Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-13
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of one-hors power would keep 27,OoO,OOO
watches running.
THE Star !pangled Banner is seen oftener
IN the townsOf Ireland now than any other
nag save, prhaps, the green itself.
A TwELvEPoUNDEE BRASS CANNON that
saw service in 1915 is part of the armament
OF the NV Canadian cruiser Acadia.
A FLoK of sheep got on the tracks of the
Grand funk railway near Fergus, Canada,
ana rain dashed through them, killing
slXty-tD.
AN oloJapanese proverb says. "Jigoka no
sata mo Kane shidai," meaning "the tor
lures of hell are graded according to the
amount money one has"
MARI my word for it," said an elderly
lady of Irockland, N. Y, "there's going to be
war. Ill these boy babies that have been
coming sonG lately mean something"
TIE prsent year will be remembered long
In Nebraka as an example of the power of
the prairh soil to resist drought and to absorb.
without great injury. superabundance OF
rain.
SEvERAIYEARs AGO Prince Bismarck is re-
ported to rave said to an American states
man: England is counted out OF European
politics while ireland remains an enemy at
her gates"
NEW Pc lCH of the quality of the Craw-
ford, which ripens one week later, is called
"the Genera Bidwell." The first fruit was
picked from tree which sprang from the
stock OF dead apricot tree.
AN Episcopal church in Minneapolis has
since the opening of the exposition had these
words IN bold letters over the door: "Church
open. Come in. rest and pray" 1t is no
tlced That good many persons do go In every
day.
oft nFT fha 9TH in n
stopped horse that was aimlessly dragging
top buggy through the streets he found
within the buggy young and loving and
sleeping couple claIped in each others arms,
the girl's head reposing gently upon the young
mans shirt bosom.
MINNEAPOLIS MEDIUM lately burst forth
into song, and as size was never known before
to be guilty of such doings search was made
Tor the controlling spirit and it was found to
be Parepa Rosa's. "Annie Laurie and ''The
Star Spanged Banner" were as high art as
anything included in the ghostly concert
CONVICT ROBERT, who is in prison at Fred
ericton, n. B.. for criminal assault, will nine
months from now receive twelve stripes upon
his bare back with whip. 1.-THE handle of
half an inch thick" 1t would seem that
| the length and size of the lash were of greater
| Importance.
FIVE YEARS have passed since Leadville
had its great boom and Its mines are to-day
producing more tons of ore, containing more
ounces of silver and gold, and more pounds
oflead, than ever heretofore. Leadville has
! dozen mining companies that pay divi-
! dends ranging from 20 to 60 per cent. per an
mum of the market value OF the stock.
MISS POLLY GEHRIs, of Washington town
| ship, Pa, who recently died at the age of 81
| was always a manly sort of woman. She
| hired out to the farmers to work in the field
| and could do a mans work. She smoke and
| chewed tobacco for over fltty years. and boast
| ed that she had never had beau. and that no
man ever lived who dared 10 ask her TO marry
| him.
CHARLES J.JAMEs, son of G. P R. James,
the English novelist of Two Solitary Horse
men" fame, peddles papers and makes ordi-
nances in Euclare, Wis, where he is an AL.
| derma1, and breaches dyn amite and anarchy
| between times. He had letter in recent
| North American Review entitled "Anarchlsm
| Defined by an ADarchist." He is described
as harmless and not disagreeable crank.
THEY raise energetic hens in Kansas. A
| Kngman county man had one that tried tc
| hatch out sitting of eggs and failed; Their
| tried second lot and brought forth ten fine
| chicks; took care of them for six weeks, dur
| ing the lest three of which she laid an eGe
! every other day; then wanted to sit again
and not being permitted, stole another hens
| chicks and brought them up with more thar
| stepmotherly devotion.
A PROMINENT Waterbury manufacturer re-
Gently illustrated the force of habit. His
habit is to get shaved at $3.50 each evening
| The other day. expecting to be busy in the
| evening. he WAS shaved at noon. hut at 6 30 he
again entered the narbershop: patientlywaited
| half an hour Tor his turn. and when the smil =
| ing barber ruhbe1 his hand over his bald head
and said, Hair cut?" remembered that he
had been shaved and bolted from the shop.
In this country the most celebrated ar
tesian wells are those of st. Louis, Louisville
and Charleston, S. C. The st. Louis well has
a depth OF 2,109 feet. and flows at the rate Of
seventv-five gallons per minute. That al
| Louisville is 20S6 feet deep. and flows $50. 00(
! gallons in twenty -four hours. and the Charles.
ton well is J, $50 feet deep, with flow of .20t
gallons per hour. and with force equal tC
| ten horse power. There are one hundred ar
tesian wells in Chicago.
BICYCLE RIDING, like roller skating, hal
produced new class of disease. 1t is an af
lection of the spine and kidneys, resultins
from the continual jar of the machine. Si1
or eight cases OF it are known that cannot be
| classified by their symptoms with any here.
| tofore known ailment. In every instance II
can be traced to the wheel. 1t exists only
| however, in mon of feeble organizations anC
| non elastic constitution. They have no bust.
ness taking violent exercise of any kind.
MRS. C. L. COOK attempted to cross III,
river at Milford, Conn, the other evening il
a small rowboat, taking her four children
with her. When they were in the middle o.
| the stream the baby, nine m months old iumpeC
| from the arms Of the eldest child Into tn,
| river. ALTHOUGH Mrs. Cook could not swim.
| she at once jumped after the little one
| caught It by its clOthe E, and screamed for
! help. By the time help came the mothe,
was Unconscious, the baby nearly drowned
| and the children in the boat naerly half crazy
with fright.
A "CRowN Room" exists in the Festivs
theatre mt BaVreuth, consecrated to the nom.
orv of Richard Wagner. Dimly lighted anc
arranged rs a species OF chapel, the room
| is filed with wreaths, crowns and garland,
| of overv kind. commemoratng the composer
| while Wagnerian relics are being carefully
| gathered together for a museum. AMONG
| these the most precious is a mall black tablet
| bearing few words scribbled in white chalk
-"TO-morrow, general rehearsal Wagner
said TO be the last words written by Wag.
| ner in his theatre.
IN Lima there is a constant shaking OF tho
ground. The houses are uniformly three
stories in height. The FIRST story is of bricL
or stone, the walls being fully three feet thick
| The upper two stories are made OF ba m boz
| dashed together. 10 takes pretty severe
earthquake TO destroy one OF these buildings
| The peculiar thing about shake is that the
| first time you get one you are apt to take II
| cNolly! Tho next time you are afraid. anc
ever after hat you are demoralized. Earth.
! quakes are something that no man can be-