Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-20
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tails at her throat.
A GOLD DOLLAR is a tiny coin, hut a man
OF ingenuity and nne fingers at Waterbury
has just built railway locomotive so small
as TO stand upon the dollars disc.
TRE POPULARITY of southern California as
a sanitarum is such that there are over 200
cottages, worth from 5000 to 81, 500 apiece, in
course OF construction IN Los Angeles and
suburbs.
DOES TRAVELLING by rail injuro fine
horses" Mr.. Robert Bonner says: Sometimes
IT frightens Them and makes them nervous
But IL never troubled Maud 5. or Dexter. 1t
almost seeped just the way to put Dexter in
condition"
COCAINE, so recently hailed as a 6od-send
to sufferers, is already eonsigning the victims
of Its excess TO living death worse than that
OF opium. The discOverer OF an an8sthetic Is
oil his race.
The VILLAGE OF Leigh, in England, sup
ports population of 200 souls on shrimp
Ing, the fishery dating since Casar's time.
sometimes 100 gallons of shrlmps may be
taken IN one day, but forty is u good haul,
to As
The EXPERIMENT OF taking 1--we Canadian
HOLSTERS TO London in salt water tanks has
failed,l through rust, a too high tempera-
lure otWater, and imperfect aeratiOn. Tho
Canadians. by she way, have 90 Holsters TO
spare II they look nationally toward the
future.
UP to the present time about 1000 more
copyrights have been granted during 1855 than
last year.. Congress Librarian Spofford SAYS
TINS Is largely due to the great number of ar
tcles copyrighted by newspapers and maya
zines An Increased number Of engravIngs,
photographs, and pieces of music have also
been copy righted this year.
J. @. A. WARD says his Garfield monument
for the Army of the Cumberland will be
ready for dedication at Washington next
september. As soon as his work on it is COM
pleted he viii turn his attention to the
brooklyn soldiers and sailors memorial.
which he thinks will be the handsomest
monumental pile in the country.
FIVE BITS of Robert Lees lead cut round
holes through the hide of the drummer Boy
of the Potomac" Dennis Sullivan, of the
Irish brigand. Mr.. sullivan. now in Washing
ton ID e., says that he was but one week
more than 10 years old when he enlisted, and
he claims, therefore, to be considered as
among the youngest of the Union soldiers.
RESIDENT in one OF the suburbs of Boston
proposed to build q stable on his land, but
was opposed by the neighbors, who COM
planned that such building would be an OBJ
jectlonabe nuisance in the vicinity. The
lrasclble builder persisted in his undertaking
until opposition became too serious, and he is
now waiting the conclusion. Meanwhile he
has posted query ii front of his premises:
(which will you have, fine brick stable and
house or big black fence?"
Down among the hills and mountain fast
nesses of Pike county, Ark, in the southeast
ern portion of the State, there has sprung ND
a gang Of moonshners equaled in their de-
hance of law only by their Kentucky brothers
In crime. They defy both State and Federal
authority, and only by the utmost caution can
an arrest ever be made. L. s. COebell, the
brave Deputy United states Marshal OF Muir
freesbOrO, arrived in Little Rock the other
day. having in charge John NJ. White and n
G. Ham, two Of the worst members of the Pike
county banditti. They were captured last
week near MurfreesborO.
THE "mower' is the latest type of Gallo
dandy: His name arises from his habit OF
swinging his cane like a soythe. steadily and
regularly, as he walks along. He gets himself
up IN the true rural style, with a broad
brimmed straw hat pulled over his eyes, wide
trousers, large shoes with fiat heels, and no
gloves. Usually the"mOwers" stroll in triOs and
quartettes, moving in perfect time with their
canes, smiling, but saying little, and they
dine together IN some room hung with pic
lures OF rustic scenes The mower, however,
in an Improvement ON his predecessor, the af-
fected "pschuttreux," or ''grelatteuX," as he
vigorously pursues athletic exercise, and Gull
tivates robust health"
THE quarrel between Parneli and Healey
dates back to the introduction of the last land
act. Healey made himself thorough master
Of the act in all its details. and introduced
the celebrated Healey clause. 1t was cur
rently the saying of the House that there
were only three men there who really under
stood the measure and the effect of its differ
ent clauses-Gladstone, Healey. and the late
Lord ChancellOr Law. Parneu knew moth
ing about 1t, spoke seldom In the discussions 1t
raised, and, when he did, buugled. Glad
stones constant references to Healey and his
Difference to his opinions battered him very
much and gave him an estimate of his own
position which Parnell does not accept. Hence
the GOODNESS between them.
1T is the peculiar habit Of New York Fish
Commissioner Eugene G. Blackford's electric
ell that it gives of its shocks only when ex-
cited. Sometimes the eel thrashes around the
glass aquarium from causes unknown except
to itself. On Wednesday night the watch
man in Fulton market, forty feet away, heard
a tremendous flashing IN the eel tank. Sud
denly there was a crash Of falling glass in the
direction OF Mr.. Blackford's stand. He found
the glass on one side Of the tank broken TO
bits. The water had run out and the electric
eel was wab0ling in the rubbish He is now
in the marble tank. There isn't the slightest
doubt that the eel threw out shock when
his nose. was against the glass. The glass
was half an inch thick, and 1t was picked up
In small pieces. The glass had not been
broken since it was first put in, four years
ago.
ONLY three houses in Grosvenor square,
London, are occupied by the same families
which occupied them in 1911. One of these.
No. 80, 10 Lord Harrowby's. It was in this
house. occupied by the present occupants
grandfather that the Cato street conspirators
mad planned TO surprise and murder the mem
beers Of the government at a Cabinet dinner
0rOsvenOF square houses are NOWADAYS large
ly occupied by successful business men, who
get certain sort of standing By having resi-
dences in so aristOcrAtic place. No duke or
marquis now resides in the square, but there
are several earls. Mr.. G. G.. Francklvn has
No. ~, which he lately let for several months
TO Mr.. Laurence, whose daughter married
Lord Vernon from this house. The Duke OF
Westminster Is ground landlord OF the whole
square. Nearly every house has been rebuilt
since 1855.
WHEN the trial in General Sessions, at New
York, of Peter Smith, indicted for murder in
the first degree in shooting John Harmon, the
night Waterman Of the corporation dumping
pier at the foot Of East Thirty eighth street,
on the evening OF April Z, was resumed Thurs
day, eight iurymen sat IN the jury box. They
were the yield OF three panels of talesmen OF
fifty each, and three days were spent in sift-
ing them out OF the almost unbrOken success
sion OF business men who professed TO have
conscientious scruples against hanging. Fifty
additional talesmen had been summoned by
Recorder Smyth. On Tuesday and Wednes-
daY he imposed lines amounting 10 Sl25oO |
upon the taesmen who did not appear in
obedience TO the summons. SO there was a
greatly improved percentage of the newly
summoned t@esmen n court. -Four cen,