Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-15
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houses in London. One is IN wellclose square,
near the Tower, and another in the rear of it..
They are very Old, but IN good repair, and
warm and comfortable.
LENSES for the great Lick telescope are said
to have been at last successfully cast, and
need only polishing to be ready for use The
san Francisco can says: I'm looking through
this telescope it Is reckoned that the neon
VIII be hrOught within thirty miles OF the
earth, and that discoveries will he made on
that planet to solve problems heretofore held
to be unsolvable.'
THAT is a characteristic aneedote that is re-
lated OF Gov. Andrew, of Massachusetts. apro-
pos OF the late Sergt. Plunkett. Soon after Plum
kett's heroic act became known to the State
authorities Adj. Gen. ScOuler suggested to
Gov. Andrew that the Sergeant should be
commissioned. The Governor replied: "No:
IT Is better that he be known in history as
Sergt, Plunkett."
TIE horrible suffering of cattle IN Kansas is
getting INTO print. 1t consists of starvation
and freezing. The streams have been frozen
to the bottom, and cattle, in trusting" for
water, have fallen on the ice and too weak
to rise, have frozen by hundreds. Again, in
a wind, cattle bunch in big herds for warm th-
the weakest being driven 10 the centre and
crushed to death Heaps OF these dead cattle
dot the prairies.
The wild man who has created such con-
sternati0n around Browns Station, Ohio, for
some time has been somewhat cleared up.
After a desperate fight the wild man was
caught. He presented a fearful sight. Hair
covered his body, and he was filthy and saw
age beyond description. He lived in cave
in the hills ana subsisted wholly on raw food.
He talked gibberish which could not be un-
derstood. and nothing regarding his history
could be learned. He was committed to the
poor house at SteubenYllle.
nv tho 4.o;. g.. ~ IT,.
which reached New York Wednesday even
ing, there was one passenger who did not pay
any fare. The conductor did not even ask
him for his ticket, and did not threaten to
stop the train and put him cf-with the aid Of
q brakeman or two. The passenger did not
make his appearance until the train was in
the vicinity of New Rochelle. In fact he
was rot Iorn until then. The mother was
Annie Brown, and she lives in South Brook
lyn. W hen the train reached the city she
was taken to Bellevue Hospital in an ambu-
lance.
ALARGE number of people in BOOthbay, Me-,
are kept busy in an industry which has been
copied from the artic regions. They are now
at work cutting up the fourth whale which
has been taken between Monhegan and
Squirrel Islands. The whales are shot with
a bomb or shell from a gun, the hunters fir
ing from the deck of a steamer. Each whale
produces from 40 to 80 barrels OF oil, and the
whales have been tOWed IN within three
weeks, and five more are killed and lying on
the bottom. Two of these are buoyed and
anchored. 80 that when they rise, which Oc-
ours IN about ten days, they cannot float off.
SERGr. PLUNKETT, says a Springfield Mass
paper, was as thrifty as he was brave. When
he was married in church he heard, as he
walked out, doubt expressed of the ability of
an armless man to care for a Wife, He de-
termned there should be no failure in that
respc {, and he told friend recently: 81 de-
termmed that she should never come to want.
We had about 81, 600 that was given me before
we were married, and we lived carefully. 1
never squandered any of my money. but
always did what / could to lay it up for my
wife and children. Now own real estate in
Worcester. and have got in all over $4,000.
You may tell OF this when am gone, but not
Just yet"
UPON inqairy at any post Office in Yenzuela
one is offered his choice of two stamps. The
proceeds from the sales of one go into the
general treasury, and it is good for fOreIgG or
the domestic postage. The other stamp is
used for local postage, for letters addressed to
persons within the town or STATE, and is re-
Qulreu upon commercial paper, upon all
deeds, mortgages, leases, contracts, notes. re-
celpts, certificates, etc. The proceeds of its
sale are devoted to the support of the schools,
which are free to all, but are usually attended
by the children Of the lower classes. The
negroes are particularly eager to learn, and
the average attendance Of b acks is very
much greater than that of white children.
aud out Of proportion to the population. The
ratio Of illiteracy is greater among the
whites than among the negroes, and people
are beginning TO complain that servants and
laborer5 are being spoiled by education.
