Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A FASHIONABLE LADY with three white rats
in her lap attracted considerable attention
among the boys in the gallery at the Newport
Opera House recently.
Two lads under 10 years OF age were ordered
TO be logged by the Barnsley magistrates for
stealing horse worth f40. They rode TO
Doncaster the st. Leger day and tried to sell
the animal for 10 shillngs.
THERE are now IS women enrolled for study
IN the Harvard annex Their health is
generally good. and improves with their
regular and healthful mental work, diversi-
ned with the ut-of- door or gymnasium eXer-
else.
CRABS thoroughly dried in 3 hot oven and
then pulverized are used as me cine in a ma
larial locality in Kharkio government in Rus
sra. A teaspSonful is regarded a dose, eff
tecblYe I'D most cases. The powder 10 used
there in preference to quinine.
NJ. X. LIKE, of the United States Hotel,
Saratoga, says that the business at that popu-
lar resort this summer gave no indication of
hard times. That hotel, which can accommo-
cate l.5O0 guests, was fun in the height Of the
season; and he thinks that all tie Saratoga
nolei men were well satisfied this year. Mr..
Ike td hat 1t was noticeable that large
nuhl otI OF southern people visited Saratoga
thls year, Before the war that used TO be u
tavorIte resort with them, and now they are
beginning to return in large numbers.
The following exquisite instance Of Chi
nese justice is taken from DR.. Gillison's report
OF the London Mission Hospital at Hankow.
a barbor's assistant had taken opium because
his master accused him OF keeping back 400
cash tclr. IS. and 4d. stg.l Of his receipts, and
threatened him with justice. The man died,
ana the case was investigated, but the master,
who had probably well bribed the magistrate,
was cleared from suspicion. The street police
man, however, on whose beat this affair oc-
CURED. received a HOQQlnn n 70
demands Of justice miGht be met.
EVERYBODY who owned a boat seemed to
know from experience nine years ago that
there would be good fishing in Hell Gate Sat
urday Immediately after the explosion. There
was one particularly happy party among the
hundreds out IN small boats. Two young
glrls-pretty, as all girls should became out
with their friends brothers to see for them
selves how this new kind of fishing went.
The surface of the water was fairly filed with
dead fish floating about in white heIplessness,
ana II was an easy matter to get two or three
at every dip OF the net.
SINCE DR.. Vaughan's famous protest against
the races, no sermon in the parish church has
caused more discussion than one by the Bishop
OF Sodor and Man against betting. His lord
ship said he had never met with a thoroughly
Christian man who would have anything to do
with racing or even with thoroughly worldly
man who would like to zee his son connected
with the turf. How many bookmakers on
setting day could not meet their engagements
and had to fly the country after running them
selves, their families and others? Talk of
drink, said the Bishop, was not betting the
greatest curse to human family in Chris
tian land?
IT is RELATED in Philadelphia that when
the composer of "rhe Mikado" arrived at
McCaulFs Opera House in that city on Nor
day evening, he found it well filed, and &C.
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the stage door with Mr.. Carte. We'll" de-
manded the hluG Old doOrkeeper, whats
wanted?" I'VE want to go in" replied the
composer. Not by this door, sir. Go round
'front.'" II don't wish TO go around front. l
am Mr.. Sullivan" "HeighT' Mr.. Sulli-
van, the composer" sob, no." but come
now; we must go in, my good man " "Wen.
you shan't go in. Them's my orders and that
settles it." Sir Arthur succeeded eventually
in having message sent to Manager McCaull,
and the latter explained the matter and led
the author and Mr.. Carte to the box that had
been set apart for them.
COMMENTING upon the fact that there is
one insane person to every SEQ Americans,
and that the ratio has greatly increased in the
last thirty years, DR.. W. B. Fletcher says
that the apparent cause is the popular change
of OPINION regarding the treatment of insan-
ity. Fifty years ago to be sent to an insane
asylum Ostracised one as completely as a term
IN the penltentiary. That Is all changed, and
a brief residence in an asylum is no more det-
rimental to social standing than a visit to Hot
Springs or Florida. DR.. Fletcher does not re-
gard our system of education as notably ex-
citing cause of insanity. The evidence Is
rather to the contrary. the great majority of
the insane coming from the ranks OF the igno-
rant where nature has supplied little mental
mower TO begin with and art has done less.
The doctor Is also IN sympathy with the be-
lief that the use OF alcoholic beverages and
narcotics is not, in itself, prime cause Of in
sanity.
ALTHOUGH the Prince of Wales is by no
means first among the breeders, on his estate
of Sandringham and the adjoining property
of Castle Risingham, which he has leased for
sporting purposes. as many as 800 pheasants
are usually provided by his Royal Highuess
for his sporting friends, In two or three of the
dukeries, and on other large estates as well,
immense pains are taken to insure abundant
supplies Of "the bird of COlchis." The killing
OF from 1000 to 1900 birds at one battua has
often been recorded, and 1t is on record that
$500 were shot during one season at Elvedon
in Norfolk, which has an area OF 1900 acres
and where all kinds of game used to be bred
for sale by the Maharajah Dhuleep Sing.
There are other 'game-farms," as they are
called, in various parts of England, and there
Is at least one such place in Scotland, situated
on the Marquis Of A ilsa's estate in AYRSHIRE
and connected with 1t there is also an in
terestlng suit OF plsclcultural ponds.
THE BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE has made
strenuous efforts to discover if there were any
survivors from the general massacre Of the
Hicks command in the Soudan, and finds after
much correspondence that but one man was
saved from the slaughter. This was Gustavus
Cloz, Russian, and servant to O'Donovan
correspondent OF the London Wears, Especial
inquiry was made about Frank Vizitelly, who
was with Gen. Hicks command as artist and
correspondent for the London GrdpAie Hone
has been entertained by his son Albert and
others that he escaped, but the Foreign Office
is now in possession of particulars making his j
death certain. Frank Vizitelly was in this
country during the civil war as artist and
correspondent for the illustrated London Ne,as
He accompanied the Burnside expedition TO
Hatteras and North Carolina, and All .rwards
went through the lines to Richmond He was
frequently in New York Cit, where he made
many friends who will depiore his loss.
TIE DRINK most partaken OF on the Fiji
islands is made Of angona bark, and the ma
tiyes take advantage OF every excuse to take
a drink, as is the custom in more civilized
countries. The bark is gathered and cut into
small bits, and when the proprietor OF a place
desires 10 imhlbe he calls a boy, who cLews
up the bark until it Is a soft Yielding mass.
and 10 rs then thrown into large howl stand
ing near. This n repeated until there are
seven or eight guilds IN the Yess ell, when water
~ poured in and the contents arc thoroughly
mixed by stirring with the baud. The splin-
tcrs are then taken out by the LIQUID being
strained through some dbrous m1teriAl. and
the beverage is ready. The liquid Is drunk
from cOcoanut shells. and one can sit and
drink large quantities OF the stun without
feeling any unpleasant effect, but when Won
wish To 20 you are unable to move. as YOU are
drunk from the hips down, and the only wav