Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Col. WIN. F. BEAsLEY, who is working up
the North Carolina Soldiers Home project,
has already secured II 900 of the 100000 de-
sired to make the home success.
To such a pass has the roller skate craze
gone in Omaha, that even the hotel walters
slide around on ''the wheels" in attending to
Their duties. The average Of broken crockery
has increased alarmingly of late in Omaha
hOstelrles.
a TRAVELLER in Mexico exclaims, "What do
you think of country where you have to
pay 25 cents for shave and yet good cigars
are only cents each; and you can get all the
fruit you can eat at one sitting, mangoes figs,
lines, aquacates, sapodillas, bananas, etc,
for 10 cents!"
OF the Ill sessions of Congress twenty-seven
have lasted over two hundred days, the last
one included. The longest was the first ses-
sion Of the Thirty first-3O2 days, from Dec.
3, 1919, towSept. 30, 1850. There have been
thirteen special sessions, nearly all short.
The FOrtleth Congress held five sessions, aud
Is the only one that ever held more than three.
A CAPE BRETON man last spring shipped
five barrels of eggs packed in hay for Boston
on the slow sailing ship st. SAPPHIRE. When
he reached port he found that the hay on the
under part of the barrels had become so heat
ed that half the eggs were cooked. The re-
naming half Matched out and subsstcd for
two months on the roasted eggs. They were
almost ready for the n arket when they were
released from their prison.
THE Crow Indians are taking kindly to
farming operations on the Big Horn, Mon
tana, and appear greatly pleased with the re-
suit of their labors. They exhibit the blisters
or their hands, the result of working the pillow,
with becoming pride. A number of them will
go INTO the business of cutting hay for sale.
Some of them are sharp enough to have al
ready located good claims. which they intend
thrown open to settlers.
GEN. STONE, the engineer in charge of the
construction Of the Bartholdi pedestal, re-
ceived a letter from NJ. Bartholdl on Wednes-
day. "The artist tells me,' said Mr. Stone
yesterday. "that the statue is being carefully
boxed and the pieces marked, so that they
can be placed in order on the French war
vessel. He says that the statue will most
probably arrive in this country not later than
next November. We are building for all
time and part OF eternity" added Mr.
Stone, land we want $780, 900 mOre.n
DIR. W. J. HARRIS, physician Of st. Louis,
writes thus in the Globe Democrat concerning
DIR. Pavy, one of the victims of the Greedy
party: DR.. PAWS constant dream was to en-
ter the Arctic regions by way of Behring's
Straits, carrying a portable boat on sledges
over the belt of ice, and as soon as the Polar
sea was reached to launch the boat and sail
away to the pole, returning BY way of Green
land to the Atlantic the following season.
do not think that DR.. Pavy ever had a shadow
of doubt about the existence of an open
Polar sea. He has talked to me for hours, and
by many ingenious theories proved that such
a sea existed.
A POOR English lady, whose house on the
outskirts of London was Overrun by black
beetles, which dwelt not only on
the walls, but in the beds,
applied the other day to a magistrate
to know whether she could be compelled, I'M
der such circumstances, to pay her rent. The
magistrate explained to her that the courts
were divided upon the question. A house
Overrun with bugs had been pronounced un-
inhabitable, but not with beetles. She would
have to carry the matter to the House Of
Lords. 1t Is interesting and instructive in
these revolutionary times to read that these
matters can only be definitely settled by
hereditary chamber.
DURING recent tornado in Richland, KY,
a farmers wife was in the summer kitchen
preparing supper, and her daughter was in
the dinlng-room setting the table. As the
wind struck the house the currents divided,
one carried the kitchen two miles up to an adj
Joining county, and the other deposited the
main part of the house half mile in the OPP
pOsite direction. By a strange freak OF ma
ture both houses were picked up by the re-
turning current and set back directly IN their
former places, as neatly as if the work had
been done by hand. The women were so
buslly engrossed in their work that they did
until their attention had been called to
crack in the roof.
A FAMOUS London institution has just gone
under the hammer. This is WOmbwell's
meuagerle, latterly known as Edmund's,
which dates back to the time when lions were
kept in the Tower and in Exeter Change. and
was contemporary with the historic giraffe OF
George ". Despite the competition of the
Geological Garden and various travelling
shows, the noted managerie was long profit
able concern. 1t was famous for the number
and variety of its trained animals. There
were groups of performing hyenas, groups of
performing lions and leOpards, zebra, one Of
the most unruly of quadrupeds broken to har-
ness, llama that would go through evolu-
tions on parade, drOmedarles that went in
harness, and a sacred Egyptian balloon of
equal rarity and value. The monarch of the
collection was the great elephant Emperor,
the largest of his species that ever Travelled in
the British Islands, and who is only few
inches shorter than Jumbo.
THE Casual Observer was one day walking
up Broadway with Wall street man, who
suddenly stopped near the post office, and
pointing with his stick to a man on the other
side of the street. said, ''Do you see that man?
He will drop dead before he reaches Trinity
Church." The Casual Observer met the man
who was to have dropped dead three or four
times after that on the street, and although
he looked strong and healthy he could never
disabuse his mind of the idea that the man
about the man after that, and he said: II
merely wanted to give you an illustration of
bear methods. You viii never see that man
again without thinking of my prophecy. So it
is in Wall street. A bad name is given to
certain stock or property, and although the
whole thing is a lie, yet somehow 1t gets into
the minds of the people, and the property goes
down and down for no other reason than that
people think there must be something wrong
with it because some one has sal /"
Two good stories are told by Romanes
in a review of Sully's PsychoNgy: SIT is
evident, from the number of original observa-
tions which are scattered through the book
that Mr.. Sully must himself have spent no
small amount of time and devotion at the
shrine (baby Worship Here is one of his
experiences, in which "a little girl of AZ
years once drove her mother to one of the
most difficult problems of philosophy On
asking why a wasp could not hurt window
pane with its sting, and on being told in
answer, Because the window pane has no
nerves. and SO is not able to feel the child
perplexed the learning of the household by
asking, why do nerves feel?' We quote this
little incident in order to cap it with one of
still more embarrassing kind, which we were
told a short time ago. Another little girl Of
the same age was silently watching her
father write his sermon, and, after pro-
tracted observation, put to him the somewhat
difficult question, Papa, does God tell you
what to write IN a sermon?' With some little
hesitation our clerical friend replied in the
Affirmative whereupon he was ANONYMOUSLY
nonplussed by the further question, Then,
mana " 10 Won spratch if ont againr''5