Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

/ ton which has Just elected Literary proof
reader and editor in chief" at salary of $500
/ per month.
/ GRAssHOPPERs accumulated in such guam
titles at gate on a ranch at Wheatland, Cal,
few days ago, that it was necessary to re-
J move them with a shovel in order to open the
! gate.
GEN. TIDBALL, commandment, Fort Monroe,
| Va, under Instructions from Maj. Gen. Han
cock, has sent a veteran soldier 10 Yorktown,
Va, TO guard the monument and grounds
from injury by relic hunters.
HAMPTON has enrolled this year 675 stn-
dents, Of whom 54S are negroes and 127 In
dams. With the 800 little coored children in
the Butler" primary day school. this makes
over l,O0O pupils who receive instruction on
its grounds.
NJ. THIEBAUT, who cast the reduced copy of
the Bartholdi statue for the city of Paris, con-
tracted for the completion of it by May l, but
failed to do so and forte ted thereby 5000
! francs. The original contract price was $1,000
francs-$l2 500.
THE cricket field seems to be becoming as
! dangerous as the football contests. Only a
few days since an accident of a shocking
character occurred at Haesowen. England.
Two players, IN attempting to catch a ball
which had been thrown up in the air, came
into violent collision. and one had mis- Jaw and
nose broken, his teeth knocked out and sus-
tanned other serious injuries. He was re-
moved from the field in an insensible state.
A MICRO -MEMBRANoUs FILTER has been con-
structed by a German engineer. the pores of
which are so fine that certain of the bacilli
supposed to be a cause of zvmotic diseases
cannot pass them. The construction of the
filter is based on the extreme 6neness of as
bestos hbres, which are precipitated upon
very fine brass wire sieve in such a way as to
form microlthic membrane. The number
OF pores per square mlllimetre is given at
| 100000.
THE institution of agricultural learning es-
tablished by Messrs. Moody and Sankey at
Mt. Hermon. Franklin county, Mass, occu-
pies several hundred acres of excellent land,
and IS now in successful operation 1t has
cost nearly $25O,0OO. and much more Is needed
to complete II on the plan contemplated by
It's founders. A now building was dedicated
last week. the cost of which. $4,000, was de-
frayed entirely by the royalty on Mr.. San
keys Gospel hymns.
JOB H. JACKSON, President of the Delaware
Car Works, made a remarkable address to the
young men of Wilmington on business sue
cess. Among his illustrations were S. F. B.
Morse, the inventor of the telegraph; George
Stephenson, John Wanamaker, Alexander T.
Stewart Cornelius Vanderbilt, Peter Cooper.
II. Is. Clatin. senator Brown of Georgia. who,
he says. could not read at manhood. but with
such odds he became Governor, Judge and
SENATOR ex-senator Davis of West Virginia,
VINO started life as a brakeman; Austin Cor
bin, Shelburn S. Merrill and John Roach.
FEW DAYS SINCE two gentlemen were ex-
plorng the cave in Lookout Mountain, about
three miles from Chattanooga. They had
proceeded about seven miles when they found
themselves In a large chamber, with a high
arChed root. While looking about the room
they were Mortified to find human skeleton
lying on large rock. 1t was in a perfect
A LARGO hpP Of on
rlOus shaped beads were fOund about the skel-
eton. They were taken to Chattanooga and
are on exhibition. Nothing was found in the
cave that would indicate the identity of the
skeleton.
S. S. Cox, in writing on Congressional
humor, omitted several of the best things which
have been said while he has been a Representa-
tive, his modesty preventing his repeating his
own bon mots. One of these was where the
henderson, when the roll was called, were
Cakes Ames of Massachusetts and Archer Of
Maryland. The yeas and nays We're called on
a railroad grab bill. and Archer, in his lndlg
nant haste to vote no, first responded to the
name of Ames and then to his own. This
duplicate Mop was greeted with shout Of
laughter and as 1t subsidized Cox sprang to his
feet, struck stage attitude, and exclaimed
in mournful tone, "Insatlate Archer, would
not one suthceP
In the Tadmore section of Pasquotank
county, n. c., the bears have killed great
many hogs and cattle this spring. Three cows
were caught in one night and two in another
last week. There have been frequent hunts,
and the bears have sometimes been shot after
they had made raid on the hogs and cattle,
but they have seldom been killed. On Tues
day night last large OK belonging to Jere
Nixon was reported missing. Eight armed
men procured dogs ana pursued Bruln so fast
that he was compelled 20 take to a tree,
where he was killed. He weighed nearly 600
pounds The pears secrete themselves in the
lmpassable cypress swamps, where they are
RAPIDLY increasing, and are beginning to be
very troublesome.
THE rotations in Office recall an anecdote
related of Mr.. jefferson, when, soon after his
accession to the Presidency, it was reported
he would adopt proscriptive policy. Mr..
Moore, Collector of the port of Alexandria
called at the W hite House one day, while the
President and some OF his Cabinet were taking
VINE after dinner. MIR. Madison politely va
Gated his chair next the President and gave it
to Mr.. Moore. The President inquired the
news. Said Moore: ''There has been a re-
cent event which, when known, will astonish
the whole nation" ''What il it?" anXiously
asked Mr.. jefferson. THAT Mr. Madison has
vacated his place. and that / occupy it, said
Moore. This bon mot put Mr.. Moore upon
velvet; he amused the President and his
guests and retained his Office.
r. W. JENNINGS, of Nashville. Tenn, re-
Gently had before his school for spelling, pro-
nouncing, and defining group Of words of
kindred meaning, such as homicide, suicide,
matricide. fratcde, patricide, parricide,
ororicide. regicide, tyrannicide, infanticide,
and uXoriclde, but having no word for the
killing OF husband he addressed communi-
cations 70 several gentlemen asking If they
could supply him with the same. DR.. Young
answered with the word maricide. In this
he was sustained 10y DR.. Harrison and Prof
Wcolwine: the latter gentleman, however,
adding: Ladies are 80 willing TO take hus-
bands and so unwilling to give them up that
the onense OF husband murder has not oc-
CURED often enough TO give name to the Of
Tense" Mr.. White, Of Lebanon, said andri-
eide and Prof. Wharton favored maricide.
THE lNcizing mania in France is Unsuitable.
The religious orders have been expelled, hos
pitfalls have been purged Of their chaplains.
schools Of their religious emblems. colleges of
their theological professors. But one insult
remained Il uniting itself at every corner
the word saint to wit. in the names of
streets; and 10 is against this, therefore. that
the cry - now raised. A voluminous report
on the remaining of Paris streets has lust been
presented TO the Municipal Council By one of
ITS members in which the prominent feature
rs proposal for wholesale unfrocking of the
saints. Ia some cases, indeed, the obnoxious
word IA % be left, owing TO secular assccia-
uonsi 5ante- heuye, for instance, and Saint
simon are still 10 have streets called after
Faub0urg 81. Antoine. the Rue St. Vincent dc
Paul, and so on, are all 10 be purged OF the
clerical faint. The Boulevard DIES Capucines
ia IN NTNII Inn saNHs rl..