Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


eating canals, $500 miles of secondary canals
and 10000 miles of smaller bitches, which
nave cost in the aggregate about 81, 000, 900
ana Will irrigate 100000 acres.
A FEW months ago, while Mrs. Mary L. At
klns, young matron of Salmon Falls, N. H.,
was horseback riding, the straps Of the saddle
gave way. and she was thrown, lnjuring her
spine She now sues the man who sold ner
tne saddle. alleging that it was defective, and
claiming $4,000 damages.
CHARLES LERoUN. an athlete of this city,
earned $500 on Monday by jumping from the
roof OF Philadelphia museum, 100 feet above
the pavement, with parachute. He went
down fast. just missed lamp post, struck q
spectator on the head. and cut his own FORE
head slightly, but was otherwise unhurt,
PEDRO FREsCA, while digging a well at
fsleta, Texas, at the depth of twelve feet
came upon the petrified remains of a man and
woman. The bodies are almost entire and
are very perfect, even the wrinkles and tex
lure or the skin being preserved in the blue
ish sandstone into which they are supposed to
nave been changed.
A BURGLAR in the room of Parson Was
muth. of Wenona, H., awoke him and then
said: "Lie still or I'll shoot you" The preach
er promptly plunged through the second story
window, struck the ground below with a dull
thuh: IN the immediate vicinity of a second
n,
Inc burglars also got away.
THE Alexandria bay big fish record for the
season shows the capture of four muskal-
longe weighing twenty pounds and over. One
weighed thirty five pounds, another forty
five pounds. Anglers haven't forgotten the
canture of a seventy eight pound sturgeon in
those waters several years ago by H. r d.
Clarke. 1t was caught with an eight-ounce
rod and landed in one hour and five minutes.
Smythe and his son were fishing on Rpogenus
pond, near Bangor, Me-, the boy picked up
what appeared like an odd looking stick. He
threw 1t down and soon picked up another
similar in appearance. He retained this in
his hand. using 1t as a cane and striking with
1t at trees and rocks. Upon reaching camp
he was much alarmed at being informed by
the guide that the apparently innocent stick
was loaded dynamite cartridge. such as are
used by lumbermen in the removing of OBJ
structions in streams.
A Boston newspaper man says that Gree
nough's statue of Frauklin In that city is
worth studying, because it illustrates a the
DRY for which the sculptor had the authority
of the great physiognomist, Lavater. 1t is
that each side of the human face represents
different phases OF human nature. man being
dual animal, with a double set of character
istlcs. On one side of the bronze face of
Franklin Greenough has depicted the eXDres-
sion of the man Of science who drew the light
ming from the clouds; on the other he has rep
resented the features of the author of the
homely philosophy embodied in Poor Rich
ards Almanac.
TWO YEARS AGO young farmer of Motto
way county, Va, fell in love with q pretty
girl. He was an F. F ". she a simple village
maiden. But she didn't love him, because she
loved another. and she told him so. At this
the feeble brain Of the young man gave way
or hnw go
lum at Williamsburgh. just before the day
set for the marriagepf the girl to the man she
loved. he was thrown from his horse and in
stantly killed. When the news reached her
she became raving maniac, and she too was
recently taken to the asylum, and now she
and the man who went crazy for love of her
are under the same roof.
MODERN cookery neglects the peacock,
though young peafowl, when in season, make
their appearance at table. With the ancients
the peacock was as much esteemed for its
flesh as admired for it's plumage. 1t occa-
sionally bore part in a most costly and enor-
nous Macedonia. All the great MARI a es,
and coronations, and balls were heralded by
fcasts where,
s'O'er capon, heronst aw, and crane,
And prncely peacock's gilded tram,
And DER the boar's head garnlshed brave,
And cvgnets from st. Mary's wave,
Ger ptarmlgan and venIson,
The priest did say his benison.'
And the carcasses for three fat wethers''
we're bruised for gravy for single peacock.
IN connection with the volcanic eruptions
in New Zealand. correspondent OF London
newspaper writing from Tauranga says:
II have made careful estimate of the stuff
elected during the eruption. 1t amounts in
round numbers to 5000. 100000 cubic yards
weighing 5000 000. 900 tons, which is after all,
not quite one cubic mile. 1t seems a small
UOnl0 tha
amount of the national debt of England 10
excavate 1t. 1t would take one good work
man 100000 years to shovel the stuff from
the ground into carts: yet all was done in
four hours. The stuff when washed, showed
glitterlng particles of mica and little pieces
OF transparent white crystal. Sanguine peo-
pie imagine they have found gold and dIa-
monds, and are anxously awaiting analysis.''
TRUsTFUL LADY at Ocean Grove a fort
night ago went in bathing, and gave her
pocketbook to pleasant-faced lady sitting
on the beach to keep for her. The pleasant
faced lady was an utter stranger to the trust
full bather, and nervous at being custodian
dropped the pocketbook in q wave that dashed
uneX pectedly upon the watchers. The acct
dent made her sick, and she went home with
spoiled vacation to remember. The other
woman had to wait for more money from
home. and three days later went in bathing
again. A heavy breaker knocked her over
and in trying to recover herself her hand
clutched something so spongy that abe
screamed with fear. She kept her grip thou gh
and on shore found in her hand her own
pOcketboOk, swollen with the water, but with
its contents intact-over $40 in all.
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK, who succeeded
in securing so many public holidays
in England, has introduced into Parliament
shop hours' regulation bill, which, il is ex-
pected, will pass by large majority. 1t is
tn go into operation on Jan. / next. By it's
prOvisions shops of every class. with the ex-
ception of taverns, refre hment houses, to-
bacconists' shops and news AGENCIES are to
be closed not later than 10 on the evenings OF
Saturdays and holidays, and not later than
on the evening OF every other day Of the
week. Where any shop is found open after
the hour at which 1t is required tn be closed
the occupier is liable to a fine of f5-say $25.
Chemists and druggists will not be liable to
fne for supplying medicines after the hour
appointed. but they must not Keep their shops
visiDly open after the hours named.
THIS is why girls in China are not allowed
to go to school with boys, according to Chan
Pond, young Chinaman now in this coun-
try: "They (womenl would not have a
drunkard for a husband, but they would
drink glass OF wine with a fast young m an
They would not use profane language, yet
they love the society of men who they know
are pr0fane out OF their presence. They
would not wish to be considered dishonest,
but they use deceitful words and counter nce
the society of men known as deceiyers They
would not be irreligious, but they smile upon
the most irreligious and even immoral men,
and snow that they love to be wooed by them.
This Is the virtue Of too many women-a vir-
tue scarcely worth the name-really no virtue