Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

is about to be undertake IN Honolulu, Wnere
the disease is spreading to al alarming ex-
tent
THERE are twenty persons whose gifts to
colleges aggregate over s23 100000. Three OF
these rich men--Stephen Girard, Johns Hop
kIns and Asa Packer-gave over Sl4,oOJ,Ooo'
Is the Maine state Reform Senool instruc-
ton is given IN mechanical trades. The boys
are carefully taught, first, the names and
uses of tools, and then how TO use and keep
them in order.
VI. DE QUATREFAGEs stated recently at
meeting OF the AGA iemie DIES Sciences tnat IN
Senegamhia the incubation Of cattle against
pl uro- pneumonia and small -pON had been
pract-ed for centuries.
GIBRALTAR is thus mentioned in all
Spanish ncial documents: "Our most loyal
and noble city OF Gibraltar, in the Campo OF
Gibr ar, the city OF Gibraltar being IN the
temporary occupation Of the British
A SMALL brass calendar that President Gar
ield used to turn every morning, and that
now bears the date saturday, July 3, ISL"
never having been changed since that fatal
morning, is a pHized memento IN the home OF
Z. b. Hayes.
BY the breaking Of a gas main in front OF
the residence OF Il. c. Engelhi, at wilkes
barre, Pa, saturday, the gas made its way
through the soft earth INTO the basement OF
ire house, and. without moments warning,
the whole family. father, mother. daughter
ana a servant. who were eating supper were
prgstrsted They fell 10 the aOr lnseusible.
a neighbOr happened to call directly after,
and gave the alarm.
AT QUEEN NICTORIA's last drawing room
reception there were some splendid Eastern
costumes, and an Indian lady, having kissed
the Queens hand. offered her II jesty an ORR
entail salaam az she retire., 10 the great
Q n.t.trr a
quaint but very becoming Asiatlc dress OK
White. with oVerdres SIS richly embroidered win
gold ana regular Hastern vcil round the
head. She blazed with diamonds.
THE Old story about the size Of a whales
heart is being revived. A dissector was en-
gagged in getting out the heart Of very large
whale. While doing so his foot slipped and
he fell into one of the ventrices Of the heart.
Thence he was sliding into the aorta, ana, II
he had not been pullet out. would assuredly
have been sufOcate 4. After his rescue he cut
some rings IRON the aOrt4. ami found that he
could easily slip them over his shoulders
SANTIAGO DE CUBA is a strange city, haY-
ing very few roofs. \ Yankee. who was max
ing his first visit there recently remarked:
''Somehow ! can't tell when Pm indoors and
when I'm aout. I've got a room, or some
thin, in a Motel here, and I've been INTO it,
qu4ndarylng around, but | could not tell
when l was IN the Da Tor or when was in the
kitchen or back yard, so I'm standin' about
here in the Dark not to make any mistake. /
started down the street a minute ago, but l
got afraid l might make a mistake and git
arrested for beln' found in somebody's back
parlor.'
MAYOR ADAMS, of Erie, Pa, has a novel
appli, alton to open his term with. David Gu
/ tenkunst, saloon keeper, is an applicant
for the post of Police Chief, candidly stating
that he has no personal detective ability. but
that ms recently married wife is medium,
aole To detect burglars ana recover stolen
porperty by looking in a glass Of water. Fear
ing tile Mayor would not appoint his wife to
The post, GUteukUn-t a6ke it for himself, but
VIII let hi, wife ran the business. He states
that her see ng william l.. Scott in Congress
| while gazing in The glass determined that
gentleman to run.
TIE Oldest bank note probably in existence
in Europe is one preserved in the Asiatic Biu-
scum at st. Petersburg. 1t dates from the
year 1889 3. c., ana was issued by the Chinese
( Government 1t can be proved from Chinese
chrOnlclers that, IS early as 269l Is. {. bank
notes were current IN CHINA under the name
OF ing money The bank note preserved
at ST. Petersburg bears the name of the inn
perlal bank. date and number of issue, sig
ma aure Of mmdarln, AMI contains even a
I HAt 81 the punishment inflicted for forgery
/ OF notes. This relic of 1900 years ago Is
probably written, for printing from wooden
tablets Is said to have been introduced in
3 ,
The latest eccentricity of q young and
wealthy bachelor Of Philadelphia. whose
FRANKS have amused society for years, is that
Of goin TO fashionable restaurant for late
supper and insisting upon providing his own
tecle cloth. About three times week he aD-
pears between midnight and ! O'Clock a. m. =.
/ auu covers one OF ne tables in the mems cafe
/ WIN more or less gorgeous table cloth, gen
orally made OF some fancy shawl of Eastern
manufacture. On this he orders spread a lit
4 lie supper Tor two or three, and appears t.
take delight IN the sensation caused when a
/ newcomer first sees the startling cloth. He
hi now kept this up for weeks, and has not
US d the same cloth twice.
JAMES GREEN, Of Missouri, was, before the
war, one Of the leading men in the Unated
states Senate, says Ben: Perley Poore, and he
saved the South in the debate on the Lecomp-
tor question. H was the only m IN who. by
/ com uou consent. got the upper hand Of Doug
las IN that memorable discussion. and but for
him the Southeruers would have made a moor
show NJ Just then There seemed to be a
bright future opening for him. but like too
/ many others similarly situated, he thought
I no an could ri G in the world of politics
without passing good deal of time in the
har-rOoms of Washington. SIX wears later
he was often to be seen on Pennsylvania
/ avenue in state of heastly intOxication, his
. clothes covered with mud, and with his once
intelligent features swollen and disigured.
As--Ni --'A i+Ll 4 1f.o lIolu the AlnSQOm OF BAN
/ tam, situated between Batavia ana Sama-
/ rane, i'm Java, illustrate what has long been
/ claimed, that Bantam is the only earthly par
adise of the woman suGragists. Not that
women have the suffrage mere, though doubt
less they could II they desired. but that in
the Kingdom mentioned they absolutely con-
troll pubic Affairs. The head of the govern
menl rs so unfortunate us to be male but he
is entirely dependent upon his state Council.
Wmch "a made uB or women excl sivelv and
The highest military and civil authorities. AS
well az he sold cry, are of the same sex A
currespondent says That the ladies' of the
cavalry rite In the masculine STYLE wearing
sharp steel points Instead of spurs. Thev
carry pointed lance, which thew swing very
gracefully, and al-o ~ musket which il dis
charged at fun salop.
INTEREST IN the Rose Amber case in Com
uecticut is revived by news from strsiford
that Young fisherman is now living there
who was with the girl on the Oronoqus road
the evening previous TO hc- murder. lie
stayed with her lll after midnight aIthough
he nad prom seq, 10 meet his brother IN thor
smack at ~ O'Clock that night to take advan
tagc OF flde pu an outward passage lie
hually leli her short q stance from where
She was murdered, and ran hastily down
through the village 90 meet hs vessel Ills
footballs were heard by several residents ON
bus way Le met William Lewis carri.ge N
ls believed that Lewis oyeriook Rose Aabler
on ihe road, tnat hey quarrelled, and that he
uphfaluec her auQ charged her with uldclitv
to hin. she Wd- defiant, and finally he be.
cdue 500 in'uriated that De choked her. which.
WIN inc fright Doe gave. killed her. Then hnr