Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| LONDON papers abound with complaints of
colonists, who aver that they have been de-
luded to Queensland by fraudulent misrepre-
sensations.
MRS. GEORGE WRIGHT, of Middle Granville,
n Y. died few days ago of an ovarian
tumor of twelve years growth. The tumor.
solld and fluid, weighed l27% pounds when
removed after death.
FEW NIGHTS AGO at a church festival in
West Union. o., wooden chair was exhib-
tied belonging to George Bradford, of that
Vlliage, which has long been an heirloom in
the bradford family, and which was brought
over from England in the MayfOwer.
In CERTAIN TOWNS in Eastern Massachu-
setts stone is now so scarce that builders are
resortIng to the farmers stone walls for
building material. In the efkshire region,
on the other hand, the farmers consider stone
FENCES nuisance, and would pay TO have
them taken away.
SHREWSBURY POND, near Rutland, VT,
mile long and half mile wide, and fed by
spr ngs has received 100000 trout and 20, 900
l unlocked salmon during the last six years,
Now salmon of six pounds and trout weigh
ing i've pounds can be caught there in abund-
ance. 1t is private property.
THE CREMAToRY ASSOCIATION in at. Louis
is in trouble. They have been granted per-
mission to erect building but the city ordi-
nances are o worded that they will not be
able To cremate human bodies unless the law
is changed. The present councilmen seem to
De aVerse to making any change.
WHILE an elevator in the Chicago County
building was carrying twenty lawyers to an
upper floor he other morning, a six-inch wa
ter pipe burst and Its contents were poured
into the car. The defenders of justice God
under the cataract while the elevator slowly
descended thirty feet to the basement.
ONE Of the most ridiculous Servian customs
is the erection of small, long sheds, substan-
italy built of heavy hewn timber supports,
and thick, home made tiles, over ordinary
plank fences and gates TO protect them from
the weather, when good coating of tar or
paint would answer the purpose Of preserva-
sion much better. These structures give one
the impression of dol ar placed over penny
to protect the latter from harm.
IN AN ITALIAN GARRISON there was a pri-
vate soldier by the name Of Ugolno. One of
the officers took the soldier aside one day and
asked him: "Are you a descendant of the
famous Count UgolinO, about whom Dante
wrote?" 80" replied the soldier; "al my
ancestors were poor people," 81 refer to
Count UgOllno VINO was starved to death with
his SO sIn the Tower of Pisa?" "If he didn't
get enough eat, very likely he was an an
cestnr OF mine after al" replied the honest
soldier.
SOME YEARS AGO Senator Butler, of South
Carolina. was one of party of gentlemen at
{ al BOs Ian n country uOClOr came up TO
him and asked Are you Gen. Butler, OF
South Carolina? Ny name is DIR. Shaw" 81
am" responded the Senator. The doctor
| looked him oyer deliberately and carefully,
ana then remarked: well, you don't Iook
| like a man who'd kill niggers." mo. | don't
suppose I've killed as many as you have" re-
piled Gen. Butler. 1t was some time before
the doctor saw what the crowd was laugh
! ing at
LORD PALNERsroN, as the story goes, once
~
Petersburg for writing in French to the Rus
sian Foreign Office, and instructed him, as an
/ Engilshman. to use his mother tongue only.
/ The Russian Chancellor politely responded to
| this by directing the representative of Russia
/ in London TO write to Lord PalmerStOn in
| Russian only-a simple device by which Rus
! STA scored an easy victory. Needless to say,
| French soon resumed its original position as
| the medium of intercourse between the gov
| ernments.
A REGULAR SYSTEM of fencing practice and
gymnastics has just been introduced into the
Russian army, beginning with the Guards in
st. Petersburg. Hitherto gymnastics have
been taught. if at all. in very irregular
1 fashion and on very small scale. Previous
/ to the Crimean war the Russian soldier had
/ not the least idea of anything like physical
! training beyond his ordinary drill, and up to
| the present day among Russians generally
/ although they have their schools or gymnasia
| which eXerci-e the young mind almost to i'm
II
! the necessity of any physical exercise. What
/ ever the Russians may be, they are at least
/ not athletes, and the want of mu Gle has
often been sadly felt. Indeed, one of their
! own countrymen has called them "a ielly
| people,"
| THE introduction of the megaphone on ship
| board-a sort of telescope for the ear, or ma
chine for magnifying Sounds said to be
/ boon in prospect for mariners. Its design is
\ to enable person to hear or carry on a con-
versation with people at distance and it is
! constructed OF two huge cone-shap d tubes.
| s feet long and in diameter at the large end
| which diminish to an apex in the form of rub
| Der tubes small enough to place in the ear.
| Between these tubes are two smaller ones
constructed in the same manner, but not moro
! tina half he diameter. BY placing the rnb-
| Der tubes in the ear and speaking through the
smaller cones. the person can hear and be
/ heard at long distance, and it thus aids mar
| lners IN listening for the sound of break ers, or
carrying on conversation with persons on
shore or on other vessels at distance.
SOME very funny ways of marking mis-
takes in proof are used by outside proof
readers, especially clergynen. minister
once, in reading proof of his sermon. dis
covered space that was not showed down.
The space, OF course, made a black mark. and
instead or making an on the margin, which
Is the regulation mark, he wrote the follow
leg: TO the compositOr: EGp- Please re-
move the superhuous mark before the word
I a
have letter turned rightside NJ. sent these
| instructions to the compositor: "Please insert
an G that IS not rever ed" Another. fndin@
word that he thought spelled wrong wrote
! the following on the margin OF the proof-
sheet: The word with the line drawn
throught II don't look exactly right; consult
your dictionary and oblige." This way Of
marking proof is not relished b. newspaner
composltors, and does not tend to butter their
re gious instructions. The foregoing are but
illustra lone OF the funny proof reading nan
penrng every day.
PARK COMMISSIONER ADAMS, of Conne.ti-
cut, found In an excavation on the north
! bank OF Park river, near Hartford, a curious
stone implement apparently fashioned for
emitting. II looks like a fine. hght-colored
granite, but Judge Adams thinks IL is n niece
~ the trap rock that Is found in peculiar
shapes on the west declivity of Talcott noun.
tam. w hateyer It Is geOlogically, its use
seems 10 have been that OF the modern CIR
penter's toll called the gouge. for IL has
very smooth followed and rounded edge
winch must have bfen produced with much
patient labor, and it may have been used To
hollow out canoe from a solid log. In size il |
y about iHches long by ~ inches In width. [
indian relics have been found abundantly in
several local lies within "A dozen miles OF the
CITY, but IN Hartford their discovery is be-
leVed 10 be rare. This one was found AZ A
,epth ot hardly three feet, and only a short
distance soul Of Asylum street, but IL WAS in
cation has doubt ess changed good deal
whiting the last go years.
"IS THE old days, says Col. snowden. ex-