Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-06-15
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heak. c.utched Que in its claws. and, flying up
rty or fifty feet in the air, let it fall, and
thus accomplished its purpose.
MRS. CHARLOTTE WELD FOWLER, who died
in Hamonassett, Conn, recently, at the age
of 90, was a famous local antiquarian and
genealogist. AT the age of Sc she wrote and
published the history OF the Weld family, Gov
eflng the period from 1888 to 1873.
THE twelve good men and true who sacri-
feed three weeks of their time IN the Max
well case in st. Louis will not receive dol
lar, there being no provision under the laws
OF the state tor the payment of special jury.
| II such law became general there would be
| put little opportunity for jury fixing.
A LOUISVILLE LADY says that m1lllners are
the sharpest dealers on earth, and suit their
prices to their customers pocketbooks. She
knows, for. after trying valnly to buy bon
| net r less than the S25 asked, she went home
and described the bonnet to her servant, who
went to the shop and bought it for $l2.
LITTLE BOB MALLORY, of Paris, Mo-, made
an extraordinary catchwhile fishing the other
day. little eel took his hook, and at the
same time big fish attempted to swallow the
| eel In the struggle the fsh got caught by the
| hook, and both were hauled ashore, with the
eel half way through the dsh's gill.
NEITHER photography nor the microscope
was known in the days of Cicero, yet he men
tions that the whole of Homer's Had had
| been written on piece of parchment so small
as to be inclOsed in nutshell. A Frenchman,
| after years.of practising, wrote the four ca
Dopical prayers of the Roman church on one
| OF his finger nails.
HUGH MCINTYRE, it Is said, apparently died
in Chicago last week. and was buried in a
vault in tine Catholic cemetery. A few days
J ago his uncle visited the place and found
| Mcintyre sitting in the coffin very pale and
weak from his long fast. His hands were
| badly lacerated by the glass. He was taken
| to his friends IN Toledo, and is recovering.
A DIVORCE CASE is soon to come up in a
Maine court, the OutgrOwth of a trifiing quar-
rel between a man and his wife twenty five
years ago. Since that day, although living
| together, neither has spoken to the other,
until few weeks ago. when, in the excite
ment Of house-cieaping, the woman said to
the man, where's the nalls?" The man
looked at the woman calmly and did not
answer
A Rum bathing master at Santa Cruz built
a high fence down to deep water, so that the
fair frequenters of that celebrated California
resort might go in swimming without having
| their scant attire commented on. Every
bosom which beats responsive to the universal
| throb of human nature will rejoice to hear
| that the girls quit in disgust, and the mascu-
/ line bathers punched the rum Santa Cruz
| bathing masters head.
THE powers of a Cuban pony are remark
able. He will m axe from sixty to eighty miles
a day in continuous jog or half rack, so easy
| to the rider that glass of water could be
| carried in the hand all that distance and not
a drop spilled He never halts to a walk. He
simply changes from his swift gait into what
| is called a Marcia. which is much more rapid
| than the walk of the fastest American horse.
He Is absolutely proof to fatigue, of diet
spare and slight"
! A FAC SMILE telegraph dispatch was re-
Gently sent out by Buffalo fish dealer as an
advertisement. One was received by young
! bride of six months, whose husband was out
OF town. She at once concluded hat he b ad
met with an awful accident, and so went into
| Mysteries. Servants were sent for her parents
| who found her stilltoO much unnerved to open
the envelope and learn the terrible facts. She
recovered with remarkable celebrity when the
news that fish were cheap was gently broken
10 her.
| SATURDAY noon a 3-year-old child strayed
into the woods at Motley, Mimi, and was
last. 1t had not been found by Monday morn
ing, and then all the saw mills shut down,
aud over 200 men began the search. They
found it that day stuck fast In a swamp
| within mile OF its home. When it was
found the signal was given, and the whole
line took up the shout, W hich reached the ears
or the mother, who tainted at once. The
little one was in theSWamp two cold nights
but was not injured by the exposure.
DR. SMITH, pastor of the First Methodist
ing the street in front of his church last Sun
day morning He asked them to STOP They
did not. Then he said that they must stop.
and right of, too. If they did not he would
make complaint against each individual
| workman, and see that he was arrested and
punished for breaking the sabbath dav At
| this the PAYERS took up their tools and quit
| WORK, and the energetic pastor walked into
the pulpit aud preached with great fervor,
| saying, In the course of his sermon. that he
proposed to have Sunday observed il front of
his church If not in any other part of st. Paul.
A LONDON daily says: "a new beauty has
come to light this season. The centre of at
traction in the royal inclosure at Ascot was
Mrs Cunard, wife of one of the trans Atlantic.
4 Cunards. This lady has been much admired
at the balls, routs, and assemblies OF the sea-
son. Last year the debutantes held the field
| for beauty, but this year they are run closely
| by the matrOns, and star OF the first magni-
| tude among themis Mrs. Cunard. She is GER
talnly very lovely lady, and she dresses in
| variably in excellent taste. Every one of
course was anxious to see her. She wore
heliotrope striped silk and plush dress, bodice
| OF bengaline, trimmed with plush She had a
| hehotrope tulle bonnet to match, with cream
parasOl.
PROF. GEORGE L. VosE, whose manuel on
railroad engineering is authority the world
over, was one day puzzling over the time card
on the wall OF the Boston and Maine station,
without making out what he wanted to know,
when the President of the road, MIR. Furber
! came by and accOsted him. 81 am very glad
| to see you," the Professor said. 81 wish YOU
would help me out with this time table. ]
cannot make head or tail out of it," The
| President joined in the investigation, and for
some moments the pair fioundered about
among q. m. IS and p. ms win no satisfactory
| results whatever. "Oh, | never can make
| anything out Of these things" President Fur
Der exclaimed at length. t'Let's ask some
body" And they went and asked q brake
| man.
AMONG the many new and important in
dustries established on the south side Of Long
Island is the clam canning factory at Islip
which is now in full operation. The building
is situated on the waters edge at the mouth
| OF the creek, so that boats can be moored in
| front OF the factory and the clans delivered
| directly on the door. Between 300
and 500 bu,hels Of clans are
used daily, for which the company
pays rs cents a bushel. The clans are placed
In iron buckets OF two gallons capacity. which
| twelve minutes they are taken from the chest
and dumped on long wooden tables where
| they are picked from their shells by women
| and girls. washed in their own Juice, and
packed in cans which are sOldered with the
! exception or a small hole in the lid. The
| clans are then treated 70 another steam bath
until they are perfectly tender. when the cans
are hermetically sealed and labelled Little
| Neck CLANS" The cans are n ade on the
| premises. and through the entire process the
! utmost cleanliness 10 observed. The clam
| Juice Is bottled andsold by druggists as a cure
for dyspepsia.