Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A NORWEGIAN SLEIGH, recently on exhibit
ton in New York, resembled a hanson on
runners.
4 DARING LANDLORD IN Berlin has intro
duced paper plates. Bread and butter, cakes
ana similar articles were served on pretty
papier mache plate, having a border in relief
ana resembling porcelain. The landlord
liked them because they were so cheap they
could be thrown away after once using, wait
ers liked them for their lightness, and because
they were neither to be washed nor broken,
ana guests were delighted to take them aWay
as souvenirs. Housewives will cordially well
come the introduction of this sort of table
furniture into America.
A RATHER good ldea Of poor Col Burnaby'
was that of the ''Foolometer" test, as he
called it, by which he sought to anticipate
the verdict of the public on his writings 1t
is said he used to su bmit his proof to two or
three friends, VINO were merely "average
mOrtals." If they were pleased, Burnaby
was satisfied. II they were not pleased.
Burnaby decorated things until his work OBJ
tanned their approval. He claimed to write
only Iof Lhe average public, and his theory
was that an average man was better Judge
OF what would suit his class than was q cut
tured critic"
A LAWSUIT growing out Of pair of baby's
shoes has just been instituted at Pollston, Pa
Charles, Miller, of BuCz, Chester county,
purchased a pair OF shoes for his child and
left them at the store to be called for. BY
mistake the shoes were given to q young WO-
man by the same name. She took the pack
age home, and finding that it contained pair
OF tiny shoes she heName indignant and threw
them into the stove. Later on Mr.. Miller de-
manded the price OF the shoes, which Mics
Miller refused to pay. The Justice advised
a settlement, but Miss Miller declined. The
case viii now be taken into court.
4 NEW YORK firm applied to Abraham Lin
coin some years before he became President
az to the financial standing of one OF MS
neighbors, Mf. Lincoln replied as follows:
"fOurs 81 the 10th inst received. l am well
acquainted with Mr.. - and know his cir.
cumstauces. First of all, he has a wife and
baby; together they ought to be worth $4,000
to any man. Secondly, he has an Office in
which there is table worth ST so, and three
chairs worth say 81. Last of all there is in
one corner large Tat-hole which will bear
looking into. Respectfully yours, A. LIN
COLIN"
THE members Of the Coincide Franchise
were greatly surprised q few days ago on re-
ceiving an invitation from the cure of St.
Roch to attend a great festival celebration in
that church. The actors and actresses mus
tered in force on the occasion and joined IN
the ceremonial In very interesting and edl
flying manner. Casting about for some means
Of repayiDg the cvIlity of the cure, they hit
on the happy idea Of inviting that dignitary
and all the priests at ST. Roch to a perform
q
dent has wholesome complexion, and shows
how completely the old prejudice against
players IS being swept away.
WHILE Pennsylvania petroleum yields 70
per cent. of kerosene with q large residuum
Of lubricating oil, the Caspian product yields
but IS per cent. of kerosene, with refuse fl
only for fuel. In the early DAYS OF Caspian
| petroleum its price was s. per barrel Now
it often sells at 10 cents. Twelve thousand
square miles in Southern Russia have been
proved to be olelferOus, ard of this vast sur
race only SIX miles are, as yet, developed.
| The Oil-bearlng stratum is found to extend
beneath the Caspian Sea, where il crops up in
TcheliBen, a true isle of oil, which literally
streams into the sea from hills and cliffs,
which are entirely formed of crude parafli &c.
THERE is hope for the Chinese yet. They are
evidently veal enng on the pigtail. Saturday
there was party Of them from the legation in
Washington at the capitol. Ali but oae had
discarded the baggy costume of their native
land and wore American costumes, while il
was noted with a good deal of interest that
all those who wore Mclean clothes had
carefully run their pigtails down the backs of
the coats, buttoning them inside, SO that only
the close observer would note the fact of their
existence. They seemed to take q good deal
of interest in the capitol, and walked through
the great Congressional library in a reveren =
tial way that showed that they knew some
thing OF the value of books.
