Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
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chewing tobacco for 80 years, has suddenly
conceived IN unaccountable aversion for the
weed
THE distress among the working classes in
Paris is so great that it has been proposed to
mold fetes OF industry and commerce Tor their
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For So years past some person has found it
worth his while to pay the annual Interest on
green umbrella pledged in the Paris Mont
de-Piete for the sum of STR. soc. Y
A PET DEER belonging to W. II. Payne, OF
Spencerville, CAL, has voluntarily returned
70 captivity after year OF freedom spent in
the forest in company with It's kind.
DIR. HOLMES, by his new novel, has inspired
the formation of a freshly coined word, "Gy-
nephoba." meaning a constitutional, horror
OF women, which will be applied to men who
suffer fortunes in the presence Of women.
DR.. BRADLEY, the cocaine victim, is re-
ported to be steadily improving at the Wash
ing 'onian Home in Chicago. The physician
having his case in charge expects Bradley's
complete recovery if the latter win remain in
the Home long enough,
WEIMAR intends to prosecute the pianists
with the utmost rigor of the law. An edlct
has just been issued forbidding the players of
pianos to have their windows open while
playing, under penalty OF fine. Any person
who gives reunion musicale must pay fine
of so marks.
CARDINAL PANEBIANoA has just died in
Rome. at the age of n. He was not society
Cardinal, and he lived hard life, slept on the
boards, MS board being also simple bread and
water, with morsel OF cheese now and then
by way of luxury. He despised riches, and
has died rich.
MAYOR BKCKWITH, of Paterson, n. j., has
startled the old school doctors by appointing
DIR. T. Y. Winnie, hOmepath. as a member
of the Board of Health. Some curiosity is
manifested to see whether the three allopathlc
physicians on the board will associate with
their new colleague.
A CANVAS, about l2x2i inches, has been
seized by United States treasury agent in
Chicago, as an authenticated Raphael Subject
the Virgin and the book.') worth $4,000,
but there are many connOisseurs who doubt
its genuineness. The story is, that it was stO-
len from the Vatican.
A CORRESPONDENT says the longest word in
the English language is ''proantitansubstan
tionist,' which contains 2S letters. 1t is
good English word derived from short and
simple Latin root, and means enc who dis
sents from the doctrine, OF dogma, and the
sO-caled Real Pre- sence."
HOLE was formed by the sinking soil
lately in one OF the streets OF San Bernardino,
Cal. The Iadep of that place says: From
this hole a volume of smoke has been rising
for four days and nights. A peculiar, sulphur
rous smell permeates the air in the vicinity,
and as no one knows whence the smoke comes
some alarm ha been felt"
A CONFEDERATE SOLDIER is lying in the
Nashville hospital under surgical treatment
for having ball extracted which he has car
RED in his body since the battle of Seven Pines
over 20 years ago. He is utterly penniless,
without family or friends. He is q gentleman
by birth and education, who gave his all for
the Lost Cause, and is now nearing his end.
PORTER SHERM AN is a member of the acade-
mic senior class of Yale College. He is a man
of so years Of age, and has been, among other
pursuits, superintendent of schools in Kansas
City. He entered Yale in 1861, and remained
three years. when he suddenly left. He de-
termined recently to finish his course, and is
now hard at WORK, and domiciled in the same
rooms that he occupied twenty one years
since.
A CURIOUS FACT is that although the lynch
ing of Henry Mason, colored, recently for the
murder of Mr.. Hammersley is the first occur
renee of the kind in Campbell county, the
very name of Lynch law" was derived from
native of that county, old Col. Lynch. who
was in the habit Of administering summary
punishment to marauders and miscreants of
every description without paying any atten-
ton to the ordinary processes of law. Hence
he was called Judge Lynch" and this. it is
said, Is the true origin of the terms lynch
ing'' and "lynch law"
"SIR E. BECKETT's last exploit at st. Al
bans has been to demOlish the interesting and
picturesque Norman turret on the south tran
sept, which was among the most characters-
tic of the ancient features OF the building. We
have received indignant letters about it from
TWO or three quarters. but the misc hief is done
now; and as to any comment on the subject,
the matter is past that. If any public opinion
is ever aroused on the subject IN this archi-
tecturally ignorant country. the cGstodiansOf
the building viii find they have a heavy ac-
count TO give for having turned over what is
national posse sion, he'd in trust by them, to
an irresponsible individual to pull 10 pieces as
he pleases. As we have said before. there is
not another civilized country in which such a
thing would be possible"
MRS. SARAH MAssENGALE, the Oldest in
habitant in Hamilton county, Tenn, and
perhaps the oldest in this section, died at her
residence on Williams Island eight miles be-
low Chattanooga, Wednesday night. She
was l1l years OF sc, and up to the time Of
her death re aimed her mental faculties, ana
could converse intellgeutly upon any subject.
few days ago she began complaining of
feeling unwell. but nothing serious was ap-
pretended. Wednesday night she retired at
her usual hour, and seemed in good spirits.
but soon began to grow weaker and passed
away peacefully and almost without a strug-
gle. she Is Il native Of Tennessee. and was a
child OF some years before the State was
dumlLteu 10 bne Union. SDe lived In East
Tennessee all her life, and leaves behind a
long line Of connections.
FRENCH REPUBLICANS have been recently
much exercised by the liking for titles which
prevails among the officers OF the army. Up
to the present the War Office has not taken
any steps to prevent young L5eutenants.
whose fathers happen to have held old titles
OF nobility, from calling themselves Courts or
Barons, AMI signing themselves as such in
official or other documents. leaving their
military rank n the background. his fash
ion. the Republicans assert. has only come in
since the temperance of the Orleans Princes
In the army. and has been adopted not onlybv
youthful suOalterns. but by veteran Colonies
and even Generals Gen Logerot com mand-
ing the Eighth army corps, has however.
shown himself more autocratic than the war
office. and in q general order lately issued for
babe the use Of noble titlesjin military CORE
spondence.
THE FACULTY Of the Case school OF Applied
Science. OF Cleveland, o., has directed its stu
dents to make code lof rules for their own
government. The notice OF the change was
issued to-day. The senior. junior and sopho-
more classes are each 30 elect two mem bers of
board Of government ami the freshmen
class one. The pr sidents of The class a soci-
atlons will be- officers OF the boa,d. ranking
according 10 seniority. This change "a kelly
10 have reforming effect on the hard-hell re-
gime Of Adelbert college. The class buildings
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