Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TIE name of mare rescued from burn
ing stable at Manchester, N. H.. turned white.
YOUNG WIFE at Greensburg. Ind, sues
for divorce because her husband sealed her
ing.
1T Is not an uncommon thing for the bar
tender on an ocean steamship to sell % 900
worth OF liquor on the run from Liverpool to
New York.
IT IS CURIOUS FACT that the bell now
soundedin the first act of the current drama
at the Theatre Frsncaise in Paris Is one of
tnose which, in 1872, gave the signal for the
Massacre Of SAINT Bartholomey.
FEMALE LABOR is utilized IN every depart
ment of life in Northern SPAN, and yet work
does not seem to be a heritage of woe to these
peasant women. They chatter and laugh
with burdens on their backs that y donkey
could scarcely carry.
A CORRESPONDENCE Of a San Francisco news
paper tells of a mountain parrot, not much
larger than thrush, which kills sheep and
even cattle in New Zealand. So widespread
are the depredatious of these bloodthirsty
little birds that the farmers pay what seems
eNtravagant prices for their destruction.
Ar the Dublin police court recently young
gentleman named Cornell was fined 2Os. for
eXtlngushlng public lamps. The defendant
sald he was the victim of practical joke,
having been asked early in the morning by
person who asserted he was the public lamp
hgnter to assist him in putting out the lamps.
THE MOST POPULAR WAY of hocussing a Gus
toner in San Francisco dive is to wet the
inside Of glass with beer, puff tobacco smoke
into 1t until thick filmy coating has been
| formed, which is allowed to dry: then, when
the gay reVei has begun. the glass is filed
with beer and given to the victim, who kees
over as if smitten by club.
MANY Of the pretty anemones-the wind
flower, the meadow anemone, the passe -heur,
and the wood anemone were long since swept
into the pharmacopeia under the name of
pulsatilia. Now the sea anemone (Aed5so
dUf3td) Is found by some specialized scientist to
possess what he calls medical properties"
and Its beautiful head is to be ground up into
a specific for the govt.
GREAT MANY "LAED-LoCKED" salmon
were lately placed in the river Thames by the
Thames Angling Preservation Association in
the presence of several gentlemen who have a
deep interest in the development of fresh
water fisheries. This species of salmon is
considered to be admirably adapted for a life
IN the Thames, as 1t is not a migratory one.
rlsh tnat quit the waters of that river for the
sea are not likely to return to it ever again,
as the lower portion of the Thames is little
DETER than huge sewer.
ANY citizen of North Carolina can now en-
ter and stake off ten acres of oyster bottom
anywhere-with due regard to Riparian
rlght-at an expense of about S. and ten
acres VIII accommodate from 5000 to 5000
bushels of paintings, which IN twelve months
VIII multiply the Investment. with proper at
tention and cultivation fifty fold North
Carolina has in her lower sounds, BAYS,
rivers. creeks, and estuarIes more than 60O,0U0
acres of oyster bottom, land Loo ed, and pro-
tected from foreign dep citations.
THE MAKERS OF SAFES have seemingly Sc
cured triumph in the unremitting warfare
between them he
The latest fashion is to make the exterior of a
SAFE perfectly smooth, without any joints for
the lnser ion of wedges. The door has no
hole through 1t, and, moreover, is alright.
Ihls prevents the Introduction of powder by
means of the bow pipe, and, finally. the time
lock IS arranged so that even an explosion of
dynamite inside the plates of the door cannot
disarrange 1t. Or this is what the safe makers
assert.
IF THE TELLER of a French bank mas
doubts as to the honesty of an unknown Gus
toner. he does not trust to his memory to re-
call the features of the person he suspects, but
calls on science to protect the bank. He gives
private signal to the cashier, and that re-
sponslble officer, while the teller is in the act
OF making payment, brings the Photographic
cam ra conveniently placed beside him, but
invisible TO the cnstomers) to bear upon the un-
suspectlng party, and on leaving the bank he
leaves proof of his identity after him with
out In any degree being conscious of the fact.
has been broken up. 1t consisted of a captain,
aged Is years, who has done time in the House
OF Refuge; a lieutenant of 9, escaped from a
Truants' Home. and three other members.
aged respectively 10, II and years. two of
W ON had been arrested. They we're "made
to jine hands and swear dat we wouldn't
squeal--if any man gave it away, his head
was to be split wild an AK" One of the gang
'lay bones for de cop outside the house
while the others rang. II the bell was
answered. they begged, but if the house was
unoccupied they forced the door with a
jimmy, and robbed it. Several hundred dol
lars worth Of plumber was found in the head
quarters of the gang.
THE announcement is made that young Mr.
Augustus Iturbide, the heir, somewhat re-
motely, apparent to the Mexican throne, will
not return to Washington. He and his mother
have taken up their residence in Mexico and
Temaln there. The handsome residence oc-
cupled by the family in W ashington is adver-
tlsed for sale. The young man Possesses none
OF the qua tiles of aggressive leadership, such
as would be necessary to accomplish what a
| few snobbish friends are said to be expecting
of HIM. He has been bred to the bar has sim
certify and industry. and many amiable per-
sonal qualities. uut he is not brilliant and he
is not a schemer, and in uprooting the exist
ing order OF things in Mexico would be likely
to fare no better tn q did Macmillan. whom
IN genial temperament and polite attachments
he very mueh resembles.
Nh. IHoANNCR0FT, tho sculptor tbut bet
ter known as the husband of Mrs. Thorny-
croft, died few days ago at the residence
of his son.in-law, NJ Sassoon, in London.
Mrs. Thornycroft, who survives her husband.
is the lady whose works attracted the atten-
ton of the Queen when her children were
Young. Mrs. Thornycroft executed at Rome
her famous work called ''The Sleeping ChiId'':
and when Her Majesty consulted the late Mr.
Gibson as to the selection of an artist to model
her children he re erred to this particular
work, and recommended that The commission
should be given to that lady. She subse-
| quently eNecu ed statue OF the Princess
Alice, and the Queen was so pleased with il
that she asked airs. 1hornycTo to under
take the Prince Of Wales, the Princess ROYAL
and Prince Alfred. his series waseNhibited
at the Royal Academy rs ''The Four Seasonal
and is now at Windsor Castle.
SIR PETER LUNsDEN's paper on bis exper-
fences in Afghanistan, read before the ROYAL
Geographical Society, in London, cont aims an
account of the curious lake upon which the
Tekke Turcomans are dependent for their
supplies Of salt. The lake is SIX miles square,
u situatei az an elevation of about fourteen
hundred feet above the sea- level. Ard is sur
rounded on az sides by stern precipltous de-
scent. The weld Of salt ia practically unhm-
tied. for the bed Of the lake is one rOlid mass
OF level rock salt, covered only by an inch or
two Of water, the depth Of the deposit being
unknown. A second lake furnishes the Sar-
Yks OF Penideh with salt. This lake is much
larger than the one just described, and the
sGi In IL does not present such a smooth nm
broken surface. The salt is dug out in the
F..na n ~ a.