Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ing has l60,96S men, divided as follows: In
fantry. l9l, 522; cavalry, 25,79O, and artillery,
3 $50. fat1n
BOHEMIAN OATS swINDLERs are believed to
have carried $780, 600 out of Inghahf c5untY,
Mich. Many speculative farmers have been
ruined by them. t.le 5Et .
THE nearest approach to the north pole;
made by Lieut. Lockwood, on May lS, 1881,
was 1856 miles, or distance no greater than
that from Albany to Washington. ,-r-.
A SOLDIER at Miles City, NJ. t., confesses
that he stole lot of clothes. billiard balls and
bar room fixtures that he might be sent TO
jail, where he was sure that he would be
| happier than at Fort Keogh, where he Was
stationed.
A SMALL and reckless boy OF Ann Arbor,
Mich, tired to mount the footboard OF NOV
ing locomotive, and fell directly in front of
It,: he mad sense enough to lie perfectly
still, and the locomotive passed over him
without doing any damage.
A PETITION is being signed in Germany
asking the government to open the UNIVERSE
ties to women, Female students have been
allowed from time to time to study at Heidel-
berg and Lelpslc, but not to take their de
grees. Germany is behind several other con-
tlnental countries In this reform movement.
ATT meeting of the Salvation Army in
Washington the other day Gen. William
Booth, the Commander in Chief, so impressed
one well-dresscd old gentleman that he
rushed up to the platform, his eyes streaming
VIII tears. and. taking a good gold watch and
chain from his vest, gave 1T as a thank offer
ing Tor his own conversion.
MAURICE BEREHARDT, son of the famous
Sarah Bernhard, is now quite a fashionable
figure in Paris, and one of the most dashing
horsemen in the Bots. He also handles a
sword well. If we NAV Judge by his success In
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resented Sara Bernhardt In an unfavorable
manner at the IncohercntS' exhibition of
pictures.
THE monument to Garibaldi to be erected
on the Janiculum hill, at Rome, will be
finished sooner than was expected. Galiori,
the sculptor, has already finished modelling
one Of the large groups which will ornament
the base of the statue This group Is to be
called the defense of Rome" and is said to
be very striking. 1t VIII be of bronze. The
sculptor is now at work on the equestrian
statue itself.
SAN DIEGO citizen bought a ticket for
San Francisco. and sat down on the pier until
the boat should be ready TO start. He became
very much interested in seeing the work GO
ing on, the passengers hurrying down, the
gang plank pulled in, and the lines cast on,
and expressed pleasure at the sight of the big
steamer as she left the pier. Then he remem-
bered he wasn't on board, but that his bag
gage was, and his language was something
shocking.
1T is reported from st. Paul that when John
L. Sullivan was there great crowd gathered
in the corridors of the hotel where he was
staying. A well-known judge was introduced
to him and remarked: 'WelI Mr.. Sullivan. |
notice You are drawing card, even in a no.
tel" Sullivan looked around for minute
and replied: "Oh, this is nuthin.' Yacht to
see me in New York. / am often surrounded
by SIGH crowd that have good deal of diff
hcuity in Citing round tall"
FRANK BOWER of Dayton, o., said that
he could husk and crib seventy bushels of corn
between sunup and shutdown, and Daniel
Murphy said that he didn't believe it, He
didn't believe ii $50 worth; and as Frank had
$50 worth of confidence in his own ability a
match was maze. SO at sunrise, in the pres
enee OF large gathering of farmers, Bower
began, and by four O'Clock in the afternoon
had husked and cribbed eighty two bushels Of
corn, and so won the $50 easily.
EX-GOv. WARMoTH, of Louisiana, stepped
up TO greet Senator Hale upon the return of
the latter from Europe and afte1ward said
lis there anything the matter with me? Am
a scalawag in appearance? am asking in dead
earnest. for just now ] went up to speak to
that little whiflet Hale, with whom l was
associated IN Washington years ago, and he re-
ceived me with lordly air OF supreme conde-
scenslon such as l never met from any man.
l felt liEe picking uD his little carcass ana
chuckinG It through the window, and could
KICK mySC1 Tor nNVlng spoken to him. II
makes my blood fairly boil"
CONDUCTOR DUNCAN, of the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas railway, found a 4-weeks-
old baby on his train, and at once surmised
that it had been abandoned by pretty young
girl whom he had noticed with child in her
arms, and who had left the train at Collins
He cared for the baby. and the next day, on
the run back, the same girl got on the train
at Collins. She still carried what seemed to
be a baby. but her actions led the conductor
to question her, and to insist upon seeing the
baby, which proved to be a bundle of clothes
| carefully wrapped up in shawl. The girl
was afterward arrested for abandoning her
child.
THERE Is judge on the English bench JUS
tice Day, who appears 20 have taken Judge
Jeffreys. of sainted memory. as his prototvpe
and to pine for the good old days Of the bloody
Assizes. Some of his sentences during the
past year seem scarcely credible. He gave a
clergyman eighteen months imprisonment
| for marrying minor without due pubiica-
tion of the 0anns. A boy who had attempted
| to eXtort money by threats was sentenced by
| Justice Day to penal servitude for life: and a
| young man got eighteen months in jail for
| publishing in newspaper that he was en-
| gagged to be married 10 a young lady of high
| rank. The English newspapers are calling
| loudly for the interference of the Home Sec
| rotary with this eccentric judge.
AT recent meeting of the Anatomical and
| Hatho!OSlcal society OF Brussels, M. Destree
called the attention of the members to the
fact that cases of Group had been greatly and
steadily on the increase in Brussels, 50 that
| Group and diphtheria were now epidemic
| there; and he veDCured to suggest that there
might be some connection between the keep
! ing of pigeons and the occurrence of these dis
| eases. He pointed out that Emmeriels Of
| Munich. had found the microbe of diphthcrla
! in these birds, and he himself had met with
| three cases of Group in families where pigeons
were kept, in all of which cases signs OF the
| disease had appeared in the pigeons. NJ. Des-
| tree hoped that members would bear this
matter in mind, in order that it N ght be fur
] Their eiucidated.
THE Gazette Anecdotique, OF Paris, pub
! fishes an article establishing a parallel be-
! tween Napoleon the Great and the late Pres
dent Garfield. The article is entitled From
Log CABIN to White House." 1t gives a list
of the pl ccs where Napoleon lodged when he
had more ambition than money, between 1884
and his fall, in 1915. The article enumerates:
First. part Of garnet IN the EcOle Militalre:
second. under the Quai MONT: third, an
attic. Hotel dc Metz; fourth, Hotel DIES Droits
de PHomme. rO nm 10, Rue dc la Michodieret
fifth, a room IN Hotel Mirabeau: sixth, room
in Rue de Capncj mes: seventh, room in Rue de
Victoire: eighth, Palace de Luxembourg:
ninth, Palace tic Tuieres The French
writer. however, with commendable patriot
ts, ut.u. al, 10