MARY p. GUMPERT, an attractive Young VIC
man, began a suit Monday in the Circuit
Court at Chicago for a decree of divorce. By
her testimony and that of her mother and sis
ter il was shown that two years ago, while
she was still living with her family, in Brook
lyn, thst Louis ID. Gumpert, whose acquaint-
ance she had made in furtive manner, one
day induced her to partake of intoxicating
liquors, and that when she was in an ire
spOn sible state he had forced her to marry
him. She maintained that she had never lived
wit m q ma ffsfs iop
Soon after this she moved to Oh cago, and is
stlll living there. The court did not say
whether a decree should be granted or not,
Mr.. WEBSTER was once spending the sum
mer in a town near Boston, and, as was nie
custom, attended church regularly, both
morning and afternoon. On one occasion it
fell to the lot of an unnedged youth to try his
wings in that pulpit. He rose, as was natural
with some trepidatiOn, to begin the service,
This trepidatiOn gradually increased, till to-
ward the close of the hymn he faltered per-
ceptibly, and as he sat down by the side OF
the minister of the parish he whispered
Doctor, don't know to whom those eyes
| belong which are directly facing me- but
they arc quite too much for me, and cannot
preach" Mr.. webster was responsible fol
an eXtempOraneous discourse that morning.
PORTLAND, NE, has a ghost. Mr.. Libby
manager of Thoits Brothers cigar manufac-
tory, offers $50 to the man who will spend
night in the mandatory. Mr. Libby, rs vel
| as several others, have tried and failed. i
| seems an employee Of the firm by the name o.
| Kelley, who died not long since, during a lin.
gering sickness with consumption often as
serted whenever any of the men called TO set
| him that he would come back to the old shol
| in the spirit if such a thing were possible
! just before he died he assured his watchers
| that he would visit the boys after death The
men are convinced he has made good his as
! surance, and that the nightly grOans anC
racket are made by Kelley's ghost. Not on'
| of the men can be induced to remain in the
| room after dark. The other night Portland
| light weight wrestler, champion boxer and ;
! gentleman recently in the liquor trade made
| an attempt to down his ghostship. We are un
able to report results. as all three were invlSl
| bic next day.
WHEN the late NJ. NiHemessant, the propri
| etor of the Paris Figaro. died he left the paper
to the three men who had done the most t
| aid him. But there were many old cOntribu
tors on the paper-men with we'll known
names, who made an OutCry against this iii
| vision of the property. They insisted tina
| they ought to have been consulted, and they
| threatened to found an opposition Ej0dFO
| This alarmed the three principals, and they
made proposition TO the effect that they
/ themselves should take each S350OO out OF tn,
! concern yearly, and that the other men SHOULD
| each have 4 salary of $500 for the work thej
| were to do, and at the end of year Draw
| like sum out of the profits, thus insurlng then
| SIS eco year. \ ct these men Go not write
| an Average OF lHOTe IMAM Hdll Il toluillu u Va
| each-if, indeed, that much. SO that they hav,
| a very easy time of it. IL is one Of the condi
| tions that when any one of them dies his share
| goes to the others, so that the last survivor
! will have an enormous income.
4 GOOD DEAL has lately been SAID anC
written about the large sums which British
authors nave made by the sale of their works
| Scott obtained fll0,00O for eleven novels anC
nine volumes Of tales. Lord Beaconsneld wal
! offered flO,00) for "Endym ion." George Ello
| received Ct, 900 Cor "Romola," and it is re
ported that her "Life" has already put fS,00t
! into the pockets of the publishers. The profits
/ OF several continental authors have. how
/ ever, been equally substantial. LamartlnC
received go 600 for his History and L l,S00 fol
| La Chute dun Angel for the manuscript o.
itNOtre Dame" Victor Hugo was paid f2lC0
Ehateaubriand made $4,000 by has books
Gbiers disposed of his ''HistOry OF the Consul
late and Empire" for $4,000; and even
LamenDais obtained on an average E6OO fol
each Of his volumes. Judged from the pc
cdniaPy point of view. M. Emile lola is pro-
badly the most successful of living authors
A Paris paper, to which he is an occasional
contributor, states that his income from liter
airy work has during tho past five years aver
aged Cl2,000.