Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TIE elephant Emperor. only two inches
less in stature than Jumbo, has been sold bs
auction in England for $500.
CINCINNATI is to have an odd monument,
in the form of a ruin, built from the broken
pillars and fragments Of the court house burn
ed during the riot.
DEADLY WEAPONS are taken from men who
carry them into one of Galveston's gambling
and drinking houses, an emplOye gives checks
for them, and they are returned on their own
ers' departure.
IT is generally understood in Baltimore that
the telegraphie pooling arrangements be-
tween the Bankers and Merchants BaIti-
more and Ohio, and the Postal Telegraph
Companies have come to a sudden termina-
ton by the Bankers and Merchants Compa-
ny Withdrawing.
AMACHINE recently invented promises to
do away with the use of hand labor to pick
the slate from coal at the breakers. The in
ventiOn is said to answer the purpose every
where it has been introduced, and there is a
prospect that one of the worst forms Of child
labor viii soon be thing Of the past.
A WRITER in a French paper trade journal
suggests that the maker-up or imposer should
be paid more than he is. He believes that the
name Of the maker-up should be mentioned
in books as the names Of craftsmen and en-
gravers are, as by this means cOmpositors
would be melted to improve In their art.
JEWS in Jerusalem were until lately few
hundred families, who had gone there to die
in the land Of their fathers. Now there are at
least $1,000, or about one-thlrd OF the popula-
ton. They devote themselves almost ex-
clusiyelv to mercantile occupations. The
newcomers are mostly from Bulgaria, Russia
and Hungary.
THE small prices obtained at the Liverpool
sale of wild beasts have created something
like a panic on the Continent. The Monde
IHustre announces it as new horrOr--'le
specially alarmed the French financial mind
is the fact that a tiger which had eaten two
keepers was sold for 1920 francs-"only 600
francs keeper"
As result of the anti-yaccinatiOn move
ment in England four men are now under
going Imprisonment in Leicester Jail for re-
fusipg to have their children vaccinated. In
Ieicestershre. the yaccinating officer re-
Dorfed that he could not enforce the law, there
being 1 300 persons waiting to be summoned,
and more than two-t thirds OF the children are
unvaccinated. The vaccination acts are
dead letter.
LIKE little wanton boys that swim on blad-
ders Mr.. G. W. Flagg, OF Vermont, good
man, weighing 225 pounds, with chest meas
urement of as inches, got far beyond his
depth, Last Monday he was elected 10 the
Vermont Legislature and thought full surely
his greatness was aripening, but he tackled
MIR. j. II. Mclaughlin, the wrestler, for
81 900 and lost his foot-hold, his reputation
and his money in 10 minutes.
A PASSENGER in an Arizona railroad train
was arrested by a Sheriff for a minor offense
a short time ago. Seeing Judge playing
poker in the smoking car with brace of Colo
nels the Sheriff prevailed upon him to stop
the game for a few minutes and try the prIs-
oner. The Judge did so. fined the prisoner $40,
and before an hour had passed away had
Cleaned out every Colonel on the train. Then
he PLAYED little game with the late prisoner;
who promptly won all the Judges Pile ana
set up the drinks for the crowd.
TIE bastinado is still one Of the authorized
punishments in Egypt, and is so terrible that
even the silent and much-enduring Arabs
scream with pain after the first few strokes.