Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-10
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These sad revelations, oh can they be true?
They take the good looking and leave US the
rest,
These nald-headed ma hers who live in the
West"
MILE. EMMA NEvADA's marriage 70 DR..
Raymond Palmer, Birmingham physician,
ana Drother-in-law Of her present manager,
MT. Carlo Chizzola, has been fixed for Oct. /.
ne ceremony VIII be performed at the Eng
ish cdurCu II Paris. Signor SalNini Is Co be
best man, and RistOTi and Gounod have prom
| lsed 10 attend.
The Roman Emperor Nervs left benefac-
uons to encourage the increase of children.
IraJan in \. ID. 100 supported 5000 destitute
or orphan children al public expense ard in
/ creased the number every year. Money was
| invested by nm Tor this purpose in land and
/ farms at Naleia, Cisalplne Gaul. which az
pears 70 nave paid about per cent. interest.
A KENTUCKY COngressman's pretty daugh-
ter visited Washington recently. She went
up to President Cleveland upon the occasion
OF White House reception and said; "II
/ bet horse you don't know who | am" The
| President was equal to the occasion. "No."
| SAID he. Il don't know who you are. but I'll
! oeI horse you are from Kentucky"
SNAKE said the young lady, and she mas
oeeh on good terms with the President ever
! since.
IHE name Newport Newce, about which
we used to hear so much during the war OF
the rebellion, is compound word, derived, it
| Is believed, from the names of Capt Newport
! (whO commanded the first vessel that CON
| veyed English emigrants to virginia. and Sir
| W lIllam Newce. who, at the time OF George
Sandys, was appointed treas urer of the colony
and received the appointment OF Marshal of
Virginia. Capt. John Smith wrote the name
! Muse.
The brotherhoods fer the Paix de Dieu in
france In the eleventh century formed the
great point of resistance against the feudai
barOns and their anarchicaI conflicts They
lald The foundation for the rural communes,
Whlch nave been such an important element
since III the French political life. and they
formed that first great support for the kings,
when they subsequently, eDdeavored 10 intro
luce law and courts and roy al power in place
OF private war among feudal or half indie
PENDENT barons.
AN extraordinary belief was long current
that the barnacle which is found adheriug to
me bottom of ships would. when broken OFF,
become species Of goose. Several old wr-
lers rs ert this, and Hollingshead gravely de-
| clares mat with his own eyes he saw the
| feathers OF these barnacles hang out of the
smell at least two inches" Giraidus Cam
breasts gives similar ocular testimony.
w no, ne says, "can marvel that this Should
Dc soY When our first parent was made of
mud can we he surprised that a bird should
be born of tree?"
THERE is a general impression that Mrs.
Mark Pattison, who lately caused her en-
gegement to Sir Charles Dixie to be publicly
announced, was quite young widow. Her
husband. Rev. Mara pattison rector of LIN
coin College, Oxford. died Juiv 80 1854 at the
age OF 20. As has before been noticed he
m kes no mention of his wife in his 'PersO1aI
h@molrs and many of his friends always
supposed him to he confirmed OLD bachelor,
But ne was in the prime of life SO To speak
when he married Emeia Francis Strong. and
the London World puts the year of that mar
rage at 1862 II his wife was only 20 then she
IL AZ now, while Sir Charles Dixie, who was
porn sept. 4. lS43, celebrated his 42t birthday
Yesterday, and in all probability his affianced
Is anywhere from to 20 years Older than he
Is, IL may ne only another case of katisha
and Nauki-PO.
THE lion of the hour in LIVERPOOL is Chic
Oko Jumbo, an African, and his presence
there causes correspondent to write enter
talningly thus: lit is almost a pity that he
tOko) has never heard of the effective formula
employed on similar occasion by Alexander
Dumas peTe, which would be peculiarly an
proprlaie in these Darwnian Gays from the
lp7 OF an African chief: You are quadroOn.
believe, NJ. Dumas? began an enterprisng
intervie wer. 1 sm, sir CURLY replied Alex
ander the Great. And your fatherY NV
father was a mulatto.' And YOUR granc-
father, what was hep "A negro grOWled the
father of French historical fiction beginning
10 wax restless under this straightforward
catechism. And might I presume TO inquire
what your great-grandfather wasp An ape
sir Numbered the author of Monte Crist0,'
sprln&lng to his feet; my pedigree begins
where yours enusn
YAP Is one of the largest islands of the
Caroline group, and, with no regard for either
German or Spanish pretenslons, claims to be
an independent kingdom. There are, too, on
the isl and no less than 81 villages, each one of
which sets up for semi-independent COM
muue. kusaie, another large island, also
claims TO be a Kingdoms till another isiand,a and
probably the most prosperous OF all. POnape,
Is an oligarchy governed by five princes. OF
the other islands some are republics, some
elective mOnarchie5, and the rest petty
princedous 1t looks as if the proposed to be
possessing" power would finds things gen
orally, IN the vernacuar phrase, ''Hli pos
sessed." with good many local govern ments
10 upset. Other attractions offer in the fnct
that on the island of zap consumption is de-
clmatlng the population, while on Ponape,
y thin so wears, smallpox has reduced the
POPULATION from 900 to ., 900, and quite re-
Gently the epidemic has bsen terrible.
A FRENCH JOURNALIST has exhumed an
essay written in 1881 by Theophile Gautier.
who endeavors IN it to prove that, contrary
to general opinion, men of genius are gener-
ally stout. Victor Hugo is mentioned as an
instance. besides BalZac, jules Janin Dumas
the elder, Rrssni. Sainte-Beuve. Frederic
LeMaitre. Eugene Sue, and Gautier himself:
hamArtine, de Nigrey aud de Musset are
named rs exceptions. At the present day the I
proportions in numbers seem to be reversed |
although il is stated that general the poets !
ami dramatisis are lean and the prose writers
fat. Conspicuous for their circumference IRE
lola, Sarcey, A eXis Bowler, Armand. S,l-
Nestre. Labiche. and Hector Maot. Dumss /
the younger. Maunassant, Coppee and Ricls- |
pin are intermediate. Lean are the foloF- |
ing; Augler. Feuillet, Daudet, Cherbuliz. /
AeilhaC, HHlevv, jules Verne. Clarctk |
Ohnet. Barber, Dennery, Sardou, etc. !
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL has had HI
'bumps" examined. Ills head is YER
high over the cars" says the Phye
aologicaE Journal, (which indicate
prompt decision. great determination, and
unhending purpose. which would know
Of no compromise. In many respectlI
he is Ike Beaconsheld. with the excentioa
that he has more casualty and destructivel
ness. He will as far as u ,sibld
fea Their his own next ant cannot
possibly be content until he ia at the head
Energy and force, joined to a cOnten-
tious spir {, self-reliance. independence, de-
termination. tendency to eNtrtyaganco OF re
mark. general comprehc OF mind
love Of argument aud opposition, originality Of
thought. power 10 strike out 70 new course.
quickness to see changes 70 be made, and ca
pActy TO indNiduhliZe objects, Joined TO a
talent 20 tab and present his ideas, are all
prominent points Of character. Were there
more cauilou~ness circumspection, blAndness
Of mind, conscious ness OF superiOritv, feelings
OF sympathy and tenderness towards others
ana power OF intuition, with lees bluntnea7I
and irectne~s Of remark. his character won d
amman mupn mora uprfprf