Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

OAK PILLARS are better support for a build
ing in case of fire than those of iron. The
latter are liable to warp from the eject OF
heat.
SEVERAL British nOblemen were recently
arrested in Yellowstone Park and heavily
fined for chipping of specimens from curious
lodges. which they proposed to carry away
with them.
ANOTHER electric girl has been discovered
in France Her name is Angelique Coffin,
and her popularity consists in throwing about
furniture. When she sits on a chair, and sew
eral persons hold it tight. the chair is hurled
from their hands and broken to pieces
ABAND of gypsles went through the North
west buying up uncontrollably vicious horses.
stock was thus obtained at trifling cost.
| Then the attempt was made 10 tame tne
/ beasts. Some of them became tractable
( through clubbing, but others bit and kicked
until two men were killed and several hurt.
IN the London Health Exhibition the
/ United States was conspicuous in one de-
/ partment. The large sign american Bar
/ attracted attention and drew customers. The
/ list OF drinks was very long, ana lncluueu
| names peculiar and mysterious to LondOners.
a CHINESE laundryman in San Francisco
was asked if people in his country took any
/ delight in music. ''They do was his reply,
/ land if YOU ever 90 to Pekin you will find
/ there the first gOngist in the world attached
/ to the EmperOrs court with high privileges"
THE first dog show ever held on the Allan
| tic was started by Redmond Furlong on board
the Oregon, on her recent trip to New York.
No less than eighteen ''beauties" were found
to be on board, and the show was gotten up
with reclamation. Pugs were prominent, as
were skye terriers.
i REMARKABLE wedding party is to be held
in Missouri. Twenty-one couples from the
northern counties of the State have agreed to
get married at the same time and place.
Three will be a banquet for 200 guests, and
then a bridal tour by the new husbands and
wives in company.
4 MINER named BlOdgett, the owner of the
silver Hill mine near Butte, Montana, has de-
vised most ingenious scheme 20 enrich him
self, b. which he offers the pubic the chance
of becoming the rivals of Flood and Mackay.
He has put the whole thing up at rattle at s.
a share the lucky man to get the enormously
wealthy mine.
4 GERMAN TEST for watered milk consists
in dipping a well-polIshed knitting needle
into deep vessel Of milk, and then immedi-
ately withdrawing it in an upright position,
II the milk is pure, a drop of tn nuld VIII
hang to the needle; bat the addition of even
small portion of water will prevent the adj
herence of the drop.
PRIVATE HENRY, of the Greedy expedition,
does not yet know that he is dead, the bullet
of his executioner having killed him so sud
denly and unexpectedly that he was not
aware of it. But his spirit is now under IN
struetion by a Chicago medium, who is slowly
making him understand his condition. The
case is gravely reported in the ReligiO- PhfIo-
sOphicdL Journal.
THERE is a demand in Maryland for enact
ments by the Legislatures of Pennsylvania,
New jersey and Delaware to protect the
toOthsome terrapin, which is threatened with
extinction by unreasonable captures. Severe
penalties are suggested for taking terrapin
between April and Oct. l, and another rem
edy is the prohibition of capturing female ter
rapin measuring less than five inches on the
bottom shell, lengthwise.
DR.. MACLEOD, the Queens Chaplain at Bal
moral, writes that there was an old, invalid
man on Tweedside who was tended by faith
full maid servant. Like many persons in his
condition he was always anticipating his own
speedy demise. 'Im thinking, Nancy" he
SAID one day. shat it Gamma be long moo. /
feel rs II this vera NIGHT the end wud cam"
ssIndeed, laird,'' said the attendant, elf it
were the Lords will it wad be real convent
ent. for the coos gaen to calve, and | dmna
weel see hoo 1 am to tend on We BATH"