Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-31
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employees IN a tannery at Dexter. Me-, sharp
ened his razor on strap on which the cur
rIers sharpened their knives. and proceeded
to shave. He cut his chin Sigh thy, and few
days after his face began to swell, and on the
following Saturday he died of blood poison
ing.
FINE fish story comes from the Sucker
State. tits that Geneseo man floating down
the Illinois went to sleep, leaving stout fish
line dangling in the water. When he awoke
his boat was fifteen miles further up stream
than when he went to sleep. A monster cat
fish had swallowed the bait and towed the
boat up the river.
MILUCKY MACLAY is the somewhat Hiber-
nian name of the King of the PapHans, who is
travelling through Europe to see how bar
barous the people are. When he arrived at a
rather desirable looking town he runs up his
nag and takes possession of 1t in his own
name. The ceremony doesn't hurt anybody,
and makes the King feel good for week.
TIE Bene correspondent of the Stats lei
tung says that the cheese industry of Switzer-
land is suffering NOR and more from the
competition not only Of Prussia. Baden, wur-
temburg and Bavaria, but also of the United
States and Russia. The price of milk is
cheaper In these countries than IN Swttzer-
land. There are now made more than l6O
different kinds Of cheese.
sPLESIo APoPLExY has broken out in some
herds of bullocks in Leicestershire, causing
heavy losses. Through the death of the animals
the disease has also been spread to mum Der Of
people. through the carcasses beng sold for
human food. One man, who cut his finger
with bone, died from the disease. A large
number Of families in Leicester ate the meat,
and grave results are apprehended.
WoRKMEN, In tearing down an old house on
the site of the new national cemetery at
Cypress Hills, found In secret closet an old
sabre scabbard, pair of leather pistol
pockets. and knApsack, which are believed
to be nearly two hundred years old. The
house is over two hundred and fifty years old
and has always been the homestead of the
Snedtker family. During the revolution Gen.
Washington once took dinner there.
JAMES MYEE, JE., of Kingston, was rak-
ing hay with wire horse rake drawn by a
mule. The mule stepped into bees nest
with the usual results. When the bees got
through with the mule and the mule stopped
running, Mr.. Myer, who had been spending
most of the time with the hay among the rake
teeth. found himself nearly devoid of cloth
ing. but quite covered with scratches and
bruises.
GEORGE Phillips, of Binghamton, solano
county, Cal, has just completed an organ
containing 100 pipes, the longest being sixteen
feet. All the pipes are made of old newspa-
pers rolled and fastened with paste made of
glue and alum. The woodwork was made
eHtlrely of old fence boards, posts. dry goods
boxes and the like. He was two years in
have an excellent tone.
GossIPs returned from London report that
two of the summer sights in tine British me-
tropolis bring bushes to the cheeks of Ameri-
can visitors. One is the spectacle of the
Doodle Aldermen swelling around the Hotel
MetropOle and giving tone to that establish
ment with which it might proftably dispense.
iG N q IN MI Ear
nading the streets arm in arm with a slim
actress. while his fat but faithful wife pants
behind them like pug dog in pettlcoats.
AN amusing incident happened in Liver
pool church the other Sunday. The pews Of
the church had been Vanished the week pre-
vious and were not yet entirelydrv. The con-
gregation did not know this. The clergyman
came out of the vestry room and began the
service by reading the sentence, "ReBd your
hearts and not your garments, etc." the
people rising as he began. But to the horror
of everyone they found themselves stuck fast
to the seats; and though they had just been
told not to do so, many of them literally rent
their garments in their efforts to get up.
AMONG the spirits who were introduced at
the Mantle SpIritualistic camp meeting last
Sunday was that Of a man who died six years
ago, and whose widow was again married
without delay, to the scandal Of her neigh
boris. Evidently this spirit had heard of what
u.
cation al the camp he is reported to have come
TO his wife's rescue as follows: ~ know there
was considerable talk among the neighbors
about nv wife marrying 80 shortly after my
taking off, but i paid no attention to such
nonsense. / approved of il at the time.
ratifv and confirm it now. 1t has my hearty
Endorsement. In change of circumstance 1
would have done the same thing myself.
nelghbors or no neighbours"
THE Parliament OF Cape Town, Africa, is a
koI
duced placing restrictions on the sale of
brandy, or ''Capo smoke, to the natives. But
the farmers strongly objected. II. said thew.
the natives are to he treated as children they
are not fit TO receive ths franchise; If on the
other hand, they are really men. let them
drink all the brandy they want. AS soon as
the restrictive bill was defeated by this argu-
meDt bill was introduced giving tho natives
the franchise. 1t was ut once opposed and
defeated by the same members. on the ground
that the natives had become drunken sots and
were not fit to be citizens. 1t may be added
that the brandy is suppled TO the natives bv
these bigh- minded legislators, most of whom
are in the business of making 1t. and all of
whom are very noisy in their professions OF
Christianity.
LIEUT.. soHwATKA repeats a curious Esoui-
mau legend which shows that there is a tradi-
ton among those strange people that the
Arcticreglonwaso once a warm and fertileland.
That such is the fact is proven bv the dscoy
ery there Of the remains of animals now only
found in tropical climates; but heretofore the
common opinion has been that the great and
sudden change that made the extreme North
land of ice preceded the existence Of man
Such tradition IA that recorded by Schwatka
must. however, cause this assumption to he
doubted Few II any myths have fingered
that had not some basis in fact. This one an
pears to indicate that the great convulsion
that caused the frozen North occurred more
recently than has heretofore been supposed
or else that the human race is OF greater an
tlquity than even the biologists have de-
ClAred.
THE city Of Mandalay, in Burmah. ia laid
out in square, each side Of which is a little
over mile in length. 1t is inclosed by a cren-
ellated brick wall twenty-six feet high and
three feet thick; the twelve gates-three on
each side-are surmounted with wooden
watch towers. a deep wet moat, one hum
dred feet broad. with Its escarp sixty feet
from the walls, O. tends along all four sides: IL
Is crossed by five bridges. The palace OF the
King occupies the central space OF the city.
The majority Of the houses are constructed OF
bamboos and bamboo mating, slightly raised
from the ground on posts, with here and there
rev brick and wooden buildings, The
streets inside the city are very wide, the prin-
cpal ones being lined with tamarInd trees. In
the suburbs the roads are laid out with some-
lining OF the same regularity as in the city, but
are OF less width, with the exception OF the
principal road, the Kuludan or foreign anar-
ter: Inhabited chiefly by Armenians. Mug halls
ara the few European residents. The num-
Der OF houses In the city and suburbs is said To
be. in round numbers. $4,000. and the popula-
N Ia Fnt 10 naIt ina tad