Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-18

tions. in alarm, summoned a conseiIe de
Jdmille and a drag chain was placed on the
wheels. Some such salutary institution would
be the salvation OF many young Americans
with money and without brains. 1t would be
of still greater advantage in England. TWEEN
tv years ago it would have saved the last in
heritOr OF the Marquisate OF Hastings; u
would have saved our Texas cowboy, Lord
Aylesford. The sooner the law recognizes
the fact that there are people who, neither
lunatics nor idiots. are incompetent to deal
unrestrainedly with great incomes the better
il will be for them.
CASTOR VAssY, who had reputation as the
most daring of the Partisan reporters, is dead.
Once he personated the Project of Police and
obtained a story that the people of Paris
talked about for weeks. In his later years
Nassy was blind, but went about to the thea
tres and everywhere else, accompanied by his
secretary, who told him how things looked
and what was going on, and then Vassy dic-
tsted his reports in his own inimitable style.
At the great meeting on the Place de la
Bourse the other day friend met him. lean
ing OH his secretary s arm. y GU would pei
ter go home, Vassy,' he said. there may be a
riot, and you might be jOstled." ION no!
said the blind man, 81 mean to stay and see
the fun" And so thoroughly had he become
accustomed to seeing with his secretary eyes
that it Is said he never complained oil MS
afliction.
"THEM English are hayIn' a right smart of
marked an old farmer from up in Michigan.
s'Yes, indeed" "Tve been a-watchin' Of 'em
ALI winter. and dive know what their cam
palgu reminds me of? No? Wall. sir, l used
Ter have big Berkshire shoat what had the
durndest appetite ever you heefd tell on. Inc
little shOats had to git out Of his way every
time | put him in a lot all by hlsselI, ana
there was plenty of feed and wallow there
for him. more'n he could ever use, but dum
me if he would stay there. Down went tnat
bot Hha4 n
where he had no business to be- wall, ne
kept that up all summer, but bimeby he bT0ke
into a little patch o. timber, ar got TO iOollh
round. What dye s'pose he stirred up!
v an, by gosh. he run right inter hornets
nest. 1t took him long time to git out o
them woods, but when he got out he was the
most subdued shOat you ever seed.'
on sunday, while John Capura was eat ng
dinner, he proceeded to I'LL his plate from a
large tureen of broth and stew. In doing so
he lifted out a section of steers jaw and
dropped to his seat, paralyzing the rest OF the
bOarders with the exclamation: "Jerusalem:
boys. I've struck bonanza IN the soup DoWl!
He lifted out the Jaw, and 1t was seen that The
teeth were apparently coated with gold, some
very thickly, others carrying only MN. ne
balance of the jaw was speedily hshed out,
and both pieces are now on exhibition. Inc
animal contributing this curious freak IN den
tistry was a four ear-old steer, born and
raised on the Lagomarsino ranch, on the
I
exclusively at the ranch, at pond twelve
feet in diameter, dug out of the hard, marty
cement. and in the summer at the river bank.
No traces of gold can be seen around the To-
cality, and even were they plentiful the freak
would still be an anomaly.
ABOUT the time that fractional paper cur
rency passed out of circulation student in
Syracuse Univ, rsity, who had the autograph
craze and also thought the disappearing cur
rency a curiosity in embryo, wrote to Queen
Victoria politely asking her autograph and
enclosing :5-cent scrip. As might be eX-
pected. he heard nothing from it. After
space of about three months he wrote again,
this time not so courteously, for he actually
intimated to British royalty that 1t should
send him the autograph or return his quarter
What was the result? Why, he got the auto
graph. and, though it m9y nave been written
hy a secretary, 1t nevertheless resembied the
Queens hand, which is somewhat cOarser
than most ladies' hands, the letters well
spread. the V large with heavy lateral
stroke. the cross of the well to the right,
and bold II beneath the name, but attached
TO the flourish from the final a. The SYRIA
cusan is now an alumni, but he retains the
royal autograph purchased with 70 cents IN
American ScriD.