Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-08
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| first with brains. the s cond with Imagination
| and the third with generosity"
A POLISH COUPLE called on the clerk Of
! courts in LuZerne county. Pa, for marriage
| license. A few days after the damsel came
/ back with another swain for Il licen- stating
| that the hrst young man was too poor to
| marry and he relinquished his right to her for
| the consideration OF s..
CHARLES Tong SING, who was steward of
the Joannnette, and also a member of the
Thetis rescue party, and was afterward con-
Ticted OF assault with intent to Kill another
| Chlnaman. and sentenced 10 seven years'
| imprisonment, has been pardoned by the
| Governor of New Jersey.
GREENLAwN cemetery in Indianapolis has
vault IN which are several collins forty years
! old. In examining one of these the sexton
came TO the body of woman named Mary
A. Mills, who died in 1885, The body was pet
| rIhed. ana after forty years the eye OF the
| corpse was blue. Old residents RENE mber
| her as comely EreUch girl.
THE American schooner Highland Light,
which was forfeited to the Crown by Chief
Justice Palmer and ordered to be sold. will
| be bought in by the Dominion government
| and fitted up as cruiser under the command
| or Capt. LOravy, who effected her capture.
| Though the asst of the vessels captured under
the treaty of 1915 she is the first con1lscated.
PROBABLY the last letter ex-President Ar
| thur ever wrote was addressed to William W.
| Wright. of Geneva. 1t was dated Nov. ID,
| and received the day of the writer's death.
| 1t acknowledged the receipt of sketch of
! Judge Folger by Mr.. Wright, who, besides
! being an active politician. Is a man of good
literary taste, and was written in a firm,
| bold hand.
TIE Empress of Japan recently gave per-
mission to the ladies of her court to appear
before her, upon state occasions. in European
| dress. The Japanese have hitherto been re-
| markable for their moral and social plasti
| city. and the effect of the new order will no
! doubt result IN a short time in the whole of
| the upper classes of Japan affecting European
/ or American costumes.
THE Chattanooga Times says that while
| passing through the South Tredegar works
Judge Kelley had his attention called TO
| coored lad who had fashioned handsome
| shoe buttoner from steel spike and paper
| knife from another spike. He bought the
| trlties from the boy and then said To the gen
| tleman who was plotting him: That boy
| ought to be in one of our Philadelphia indus
| trial schools, where he would have chance to
| develop his evidently fine mechanical pow
| erS."
| A SHORT TIME AGO several of the prominent
Republican organs declared that the ship
| builders of the country had combined and
would not submit any bids for the construc-
| ton OF the new cruisers, and the statement
| was given out with a wild howl of joy and
regular green corn dance. That these news
| by lying, is evident from the fact that the
| largest and most responsible ship building
! Trims In the country submitted bids which are
very satisfactory to Secretary Whitney.
1T is strange, "sad New ork police court
justice, chow many cooks become drunkards.
l know fact that a large number of the
best cooks in private families lose places and
| become wards of the island through their
fondness of the bottle. l have seen the best
of cooks in this court, and have seen some
| here who served in families that | know well.
| | think their fault is due o the temptations
! they meet with. They generally have tn
liquors used by the families who employ them
IN their charge, and get into the habit of
using them on the sly. From occasional sip
ping they form the drunkard's habit and meet
the drunkard's punishment"
DINING with the Sultan of Morocco is more
of an honor than pleasure, according 20 the
account of recent visitor connected with
the French Embassy. The Sultan is even
| more Of spiritual than temporal mon
arch, a sort of crowned saint. eX-ofCiO, and
therefore it is beneath his sacred dignity 10
| dine in person with his guests, aud he de-
puteB a representative from his suite. The
| palace is 100 sacred shrine to be the scenes
| of such fe>tivItv. and the dinner Is usually
served in tho garden of the summer palace,
| outside the Town of Fez when the narrator
| dined ia this secondhand way with hIs sacred
majesty the weather was hot. and the dinner
| WAS served in Town palace garden, beneath
orange, len non and pOmegranate trees, where
! the buttercups. corn-fowrrs ana DAISIES
| grew SO tall that they mingled with the
| bouGhs, and the guests had hard work to Ggnt
! their way on horseback TO the table, or rather
| tray.
CAPT. SMITH, U. S.A., in the st. Louis Globe
| Democrat, says that the old war leaders are
one b. one leaving the army. either by death
or retirement, and before many years almost
| all viii be out of aCuve service. The ranks
below That OF Mayor General are all filed by
men who, few years ago. were not higher
than Colonies in the regular army. not one
BrIgadicr's commission being as old rs 1865
The bill retiring all off ers who have reached
the age of "a has caused promotion to be very
rapid in the higher ranks. and has led to a
great deal OF ambitious emulation among the
| OlOncl5 and z good deal of jealousy between
| different arms oil The service. The artillery
feel that they have not been fairly treated, Iii
recent promotions to The raus of General
having been 2iven to either the infantry or
cavalry, but the artiilerymeu shou d remem-
Der that officers OF the other arms have as
good war records as they, ana that the artil-
lery have no record for field service since
1865.
Mr.. HERoNALLEN, the young man who
discovers peoples characters in the lines of
their hands and the shapes OF their fingers.
and tells them how long they have to live,
gave his first matinee SATURDAY afternoon III
| Cnickering Hall, n. Y. Women made up the
most of the au fence. soft hand. he said. in
dlcatet a fervent but tickle lover, while a hard
hand denoted long endurlng.t though possibly
| smOldeHnS love. a SPA MA hand, wherein
tbs tips OF the inGer5 were broad and the
tops HAT. denoted Inconsistency, desire for
change, ana love of LOGON UtOn. 4 was found
IN jockeys and cOlOnI5ts. \ hand with conf
caliy tipped fingers Indicated Inspiration in
stlnct, Bohemianlsm and generosity. A hand
with squarely bullt finger tips showed order
and arrangement, particularly when the Joints
throughout were prominent. A scientific hand
was irregular to a marked degree, the ioints
lumpy 1nd highly de veloped, altogether, q NAL
formed conglOmeration of knots and twists
This sort OF hand IS invariably small, while
the analytic hand is large. The hand of the
ideali.t Is The most symmetrical of ALL and
the most useless IN every sense. A supple
hand indicates generosity. a hand, the
fingers OF which when placed together and
ne d to the light exhibit transparency, and
between which no rays of light penetrate
shows avarlce. or, in other words, closeness
! Fingers which submitted to the same lest will
| not lit alongside each other without OPENINGS
| and which are denser, indicate curiosity and
| loquacty. People with hands that are always
white are egotlstlcal, and have no sympathy
ABOUT three months ago party Of select
rustlers, having their headquarters in Frio
county, Tex, crossed over TO Mexico on a
horse stealing expedition. They raided a
| ranch about thirty miles from the border.
| KILLED three men, captured about forty horses
! and were heading for home in triumph with
| their booty when they were Intercepted by a
| party or Mexican rustlers within q mile of the
south bank OF the river. A fierce light en-
| sued. A couple OF da3hlng freeboOters on