Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A RUNAWAY HORSE in Stockton, Cal, ran
upon a baby carriage, dragged it 50 feet and
kicked it into splinters, and yet the DaDY es-
capped.
UTAH must now be forgiven, She is send
ing to the New Orleans Exposition hog four
feet high, eight feet long, and weighing l,Ot6
pounds.
AGAME PIE containing live quails, which
flew away when the pie was cut, was feature
II the supper at q New York cnlldren's hol-
day party.
Mr. VAIL, the seattle king Of Nevada, be-
gan business 20 years ago with capital Of
$50. He paid the $500 for Durham COW, and
from that COW he has sold $4,000 worth of
high-bred calves.
THE Emperor Of Russia has an annual salary
OF IS, lO,O1O; the Emperor Of Austria, $4,000
600: Victoria. s2,2O0,OOO. The royal plate of
ST. James Palace is worth Sl0,O0O,0OO. The
Queens hair-dresser gets $4,000 year.
WRITING esq" after name is now con-
sidered old-fashioned in America. 1t must
be Mr.. John Smith. Military titles are also
regarded as IN equally bad taste, unless the
gentleman has a right to L. ). A. or Z. ). \.
after his name.
THE eucalyptus, or Australian blue gum
tree. is now grown in every civilized country
where frOsts do not OCCUR, but, being by ma
ture adapted TO act as an eEapOrating ma
chine, it Will not destroy malaria or keep of
mosquitoes if planted in dry and not III a
marshy soil.
A SAN FRANCISCO gentleman reports Curl
GUS natural freak in the shape Of one orange
growing inside another. The inner one is
perfect, except that it is quite small and has
an opening at the stem, through which 1t APP
parently received nOurishment from the outer
one. The orange came from Mexico.
who left Iestamentary directions that, in
case recipes were not duly affixed TO his
tomb, his property was to pass from his rela-
tiyes TO charities, haYe decided to appeal TO
the courts, inasmuch as the cemetery people
" Il not permit the will to be carried into
effect.
The following challenge is printed in the
London Morning AdUertiser: clearing so
mach boast of shaving in London, Paris, and
other places, jules, of Cable street, in St.
Georges in the Eat, will back himself for
from SIS to $50 to shave and lather SIX men
while Embodied without cutting them. Man
and money ready"
As an advertisement a Milwaukee dime
museum manager threw 1000 nickels into the
street for gamins to scramble after. Among
the crowd attracted by the notice of the
throwing were many old men, while of the
200 boys and girls who came every one in
than the nickel would repair.
BISHOP LYMAN, of North Carolina, is out
with a strong remonstrance against what he
characterizes as ''the sweeping eondemna-
ton of a cOlored clergy" by Rev. Hugh Mil-
Ter Thompson, Assistant Bishop of the diocese
of Mississippi. The latter had declared that
it would never do for the Episcopal caurch to
choose its spiritual teachers from among That
class, because OF the Ignorance and super
stiyiOn" which prevail among them; now the
former declares that in his own state (North
Cardinal he "has found the experiment OF
admitting cOlored men to the ministry very
encouraging One," and most OF them are ac-
tive efficient, Jealous and loyal church
workers" at is a fearful reflection upon
the race" he adds, ito intimate that they
cannot be trained and qualified for the gospel
ministry" He also expresses surprise at
what the Assistant Bishop of Mississippi has
written on this subject, because, with all
the other bishops of the South, he has added
his name to the appeal which was made at the
close of the last general convention, asking
for funds to help forward the good work at
St. Augustine's Normal school and THEOLOGY
cal Department,
DUCK-HUNTING along the Brandywine has
been fairly good this season. A waggish
young man recently had goose made Of
wood and painted white. As soon as the
paint was dry he took it out at night and
placed 1t in the Brandywine. 1t was soon dis
covered by a gunner, who fired at 1t, appa-
rentlv without the slightest effect. He fired
again and again until a thought struck him.
He suddenly went to see a friend of his, also
considered good marksman, and with the
most serious of faces eDticed him
down to the bridge, pretended to notice
the goose and induced his friend to
shoot. This man, too, fired several shots.
They were noticed by others, who, suspecting
the appearance Of an unusual quantity Of
game in the neighbOrhOod, took their guns
down to the river and popped away. As one
shooter after another begau to suspect sell
somewhere, he pretended to be very inno-
Gently anxious to kill the goose. The acting
of the dissemblers was so good that some OF
the best sportsmen were deceived, until the
original perpetrator of the joke, thinking it
was too good to keep, told a friend who had
asked him why there was so much firing on
the river bank. The single expression wild
goose" suffices just now to make the average
CoatesviIle sportsman mad as hornet.