Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-11-07
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| NEW police rules in Washington force the
men while on duty to wear white gloves and
carry canes. Washington police are not
known as C iubbers.
! ONE of the Industries of Vermont is the
gathering Of white pine cones and extracting
| the seeds, which are mt to Germany, France
| ana other parts ST Europe. bushel OF cones
yields pound Of seeds. The cones are dried
ana the seeds beaten out.
DR.. FINLAY. a psychologist OF the West
Indies, thinks he has discovered some of the
| deadly possibilities of the mosquito. lie says
that they carry the germ Of yellow fever and
other contagious diseases from persons al
| licted with them to healthy persons. T lis is
one of those things that are important If true.
THE steamship Assyrian Monarch, from
| London, arrived in New YORK Thursday. She
had on board several fine specimens of the
| animal world. Of which there were three kan
CARGO for the Central Park Geological Gar
| dens. One of them is mouse colored and two
are nearly black. They are years OLD came
! from Australia, and were fed mostly upon
nay during the voyage, but showed prefer
| ence for cabbages.
JOHN SMITH, of Vallejo. was attacked by
| big buck in the Napa valley. Smith was I'M
| armed and thoroughly surprised when the
| deer, instead of running away, ran at him
| fun TIT. The two had u tremendous tuss'e,
! but Smith at length threw the buck into
creek and made mis- escape. Re walked to
| the nearest house, borrowed rife, went
back, found the buck still full of fight, and put
bullet through its head.
AT the last meeting of the Louisville Minis
terial Association DIR. Charles Hemphlll read
paper on 1.-THE Propr ETY. of National
| Thantsgit ing Day. in which he proposed.
IN order to overcome the prejudice agains 1t
on account OF its New England origin and the
| tinge of sectionalism that clings to it, to
change 1t from the last Of November to the
| middle of October, Kentucky will observe
| NOV. 70 this year lust the same.
MRS ED MORRIS, of Chillicothe. Mo-. put
| $50 in bills under the bedroom carpet, forgot
| about it at house cleaning time. carried them
out with the straw that was under the carpet,
ana made fire of the armful. She remem-
| bered about the money after the fire was out.
| On the surface of the little bunch of ashes
| where the bills burned were plainly visible
| the figures ''.0'' and ~" and the word IDOL
lars" as printed on the national currency
PHYSICIANS startling views Of utilizing
capital prisoners are thus told by the Chicago
journal: what we need now," he said, ''is a
| legal enactment turning over criminals con-
victed Of inous capital offenses to tue med-
| cal fraternity for experimentation on the
| vital forces. OF course | never expect to see
this done. The sentimentalsts would rather
| see million good people languish and die for
want of medical skill than to see one cut
| throat like Frank Rand subjected to surgical
| operations which would prove fatal"
1.-THE whole of a mans history may be
traced IN the court house of his county," said
| Gov. Porter. OF Indiana, recently. 1.-THE
record of his parents marriage is there, the
| date of his birth, tn amount of property he
| accumulates, and his own matrimonial ven
ture. Then the records OF the courts show
whether he has been honest in business. The
| criminal records tell the story of any crimes
he may have committed. and, in fact. nearly
everything that relates 10 MIN is set down
| upon the dtderenl county records. -
Hon. JEFFERSON DAVIS recently donated
the site of his birthplace, near Fairview, KY,
to Baptist congregation, and handsome
brick churc edifce has been erected thereon
| ana the donor invited to deliver an address
at its dedication. Mr.. Davis replied by letter
| that he regretted that the quarantine at BIZ
loXi prevented his being present. Mr.. Paul
HodRson, of Nashville. has just completed an
| elegant sab of Tennessee m arble. to be placed
| in the wall of the church, bearing this inscrip-
| ton: "Jeffersop Davisof Mississippi W as born
June 3, 1903, on the site of this church. He
| made gift of This lotAlarch 10, 1885, to Bethel
| Baptist church as an Offering to God"
THE demand for Italian flowers is increas-
ing year by year, and season after season the
inhabitants of the Riviera are planting more
flowers where formerly they grew olives and
| grapes. The Is particularly the case in the
neighborhood of ace, Cannes, Grasse and
| MentOne. From the neginnng of Novem Der
TILL the end of May, 1885. "a. 900 boxes of fresh
flowers were sent away from the Nice railway
| station. the value of the flowers being $780,
| 600. One of the countries " hich have taken
| hint from Italy Is Germany, which is at
| present diligently endeaVOriug to cultivate,
for th4 manufacture of scents large uuanti-
Ties OF roses, violets, lavender and rosemary.
NEWSPAPER Row in Washington is enjoy
ing this story: Frank Carpenter and George
Martin, two able and distinguished Washing
ton correspondents, have taken as their
| offices the two rooms on street once occu-
| "a Glfu r,iaxr 4,
| were podderlng around getting thugs in
! shape. and NJ artin's business was to yet A
grate out. He was rammlng around among
| the bricks and loosenng the whole wall.
This is very intellectual job,'' he said to
Carpenter, out of he dust. Yes; and vou'D
pull the whole side wall out IN a minute"
replied Carpenter. pushing the mautel back
in It's place. Let her CO." said George: let
her go. If Summers mantel falls upon my
shoulders | won't ask anything letter -
Carpenter showed bushel of bricks over on
HIM and went to the window for air.
A GOOD many persons, after considerable
mental difficulty, have been taught to believe
that when Robert Burns wrote Comm Thro,
the Rye he referred to a little stream In the
northwest of AYRSHIRE, called Rye, where the
lads we're given To lying IN wait and kisslng
the lasscs "a they waded through The sire am,
their hands beng employed in holding up
their petttcOats to keep them out of the water.
Now comes Editor A. 3. Todd, of the Cum
mock Express, who is said To be an authority
|
| mile from the Burns farm and was intimate
| with some of Burns cronies and he saws that
the idea expressed above is pure nonsens e
that Burns never saw and probably never
heard of the Rye; that the description of no Nv
Jenny "draigelt a. her peticoatie" d cent
mean that she wet it in the water Of a stream.
but bedraggled it walking through dew or
RAIN Laden grain.
| A TABULATED STATEMENT of the condition
of all the skilled industrial trades of New
York shows that out of a total of III. nearly
One-half report business ''brisk," and the re-
mainder from far to good" The highest
wages, "a per day, are paid 10 coopers brick
layers. wood carvers, cement masons encaus-
tic tile layers, iresCO painters, granite cut-
tiers, pauer hangers, plasterers, aud stone m =
tons. The trades that work the LONGEST bours
are the bakers, Il: BARRIERS. A The low est
are the brass workers. 9; fresco painters. s
and eucausl ic TIL layerd. 8. The others range
from to -. 1t may also be stated IN Tie
same connection. That the strike OF the bro n
stone rubDers and derrickmen has been Gem
promised, and the black ii -tiug system. which
was one 81 the causes OF the trouble is to lie
abolished. The strike of the plumbers stlll
| hangs fire, although the number holding ont
| is growing small by degrees and beautifully
| less." The most serious difficulty in orEaniZ-
ing the cooperative system of WORK has been
! purchasing materials. for the reason that, by
the Baltimore compact of 1885, manufacturer
nd Ia a ITU.N =