Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-11-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

SENATOR Ev4Rrs has arrived at Windsor,
VT. from New York He intends to remain
at his Summer residence there until the as
sembiing of Con Sress.
CHINAMAN has purchased for $4,000 the
exclusive privilege of selling oDium in Pan
anna. The money is devoted partly to nos
p tas and partly 10 reducing the government
debt.
TWO FLoCEs Of turkeys met on a railroad
track near Salisbury, Mo-, and engaged in
combat. A tran came along and xii ed
twelve which were lighting so busily that they
hau no time to get out of the way.
DR.. ALFRED RUSSELL WALLACE, the emf
nent English naturalist, now in this coun-
try. Is aboIt go wears old. tail though st1Op-
ing. with white hair and beard, but fresh
countenance and bright eyes looking out
through glasses.
A TBREE-YEAR-oLD child in Harrisburg got
bottle Of whisky and drank two ounces. 1t
then fell into drums en- stup r and It's life
was say with iii fhculty. 1t came out OF the
stupor with every indication of having a ire
mendous mead, and demanded water continu-
ously.
FOLLOWING the example OF French astrono-
mers, Herr Won Gothard, director of the OBJ
servatorv of Herenv, in Hungary. has sue
ceeded IN revealing by photogra ply the exist
ence If star of the eighth or ninth magni-
with the best telescope.
TIE new Catholic cemetery near Chatta-
nooga is to be co nsecrated next Thurs lay, by
Bishop Rademachar, of Nashville. with ap-
propriate cerem" mics. The remains of Rev.
Father Pa rick Ryan who died of yellow
fever while at his post of duty in 1873. will be
the hrst inferred in the new cemetery.
THE waterproofng of paper is now most
efectually accomplished by mixture of so
per cent. Of rosin, 45 OF para fire and of sill
cate of soda, these in gradients be ng thor
oughlV ming ed by heat ting hem together and
by agitation. This composition is found pc
culiarly applicable for building or shcathing
paper.
SENATOR HALE. of Maine, will take the Gu
harder Etrura next Saturday and accom-
company his 'aully to Paris. where they will
rem ain for the winter spending the next year
or SO in Europe. He will go abroad next year
ami pass the summer with them He ex-
poets to be back in Washington when Con-
gresS opens.
Two young men of Iona, Mich. were play
ing with a rifle in a barroom. One put
lemon on his head and the o her armed at it.
He pulled the trigger, quit uainte ntionally,
the gun was discharged, the bullet knocked
the lemon into fragments, and the young men
were nearly scared out Of their wits at the
unexpected conclusion Of their fun.
JOHN F. ANDREW. the late Democratic can
didaie for Governor while chatting with
some friends yesterday, was cougra ulated on
his excellent showing. ut reminds me-" he
rep L d. 'of the story of The enthu-iasl but
unskllled sportsman. who said, when asked
of the con ents OF his game bag, 4 didn't
get any birds, but I gave them devil Of
serenade.'"
MRS. JOHN STEELE white woma an, said to
be the daughter of a wealthy Virginia family
was buried from a cOlored church in Fl is
4 - on do Lswr. r .
nent cOiored ministers OF the city offrIated
1t 10 50 ID that she ran away with her faith RS
c'achman when girl. ami ever after ldenti-
fed here with the people o. her hus band, a
handsome and intelligent mulattO.
AN ingenious contrvance for the prompt
detection of fire damp IN mines has been
tested. A child's Ind a-rubber ball with
hole 10 it is squeezed lat in the hand ana
hel in the place suspect ed of fire. d amp: it is
then released and allowed TO suck in a sample
of the ar; the ball is now directed toward a
safeGy-iamp and again squeeze d, when the
tell-tae blue fame W II show if it contains
any lntlam mable vdpor.
EDGAR LI1TLBJoEN, of Cane Elizabeth.
Me-. put SOL in the stove for safe Keeping.
and his wife built fire IN the stove. The
bills were rescued, charred and apparently
Worthlt IS heap, but Lat ejohn took them L.
Postmaster Palmer of Portland. made affida-
Wit as 10 the num Der and dpnomi n alton of the
burned bills, the POstin aster wrote good let
ter 10 the authorities in Washington, and the
other day Lntlejohn received a check for the
fun amount.
Com. W. II. WEITING, United States NAVY.
stationed at the New York navy ward. has
been informed in a letter from the Treasury
Department that certain ladies' and sents'
furnishings brought from broad for him h,
the paYmaster OF the United States steamship
Saratoga cannot be regarded as o -rsonaI
euects. as ne qua not make the voyage wit
the goods. Therefore he VIII have to pay
duty on such as are duuable, as directed in 4
former letter with relation 10 dutiable goods
on The Portsmouth and saratoga.
THE Washington street car companies have
been made uneasy by the receipt of large
number of five cent pieces very bright and
new in appearance, but having an OLD date
and worn IN places. he Inference was thar
they were counterfeit, Some were sent 10
Chlef Brooks, OF the secret service, for exaIni-
DA lon. lie discovered that they were rood
They were some tn mad been in circulation
once but han accumulated n the government
vaults. When he emAnd Tor small coin YoL
great month or SO ago these were pol
Ished up at The mint aud put out.
OTIS HOLDEN, of Moose River. Me-. was
carried there oy his mother on snow shoes
over seventy years ago. Of his father it is
tod by the Fairfield journal that when he
heard a Mr. } ncrman had settled al .Jacks
mantoW n, ten mics away, he wss Indignant
and asked II the world was not large en..ugh
wi nOut crowdInga fellow so. BuG we guts,
that The somew nat known old set ler Daniel
Boon, got ahead OF the veteran III ,lden bv n
hundred years or so in perpetrating this little
joke. 1t vas Booze " no, after living several
years IN the keCiucky wilderness. hearIn,,
that a ''neighJor" had come within 100 mfrs
of h'm,. got mad, plcked up his tra.s, and
moved West.
WHAT must be considered the heaviest gup
at present in existence has been just shipped
at Antwerp for Italy. 1t was manufactured
by Krupp, is 81 eet long, weighs nearly l16
ions without the breech piece, and Ils ions
80 cWt., With the breech. 1t arrived ct Ant
" erp ON specially G. Instructed carriage l05
feet long. an running on THIRTY two wheels
IL was at nrst intended TO send II e gun over
land; but the 1T. GOthard railway and other
Swiss railways objet ting on account of lila
great " Q shl. ana /, aIing FIR their bridges
the weapon had ~ be taken to Antwerp. and
thence forwarded 10 Italy by sea. It's nil
mount d IN one OF the lr0ncl al ports guard
ing that harbor.
A BosToN MAN tells how few in England
upG rstand American English. II had not
been IN Liverpool an hour" he says, "when
became convinced that had much to learn
about the English language. When entered
nay hotel / ask, the young woman who re-
ceived me: w nat are your termsY ana had I
spoken ChOctaw she could not have under
stood me less. What do you charge a dave
/ next ventured. Charger she replied.
vaguely, ana gave IL up Another woman
wa summoned, and Lried again. 'Ah! Won
want the tarlffP she said at laAt and sure