Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-11-02
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quadrllateral pyramid com posed OF the
eighty -four guineas found in Nelson's possess
sion when he fell at Trafalgar.
PROF. HUXLEY has written three papers
which he calls "a Study in the Evolution of
House Building.' and in them he traces in a
manner which even young reader can I'M
derstand the development of architecture
from Ihe most primitive dwelling TO the Ro-
man Pantheon.
TWENTY YEARS AGO woman borrowed $50
or Alderman Hartman, of Pttsburg, and
failed to pay it. The other evening she at
tended church, heard a sermon on the subject
OF dong as one would be done by, and the
next day surprised the Alderman by paying
the deSt with interest in full.
AT FIRST the watch was about the size of a
dessert plate. It had weights and was used
as pocket clock" The earliest known use
OF the modern name occurs in the record of
1913, which mentions tnat Edward VI. had
zone larum or watch of iron. the case being
lead"
HERR HUTSCHEUREUTHER, of Wurzburg,
the father-in-law of the Bavarian Premier,
Baron Won Lutz, recently committed suicide
Dy shootlng, his mind having become de-
ranged In consequence of the constant perse-
cutlons on the part of the government to
Whlch BaVarlan editors have of late been eX-
posed.
WHEN Prince Alexander was elected to the
iGaildu throne he NaQ no Otner income
than that of an officer in the German army
His uncle, the late Gear Alexander H., fitted
him out ss a ruler. The Bulgarian Parlia-
ment gave him 100000 a year and he is now
sald TO be worth at least 100000. This is the
accumulation OF seven years.
THERE is pretty good evidence that Celia
Monroe, a colored WON an, who died IN Kansas
City few DAYS ago. was 1875 years old She
was the mother OF sixteen children, the four
youngest of whom are living at the ages of IA,
o., So and so years. Her second husband died
hfty years ago. A week before she died she
was about the house sweeping.
SEVERAL YEARS AGO a citizen OF Lewiston.
Me-, became very angry because the soldiers
monument was not built where be wanted it.
consequently he stopped work on a building
ne had nearly finished and vowed that 1t
should neither be finished nor torn down, but
rem ain as blot on The city. And thus 1T re-
mains, tumble-down old shell.
a CARAT Galena, Ill.,. climbed a tree and
attempted to pounce upon a group of English
sparrows which were sitting on a branch
The sparrows attacked their enemy with their
bills and soon it was surrounded By hundreds
OF angry BIRDS. The birds compelled the cat
TO jump to the ground. They pursued it,
pecked out its eyes, and finally killed it.
1T is said that when the first number of the
Jlmplecute, published at Jefferson, Tex. was
about to be printed, the proprietor. who had
| not yet decided unon name for his paper
| picked up handful of pip from the lmpos-
| Ing stone. and set the type thus taken at ran
| dom In his composing stick. The result was
| the word, Jim plecute," which he adopted as
| the name for the newspaper.
THE chief of the Constantinople fire brig
| ade, Szechenyi Pasha, or, as he was formerly
| called, Count Edmund Szechenyi. nearly
| persisted in the flames during recent fire in
| that city. The fire originated in the street in
which he lived, finally spreading to his own
! house 10 IN no in,
| time to rescue. at the risk of his lie, his
| daughter ana her maid both Of whom were
already half suffocated.
SOME YEARS AGO most Of the orchestral
| parts were accidentally discovered at Ores
den of a lost symphony by Wagner From
| those parts the lost score was reconstructed
and the work has been several times publicly
performed. Wilhelm Tappert announces in
| the fastest number OF the Musk alsche
| Wochenbatt that the draft of a symphony in
major, by Wagner, has been found in the
| Wahnfried archives at Bayreuth. 1t was
composed IN 1884, at time when he was
10 usical director at Magdeburg,
| SEVEN WEEKS AGO John Delanty, of Easton,
| Pa, married Louise Montague, the $4,000
circuS beauty. Both were with O'Brien's
show until it failed, and Delanty had loaned
! O'Brien quite sum Of money, about which
! he worried until his mind gave way His
Wl'e brought MN to this city to consult DR..
/
| her, and, after searching for him In vain, she
| returned to Easton. The next afternoon De-
lanty was found near Pennington, n. j.. ia
| tally hurt by locomotive of the Lehigh VAL
| ley road. 1t is SAID that he had placed his
head on the track with suicidal intent.
| THOUGH the Empress of Austria is no
longer allowed to take horse exercise, she is
using her returning strength to make extern
| sive pedestrian excursions in the neighbor-
| hood of Ischl. Her household finds it difficult.
| In TACT. TO fall in with their imperial mislree s.
| new ways, Tor she not only walks long dis
| tances, but gets up at abnormal hours In the
| morning to start on her Journeys. Recently
| she was up Just after a. M, in order to start
| for the Lac de Grundl. aud only got back to
| Ischl about in the evening. II monarchs
| of the period mean to go on in this way
| intending courtiers will soon have to pass an
| examination in ath ietics, including the walk
| ing OF measured mile.
| IN his report of the operations of the geo.
| logical survey during September, Director
| Powell sage that while engaged in geologic
work in the Atlantic division Prof. Shaier
| discovered a point of much interest in its
| bearing on the nature of the recent changes
| oil the level of the New England coast ii ia
| that the rivers which flow from south to
| north have great amount Of marshes in their
| valleys ana hardly a trace Of alluyial terraces
| while the rivers which RON from north tn
| south are not bordered with swamps and all
| have distinct terraces. He offers az AN expla-
| nation the theory that the shore has all been
| tilted up to the nOrthward. thus partly de-
| stroying the drainage of the rivers which
| flow northwardly.
| ONE of the most curious statistical records
| recently compiled is that of DIR. Salzmann. Of
| Essing, In WurtemberG. he found, on going
! over the ancient records of EsslIng, that in
| the sixteenth century the average duration
| OF life among the physicians was SO. wears:
| in the seventeenth, 45.S; in the eighteenth
| 3b.S; while, at the present time, the physi-
! Clans OF Wurtem berg reach the very favora-
| bic average Of 5G.7 years, 1t would appear
| that this very great increase in longevity was
! due to the disappearance of the pest and the
! great diminution in the number of typhus
| epidemics The black death, or black pest of
! the fourteenth century, decimated the prac
! titioners of that epoch. Guy de ChauIiac suf-
! fered from it twice and recovered de
! Vinaro succumbed.
! KAISER WILHELM Is economical. He uses
asecond time nearly all the envelopes of the
documents addressed DO him. One of these
bearing his autograph superscrption was re-
Gently seen by correspondent OF the Con-
cordia, who writes about it as follows: "Priyy
docum, nts sent to the Emperor from the MIN
| listers and Imperial officers are put unfolded
! ipto the envelope, which bears the inscription:
To His Majesty the Emperor and King The
name OF the sender appears in small letters
! in the left-hand lower corner of the cover. as
! for instance, Foreign Office etc. The fan
OF the one in question was closed with red
sealing wax. In opening IL the Emperor had
carefully torn IL open close to the wax, and
after PerusiDg the con tents, he had folded the
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