Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
IL his last year the late Earl OF Dysart kept
his face hidden from mankind.

Philadelphia, has just been discovered.
THE Provincial Bank OF Buenos Ayres has
a capital of $4,000, 900, and deposits amount
ing 70 100000. These figures are not
equaled by any United States bank.
OYSTERS are cheap food, and yet a steward
explains that they are Improbable for hotel
tables, because guests never think of letting
the% take the place of any regular course
IN meal.
COTTON can be easily grown In the San
Joaquin valley Of California, but there has
been no market near enough for practical
purposes. big mill is now ready to weave
the product.
A BALTIMORE negro has literally worn two
myers Of in many years of shoveling coal.
The case is reported by a physician as a Gu
rloslty. There IS no apparent disease, and no
inconvenience.
MISS KENDALL, California artist, painted
little picture representing the Sacramento
river OF the future if hydraulic mining con =
tlnues, and the State Fair Art Committee re-
Jected 1t, lest the ght of it should offend Wis
ltors from mining counties.
PERCH in Conesus lake, n. Y, have died by
thousands, as many as thirty loads having
been carted away in a forenoon. The dead
fish have swelling like a mosquito bite just
back OF the dorsal I'm, which leads to the be-
1
aquatic insect.
FOUR italian laborers at Hartford. Conn,
were poisoned last week by eating toad stools.
which they mistook for mushrooms. Oil was
gwen to three OF them, saving their lives, but
the fourth having taken it into his head tn at
| he would be charged SIX cents for the medi-
cine resisted the administration Of the dose,
and died.
THE boundary between Massachusetts, and
New Hampshire has been in dispute 100 years.
No strictly legal line exists. In l74l the King
of England directed representatives of both
provinces to jointly make a map, in accord
with some general directions, but Massachu-
sets did not obey, and New Hampshire did
the work alone. A strip of Merrimac valley
Is the doubtful ground.
Two tiny boys with good voices and clever
mimicry have been singing on Western rail-
road trains. They said to sympathetic ques-
TONERS that they were working their wav
alone from San Francisco to New York, and
one passenger estimated their receipts ia a
single day 81 $40. He also discovered that they
had manager and treasurer in the person Of
thelr rather to whom they slyly rendered up
the money.
A BOY in California school remarked that
the teacher had red hair. He was whipped
to make him retract, but he insisted that he
coulG not tell a lie, and he had the utmost
confidence IN his judgment of color. The
woman declared that she would beat him to
death unless he changed the word from red to
auburn, and he abused his conscience TO that
extent, but afterwaTd took the case to the
trustees. who sustained him and dismissed the
bright headed punisher.
WHILE travelling in Pernambuco, South
America, recently, Brooklyn bird -tancier
bought singular bird. 1t plumage resem-
bles crazv patchwork quilt. Yellow is its
predomnating color, though most of the tints
OF the rainbow are represented. To what
particular species it belongs has not been as
certained. On Sundays this bird appears re-
ligiouslv inclined, as it sings nothing but ''The
sweet By- sndrBy." yellow" is as good Ms
an alarm clock TO its mistress, for it wakes her
up every morning, saying: Hurry up Take
me out, for am nearly smOthered."
THE case of Ferdinand Ward is very seri-
ously complicated. He refuses to be cross
examined about his testimony concerning
Warner, to whom he paid $2,70O.0OO of the
firms money, unless the criminal proceedings
are dropped, and if he persists the testimony
about warner Will have to be stricken out,
and the civil suits will collapse. Five crimi-
nal indictments are pending against him,
which the creditors do not want tried and
they wish as well to suppress the names Of
certain digger fish" than Ward and Warner,
who seem to have shared in the plumber.
A STORY is told of two soldiers who hailed
from Naugatuck, Conn, who, while on the
y
farmer, and after dlsposing Of the mutton took
the skins to the farmer and tried to sell them
to him. The farmer recognized his property
and did not fail to express hIs views in no
very hattering words OF what he termed their
yankee cheek" cam be iabers" ssid one
of the men, there's Just no compulsion about
1t at all, at all. We just thought we'd give
yes chance, but ye needn't buy it If We don't
want It," and of they went to dispose of the
wool to some other farmer.
New Haven, Conn, have American oysters
laid down on the Irish and English coasts. By
this method of culture the stock acquires the
flavor said to be copper, of oysters native
to those waters, and thus the company ia bef-
ter able to cater to the tastes of Her Majesty's
subjects. Last year these planters secured
some sets ON native shells. This system Of
culture they term the Connecticut idea In
ireland they call the oyster beds parks. Mr.
HoyC writes that these beds are exposed at
low water He was able to ride among some
OF these beds N buggy. This was his first
experience in this novel mode of transporta-
ton oyer oyster grounds.
"FRoM what have seen," said the heir to
the titles of the Roman Colonnas, who, with
his wife formerly Mics Eva Maekeyl, Is now
In San Francisco, this country has resources
incompsrably superior to those OF any coun-
try in the world. Az regards scenery, il has
many striking features. The chief feature of
~.
originality. have visited the Rocky noun
tSins, seen those tremendous canyoHs, and
climbed some of the highest peaks. There ia
severity OF aspect, ruggedness of charac-
ter In the landscape. Everything is con
Quoted on scale of immensely. the lines are
bold, and the effect of the picture sometimes
astounds the sense. In EuroOe there Is less
OF this conducted on a magnificent SCALE"
TWICE year old Thomas had either pea
cock OF peahen ON his table. Tho peacock
was served usually in January and the pea
hen in July. The former made a grand an
pearance, being brought to the table with his
gorgeous tan feathers spread, which. how
ever, were removed before it was carved: lint
without her train. Of which she had been de-
prived Whilo being shut up aud fattened. The
meat tastes much Ike turkey-should be stuf-
leu win similar crossing sad basted with
plenty OF butter while Cooking Old Saliv
used TO lard the breast, a. its flesh Ia rather
uIN, ana, just before serving IL, poured into
the BODY, from the neck, equal quantities OF
port VINE and strong beef gravy mixed with
in"
ROMANTIC LOVE STORY is at present going
the rounds Of the Italian payers. In 1851 a
young merchant in Bologna fell in love with
n beautiful girl. who reciprocatcd his feelings.
But the young man was SO absurdIy Jealous
that the girl concluded the only way 20 make
INN moro reasonable would he % break the
engagement and Keep him az distance for A
while. But this only increased his passion
nu one nav diter hpfhg ~ in refused he