Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| ". Ill.
York, will commute her sentence that she
gives no thought of her spiritual condition
| Inc CITIZEN reports her as saving the other
! night to her guard: "B- -, if I'm hung IN
haunt you all in my night Clothes"
THE Chicago Anarchists have adopted a
new line OF defense in case they get new
| trial. They will clain that no bomb was
thrown at all; that 1t vas only a woman who
ran through the GROVE with an umbrella in
one hand a3d marBet basket In the other.
The only weak point in this defense is that
the carnage was too sight.
THE National Open Company has gained
further publicity by ne discharge in Chicago
OF one or two principals and a large group of
| pallet dancers and Glorus people. The man
| agement claims that he discharges were for
| !ncomnetency, ana tfat the directors are de-
| termlned to weed oft all worthless materla
IN the ranks Of the organization.
| KINGSTON. on the Hudson, is to have the
boss toboggan slide. The toboggans will go a
long distance down one steep incline. and
psradoxical as it MAJ appear, on the return
| trip they will descent nearly as great a dis
| lance. at the end of which, on ascending a
| long flight of stars. tie tobogganers will lind
| themselves at the pont where they started
| from.
GEORGE sEMoN, of Charlotte, Mich, was
poor and shiftess, AID Mrs. Semon was
thrllty. she became dsgusted with Georges
| lack of enterprise, sud for a divorce and
after much trouble secured it a few DAYS ago,
| Three days later SemCu received notice that
| an aunt had died in France leaving him
| S3O,OoO. George SAYS he tan get along all right
| now, and tn late Mrs. Semon is the m addest
woman IN Michigan.
THERE are in America over 4.00OooO farms,
large and small. They cover nearly so oOn 900
acres of improved land, and then total
value is somethlnglike ten tn usand million
dollars. These figures are not, of
| course, comprehensive. They simpv
| convey the idea of vastuess of area ant
| equal vastness of Importance. The estimated
| value oil the yearly product OF these farms is
| between two and three thousand millions of
dollars,
| SEVERAL GENTLEMEN of Maine have leased
big barn at Cape Elizabeth where they pro-
pose wintering several hundred quail to be
| liberated In different sections of the State in
| the spring, The barn floor is covered with
| sand ana gravel, in which the birds dust to
Seep free from vermin; trees are arranged
| around the walls and upper part of the barn
| TO prevent the birds from killing themselves
| by flying against the boa dis. and an attendant
is to feed and water the birds daily.
THREE Harvard students have been cx-
| PEELED and three more suspended for year
! for mlschievous actions in club room on OK
ford street, Cam bridge. 1t is said that when
| new members were initiated they were com
PEELED to tear up the carpets of the club room
| Dreak W1ndows, d1nce on a piano. cut up
| paintings or do damage to some other valu-
| able property on the premises. When this
| sport was over the students asked the pro-
| prietor of the place to send in his bill. which
he did, and then reported the case to the fac
| ulty with the above result,
| ARCHBISHOP CoRRIGAN, who has lust cast
such bomb into the Henry George camp. is
OF medium height, slight and very mid in his
manners. He Is not a great orator, as his
| voice is weak and his delivery poor. He has
| Tor some time ield the opinion that the ten
dency OF the Knights of Labor in large cities
| was toward SODA ism. He endeavored to get
the late CounQl of Bishops at Baltimore to
take action In the matter, but failed His
| pastoral letter was the result. Archbishop
Corrlgan Is comparatively young, and his ad
| vance ment has been rapid. His brother ia
| President OF Sehn Hall College.
A SPECIAL COMMISSION, under the Presi
dency of the Governor General of Odessa.
has been establlhed for the more effective
suppression of he perniclous vine-insect.
which during recent seasons has desolated the
| vineyards of Suthern Russis and more
especially OF Besarabia: Prof. Kowalewski,
OF ODESSA Onlvfsitv, believes that he has
the de-truction oithe ply oxera. He started
| recently, with 25i soldiers assigned by Gen,
Won Roop, for Tehschows, in the district of
| operation. 1t is. believe essentially chem
ical, and in the tlage of the VINEYARDS the
soil will be impegnated with powder in
nocuous TO the vne, but utterly destructive
| to the phylloxera
REV. DIR. FRAN ROGERS, of the Tabernacle
Baptist Church. brooklyn. read to the Bap-
tlst ministers attheir weekly conference a
paper on "Chrisianity and Materialism.n
In closing the dsasslon he said that many of
| ha onEc
II had been told nh by a friend, who was in
| formed. that the IStures of Robert G, IpCer-
soil were given o lpnally as a means of meet
| ing DEBT. They we're successful in freeing
| MN from the deDt,lut lngersoll only ectured
against Chrlstlanln because it was prof able
| he dlu not DelleY IN the attacks tEAt he
made on religion. What's SOL" THAT'S SOL,
| echoed number othe ministers and one more
earnestly IMAM theest exclaimed emphatic
| any: HE Is scounrel" Mr.. Ingersoll was
| dskeo Wnab Iounudon there was for the
statement respectlnl his lectures, and replied
that the Whole storl was pure fabrication.
TUE Introduction soap, it is said. is doing
much to civilize the eople of the Holy Land.
A large soap factorynas been tablished on
the site OF ancient Sfchem, and the people
| are beginning to uset on their persons in.
stead OF irving to eaut as they did at first.
| Along win the introduction OF soap other re-
| forms are going on. bethlehem hqs been re-
! built ana the streetsRre lighted with gas
| Ceser8a IS having a luIlding boom Nsza
| reth is becoming the haduuarters of hjp olive
oil spectators. Corne lots in Joppa are 60
| ing up with a rush. an real estate in Monnt
GARNER is largely nddly specuaters for an
| advance. All around Shechem there ia q
| lively demand for god soap fat. and The
| sleepy inhabitants q Rlmoth Gilead think Of
! building glue facbry Jerusalem ia wax
ing up also. it hasa street cleaning bureau,
| big clocks on its pull buildings and its snh
| urbs are beng bull upr rapidly. Even in The
vale OF Oehenna thfprlce OF land has gone up.
MARsEILLEs promises to rival New Yorl,
as centre OF municipal corruption, and
there is curi'us parallelism between the
circumstances o the public dishonesty OF the
two towns. In lsch case number of coun
clllors, or aluerPn, received large brlbes in
snares OF an entfprise TO be paid for by the |
STATE IN constipation of their functional as
| slstance In secuHg the original contract, OF |
course IN Newly ork the spoil was nonch
| greater, the delih uents more numerous end
| the whole aHalr larger scale. In the one |
case ~ was raifay in Broadway, and the |
doodle" as II called in that new slang |
whlch springs Y IN every emergency in |
America. was S5gf 90, while in MarseilIes it |
| was more or leslenective method OF clear |
| ing cesspools, andle ''boodle" was D. o mo, |
Apart from the eteme moral improbabilIty |
OF any such "de% In an English board Of |
aldermen, IL Is dlftult To believe that. with
the worst VIII lnpe world, such transact
lions coulu ne accdplished in England with
out instant detectA.
HE recent reviYof O1enbach's operas in
Paris has produced great CROP oftbeatricaI
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