Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


tie of tn It spendthrlft, the King of Bavaria,
cost "a, 800.
ONLY ONE POUND In tea OF what is sold as
butter III Chicago, according to the health
com nlssioners of that city, is the genuine I'M
adnlterated article.
TRIPLETs occur most frequently in Russia,
and that when they 40 occur in this country
the fathers ana MOI hers are generally found
10 be OF Russian birth or descent.
A NEGRO in Texarkana eat glass for liv-
ing. A writer to one If the medical papers
says ne VIII masicate glass for pay, sin any
quantity, from small plece to lamp Chin
ney, and keep II up al day"
The STORY IS soberly told that a snail
brought from Egypt to England as concho-
logical specimen in 1880, and immed ately
gummed to bit of cardboard, was found to
be ali, e IN 1884, efter lying in the British
museum for four years.
THE PROJECT of laying down conduit for
conveying naphtha from Baku to Batoum has
been favorably reported upon by the Mioister
OF Public Works and Lands. A urivate COM
pauy has offered to construct this pipe. which
would be 500 versts or about So miles IN length.
THE FISHING GROUNDS at West Donegal,
Ire, have been iDva ed by an army of sharks
SO powerful and so ferocious that they block
ade the land. Man boats have been assaled.
concerted attack on one wa so fierce that
those on boar had 10 pull Tor their lives TO
gain shallow water. mother boat was ne5rly
sunk. Fishing has been abandoned, for the
men VIII not venture out.
THERE is now loading at Quebec a vessel
called the Eiiz which has seen a century and
Il half Of active service. She might we been
one of the fleet of 100 shius which brre the
Massachusetts soldiers to tue siege Of Lou s
9urg, and tradition has it that N the lawless
days OF the long ocean warfare between
France nd England, she scoured the seas as
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still a stdunch aud handsome craft.
NORFOLK (VA.) PAPER has the following
paragraph 10 regard to that delicate and sue
culent pan fish, the spot: ''This season has
been remarkable for the enormous run of spots
from the bay shore fisheries. The season COM
menced IN July, and there 5 BEEN a perfect
rush OF the nSn TO marNet ever since, selling
a. low at tlmes as 2jc. Il bushel. The like has
not been known since before the war. and old
( hshe men tell us the run II likely to keep Ip
uDtll December. Everybody ha, enjoyed spots
t7lh'ir appetlte's content. and at their own
prices"
IHE PANTHER for several weeks travelling
through the mountains in the southern END of
b df1 ri county, Pa, to the great terror Of
the residents of that region, has found vic
I'M. Joseph Smith. aged 3, went TO the 6eld
for hi cows, aud as he was absent for long
time. his father went in search of him. Upon
entering the pasture field a horrible sight met
! his gaze. There lay the boy upon the grou nd,
his entrails prOtrudng and much of the flesh
tori from mis- bones. The body was terribly
mutlld ed. The panther had literally enjoyed
fea vi human flesh. A large party OF
armed men is now in the mountains in pur-
suit of The animal.
THE bark Brothers Pride was lost at sea
| of the coast of Florida, in 1879. William Ii.
Tower, the Captain, was afterward convicted
In St. john n. B., Of scuttlmg the vessel. am
sen enced to 10 years imprisonment. but tn,
Appellate ,urt reverted the Judgment, and
he was discharged. Part IF the cargo com
prised 500 barrels of me ado on which the
owners, Daniel Mclaughlin, a. 5. Palmer
and Charles A. Palmer, had an insurance for
$50 in the Great Western Insur nee Com
pauy Of New York. A suit brought by the
owners -gainst the insurance COMPANY to re-
cover the amount OF the insurance was tried
hu sday before Judge Ingraham Of the
superior Court, and resulted verdict for
$1,000 80, the full amount claimed, with in
crest.
THE GREATEST DRAINAGE ENTERPRISE ever
undertaken in Illinois is now advancing at
the rate Of 400 feet day IN Piatt county The
entire length OF the drai age canal will be
u miles from the vii age Of Ivesdale ON the
Wab sh RAJ road to Maple Lake. The width
II the canal will be IS feet and it's depth 10
/ eet. Tue course of the canal Is through a
arGe tract of low, fiat prairie. subject to
| overflow in every wet season ana having no
natural drainage. AS far as completed the
! results of the work are most satisfactory
/ The dredging process employed is similar 10
! that of Disston IN the Everglades of Florida
] The work will reclaim 20.0 acres of the ricn-
| est farming land in the State. andwill greatly
! enhance the prOductlveness Of at least 80, 900
acres more.
| THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF Chestertown,
Nd, last week came into knowledge of a piece
of good fortune that had entirely passed out
of recollection Rev. S. c. Roberts, the pres
/ ent pastor. received a notification from the
| Etaw savings Bank Of Baltimore that there
was Sl.4O0 to the credit of the parish on de-
! pOsIt at that bank. The present vestry OF the
/ parish do not understand fully how the money
came there, but it Is supposed to have
| been balance on the sale of
/ the old parish parsonage, made
! forty years ago. The money was deposited
! by MISS Caroline Thompson, as treasurer. to
the credit of the parish. The new parsonage
was built twenty years ago, and twenty years
after the deposit was made. and 1t is probable
! that Miss Thompson and others had forgotten
the matter. The original sum, which we are
not able TO state. has increased at compound
interest until the totaF sum now amounts to
Sl,4OO
SENATOR PALMER has discovered that even
rich men with endless amounts of money have
trouble. He has just completed his very hand
some house upon street, Washington. Just
beyond him on the corner is a very large
house, built something in the style of the Brit
ism legation. 1t is occupied by an eccentric
Washington citizen of the name of Lowry
senator Palmer's lot joins his. The senator
built stable upon the back part Of his lot and
as far away from his neighbor as possible
This stable has offended Mr.. Lowry. In order
TO avenge himself he built a wall feet in
height between his lot and the Senator'S
This wall rises above the only window in the
Senator's dining room, and shuts off COM
! pletely the handsome view OF neighboripR
park upon which the Senator had particularly
prided m-elf. More than this, it has 80
darkened his dining room il VIII be iruDossi
l. for il to be used except by artificial light.
As Mr.. Lowry Is rich and obstinate. the Seua-
tor has no means OF persuading him to remove
the wall.
REAR ADMIRAL LUCE, of the United States
navy and Gen. de Trobrand, of the army.
lunched at restaurant. The check was SO s5.
A SIS bill was handed to the waiter, and pres
emily he returned with a check and change
on plate. A 81 note, a dime and cents law
atop Of the slip Of paper, under which was
concealed a half dollar. The General took nm
the note, left the IS cents rs a zip, and got no
TO depart with his friend. ''Stop I" Numbered
the Admiral to the waiter. "Set down thai
plate" Yes, saire." responded the French
man. "NOw, General, look at this and learn
a lesson the Admiral Continued ssThe
change out Of the IS ought 90 have amounted
10 81 IS. You got only 81 ami gave IS cents 10
this rascal. You never thought OF the miss
ing half dollar. Where do YOU supp0se IL is9
viii show you," and he drew the check on
the plate, ispaying the coin snugly living I'M
derneath. Our 81 m acir thief here would
have had n s-fe IN his pocket by this time il
LEFT % complete the ODeratOu II Won had