Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AMSTERDAM has a great palace which the
hihg occupies only six days in the year IL IL
| punt upon piles, and has cost all told SjOcC--
| Wv Ihls palace the King shows To VISITORS
Ior consideration. PAY two cents anu you
are taNen through by guide IN livery.
THAT is terrible story from Algeria OF the
recent execution of an Arab. The knife fell
Twice without effectng decapitation. when
eneexecutioner sent for hand saw to dlviue
Cue cefVlcat vertebra: after which tne con-
Elct was replaced in the Gulllotine, Whlch
HhSIIy accomplished its work
THERE is wonderful Maltese cat out West,
/ ana the Cheyenne Leader wants its readers to
oeheVe this of him. 1t was his regular even
! l9g uuty TO 90 after the cows. He found one
Oh them so badly crippled that abe COULD
not get home. Detaching the rest of the cat
we from her, he got them corralled, and taen
ne separated calf which belonged TO the In
lured COW from the others and drove 1t back
70 JUS mother. While il was being suck ed the
cdt waited patiently, and then, happy IN the
consciousness of duty faithfully performed,
ne uroVe the calf back to the corral.
HE State of Kentucky has furnished the
united States with two Presidents and three
vice Presidents, the Confederate States with
one PRESIDENT. and the other States with no
less tnan nifty Governors and Lieutenant Gov
ernors. She has been represented in the
Iamnets by one Secretary OF State, three Sec
retar1es OF the Treasury, three Secretaries of
" ar, six Postmaster Generals, one Secretary
OF Interior and i've Attorney Generals. and
mas also supplied the Supreme Court of the
united states with SIX distinguished sons.
Four times has a Kentucklan been elected
speaker OF the House OF Representatives.
ALBERT ScHLAGEL, the chemist for a large
tobacco mandatory in St. Louis, is on trial
In the Hudson County Court IN jersey City
on charge of larceny. p. Lorillard & Co.
allege that some months ago schlagel came
on from st. Louis with the determine of
learning the secret of one of their havoring
extracts; that he induced servant girl EN-
ployed by some of the Lorillard people to
steal bottle OF the extract; that he analysed
IT, learned lts composition, and used IL for the
benefit of the st. Louis manufacturers. The
LoPlliards enjoined their firm from using the
extract, and had Schlagel indicted for lar
ceny and taken TO jersey City under a requi-
slt.on.
OLD DAN RICE, the famous Snowman. told a
Cincinnati reporter pretty story the other
day about how, in looking over some of his
fathers old papers, he discovered that he was
probably the rightful heir toa va,te-tate in
IeNas and Mexico. his father having been
the owner Of 100000 acres of land Dan says
ne vent to Texas and found the title perfect.
anu now ne mas only to prove that he is the
son OF his father. whose name was McLaren
The showman's full name is Daniel Rice Mo
LaTen, but ne only used part ofit for profess
sional purposes. He says he wi ! soon be able
are furnishing him the money TO secure his
fortune.
The other day Vienna enjoyed the specta-
Gle of vegetarian congress-" consisting of
about 200 Vegetariaus from various German
| and Austrian cities. Previous to the festal
| banquet speech was made by a Hessian
| lady, who attributed all the evils of the world
TO nesh -eating, ana pointed to the names of
| Pythagoras, Buddah and Confuclus as illus
| trations of what could be done with a vegeta-
| bic diet not to men ton elephant is and cameis
who were also vegetarlRnR. She even insist
| ed that the grandeur Of Wagner's ''Pareifal'
was due to the com poser's vegetarian prInci-
| ples-although it is well known that Wag-
ner was one OF tho most OmnlveroUs epicures
IN Germany. 1t was aAnounced that a mem
Der had presented 10 600 marks to the society,"
ana that next year 1T would meet at Leipsic.
HARRY MAURY, brother of Gen. Dabney H.
was not only duelist but daredevil at any
thing. Harry made great reputation as a
| sailor without any knowledge of the business.
| At the time of the famous NIcaraguan fill
| clustering expedition in 1856, he got possession
| of a small vessel and, loading her with am
| munition and fiibusters, set sail to assist
| walker. lie didn't know one sail from an
| other, but he knew the ace OF hearts from the
! queen of clubs, and, having pack of cards
| handy, he pinned the ace OF hearts on one sail,
| the queen of clubs on another, the Jack OF da-
monds on another, and on. In this way ne
kept them straight, and when ne gave his or
| hearts,, or Take reef IN the queen of clubs
etc. He made the voyage all right, too. He
| led body f mounted men during the war
and became Il Brigader General in the Con
| federate service.
A DRAMATIC SUICIDE in the Politeama Thea
tire, of Paisance, France, is recorded in the
| Journalist of that country. The opera of sIu
ola di Lammermoor" was being sung for the
| benefit of the prima donna, Elvra Brambilla
| One Of the glded youth of Milan, named Gil
ovanni Flore, occupied one of the proscenium
| boxes, and appeared to be very enthusiastic
| in his appre tlon Of the performance espe-
| ciallv the singing of Brambilla, applauding
| vigorously each air of Lucia. He threw Bram-
| bilIa three beautiful bouquets. to each OF
| which was affixed valuable ring. At the
| close of the opera the young man secured an
| introduction to the prima donna, and entered
| into conversation with her in her box. After
| Ia king for a few minutes he suddenly ex-
| claimed: Il have seen and heard Brambillal
| The object of my life Is attained" With
| these words he drew a revolver, placed the
muzzle to his temple. pulled the trigger, and
| fell dead at the feet of tue prima donna.