Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The Cars health is causing great anxiety
in Russia again.

900 hundredweights of wheat, against 10000
00J fifteen years ago.
The German government railroad authori-
ties have ordered that no man shall work
more than eight hours a day.
! EIGHTY-FIvE PERSONS climbed up Mount
Blanc last year, 10 of whom were Americans,3l
Frenchmen, 25 English, Swiss. Germans,
russians, Swedes, Italian, and Belgian
THE late Joseph H. Weller, of Teft. Weller
X Co., began life in y ew York sixteen years
ago as a salesman at $500 a year. His estate
Is estimated at about $500, 00G.
CATTLE MEN in the West are apprehensive
OF severe winter. in which event they an
ticipate sad havoc among the cattle, owing
to the shortness Of the grass crop.
SCIENCE states that an examination by an
oculist OF the eyes of LOO persons who work
by the lncandescent electric Ii ght fails to show
any injurious effects produced nv that light.
no arc light may cause eye trouble IL in TOO
close proximity.
1T is believed that the estate of the late
Tomaso Terry, of Cienfuegos and New York,
will amount to at least 100000 900. There are
$50 OO0o in this cOuntry S23 oGO 900 in France,
$50 O,000 in England and enormously valuable
sugar plantations in Cuba.
THE Life of Oliver P. Morton" edited by
his son, is to be issued next year. Among
|
work touching various phases of the states
| mans career are Gen. Lew Wallace. Gen. H.
J d. Darlington. ex- Postmaster General Tyner
and Senators ingalls,, Allison, Mcmillan and
Hoar.
THE Minister of Finance in Italy announces
that taxation has yielded 40,000.0G0 lire
| (Ss.000,C00 above the amount estimated in the
| last budget. The budget for 1867 shows an
excess Of 10000, 900 lire and the budget for
| ISIS viii show an excess of 100000 lire.
| The Minister proposes to devote the surplus
! to the liquidation of State railway expenses.
A SUCKING COLT in Santa Rosa, Cal. found
a half-fled sack of barley in the barn. and
after nibbling at it picked it up with its teeth
and carried it to its dam. who was tied fifty
| feet away, and put it down in front OF her.
The owner saw this, took away the bag and
hid it in another part of the barn. The colt
| found 1t again, and again carried it to its
mother, who this time was allowed to eat the
grain.
YOUNG Mr.. Hasit loved young Miss Hunt
| They lived in Northwestern Canada, and
when her parents refused to have Hast for a
son in law he ran away with the daughter
and succeeded in reaching st. Vincent, MINI,
where they were MARI ed. They attracted
| considerable attention there because Mr..
| Hasit was slight ana meek and his bonny
! bride was six feet tall and weighed 250
pounds.
THE flag of England now floats over the
Island of Socotra, in the Indian Ocean. OF
itself the island is worth little, but its geo.
graphical position, almost directly in the line
of communication between India and the Red
Sea, makes its possession matter of great
| importance. 1t ls significant, too. that Eng
land should have terminated its nominal in
| dependence just at the time when Russia is
supposed to have aggressive designs in the
East.
QUITE a novel and striking sight, says a
writer in the Cambridge (Md.) Democrat and
News, was witnessed by rider on the Black
water road or Thursday last, IN the form OF
| a cunning party, composed of both ladies and
! gentlemen. The ladies looked perfectly at
| home with their guns on their shoulders, and
| seemed to handle them with as much skill as
| did the young men at their sides. Each face
beamed with delight as they held aloft the
| string OF partrdges brought low.
| JOHN B. HUMPHREY and Henry Mitchell
| loved Sadie Hammel All were young, and
Sadie was pretty; and all live in Sacramento
county, Ca. The girl couldn't decide, after
| two years of CourshiD, which of the
| young farmers she preferred, ana finally they
| agreed to play a freeZe-out at poker for
| SaJ,ies hand. She agreed 10 this, and the
| other evening they drove into Sacramento
| ard, while the girl held the horses, the Young
| fellows went into saloon. took drink,
called for a new pack of cards and fifty chips.
| and sat down 10 the freeze-out. Luck ran
| Humphreys way and he soon raked in the
chips. Then they took another drink, and
John went out and drove home with Sadie,
and Henry sought consolation in Sacramento
| whisky. He Is to stand NJ with John at the
| wedding.
THE Canadian government is locking about
to find some market for the surplus stock of
manufactures which has accumulated from
| over production. Brazil was tried, but
| ia led, notwithstanding the large subsidy Of
fered by the Dominion government to any
| company which would establish direct
| steam communication between that country
and Canada. treaty having been concluded
| between Great Britain and Spain, in which
| Canada Is included, it is now proposed to ask
| Parliament at the coming session to vote a
! subsidy to secure direct steam COmmunca-
| tion between Cana1a and the West India Is
lands, including the Spanish possessions
| there. Overproduction il being seriously
felt at present. and some market must be
! found for the surplus, as the United States
viii not take it.
SOME of the National Guard surgeons are
Discussing the question whether a sword 10
not for them, except when on parade, sim
! pie enGumbrance. One proposition has been
| 10 substitute a revolver. as being more useful
and less in the way. 1t might be suggested
that a sad instance is recorded of this resort
! to the pistol in the case OF DR.. Cllapod, in
| Colman's comedy. who. having TO attend
| Lady Kitty Carbuncle after grand field nay,
! where he was cornet IN the cavalry, had
| clapped n pint bottle of diet drink for her
| getfulness presented it neck fol- emost at the
| command of fire. the joltsd and fermented
! medicine forcing the cork out with vi
| olence into the face of his gall
liant commander. As fact, however,
| a medical officer should no more be without
| some means of defense when on active SER
| vice than any other; and if the sword is really
| TO be put aside as cumbersome, except for
| pArades, the revolver would seem to be the
| most natural substitute.
The fashion in boards adopted by great
men of all ages is a matter of some interest.
! All the Asiatic people, except the Chinese
aud other Monaghan races, who are practi-
| cally beardless, wore the hirsute badge of
manhood. The Greeks wore boards, but the
! Romans were always clean shaven, while the
nations around them were denomnated bar
| barians because they wore heards. George
| Washington, Napoleon and the DUKE of We'll
! Iinpton shaved their faces. The Bible patri-
| archs are pictured as bearded men, and so
| are Christ and his apostles, saving alone
| st, John the Evangelist, who is painted as an
enem nate and beautiful youth. Coming
| down to our own times all the officers on
| both sides In the civil war wore boards or
| the American Presidents Gen. Arthur was
| the first who wore side whiskers. None of
the other Presidents wore any hair on their
faces until Abraham Lincoln's time, and
Grant, HAYES and Garfield were the only
| ones who had full boards. President Cleve-
! land is the first and only President who has
| worn a mustache only. Gen. Arthur was re
garded as the best dressed of the nations
| Presidents.
EVEN with their hitherto imperfect system