Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


about seventy-five car loads year.
THE costs in a cat killing case just tried
before the Chester county (Pa.) courts
amounted 10 $50, not including the lawyers
fees.
MEN employed in sinking we'll at Colman,
D. T., found 8 live frog imbedded in the earth
2s5 feet below the surface. chestnut gong)
Ting.
A PRISONER in the Elkton Jail charged with
murde!, spends his time counting the letters
words, verses and chapters in the Bible. He
claims to have made complete count ana ID
verifying it.
-FOUR BoATMEN walked into an ice cream
saloon in Elkton, asked the price Of gallon
OF cream, bought it, asked for four spoons,
and when they Quil each man had eaten MS
quart OF GOODNESS.
THE Palmer journal tells OF citizen who,
when the fire bell rang the other evening.
rushed to the man at the rope. shouting:
stop! Stop ringing that bell right away:
You mustn's do it! tn wake up my baby!'
A YOUNG colored man of Buffalo Is making
money by giving the most remarkable mu-
steal performances. he holds his mouth open,
taps his skull with q beer malet. and thus
plays tunes IN tones not unlike those OF the
Xlyophone. He seems not only TO nave a
wooden head but an empty one also.
while Miss Gertrude Grant was singing with
party of friends she suddenly became dumb,
not being able 10 sing or speak werd. A
physictan was called, who said the attack was
hysterical. but soon after she was partially
pRrslyzed. She is recovering slowly.
THE word meloeipede Is derived from two
Greek words, DaeIN, music, and pes, foot.
melocipede is. therefore, musical bicycle, 80
constructed that the rider, without any extra
exertion beyond that necessary to propel his
machine, can spedal out sonatas, wahEee,
marches, and in fact any music which may
suit his fancy as be wheels along.
A NEW planohette is made 10 Chicago by
mailing four short wooden legs under the rim
of mans hat by means Of pins run through
the cloth. On pieces Of paper the letters of
the alphabet are marked and so are the words
"yes'' and mo- on separate bits Of paper.
Persons with mediumistic or electrical quail
ties derive much fuH from making the hat
spell out words By leaping from letter to let
ter. The toy is called ''the dancing Derby"
ABOUT 100 persons a day visit the con-
demned anarchists in jail in Chicago. Half
the visitors are ladies. They are not sympa-
thizers with the cause of anarchy, but regard
the prisoners as part OF the clty's sights.
| The physicians at the County Hospital are
endeavoring to get between IS 600 and $4,000
extra pay for their services In attending the
| policemen wounded during the riots. They
| say their salaries are only for attendance
| upon paupers.
AT a recent meeting Of the Industrial So
| ciety of Muhlhausen, Alsace. the President
| reported on the recently invented perforated
| window panes. which are said to be adj
| mirably adapted to hospital purposes, mas
much as they admit fresh air while prevent
ing draught. Each square metre of glass
| contains 5000 holes, which are of q comic
| shape, widening towards the inside. Many
| hospitals have already adopted these window
which inVRnttOn
| neer of the name Of Henkel, and are manu-
| featured by Messrs. Appert of Muhlhausen.
DURING recent trip of Queen Natalie, of
| Servia, one of the ladies Of her escort ordered
ut Szliacs, a railroad station near Buda-
| Pesth, some soup and a veal outlet, for which
she was charged thirty eight norins $50.
| On her remonstrance and the Intervention of
| police officer, who happened to be on the
| train, the restaurant keeper agreed to con-
I tent himselt with the sum Of eighteen forms,
| although he thought il hard to he obliged to
| pay out of his own pocket for the floral dis
| play IN honor of Queen Natalie, the amount
| of which he had originally added to his little
| bill.
| SECRETARY JACKSON, Of the New York
| Board Of Emigration. has received a commu-
nication from c. B. Richard & Co., the agents
of the Hamburg American Line. stating that
| according to cable advices received from
| their agents over 5000 Russian and Rou-
| manian paupers had started from Hamburg
for New York by English lines during the past
fortnight The low rates offered by the
agents of English lines at Hamburg had at
| tracted great numbers OF these paupers to
that port. The rates offered them were IS 40,
or So marks. The panpers were shipped from
| Hamburg by way Of Liverpool. Secretary
| jackson will see that all of the immigrants
| arriving by the English steamers are care
| fully inspected.
FRED II. CARRUTR is the name of the editor,
owner, publisher and humorist Of the Estel-
line (Dak.) Bell. whose witty paragraphs
have been so widely quoted recently. Speak
ing OF his paper the other day he said: ,'Peo-
Pile sometimes write to tell me what bloom
| ing success | am making Of the Bell. This is
all right, but there isn't much money In it:
for YOU see there are only $50 people all told
| in Estelline. and when you deduct from these
the women, children and Indians not taxed,
you can't have q very large subscription list
left However. have no fault TO find. as l
| make q living and something over, and have o
good deal OF fun between times, / owe all the
fame have got to the kindness of the press
in copying from my paper"
Hon. JAKE" CHILD, formerly the puissant
editor of the Richmond MOI Conserva tor,
and now United States Minister to Siam, Is
almost tickled to death over his reception by
the King Of Siam. Jake is quite sure that
the King must have heard in some way of the
COnservator. for the great Editor Minister
was escorted TO the palace by a procession
that recalled the splendors OF Ormus and the
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back on his old Missouri Democratic simplici-
ty by getting down on his knees and touch
ing his forehead to the floor nine times, the
King having courteously waived this core
mony. He just stood up and delivered a
little speech 10 the King in true American
style. The King seemed to be deeply touched
when he learned that the rockribbed Democ-
racy OF Missouri had heard Of his white eie-
plant.
"Gov. HILL" a pigeon owned by M. b.
Mcguire. Brooklyn, liberated, with three 9th
ers in Montgomery. Ala, the morning OF Aug.
IS, was found In the home loft in New York
Friday. The airline distance covered about
s75 miles. The bird had to forage for itself for
ten DAYS, but returned In as good condition and
little ttred as if from hundred miles iy. The
record is the best vet made for distance to a
New York State loft. The bird owned by Will
liam Bennett, Newark, n. j., liberated the
morning OF Aug. q in Mississippi City, l.07E
miles from home, was shot and eaten by me-
gro the morning of Aug. % in l. wheat field,
near Brierfieid. Ala. The bird had been
ehristened T. r. Stockdale when in DIissls-
sippi in honor of the Democratic candidate
for Congress. The wings Of the bird and it,
silver leg-band are to be returned to the
owner.
Il PROF. ELISHA GRAY will exhibit in Chi
cago next week an interesting collection OF
telephone apparatus. large number OF
scientists and telephone experts have been
invited TO attepd the exhibition, together
with some OF the lawyers who are interested