, but over
IS years there are more women than men,
IL. - 20 Fbn Fnrsr ion
is about three to two IN favor OF the women.
THERE is an old woman in Boston, the
widow of a French Marshal, who now grinds
a hand-Organ. the top of which is decorated
with her husbands medals. She is said TO
speak the purest French to be heard in the
hub, and her face resembles an English wal
nut.
\ MONSTER PUMPKIN, weighing $50 pounds,
which was grown on the farm of Gen. Butler,
in Massachusetts, and has been exhibited in a
Brooklyn window. has been bought by baker
OF New York, who will make it into an enOr-
nous pie to be presented to the next Presl-
dent.
GLASS BEARINGS for journal boxes, glass
shingles, glass pulleys, et'., have been tried
with favorable results. Vessels have been
sheeted with glass instead of copper. with the
most satisfactory results. With glass pull
leys, especially for cable roads, friction Is re-
duced 10 a minimum.
PHILADELPHIA has a professor who
ssblanchesn red noses for from IS to $40 nose.
He first applies leeches, then galyanizes the
nose ito restore the elasticity of the arterlal
aud venous fbrus," and then applies mould
of plaster of Paris. In less than a week he
declares that the nose has regained its natural
shape and proper color.
THE Greek Church at Sitka, Alaska, is de-
clared to be the most ornate house of worship
in America. 1t is built on the plan of Greek
cross, and the interior is a mass of gold and
silver, of the magnlheence OF when one
enthusiastic writer says he can give no idea
The walls are hung with pictures OF royalty
and the priesthood, the gift of Russian
Princess, who has taken this temple under her
special charge.
AT private interview, Mr.. Cumberland,
the mind-reader, offered to CLEAN out of Mr..
Gladstone's mind all his future intentions as
to Egypt and home policy. Mr.. Gladstone. so
the story goes. admitted the accuracy of the
revelations but sOlemnly bound him to Sc
crecy On the day after Mr.. Cumberland had
forty -four visits ffom members OF Parliament
anxious to pump him.
AT the recent exhibition of the Royal Uni
versity of Dublin. which was presided over by
the Duke of Abercorn, nine young women re-
ceiyed the degree Of b. A. from his aristo-
cratic hands. Though these ''sweet girl
graduates were erinappropriatelY made
bachelors of arts, another young woman was
given q degree in music for the Sklllful har-
monies of her composition in that art.
THE cat-o'-nine tails was lately used in
Manitoba for the first time. The subject was
John Mccormick, under sentence for larceny,
who escaped and was recaptured. Attorney
General Miller ordered two dozen lashes,
twelve of which were administered in
the presence OF all the prisoners in the jail
yard. The prisoner Was stripped to the buff
The snow was descending heavily. His back
was fearfully lacerated. Salt water was then
applied.
THERE is Baptist preacher at Granville,
Neb., who gets for his apostolic labor but Slo0
a year. The recipient does not try to live on
it. but works at his old trade Of shoemaking.
His congregation do not object TO TINS way OF
providing cheap ministry for them. put they
have made . tremendous row because on sew
cral Sundaye, In making announcements IRON
tina pulpit. he included notice that he would
mend shoes better and cheaper than the OPP
position cobbler.
A BEAUTIFUL statue of Bacchus has re-
Gently been discovered in hollow place be-
meath the staircase in the library at Ha-
drian's Villa. Rome. 1t represents the god,
not as the coarse dissipated old man, but ac-
cording to his later aspect, as beautiful
eheminate youth. 1t is singularly well pre-
served. the right hand only being missing. Its
great beauty was at once recognized, and |
casts were Immediately made, one of which
is at Berlin. another at Strasburg and third |
in the new Cast Museum of Sculpture at Cam
bridge, England.
REV. YATTY DUNLOP, the humorous min |
ister of Dumfries, had frequently practical |
jokes played upon him, but the perpetrators |
rarely got the better of him. On one occa. |
sion some idle and mischievOus youths waited |
for HIM as he passed through churchyard, |
and one of them came to him dressed as a |
ghost, in hopes OF frightening him; but Wat |
ty's cool accOst speedily upset the plan. |
ssWeel Master Ghost said he. ssls this a /
general rising, or are ye just taking a saunter |
frae yer own grave by yersel.'
"WArER CHEsTNOTs' leaten by the old |
lake jewellers in Switzerlandl are largely |
grown in China. Every canal is full of float !
ing islands Of them; and the gathering looks |
like the picture of Athelney in food where |
Young and old are going about after the ap-
pies in boats. Instead Of boats put tubs each