Savannah morning news., 1886-04-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THIRTY MILLION logs are said TO be ready
to be hoated down the Connecticut river.
Ihey Will be sawed at the foot of Mount Tom.
THE explored coal beds of Ireland, accord
ing to the latest buebook, contains about
9'0oo,O0O tons of workable coal. chiefly an
thracile.
VIENNA has had the longest winter in fifty
years The plains Of Hungary had on March
IL been covered with snow since the middle of
De ember.
WOLVES attacked and treed Edward Burk
within two miles of Manistique, Mich. They
watched him for hours ana then gave him a
chance to escape.
a BOY living within sight of Plymouth Rock
weighed 304 pounds lat last accountsl, though
he is only IA years old He has grown at the
rate OF fifty pounds year of late.
GEORGE CAUGHT. of the Indian Nation, re
turning to his home near Talequah after dark
the other evening, heard a child's cry and the
howl OF wolves. He found his own little i've
year-old daughter and not fifty feet away
pack of wolves.
THE two hundredth anniversary of the first
settlement Of Woodstock, Conn, will be cele-
brated on Aug. Is, next. Historians have
| Ocen appointed bV the churches and other or
ganizauons of the town to prepare historical
addresses TO be read on the occasion.
JOHN WHITE, the well known boat builder
of Cowes, England. has designed a fishing YES
| VIII not sink If overwhelmed by the sea and
| hlled with water. Already two such vessels
OF thirty tons have been sent to the coast of
| Ireland.
LORD SHREWSBURY is about to retire from
business as a cab proprietor. His cabs, horses,
and establishment generally are to be taken
by a company. The Premier Earl has al
| ways made profit at his cab yard, but re-
Gently his men struck, and this Is why ne is
giving up business.
CAMERON, of Lochiel. the Scotch chieftain,
writes NO one condemns the whole proceed
ings of Mr.. Winans more than the proprietors
IN the Highlands, who, indeed, have good
reason to lament the day when he arrived
| among them" Mr. Winaos has the right to
| regard himself as the best hated American on
record in Great Britain.
WENDELL PHILLIPS was waiting once for
the train at Essex Junction, VT, where pas.
| sengers at times have to exercise great pa
thence. He saw graveyard not far frop the
| depot very full of graves, and inquired the
rea -On. Green mountaineer calmly ln-
formed him that 1t was used to bury passen-
gers In who died while waiting for the train.
The DUCKING SEASON on the Sussuehanna
river and Chesapeake fats closed Wednesday.
At Hayre de Grace many people make 1t their
| regular employment during the season. The
| past season is not thought to have been prof
| liable one as during most of the winter the
rivers and bay were covered with a heavy
| sheet of lce, which cut the ducks off from their
usual feeding grounds, and compelled them
to 20 south to find open water.
JOHN BoRRELL was driving near the rail-
road track in North Reading, Pa, when his
hound, that had been following him, ran on
the track Just in time to he struck by a fast
/ locomotive and hurled fifteen feet in the air
| John thought there wasn't enough left of the
| dog to mourn over and drove on. Looking
/ back after awhile, he saw the hound trotting
! biG in
| tervleW with the cOWcatcher.
! TIE small waiting room at Prof. Pasteur's
! laboratory in the Rue d'Ulm presents a curl
| Gus spectacle during the hours Of incubation.
! There are present Parisians Provincials,
! Russians, AustriaDs, ROumanians Italians
| and opaniards. Some are elegantly dressed,
others are IN rags. In several cases the pa
! tients have brought their own doctors with
| them. The variety Of languages spoken make
the little room veritabe Babel.
AT DINNER in Roundout. N. Y, the
other day there was German, just arrived,
! who had not seen United States paper money.
| a gentleman opposite took $50 bill from his
| pocket and endeavnred to hand il to the Ger
! man, but dropped it into a dish of soup. He
! took it out as quickly as possible, and was
| waving it to and fro to dry ii, when a big dog
| n the room snapped il out of his fingers and
| bolted 1t down with apparent relish.
| DR.. A. TUCKER WISE, an English authority
| on pulmonary diseases, says that the effects
on the Anglo Saxon race of living In a GOLD
/ climate may be seen in Canada and some of
| the Northern States of the American Union,
| where the race is physically superior and
! more vigorous than that Of tho parent stock
| This is contrary TO the belief of most English
! tourists, who insist that the race deteriorates
! physically in the colder parts OF America.
| COUPLE from Bangor, Me-, were married
near Boston some weeks ago, and started
homeward by rail, leaving their gifts to follow
/ ;r, tbo Of
| went to pieces on the coast OF Maine, They
have recently learned that the box of pres
ents had drlfted ashore, and that the silver
table ware was in use among the fishermen all
along the ceast, while the less serviceable pic
lures and ornaments decorated their cabins.
The owners have gone in quest.
WALUKU, the second city in the Sandwich
islands, seems to be very easy-going sort OF
place. There are in it a large number of
wealthy people, mostly Christians, but they
/ haven't energy enough to call clergymen to
Ofliciate in the two Protestant church eoi-
| fees in the city, which therefore stand closed
| The city contains no clergy, no newspapers
| no libraries, no reading rooms and the citi-
| Zans do not have the slightest interest in newa
| OF anv Kind. They end their time chiefly in
| thinking what soft snap life is and wishing
| 10 didn't have TO end.
IN the Capitol, Montgomery, Ala, is reli-
giously preserved large Bible, printed by
the American Bible Society in 1857. and bear
/
oath OF Office. as first President of the
Provisional Government OF the COnfede-
rate States of America was administered to
jefferson Davis upon this Bible by Howell
Cobb President Of the Provisional Congress-
at the front porticO of the Capitol in Mont
gOmery, on the 18th day of February A D..
1851" The book, it may be added, is still !
used in swearing in Governors Of the State.
1T HAS been decided in the District OF Co
lumbia that barber shops shall not keep open
on sundays, and on Tuesday night, at meet
ing OF the BARRIERS of the District. 1t was de-
cided to enlRhten the public after this fash
ion: "Whereas the public is desirou- TO |
know why the barber shops are closed on sun |
day, therefore resolved. first that the sboDs |
are closed because the Divine law saws, 'siX |
days shalt thou LABOR, and on the seventh |
rest Second, that the Church, the common /
iaw, and the best elements OF the District de- |
sire IT, Thlri, that all our customers can get /
shaved on saturday between the hours OF Z in /
the morning and y at night, if they wish to |
do so."
UNDER the title of souvenirs dun Jour |
naliste Francais a Rome" NJ Henri dos Houx /
has just written an interesting book on the
ins and outs Of the Vatican. Here is his /
sketch OF the Pope himself: LEO NIU /
blesses hls audience with graceful and king
rs gesture. lle has merry mouth His smile /
is rather gentle and paternal. HIS ewes are
very black aud brilliant. His isfeatures, ascetic
and strongly marked have become bepevo- .
lent and engaging His holiness h Still Wig.