Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

mas announced that on April J, the
receipts since January would coy er all the
expenses for the current year. Every subse-
queat payment will be clear gain.
AT Aix-les Bains the Queen looked at two
villas with intent to purchase one of them,
but found their water supply deficient. Then
! she commssi ned an agent 80 purchase plot
OF land and build her d house there.
THE famous Holland House, Kensington,
| has good chance of careful preservation, in
asmUch rs Lady Holland the owner, has
agreed with Lord Leicester. the head OF the
/ FOX family, to leave il to him if he, mean
/ Whlle, VIII keep it up.
4 THE champion peach tree IN the Delaware
region, according to local fame, is tree
eight or ten inches in diameter and hoary
with age Last season it yielded eight crates
OF merchautable fruit besides a busnel and
a-hali plcaed from the ground.
THE Duke of Westminster has let his
beautiful place on the Thames, Cefden, TO
the Austrian Ambassador, who pays 5000 for
six months. The place would be sold for
G25000 out even then only to an approved
purchaser. Levy Lawson, the Hebrew owner
OF the Duty Te2egrdDh, wanted it. but was not
approved There are only 2i6 acres of pleas
ure ground.
HARRY LEE, boy y years of age, of Dan
bury, Conn, was gathering trailing arbutus,
on the banks of the Housatonic, in the vicinity
of the new bridge He stepped upon p black
snake, which Immediately entwined itself
about his leg but did not sting him. The
snake remained cOiled about his limb uutil he
ran home. nearly a mile, and it was dis
! patched by his mother.
THE French habit of addressing interiors as
thou" caused a strike at Stettin recently,
where the journey men butchers union
event out" and remained out until their
| masters agreed to address them only with the
/ the lCurDPVmpn
! grown proud the master butchers decided
that it wou not longer be proper to humili-
ate them by giving them tips over and above
| their wages.
WITHIN fortnight tablets have been placed
upon the new shoots of the thousand year.
old rosebush at Hidesheim. The oldest of
these shoots dates from 1883, the second from
1899, the tn I'd from 1868, the fourth from 1877,
and he Il fth from 1881 This last one was
first discovered on July of last year, and
has attained a remarkable growth within
this short time, il being now nearly nine feet
in length and almost an inch thick.
BARON VICTOR ERLANGER seems to have
had as poor luck IN fine arts as in stocks
Having been ruined on the Vienna bourse he
has sold his picture gallery, which was sup
posed to have been very valuable. Inceed, it
cost him a pretty penny to collect. But only
the most meagre prices-a few dollars each
were obtained even for works by Rembrandt,
Teniers and Rubens. Perhaps 1t would he
better to say works said to be by those mas
tiers.
A JOURNEYMAN baker in Paris, named
Gale, man without education, and unac-
quainted with any foreign language, entered
the class for Hebrew at the Louvre School in
April ISS4, aud six months later Outstripped
10 other pupils who mad entered the school
long before him. He is now able to read and
explain the Hebrew Bible at sight, and every
Friday afternoon goes to study Hebrew texts
ut Ia sob aud hAr raf1 To- 70,
his work.
A CORRESPONDENT, writing from Naples
A pril %, gives an account of the characters
tic way 10 which the Italians are reinforcing
their troops at MassOwah. A brass band
numbering % pieces, an ice machine and a
quantity OF delicacfes for the table are the
strengthening elements to be sent to the brave
garrison on the equator. The music of the
band, the cooling qualities OF ice and the home
flavor of table Injuries will doubtless make
the gay bersaglieri invinclble.
BUSINESS among the Chinese merchants of
! Portland, Ore, seems to be even less profit
able at the present time than among any Of
| the Caucasion tradespeople. In proportion
the failures have peen very much larger. both
/ in number and amount IL is very evident
/ that they have become thoroughly imbued
/ with the Caucasian style, and when they can
/ no longer make money by legitimate trading
they close their doors, make an assignment
/ and. having paid their creditors or 10 cents
/ on the dol ar reopen in ne " block, with a
/ larger store and a more extensive stock Of
goods.
SEVERAL EXPERIMENTS have been tried by
persons in New York anxious to secure a
ghost. and to receive the reward offered by
the Society for Psvchical Research for a live
ghost delivered on The sOciety's premises. One
man residing in haunted house covered the
middle Of the floor Of room in which ghost
was in the habit IF walking with an inch of
/ soft and very tenacious asphalt. On the fol-
] lowing night the ghost. who was an unusually
| large one, tried TO walk over the asphalt. and
! and stuck last in 1t. The eXperimenter in
| stantly rushed to the ghost with withes Of
witch hazel, and, as he might have expected,
/ stuck last himself, just ought Of reach of the
/ ghost. The latter, after few minutes of
/ struggling, eXtricated himself ard disappear
/ ed, but the inyes tigatOr remained glued to the
/ spot all n ght and was pried out by b : SER
wants in the morning. While this experiment
seems TO show that ghosts may b. trapped
I with asphalt, 1t by no means follows that
they can be tied and boxed.
TIE sale Of the Chapman collection of an
I cient Greek, Roman, Eng sh and American
coins and medals, including one of the rare
1901 dollars, took place at Philadelphia Thurs
day As was expected the 1904 dollar was the
feature OF the sale, Is Il is the only one of
/ sevan known To be IN existence that has been
offered at auction for more than eight years
one OF the seven il in The mint in has city
anu tt othEo lDIiH part OF famous coffee Ions.
I The present specimen was bought by S. H.
Chapn IN at the sale of a collection in Berlin
last year. ~ IS said TO b. the finest OF the
seven and after spirited bidding was sold for
$1,000. a dollar OF 1898 which is also a rarity,
brought $40; one Of 1875, 81 50: one Of 1896
SIP; one Of ls02, $l3 so; one Of 1889, $3S: one OF
1856, .. aud one of 1885, $40 25. some Verv
ne half dollars brought good prices, one OF
1877. $50; 1885, 10 80. and q 1908 So 10. A ten
crown piece Of Frederick Ulrich. Of Bruns-
wick. ca. brought sd an English Half crown
ofOurer Cro,nwell, 1888, 81 80, and a Grecian
com Of Perleus, the last King Of Macedonia,
b. c.. 49, was so d for S32.
DAVID WILSON lcolorcd). a prisoner, serving
y years sentence for assault on a woman.
made a horrible attempt at self-destruction
IN Patton'sfoundrya ct the Oh opcnitentiaryon
Thursday aNerloon. Wilson has been mo ldy
sud depressed az late. ana Nvh,n called for
wHr5 Thurs iag morning be refused TO leave
DIS cell, and Nt5 My got ont after sharp
struggle. About ole Ocb he LETT work with
ont permission and went 10 the Deputy War
dcu'5 Office. Being a-ksl what ne wanted he
replied. II want a new head: I'm tired OF the
one have Gin my shoulders and want
another.' Tie Nas taken back 10 the foundry
and set tp work again. lie worked steadily
uutl $3.50, at which tluc the molten iron
leaves tne furnace. A few minutes after 10
began On run. Wilson, uupCrccived by the
gUIrlt, daricd forward and thrust his head
900 10 uf- ears into "a liable of the molten metal.
When removed to The hospital 10 was found
thbt thc 0e.h of his head down "a his ears and
lts a Ia tof