Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The SOUND Of the hammer is heard by the
sea at Bar Harbor. A thousand men are at
work there now putting up houses for the So
Journers of the coming season.
DIR. WAY, Bristol Conn., dentist, was re-
Gently surprised by a call from a Middletown
man, who paid him Csc. which he mad owed
MN for 20 years for pulling tooth.
a NEW STREET has just been constructed in
Berlen, Norway, out Of the proceeds of liquor
| License. 1t has been appropriately named
Drammensyel, which means GrogWay.
EDWIN HEFT, a boy IA years of age, commit
ted suicide in Philadelphia on Monday
evening while suffering from neuralgia. HIS
mother died by her own hand some years
ago.
A PHENOMENAL migration of squirrels is in
progress from North western Mississippi IN the
| direction of Arkansas Men are killing them
with sticks, and IN some cases X ls said they
ATTACK hunters.
THE GIFT Of Mrs. Benjamin Pomeroy, of
Sou hDort, Conn, to her daughter, Miss Mary
+. Pomeroy, on the occasion of her marriage
on Wednesday, in Trinity church, to DR.
hugh Wells, Of New York, was check Tor
81 0,000.
SINCE 1882 1873, ZOO, 900 has been laid out in
rebuilding and embellshing Paris. The new
town hall cost about 100000, 600, and $500 o.
| O1O mas been spent on the four parks-the Bots
/ e.
ceauN and MontsourIs.
THE WORK of repairing the slight dam age
| done some time ago TO the metal apex and
cspstone of the Washington monument is IN
progress. The circles ofscaffolding surround
ing the apex of the obelisk give a very queer
appearance to the shaft.
BIG NEWFOUNDLAND DOG belonging to a
man in San Francisco snapped at child who
was plaguing him. The child's mother up
| braided the dog, which stu away, but soon
returned with a rose, and, with very eXtrava-
giant capers. laid it at the feet of the child
Then 1t hurried to its mistress TOR a caress.
IN recent paper, Sir John Lubbock says
that ants of the same nest, however large it
may be, have means of recognizing each
other not easily explained. The recognition
Is immediate and complete, even after an alb
sence of year from the nest. Concerning
The longevity of ants, he said he had kept two
| queen ants for twelve years.
THERE are $4,000, 900 bread consumers in
Europe. II each one should eat half bushel
more next year than last the difference would
amount to l57,O00.O00 bushels. If then, the
! times of depression in Europe should pass so
that the mass could afford 10 eat all they
! needed, the difference in demand might abb
sor0 all our surplus at good prices.
BELFAST tME.) man named Beckett ran
away from home when boy and enlisted In
Mayo. He lost both his eyes in the service
ana now draws the largest pension paid by
the gOvernment-slO0 per month. He had to
get his pension under the alias of Mayo, and
SO signs his receipts every quarter-day.
Lillian LIGHT, of Hayneville. Miss, a
child Of years. has displayed a remarkable
talent for modelling. When only or years
old she began to make figures of clay. and now
she has large collectOa of mud cats. hogs,
dogs, cows, horses and men. The figures are
declared to be not childish limitations, but re-
markably accurate likenesses. Her best
piece represents negro pray NJ, and is said
to be very clever.
AN Augusta (Me.) dentist was at work on a
set of false teeth when writer entered his
sanctum the other day. "These teeth" he
said, shave peculiar history. made them
Tor young lady in Belgrade. She died. on
| her deathbed she gave the set of teeth to her
most intimate friend. This friend brought
them to me and employed me 10 alter them to
ut her OWL mouth. Yes, the Intimate friend
IS lady and is practical, not romantic"
A FINE YOUNG CHIMPANzEE from the Congo
has just been brought to the Paris Jar in des
! Plantes. Bobo is about IA months old, and as
| these creatures are not full grown until quite
or years of age, she is still a baby, very
| lively and rather w Id SheWas taken from
! her her, who had been shot by M hunt
/ eTs, and n her voyage to FFaAee 81 ent most
/ OF her me in the rigging with her la5epara-
! bic companion, young cat. which Bobo dan
| dies in her arms like an infant.
IN some recent scientific experiments on
the effects of cold, two frogs were frozen solid
in temperature Of about 20 deg. Fahrenheit,
and keptIn that condition for half an hour.
! On thawing slowly they recovered perfectly
| but it was found that long periods of eX-
/ pOsure invariably He'd the animals. The
! experiment was tried of freezing hermeti
cally sealed meat, so as to kill its bacterial
/
| pntrefy ing. 1t was found, however, that so
! low temperature as 80 deg. below zero
| would not destroy the vitality Of mIcro-or-
| ganlsms. 1t was thus made clear that the
attempts to p eserve meat for long time by
| momentary freezing of it must be aban-
dOned.
THERE was something pathetic in the talk of
the Rev. o. T. Walker ~ meeting of Bap-
! fist clergymen in New Haven, Conn.,, a few
days ago. His appeal was for an educated
ministry. His own shortcomings, he said, had
made the necessity of thorough Intellectual
! discipline apparent. The times had changed
/ since his youth. He was raised in ,rth Ston-
/ lngton, where you can walk mile a ter mile on
stones without touching ground and yet where
/ they ra sc good corn. Ia hi uaN he farmers
u-ed to tell time by the stars, for the DAYS
/ were not long enough to fin sh work by the
/ sun. Not having means. he had 20 walk from
albany TO Hamilton College-a distance of 225
] mlles-and then walked back. His fight for
| IN education was long, hard, and only partly
successful.
RABBIT of the ordinary tame species WAS
! bought for purposes OF experiment at the
| physiological laboratory in Paris, ami after a
| portion Of the facial nerve had been removed
| 10 was left to run about the laboratory, 1t
very soon recovered from the effect Of the on
! Grafton, and was for four years NJ Laborde's
! a1ectionate companion 1t would await at the
| top of the stairs his arrival in the morning
and would sometimes run to meet him When
! ever II had the opportunity the rabbit would
! jump up on his knee, and was as fond of
caresses as cat. During the progress of an
! experiment it would sit on the operating Ia
bic watching the proceedings with an ap-
pearance OF interest. Bunny's chief delight
! however, was In microscopica examina-
ton. As soon as NJ. Lab0rde put his eve to
the microscope the rabbit would perch on
his shoulders and endeavor to take peep.
No DOUBT tie Adams family Of the New
England corner, the Bayards of the South and
the Washburnes OF the West are more con-
spicuous as officeholders than the Living
slons. but that New YORK family unmerci-
/ fully ahead OF all others in American politics
| "Richeleu," privileged gassip VI BROOKLYN.
goes knce-deep into the dust OF history TO
bring out the Interesting fact that no less than
] 81 descendants OF Robert Livingston have held
/ offices OF trust and honor. Nor is the good
/ record broken by single rascal from the
I chdncellOrs day down Robert Ltvingsto 3
| father was Presbyterian parson, no He'd
/ from Ireland 10 get away from persecutors
/ The liyinRsfOus in Ireland lived On fho is,d