Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

two hunters near sOnoma, Cal, in one week
recently.
ELECTRICITY is successfully employed to
work cotton crane in foundry at Saint
Ouen, France.
A BLACK PILGRIM OF the Hebrew faith was
seen IN Jerusalem recently. He was from
Cochin, in India.
A WYOMING Territory "Glee Club" has
lynched six men for horse stealing this year,
so far, without interfering with its musical
pursuits.
THE winner of the grand prize (s10. 900 at
Baden races this autumn belongs to an analyt-
zeal chemist, who bought her for $685. She
has since won him ten races, worth from
$4,000 to $35, 900, and would fetch as much at
auction.
PAUL CHARPEETIER communicated to the
Academy of Sciences OF Paris an account Of a
specimen Of pine found imbedded in a glacier
at an altitude of 2,475 metres. This is con-
slderably above the present cone Of the pine
in this country.
THE process Of fumigation forced upon
travellers by some Spanish towns in oonse-
quence of the cholera is so severe that some
people have TO be carried off on stretchers,
ana one woman. who begged hard to be let of,
died from the effects.
LETTERS from China represent that France
lost $4,000 men in the Tonquin campaign, and
that her losses in money, including the cost of
building forts, hospitals and frontier defenses,
were f43,000,000. while Chinas losses were
100000 men and 5000, 600.
The bridge to be constructed ~over the
Hawkesbury river, New South Wales, will
be a remarkable work. This double-track
railway bridge will be 5000 feet long, and the
piers. according to the plans will require to
be sunk about no feet in all below tide. The
estimated cost is not less than s2,000.000.
Two or three grains OF salt are sometimes
desirable to be taken with the statements of
lie NouDel2e Re0ue, of Paris, " hich journal de-
clares the Princess Henry OF Battenberg
Beatrice OF England to be SO pious as to
have several Bible verses embroidered upon
every article OF linen in her trousseaH.
HE was a most particular fellow about his
Clothes" writes a Washington correspondent,
speaking of no less person than the Father
Of his Country, land some of his brass but
tons he had cast with his initials G W., and
around their top the legend, Long live the
President. Such button lies before me as l
write"
DR.. COMFY states that 10000 children are
sent annually to psid nurses outside OF Paris.
More than One-half of the Partisan mothers
refuse to nurse their children, aud thus lay
themselves open to a charge of promoting in
fanticide. The neglect of this duty is said
also to be injurious to the mothers health as
well as to that of the child.
COLLECTION was taken up In a Kansas
church recently, and when the hat reached
the seat occupied by lady, her daughter and
little son, the two ladies found themselves
without cent of money, but young America
reached over and deposited a cent in the hat
and then whispered to his sister: ''There, |
Just saved this family from being white
washed"
81 HAVE stood on the top OF Roam noun
TAIN" says Prof. Sargent, the eminent au-
thority on American forests, land have seen
10000 acres of rhododendrons in bloom -
When seen from the distant valleys this mass
of bloom intermlxed with foliage is roam in
color, and hence the name Of the giant of the
Alleghenies. Prof. Sargent, by the wav,
starts southwark this week on a trip to the
Roam region.
A MARRIED WOMAN named Ward, aged 30,
has just made a seventh attempt to commit
suicide in Dublin. On each occasion she at
tempted to take her life by swallowing
poison. Owing to her mania for suicide she
was confined in an asylum, but was dis
charged, and recently she ate the heads of a
number of matches and drank phosphoric
liquid. She was afterwards conveyed to the
hospital IN an unconscious state.
AT Tacoma, W t., Bishop Walden IN. e.
was trying to raise $1,000 to pay OF church
debt. why" he exclaimed, every property
owner here ought to subscribe. II owned
corner lot In Tacoma, I'd give $50 myself"
IA right. Bishop" said a member of the
congregation; give your $50 and call at nv
Office to morrow morning for the deed of your
corner lot" The bargain was carried out.
NORTH MINNEAPoLIs LADY recently en-
gagged a new servant, and one day instructed
her to tell callers she was not At home. A
visitor asked for her mistress. Bridget re-
plied, mo, mum; she's not at hum" "when
will she return" asked the caller Faith
thin, and she won't return" said Bridget
what, has che gone away for good?" Och
murther, she's not gone. Win she's at hum
she's not at ham; and when she's not at hum
she's at hum. Come whin she's not at hum"
LOUIS ULBAcH, the novelist, tells the fol-
lowing anecdote 10 illustrate the extraordi-
nary self-conceit of Victor lingo: One day
in January, 1871, Hugo said to UIbach, "I am
afraid there is nothing left but for me to put
on National Guard uniform and place myself
as defender on the bastiOns. l know / shall
fall. but the war will then be at an end"
"For you, certainly" Ulbaeh replied, but
not for France" From that moment Victor
Hugo harbored a deep aversion 90 his former
friend, which he took no pains to conceal.
TIE typhus epidemic which prevailed at
Wiesbaden early in the summer has helped to
swell the list of guests at Homburg, which has
never been SO full as this season, not even in
the gambling days. But great change has
come over the visitors in regard to national
ity. Formerly the Germans and French were
in a large majority, whereas now the English
appear to have chosen Homburg, like the En-
gadine in Switzerland. for their special prom
ised land. so that the place has the appearance
OF a British colony, and other folk appear al
most as lnIruders.
IN the camp Of New York regiment WAS
a pet crow belonging to Henry Duval. This
crow had but one leg. IL was fed in the
presence of other crows, that looked with
wonder 1T its fearlessness. They evidently
supposed his loss of leg accounted for the
care he received. for one day, when il was
whstled for to come 30 its dinner, a crow
topped from a crowd OF visiting cro1Us
hoped on one leg to the soldier, ate hearth
and hoped twenty feet away. Then it let
down its other leg. which had been hidden
under its wing, ana flew away.
A GOOD land true) story is told by the Hart
ford Ooardnt of budding theologian who re-
Gently graduated out Of progressi ve orthodoxy
into Unitarianism. He made his appearance
at Name eeacoast town this summer. an
his intention 10 spend his vacation
on the water, and went strRightway to the
wharf TO hire a rOwbOat. About an hour
afterwarj deacon Of the local orthodox
church came across the rev
erend gentleman down the bay. sitting with
his face 10 the bow Of the boat, and rowing
The deacon thinks there NJ
a moral, o. symbol. or an allegory or some
thing, IN the incident.
HAROLD, the sire OF Maud s., still liyes at
the age Of 20 years at woodburn, Ky. lie is
full OF life aud vigor. q rather peculiarly
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