Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

tai for the statue of Liberty was completed
| Friday. This is the course on which are to be
displayed the shields of the several States.
THE American colony at Paris, of which so
much is said, consists of from 500 to 1000 per-
manent residents of artists. students. hangers
on at the Legation and Consulate, and people
Of elegant leisure. 1t is said to be the centre
OF much small talk and scandal.
A RUSSIAN illustrated paper represents a
number of young women seated at a table,
each examining meat for trichin@. 1t is
stated mat women make efficient MICROSCOPE
ISIS. Last year they thus examined SO,6jO
carcasses. The diseased meat is at once de-
stroyed.
THEY are about to rival America in London
IN the number and variety of their drinks
The list for the London season includes corpse
| feVlyefs, Hash OF lightning, al ABA gaun
| mp nap, Gin and tanZy, black stripe, lOcomo-
1--WE, heap of comfort, gin fiZZ, rattlesnake,
ld'ues DIush, stone fence, and sherry blush.
TWELVE Mexican States contain extensive
cotton producing districts, of which Vera
Cruz, with crop of 25,2 1882 pounds last
year, IS nearly as great as the other eleven
combined. There are 247, Sa4 spindles In OPP
GRAFTON IN the country, but they do not supply
the home demand, from II 900 to $4,000 bales
being annually imported from the United
States.
The telegraphers of the country have
mutual benefit association with a member
ship of $500 and reserve fund of $4,000.
Since It's organization it has paid to heirs of
members over S25O,000. The late Gen. Stager,
VINO was one of its founders, left note at
tached to his policy requesting that his IN
surance money be not drawn, but given to the
reserve fund of the association.
EXPERIENCED lumbermen have always held
that timber cut in the spring was not durable
for building purposes. Recent scientific in
vestigations sustain this belief. 1t is shown
that the richer the wood is in phosphOric acid
and potass I'm the more likely it Is to rot and
mould; wood cut in the spring contains eight
time as much of the former and five times as
much OF the latter as when cut in the winter.
ALAw proposed in Illinois, and favored by
the Trades and Labor Assembly, deals with
the problem of convict labor. 1t object is to
devise means by which cOnvicts can be kept
emnloyed without underseling the products
Of free labor, and so reducing the wages of the
free labOrer. The bill enacts that the product
OF prison labor shall not be sold at less than
market rates; that not over 10 per cent. of
the convicts shall be Employed on any particu-
lar industry. ana that certain percentage of
the revenue shall be set aside for the support
OF the convlcCs family.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, in his breezy article
in the last number of the Century on hunting
the grizzly bear, says the name has reference
to its character and not to its color and should
properly be spelled ''grisly," in the sense of
horrible, as We speak of a ''grisly spectre"
The probabilities are that this too would be
wrong, for the name evidently refers to the
extraordinary muscle of the beast, its
strength, and was originally ''gristlv." AS for
conveying an idea of the rugged, wild char
acter of this bear, however, the word ''griz-
Fly Is better than either of these two.
MIGUEL AND JULES MoNDA, half brothers
living at Matamoras, Mex, quarreled about
the possession of a sword belonging to their
father. The younger brother, aged l6 who
was the larger of the two, becoming frantic
with rage, suddenly seized the weapon, and,
whrlng it in the air, brought it down on his
brothers neck with such force as to almost
-sever the head from the body, the young man
instantly dying, Quickly realizing his awful
! deed, the murderer turned the blade against
his side. thrust it into his own heart and fell
dead. Their parents are wealthy MeXicans.
Their old grandmother witnessed the awful
tragedy.
This double barreled gun belonged to
George Washington" SAID Col. John Powell,
! of Washington. 1T was bequeathed with
Mount Vernon to Judge Bushrod Washing
ton, by whom. with Mount Zephyr, a part of
! the Washington estate, it was left to HIS
| nephew, BushrOd G. Washington. 1t was
! purchased by me in March, 1882, at the sale of
the laJter's effects ana its authenticity is es-
! tablished by the records Of the court of Fair
| fax county, Va. At the time of the purchase
| it was flint lock, but | had il percussiOned
4 Alexandria. H., r..
/ ingtOn, a brother of BushrOd {. Washington,
! then member of Congress from Mary and
| and President of the Chesapeake and Ohio
! Capal, once offered me $50 for the gun, but 1
| declined to part with it,"
THE oldest newspaper in the world, the
| Pekin gazette, has lately taken a new lease of
| life. This venerable journal has changed its
| form. Established in the year 9lI, the Pekin
! gazette has been published regularly since 1851
] a adf
| are published; the first, the King PdOI, print
/ ed upon yellow paper, constitutes the official
| gazette Of the Middle Kingdom: the second,
! the HSjng- Pd0H Comm ercial jOurnaN, also
! printed upon yellow sheets, contains infOrma-
/ ton interesting to the trading community:
| while the third, the IttdRj PAM provincial
gazette, printed upon red paper, consists of
/ extracts from the other two editions. The
/ total circulation of the three issues is Is 900
/ copies. The editorship is cOntlded to a COM
mittee of six members of the Academy of
/ Han LIN.
HORACE HOWARD FURNEss is a most enthu-
sisstic Shakespearean scholar. His library in
Philadelphia has a ceiling frescOed with
/ Shakespeare's arms. There is an alcOve,
/ almost a shrine, from which looks down a
mask Of Shakespeares face, taken secretly
/ from the bust in the church at StratfOrd- upon
! Avon. In glass case is Il pair Of buckskin
/ gauntlets. embroidered with gold thread.
/ They were worn by Shakespeare during his
| connection with the Globe Theatre, and are
well authenticated. On a shelf rests a skull
| on whose dingy surface are written the names
| Of kean. Macready, kembe, Forrest, Daven-
port, Booth and Irving. all OF whom have
| used il in "Hamlep' as the skull of Yorick
In the English, French and German editions
Of Shakespeare this library is the most com
plete in America.
A FEW DAYS AGO Ephraim Sloan, an old
farmer living a mile from Cape May, Nj.
while on his way home from Dias Creek,
small village on the bay shore, saw what he
supposed was a cloud of smoke, but, watching
4 it carefully until 10 came over him he Wns
| astonished to fluid that 1t was a cloud nearly
quarter Of mile long Of the biggest kind Of
mosquitoes. He directed the attention of
several farmers to the cloud, and all admit
that Mr.. SlOan's sight did not deceive him.
| 10 was heating in a northeasterly direction
| and, If nothing interfered with us progress
/ would probably land somewhere ia Atlantic
. county. They are supposed 10 have come
from the eastern shore Of Maryland or Della
ware. several Years ago a similar cloud
/ settled down at Deunisyille ana made things
| extremely lively kr the inhabitants, and a
number Of cattle were killed by them
THGRE is a postman IN one OF the suburbs of
London who has lately been put to serious In.
convenience by the extraordinary conduct Of
a greyhound belonging to one OF his neighbors.
F No sooner does he start on his rounds than the
dog sets OF also. When the pOstman drops a
newspaper into the box the dog stops still
waits till the postman is good distance on,
then Cndeavore 10 force his way INTO the house
II the door is locked he follows his friend