Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

worked for the college at Manhattan, Kan,
earning 1899 40 in all-nearly So each. The
same students did a great deal of outside
work. Quite number support themselves
and keep up with their classes at the same
time.
MT. AUBURN, the great cemetery Of Boston,
aud the one that contains the dust Of Charles
Sumner, LongfeloW, Arson Burlngame, the
Cnodtes, and many other celebrities, has now
permanent fund of $2j9, $50, besides a repair
fund of S24,075. There are "a SIS interments
IN the cemetery, an increase of 595 last year.
ONE of the frequent visitors to the Cover
nOr's room at the State House at Augusta,
Me, is a woman who is deeply interested in
the New Orleans Exposition. She possesses a
collection of wax flowers which She is very
cesIrous of exhibiting at the great show, and
she asks for an appropriation to aid her in
reaching the Crescent City with her artificial
blossoms.
AMONG the large towns of England Bright
on shows the lowest death rate, 1873 for 1884.
The highest was at Preston, where the per-
centage was 29.5, though Manchester follows
closely with rate of 29.4. The percentage
at Portsmouth was 1913; London. 21.5; Biz
mingham, q Sheffield, 4.l; Nottingham
and Newcastle, 24.3; Leeds, 25.9 and Liver
pool, 27.6.
SOME fishermen who visited the Charity
Islands in Lake Michigan last week say that
saw them he ran down TO greet them. and his
first question was: ''Who's elected Presl-
dent:" He had had no mail or communica-
ton with the rest of the world for three
months, and yet there will be a scramble for
his position after March 4.
Two YEARS AGO a young Frenchman who
enlisted in the army was amazed to find him
self enrolled in a disciplinary regiment made
up of convicts. He served with his tough
companions in Algiers until few weeks ago,
when he was summoned to Paris, where he
learned that he had been the victim of a jul
dicial mistake, an eN-cOnvict having stolen
his certificate and peTsonated him before the
final recruiting officer
president ELIOT, Of Harvard, is indignant
because Of the publicity given to the informal
action of the faculty in regard to the proposed
changes IN the curriculum. lie does not con-
tradct the statements, but says that the pub
lc3tiOn was premature. He expects that the
proposed changes will increase the number of
students. The admirers Of Greek do not re-
gard IT as an attempt to break down the
classics, but rather to advance them, because
more rapid progress is maze in a chosen
study than IN one forced upon the students.
STANLEY HUNTLEY, whose accession as
ruler of the Peton Indians has been noted,
writes letter to President Arthur in which
he says: u have succeeded to the chieftain-
ship OF the TetOns and want to ask whether
your nation and mine are to live on terms OF
friendly equality or whether you want strife
and carnage. Please speak to your Secretary
of the Interior and have him brace up he
ratiOns issued to my tribes so as TO include an
occasional ham and a mackerel for Sunday.
Any cast-Of war material, plug hats light
literature now on file in your State Depart
ment viii be gracefully received as q guaran-
tee OF your good faith"
An INCIDENT told by an Inspector of Schools
in Boston shows the Importance of a careful
oversight of the ventilating apparatus. Upon
visiting school house the inspector noticed
the impure air of the rooms and questioned
the janitOr on the cause, but was unable TO
discover the exact reason. The janltOr took
him TO the basement, where he saw four fur
nac,S IN operation and where ne also noticed
the OdOr of chickens. The peculiarly of the
circumstance caused him to investigate fur
ther, and he found that the air box had been
converted into chicken coop, carefully
boarded up. The hens were having a snug
little time. but the inspector thought he had
found foul air, indeed,
DEATH" says the New York Tribune, "was
Gen. GOrdons kindest friend. For many
years he had anticipated it as a merciful de-
liverance from a life of unremtting toll and
agony Of mind and body. When he was in
Abyssinia, King Johannes said to him: DO
you know that L could kill you on the spot If l
liked:' WELL replied Gen. Gordon. i am
readyn What! ready to be killed. Ger
tainly, l am always ready to die; and, so far
from Tearing your putting me 70 ucdtlls you
would confer favor on me by so doing, for
you would be doing for me that which ! am
precluded by my religious scruples from doing
Tor myself-y0u would deliver me from all the
troubles and misfortunes which the future
may have in store for me- The treacherOus
black who stabbed him in the back as he was
leaving the palace to rally his troops at khar-
toum, did what King Johannes, abashed at
the patience and fortitude of his prisoner,
was ashamed to cOuntenance."
A GOOD STORY is told in Washington about
the clever manner in which Senator Conkling
once stole Senator Joe McDonald's thunder.
A few years ago the woman suffragists were
holding a convention in that city. 1t was
about the time that Senator Mcdonald was
last married. lie was an advocate of
woman's suffrage. During the convention a
delegation called upon him anu solicited MS
| assistance,in getting the subject before Con-
| gress. He promised to do so. On the day
| that he called the attention of the Senate to
| the matter about IS of the dear creatures &C.
! cupied one of the Senate galleries. Mr.. Nc
! Donald arose and addressed the President OF
| the Senate. He spoke Of the Importance OF
wOman's suffrage, and urged the
! the subject. The females applauded.
| Senator Conkling arose. "DOes the Senator
from Indiana recommend a standing commit
teeY" he said Yes" Mr.. Mcdonald replied.
| from New York. Yes" the Indiana Senator
| again said "a stdHdiuG committee that will
| never consider the subject and not select
| committee that will be compelled to give It
| immediate attention. Mr.. COnkllng added.
| senator Mcdonald blushed. The females
| turned their eyes from him to the man with
| the curl and began applauding. COnkling
| had stolen the affection of the dear creatures,
which previously had been lavished on "Old
| Saddle-Bags."
THE Hon William K. Morrison, Of horizon
tai tariff reduction fame, says that most of his
enemies and some of his friends accuse him OF
wanting the earth. He says he don't wonder
at this because he always had the same repu-
tatiou ''When l was quite a young man.
| saws he my brother Charley went duck
hunting with friend. They took their stand
| to watch for ducks in a field where two Ger
mans were working. As they entered the
| field one OF the Germans said TO the other,
| pointing at my brother Charley. do you sec
! dot Teller ofer taref Veil, dot ish Pill Morri-
| son his pruder.' Presently a duck rose from
a marsh near by and both of the hunters
fired The duck fell. Each man claimed that
he killed it. My brother said the duck
| was ten feet in the air when he
shot. and his friend SAID it was % feet in the
| air when he shot. and so they cOntended,
/ neither being able to convince the other that
he was wrong. Finally Charley friend gave
him the duck, saying he didn't care anything
| about il. but still he knew that he had killed
! it. And so, they walked away, Charley car
rying the duck, and still cOntending that il
was only 10 feet in the air when he killed it.
4 AS they started away, one German said 10
! the other: Do YOU say dot vas Phi Morrison
his pruders' 'NaW.' Veil, tOn't pelieve it,
! He has ter tuck un der uder Teller say he
| apOut it pein den veet high. If he vas Pill
Morrison his pruder, I'm he hef der tuck, nc
/ vudent gif a tam if it vas den feet or der
| numbered VeeE hgn, dole you,