Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-06-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The embezZlement OF $50 was sufficient to
bankrupt and dissolve a travelling theatre
troupe In New England town the other day.
To PROMOTE economy the French govern
ment has established savings banks in con-
nection with the public shoots. There are no
less than "a 900 of these banks. and the 500 900
boys whose names are on the books have an
average Of IS each to their credit.
THE underground wire problem is being
speedily solved in Chicago. The wires are
being fast buried, and will all be down by
! winter; and, more gnidcant still, the vari-
| GUS electric companies confess that the SER
| wee IS greatly improved by the change.
LEGACY of some $4,000 has been left to
the Jena University, to be applied to zoologi-
cal research on the basis of Darwin's evolu-
ton theory. The testator is Herr Paul Won
| Ritter OF Basic, who believes the teaching of
Darwin to be the greatest sign OF progress
winch the century has yet given.
CORRESPONDENT writes that young
! woman in Washington makes a good living
teaching American small talk to the young
] attaches of the Chinese and Japanese EN-
Daisies. Not long ago she taught six young
| IelioWs precisely the same round Of pretty
| phrases, and at a recent ball they lowered
around certain pretty girl, and all said the
same things to her.
DR.. SCHLIEMAN, who is in Athens writes:
'It is highly probable that In Autumn shall
begin to unearth the stronghold of the Atride
at Mycena. This work will probably last
three years, and be the last l shall undertake
in my lifetime. But even now l venture to
promise that shall there unearth palace.
lhe plan of which has most resemblance to
tDaJ oil Troy or that of Tiryns."
AN industrious if not somewhat eccentric
gentleman at Berlin has succeeded, after
many years patient labor, in amassing no
fewer than 600 heels from various kinds of
/ shoes LADIES' Onntlpmpn
! more or less emine MT. These novel articles of
ylrtu he has had duly mounte n a handsome
glass case, while carefully prepared cata-
loguc gives the date Of their acquisition and
the names of their former possessOrs.
WORCESTER, MASS, has equipped its cen
trail police station with lightning beer
tester, which gives speedy proof of whether
the liquor Is over or under the per cent.
! standard. A policeman who gets hold of
! sample OF beer sold at any saloon, dashes TO
the station. where it is tested in less than no
Tune, and II above per cent. the manacles
are on the unlucky saloon keeper ere he has
time to hide himself
ROCKY MOUNTAIN miners have a supersti-
tious belief that unless a man dies an I'M
timely or bloody death his find" of precious
metal will never amount to anything, and
Denver newspaper prints long list OF men
who discovered great treasures and died in
way to give countenance to the superstition.
OF thlrtY-elght men who made discoveries
which started blooming towns in Colorado
alone. twelve died from bullets, three were
killed by the caving in of their mines, and all
the rest have drfted away and died paupers,
or are living unknown.
MRS. NELSON WINTHROP, whose elopement
from Pau last spring with the Comte de Con-
taut Biron was the society sensation of the
day, has returned to her father and Is now
living in seclusion at ArcachOn. The plans of
the family. as cOnfded to friends here, in
clude life of strict retirement on the part of
Mrs. Winthrop and her father and mother
Mr.. and Mrs. Van Zandt, at ArcachOn. The
prediction of Nine. la Comtesse de GOntaut
BirOn that her husband would soon tire of his
new love and return to the bosom of his
family appears to have been completely JUS
tilted.
''sIR ROGER TICHBoRNE," the alleged ''origi-
nal claimant" is out with statement to the
effect that he is going to lecture in this coun-
try on the same subject that engaged his at
tention in England, namely; "My Trial and
What CLAIM" as to the lady who accom-
panes him, he says: 'She has travelled with
me every day for Eighteen or nineteen months
through England. ireland and Scotland. and
is well and favorably known. Her stage name
is Miss Nellie R0gamOnd, and she assists me in
lectures. | have known her for five years;
she IS the daughter of an intimate friend. We,
are engaged to be m arried: in fact, have been
married privately, but there are some legal
complications at present which prevent the
public ceremony"
GEORGE II. CALVERT, the well-known
Goethe scholar and writer OF Newport, wired
the following, which he composed for tie oc-
casion, to President Cleveland in honor of his
wedding.
To Gr Ger CleUeldHd, President of the United
We know what is our debt to thee.
Thou just, courageous, manly man;
How high earth's loftiest scat can be,
NVIe q II N
Thy lOttiness ana wisdom prove
Part of our debt we now would pay,
Utteripg our than kfuness and love
To thee on this, thv wedding day,
Invoking mid a nation JOY and pride.
Blessing divine on thee and on thy bride.
THE throne used by Queen Victoria at the
opening of the Colonial exh 'btion was the
royal seat of the lion Of the Punjaub, Run
ieet Singh himself, the chief of the trophies
sent home from L ahore after the glorious
campaign Of the Five Rivers That some of
the morning papers spoke of it as chair NAV
be due to the fact that a cushioned lining.
speci aly moulded upon one Of the royai
chairs at Buckingham palace, had been fitted
int the far ous throne. 1t was a curious CO.
incidence hat at al mOst the same moment the
so-called heir to the Sikh sovereignty should
have been soliciting the sympathy of his com
patriots in the Punj ub, while ia London the
Empress of India should have been seated
upon the veritable lioned throne Of that once
potent nation.
THE Portuguese viii be the first to build a
railroad in West Africa. Only about fifteen
miles Of the French line in Senegal have been
completed, and King Leopold's Congo river
scheme is hanging fire apparently for fnan-
cjal reasons. TIE Trans African Railroad
Company. on tho other hand, has $4,000. 600 of
capital to start with, the Portuguese govern
ment guaranteed the payment OF interest on
ia bonds. its route has been surveyed for $50
m les from Loanda on the coast, and track
LAYING II about to begin. This road. which il
is intended ultimately to extend TO the large
Quaugo tributary to the Congo. about 400
miles from the coast. will run through the
heart Of Angola II it does not succeed the
prospects are very gloomy for any other West
African railroad. for the country it l. to pen
citrate ia the pick of the West coast. pepuious.
fertile and comparatively healthful.
ELECTRIC Al ENGINEERS have long sought a
method by which a satisfactory electric light
might be produced by means Of a battery and
without the use of an engine aud dynamo.
and which would at the same time be practi-
cable. An excellent light has been produced
by means OF an ordinary battery, but the
great difficulty has been found in the well
known fact that in he old style Of battery the
zinc incrusts so rapidly by action Of the pot
ash that without constant labor the light viii
fail. This difficulty has recently been solved
in the volta-pa ia battery, the inventor OF
which has q srovercd that bY tho nse of soda
instead Of potash equally good results arc oh