Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE annual production of sewing machines
allows one for every 300 civilized people on
the globe.
THE governing board of the new tEnglishl
Holloway college for women ia to be made up
OF men and women without previous educa-
tional experience, and the resident teachers
must be unmarried women or widows with
out children. eifaF
MOUNT VERNON docs not pay. This year
the association finds itself exactly $i,964 81 in
debt. AS a patriot and soldier Gen. Wash
ington was an entire success; spectacularly
his tomb is a failure. When Americans are
in pursuit of ruins or relics they 90 TO the Old
World.
A CAPTAIN of a river vessel at Quincy says
of the Mississippi river: 81 have seen it 80
low at some places that we have had trouble
soaring the calves away from in front Of the
boat. The whistle was used for that purpose,
and sometimes We would have to keeplt going
continually for long time.
MADISON UNIVERSITY, Hamilton. n. Y,
has made good move in throwing open
number of scholarships to competitive exam
nation. The scholarships have value equal
to the years tuition and may be held all
through the college course. Amy New Yorker
over IA years of age may try for one of them
IT having been stated that the Italian gov
eminent would not permit the expectation Of
antiquities or ancient or valuable works Of
art, the Secretary of the Archaeological In
stitute says that the prohibition extends only
to works of a unique or uncommon import
ance. such as a picture by Raphael, for ex-
ample.
81 GOT my first glimpse of the RhIne,"
writes Col. Watterson, Through a knot hole
in board fence in the rear of the Hotel de
Nord, at Cologne. 1t reminded me somewhat
of the tower Ohio; the water steady flowing
hn n NM nl a.
toral; the craft varied. 1t reminded me also
OF the Hudson
The NovOe Vremya, at the end of an article
on the cultivation of cotton in Russia, eX
presses the opinion that its successful expan-
sion in Central Asia would enable Russian
manufacturers to flood the markets Of Asia,
and render English competition impossible.
For this desirable result, ii SAYS, only the
energetic cooperation of those interested
ami certain amount of protection on the
part of the government are necessary.
THE trial at Paris OF Baron Erlanger, SON
in-law Of Sldell, who negotiated the Confed-
crate loan in France, has resulted in the &C
quittal of Erlanger, charged with completely
in the breach of trust, of which his associates,
the two brothers Berthler, were found guilty.
He mas, however, been condemned conformity
with them to make good the claims of the
prosecutors arising out of the alleged fraudu-
lent distribution of fictitious dividends.
Two beautiful young chorus singers at Lem
berg, Austrian Galicia, were recently tempted
by offers of fabulous salaries to embark for
Bombay with a man claiming to be an i'm
pressarlo Of that city. After their departure
1t was disclosed that the "lmpressarlo' was
an agent of a Bombay nabob whose business
was TO keep his masters harem stocked, and
that he secretly had bought the two girls from
the landlord of their boarding house for forty
rubles each.
ONE Of the prettlest of the chorus girls in
the ''Evangeline'' Company was sick in CHI
cago. Her life was in the balance for a week.
During all that time the dressing room of the
ballet at Hooley's was echoing with the whIs
pered superstition of the dancing girls. One
night she was reported dead, and there was
great sadness, for the patient was popular
and pretty young woman. The next there
was great rejoicing. Anybody falsely re-
ported dead" the girls agreed according to
their superstition, was certain to get we'll"
LIEUT.. A. L. HOWARD. who won glory and
renown with his Calling gun in the Rel re-
belllOn, called at Gov. Harrson's office at
New Haven Friday. and received medal for
warded to him by the Canadian government.
IL is of silver, and is suitably inscribed. On
the front is: Northwest. 1885, Canada" on
the reverse: "ViCtoria Regina ct Impera-
triX," and on the rim. Lieutenant Arthur l..
HoW ard. Second machine gun platoon, c. n.
g." The medal is accompanied by small
one of the same design to be worn on Ordi-
nary occasions.
MRS. MARY MERsHoN is the latest female
evangelist Indiana is the sphere of her
labors. Her theology is of the heroic order,
without any trace of religious mugwumperY,
and she draws vast crowds wherever she goes
Her converts relate wonderful tales of being
suspended prior to their conversion by a hair
over the PIT of hell, of being famed by the
sulphurous breezes from the internal regions,
of looking into boiling caldrons, of being nib
bled at by the fiery serpents and grnnlng
devils, of being saved by the outsretched hand
OF pltying Providence.
REV. j. w. CUNNINGHAM, an Indianapolis
preacher in discoursng about tobacco, said:
Il have heard loving wives implore their
clerical husbands in the most earnest manner
to desist from tobacco, only to be laughed at
or bluntly refused | heard a preacher say
to young wife: Il won't quit; and if the
church should have an anti-tobacco law |
would join some other, and if all the churches
should do the same | will start a tobacco
church, At the dawn of day have seen him
reach for his tobacco, bite off piece, and lie
in bed till rising tlme, and to day he Is pastor
of fine church"
THE Frankfurter Zeitung in an exhaustive
article on the condition OF Morocco, SAYS that
If the reported rising of the inhabitants of
Tadlalet against the reIgning dynasty pc true,
Its days may be numbered. Taflalet, which
is an oasis separated by the Atlas mountains
I
rei9nlng dynasty. and any rising there is
probably part of the agitation carried on
throughout MOhammedan Africa by Sidi Mo-
manned al MahGi, the chief of the fanatical
Snussi. This brotherhood aims at the expul-
sion OF all foreign elements, especially the
French, from Morocco and Algeria.
JAMES COLE. who lives near Hobdy's. Pa.
may thank his wife's knowledge Of the habits
OF insects for relief from what threatened 10
be serious atilicton. The other night Mr..
Cole was awakened from sleep by an intense
pain IL his right ear, which was caused bv a
beetle that was moving about in his head
Mrs. Co!e, remembering that insects are at
tracted by flame of FIRE, held candle close
to her husbands ear, and in less than a min
ute the beetle, which was over an inch in
length, emerged ana was killed. Among the
qualifications for an accom- plshed wife here
after should be some knowledge of the char
acteristcs of other kpds Of bugs besides
those familiar with indoors.
TEN years ago, when but s years of age. Mrs.
Henry Jameson, of Detroit, swallowed tiny
water snake. From that date to the present
she has been in poor health. She was treated
for dyspepsia up to a couple of months ago.
when Detroit physician who was consulted
decided that something more than dyspepsia
was troubling the young woman. His lrea;-
ment was in conformity with his Suspicious
ana Friday Mrs. Jameson was relieved of a
green water snake about two feet long and
half an inch in diameter. Mrs. Jameson saws
That Tor years she has been forced to eat raw
enously In order to satisfy the demands of her