Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| TUE shipment OF ice from Chic2g 90 to San
Francisco by trains run on passenger sched-
| uIe, to prevent loss by Lmelting, is the latest
commercial idea.
| SAN LUIS OBIsPo has Just lost one OF its
solid citizens He weighed 45O pounds, and
when he sat down had to have a chair direct
| ly In front OF him, on which he rested his pom
| dcrous abdomen.
THE proprietor OF a celebrated restaurant
out West is described by q local journal as be-
| Ing, in appearance and dress, a combination
OF an English Lord, a United States Senator,
an American poet and French painter.
In Sioux City, the youngest of Iowa towns.
ana at thu present time pretty near the most
enterprising, they have what they call
"Epitaph Club" Everything good that a
memher of IL does for the city to advance its
CROWN, or TO add to its civilization or charity,
! Is treasured up by the people to be placed on
MS epitaph at death.
THERE are a good many men who would
give considerable to be served rs was Henry
| Dumble, of Kingston. Canada. He Is IS years
| old, and for years has been perfectly bald;
put last spring HAIR began to grow on his
! mead, and now he has pne crop OF elegant
black hair. and his whiskers which have been
gray Tor twenty years, are turning black too.
| AT the recent meeting of the West Jersey
| Presbytery resolution was unanimously
| passed, giving it as the opinion of the Presby-
| terry that church members who required ap-
| p1catlons for licenses to sell liquor were
proper subjects for church discipline, and
church sessions were enjoined to deal with
such persO' by censure or suspension from
| church ordinance
! ENGINEER GEORGE BALLARD, of the Penn
| sylvania railroad, recently arose in a Jersey
City synagogue and said that he desired to
emil brace the Jewish faith. He said that he
| had never before professed any religious
| faltc. but that he thought the Hebrew relg
| ion to be the most charitable and free from
| hypocrisy. He was permitted to become n
| member of the congregation.
PLAN is on foot to place Brussels in direct
water communication with the sea. The
canal to the Scheldt is to be deepened, the
quays are to be sufficiently spacious to admit
twenty ships of $500 tons each to lie along
| side, the docks and unavs are to be furnished
| with every modern appliance for loading and
| unloading vessels, and with warehouses and
sheds. and are to be connected with the great
lines OF railway.
THE Board of Managers Of the New York
Cotton Exchange examined the type samples
OF cotton as readjusted on Sept. 10 and IA by
the experts appointed by the different ex-
changes, members of the National Cotton Ex-
| change. The members OF the Board ex-
| pressed themselves as thoroughly satisfied
| with the correctness of the types, and
| thanked the experts for their arduous labor
| and care. The types are considered the best
we have had for quite number of years.
A STRANGER in Wheeling went into saloon
and found lot of young fellows PLAYING at a
new game. A Bit of paper was fastened to
the wall, each player in turn was blIndfo ded
| and turned about three times, AID then tried
| to walk up and touch the paper. The man
| who touehed the furthest from the paper was
to paw for the drinks. The stranger joined
| the game and. when he had jabbed ut the
| paper and pulled of the bandage, found that
the other players had fed He couldn't see
the Ike until later when he discovered that
his pocket had been picked.
PHILADELPHIA takes pride in its carpet
mills. Almost every section of the town has
its factories, or at least hand loom. Thirty
years ago the sound of the loom assailed the
ear in many streets. coming often from the eel
lar, where the machine was kept in a more
even temperature than could be obtained
elsewhere. Now huge factories, with hum
| dreds of valuable patent looms, have super
| seeded the old contrivances which had been
little improved for thousands of years. The
| yearly product of one mill of the present time
| would exceed that OF the whole district of
Kensington fifty or even thirty years ago.
SOME society young men in Chicago have
become tired of wearing pantaloons, and they
have started movement in favor of knee
| breeches of the old knickerbocker style. A
club has been formed among them based on
| the agreement that when IL shall have fifty
members they shall take hold of this great
Quest ton Of dress reform in earnest. Thus far
only sixteen of the young society lights OF
| Chicago have entered the organization, but
as soon as the fifty that are required have
| been recruited by the leaders, they are to ap
| pear in public all at once in their knicker-
bockers, and thus set the fashion for the timid
and conservative young men who have not
the courage to exhibit their calves.
Ell CRoNIsTA DE MoRELos, paper pub
llshed in Mexico, AYERS that it is customary
among the Indians of the Jonacatepec district
of that country to exchange wives. Occa-
| sionally these trades are permanent but
more often they are for a stipulated length of
time, at the expiration Of which each woman
returns to her former husband. and the event
| ia celebrated in each family by a feast at
which the pulque flows freely. Where the
wives cannot be traded even, a dog. a cat or
rig is added on one side to make the barter
fair. In the district of TedangO, at Tescalia-
cac. the still more novel custom exists of SELL
ing or trading Off mothers in law. A very
fair article of mother-in-law can be bought
for lamb or sucking pig.
MEssRs. WALSH AND TwERDY, of the United
States Geological Survey, were caught out In
an electric storm while sketching from a high
peak near Dixie Butte, Ore, recently. First
there was buzzlng sound. apparently com
ing from under the drawing table that Mr..
| Walsh was using. He put his hand under the
drawing sheet and received severe shock
| Tweedy, who was lying down, was disturbed
and jumped to his feet, but went down quick
ly. or where nc stood the electric fluid en-
tered in such quantities as to produce an al-
most uubearaDle pricking sensation. Both
mon felt tremendous shocks. their hair stood
MP like bristles, their muscles twitched, and
IN all respects they felt as If connected to a
powerful electric battery. Through it all the
projecting rocks gave forth a musical hum
ming sound.
A SPANISH shepherd killed by lightning re-
Gently was made the subject of scientific
post norton to discover how the electric bolt
had done its fatal work. His eyebrows and
eyelashes were burned of, his eyeballs were
dried up, all his left side was scorchcd and
burned III spots down to the ankles while the
right side OF the body and right leg were un-
injured. Serious as these injuries WERE none
of them appeared sufficient TO cause his i'm
slant death. But as soon rs the breast was
opened the cause Of death was apparent
The lungs were frightfully congested and the
heart was enormouslv dilated and filed with
coagulated blood. With all this damage to
the man his clothing was very little injured,
the only traces OF the lightning upon 1t being
a small hole bored through the rim of the hat
and a slight singeiug Of the shirt collar.
LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL is quoted by
The Pilot rs writing writing recently to a
friend at Girton that "In spite Of the scien-
tifc influences now brought to bear on women,
we still like admiration, for which thank
unchapging Mother Nature. For what would