Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


MICAGER HANCOCK. 9S years old, who
fought at Lundy's Lane, rode twenty miles the
other day with his 6S- year old son, in a agon,
TO mat e application for pension. The vet
eran ia in an admirable state of prcserva-
ton.
GARRETT w. BROWN, druggist in Ander-
son. Ind, Administered dose of fluid extract
of oelladonna instead of extract of dandelion.
He was confederate enough, however. to take
me do himself, and he died of paralysis Of
the heart.
A KINGSTON. n. Y, newspaper tells of
Marlboro gh colored man who, having earned
81 40. invested 90 cents Of it in three dozen
bananas. ate them all on the spot, and then
ADJOURNED to a saloon to moisten them with
dozen glasses of beer.
THOMAS BAILY ALDRIcH. who has just re-
turned from a three months trip through the
interior of Russia, says that the civilization
OF Moscow reminded him of some wild Indian
cnlet who in his old age puts on a pair of epau-
lettes or high hat. at simply emphasizes
savages."
"A CORRESPONDENT in Rome says that par
tlcularly graceful Carrara marble statuette
OF an infant Bacchus has been found near an
clent Subra. The legs are gone, and one hand
ana one arm. A goat skin hangs from the
shoulders. and the head is crowned with an
IVY wreath tied with long ribbons.j
SOME drunken young men of Centreville,
Ind. thought it would be fun to play at hang
ing. mock trial was held. One of their
number was found guilty, sentenced to be
hanged, light cord was put around his neck,
and he was swung of from the lin b of tree
Inc boys thought that the rope would break
When his whole weight was on it. but it didn't.
ana, as they were too drunk to release him,
tne condemned man was nearly dead when
assistance arrived.
KATE CAHILL. sister of Patrick Cahill, of
Brooklyn, was sent to the Lunatic Asylum Oh
BiackwelPs Island eight years ago. On
Thursday her brother received notice from
tne New York morgue that his sister was
dead and that the body was ready for re-
moval. He employed an undertaken and
made all other arrangements for the funeral.
when the body was brought to the house 1t
was decided not to be his sisters, and inquiry
snow d III TO be that of another woman of the
same name, and that the supposed dead wo-
man was alive and improving.
A FEW DAYS AGO new work by the pres
emit Pope appeared in all the Itah..n book
shops. "Inscriptiones ct Carmna Leonis XIII.
Pontihcis maximi.'' 1t consists mainly Of
poems and verses in Latin in praise of the
Virgin Mary. A. the booksellers however
fixed the price Of the little volume at will. the
Pone has stopped it's further sale and has
ordered that copies shall he given gratis to
the clergy and tn. poor schools. 1t is said
that Leo KILL, before publishing the work,
submitted 1t to a number of eminent classical
scholars in order that the Latin style might
be as HAWKES. as possible.
IT appears that one effect Of railway COM
munication with Mexico is the admission of
American cotton at low freight rates in COM
petition with the Mexican home grown pro-
duct. Before the opening of the roads the
price of American cotton varied from l3c to
lbc. per pound. The importation of cotton
from the United States W as then so expensive
and difficult as to encourage its cultivation in
Mexico, and cotton growing became one OF
me most profitable branches of agriculture.
The Mexicans are complaining that the rail-
way charges on American cotton are so low
as specially to discriminate against the Mexi-
can cotton grower.
"HARD TIMES" prevail in Persia as well as
nearee home. says the London Graphic
The soldiers are SO poor that they spend their
spare time selling vegetables in the street, or
mending slippers in TIE gateways of the mos
que. Part of their profits are shared with
the officers in return for additional leave,
while the Colonies themselves give their off
GERS unlimited leave that they may enjoy
their subordinate's pay. Even Il Q Fine Art
Minister cannot get his salary, and has ac-
cordingly taken up his quarters in one of
the palace rooms, declaring that he will not
stir till the arrears are paid. The Shah sends
him copious meals, but will not pay him a
penny.
A CHICAGO reporter says: "Once one Of the
best known of Chicago's citizens hid We re-
porters in room upstairs at the time of his
wIfes annual ball, and sneaked up the back
stairs occasionally to try to brIbe us not to
print the name of certain other citizen in
the list OF his guests for grave political rea-
sons feel thrill OF pride even now when
l remember how, when we had finished orr
work, we all took our notebooks in our hands
and fled calmly down the stairs and across
the library to the hall door in full view of the
guests from whom we had been so assiduously
hidden. 1t was self-respecting bit OF retri-
button ON the concealed snobbery of the emf
nent citizen"
PROF. CLAIMING. of Harvard whose schoI-
arly attachments were the pride OF the college,
was most exact and critical in his examina-
ton of written themes which he mark ed ON a
scale OF 100 as the highest award. From 90 to
so was the average marx and ii was n wofullv
Do0r effort that carried the work below 40
But on one occasion all the worthy Professor
human charity was exhausted by the afro
cions faults of certain composition, and he
ruthlessly marked 1t ]. The student. display
ing far more personal pride than he Ii ad lite
rSrv ability. came to the Professor and pro-
tested. such mark. Prof. Charming, seems
joined the Professor. sit would have been
more considerable not to have marked IL at
ALL" Il would rather you had marked il as
zero than to have marked it l." But" re-
piled Prof. Charming, "don't be distressed
1t was worth it,"
IN the autobiopra Apply of the late s. Ireneus
Prime, now being published in the New York
Observer, The writer tells of a scholar who
went to school to him in Sing Sing, and was
rather stupid at frat as he Numbered over his
B C's. One dav Mr.. Prime stood the mall
boy In the middle of the room as q punish
ment. The bell rope hung just there, and the
teacher IN fun dropped the moose over the
lads head. There happened to be some boys
In the hail above, who pulled the rope, and the
Ilttle FELLOW at once went toward the ceiling
The teacher grabbed the rope and pulled
which made the bows pull all the harder, and
the child was in danger OF being hanged then
and there. But Mr. Prime succeeded in eX-
Treating him none the worse for the hanging.
and afterward wrote: ''IIe went on with his
studies, became q capital speaker at public
meetings, studied law, hecame Recorder of
the city OF New York, and subsequently Gov
ernor OF the state OF New York, my lifelong
friend, John 7. Hoffman"
OUR FRIENDS the English still continue to
write themselves down a stupid lot concerning
anything American. The Circulating Lii
brary. an English periodical. has this in no
tice OF the Memoirs Of Gen. Grant,: "Grant
was the son or farmer, who gave him n
much better education than he mad himself
received. The civil war obliged Grant TO be-
come soldier, in which capacity he served
Tor fourteen yeare, when he again took tn
farming, which he had to reinqush on &C
count of III health. lie then became success
sively estate agent, clerk in a store, and SEN
at0r. In this last vocation te distinguished