Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-24
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THE latest fashionable notion in Boston ia
linguistic, and everybody is studying Italian.
THE Garfield memorial window at williams
Col eye has been finished at total cost of
S3,645.
NEW YORK women are said to be running
to double chins, and the cause is a too gener-
Gus diet and too lndolent habits.
A WALNUT TREE purchased in Straley coun-
ty, W, Va. for $3.50. was cut into four logs
ana sold In New York for 81, 800.
NJ. DEGIERs has been given $4,000 snuff
box: The Christmas gift is from Emperor
Wllham, but Germany f0ots the bill.
The British ship Winnipeg, now at Astoria,
made the voyage from Shanghai in exactly so
days-the quickest time on record.
THE number of sheep received at the Chica-
go stock yards last week was 80, 577, with one
exception the largest number on record.
LETTERS from Cannon Farrar to friends in
London are quoted to show the celebrated
| theolog isn'S admiration for Americans aud
American Institutions.
IMMIGRANT MOTHERS on West bound rail-
way trains have got so that they stow their
babies in the racks over the seats, intended
for the reception Of parcels. This is literally
the latest racket.
PHILADELPHIA art exhibition was not
financially successful. OF about IS 900 visl-
tors only 10000 paid admission fees, the others
being dead heads. The enterprise was more
an educational than commercial success.
THE GRADING on the incline up Lookout
mountain is now nearly completed, and the
ties are being delivered, They are very supe-
riOr dOuble-length cedar ties The rails have
also been contracted for. and the work is 60
ing ahead vigorously.
MILAN papers report the death Of Count
Porro de Lambertenghi, one of the most DIS
tinguished historical students of Italy. He
| came OF an old Milanese patrcian family and
| devoted himself to the investigation of Lom-
bard history, tie was in his 18th year.
MIsTLEToE for this Christmas has been i'm
! ported from England, and is also shipped from
the Southern States. 1t has borne transporta-
| ton well and looks bright and thrifty. The
waX-like berries on the imported are some
| what larger than on the parasite growth of
] this country.
THE SHIP CANAL to be cut by Bismarck g
| big spade from the Baltic clear across Ger
many to the German ocean will cost about
l56,000,O00 marks. With this national water
way. along which great war shiDs can steam,
| Germany, they say, will be impregnable to
the navles of the world.
M. GoUNOD kissed M. Massenet in public on
Paris stage the other night. Bounding over
The footligbts with much agility for man of
| 81, Gounod cried: Come to me. l am con-
| tent, my son. Come and embrace papa"
! Thereupon the author of the success Of the
| wear. lie Cin.'I upon Gounod's neck. The
| fills" Is twoscore years and three
ALTHOUGH a stanch friend and pleasant
companion to those whom he liked, the late
| Duke of Somerset was to the world at large
! one OF the haughtiest and most reserved OF
peers: a fit successor to that former Somerset
who deducted 100000 from his daughters
| portion because she sat down In his presence
without his permission.
MRS. THOMAS, of Philadelphia, reported at
meeting of bee keepers in Trenton last
| month that she had obtained an average $50
pounds of honey from twenty colonies or a
total crop of 5000 pounds. This was extracted
honey. for which she received 25c. per pound.
netting her, therefore, S37 80 per hive She
also cleared last year 81 eco from her poultry
yard, and runs twenty acre farm besides.
THE late James J DicksOn, of Gothenburg.
Sweden was the head of one of the largest
business houses of that country. For more
| than forty years he had been prominently
| identified with almost every Swedish enter
| prise OF observation-disclosures, educational
and benevolent. His time, labor and money
| were freely given to technical and training
| schools, libraries and public parks He was q
! brother of Baron Oscar Dickson, the distln-
guished patron of Arctic research.
! THE BALD HEAD of Senator Isham G. Harris
is a striking object to the visitor looking down
/ from the strangers gallery Of the United
| states Senate A deep scar, running in a
| semi-circle across the top of the skull, marks
| he energetic effort OF Federal cavalryman
| to end the SOutherner's career on the battle
! deld of Shiloh. Mr.. Harris. as Governor of
| Tennessee, was with Albert Sidney Johnston
| throughout that two days conflict, and it was
in his arms that the Confederate leader ex-
| pired.
COUPLE of Illinois county officials ap-
| peared in a Chicago lawyers office few DAYS
ago and desired to retain him TO come down
TO their section and assist TIL prosecuting at
torney and board of supervisors in a little
matter. what is the case?" he asked
well, we voted $4,000 to build an IRON
bridge. The bridge didn't cost but sl4, 900. but
we can't find where the other $4,000 went to"
"Oh, that's it. Well, know. | got 81. 900 of
1t for advising the contractor to skip with the
rest. He's in Canada now"
WORK on the residence of Mr.. Robert Gar
rett, No. Il Mt. Vernon Place. Baltimore, is
being vigorously pushed. The workmen are
engaged from a. m. TO 6 p. M, and then
after supper they work by electric light and
gas for two and half hours. The men get
double paw for the night work, and thus each
one OF them makes day and half each dav
| The push is to finish the interior work The
house is rapidly approaching completion. ana
VIII probably be finished by March The
pavement, over ~ feet long by Is feet wide is
being covered with North river IN. dag
stone. This work and material is fine and eX-
p nslve. The disputed part remains as il was
when the court interposed.
ELIHU VEDBER, now in Rome, was seriously
injured not long ago. He has a country place
near Rome, where he spent last summer.
Soon after his return TO Rome for the winter
he met with the accident which NAV put An
emu TO MS artlstlC career. he was engaged
one evening IN amusing his son upon the roof
OF his mouse. The two were flying kite The
house next to Mr.. Vedder's is several feet
lover. Mr.. VeGdar, absorbed in Hvlne the
kite, walked OF from the roof Of his own house
anu fell 20 the lower one OF his neighbours. In
I. ms tall MS entire weight was thrown upon his
right hand. This resulted IN breaking nearly
All the small bones of his hand. This was the
most serlous result Of the fall. In recovering.
these bones have knit together wrong. and the
result Is that they will have to be broken and
reset else his hand will be absolutely crippled
Tor doing any more work.
The RECENT MOVE Of the Baltimore and
ONO railroad in leasing the Staten Island
Rapid Transit roads property for terminal
facilities has brought into prominence the
subject Of tunneling the Narrows. A survey
Of the ground was made some time ago
AMI the execution OF the plan ia deemed by
competent engineers feasible ant even factlc
Investigatiun proved that the bottom is ~ a
rocky character. extending from shore 10
-a0re without interruption, and the spot
CHOSEN as me lest for The proposed tunuel was
from polut slightly north Of Fort WadsWOrth
about two miles below the Pavilion hotel
now 20 wen known 10 many Baltimoreapel