Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST. 4.
A DRUNKEN man at a Canadian camp meet
ing bet IS that he'd go on the platform and sit
through the services between two ministers.
He won.
GUS CLARK, Of Syracuse, applied patent
corn medicine to one of his toes a few days
ago, and now gangrene has set in and the
foot must come of if the patient would live.
LITTLE Rosa ECKERT, years old, fell out
of third story window at Logansport, struck
the pavement, remained unconscious for
few minutes, and then resumed her inter-
rup ed play quite unnarmed.
A BIG BIRD with head and face like an ape,
with bullying ewes surrounded by fringe OF
gray hair, and with ears like mans. save
that they are covered with fine gray hair, was
captured In Fort Wayne, Ind, the other day,
and crowds visit 1t daily.
WALTER DAMRosCH is called Herr Dam
rosch" in Louisville, where he is conducting
his orchestra at the Exposition. He is as en-
phatic as ever with the baton, and is now suf-
ferlDg with strained right arm AS the result
OF his violent gesticulations.
CoRoT's large picture of "Orpheus Greet
ing the Dawn" of which q well-known
American landscapist once reverently said
that he could paint replica with cigar ashes
ana water, was an order from Prince Demt
dof, who paid 81 900 for it. 1t is now being
SHOWN In New \ ork, and Its owner values 1T
at $4,000.
GEN. BoULANGER has ordered that the
French army shall adopt as the national air
the ne"Mourir pour la Patrle," stirring
enough lyric, beginning:
ITO die Cor fatherlsnd. To die for fatherland,
IL Is the fate most glorious, desirable and
grand
or words to that effect,
WHEN Brodie, the newsboy, jumped from
the East river bridge, some of the newspapers
said that he was thirty seconds in reaching
the water. The Manufacturer and Builder
has figured it out exactly and demonstrates
that he dropped from the bridge to the water
IN just 20 seconds. In thirty seconds he wOuld
have fallen IA, 1852 feet if there had been room
to fall so far.
A LETTER from Frederick Schwatka, of the
New York Times exploring expedition to
Alaska, has been received, dated Sitka. Sept.
10, He and his party have explored Ice Bay
and the country about it's shores: have dis
covered and named one large river. three gla-
clers, one lake and range OF lofty hills. and
have climbed Mt. St. Elias TO point 1920
feet above the level OF perpetual snow.
WILLIE GORDON, a r. year old boy of Win
nepeg, was arrested on a charge of stealing
hens, and after two days imprisonment was
tried and acquitted. He felt the disgrace of
the imprisonment keenly, ana when the bows
made fun of him decided to kill himself. He
did not like to die alone, but after vainy try
ing to induce companion TO take poison
with him, swallowed a large dose of strych-
nine and died.
NUAA l.. SEELY lived with his parents IN
Cincinnati until his mother died and his father
abandoned him. Then he went to work for
farmer in Indiana, and while there stole a
few dollars and bought coat. He was sent
to the penitentlary for three years. Now
Gov. GRAY, OF Indiana, has pardone ed him be-
cause influential citizens of Cincinnati, in
Guiding Gov. Foraker. have asked him to and
because the boy is heir to a fine property in
that city.
TWO or three years ago Phil Armour saw
negro porter in palace car industriously
trying to spell out words in we'll thumbed
reader whenever he had a moments leisure
lie became Interested in the boy, and offered
him S25 If he'd read six lines before the train
reached It's destination. The porter by hard
work earned the money, and now he is a stu
dent in Oberlln College. sent there by the
generous Chicago packer. He is very black
and very ambitious.
MONUMENTAL STATUE OF Giordano Bruno
will soon be dedicated IN Rome, on the spot
where he was burned to death. Among the
Honorary International Committee on the
work are Herbert Spencer. A. G. Swiuburne,
Charles Bradlaugh. Renan. Haeckel. CASTELAR,,
f de LavelsyC, Paul Bert, Max Mueller, and
Robert g Ingersoll. At the Vatican the erec-
ton Of the memorial is regarded as an insult,
ana the Pope has directed Cardinal Hergen-
roether to prepare history of Bruno from a
Catholic point of view.
THE model for the bronze statue of Schiller.
to be erected in Paramount Park, Philadel-
phia. has been completed. 1t represents the
poet standing. and with scroll in his left
MI. .Ig t,.I.r
the hand Ia pencil. The costume is a long
coat, nee-bTeeches, stockings and huge
buckled shoes. The attitude is easy, the mi len
commanding, and the head has been modelled
from Dannecser's celebrated bust Of Schiller
The pedestal, nearly twelve feet in height,
Will be Of bronze and granite.
AMONG the old papers in the County Clerks
Office in Freehold, n. j., is the death sentence
Of a negro named Caesar. 1t reads: There
fore the court doth judge that thou, the said
Cesar, shall return to the place from whence
thou earnest, and from thence to the place of
execution, when thy right hand shall be cut
of and burned before thine eyes. Then thou
shalt be hanged up by the neck till thou art
dead, dead, dead; then thy body shall be cut
down and burned to ashes in fire, and 30 the
Lord have mercy on thy soul, Caesar"
AT the Aztec fair, which will soon be held
in Boston, two interesting mummies will be
exhibited. One will be that of Jesuit priest,
WHO lot bOlHe CIlluc was bLrhQKleu ana buried
In the foundation wall of dungeon The
carbOnaceOus nature of the building and the
rarifled atmosphere kept the body in an ex-
cellent state of preservation, although it is
800 years old. The other mummy Ia that OF
nun, who was imprisoned alive In a stone
foundation wall ITO years ago for trying to
run away with a Spanish cavalier. This
mummy Is also well preserved.
THE Illinois Central Railroad COMPANY
bought some land near the Wisconsin border
on which an Irishman had a cabin md three
years lease. The company gave him $500 for
his lease, and agreed to move his cabin to any
place he might designate. When the work
men appeared 10 haul away his cabin they
asked him where he wanted it placed, ION
the banks of Lake Killarney, in Ireland y
was the answer. At first he was thought to
be joking, but he soon convinced the railroad
company that he was in earnest. He still lives
on the cOmpaDy's land and keeps the $500.
A BOSTON PAPER comments on the fact that
people hate their proteges when those they
have helped grow beyond the need of their
aid. A much more common fault of the
average weak human nature is to store up a
grudge against the one who has conferred an
important favor. Few people like to acknowl-
edge that some one else has conferred pros
pert y upon them. An obi CATION of thlskind
generally weighs heavily, and An II de nendpnt