Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

COLORED GLASS GLOBES are used on chan
deliers in place of the white frosted ones so
long in fashion.
PHYTOcHRONoTYPY IS the gentle term APP
piled to process Of producing impressions Of
leaves and plants.
TEN very beautiful flags, captured by the
French at Bacninh, have been sent to Paris
and placed IN the Hotel des Invalides. One
OF them is golden yellow, with bright purple
border.
ALARGE HYDRAULIC CLOCK. invented by an
Arab Of Algeria with one dial showing the
time, another the date and the day, and all
in Arabesque decoration, now adorns the
river front of the Tuileries gardens.
PHILADELPHIA LADIES have a swell board
ing place for their pet dogs in one of the sub
urbs Of that oyergrown village, so that their
favOrite CANNES may not suffer during the
owners absence at Long Branch or Cape May.
HAY-FEvER people win doubtless be pleased
to learn that an English physician, in his in
tense determination to discover the causes of
the disease. deliberately experimental on
himself with the pollen of flowers, and sue
ceeded in learning its origin by becoming a
victim to its pains.
MANAGERS of theatres have playful way
Of addressing the ladies of their company as
sAIv DEAR One young actress, on being
she naturally thought il was-liberty, but her
RULED feelings settled down when she noticed
that all the other actresses were similarly ad-
dressed, and all feeling vanished when she
heard the manager address an ancient prop
erty man as My darling"
POMPEuAN excavations have revealed still
another Venus. IL is a fine statuette of the
goddess, crouehing, found in the workshop of
the sculptor, who was apparently occupied
with his subject whenithe terrible catastrophe
came upon the city. His body has been dis
covered near by with cingulum still grasp
ed in his hand, and a cast is now on exhibit
ton. made in the usual way, by filling the
space occupied by the body in the lava dust
with plaster of Paris.
\ PLEASANT little story is related by a cor
respondent of an English agricultural journal.
4 few evenings back a constable at East Ret
ford observed seven WORKOUT horses proceed
ing to the station from the direction of DON
caster A cart accompanied them, in which
were the carcasses of three dead horses. 1t
was mentioned by a man who was with them
that the whole lot were consigned to Hartford,
where they were to be converted into meat
pies for the London market. One of the ami
mails could only breathe through tube fixed
in its throat.
4 MARINE diver, while engaged in opera
tions OF the coast opposite Gibraltar, under
Apes Hill, with the object of ascertaining the
whereabouts of a recent wreck. has discovered
at the bottom from 50 to 100 large guns, mostly
twenty-fOur and thirty-two Founders, and
also two large anchors. They are supposed to
have belonged TO some large line-Of-battle
ship which sank. possibly after the battle of
Trafalgar. As there was no hosting appara-
tus none of the guns were brought uD, so that
il has not been possible to ascertain their ma
tonal origin.
THE other day, after dinner in Eaton square
London, much to the amazement of the neigh
bOrhood, young nobleman, in full evening
dress, rode for a bet a racer up his steps, into
his hall. thence to his dining room, and out
again. Those exploits used TO be confined to
the old Castle Squander, Sir Toby Rackrent,
six bottle, fifteen-paces era in Ireland. A
gentleman there, styled Jerusalem Whaley.
rode one of his coach horses up the grand
staircase of his residence in Stephens Green,
Dublin, and into the dinner room, where his
guests were assembled.
AMAD BULLDOG belonging to Louis Britt, a
milkman of Flatbush, Long Island, flew at
one Of the cows in the yard and bit her. The
COW gored the dog, and carried it transfxed
on one horn around the yard. One of the
farm hands, not knowing chat the dog was
mad, tried TO release him; The dog bit him
eight times. He hurried TO drug store,
leaving the dog, as he supposed, dead on the
ground. The dog soon revived, however, and
taking to the road, bit another dog which also
went mad and bit q valuable coach dog be-
longing to Michael Finnegan. The COW and
the three dogs were finally killed. and panic
among the villagers was allayed.
A NEW style of equipage is to be introduced
at Newport and Lenox this year, called by
the French n char-a- banc. 1t is intended to
accommodate large party, and is better
adapted for country drives than for regular
avenue parade. It's distinguishing novelty is
the three horses abreast which drag it, and
Russian innovation of a large hoop fastened
over the back OF the middle horse, TO which
small tells are attached, has been introduced
with those that have been imported to this
country. The effect will be novel and pic
t,fresque no doubt; but in a country neigh
borhood the tinkiing bells might call up men,
cries Of the rag and bottle man, or the sum
mer ice cream cart.