Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

OClosoudi, locT SUES Delng USED IOr playing
aud the other sides having joined to them
small tables on which glasses, lights and ash
pans can be placed.
A CANADA dealer in hides has issued cir
cular telling farmers that calves should be
partly skinned before they are killed, IN order
that the hide at the throat may not be dam
aged by the mortal cut.
INSTANTANEOUS PHOTOGRAPHY provided
evidence in California lawsuit wherein a
surreptitious picture of two persons was offer
ed In radic ton of testimony that they
al not met IN the manner shown by the
camera.
LEGAL STEPS have been taken at Easton,
Pa, to revoke the license OF a hotel keeper
who declined to give accommodations TO a
woman about to be confined. Her child was
born in the hotel yard. The metropolitan
thug Is no match sometimes for the rural
rough.
WESTERN PAPER tells how a woman put
up job to catch her husband. In the twi
light of evening she took the COOKS place at
the Kitchen window. She was earnestly kiss
ed-not by her husband, but by policeman
who supposed she was the cook.
1T took two days for the committee APP
pointed by the Berlin students to select the
beer to be used at great festival, and then
they had to divide the order between two
adequate to the probable demands Of the oc
caslon.
AMONG those who have Joined the Roman
Catholic Church in England since the begin
ming of the Oxford movement are enumerated
Sc lords rs baronets, 302 graduates of oxford,
80 graduates of Cambridge, li2 army officers,
% lawyers. as doctors, and ,0l0 ladies Of aris
tOcratlc station.
A WEALTHY WHOEVER of Green Valley,
Sonoma county, Cal, between 10 and so years
Of age, recently offered a neignbor $500 if he
would find him a wife. The bargain was con-
GUIDED, a v ung lady was brought out from
the East and was married TO the aged wild
over, and ali hands seem satisfied.
THE mesquite groves, between Florence, A.
T., and Casa Grande, were alive week before
last with Pima Indians gathering mesquite
beans for winter use The crop this season is
he largest ever known there, some of the
trees having broken down uuder the weight
Of the fruit. The beans, ground up, are said
10 make very palatable food.
NEW London enterprise advertises to en-
ploy pensioners Of the army and navy as win
dow and hOu- e-cleaners, Life in the barracks
and on shipboard is said to give men better
IDEAS of neatness and homework than are
found among maid-servants, so that house,
keepers are always willing to employ the
veterans. Windows are cleaned for four or
by the hour.
THE most famous vocal society in the
world, the mannergesang- Verein of Vienna,
intends to give concert in Berlin. It's list of
mem bers, active and honorary. contains such
names as Mendelssohn, Marschner, Wagner
Hitler, Abt, IN the past, and in the present
List. RublnsteiD, Strauss Lachner, etc. The
Nereln IS an amateur society. Its members be-
log recruited from all classes of society and
al professions.
A CLERGYMAN who had learned to use a
type writer wrote consolation to parish
toner who had lost his wife. The man was
indignant and would not speak to his pastor
" men "a friend inquired the reason he SAID
Il always supposed he had some heart but
yhen my vie died he sent me an Internal
circular, not having enough interest to write
-Ometbing especially adapted to my case. I
want nothing to 90 with q man who is as for
nal and hear1less as that.p
CHRISTOPHER TALBOT is the only member
# the House of Commons who sat in 1t prior
to the reform bill of 1882. Fifty-flve years ago
he was returned at the age of 20, for Glamor-
gsnshire, and the connection thus formed has
Oeen continued uninterruptedly up to the
present day. The ony member who can be
SAID to rival Mr.. Talbot is Mr.. Gladstone, who
was born in 1903, and has been a member of
ne House of Commons since 1882, with an
interval OF two years from lS45 to 1917.
A NUMBER Of iron mill ow ner: in Covlngton.
Ky are arranging to bore for gas, saying it
will be impossible to compete with Pittsburg
unless supply of gas for fuel can be secured
there The Hemiu gway Glass Company re-
Gently bored down 600 feet in the hone ~
binding gas, but failed. A vein of Blue Lick
water was struck, which throws ont about
$4,000 gallons day. and since this flow began
the famous Blue Lick Strings of Kentucky,
100 mi es distant, which have been a resort
v
tried up.
AT the German watering-place Schwalbach,
Nine. Christine Nilsson is the chief attrac-
ton. A few days ago a concert was given by
some wandering TyTolese Ministries in little
al fresc0 restaurant in the woods there NJ s.
4ou vas resent, and stoned for time with
exemplary patience to the usual excrucIating
noises; but suddenly she disappeared ami
presently. from the heart of the greenery,
arose, to the amaZenent Of he Tvrolese and
he dehsht of the Schwabachians. that voice
mat has given 50 much pleasure to thousands,
wen when tney had to pay big sum for the
privilege Of hearing it.
THERE is a mule in Madison county. Miss.
10 the possession Of a Mr.. Canthen, a success
full farmer. which was among the animals
given bac by Gen. Grant to the Confederates
at the surrender at Appomattox Mr.. Can
hen rode the mule from Appomattox in 1855
70 Mississippi, and has cultivated a crop of
Orn ana cotton with him every wear SIM
that time. The mule is in good condition
although p ears Old, and gives promise ~
doing many more years of valuable service in
ne field. During the war his muleship per-
formed service by pulling an ammunition
Mr.. Canthen was a member.
CHAs. DUDLEY WARNER relates a sienl6-
cant incident that occurred while he was
watching the Confederate deco-a day ex-
ercises in New Orleans. He says: As the
veterans, some Of them on crutehes, MANY OF
them with empty sleeves, gTOuped themselves
about the mon meut we remarsed upon the
light AZ touching one, and | SAID: "Sen you
have no address on Decoration dav. nj the
North we stfll Keep up the custom" ssNoU
NJ replied; I'VE have given IL I'D. So nv
imprudent things were SAID that we thought
beet 10 disc niinue the address, And theu
~ err pause. she added, thuughtfully. Each
sile did The best IT could; it Is ali over and
done with, and let's have an end Of It," I'm
he mouth OF the lady who uttered 1t, the re-
mark was very significant. but 10 expresses,
| am firmly convinced, the feeling Of the
south.
FIFTY-FIyE YEARS AGO Mr.. Theodore Wat
rous. who then owned and resided upon the
farm now owned by Norris Holcomb in Hart
ford. Conn. cauglt large box turtle. then
apparently quite well along in years, which he
arcfulls marked aud set 1T libs rty. Years
ago Mr.. Watt Gus moved 20 ia ise, Central
hmerica. where DC has since resided The
uri.e hal often been seen shout the lOrality.
aud last week Mr.. atruus. ae ne on "a isit
fa friends lu the vicinity. resolved 10 look I'M
MS old land mark. tri1 ny reward for It's