Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! VALUABLE MARBLE DEPOSITS have been dis
covered on the property of the Daisy Mining
Company, q few miles north of Chattanooga
There are 10 strata of varying shades and
thickness.
YACHTS seem to be a poor investment in
this country. The Puritan was sold for half
What she costfive months before, and the Am
tassddress Is said to have fetched 500 900, about
ne cost OF her cabin fittings.
THE PEN with which President Lincoln
sgned the emancipation proclamation was
few days ago stolen from Mrs. c. j. Adams
q Chicago. to whom it was presented by Mrs.
! lincoln. The two ladies were warm person al
friends, and Mrs. Adams valued the pen high
~ both as gift and relic.
a DESIRE to return home seems to have be-
cone epidemic, so to speak, among the
| Chinese in the far West. The Chinese regis
trati0n once in San Francisco was besi7Hed
on Oct. u and - by Mongolians anxious to
obtmn certificates. Many of the Celestials
| spent night in front Of the office.
ANOTHER large river, the Kasal, has just
been discovered IN Africa. Its length is I'M
known. Four hundred miles above its juno
InIe with the Congo it Is six miles wide.
thousands of hippOpOtami inhabt its wa4ers.
! Inc banks of this noble river are thickly pop
ulated by handsome. warlike people.
The POLICE JUSTICES assigned 20 the court
at the Tombs prison, in New York city, are
TammanY Democrats, and the County De-
mocracy candidates are thus placed at a dis
advantage, beng refused the customary ia
cilities for having constituents pardoned out,
! or released on light pail, or with suspended
fines.
a WRITER says that the medical idea OF q
| teaspoonful is one fluid drachm. This Is, in
fact, about the measurement Of that article
as used by our grandmSthers. But this and
the dessert spoon are now made 50 much
. Ia p~lV hat hoy hnl no aFl
two dnachms, and people who measure medi-
cine by them overdose themselves. The table
/ spoon remains as in the old days.
| A CURIOUS PUBLIC HOUSE is among the latest
attractions In Paris. 1t Is called the Galleys'
tavern. The walls are hung with paintings
representing the horrors of convict life, inter-
| spersed with portraits of notorious Com
| munlsts. All the walters are dressed in con-
| Wet uniform and wear the ball aud chain of
| the regu ar TOrcdt. The landlord is Citoyen
Maxine Llsbonne, one of the leaders of the
lnsurrectlon of ISL.
SIR JAMES PAGET has been trasing the
course of life of 1000 medical students, taken
al random from an English institute. He
found that 20 out of the 1000 achieved dis
tiBgulshed success 66 had considerable sue
cess; 5g4 made living; l24 had a very limited
success, not having made a fair practice
within 10 years after graduation, and So failed
uIterly! Nearly 10 per cent. 1861 of the whole
number left the profession after beginning
either study or practice. 81 died after enter
/ ing practice, and Al died when students.
A BUTCHER named Hubbard is lying seri-
! ously i'll at Leicester Eng.) Infrmary through
! injuries sustained in an exciting ARRAY with
Zulu. The Zulu was performing in a show
at the fair and was going through mimic war
fare, when Hubbard, being suspicious that the
man was painted, wetted his finger and
touched the Zulu on the back. The Zulu
leaped with shout at Hubbard and plunged
his assegai in Huhbard's face, Inficting a
serious wound, which it is feared will entail
the loss Of an eye. The Zulu was secured and
| Hubbard taken to the inhrmary.
THE MINISTER is still pow in Scotland.
"A few days ago." says gentleman writing
from a Scottish town, "our U. P. minister
found child on the doorstep Of his Sabbath
school. He remembered the child's face, and
brought the infant to the class where its
brother was struggling with the Shorter cate
! chism. This Is RObb's little sister, he ex-
| planned to the teacher. Brother you mean
| the lady ventured 90 remark. oh, no. said
| the minister. who did not ike to be CONTRA
| dlcted. This is your little sister. is it not?
| he said, authoritatively addressing the boy
| The latter looked sheeplsh, and IN umbled out:
| yes. sir. Whereupon the minister departe d
| triumphant. Then the other boys, who had
| held their peace in the awful presence, turned
| upon the perjured one. You liarp they cried:
! you ken fine it's laddie; you never had a
sister,"
| PROF. PACCARD has brought together notes
| from early voyagers, as well as naturalists
and others, bearing on the origin of the ma
tive races Of dogs. The article was prepared
as much to elicit information from others as
/ TO throw new light on a debated subject. 1t
! is remarked that the impression that the do
| nestle dog of the Old World has descended
| from wild species of dog, distinct from the
wolf, may be well founded, but that in Ameri
/ ca the evidence tends to prove that the Es-
klmo ana other domestic varieties OF dogs
/ were demesticated by the aboriglnes and
used by them before the discovery of Ameri-
| ca, our American varieties in some cases
| arising from the gray wolf, and the smaller
| Indian dogs from the prairie wolf, or coyote.
| Dnr1ng recent journey in Mexico, the re-
| semblsnce of the dogs 20 the coyote was
marked. The coyote and Indian dog are well
known In Montana to produce fertile or
| spring.
THERE are several large Russian settle
ments in Mcpherson and Campbell counties,
Oak. The people are said to be prosperous
but clannish, and addicted to strong drink.
Their houses are thus described: 1.-THE houses
are models OF architecture in their way. They
are usually built entirely of sod or boulders,
and divided into two apartments by a blanket
or strip OF calico stretched across from the
ceiling. AL the crevices and holes in the
walls are carefully filled with mud, skillfully
administered with large buffalo bone. When
dry the walls are nicely whitewashed both
inside and out, and il appears to be the pride
OF the Russian housewife to keep them as
white and clean as when first built Stepping
into this rather primitive abode, you will find
in one of the apartments a comfortable bed
usually made of feathers, which, with a rgde
bench or two, constitutes all the furniture
The house is heated by a huge. tight furnace
built of stone and mud. The only fuel used
IS hay. which is fed into the furnace by the
armful, after being tightly twisted"
They SAY that Ross Raymond, when he was
at Annapolis the other day. surpassed even
his own old exploits in the art OF money get
ting. He was maequerading under another
name and as New York Herald correspond
ent. Annapolis has among its citizens some
men Of means who are crack poker players.
Raymond, early IN his visit, became acquaint-
ed with one of these and borrowed $50 Two
days later he sat down to play poker with this
gentleman OF means. Raymond is a child Of
fortune, and luck ran his way, 80 that when
the game was over he had every dollar of his
opponent-two or three hundred-and as he
was leaving never said word about return
ing the Loan. The next day Raymond met his
friend. 81 say" he remarked, affahly
couldn't you loan me $50 until | get 20 Balti-
moreY" The gentleman OF means by this time
had smelled rat, and denounced RAYMOND
as fraud. He took the next train out of
town. His winningsand borrowings together
amounted to something like $500. The eeptle-
man who had loaned him the $50 is a promi-
nent official of Maryland.
VERY violent attack of Japo- mania has
seized upon san Francisco. For years past