Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-24

substituted. How long this condition Of af-
fairs had existed is not known, but the theft
of the VINE, it is believed, can be traced 10
party OF wOrkmen who were called TO the
cellar TO make repairs last summer.
WE have reduced the time for cabling TO
London to the minimum, says member of the
Cable Company. Although il has to be re-
peated at Valentia, an ordinary message is
ready for delivery on the banks OF the Thames
from thirty seconds To a minute and half
after the New York operator has begun send
ing IT, The answer Is received as quickly.
The repeating on the Irish coast is done by
two operators at adjoining desks, who re-
spectively write down and dispatch each word
the instant II is received. should there be
rush. third man IS ready TO take care OF the
extra work. Time Is practically annlhllated
We have cabled over and received answers so
promptly that people were 10th TO believe
them genuine. Has the Bennett-Mackay
competition affected our business Not in the
least. On the other hand. we do more work
than before.
"SENAFOR EDMUNDS is passl0nately ad
dicted to onions said a lady who goes camp
ing with him every season. His craze for
the pungent, pestiferous vegetable is simply
awful never saw anything ike II. when
he starts OF for his annual holiday IN the
woods he has an enormous Fupply or onions
among the stores provided for the trip. and
then every farm house he comes TO he wants
to stop aud buy few more onions, until
every one 1eelS as though ne belonged 10 an
onion caravan. While he is IN camp his morn
ing meal Is an onion and Graham cracker;
for his luncheon he takes a Graham sandwich
and an onion; his dinner consists OF meat and
OniOns-' In this inOrdinate appetite for
onions may be found explanation of the
dark and mysterious hints as to the personal
habits of Senator Edmunds, which 5ormt d
the basis of the Suns opposition to him as "a
possible Republican nominee for President.
SENATOR GARLAND drinks little, if any
Ia il fol lint
this is probably putting it pretty strongly.
Anyhow, he Is a very temperate man. And
he tells frankly how he came so. 4 know all
about the taste Of it, he said one time, eX-
planning why he kept hands of; but | am
done. I'll tell you why. l had a pretty hot
canvass in our State a few years ago, and took
the stump, travelling pretty wen over TIE
State, in a good many places that l hadn
been for years. | found good many graves
of men who started IN life with me and good
many wrecks of men who were jolly good fell
lows when l started out a few years before.
They had come from whisky. 1t set me TO
thinking. and concluded to quit. / made q
little calculation, too, and found that had al :
ready drank probably barrel and nall
more thar my share, and that every drink
that took was just rObbng some other fellow
Of his share. And so quit
\ VIRGINIA CITY New paper says: THE
energetic Kissing nightly accorded 40 the
heavy villain in the melodrama now running
81 the BALDWIN remlHuS Olu residents OF tue
first theatrical performance ever gwen in
Virginia City. Most Of she miners had not
seen d play for a score of years, and when the
JOhnstOne troupe opened in "OthellO' the
house presented a packed mass of red shirts.
Edwin Booth was the IagO, and so faithfully
did he portray the traitorOus friend that the
audience lost control of itself, and in the sec
ond act began shooting at the fell conspira-
tor. One shot struck OthellOs sword hilt,
and all hands had to lie down on the stage
and roll into the wings. The indignant miners
were finally quieted and the play proceeded,
but the final den Juement was so taken to
heart by the spectators that Booth remained
in the theatre all night for fear of the vigil
lantes, who talked seriously of lynching the
'cOld-blOOded cuss' of hand"
\ writer IN the NagaSia ftr die Literatur
des i ilslands states that Partisan street slaug
is being continually enriched by appropria-
tions from the German. He gives a catalogue
of recent additions to the argOt of Paris from
German sources. ut seems to us says the
P1LI NAL Gazette, THAT he annexes great deal
which is just as likely to have been originally
English. The modern Partisan 'bock' for "a
glass of beer is inhisputably German; hut
surely il was not from the chOUcr0ufter, the
sauekraut eater, as the Paris gdjaiR nicknames
the German, that he learned to call for bit
ter The word 'gaffer,' a new piece OF Paris
slang has probably been learned from Eng
lish grOoms or wOrkmen, and there is no need
to derive il from the German verb 'gahen.
1t j. equally doubtful whether the Germans
have more right than the English to claim the
original Of the Partisan 'stand'-the spot from
which aim is taken at the target. 'BlchOy
also is as likely to be a Partisan rendering Of
the English and American Bishop as Of the
German 'Bischof meaning, of course, GER
tain sort of drink, and not successor OF the
Apostles.