Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-11-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

rue 5lbs oy tne sue oil ner employer " ME sne
drives him.
AN orange tree over four hundred years
/ old. IN the orangerie of Versai les, was first
PLANTED bv ElenorA de Castillo, the wife OF
Charles III.
A CAT with six Young kittens was removed
from Milton to Greenfield, n. s., a distance Of
sixteen miles. She was not at ali pleased
with the change, and took her family all the
way back.
A FRAGMENT of shell was removed last week
from the pericardium or heart sac OF Officer
Charles Whitney, one of the victims of the
dynamite bomb explosions of Chicago. At
last report The officer WAS doing well.
WOMAN of Lewiston, Me-, who is a store
keeper, while talking with customer crum-
pied $40 bill in her hand. Then che forgot
what II was and tossed the little wad into the
ire. She remembered it when her cash that
night was $40 short.
PHILADELPHIAN and one OF the largest
newspaper advertisers in the c1uatry knows
good thing when he aces it. He says: ~
confne the adv Rising of NV soap to the
newspapers, because the man who does not
read newspapers does not use soap
ONE of Names best citizens is Dudley c.
Bridges, of Penobscot lie is 50 years old and
a painter by trade. He gets up at ) O'Clock
'ach morning, SOULS boat acrO.s a river,
works ten hours at his trade, u-es neither
went on q strike"
AFTER the death of S. II. Thompson, a wei
known restaurant keeper of Chicago. 1874, 900
in bills were found in his safety deposit vault
tie could not write, and it is thought that his
constituencies on this point led MIN to keep his
money in bills rather than let it he known
hat he could not write a check. IL the old
Gentleman had not thus tied up his fortune 1t
j. thought that he would have been worth
100000.
LAST July a Nebraska settler erected
cabin on his claim, and before he could move
| Ia 1t was taken possession OF by a swarm OF
bees. He smOked them out. but another
anne. and after two months he was obliged
10 tear the structure down and erect 1t ON
another site. He had only got comfortably
settled when sprlnS burst forth and flooded
lie place, and the house was moved aga n
Rattlesnakes appeared in great numbers to
rive him off the third site, aud the di gusted
man picked up mis- traps ana gave up the 6ght.
A NUMBER of American publishers have
! ately found that it pays to get their wor.
| lone in Europe. The constant dIssensions
With printers in regard to prices is not known
| there. and book can be contracted for year
Or Two ahead and sllt both printer and pub
| isher he satisfied. Not only in London. but
IN Berlin this istOne. Workmen are obtained
iamllIar with the customs of American offices.
| ana type is cast of exactly the same faces that
we use. A saving in price is effec' ed, and the
| When necessary, proofs are sent.
A SMALL DOG fell into vat of tanning
| liquid in New London tannery AMI was
| kelly to drown, for it was at night and the
| building was closed But in swimming
| around he found peg about six feet long
| hat stops the hole in the bottom of the vat
| where the liquid Is drawn of, and his en-
! ieavOrs to perch on the top of this peg loOs
| ened 1t so that it popped out of the hole. TheI
! he liquid ran out and the dog was found the
next morning shiverlng on the bottom of the
| empty vat. No one saw all this, but the cir
| cumstanual evidence is strongly In favor o
| he explanation.
AT a recent meeting of the Royal Arcnao-
logical Institute in London, letter was read
| from the Rev. Joseph Hirst, dated from
| smyrna. Oct. 20, In which he states that the
| Turkish government has wi huraWn all per-
mission given TO Engishmen and other for
| sgners to excavate ancient sites within the
| Sultan's domlnions, and also that large guam
titles of finely sculptured pillars, walls and
stones are being sold and utilized for modern
| building purposes. and motion was carried
chat the institute should take action, alon &
| with other learned societies, in protesting
| against this act of vandalism.
THE brewers of Belgium recently took sd-
vantage OF the outcry against German beer in
| Paris to institute likewise a patriotic agi-
! tation against the "Bere de Munich" They
| published letters in the Belgian apers as
sertlng that BaVarian beer contained sallcv
| lOus ingredients, and finally forced The pro-
| pretors OF restaurants in which that beer was
| sold TO submit it 10 the analysis OF the health
bureau. The result has been q complete vim
| dlcation OF German beer, which has been
shown to De absolutely unadulterated. anu
| the Belgian brewers are now exten lively al
| vertising their homemade Munich Beige
In the matter of Isl entries made in Hum
boldt county. Cal, under the timber land act
| on which patents have been issued, the Sec
rotary of the Interior has advised suit to va
| cate said patents. This action is the result of
| an investigation upon which the department
| holds that the entries we're fraudulently made
| in the interest OF a Scotch corporation. or
ganizeO for the purpose of obtaining control
! IF ali OF the valuable red wood tim Der land
IN that county, and that the foreign corpora
| ton was aided in its work by a frIn in Cali
| foTnIa and men employed by that firm The
| secretary, IN his letter to he Attorney Gen
| eral, characterlzes the scheme by which the
patents were obtained as an extensive con
| opiracy eliminating in monstrous fraud"
IN the majority of cases the Russian priest
is the son OF priest; sometimes he comes
from the small bookkeeping class or from the
! peasantry. He passes six years at the dioce-
| san seminary. where he is taught theology
| The Scrip ures. and very little Greek and
| Latin. Those only who satisfy the examiners
| arc ordained as iests. Jhe remainder recriv-
| ing the inferior degrees of deacon and psalm
ST. The members generally Of the Russian
| clergy form a class apart, aud are never in
! vited either to the castle or the house OF the
mddlc-claSs paTlahlOners except for official
| purposes. In money matters they are exact
ing. One OF them, Il very none t man. and in
| intelligence above the average, said recently
| The year mas been Il bad one for me; there
| were lew births and marriages. There Wer,.
plenty "f lnterments, but IeOD'e pay more
cheerfully to be married than they do for
burIals." Sacramento sometimes are refu -ed
To dying persons whose friends cannot afford
| TO pay the usual fees.
| A PROMINENT MANAGER of one of the largest
and most prosperous life Insurance compa-
MES in New York city states that some TWEEN
| ty-1ve years ago, when as a tImid youth he
| went into the business at the suggestion of an
| u Gle because of his aptness az figures he
suffered so fea fully that he could not carry
| on conversation, aud Insequently he found
| II very difficult TO achieve any success in n
| pursuit that required SO muck exclamation
| aud arithmeucal demonstration. In the en-
| Urgency of failure or leaving the business he
| invented system OF elaborate printed ex-
! plantations. which su"clncuy stated all The
| facts and data which IT would have taken
| a day for him to verbally say. even If he had
| secured his viclm IN Il corner by rope Tnis
! printed ,Ss ten was 80 successful that il led
| to itss 9nj raj adoption by ali the companie
! whose; = ulars give so much deiail thai
| everything l. plain TO the dullest cOmprehen
| sion, and now consequently the labor of the
| agent Is much simpliied. II should be added
| that thet ngen ous Nouth, now one of the most
| influential citizens. has since com letrlv
! cured himself of the habit of suffering by the
! process OF tapping Or beating time with his