Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

WHITE SHELLED EGGS are the most dellcate
Some producers scour them with sapolio be-
fore bringing them TO fastidious customers.
SCOTTISH MILK is now sent to Liverpool and
Manchester by thousands of gallons, and may
be bought on the station platforms at cd. per
gallon.
THE LYON Medical says that Prof. Malgalgne
is much dreaded by students on account OF his
irony at examinations. One day he was dis
cussIng some obscure points IN students the
sis and the candidate replied almost at ran
DOM ''NOw, SIR" exclaimed the irate exam
iner, "can you tell me what to create meansf"
Greater stammered the youth; 1T means 10
make something out of nOthing" THAT'S
good, SIR" said Malgaigne; 1--WE VIII now
make you doctor"
IT is stated as a remarkable fact that Mrs.
BERT Gordon, of Fort Plain, N. Y, has just
become possessed Of wonderful if not super
human accomplishments. Mrs. Gordon is
daughter of Josiah ZOller. a hotel keeper, and
is a woman about 40 years OF age. A Few days
ago she discovered that she could either sing
or play upon the piano, at sight, the most DIFF
ficult music placed before her, teat she never
before could accomplish. II is also stated that
the mysterious power enables hef 10 converse
with departed spirits, etc.
In a communication to the London Patho-
logical Society it is stated that the opinion
held by doctors and others that wild animals
in captivity are apt to die Of tubercular con-
sumption is erroneous. From October. 1881,
to January, 1885, the number of deaths IN the
Geological Gardens was 2,779, made up of 5S3
mammals, Laos birds and 1SS reptiles. Five
only of the animals died of pulmonary tuber-
culoss. There was but one case of general
tuberculosis. There were twelve deaths from
pulmonary consumption. OF which five Oc-
Cured in monkeys and the rest IN carnivOra.
WALTER BoNER. of Luray, Ind, has the
boss dog Of the country. Walter took HIM
coon hunting q short time since, and he
tracked a black coon to a hollow tree.
Nothing daunted he followed the coon up the
hollow, where they clinched. Being unable
to pull his cOOnship down, be deliberately
pushed him on up and out Of hole. Getting
a new and irmer hold of the coon, he boldly
leaped to the ground. a distance OF thirty Feet,
where 1t was killed, as much TO his satlsfac-
ton as to that of his master. who sold the
coons being very rare indeed.
THE question whether money found in
shop belongs to the keeper Of the place or the
finder is often disputed. A writer in the
Pharmaceutical Record relates that a custo mer
in a drug store once picked up a dollar note
from the floor between two arallel.counters.
He inquired il anyone in the store had lost It.
and finding they had not, he appropriated it.
His claims to it being disputed, the case was
submitted to a lawyer, who said: "Ihe open
passage between the two counters was de-
Dictated to the public, not in fee simple, but as
cupy for purposes Of traffic" So the finder
kept the dollar.
a STORY that is perhaps apocryphal, but
which is good enough to be true, is told Of a
Mississippian's visit to the White House in
search Of postmastershIp. "How soon does
the incumbent's term expirer' inquired the
President.
''Oh, in about three years, unless it is cut
Short"
"Are there any charges against him."
swell, yes. We Democrats don't like him."
sBut on what ground do you ask for his re-
"on the ground, Mr.. President, that eleven
millions of people decided last November that
they wanted change
JAY GOULD" says the Philadelphia Rule
tin, presented w. c. Whitney with check
for $3.50, OO0," said a prominent Third street
operator the other day, when 1t became
known that Mr.. Whitney was to be Secretary
of the Navy in President Cleveland's Cabinet.
At that time Whitney was quite young
man, and not rich one either, though MS
father was reasonably well OFF. He had just
graduated from Harvard law school. In
looking over the charter of q certain railroad
company he had discovered a flaw IN it which
made il absolutely of non-efect, and he car
ried that information to Jay Gould, giving 1t
to him voluntarily, without any request for
compensation. Gould Immediately drew the
check for the amount l have named, and
Whitney was a rich man at bound.
Gould, / believe, sold the stock OF the rail-
road very heavily, and made several times
that sum by the operation, for publication OF
the fact of the faulty charter broke the price
down to almost nothing. and enabled HIM to
cover his contracts at very low figures"
SCoTLANDis excited over a case of leprosy.
The subject Of it is under treatment in hos
pltal at Edinburgh, but was recently brought
to Glasgow and exhibited to the medical stu
dents. The occurrence of leprOsy in Great
Britain has caused the doctors TO examine the
history of their profession in regard to this
terrible disease. The old books are full of
accounts of the APPEARANCE and spread of lep-
rosy in the British Islands. Leper hospitals
were common institutions in England during
the fifteenth century. BY statute passed in
isa7 every boroue h in Scotland was required
20 support 'Eazar house." The patients
were generally fed and clothed at public ex-
pense, but they were cared for by the
knights Of st. Lazarus, an order wnlcn was