Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AMONG the antique marbles in the British
Museum the cavities in which internal ma
chimes might be conveniently deposited are
now boarded up.
WOLVES still abound iii France. Last year
rewards were paid for the destruction OF l,3O5,
the amount reaching over $4,000. Nine per-
sons were attacked and killed by wolves dur
ing the year
A STORY is current that great statesman,
who may take a conspicuous position under
the new admin stration. while in at Of re-
Elective abstraction, put silver half dollar in
the street car box. When his attention was
called to it he said: "Pshaw | am always
doing those queer things" Then he went to
the box and slipped In ten cent piece 10
keep company with the half-dolar.
A PILE of OK shoes surmounted a pile OF
bones in a slaughter house yard in Maine.
The butcher took them as a text, and said:
s.Some folks want the OK shoes back when the
oxen are killed. We always give them. Other
folks buy 'em of us. Some folks are super
stitiOus about OK shoes. They think that the
cattle Will grow better If they are shou WIN
a set Of shoes that come of from prize cattle.
a GOOD STORY is told of recent experience
OF Congressman Burleigh at the Fifth Ave
nue. Hotel. He had a friend at dinner and
had ordered bottle of wine. A stranger was
seated at the same table, who reached over
aud took from the side of Mr.. Burleigh's
plate glass Of wine which he drank at one
gulp. THAT'S mighty COOL said Mr.. Bur-
leigh. Yes" replied the stranger, Il guess
it's been on ice"
ARCHIBALD FORBES WAS about to deliver his
lecture, warriors Have Known" IN town
in England a few days Ego, when it was dis
covered that his manuscript had been stolen.
Mr. Forbes said he had several times nearly
lost his life; he had more than once lost his
heart and sometimes. through causes not re
lost his head but he had never before lost his
lecture. far less had it been stolen.
A KENTUCKIAN one day mounted his good
mare Pidge. and threw across his saddle a
bag with two turtles IN each end. Being
humane man, he made hole near each OF the
turtles 10 give them air. THIS dlu very wen
until the ill-natured turtles worked their
heads out OF the holes and nabbed poor Pldge
simultaneously on her lanks. She made
spring that threw her rider and away sne
went The turtles held their grip, and PidSe
ran tlll she fell exhausted.
THE allegorical statue America" at the
Albert memorial in Hyde Park, London,
which was repro iuoed in clay for the art gall
lerv Of the centennial, has been copied in
sbeet metal for the New Orleans Exposition,
where ia row is in a niche over the main en-
trance to the building. IL is on base ii feet
bv l3 feet in size; each standing ngure is 10
feet in height and the whole Is painted In
imitation az old bronze. It is the largest
work ever attempted in light sheet metal.
at WAS STRANGE" says Thackeray in 1.-THE
Virginians," shat IN savage forest OF Penn
sylvania young Virginian officer should nre
a shot and waken up a war which was to last
for sixty years, which was to cover his own
country and pass into Europe, to cost france
her American colonies, TO sever ours from us
and create the great Western Republic; 70
rage over the Old World when eXtinguished
in the new, and, OF all the myriads engaged IN
the vast contest, to leave the prize OF the
greatest fame with HIM who struck the first
blow"