Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-01
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| field. Gladstone. and Salisbury all meet on
common ground in this respect.
| Two OF THE TOES of my buried leg overlap
each other and pain me dreadfuIly." said the
wife of Jacob Berean, of Marlboro, Mass. The
/ leg had been amputated and buried one
month. The husband, unknown to the wife,
| had the leg eXhumed a the toes straight
| ened out, aDd she said she knew by the relief
! that followed the exact moment the act was
| performed.
! THE PALMA CHRISTIE PLANT. now being ex-
tenslvely planted in parts Of South Carolina
as substitute for cotton, is as easily Guilt
/ waited "a corn, requires no particular care in
! handling the seed, and yields a large pr ont.
| lie climate of lower South Carolina is all
the plant attalns remarkable growth without
! labor or attention,
AT HOrristown John Englerth sued W, FL
wood Ely for rent amounting to $ls4. The
defendant proved that the plaintiff had
three dogs which were such expert thieves
tn 1t they had stolen enough from him in
ylctuals to greatly reduce the claim. The
| Board OF Arbltrators, before which the case
came. gave the plaintiff $40 making the thsfts
by the dogs reach money value Of $l44.
SOME English gentlewomen have been sight
seeing in Chinatown. the Mongolian quarter
of san Francisco. They were particularly
interested in the Chinese wives. In Chinese
Alley they had the sad sight of several va
cant girlish faces, hapless rather than I'M
happy, planted lehi"d little latticed windows
and looking fair with their glabrous black
tresses and eyes aslant upon the sunless back
ground Of their deus.
WHEN man gets ''good and r1ch," as the
darkies just over the Delaware line say. about
the first thing he does ia to build big house.
nch is the case with t. millionaire electrl
/ clan Of Cleveland, Charles f. Brush, who has
ab ut fini-he for himself the finest house in
/ Ohio. The buildi e. which is OF Amherst
/ buff stone, glori1es the glorious Euclid ave
nue. up by the lake. 1t is probable that Mr..
! t{rush will not burn tallow dips in his new
house.
! WHAT are called ''brasseries humoris-
tiques" are all the vogue in Paris. They be-
gan with the 'Auberge des Adrets." where
the garcons wear knee -breeches and doublets.
/ Theu come the "Chat-Noir." whose customers
are served by elderly men dressed as Acade
/ micians. After this a needy reyolutiOnist
! started the "Taverne du Bagne," with watt
/ ers in convict uniform. Finally, another en-
| terprising publican opened the "Abbaye de
/ Iheleme," with barmaids got up as nuns and
! barmen as monks.
/ THE biologists of the country are greatly
exercised over the exploits of scamp who
has swindled them right and left by borrow
! ing or stealing books, which he would pawn,
ana by assuming the names Of respectable
! teachers, in order to sw1ndle teachers and
| others. He has remarkable amount of geo
/ logical knowledge, especially in fossil ,tauv,
and has clevery kept his identity complete
secret His present address is well known,
/ however the county jail, El horn, Wis.
! ENGLISH JOURNALS record the late voyage
of large steamer owned in London, which
/ has been fitted to burn petroleum Good time
was made. and gem raj satisfaction is ex-
pressed with the experiment. The consump
! ton of oil on The voyage was little over
] elGnt b hCnr
! day, while the cost Of coal for that period is
cacula' ed to be f.. Besides the saving IN
! coal, great saving will be etfec'ed in labor.
| there being no thOve'ling of coal into the FUR
naces ana no accumulation Of ashes to remove.
A VIENNA CORRESPONDENT gives this ex-
PLANTATION of the Cars rage against Prince
Alexander of Bull aria: II is said that when
! Gavril Pasha was overthrOwn all his papers
were seized, and among them was found an
extensive correspondence with Ru ian
agents, which royed that the Governor Cen
| eral had always C. nsidered himself n the
! service OF RussIa-not in that of the Porte
| This correspon fence was handed to Prince
Alexander. VIII, il is said, subsequently com.
| mitted 1t to English hands.
THE VICE PRESIDENTS WIDOW is left in
comfortable circumstances. She has herself
largely taken charge of the private business
affairs Of her husband and has man ged them
! with signal success-'smuch better" the VICE
| President used to say, ethan l could have
| done myself" The residence where Mr. Hen
drcks died, in Indianapolis is worth sl0,0GQ
and he had other property in the city, valued
al told. at about $780, 90. His life was also in
sured in considerable sum. Altogether it
estimated that he will leave 100000.
THE AMERICAN GIRL in Bronson Towards
new play talks in this way; Papa gave ne
some New York Central shares for my lat
birthday present. and just before | sailed lie
wanted to sell them for me. But thew we,e
only 81, aud he secretAr of the conpanyis
! superintendent of our SUNDAY school lie
| clergyman told me that he whispered to him
! the previous Sunday, while be was changing
his gown in the vestry, just before the sermon,
that New York Central was sure TO 20 ip.
| % told Pa no TO sell nine. NV banker here
! told me Yesterday that they were 10. Dear
| papa! never could get him to 20 to church
But he'll go regularly after this"
AT A RECENT MEETING of the Jockey Club
! the Duke OF Beaufort's motion for preventing
1.-THE Whip" being taken out OF the kingdom
was carried unanimously. 1t is said to have
! been the whip used by Charles III. when at
| Newmarket. In shape il is like an old-fash-
| Toned pc .tillion whip-straight aud heavy Ii
NAV be challenged for twice a year, and run
| for over the Beacon course of four miles ana
| quarter George ". won it when Prince
| Regent, with horse called Aurie. and It has
/ since been held by many of the most notable
| sportsmen of the day. The present holder is
Baron AlphOnse de Rothschild, who Won 1t
| the other day with Laveret.
| LIEUT.. GREELY's THEORIES respecting the
North Pole naturally meet with much opposi-
ton in England. 1t was his fortune during
his Imprisonment in the Arctic to upset the
| conclusions reached by Sir George Mares and
| his companions respecting the Plleacrystit
/ sea. Having cOntrOvertet what the EngiisA
| explorers assumed to be fac s. he cannot en-
| pect to have his own theories pass III |
| challenged. Lieut.. Greedy believes that thee |
| Il an ocean 1000 miles in diameter rou,d |
/ about the Poe. that never freezes: and COZ
lectures that he Pole itself is tie centre of IN |
| ice 'aphed land covered with ice from I.OO0o |
| 1900 feet thick. These conclusions are - |
jrcted by prominent Arctic authorities IN |
| England. /
A FRIEND Of ex-COngressman Cox, Of Ney |
! York, the present Minister to Turkey. saysie |
receives very gratifying letters from that ge |
tleman. His health has very much impropd
since his STAY &C Constautlnople. 1t isafct
! not generally known that MIR. Cox's heath
/ was seriously impaired during his lat tenn
| or two ia Congress He WAS much trouhed
| with cough, and had suffered one or p1re
/ hemorTha5es. His health ha. very much M
| proved, though, and the troublesome coash
entirely disappeared, 50 that some OF hls |
/ friends are predicting that he may be isain |
/ seen 10 Congress, rounding out his full taar-
| ter OF century OF service In the House Tbia
/ gentleman states that the report that MI Cox
! y engaged upon another book s an error
/ MT Cox will not, he says, write any more
! books, though his latest work, The Three .