81 Do NOT know how eels breed" says seth
Green. 81 have seen people who said they
had seen the spawn and other parties who
said they had seen young ees in the
mature GELS nearly ready to hatch. /
have opened them from day to day, at ali
&c sons Of the year, and never have seen any
young GELS or spawn. My opinion Is they
hatcE III salt or brackIsh water. and 60 mp The
streams when they are small. They can go up
any cam or ian when they are Young. They
crawl up the dams and falls, clinging tn the
rocks under the sheet of water the same as an
angle worm weuld. They would go up any
fall, no matter how high. if they got there be-
fore they were five inches long. There are
plenty of ees in Lake Ontario, but none
above, except they have been transported or
got up taToueh the canal. They are so large
they cannot get over; they are SO heavy
they fail before they get to the top"
An interesting contest is going on in the
County Court at Chicago for the guardian
ship Of little girl. This is Ere dericka Lenze,
the 7-year-old daughter OF I manuel Lenze,
who Killed his wife and then himself lately.
No less than SIX different people have filed
ADOPT
markedly pretty and intelligent little girl, and
those who have seen her are not very much
astonishcd at her popularity. But it is now
sAId that In addition TO her intelligence
dtU pretty face ami person she is
Mascot and has the faculty of
locating gold mInes, finding lost articles and
so on. Tie Judge went so lar a few DAYS ago
as to make a decree giving her to one party.
Dut seeing mat there was perfect rush of
people in better circumstances to get posses
ZION OF heI he revoked the decree and waited
TO see who would apply, 81 that he might do
the best possible for the little waf. A dCci-
sion in tbs case was finally reached late Tues
day afternoon, Judge Pepdergast awarding
the child to well-to-do German couple.
ROYAL VISITS to Ireland have been more
frequent during the present reign than in any
previous period in the later histo of the
island. George ". went to Dublin on aug.
l., 1921, and stayed till Sept. 49, That was the
first rOyal visit for a couple Of generations.
The next was made by the Queen herself who
has now been three tim s in Ireland. Her
first visit was in August, 1919, when the
Queen, the Prince COnsOrt, and their children
made tour, and a court was held at Dublin
gust 1873, when the great industrial
exhibition WAS being held in Dublin
The last time the Queen was in the
Irish capital was in August 1861 when she
month in the sister island. The Prince of
Wales hat been in roland at the end of the
previous June. lie was tHere again to omen
the Dublin International Exhibition in May,
1865. Three years later, in April, 1868, the
Prince and Princess of Wales paid a visit to
Ireland, and were received in Dublin on
April l. with a remarkable outburst of en-
thusiasm. The last visit of the Prince Of
Wales was at the opening OF the Royal Agri-
cultural Exhibition on Aug. l, 1871.
THIS extraordinary story is related by the
Captain of the bark Brunswick, at New York
Thursday. from Yokohama: FEB. q, in
latitude 81 north, longitude 1880 east, the
wind was blowing heavily from the south
southwest. At a. m. the sky suddenly
changed to q fiery red. All at once a large
mass of fire appeared over the vessel. IT
seemed To waver a moment in space and then
fell into the sea, about fifty yards leeward.
1t struck the water with great Kissing sound,
the shock causing the bark to culver from
stem to stern. towering mass Of white
foam was then seen rapidly approaching the
vessel. The bark was struck fiat back, and
before there was time to touch brace the
sails filled again, and the roaring white mass
could be seen passing away ahead. Another
sheet Of flame then ran down the mizzenmast.
From the rigging al the mast myriads of
Of the sky lasted for twenty minutes. During
all this time the sailors were appall ed. There
was not a speck OF white or blue or black in
the sky. Al was fiery red. When it faded
the atmosphere took on a yellow tinge. Then
it changed 10 blue and finally faded away in
u mist"
THERE is q noticeable feature throughout
all the departments at Washington under the