Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-05
I1EMS OF INTEREST.

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QUEEN Y GLORIA had her rsual baron of beef,
weighing 0 pounds. on Christmas day. It
was roaste at W indsor, and sent to Osborne.
there to he served cold with the traditional
woodcock pie and real boar's head from West
phalia.
4 BABY CAMEL was added to Wallace's cir
Gus while that attraction was on board of
the steamer Charles Morgan en- route to win
ter quarters at Peru. Ind. The event oc-
Cured q few miles below Cincinnati Thurs
day morning last. The little youngster
weighed & pounds and looked about the size
Of an avera- sheep. The hump at its birth
was quite prominent.
The NAvAJoE RESERVATION is between AL
buquerque and Santa Fe in New Mexico,
covering three counties. They number 1900
bucks and 900 Mahalies, and posses $50, 600
Angora goats, 10000 Indian ponies, 2o.OeO
horses, 500 hogs, 10000 cattle, and numerous
pet dogs, cats, bears, deer and antelope. Their
income last year was: From wool, $3.50, 900,
blankets, $2j2,5lO; produce and fancy goods,
SlS2,6l5.
john j. PHELPs' yacht Brunhilde, which
has just left Alden on her progress round the
world, suffered somewhat from a gale in the
Red sea. but rode itout in valiant fashion.
Her appear ance while beating down from Je-
bel Zukur was the occasion of a scare on
British steamer. The Captain thereof was
convinced that the Brunhilde was plratical
craft, and fearing an attack, kept strong
guard on deck all night.
A NEW HAVEN MEDICAL EXAMINE says
that on an average he has ten cases a year OF
babies starved to death. He had one last
week of child dying suddenly. lnvestiga-
uon showed 70 bad been fed on patent 1000,
and the doctor says IL died OF starvation: 1T
is the ignorance OF the parents, he says, which
Is at the bottom Of the trouble. This psrtlcu-
lar kind Of ignorance seems to prevail rather
a " al ~ uypt III O-N0
the poorer classes.
NJ. LEcHIEN, of Mons, brought recently be-
fore the French Society for the Encourage
ment Of National Industry a new ire damp
indicator. d. Lecbien proposes the use of an
india rubber ring, the internal circumference
OF which is pierced with holes. This is allowed
to become inflated IN suspected locality, and
when 1t is placed round safety lamp, very
slight compression sends the gas into the IN
terror, and its character is indicated by the
alteration produced in the fame.
CHARLEY BROWN, of Virginia City, New.
has In his possession an ak, which was found
on the five hundred level of the old Ophir
mine about year ago, in drift where 1t had
remained under water for abouttwenty years
perhaps left there by John Mackay The
hickory handle Is apparently as sound as ever
ana the steel-laid edge Of Inc blade 10 sharp
and smooth, but the iron forming the poll and
eye and into v hioh the blade is " elded ID very
much eaten aW ay Win rust, leaving tue SbeSl
exposed and almost ready to fall out. The
iron Is eaten away fully an eighth of an inch
on each side, " lille the steel is bright and I'M
affected by the rust.
THE Ohio and Mississippi train had novel
express package Saturday night In the per-
son of an Is months old babe which was
shipped from Cincinnati to Vincennes with
ont any other attendant than the kind OH
GERS OF the Jraln and strange passengers. The
ahfld ma a (1aoroip SOlnuaon and " ahIY1rzH
to its grandmother for safe keeping, IT'S
parents having separated. The infant sat up
all the way-201 miles-never cried, and when
it reached Vincennes depot Master Mechling
bundled it and. .akine II in his arms, volun-
teered to carry Il to the street and number az
labeled. Its grandmother was overjOyed TO
receive it. Conductor McCOllum says the
! babe was the youngest passenger that ever
Travelled aione
CHINESE IDEAS Of discipline are peculiar.
A short time since the land Office at Fussu
Hong was attacked by thirty bandits dis
guised as regular troops. The oficer in charge
defended the place braVely, and did nOt yield
until one of has men had been killed and hlm-
| self aud Eve others wounded. The robbers
plundered the treasury, set Gre to the ONCE,
and rode of. In any other country the ohcer
| would have been commended for his courage;
| but the Chinese authorities looked at the mat
ter different Y. and he was pronounced Sc
/ verely to blame for not having taken meas
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the robbers, and for having failed to beat
| them of. He WAS therefore cashlered, pShIe
the officer in special charge of the treasury
was adjHdged u have had larger sum de-
posted than he should have kept by him, and
was called upon TO make good the loss TO the
public out Of hisOwn funds.
ABOUT the year 1880. according to the Hun
garian Journals. IroRyIw was student of medl-
cine at Pesth. There he gave much time to
experiments, which led TO the discovery Of
the modern match. He was too poor to pro-
cure a patent iFonyi retired to hls Dative
village to pursue his experiments and stsrFe.
| Iuclfer Matches however, occupied tns chlei
share of his attention, and he was constantly
engaged with pestle. mortar and explosive
chemicals. He was an inveterate smoker,
and, though he had deluged the world with
| matches he was obliged to walk round the
| village in order 10 procure light for his pipe.
| Feeling himself at the point OF death. he
| thought he would like to indulge In one more
| pipe. With 10 small difficulty he succeeded
| IN filing il. But there was no match in the
| house. A child went to a ne'ghbor's to pro
! cure one for him aud returDe with It. But
lFonyi was dead, with the pipe in his hand.
LIEUT.. HowAsD, Of Calling gun fame in
! connection with the late haf-breed rebellion
| IN the Northwest, when asked at New Haven
| Saturday il 1t was true, as charged by the
| Montreal Post. that he had scalped dead foe
after the fight at Bat0nche, said TO Union
| reporter OF that city that it was not true.
| What he did do was 10 cat Oh as trophy the
scalp lock OF young White Cap, son OF old
] White Cap, Chief OF band of renegade SloWX,
| who years ago wer8 driven out OF Minnesota
| for being engaged IN a massacre Lieut..
! Howard says other officers also helped them
! selves tohairy souvenirs from the heads OF dead
| Indians. but no 81 aipmg was done or acts OF
| brutality perpetrated. Young White Cap was
| found with nine bullet holes IN his body, every
! one made by the atling gun Lieut.. Howard
/ worked. The sea u lock referred 10 Is now
! exhibited as a trOphy in the room OF the ma
| chine platoon Of the state militia, OF which
| Lieut.. Howard has command. and which II
! located in the Second Regiment, Connecticut
! National Guard. armory.
! IN ONE Of New York's trotting towns years
/ AGO. Splan and Dan Mace we're campaigning
! together. The race was one which Dan de-
sired to win, and he and splan had taken
/ tickets that way. A third party in the race
| whom we will call Johnston, had been con-
| suited, anu he ayr ed to come in. Mace wins
| the FIRST and sec0n1 heat, then Johnston wins
| the next two. He was again consulted, but
| declared himself out. Mace argued their
! agreement, but Of no avail, 50 he goes to splan
/ and saws: iva must win it ourselves; John
| stOn Is out" we kin win IL, says Splan,
/ They got the word with Johnston at the pole,
/ Span alongside, and Mace trailing. About
| the three-Quarte pole Splane sulky got
I hooked to JOhugt0ng wheel in some way, and
! Mace won the heat. Mace and Splan both
/ entered the stand GO ONE and protested John
| ston's foul driving. lie drove 80 the stand
! and without leaving bis sulky, said, with an
/ appealing look, while stroking his long, gray
| beard. Great Scott. Jedges. Capt. Kidd on
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