Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-07
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and bunco steerers are punished by public
whipping in Delaware. Twenty lasnes is the
average dose.
HAMILTON COLE, the New York lawyer who
bought copy of the Gutenberg Bible for
5000 at the Brinley sale in 1881, has just sold
il for Sic, 600.
THE new theatre being made out of the old
Masonic Temple in Philadelphia will be the
largest place of amusement in the United
States, seating 5000.
THE dies from which the first United States
cents, those coined at New Haven and called
the Franklin, were cast are now used as pa
per weights IN counting room at New
Haven.
SECRETARY WH1TNEY's proposal to change
the color of the white helmets and leggings of
marines and soldiers to brown, because less
conspicuous as target for enemy's rifles, Is
pronounced very sensible.
The carnivorous plants known as utricu-
laria are to be extirpated from the ponds of
the United state Fish Commission. 1t was
| found that they caught aud destroyed in large
numbers the recently Matched fry.
a CALIFORNIA physician claims that the
bruised pulp of eucalyptus leaves, which he
had been in the habit of APPLYING to his very
Dald head for the cure of headache, had
brought onta new and abundant crop of hair.
As result of the Niagara reservation bill
the proprietors of mills on Bath Island and
along the shore are preparing to leave. In
dian curiosity shops and unsighty b. oths will
soon be swept away, and hacRmen are plot
| ting to become friends with the commits
| slOner5,
A NEW YORK letter says the profits of the
restaurant in the rotunda OF the Astor House
in that city have averaged $500 per day for the
last five years. The restaurant is largely
| patrOnlzed by those who have not time to go
up town until dinner, and by large class Of
politicians.
Mrs. OHM, who processes to cast out devils
and perform other feats commonly regarded
as superhuman, resides near Laketon. Ind,
anu IS egulGrly consulted by persons who be-
| lleVe themselves under the influence of a ma.
pgn spirit. She has been at least enabled to
amass snug fortune.
The Harvard facul y, wishing to encourage
vacation study, authorizes any instructor to
announce to his class a course of reading or
investigation suitable to be pursued privately
| during the summer. Every such course shall
he calculated to occupy a student of ordinary
ABILITY not more than six hours day during
! single month.
! BITTER opposition has been shown in GER
tain parts of st. Louis to the closing of the
wells, which was adopted by the authorities
as a sanitary measure. At a great mass meet
| ing, comprised mainly of Germans Inhamma-
| tory speeches were made, and the street com
missioner who executed the obnoxious order
/ W d5 mug III cIuBy.
The ancient castle of Dankwarderode, near
Brunswick, which was the original seat of
The Guelph family. is to be restored and con-
verted into a museum for the display of his
! torlcal relics. The Brunswick Chamber of
! Deputies has voted $751;. 600 towards the pur-
/ chase money, and the German Government
! VIII furnish the rest
| THE fruit dealers in Arkansas observed
Thursday as strawberry day." and donated
the fruit gathered on that day to INN ates of
the Insane Asylum, the School for the Blind,
Dear and Mule Institute and State Penlten-
/ tlary. The children picked the berries, the
\ owners gave them. the merchants paid for
/ the crates, and the railroads handled them
/ free,
WOMAN in Springfield, o., has invented
and patented an overshoe OF cloth, which can
/ be made nearly as small as the ordinary shoe
| The sole, shank and heel are IN one piece. The
/ shoe Is light, comfortable and warm She has
| also Invented a screw witt fourpOInted heads.
which screws INTO the sole and prevents all
danger OF slipping, either ON the ice, car tops
| or elsewhere.
LETTER from London conveys the well
come intelligence that tight pantaloOns went
out of fashion many months ago. which ex-
/ plains the recent eruption of wider bags in
| our streets. This summer the ''prOper caper''
| in trousers will be a width at the knee and
bottom OF from seventeen to eighteen inches.
cling TO the skln-tight trouser legs.
The officers of the Cleveland and Hendricks
War Veterans of Brooklyn have commenced
| a suit against e. NJ. Huntindon for the return
| OF $3.50 paid him agent of the steamer West
! mOreland for the conveyance of $50 members
/ OF the association from Baltimore to Wash
lngton IN time for the Inauguration. AS naVi-
| cation at the time was impossible, owing To
! the Ice IN the rivers, the veterans went by
| railroad.
THE gardens of the Tuileries at Paris have
! just put on their summer garb, and notwith-
standing the recent spell of winter weather.
which froze six persons to death in Vienna
the orange, myrtle and pOmegranate trees
/ have once more left their winter quarters in
| the conservatory. Some of the southern plants
| which summer after summer adorn the ter
| races are very Old. Among them are twomyr-
| ties. which boast an age Of no less than two
| centuries; an orange tree has seen more than
300 years, ana Il pomegranate is nearly as old
| PETTITT is the third foreigner who has
wrcsted the supremacy of tennis from an
English holder during the present century.
Mar, hesio, great Italian player from Turin,
/ beat Cox, the best Englishman OF the day in
/ 1910. and in 1923 Cox again had to play second
/ fiddle, this lime to the celebrated Barre By
many good judges Lambert has been consid-
| cred the finest player that ever went on to a
! court, and by beating him 80 early in his
| career Petttt mas marked out for himself a
| glorious future, to use the language of en-.
! tlusidelHs WHICH all btuuls- prayers undOuDt-
eddy are.
! MATHEW ARNOLD made a mistake in Civ.
ing London as the authority for pronuncia
ton. There are many words pronounced
differently by different people in London.
The House of Commons has ALWAYS been rec
/ ognized and accepted as authority. though
rot infallble, and most OF its leading men
were educated at oxford. where Walker ia
regarded as the best authority for pronuncia-
ton. But even in the House OF Commons
/ there have been differences Of pronunciation
among the leading men. Botn Lord Tobn
/ Russell and OCOnneli always pronounced
''either' 'ither," and ''obliged" ''obleeged.D
A CARSON New man has gone and invent
ed machine 10 avoid the anti-treating law
which has been a dead failure thus far. A
huge chunk Of ice is slung in the centre Of a
revolving table. and beverages, beer. wills.
! by, etc, are placed all over II. The citizens
! draw mp their chairs all around cali for their
! driuks,and the game commences by the twirl-
4 ing Of the revolving wheel or table. What
/ ever stops in front OF each ones chair he must
/ drink, and whoever fails 20 do so has the whole
circle 10 pay for. The excitement grows
more aud more intense as the game pro-
crosses. and many a substantial Carsonite
goes home 10 bed drunk.
I AN idea Of the value OF the fisheries and
the active wealth produced 10 a country by
the culture and preservation OF FISH can he