Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

interest. Still it is worth recording that Mrs.
Margaret Arnold, of Perry, o., was 100 years
old on Sunday last, and still walks, eats,
| sleeps, sews and reads; and that Mrs Mary
Gould of Worcester, Mass, who celebrated
| her lO6th birthday on Saturday, was in good
health and spirits, and received her friends
| all day.
THERE is, of course, no disputing the truth
OF thing that can be proved by mathemati-
cal demonstration. For instance, this propo
sition advanced by a professor of mathe-
MATES TO mis- pupils: at is evident that II 1t
takes one bricklayer twelve days to erect a
wall OF given dimensions, twelve brcklayers
| ought to 10 the work in one day, 2SS in an
! hour, 1880 in a minute, and 1896, 500 brick
! layers In a single second"
AMONG the many anecdotes, moro or less
authentic, which are in circulation as proofs
OF the late King Ludwig's madness. is the fol-
| lowing: 1t Is said that in the perplexity and
annoyance caused at last by the ovtrWhe I'm
ing ing pressure OF ms debts he hit upon nota-
pie scheme for replenishing the empty Golfers
OF the Royal Treasury. He actually proposed
u ms servants to organize gang of thieves to
rob the Berlin. Vienna and Munich bankers.
STEWART. who Is the landlord of the War
rem street saloon, is one of the characters Of
New York life. lie has artistic tastes, as the
many articles OF vlrtu and bijouterie which
ne mas collect show. He has made a COM
mon barrOom-1or the place has no preten-
slons to be cafe-beautilul with flowers and
pictures. He makes 80 much money that he
hardly knows what to do with it. On holl-
days he gives the entire receipts, which some
times amount to over 5000, to be divided
among his employees. At Gabe Caso's. on the
ROAD, he viii order the waiter to range the
Whole counter with champagne glasses. and
then ask the company. no matter how numer-
Gus, to take drink with him.
A ST. LOUIS LADY. reported as spending
the summer in Europe" sneaked into New
Orleans the other day for the purpose of pur-
chasing some books and maps and frankly
explained to friend that she was preparing
to learn the geography of Europe thoroughly
and post herself with the guide books so that
| she might give good account of her summer
| abroad, which will be the most inexpensive
summer ever spent, as | have only bought
| three bingham dresses and ribbon for a rus
| tic hat, and my board is only costing me 50 50
a week, with washing included. Perhaps Ill
save enough and learn enough to make the
| trip next year How did her secret get into
the payers? The friend to whom she cOnfded
was a woman.
| WHILE the late Paul Fl. Hayne was guest
| at the residence of Mr.. S. T. Coleman, of Ma
con, Ga. short time before his death, he
wrote the following lines, which are believed
| to be the last poetic creation of his brain
committed to paper. Mr.. Coleman found
them under his plate one morning while his
| guest sat beside him at breakfast:
He VINO has found a new star in the sky
Is not 80 fortunate as one who finds
new, deep hearted friend; the stars must
| They are but creatures of the sun and winds
But friendship throws ner firm sheet anchor
deep,
! Beside the shore lines of eternity.
| Hdy III, 1886. PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE.
THE returns from the final examinations
held in the South and West for admission 10
Harvard College have, with the exception of
three districts, been received, an d a fair es-
innate can be given of the incoming freshmen
class. The successful candidates who took
the nnal examinations at Cambridge num-
bered $50. Further returns show the admit
tance of sixty additional candidates., while it
Is safe to estimate that from san Francisco
st. Louis, and Paris, the only points not vet
heard from. there will be fully thirty success
full applicants. making the class of 49, as ad-
mltted, 20. In addition there win be at least
slxty-fve admitted at the Septem Der eXami-
nations, which will make the freshmen class
number approximately 80. This is the largest
class ever admitted to the college.
ALL of the telegraph people have been
laughing at Henry Ely, the agent Of the New
England Press Association, who in his indi-
vldual capacity has solemnly declared war
against the Western Union, on account of
| personal grievance. He wanted to SEM some
money by telegraph TO his wife, who was in
Connecticut, and in order that the lady m ight
| be properly identified the operator asked Mr.
Ely what was her first name. Whether Mrs.
EtE mas SO pretty name that her husband
| We'iern Union people. there is no evidence to
| show; but he objected to mention it, what
| ever IT may be. and when the operator re
| ferred him to the printed rules of the com
| pany, made for the protection of those who
| transmit money, he in iignanty left the Office
| and Illuminated furious ep'stle Threatening
TO destroy the western Union. or words to
| that effect. Yet the corporation goes on lust
| the same and messages are sent and received
| as usual.
GREAT INTEREST is felt throughout Italy in
| the condition Of man named Succi, who
| lives at FOri, in the Romagna, and who as
| serts that he has discovered in the course of
his travels through great part Of Africa a
sort OF llquor extracted from various herbs
which has the effect of 'mummifvinp', the
oiy, so to speak, and rendering it insenslble
to any Kind of want, such as hunger or thirst:
while it will also admit OF person taxing anv
poison, however violent, without feeling any
III ehects. A committee of the inhabitants of
torli has been formed at his request. to watch
the experiments which he is making upon
himself, and several doctors VINO examined
him have stated that the case is n very on
rlOus one, and that they cannot detect any
fraud. SucCi takes nothing but four qlaases Of
water day. and says that he feels very we'll
AT the request Of Professor Peruzzi OF the BO-
logna Academy of Medicine lie has started for
That city, where he proposes to 60 through
another course of fasting and to take poison.
THE beauty Of the female figure" saws
Leigh Hunt. consists IN being gently serpen-
tine" STIFFNESS is utterly ungraceful. The
movements of an unconscious child are the
perfection of grace; they are easy, unstuded.
natural. The throat should be round and nil
lar-hke. The waist should be twice the size
of this 'tower of ivory"-not as fashion has
too often made II. about the same size. Tho
shoulders should be sloping and not too broad.
neither should they he too narrow. but occunv
that soft and rounded mean that ia offered IN
the Venus of Milo. The figure shouId no
above all, easy. Too small a waist is an ac
tuai deformlty, and young ladies who are
foolish enough to imagine that a walst Of
eighteen inches Ia lovely should hear in minn
that the famous statue of the Venus de MedIci
the acknowledged highest tyue of female
beauty. measures twenty sever inches Tho
hips should be high in woman and wide: The
feet small, but in due proportion TO the height
OF the Inquire; high lnstep is beautiful and a
following of the sole is considered NV Tho
Arabs mark OF high birth. The arm is sell
dom sufficiently developed in a woman Of
fashion TO reach the standard of classicaI
beauty; she does not use her limbs particuiar-
ly her arms, sufficiently TO give them the ms
cular growth Of which they are capable The
arm should have round and flowing outline
with no sharpness at the elbow: IL shouid
taper gently down to small wrist.
The cosy little Catholic Church OF st. Marv,s
on Willow avenue, Hoboken, was crowded
Saturday morning when the Rev. Augustin
Tolkon, the first colored Roman Catholic
priest ever ordained from America. celebrated
his first mass in the United States. Hewas
invited o say mass by the KIND and eperpeti.