Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! year-l4 hours and 81 minutes OF dlrect sun
light.
"ToMMY ATKINS" is generally accepted
now as the typical name for an English sol
der, just John Bull Is for an Englishman,
and. curiously too, the first guardsman
wounded in the Soudan was Sergt. Atkins.
POWERFUL text for the anti tobacconists
is furnished by a soldier now on his way to
the Washington Insane Asylum, driven
thereto by the consumption OF 10 pounds OF
| plug chewing tobacco per month. He must
nave eaten IL, one would imagine.
THE strawberry crop of the Eastern shore,
| Maryland, Is more profitable than the oyster
crop. This region promises to become the
great late trucking garden of the Atlantic
coast, aud there is very little improbable land
IN II that Is not now under cultivation.
ONE of the latest arrivals at the Berks
County Pa Insane Asylum is young man
who has number of half dollars, which he
Keeps IN his mouth night and day. He says
that is the only way he feels comfortable.
without the silver in his mouth he Is IN pain.
THE police have recently made a mastery
and entirely successful raid on all the racing
and betting clubs in Manchester, England,
| which have been regarded as a nuisance i'm
possible toput down for many years. Twenty
three clubs were raided and $50 prisoners
made and bound over in heavy sums for trial.
ENcKE's COMET passed its perihelion on
probably appear this year or the next. Tenn
pels is overdue, and has either met with an
accident or been switched of upon another
track by the influence of planet. SWifts
comet is expected at the close OF The year, but
Is likely TO pass unseen; while Tuttle's Is
looked for next month.
Mr.. YOUNG, the coifTeur Of the Princess of
Wales, begins dressing hair at O'Clock on the
morning Of a drawing room day. So great is
the anxiety to receive his services that he is
engaged, not days, but weeks, beforehand.
Woe be 10 the lady who comes first on his list.
she must be IN state of worry the whole of
the morning, lest careless movement should
dlsarrange the couture before the hour ap-
proachee for displaying it to the world.
SIGNOR LAsATI writes that he knows an en-
terprlsiDg Italian boy who collects cigar
stumps from the sweepings of the elevated
railway stations and sells them to the snuff
manufacturers. He pays the company quar-
ter OF his receipts for the privilege" and, as
he collects about twenty pounds a day, and
sells them for 20 cents apound, he gets a clear
income of SO a day. snuff takers will be
pleased to know that their habit is of use to
somebody.
AGROCER who had an aged and disabled
horse wished to get rid of him by as painless
death as possible, and gave him forty grains
of morphine. Having made preparations for
the funeral, the grocer proceeded to the
the horse in excellent spirits, and eating his
oats with his former habitual haste, so as to
he ready for the early trip to market. Opium
is said TO have been used successfully In India
for many years in relieving horses from the
consequences OF old age and overwOrk.
APARTY of nine went from New Haven to
Milford, Conn.,, Wednesday, in large sail
boat, for days fishing. They had the best of
luck, and caught about 300 Blacklist and sea
bass. IL order to keep the fish alive and
fresh netting was rugged up and attached to
the stern of the boat, resting in the water. On
the home trip the rope broke and the FISH I'M
medlately took French leave, to the disgust of
the fishermen, who went home about the sad
dest looking party that has been seen in New
Haven for years.
REV H. L. HAwEIs writes: Morning lit
erary work Is usually characterized by fresh
ness, continuity of grasp and vIgor; night
work by fever, excitement and less condensa-
ton. This l believe to be the rule, and with
exceptions, in speaking thus generally, it is
OF course, impossible to deal. OF one thing [
am certain, that for all headworkers, especi-
ally literary men, the following rules will be
found golden To bed before 10 to work be-
fore Z; as little liquid as possible, and no
smoking before breakfast"
MANY brokers Of the New York Stock and
Produce Exchanges live on Staten Island
and travel to and from the city on the ferry
boats. They buy tickets on entering the boats
and give them up on leaving. These tickets
are numbered COnsecutively, and are now up
in SIX figures. One of them would read this
way; 4l2,22l. The brokers look at these num-
bers, estimate them on the basis of poker
hand, and make bets against other tickets
The above ticket would count for three Of a
kind and pair. Considerable money some
times changes hands on the result.
THE latest addition to the ''phones' is a lit
tie instrument called the antiphone, which is
the invention of a German, Capt. Plessner, of
Stuttgart. 1t is fastened to the ear, and serves
to counterfeit the unpleasant and often iniu-
rlous influence which intense noises or sounds
nave on the nerves OF the ear. It appears
that Capt. Plessner's invention is chiefly in
tended as a remedy against the 'spiano
plague to which neighbors of almost every
many slaughtered family are exposed. HUI
manity outside the reach of pianos may have
even greater cause to be thankful for the an
tiphone.
WHEN a chief dies in sitka his wives pass
to his next heir, and, unles these reflects pur-
chase their freedom with blankets, they are
united to their grandson or nephew as a
matter of course. High-strung young ST.
washes sometimes scorn these legacies and
then there is war, all the widows resentng
such an outrage of decency and established
etiquette. II is said, however, that hem
picking is too small a word to describe the
way in which the wives bully their lords
WOman's rights have reached development
among the Sitkans that would astOnish the
woman suffrage leaders,
AcLERGYMAN out in one Of the towns in
Wayne county, n. Y, wrote personal letter
to old Commodore Vanderbilt, saying be was
very poor and wanted to attend a mnisters'
conference at Syracuse, but could not afford
IL. He closed by asking for q free pass 10
Syracuse and return. The COMMODORE good
naturedly passed the letter over to one Of the
road officials and the dominic was sent a pass
good for one trip until Dec. 81. Along in jan
uary the Commodore received another letter
enclosing the pass stating that the recipient
was much obliged for 1t, but had been unable
10 attend the conference, and would Mr.
Vanderbilt he 80 kind as 10 send in return its
equivalent in cash, SO ~"
1T is stated that much irritation has been
caused among agriculturists in England by
the new features introduced in the forms lust
sent out by the Agricultural Department to
occupiers Of land for filing up the agrioul-
tura returns. To the many columns Ia which
horses, cattle, sheep and pigs are to be en-
tered, there have been added for
this year cOmmns in which turkeys
geese, ducks and fowls are TO be returned lie
SIDES special return OF all young stock born
during the year on the farm, and OF all AMI
mails which have been slaughtered. MANY
farmers. IL is eaid, will be unable TO 20 |
into these minute details. and the result will |
be that a large number OF returns will not be
sent in at all