Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The OLDEST building In Monmouth county,
\. j., the old homestead of William Sher-
man near Chapel Hill, was destroyed by fire
few nights ago. 1t was erected in 1922, and
/ during the Revolution Gen. Clinton, of the
| British army, occupied it for several weeks as
his headquarters. 1t was not occupied.
THERE are over 100 Intelligence Offices" in
San Francisco, and all of them, except half a
dozen, deal with the Chinese. Dennis Kear-
neys is one Of the half dozen. He is a natural
| blgot, but he Is smart enough to make his
| bigotry pay. He makes mis- luminosity to the
Chinese very prominent in his advertise
ments.
THE MARQUIS OF SALISBURY owns the no.
torious Seven Dials region in London. Like
the other titled landlords of London, he per-
sistenty refuses to sell any part and relets on
ground rents. These leases are falling Land
the advances are expected to equal 500 per
! cent. NO public improvements are possible
unless the property IS cOntiscated.
THTRTY-TwO MEN and 40 women are busy
in the annex OF the Agricultural Department
building supplying the Congressional demand
for seed. Six thousand packages of vegetable
seed, 500 of flower seed, 800 of tobacco, 20
| quarts of sorghum, 20 of corn, so of grass, 2S
quarts of sugar beet, and % quarts of cotton
seed is the allowance of each Senator and
| Representative in Congress
A CRANK in Montana is preaching new Cos
pei. He says that black is the DEVILS color, and
no one who wears black can enter the king
dom of heaven. MARX my words" he says,
ANY man who will deliberately wear black
clothes has black soul, and would rob the
widow and orphan. Boycott all men and
women who wear black. The Lord hath
spoken through me. Seah!"
SEVERAL RESTAURANTS in New Haven wear
the sign meals so cents; for members of the
Yale crew 81 so. No deviation from these
prices" The heaviest man in the crew
weighs ls6 pounds, the lightest man $50. Most
OF the men weigh over l70 pounds. The" are
crew of giants and If they don't row out of
! sight of Harvard in the coming race at New
! London the college boys win take sides with
| the boarding house keepers and denounce
| them.
THE way in which inoculstions are per-
formed at the Pasteur establishment is char
| acterized as slipshod. A correspondent says:
! "a crowd Of about so has every day for the
| last week come in without any rule Of propri-
ETY. and walked in procession around the
! table on which are set the glasses holding the
virus in different stages Of culture. 1t is inn
! possible for DR.. GraRcher who operates for
Pasteur in this happy gO-lucky way, to know
/ half the time who's who.
! IN the Criminal Court Of Boston the other
day Chinaman set his face against slang
from the bench. His impenetrable ignorance
/ Of the management of an opium ioint bafied
/ the prosecuting officers. The learned Judge
/ thought he would ask the question in form
the witness would understand, so he inquired:
How could see the elephant If | went to
san Francisco" The imperturbable MOngo-
liam conyused the spectators by calmly re-
spending: 81 don't know"
THE QUEEN OF ITALY is soon to rejoice in
the possession of an American canoe. genu-
inc Indian birch bark construction, which
Baron Fava, the Italian minister, has secured
for her. The canoe is twenty feet long. and
the Baron has procured all the paddles and
accompanlments fhr it., and is now having
beadwork cushions and mats of fragrant
grasses made for it. He will send It on 30
Rome. and in due time it will float in some
| lake of the palace gardens and ferry Oueen
NJ argherlta over the waters.
MOST PEOPLE have lau ghed over Mark
Twsin's story of the miner who LAID wager
with his companion as to the possibility of his
repeating the Lords Prayer and who paid
| over she money when the gentleman in ques-
/ ton began. NOW lay me down TO sleep"
But alas! there is nothing new under the
| sun. In "Sir John FleldingS Jest; or, New
/ Fun for the ParlOr and Kitchen" which was
published in London about l770, find the
same story, with the exception that the creed
is repeated instead of Now lay me-"
HENRY SMITH, ofiSleightburg. N. Y. is a
palace car conductor on the Erie railway. His
"run" is between JERSEY City and Chicago.
| He is well-known in RondOut and has ex-
| tra0rd nary large hands. He tells of a good
! story that happened to him at the Chicago de-
pot one day recently. He hung one OF his
! hands out Of car window. Shortly after he
! felt some one pulling aud feeling of first one
| finger and then the other, He stuck his head
out of the window and saw man, who said:
say, mister, how do you sell bananas
! apiece"
ONE Of the sights of the Boulevard des Ital-
| lens Paris is in the window of print-seller
next door to Robert Houdin's Theatre. A
crowd gazes there at very realistic, picto-
rial arrangement of NJ. Jules Ferry's head.
! IL Is like that of John the BAPTIST on a silver
! dish, on which blood seems still to trickle
| Between the charger and the head is a seine
| tar. Life Is not extinct, but nearly so. There
| ls the effect of nimbus in the background
! The whole thing looks so natural that, when
! suddenly seen, it has a startling and almost
| sickeuing effect. Thepaintlng is by a NJ Rene
Nauquelln.
| IT Is SAID that the other day client re-
| ceived the following bill from his LAWYER:
Attending and asking how do you do, 6s
| Sd; attending you on the pier, when you de-
sired me TO look through a piece of smoked
| glass, Is. Sd: looking through the same, IS.
| Sd; rubbing my eye. which watered, lbs. sd /;
attending at luncheon, when you praised the
| sandwiches and asked me to partaKe thereof,
IS. Sd; consulting and asking nv opinion
| thereon. when / said they were very good 6s
Sd" Most probably the client treated this as
a Joke, or perhaps it drove him to extremi-
ties.
Mr.. AsTOR has devoted fair share of the
royalty the Scribners have PAID him on the
sale Of his first novel. ''Valentina," to the
amiable purpose of presenting Handsomely
bound copies OF the book to his particular
friends. A large number of these presenta-
ton copies were beautifully bound in vellum
Two copies were bound in still more costly
style-to- wit, in ivory boards; and, as if this
were not enough, silver cases were made IN
which to iuclose them. The binding and
casting of these two copies alone cost the mil
lionaire novelist 5000. One Is for the King of
Italy, the other for the Pope.
WILLIAM ADAMS, a Waterman of Louis
vile. was astonished few nights ago to see
the moon passing through the various forms
of an eclipse until it looked like a big egg.
~ rubbed my eyes" said the Waterman,
"and looked away. thinking 1t an optical
was still changing, and now was very thick
At one end, tapering suddenly toward the
other, and almost the shape Of a heart IL
was very red and angry-like, and seemed
suddenly TO drop fiery veil from its face In
a few minutes more the moon was long
bright club, that Oscillated very noticeabiv
from point situated about the middle "A
these Oscllating motions continued, from
either end poured shower Of fre and SPARKS
that fell toward the earth and Disappeared nd
"A point about midway. The time occnpiod
by these phenomena was about twenty
minutes"
Is ENGLAND the question OF free churches
Is vigorously agitated. The drift Of public SEN
timent is largely In favor Of having the seats