Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-04
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1T IS said that from 5000 to 4,00prses are
Killed in Spain yearly in bull fghtg.
| CASTLE GARDEN officers say thaEhe Nor
mon immigration has fallen of TOGO or l,5oO
year.
DURING the recent hot weaths many Ne
oraska farmers reversed the Id AXIOM
MAKE hay while the sun shine and made
| nay by moonlight.
THE most striking thing aboutayor Grace's
| once In New York is huge mogany clock'
This sentence is to be taken terally. Inc
tlmepiece Is ten feet n height
A BORING made by the Prussn government
at Schladebach in search of ce is said to be
| the deepest in the world. Itdepth Is A,o6O
| feet, its breadth at the bottonwo inches and
! at the top eleven inches. Themperature at
the bottom is lla degrees.
A THING with which they ay circumvent
caterpillars IN the Boston nd New York
| parks is a belt of iron with aircular trough
| containing kerosene The ircbelt fits around
the trunk of the tree and WIN the climbing
caterpillar attempts TO pass e trough OF Oil
| 1t is overcome by the fumesnd So falls BACK
as dead an Orgyfd leIc 8ti01 as a door nall
| ONCE Abernethy was solrusque with
| lady patient that she said: | had heard of
| your rudeness before, but did not expect
| this" When he handed hethe prescription
| she asked, "What am | I do with thisr'
Anything you Ike he sal; "put it in the
| fire II you please" The ladtoOk him at his
| word, threw the prescription the fire, laid
| down the fee, and walked of
THE Governor of Farrah VS. much aston
| ished at the smallness of the eort with which
Mr.. Stevens rode into the Bazaar, said escort
consisting of few wanderir children that
had ATTENDED HIM into the town 1.-The
boundary Com mission" said y, "had many
| sabres and hayonets. and the on of man could
not discern the desert for the nmber of the
| transport animals they brough with them,
| while this man cometh and geefh unat-
| tended, riding on the Skeleton OF an iron
| horse"
THE Philadelphia mint has bgun TO make
use Of an appropriation of $500 made at the
| last session Of Congress to 'clan up" or re-
| polish minor coins. Ten thosaud dollars in
| nickels and cents have BEEN % treated, and
| weekly transfers Of like amqnt will be N AIDE
| from the sub-treasurtes to tie mint until the
| public demand is satisfied o the appropria-
| ton ia exhausted. This mior coin can be
| had upon application at tbtmint in sums OF
| $40 or mUltiples thereof. aRfwill be delivered
free of express charges toany part OF the
| country.
| THE Roman Catholic cierymen of Worces-
ter are said to be divided aso the advisable
ty of following implicitly tn lead of the last
| tion OF church fairs. Somet the pastors have
| adopted a system OF assessntpts on their par
| ishioners. which they hold ilfar more desir-
aole, from the fact that sue course gives
| every person proprietar! interest in the
| church and al its affairs, VILE under the old
| system the burden of the support fell upon the
! few, for the reason that mny who were SO
disposed would shirk their hare of the bur
| den, while they would still continue TO re-
ceiVe the benefits of the church.
A LETTER with htatoTv rriuad ut thn Old
Orchard, Me-, post office list week. When
frat received, fifteen years 40 last March. in
| the press of care, it was brown unopened
| into bureau drawer and given NO otheI
| thought. After some yeas. during some
| family changes, the bureau, with other fur
niture, was sold, and the letter still lay quietly
| in the drawer. 1t was overlooked until a
| few days ago, when it was opened and found
| to contain money, and so was immediately
| forwarded to Its rishtful owner, at present
| staying at Old Orchard She at once proceed
ed to the residence of the lady for whom the
| money was intended, which strangely enough
| Is also at Ola Orchard.
A CORRESPONDENT in Notes and Queries re-
| lates two cases in which dark hair became
| white. and reverted again toits original color
| He says: 1.-THE first instance occurred in th'
| father Of the butler of the late Sir Jane
Walker, of Sand Hutton. il Yorkshire. Th'
| hair OF this man. who lived in the village o
Sdbu mutton, anu was Ola lrt III nelnV graz
became dark as in early life. The SECOND
| case was that OF servant Of nov own. Thu
man, whose hair was nearly black, was dis
charged by me, and q few years afterwards re
| engaged. His hair was then quite gray. Tit
| same man was again discharged and subse
| quently re-engaged. His hair on this occa
sion had nearly recovered its original hue"
! ANDREW BURKE, aged rs years, a hand Of
| the schooner Corredor. Capt. Clarence Red
! mond, of Annapolis. was admitted to the ma
! riDe ward, OF st. JOseph's hospital, Baltimore
| Wednesday. suffering from a shark bite
Burke states that on Sunday afternoon h
| went swimming from the Corredor which
| Grace. He swan to another schooner, ant
| was returning, when he felt sharp pain il
| his left foot, aud soon was dragged beneatl
the water. He struggled violently, got fire.
| and came to the surface. By splashng an
| calling for help the shark, which was seen b.
! Psssng schooner, disappeared. A boat wa
I hprrtedly sent to his rescue. DR.. Smith, o
Havre de Grace. four d the ankle boue crushe,
| and extracted two pieces from it.
| CAPT. MoRRELL, of tine English steamer
| Surrey. reports that while on a voyage fror
Baltimore to London in March last he expert
enced heavy gales and high and confuse,
seas. He filled the pans of the water closet
| aft with oakum and waste, and then poured Il
| machine oil until the ygstew as fol y saturated
| allowing the oil to drip gradually over tn
| side. The effect was remarkable. as no NOR,
| seas came aboard. At about ~ o'clock a
night the oil in the waste became exhausted
| and almost Immediately aftsrward a heav
d, sea swept the deck, washing the man from
| the wheel, and doing other damage. The sun
ply of oil was replenished, and no further d fl
| Guilty was experienced. the ship runnn
easily for eighteen honrs, aud shipping n
! more water on deck The Surrey " as loade
with cattle, and Capt. Morrell attributed tn
| preservation of the animals entirely to tn
! use Of oil.
IN the early days OF our commerce wit
China after the treaty which allowed AmeFi
can clippers TO enter the hatbor Of Hon
| Kong, one OF the largest English three deck
ers WAS lying in the harbor and at sunse
! her yards and topmasts were housed to shoy
| the manher in which the ship was manned
| A Yankee Captain who was awaiting
| freight of new tea watched the EnGlisbma
and decided to try his hand with him. Nv
or three days later at the sunset gun, tn
| American clippers yards and sails cam
| down ana topmasts housed some minutes be
fore the m -ot-war. Again IN the mprnin
at the signal the yards were sent up and tn
| EnQllshman was again behind. For seVera
! days the race went on with the same result
| until the American ship received her cargo
| spd on the day before setting sails the. yard
! came down and were sent to the EngliS
frigate with the compliments Of the Ynnke
| CAPTAIN, They we're bamboo poles witt
painted Uurled) sails.
THERE lie actually on record in the Record
er's Office at La Porte, Sullivan county Pa,
! deed hereby Peter e. Armstrong and Ran
| nan, his wife, "deed, grant and convey T.
| Almighty God who inhabiteth eternity an