Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-15
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Mr.. HoLLISGsHEAD, Of note in London
theatrical matters says that there are 10000
persons engaged in one capacity or another
IN London theatres or music halls.
A BosToN amateur photographer has just
had made by New York firm the largest ca
mera ever made in this country. II carries
plate q by 50 inches, and cost $3.50.
FIFTEEN years ago man quit Berlin, Can
ada, owing a ten dollar board bill. The other
day he returned. found that his creditor was
dead, hunted up his family, and paid The debt
with interest.
WHAT looked like a ball Of fire fell IN a
street in Pana, Ill, near a man in a carriage.
He got out, found a hole in the ground, dug
down about foot, and unearIhed a nice little
aerolite as large as good-sized cocoanut.
A CONSIDERABLE INDUSTRY is now carried
on in Europe in the manufacture of picture
frames from paper. Paper pulp, glue, lin
seed oil and carbonate of lime, or whiting.
are mixed together and heated into thick
cream, w hich is run into moulds and mar
dencd. The frames are then gilt or bronzed.
Hon. ALFRED DEAKIN, Chief Secretary,
has Introduced a bill in the Melbourne House
Of Assembly providing for system of irriga-
ton. embracing an area of $50 900 acres. to be
carried out under the MANAGEMENT OF the
Water Trusts but vestag the supreme con
troll OF the works in the government. Inc
eft to farming interests The expense is es-
timated at sl9 100000.
THE furniture of the Cecil County (Md)
court house has been sold at public sale, as
that building is to be remodeled and refur-
nished. Calvin Merritt, OF Elkton, purchased
desk and found in IL PACK age of court pa
pers some 100 years old. One was a warrant
to the Sheriff Of Cecil county by Frederick,
Lord Baltimore, for the arrest of william
Booth, planter. 1t was issued on July l, 1865,
by Francis Key, clerk.
EDWARD BRUNER, a lad of II, was roped
into poker game IN a saloon in Carlisle, Ind,
and the saloon keeper won all his money, $n.
The winner asked the boy TO stay all night,
and he consented. and in the night he took
the 81 from the saloon Keepers pocket and
m ade on. He was arrested and sent TO the
penItentIary, and the Governor has just COM
muted his sentence to term in the reform
school that will end when he is of age.
MRS. F. A. WARNER, of East Saginaw.
Mich, has some specimens of wampum or In
dian money, which she received not long ago
from a lady living in Washington Territory,
whose husband collected 1t years ago while
trading among the A laska Indians. The wan
PUN consists of rare sea shells about an inch
anu a half In length, with the circumference
or large knitting needle, slightly bent. tap
ering and hollow. The value OF each shell IN
trading was four cents.
THE nobility is generally considered a priv
LEGGED class in Germany, but the Municipal
Council of Nuremberg recently proved that
such is not always the case. A man by the
name of A6am Won Fleckinger, having APP
pied for a license as an innkeeper, was grant
ed II only on condition Of his discarding the
Won" and becoming plain Herr EIecklnger
as long as he sold beer. This, the magistrate
exclaimed, was IN accordance with an old
statute of the city OF Nuremberg.
WILLIAM EVANS of Columbus, o., pu gilist,
I 81 I
SAID he guessed he was guilty. You guess
you are guilty." said the Mayor. YOU'RE
coward and a brute. and Pm gong to give
YOU the full PENALTY " The Mayor was much
disappoin ted to find that he could impose only
a so fine and ten days imprisonment. tie
gave him that, and said: "Ynu'll serve this
out, as no influence on earth can secure your
release, and WREN you get out you've got to
leave the city"
FRANKFORT, KY, will celebrate its first
centennial on Oct. next Col. John Mason
Brown will deliver the statistical Grafton.
Maj. Henry T. stanton viii read a centennial
ode cons sting of one hundred stanzas Judge
William Lindsay will deliver an GRAFTON.
Among the other orators will be Judge J. ".
Craddock Gen. John RodInan, Judge Hord.
ex-Ioy. L. 7. Critic ndeD, Senator Vest, Judge
Peters, Col. w. {. z. Brecklnridge, Capt. Joe
Blackburn, eXGov. Knott and Mr. Justice
Harlan. 1t is expected that the food of elo-
quence will permeate all over the State.
WHILE workmen were engaged in excava-
ting an old sunken water we / near Oil Greek
IKE, Crawford county, Pa, they came across
a rock in which. whe II drilling was attempted,
was found what Tesembled platinum, mixed
with gold ore. Repeated tests were made
with strong acids, but no effect was produced,
while a piece was welded and Is now doing
the best OF service as chIsel in cutting both
iron and steel. A chemist pronounced the
strata a bed OF platinum with gold m xed, and
specimens have been sent to New York and
Philadelphia. Excitement runs high, and
property Is being leased at high prices.
TIE painted windows in the Scotch Church,
Rue Bayard, Paris. have been maliciously de-
stroyed. About sixty pieces of iron, an inch
square, were thrown against the glass in the
night with such force shat some of them were
found near the luplt, at the other end Of the
church. while the shattered ass was scat
tered over the gallery, the seats and the floor
| The windows cost about ESQ, and were given
| bv Americans in memory of friends who had
died in Paris. In the deed of sa e last year
| the American Eplscopahans reser we'd the OBJ
| ton of removing the windows and replacing
them with others-a right which has now be-
come Yalueless.
FRANKLIN HOWELL, Vice President OF the
Merchants and Mechanics Bank. of scran-
! ton, Pa, courted Miss Settle Coslett and in
| tue time they became engaged. The dav
| fixed for the union was drawing near when
| unfortunately, Howell had. 50 ne saws a spirit
| communion Win MS lhJner, which advised
! him not to get married at present. He ac-
! cordlngy refused to fufill his engagement
! and the lady was incOnsolable. On second
| thought, however. she sou INT relief IN a court
| of law. and instituted a suit for breach of
| promise against her splritualiStic lover The
gentleman, after another spiritual manifesto
| ton, II - sup losed. consented to a Judgment
| in SO 600, and SO satisfactorily settled with
| the fair settle.
FEW YEARS AGO King Ludwig, Of Bavaria.
made some inquiries concerning the trust
worthiness OF various Munich printing Offices
for doing secret work. On the strength NJ
the information obtained. he sent with much
| secrecy apfetty youminous manuscript bear
| irg no nam TO Herr Muhlthslers the printer
! OF the Fhegende Batter. The confidential
| bearer OF the parcel ordered single copy To
| be drawn of in an edition de luxe stvlc. with
| strict iniunctions that none save the com
! postor should see the manuscript, and that
| the latter, together with the first and ar
rected proof sheets. must be rellgioua,v re
! turned TO him. These we're the noetirsl
works OF the hing, supposed to he written in
| the same singular form as the WaRnerian
| opera texts. In all probability the hook viii
! be found among the Kings papers, and NIB
lished pro bono publco.
THE Krupp steel shaft made at tho grant
works in Germany, and winch broke on hoard
the steamer Boaz thirty miles above Memnbis
the other day, had been in use three wears and
mad made about 100000 revolut,ops. the
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