Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-11-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Mr.. WEIDNER, noted German engineer,
calculated that the Cerro del Marcado, Mex,
in the State of Durango, contains 10000 COO
CUP yards Of solid iron, representing value
OF Tl2,O0O,0o0.
The American dentist has become almost
as fixed an institution in England as the
French hair dresser or the German waiter.
mere are probably two score in London
acne, commanding patronage which would
open The eyes of their professional brethren
at home.
REV. CHARLES r. TIMING, late of North
Cambridge, Mass, has taken parish in Min
neapoiis, and the people out there think that
ne has caught on TO the ways of the West with
wonderful rapiGIty. They are led to this
conclusion largely bg the fact that he had an
article dated Minneapolis in The Advance
two Gays before he got there.
The chief of tribe of Digger Indians wor-
ships stonc churn as his god. On first
thought you'll say that a dozen missionaries
ought to he hurried out there, but wait a
m mute. This chief neither drinks, swears,
ste1ls, nor exhibits envy toward his fellow
men. He Is said TO be moral. honest and in
dustrious. and was lately swindled out OF $50
in horse trade.
CHAPLAIN MCCABE has decided upon a new
plan for raising the "million for MISSIONS"
which has been so nearly accomplished in the
last two years. There are to be ~, 900 million
dollar leagues among the Methodist children.
each league to contain at least hve members.
with seer tar7 amt treasurer, who are to OBJ
tain willing Worker cards from the chap
lain, on which they and their friends write
the sum pledged for the year.
FRANCIS IL. UNDERWOOD, of Boston, now
United States Consul at Glasgow, is presently
to deliver two lectures before the Edinburgh
Philosophical Society on "CambrIdge ana
Concord; Two Aspects of American Litora-
ture." He will dl-cuss the evolution of the
era OF literary productiveness in America,
nd IN one discourse will give prominence to
Emerson, ThOreau and Hawthorne. and in
the other to LonRfellow. Holmes and Lowell.
PAUL DuORMoYs relates that after his cleo
ton to he Presidency of France Louis Napo-
leon remarked to M. Theirs, ''Strasburg aud
Bouogne were mad actions. Yet these two
pieces of madness made me known and caused
nay election "Prrhaps," replied Thi r..
those two mad actions contributed to bring
-about your nomination; but you forget a third,
which certainly helped to bring about your
electiOn.'~ "And what was that? 'Auster-
litZ.''
senator Mahoue's brother in law, W. W.
Briggs, who died Saturday in Southampton
county, Va, was for many years Sheriff of the
county. He was prominent witness III the
celebrated trial in which Judge Barrett killed
a wealthy painter in the county. His EVIL
dence saved Bar EFT, then young law stu
dent, from the gallows. judge, then Mr..
Barrett, killed his opponent under very I'M
Usual circumstances. He had been informed
that his adversary would shoot him on slgnt.
NJ citing him at Jerusa EN-, the Judge leveled
Il dOuble-barreled gun and rIduled his antag-
onist with buckshot. lie was tried and ac-
quilted.
A BOSTON MAN makes the following calcu-
latoDs IN regard to the ESQ, COO edition OF The
Century" The weight would be 1877, 500
pounds, or about "a tons. The magaz mes,
piled one over another, would make n pile
S,3l2 feet high, Is times as high rs the Wash
ington monument or % times as high as Bar
thoidi's Liberty. Placed end to emf the maya
zines would reach distance of 80 miles. The
sheets OF white paper, before folding, would
cover :07 acres. or placed end 10 end would
extend LBS miles, way across the continent
cylinder press making 10000 impressions
daily of an eight page form wOuld he kept
busy for over two years in printing the edi-
tom" ..t,
AVERY PECULIAR CASE is reported from
Jacksonville, Ind. Joe Demines, a small
coored boy of that town. went down to the
levee, where the steamer Minnie Bay was un-
ioading some freight. Just as the boat pulled
out she blew her whistle. Immediately after
ward the boy lost his power of speech and
has since only been able to make himself I'M
derstoo1 by signs. lie is about Is years of
age and is a very intelligent boy. He has not
been i'll since the unfortunate accident, aud
suffers no lnconyenIerce but the loss of his
voice. Whether the affection was caused Nv
the blowing of the whistles a matter of doubt.
but il Is certain that the boy cannot talk. and
insists that the blowing of the whistle did it.
DoNJosE FERNANDEZ DE VALEsCo, Duke de
Frias, has been appointed Project of Madrid.
lie is one of the first Spanish Grandees; but
for the past fifteen years has lived in entire
secluson Why? Because he lured away
from her husband anu welded Lady Cramp-
fnr of h.sF gfRs 49,
of the English Minister at Madrid. He and
his ill-wOn bride were not received at court
or in society, and fo went to live in retirement
at BiarritZ. A few years later she died but
he repained in retirement. and probably
never would have return ed 10 Madrid had It
not been for the ambition OF his second wife
the beautiful Princess Piguatelli, who wants
to shine as the bright, particular star Of the
Spanish court.
. ONE DAY last week young man from Bell
vale, n. y, while on spree played a most
heartless trick upon his aged mother. He was
at Greycourt and wrote a telegram to his
mother, who was residing at Chester, telling
her that If she wished to see her son P mann
ing Ii mself) alive she had better take the next
train for South1eld, where ~he would find hin,
lying at Spoilers Hotel. The old lady at once
prepared for the journey. expecting that bv
some mlshap her son was living at the point Of
death add, being quite inflrm, she took lady
friend along to assist and protect ner. A the
train stopped at Greycourt the heartless
wretch stepped GA board the same train.
keeping out OF their sight, to go along and
witness the sensation.
WHAT one woman can DO is illustrated by
Jennie Collins, who fifteen years ago, wasa
taiiorcss IN Boston working for her daily
bread. Realizing the SORROWS of large class
of shop girls who must perforce live in cheap
boarding houses and miserable lodgings she
thought out the idea of establishing a place
Tor them where they could meet for social
purposes and self help. With the aid of her
employer "BOfin's Bower" which mas since
become famous for the good it works, was
established. Wendell Phillips was hearty
and practical supporter OF the enterprise. In
this connection il is recorded that from lS45
to 1875 he aud his estimabe wife gave AWAY in
various charities $64.7iO. And they were
neither of them rich in this worlds goods.
ONE Of the heroiues unknown to fame. and
of whom the world hardly hears at all, is by
name Mrs. Laura Thomas. Left a widow
with seven little children and an uncultivated
farm OF eighty acr es, with $500 mortgage on
IL, IN a bleak part Of Wisconsin, as her Legacy.
she managed to exchange the land and log
cabin for nome in ST. Andrews, Fla. With
out the means to convey her and her family
thither by either steam or rail, this brave
woman put her children in a wagon with the
Intention Of driving all the way. She reached
st. Louis last week-S00 miles OF her Journey
and was there obliged to sell her ponies and
wagon. but the Sb3 which they brought, and