Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-05-16
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| in its claws.
THE LARGEST GERMAN GUN, the largest, in
deed it is said, that krupp ever turned out,
has just been mounte on the fortIdcations at
Wi'helmshaven. Its weight is 70 tons, length
| 80 feet. diameter of bore IL inches, weight OF
charge nearly 300 pounds, weight OF shell over
| 800 weight,
NEWS has been received from Milan that
| the two largest distillersin Lombardy, Messrs.
Branca and Sessa, have de termined finally to
close their distieries. because the increased
| tax upon alcohol an the immense amount OF
| organized smuggling render the manufacture
OF spirits losing business.
DANBURY MAN went to Brookfield, Conn.,,
he other day, and called on a family in the
way of business. After he had gone big
black snake was found in the chair that had
! been occupied by the nan from DanbuTy.
! Where the serpent came from, If not from the
| Visitors boots, is q conundrum.
THE ANTWERP EXHIBITION proves to have
been decided monetary success, now that
the accounts have been defini ely concluded.
Thus he receipts reached t 60. 900, and he ex-
pense- We're only Gl20090 50 that there is
handsome profit to be divided among the
shareholders and administrators.
JOHN sPALDING, of Louisville, KY, owns a
big mastiff bitch. The other day she cap
tured and killed cat, the mother of three
kittens, and then, as if conscious of having
done an evil deed, gathered the little orphans
| tO her side, and has since Iendery cared for
| them and fed them with the faithfulness Of
mother.
VESSELS from the West Indies, which put
into Delaware Breakwater for orders, on
being boarded there by the revenue officers
are com peiled to go to Wilmington, Ii dis
tance of seventy miles, and report at the
custom house. This causes a delay of two
/ days and an expense offrom fifteen to twenty
dollars.
GEORGE W. CHAPLIN Of Pine Meadow, Conn,
was recently tried for selling cider without
license. His defense was that he sold the
cider IN his store butstipul ated that it should
be ORA upon platform outside his door, on
another mans property The State did not
consider TINS good defense, and George was
fined 81 and costs.
ALoT OF BOYS in Nicholasville, KY, played
at hanging the other dav, and induced Walter
Clarke, aged y, to be the hanged. He stuck
his head in the moose and boy kicked bar
rel out from under him, and then his compan-
ions ran away and left Walter kicking in the
| air. He Was cut down by passing men, but
was unconscious for several hours.
THEY all drink in pairs in San Francisco,
and the bar rate Is two for a quarter. A
single drink costs loo. or l5c., according to the
convenience of the buyer. II he has dc. IN
change it is accepted, but il he lays down a
| Is that single drink Is worth "bit," l212c.,
and the odd 215c. go by convenience to either
buyer or seller.
VERY favorable reports have been received
from rabbit inspectors relative to the renewed
ork of destruction now carried on in the
favorlte haunts of the rabbits in Australia.
The experiments made with phosphorzed
| oats have proved specially successful. The
number of rabbits to be seen in the district
| has largely decreased. Very few carcasses
are to be found lying about, but the animals
are thou hit to be lying dead in great numbers
| in the burrows.
THEODORE THOMAS has high apprecia-
ton of the dignity Of his mission as the
apostle of pure music In it's noblest forms of
expression, but will probably come down to
the most vigorous p ain English he knows to
| express his sentiments when he reads that a
| London paper presents It's readers with the
statement, as an item OF American news,
| that: Theodore Thomas, the proprietor Of an
| enormous concert hall in Chlca o, expressed
| himself concerning the effect of mu-ic as fol-
| lows: 'On the evenings when the orchestra
/ plays Wagner sell five times as much beer as
| usual"
THE TEMPERANCE hospital just established
in Chicago under the lead of Miss Willard is
the second of its kind in the world. one hav-
ing been founded in London In 1873. 1t has a
capacity for 90 beds, OF which Is will be free.
| The charter provides for medicel college, a
| training school for nurses and a dispensary in
connection with the hospital, OF which the
| training school and dispensary will be opened
| at once and the college probably next year.
| 30 allOpathic and homeopathic physicians
will he m poyed, and there is prOvis0 by
| which alcohol may be administered in cases
| where a council of physicians decides that
nothing else can avail.
THE REFLECTIONS at the French Salon have
been more than ever this year. Altogether
5000 pictures were sent in, of which only $500
| could I've accepted. An exh bition of the re-
jected works opens as usual cOncu rently with
| the opening of the Salon. As, how, yer, there
| will not be room b ing third of them in the
| have t. be made, and many an artist will have
| the mort ficatlOn of seeing the fruits of his
labor reiu ed second time, The Figaro sug-
| gests that the painters VINO fail TO get their
| works admitted into the "Salon des Refuses"
| should hold an exhibition on their own &C
count the ''Salon DIES Refuses par los Re
| fuses"
ANOTHER EFFECTIVE advertising scheme
has been invented in England. A leading
confectioner was ordered to put up lO, 900 Tin
boxes of candy, hermetcally sealed, with an
advertisement If a cheap watch in each box,
ami in some OF the boxes, in addition thereto,
a coupon emitting the finder to one of the
watches. On the occasion the oxford and
| Cambridge boat race, the 900 water tight
boxes were thrown into the river, TO be d vel
and grappled and raked for by anybody who
thought IL worth while to taks so much trou-
BILE to get the sWe Gets, and possibly watch.
No httle excitement and talk was caused, aud
the q iect OF the enterprIsing watch vendrr-
the getting of much adYerGislng-was fully
attained.
DAVID VAN DYKE, Of Mason, o., 20 years
old, owns a house and lot. aud that's all, and
owes large debt contracted bv going security
for friend. As long as Mrs. Van Dyke lived
the house and lot could not be attached fol
the debt, under the homestead exemption law
But Mrs. Van Dyke died a short time ago
and suit was at once brought against the
wdower anu the Sheriff ADVERTISED the prop
erty for sale. Under the law Van Dy k, could
not now claim q homestead. as his wife had
died, and he had no minor children or nj =
married daughter living with him. The only
way OF escape was to marry again. he thought
and so he went to Cincinnati and called on
several women before he found one TO suit
him. At lsst he hit on Miss May JONES' who
was willing. and they were married the 6 h
Of last month. That was but a few days be
fore the day fixed for the sale. and the pro
ceedIDgs in execution were stopped at once.
The case was then argued in the Common
Pleas Court, ara the Judge has just deci ed
that it was not necessary that Van Dyke
should nave been a married man at the time
OF the levy on the properly, but that it was
sufficient 10 entitle him 10 have the homeste Il
exemption by becoming the head OF a family
any time before the actual sale.
Texas and New Jersey,
From the WfimingkOn fDeiJ Nears