Savannah morning news., 1886-01-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


/ both for wood AMI m tails.
"IF LoNDoS did not have its 400 city mis-
sionaries," SAID the Earl OF Shaftesbury the
1 other day, lit would require 10000 more po-
/ lice
SNOW aFITING MACHINE, which, 1t ls
claimed, viii melt snow as fast a. hfteen men
/ can shovel il in, was tried with success IN New
/ orS the other day.
/ FROM TESTS made by Dr.. Fischer, the Ger
man chemist, 1t appears that in ordinary
loves not more than 20 per cent. OF the fuel
/ consumed IS utilized in warming the rooms
WHITE LILAC, violets. gardenias and roses
are the favorite flowers this season. so great
+ ls the demand for white ltac ny Psrislans IN
Winter that "a large number OF florist IN the
ueShO rhn3d Of Paris make specially OF
/ forcing them.
/ rHERE are ten young Japs receiving their
education at Ann Arbor. The Japenese gov
+ ernment VIII not support students in Amerl-
/ can ln-t uJIons, prele. ring TO SEND Them to
/ Germany, 50 all IN this country pay their
/ own expenses.
/ WuENEvrR it is necessary to display storm
/ signals at night at the Signal Service Station
/ In Boston, the lanterns are lighted bv electric
/ lights which make them remarkably brilliant.
! This is the oniv station in the cOuntry at
( which electric lights are used for the signals
TIE CHINESE DOCTORS never dissect. Ac-
4 cording to the charts which represent the
! Chinese ideas of the internal organs which
have en- handed down from ages back the
traClea or WludDlpe goes TO the heart, ana
from there three tubes radiate TO the liver,
4 spleen. and kiGneys
Is MGR. MCCOLGANs CHURCH at Baltimore.
some gas Tets are put to an odd use. A statue
Of 81. Peter, brought recently from Germany,
I Stard' near the altar, the 1gure being clad IN
/ purple toga, topped by a bun cloak, with
! fringe OF id The circle of jets is put above
the head Of the figure and curious effect of
halo Is thus given.
! AN ENGLIsHMAN named H. Burt Turney
has been arrested In Montana charged with
forging the name Of COutts to two county GER
/ tdrate warrants. Turney claims to be an
/ English Lord. and has been bunting for some
time with complete armOry OF expensive
I weapons, hooded dogs and two servants. lie
has created quite "a furOre wherever he mas
! been, and other loose affairs IN his financial
transactions are reported.
SENATOR FAIR has named an eminence IN
Laurel Hii Cemetery. san Francisco, ''Sena-
| tors HiH." Five United States Senators are
to buried there. Tne bones If Broderick and
| B4ker, men OF fame when our fathers were
/ younger. have been under the crust Of the
hill long while. and a few DAYS ago the body
| OF Mr.. Given was there inferred. Mr.. Sharon
I Il to lie near his senatorial predecessors. and
a ffth senator, Mr.. Fair himself, is TO Join
them anon.
AN ASTRONOMICAL LECTURER recently gave
good advice to artists and poets. When art
lets paint the moon they should not make it
too large. Sometimes the moon Is represented
with IFS horns pointing downward. The horns,
of course. must always point away from the
sun. When poets talk about moonlight they
should be sare that the moon did actually
shine on the night in question. The author of
the well -SnOwn poem on the burial of Sir
John Moore has fallen INTO this error.
IT Is related that at one of the Bassar Col
lege examinations in history, one of the most
promising pupils was interrOgated: did
Martin Luther die a natural death2' No"
was the reply; ''he was eXcOmmunlcated by
"a bull TINS Is presumably the same young
lady who sent some ''spOnge cake of her own
make" to President Cleveland. who uses it as
a paper weight, under the Impression that 1t
/ is pound cake. All OF which goes 10 show that
she Is better up in history than she Is IN cook
cry.
THE Earl OF Carnarvon, Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland, represented in the cable dispatches
as near - and completely Frustrated, is 81
years OF age, 1.-THE and active, as is known to
! many New Workers who saw him when he
was here some two years ago, and Is in full
/ mental vigOr, having de.lvere two or three
lang speeches daily during mis- recent tour
through Ireland tbs doubtless equally un-
true that he wears mailed shirt. as he made
boast IN hls speeches Of travelling all unarmed
| and all alone. He experienced attack
/ of rheumatism from exposure when travelling
/ through Manitoba, which has clung to him
! ever since
THERE has been considerable sensation in
certain parts Of Dakota over She report that
Eastern concerns who have large loans in the
Northwest viii insist on a strictly gold basis
for MORTGAGES hereafter. EGOrts to trace the
reports were only partially successful, in
bat one plaCe-trraud Forks. ln the northeast
ern part OF The IerrltOry-was suon a report
confirmed. Here 1t is said that agents of GER
tain Eastern concerns have been instructed
TO take no mortgages for loans un-
less the same aie made payable IN
gold. it Is not probable that the reports
have all come from this Instance but whatever
the source they are received with no little
dread and uneaslness.
a ROMANTIC COURTsHIP has been going on
for some time between Prank Nolan, clerk
IN grocery at Ellz8bethport, n. c.. and a
young school teacher of Dakota. Mr. Nolan
one day about four months ago, while un-
packing barrel of eggs. found one that had
the Young isdy's name and address written
upon lt. The finder OF the egg was requested
TO WRITE provided II " rs man who felt mat
rlmouialy inclined. Young Nolan mmedi-
atey compiled with the fair damsel's iequest.
Several letters have passed between the pair,
photographs nave been exchanged, and in her
last ml5siVe. received few days ago, the
Young woman requests her adDlrer TO come
on 10 Da Ota Immediately. Nolan has been
congratulated by his friends.
JOHN POrE's recent attack upon Fttz- ohm
Porter has brought out again the letter writ
ten by gen. Franklin to this effect: During
the trial thought it proper to inform Porter
that Gen. J. F. REYNOLDS. George, II. Thomas
and mysfh would. IL requested 30 before the
court and swear th-t we would not believe
Pope or Roberts tPope's Inspector General
and the nominal prosecutor under oath |
had co sui ed Gen. Re nOids before I wrote
the prOuostlon. Tie consented 10 60 himself
and thought gen. Thomas would have no
hesitation ln giving such evidence. was
myself wen convinced OF Gen. Thomas opin-
ID ] + | IA Of
heard him say before the war; Porter de
chued TO call in these Witnesses. ON the ground
thar everything seemed going we'll and it
would be impoltic under she circumstances
to attempt to break down the evidence Of the
principal prosecutors.
A CASE or FECULIAR INTEREST isnow occu-
pyng The attention Of the Register OF the
Treasury Last month gen. Rosecrans re-
ceiyed q letter from man IN Pennsylvania
ines .osIng inns authority, under an order of the
court, tO act as a committee for q habitual
druukard. Tie order Was issued Dec
s. few daye ago the Register received re-
quest from a Now ) ork bank 10 transfer one
of these Grunkard'- bonds 10 the bank. the as
siguWcut haFIHr been duly executed ON Dec.
2. siN DAYS before lhe apuointmeutot the com
miiiec. DE puurliau. nearing Ol thi- assign
%, ,p.. wrote to tlt Treasury TO suspend No.
tiuu un %, s.atns tntt under the law. Of
fcnns wanna tuc acts of "a man declared to- be