Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

IN a Michigan perjury trial it came out
that the prisoner had uplifted his left hand
instead of the right in making oath to the lie,
supDOsIng that thereby he eXculpated himself
from legal responsibility.
\ WITTY DEACON puts it thus: ''Now.
brethren, let us get up a supper and eat our
selves rich. Buy your food; then give 1t TO
the church; then go and buy it back again;
then eat 1t up, and your church DEBT is pald."
1T is strange how difficult of conversion
missionaries find Jews all over the world. A
society for the conversion Of Jews has just re-
ported a gain of four converts, ana an eXpen-
diture of $S5,427. Converts at $4,000 apiece
are surely rather dear.
GRANT BROTHERS, of Chattanooga, on Tues
day closed a transaction for the sale OF two
acres on the corner of Royce and MOntgOm
cry avenue, for $4,000 to Willingham X Co..
of Columbus, Ga. They will at once remove
To that city large planning mill, employing
over 100 workmen.
DAKOTA has nearly 100000 acres of land
which will ultimately be sold and the pro-
cceds turned over to the general school fund.
If sold at an average of SO per acre they
will make a fund OF S60,0O0,09O. the interest
on which will be nearly enough to run the
school system of the territory.
CHEMISTS have discovered that hair con-
tains an oil, = mucous substance, iron, oxide
OF manganese. phosphate anu carbonate OF
iron, flint and large proportion Of sulphur
White hair contains also phosphate of mag
nesia, and its oil is nearly cOlOrless. When
hair becomes suddenly white from terror 1t
is prOba bly, owing to the sulphur absorbing
the oil as in the operation of whitening wooden
cloths.
CAMELs are great lovers OF tobacco Let
anyone smoke pipe or cigar in the camel
compound and the camel will follow the
smO6er about, place his nose close to the
burning tobacco, inhale the fumes with pro-
longed sniff, swallowing the smoke, then
throwing his head up, with mouth agape and
eyes upturned, showing the blOOdshOt whites,
will grunt a sigh of ecstasy that would make
the fortune of low comedian In love scene.
IN his last days Macaulay was grievously
vexed by the modern penalty of fame. Any
one who thought he had genius or a griey-
ance wrote to him either to advance or extin-
guish it. as the case might be. The historian
in his journal mentions the clergyman who
wrote to him three times to ask what the al
fusion to st. Cecilia meant in the account of
the trial of Warren Hastings. 4 Scottish
gentleman, who wished to publish a novel,
wrote that he would be glad to come to Lon
dOa and submit his manuscript to the judg-
ment OF the essayist, if the latter would re-
NIT him $3.50. A cattle painter appealed TO
him, las he loved the fine arts" to hire or buy
him a COW to paint from. A schOOlmaster IN
Cheltenham, who published a wretched
pamphlet on British India, full of errors, re-
ceived a courteous note from Macaulay point
ing out tvs gross mistakes, WhereupOn the
schOOlmaster issued a new edition, which was
advertised as revised and corrected by Lord
Macaulay." These are the penalties of pOpu-
larty, and, as the story now goes, Lord Ten
nysOn is suffering acutely from the same
affictiOn. He has been obliged, we are told.
to give up answering, even by secretary, MS
multitudinOus correspondents, and so con-
signs the manuscript they send him to his
private Balaam box.