Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

them. The keepers were forced to retreat
finally.
ONE OF the professors of the Cooper Medical
College in San Francisco employs steerer in
the person of a comedy young woman who
dresses IN silks, satins, sealskin sacque, a Ia
mode. and stays at the Pacific hotel, where
wealthy people are influenced, if possible, to
employ him.
EUROPEANS in Simla, India, were recently
terribly distressed by a report that Queen
Victoria was suffering from hydrophobia.
Ultimately it turned out that a careless tele-
graph clerk had mistaken the word NC
Queen" for Queen, and "Hyderabad" for
hydrophobla.
ONE Of the speakers at the Buffalo Faith
Convention said that previous to his CONVEX
sion and his adherence to the cure by faith
cult, he was 100000 IN debt and IN the financial
dumps generally. Subsequently ne was able
10 pay all his debts and become successful
business man.
THE latest Nevada romance is that three
hogs at Hawthorne devoured eight boxes of
giant powder. The owner OF the stuff, in his
anger, hurried a rock at one of the animals,
which caused her to explode with sreat force
and TO scatter fragments OF flesh all over the
surrounding country.
PROF. RECLAIM, the German hygienist, de-
clares that might air is injurious only in
sw m by regions, whereas on dry soil, in the
mountains and every where in the upper stO-
rles of house u is more salubriOus than day
air -" "Draughts," he adds, "are not inju-
rlous unless we are in a glow. To healthy
persons it cannot possibly 10 as much harm
as the stagnant air in a close ROOM"
WALTER RYE has published "History of
Norfolk" He gives some curious instances
of fictitious Norman pedlgrees. The How
ards, it would seem, are descended from
hog ward, whose business 1t was to mind
hogs; the TOwushends from one John alta
Townsend, who was a small tenant farmer
in 1898; the Bulwers from the bull ward, as
the man was called who looked after the
manor bull.
CAREERS can no longer say that Harvard
fosters Anglomania. A Harvard professor
who is famous for his beautiful way of speak
ing English, said to a class of sophomores on
Saturday: "Io-mOrrOW evening you Will hear
canon Farrar lecture in Appleton Chapel.
You will notice that he drops his g's and says
comm goin',' and so on. But beg you not
to think that this is the thing to do. Don't
initiate him in that"
A NEW USE has been discovered for the
musical instrument of torture called the bag
pipes. Last year, it seems, Spanish soldier
was brought to the military hospital at
Havana in state of catalepsy, and for Is
months he showed no signs of improving
health. At last the doctors ordered the bag
pipes to be play ed near his bed, whereupon
the man promptly recovered consciousness,
ana Is now able TO artlculate.
WILD FOX GRAPES, in the Allegheny noun
tains in West Virginia, are made into jelly
and sold by the residents in those poor cabins
to the keepers of the cross roads ''stores' for
Is ceuts a pound, the pay to be "in trade"
Probably a little 'benzIne" is included in
that trade. The jelly is of two kinds, one
dark blue, the other pale green, and both
are said to surpass the Scotch jams and jellIes
That in this country sell for rs cents pound.
las Thomas and Lucy Somes lived in Mt.
Desert, Me-, and wanted to be married. There
was no minister within thirty miles, and so
they married themselves. On the town rec
ords, under daie of 1850, Is the contract which
they drew up and signed, agreeing, IN 1.-THE
pI essence of God, the angels, and these wit
ness,s, to love, to cherish, and nourish," and
to Glove, honor, and obey" as husband and
wife, so long as God should continue their
lives.
A CUSTOM of the days gone by still obtains
in the District of Columbia courts. Accord
ing to an old Maryland law the foreman of
each jury is presented with a pound of to-
baccO on rendering the verdict in each case.
AS this is far in excess OF the demand for the
weed, the cash equivalent of IL is substituted.
The tobacco fund amounts TO considerable
um during a term of court. and is usually
devoted to the purchase of cane for the fore
man, bouquets for the Judge and minor COM
IOrLs for the jurors.
THE Ear Of Dionysius," in Sicily, is a long
limestone tunnel with a wide mouth 1t is
about 20 feet high for distance of about 200
yards, after which the roof descends. At the
further eXtremi Of the high arch, and about
80 feet from the floor, is a small concealed
chamber eXcavatt q in the rock, in which,
according TO tradition, DOnyslus sat to listen
to the conversation Of his prisoners below,
who whispered stealthily of their plots and
other doings. 1t is a fact that sounds pro-
duced he oW are so reverberated thai slight
whisper, II utt red near one of the walls can
be heard in this chamber al about 200 feet
distance.
lat THE last session Of the Board of Super
yisors OF Tehama county, says a San Fran
cisco correspondent, Greed Raymond made
some interesting statements in regard to the
disposition of Senator stanford's property in
that county. He declared that al the Sena-
tors property IN Tehama county, aud espe-
cialy the fine vineyard, will be divided into
40-acre tracts and rented, the proceeds going
TO HE proposed university and schools at Palo
Alto. MIR. Raymond said also that the rs
trustees who are To have charge OF the prop
erty of the university, will be selected and in-
stalled in o1ice by March 5, 1885. The Sena-
tors idea is TO make the university, founded
in memory OF his dead son, the leading school
Of industrial education IN the UniteI States"
"A LIQUOR DEALER in East Douglass, Mass.
has the following printed on the back of his
business cards: ITO whom it may concern.
Know ye that by the payment of 1925 l am
permitted to retail intoxicating liquors at my
saloon IN this town. To the vile who has a
drunkard for a husband, or a friend who is
unfortunately dlssipated, say emphAtically,
give me notice in person OF such case, or
cares, In which YOU are interested, and all
such shall be excluded from my place. Let
mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers do like
wise. and their request will be kindly re-
garded. pay heavy tax for the privilege
Of selling liquors, and want it distinctly un-
d,rstoOd that 1 have no desire to sell to
drunka or minors, or to the poor or desti-
| tute."
The BRIGADE OF GUARDS, who approach
most nearly to the ideal wooden soldier, suffer
most from heart and lung diseases, and they
also follow out most closely the drill regula-
tions,' says Mr.. Lab)uchere. Il rememb Der a
few years ago watching a particularly smart
young sergeant OF the Coldstreams drilling A
squad of recruits His own well set-up figure
and the strict way IN which he made his men
hold themselves, must have been a treat TO a
soldiers eyes. Apparently he was the very
picture OF rude health, being broad -chested
and deep-yoiced. Feeling interested in him.
] conversed with him after the drill and ON
various Subsequent occasions. Judge of my
surprise when short time ago / was adj
dressed by a weak voiced, broken do n man.
who turned out e. be my friend the smart
sergeant lately discharged as suffering from
soldiers heart"
MRS. PHILLIPS and her daughter, OF Ham.
mOnton, n. j., were alone in their house nm