Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

sALAMANDERs fell from the clouds during
heavy storm of rain and hail at Velasco, Mex,
recently. A curious fact in connection with
the case is that no lizards of the kind are TO
be found in the lakes roundabout.
ONE day long since J. NJ. straus, gold
digger. was striding down hill at Columbia.
IN ruOumne county, Cal, when he picked mp
= lump of gold which he sold the next week
for s. I90 He died a pauper at the county
hospital at Sonora, few days ago.
ANEW Holy Family, by Corregio, has been
discovered and restored through the efforts Of
Herr Penther, the custodian of the Vienna
Art Academy. The picture has been recolor-
ed no fewer than three times IL is, however,
utspolled IN the principal details
THE ascent of Mont Blanc has been accom-
plished in u hours, direct from ChamouniX,
by Mr.. f. A. Evans, of Chester, Eng, with
three guides. This is considerably the quick
est ascent yet made. The party crossed the
glaciers below the Grands Mulets by moon
light.
W F CONANT, an inmate. of the Concord
IN. H. asylum, was made violently ineane, it
is believed, by remorse, because he deserted
from the army in the war. His doctor recent
iy wrote to President Cleveland, asklng the
mans discharge, and has just received it, 1t
Is thoHght the news will save his life.
THE New Jersey census shows that Jersey
City has overtaken Newark, and now has
just 400 more people, the figures being l52,SOS
and I53, 2Oa respectively. 1t is not Improba-
BILE that the reports for both places have been
well stuffed In 1880 Newark had lS6, sos and
Jersey City only l2O,722
NORTHERN IMMIGRATION Is flowing into
North Carolina in small but steady stream.
Most Of the newcomers are farmers or
mechanics, and the majority 20 to the western
part of the State. Recently DR.. Clark Whit
tier purchased 10000 acres OF land there,
about one third of Swain county. He will
divide it into 1000 farms of 81 acres each, and
settle them with 1000 families.
CURIOUS INCIDENT occurred in the Parade
Church, ShornclifTe, Eng, on Sunday, July %.
1t was found that the church was besieged by
various kinds of BIRDS principally swallows.
Every effort was made to dislOdge them, but
without effect, and at last some soldiers were
obliged to fire volley of blank cartridges
which completely routed them, and, the
church being soon vacated, the service was
held.
For some years past the post Office of India
has had in successful operation what is
known as the value payable post;" that is,
1t not only carries parcels from tradesmen to
their country customers, but also under takes
to collect the prices. 1t has often been pro-
posed to extend the system to the conveyance
o1 parcels between England and India, and
it is now said that the project will shortly be
sanctioned, as the English postal authorities
are heartily IN favor Of 1t.
CHICAGO is being entertained now by a
musical prodigy from Seguin, Tex, known as
the Cow Boy Pianist His name is A. o.
Babbel Among the numbers given Saturday
night were 1.-The Carnival of Venice" 'Se-
ectiOns from Norma "Coming Thro' the
Rye" with variations, and "The GertZ Schot-
tische,' piece of his own competition. Mr..
Babel plays entirely by air and is g genuine
cowboy, never having been out OF the State
until month ago. He says playing came to
him naturally.
AN FRESHMAN applied to the town clerk of
North Adams, Mass, recently for a divorce
for a peculiar reason. He said he was mar
RED last spring and wanted a divorce from
his wife because they could not speak the same
language. He could speak only English and
she only Irish. The clerk asked him how the
engagement was made in the first place, and
he replied that his sister, who could speak
both languages, acted as an interpreter; but
he is now gone and husband and wife are
unable to communicate except by signs.
ONE Of the young men who pass the summer
roaming on bicycles around the country found
a roadside curiosity the other day in the
shape of sparrow-hawk's nest with eggs
and young. The eggs, TO the number of four,
we're OF tlntS varying from yellOwtsh buff to
reddish brown. Returning that way two days
later he found and seized upon the young
hawks. They were fluffy balls, and not an
eye was open. There was the sOftness of
swa SHOWN about them, but. unlike swans
down. there VAS a touch of Dink-as faint and
as delicate as that In a lady's cheek.
IT is rotated of the late Stanley Huntley,
humorist, about whom there is much gossip,
that at the age of IA years he set about trying
to cultivate an Imagination that should be as
peculiar as possible. One Of his favorite tricks
in irce raj hon to
the bones Of skeleton. The skeleton stood
upright in his fathers study aud young Hunt
ley. putting a pipe between the jaws of the
grinniDg thing and his own arm around the
bony waist, would puff ut the pipe by Aeans
Of stem twining down among the ribs
Sitting thus he would read such tales as the
Gold Bug" but he never became an Edgar
Allen Poe.
w. B. Robinson, q lumberman OF Sinnema-
honing. Pa, says that Mrs. Mary Ann Jordan
who resides on the East Fork of the Sinuema-
honing, in Potter county, owns a tame deer,
which leaves her every winter and goes off
into the woods. returning in the spring. This
spring it returned bringing with it another
deer. and both now roam around IN the barn
ward Ihe pet deer wears a bell hanging
from It's neck, and thereby escapes the guns
OF the hunters during its wanderings. Some
times dogs chase II. and then IL makes a dash
straight for Mrs. JOrdan's house, rushes in and
jumps unon bed, evidently deeming that a
safe place.
IN Boston the Chief Of the Fire Department
rides in a red buggy when he hurries head
long to fires. The notion is that persons will
break for the sidewalk and clear the track
when they see horse snOrtIng fame, so to
say, and wildly dragging % red chariot toward
them. But some OF the newspaper people in
Boston are women, who wear dainty gowns
Of robins egg blue, and those charming critic.
object TO the startling redness Of the red
wagon as smacking too much of the old red
shirted hremen. hey have suggested that
the color be toned down, and plump upon the
suggestion comes n acOrnIul reply from
champion OF the red buggy. A IL looks now
cut
AT Indianapolis the other day a gentleman
saw sparrow, all his British blood evidently
aroused, starting after o small object whlsh.
in its flight. glittered like fragment from
rainbow. They quickly disappeared, but
presently the sparrow came winpinR mis- Way
back, not with the air q q conQuerOr INIT
plainly in full re reat. with the speck Of irri-
descent plumage close behind him The
sparrow cropped into some tall grass To es-
chte, but hi araailant was not 10 he shaken
on, andf'll upon him, the sparrow utterinR
the most distressing cries. The spectator of
the conflict drawing nearer, the humming-
bird was frightened OF, and the badly whip-
ped sparrow escaped further punishment
from the lance like bill OF his antagonist.
THE pain Of neuralgic headache experi-
nv IL L.