Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

home rule in Ireland. He Is dramatizing it
for Henry Irv ng. The poet laureate's
health IS said to be breaking.
WINE GRAPES are cheap in California this
season, though the crop is light. The finest
varieties will not bring over $40 a ton. The
( wlnemakers are making more discrimin alton
IN varieties than formerly.
4 CURIOSITY in the way Of funeral notices
is one lately printed in Brooklyn papers. 1t
Is published in the columns OF notices OF deaths,
ana Is in the usual form in every respect. ex-
cept That 1t ends with the suggestive sen =
tence' "be mas bequeaJhed to his young
| widow $4,000.
TIE SKELRToN of a man feet 81 inch
in height is on exhibition at the office of a
trm IN Thayer, Oregon county. Mo. The
/ skeleton is further said 10 have been disc0y .
cred by party of men who were exploring a
/ cave some three miles in length situated
about nine miles from IhaYer.
AT the annual clambake Of the Fat Men OF
! Connecticut, held this week at Dorlon's Point,
the feast included IS bushels of clans, 1000
Chlekens. loo pounds OF FISH. 600 pounds OF
J lobster. $500 ears of green corn, barrelsol
sMeet potatoes and of Irish potatoes, while
100 wstermelOns were provided for desert.
ONE large Saratoga trunk contained the
! Presidents wardrobe for the trip, and some
Adirondack mud wss still visible on its sides
when it was carried into the White House.
| 4
| nsherman's shirt of blue flannel. which con
| stltuted the Presidents makeup in the
| mountains, We're not brought back to Wash
| lngtOn.
CAMBRIDGE HOUSE, Piccadilly, which was
| so long occupied by the late Duke OF Cam
bridge, father of ithe present commander OF
| the forces, and in whose SALONS subsequently
| LAZY Palmerston held her celebrated mixed,
| yet refined and select Saturday, evening as
| sembhes, Is the property of Sir Richard SUIT
| ton OF the Genesta. and the town residence of
the family. The Duke and Lord PAlmerston
! merely rented it.
Hon. SAMUEL J. RANDALL went driving at
Long Branch with VIM. NJ. singerly, of the
| Philadelphia Record who Is politically OPP
| posed to Mr.. Randall. Somebody spoke to
| MIR. Randall about it. ''W hen my enemy
| drives the fHatest pair of horses in the place,
| and tells me they are liable to trot the best
| road mile on record almost any day," was the
| reply, II can sit very comfortably with him
| IN the same wagon"
A TELEGRAM from Rome contains an an-
nouncement that Is sure to stir the curiosity
! of all lovers OF history, art and archaeology.
King Humbert has signed a decree aul hOr-
lZing the establishment of a Byzantine mu-
scum at Ravenna. AS yet little is known of
the precise intentions of the promoters of the
museum. but the mere statement that the de-
cree is signed is enough to excite interest
/ throughout Europe. II there is to be By
zantlne museum, certainly Ravenna is of all
/ places the home for it.
DIR. JOHN B. BOND, of Little Rock, says
| Morphine sulphate is used to an alarming
extent throughout the Mississippi valley.
None but the druggists have any proper con-
ceptiOn Of the extent of it's use. In fact, some
/ of the druggists are not fully informed on the
| subject, for the morphine eater will often
| make the rONnds of the available drug stores
| IN order to conceal, as far rs PRACTICABLE the
4 ban he
/ wide awake and experienced druggist, will
! be able TO value at their real worth the ex-
cuses, the shams, and the romances of the NOR
| phine- cater"
In HEALTH Paris is on a level with a hun
| dred other places. 1t has nothing of its own
/ to offer. Its climate presents fair average
| of the qualities and faults of central CONT
| mental weather; the air is drier and more
/ vlvffying than that of England; extremes OF
| heat and cold are sometimes felt, but they are
| inIrequent; strong winds are rare, and though
| fogs nave become somewhat acclimated of
| late years, the air Is. on the whole, fairly
| bright and pleasant. The sanitary conditions
! are good, the sewage is excellent, the water is
| abundant and pure, and the precautions
/ against infection in all its forms are minute
and well applied.
THE PRINCE OF WALES enjoys a variety OF
| life such none of his predecessors ever
knew. He is here, there, and everywhere. If
! a careful record is kept Of his movements it
! Will really make a wonderful show eVentu-
! ally. In the spring he was at Berlin for the
| Emperor's birthday; lately he has been enter
! tanning Mr.. Gladstone at dinner ON board his
| yacht in Norway, and staying with Swedish
/ swelis In their country homes. he has seen
everything worth seeing, and knows Il very
! large number of the people worth knowing,
/ anu, having an excellent memory, has accu-
INFLATED a vast amount of knowledge without
| the trouble of reading.
SOME DAYS AGO a clerk in the Treasury De-
partment applied for promotion on the
| ground that he had been forty years in the
| service of the government, and twenty one
| years in the division of the Treasury Depart
| montin which he sought promotion. He was
very much surprised when told that the
| record developed the fact that the OnfV sur
| prise was that he had been kept in office as
| long as he had, and that it was shown that
| other clerks in the same room with him had
| performed more work IN twenty One mOnths
than he had in twenty-one years. lie in
| stantly Withdrew his request for promotion,
and promised that If allowed to retain his
| present position he would make q better
record in future.
A LONDON CORRESPONDENT writes: "There
have been rumors here that unless Nine. Patti
! lays by altogether this winter season, or over
comes her fear of cholera, she must look
Go America for gathering in the coin. The
prospected tour IN Germany offers very
meagre advantages. l Will just show you
! that the prima d0nnas terms are gradually
| coming down, and are sure to get lower still
Two seasons ago Nine. Patti received be-
| tween $4,000 ana $1,000 per a ght in America:
last season she received "a, UQe-still a gOodly
sum. This year she was paid 81. 500 per night
! here at COvent Garden, and IN Paris she Is to
receive $1,000 nightly II she sings there.
Finally la diva will have 10 accommodate
herself to more reduced scale still"
WHEN the guests OF turtle club At Ho.
boken, N. j., dled into the banquet hall the
other day they saw something that caused
deal OF merriment. The something was a big
| turtle on its back, reclining at its ease on a
/ bed made 10 order, placed ON a dais on the
/ middle of the long table. A pillow OF down
| supported its head, and the bedclOthes had
! been carefully tucked around il. Over its
| head a rubber hose had been suspended and
nc the end of the hose gardeners sprinkler
kept the sheildsh in grateful state OF mind
A wreath Of myrtle surrounded its heal
over the head OF the bed was the legend:
with the olive and tho myrtle
DO we crown the gentle turtle:
Give us credit for our kindness, Mr. Borgh."
AN INTERESTING DEEIzEN OF tho Keelings
Islands 10 the pure white tern (Gggis comida).
which Is TO the settlers az the swallow Is 70
us Most curious are its domestic arrange.
ments. IL builds no nest; but the female will
deposit her solitary egg upon the extended
leaf OF young cOcoanut palm. There 10
rests securely amid the twisting and heaying
Of the leaves in the wind, and while the leaf
"a IN oil palms, droops steadily downward 10
its fall. The process is often watched with
keen attention by the settlers, who will some.