Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

IN American railway stations the traveller
is confronted with the sign: Entrance" and
| Exit" If he travels in England he finds
| 1.-THE Way In" and 1.-THE Way Out" II in
| Germany, he secs: "Ausgang'' and ''Ingang,"
| and in France he encounters: "Entree" and
''SOrtie.n
A NAN in Connecticut has novel barometer
IN the shape Of four bullfrogs which live in a
half hogshead in his spring. In fall weather
| they sun themselves around hole in the
hOgshead's bottom, but when the storm centre
moves their way they dive through the hole
AMI out OF sight.
The heavy fall of snow among the pineries
of Wisconsin has been of great advantage to
the numbering interests by enabling the crews
in the woods to begin a heavy seasons work.
Swamp logging is delayed by the snow having
fallen before cold weather set In, making a
bad footing for teams.
CREMATION advocates have managed to get
in the thin end of the wedge in France. Hith-
erto the Cremation Society has striven Yainly
for four years to obtain permission for fur
mace, and now the Paris authorities have con-
sented to build a crematory on the Italian
system to consume the unclaimed dead In the
hospitals and the remains OF those subjected
to dissection.
THE London Times for Dec. 10 gives a good
deal of attention to the New Orleans Fair,
containing not only Geographic dispatch of
a column and a half but an editorial article
recognizing the event as one of conspicuous
interest in the annals of the great Republic"
The Times thinks, also, that the exhlbltlor
will symbolize the complete reconciliation be-
tween the North and the South.
A WRITER in Long1ndn's AdgGsine recon-
mends to the faculty for investigation the
therapeutic influences of balloOning. as Mr..
Glaisher afirms that on one occasion he went
up with bad influenza cold and came down
fntnrn
valetudinarians will probably repair as
regularly each summer to well-regulated
balloon infrmary as they now do to the waters
of AK or burton or the baths of Brighton and
Biarritz.
WILLIAM FRENCH and wife were among the
earlier settlers of Canajoharie, N. Y. They
owned fine farm overlooking the village, on
which stood nine stately, well developed pine
trees. These trees were regarded as a land
mark, and the name of French was always
associated with them. When MIR. French died
y wears ago soon after one OF the trees died.
daughter died years after, and since thep
another tree has wasted away. The mother
has been slckly for years, and 1t is said third
of the trees has also been In precarlous con-
dition, As Mrs. French. died this week many
residents expect to find only 6 living trees on
the farm next spring. Including Mr.. and Mrs.
French and their actual offspring exclusive
of the sons wiVes) there were nine, and SIX
are living.
FREDERICK w SfhAdUEs Ol Now pOIJs IL. l..
finding himself unable to obtain a meeting
house, has issued circular calling for sub
scriptions to help him IN building 'chapel,
or tabernacle for God on Wheels" He needs
500. The following is an extract from his
appeal: 81 can do much of the building of the
carriage; enough TO hold eight or ten IN Bible
class. TO have seats and a heater and place
to stow a hammock, when away have my own
hotel, it to be well covered; my style may not
be questioned Ladies are invited to furnish
the inside trimmings. light colored, neat as a
parlOr, its title to be the Blazing star, and
thus send my notice ahead when about re-
moving from one village to another. as Jesus
when rejected in large cities went out other
wise, and when they gather to the light come
to help speed it,"
MRS. POLLY KIGER, aged Ill years, died at
her residence near Lancaster, o., Jan. 3. Mrs.
Kiger well remembered the "WhIsky Rebel
lion" in Pennsylvania, which occurred in 1874,
she being young girl out at service, employed
by tailor on the banks of the Potomac at that
time, which was made memorable also by the
fact of having performed service Tor wash
ingtOn, who, while marching past the shop with
his troops, lost a suspender button and ran
into the shop to have the damage repaired, the
work falling to her. She often related this
story, and told how George chucked her under
the chin, remarking to the tailor: ''This Is
fine looking lass you have" Less than six
months ago she started to walk 10 that city,
distance OF eight miles, to visit an old friend,
but was accidentally Overtaken by her grand
SON and brought the remainder Of the way be-
hind his team.
AN erratic millionaire named Henry Keith
has been found dead from apoplexy in his
mansion at Caterham, near London. He had
lived life Of solitary wretchedness for twenty
years. His wife, to whom he was devotedly
attached and whom he surrounded with every
purchasable luxury, died in 1864. After her
burialM Keith never left his mansion, and
everything in the house was suffered to go to
decay. He never admitted visitors and cOsked
his own food, which was procured for him by
a trusty servant who lived in neighboring
cottage. He slept on a pile of rags and sack
ing on the floor of room opposite an open
wardrobe, in which were hung his wife's ball
dresses and many rich jewels, which she had
formerly worn. The house was furnished
sumptuously, but the handsome furniture
was buried in dust and the house was in
describably filthy.