Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The sale of Henry Georges book has been
| so Increased by his nomination for Mayor that
| IL is estimated lie will clear $4,000 ON 1t this
| year.
| WALLEsBA NEWMAN, young lady of Oak
| land, Cal, thought it was EPSON salts, but it
! proved to be arsenic. She died and a drug
glst is in Jail for not putting label on the
| package containing it.
| w. III. II. MURRAY-und0ubtedly the ex-
Rev. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS a card of expla-
| nation to the Boston Herald in which he says
| tbat II a show OF hands could be compelled
| the people would discover that two thirds of
| the Congregational clergy of New England
| nave not believed for the past ten years in the
fashioned he'll as place of torment.
BALL" is a hollow globe of pure rubber,
about an inch in diameter, and filed with
| brandy, whisky, sherry or otner stimulant.
| You bite hole i'll the rubber aud swallow the
| drink. These balls are the latest thing out.
| and are believed to be invaluable in prohibit
| ton communities, at the theatre, in church,
or wherever humanity is likely to become
| thirsty. They may be carried in the pocket
ike marbles and cost 81 a dozen.
TIE big trees" of California will soon be
| extinct. Seventeen lumber companies. own
ing from 5000 to 25. 900 acres of red wood for
est each. are waging the war of extermina-
ton with all the weapons known to the mod
era logging camp. The demand for the wood
Is unlimited. and all the mills are kept a
work TO the limit of their capacity. The for
ests are large, but the forces employed against
them are swift and irresistible.
ERNEST EPHRAIM MIDDLETON is the name
OF baby born on Aug. 49, 1885, in Porlock. a
village of Somersetshire, Eng. He weighs
more than 81 pounds and stands three feet
high. The infant is fat, though well formed
and not at all repulsive TO look at. His chest
measures 30 inches around, his arms lt15
inches at the elbow. and his legs a good 20
inches. He Is being exhibited as curiosity
I mil IS fhar Nxyifl
certificate of his birth, stands by to answer all
questions.
THERE is large Catholic church in Wash
ington attended exclusively by colored people,
with black saints in the inches and other
things to correspond. 1t is attended by col
ored aristocracy, and memberihipi in it is con-
sldered as sign of tone by some. There is a
| line choir of negro voIces, and asses are
sung quite as well as in those attended by the
whites. There is also colered Episcopal
church. the rector Of which is a graduate of
TRINITY college aud man of much ability.
But aside from the two Presbyterian churches
nearly the entire coOred population worship
at those of The Methodist or the Baptist faith.
THERE was a merchant ship called the May
| flower, OF London, command d by Capt
Cheyney, which formed part of the expedi-
ton under Sir Sackville Trevor. September
1926, when the latter took from the French
one of their largest ships, the st. Esprit
which they had Just built IN Holland and
brought it from there TO Harwich. Howell
calls this lone of the best exploits that were
performed The MayhOwer is described a
''of no great burden, but well manned and of
quick steerage, and carried in all, besides the
murderers which they had upon their upper
decks, twenty pieces of brass and iron ord
nance"
THE proprietor of Louisville brewery has
In his Office one OF the most wonderful pieces
of clock mechanism ever seen in that city
The ticker is about two feet in diameter, and
occupies a niche IN the wall. Nothing seems
strange about the clock until the long hand
| points to the hour. just before the clock
should sound out mechanical man iumps mn
| from the hole behind the CLOCK and elevates
| his right hand, IN which is "pOny" beer
| glass The lips open, and the words alag
beer are spoken as many times as the clio;
| should strike. The mechanical imitation of
the human voice Is so perfect as to be start
| ling. The clock was manufactured in Stras-
| bourg, and was purchased for large sum of
| money.
JOHN w. BOYD and family, living near
| Centre. Me-, passed through New London on
| Saturday en- route home from Edna. They
had with them their little three headed baby,
which they exhibited while attending the
| soldiers reunion at that point. Being one of
the most novel little creatures on earth the
people have a great desire 10 see it, and Mr.
| Boyd has exhibited the little one at most of
| the county fairs this fall. It's years old
| mas three heads, can talk and laugh, is
| sprlghtly and was never sick a day in its life
On each OF the heads is fine growth of light
/ hair. 1t cannot stand erect. as the weight of
/ the heads is too much for its body 1t is a re
! msrkable freak OF nature, and can probably
| De classed as one OF the greatest curlosties of
| the age.
THE Duo de Montpensier. to avoid doubtless
possible law of confscation, is trying to sell
| his Auvergne estates, with the two chateaux
| that are on them. They originally were
| crown lands, and included in the appanages
/ OF the Duchy of Orleans, when it was con-
/ ferred on the brother of Louis PhilIippe.
After the Restoration they Were, when Louis
| ANIll, restored these apDanages, on the foot
! ing of private fee simple estate, to the son
| and daughter of Philippe Egalite, allott d to
the latter along with the estates al present be-
| longing to the Prince de JOinvile in the He
| et-Nilalne and the Haute Marne ana what is
| now the Hotel Galliera. The Auvergne part
| of Nine. Adelaide's share embraces about
ll,OOO acres, and Is near Vichy. The chateau
| of Randan, where the Due de Montpensier
! and the Duchess spent many summers. com
| mands one OF the finest views in Auvergne.
| GEoLOdIsr HALL, of New York, happened
! to hear Prof. Williams declare in paper read
during the meeting of the American Scientific
Association in 1884 that the spirifer dlsjuncta
and splrifer mesoslrialis. two kinds of fossils,
/ existed side by side in the same rocks This
| brought Prof. Hall to his feet with the state
! ment: IF any one will show me the two
/ spirlfers SIDE by side In the same rock / will
| reputation, eat my hat, and make the person
who shows me the rock a present of my coat
| ana boots" Prof. WllIiat0s said nothing but
| took the first tram to Ithaca, and returning
! the next day. came 20 the meeting and SOL
EMMY dumped big box OF rocks ON the floor.
| 1t was consigned 70 Prof. Hall in the follow
| ing words: "Ihe incOsed rock contains the
| spiriier disjuneJa and spIrfer mesostrialis
| side by side. You huVe it. Please eat vour
hat and send me your coat and boots by ex-
press"
THERE is an ophidian Of goodly size often
found atsea of the coast of Madras thatm makes
this element its home, being taken as far as
twenty or thirty miles from land, and 10 as
much at home there as our common water
snake (coi,tbdr SiDedDn) is in the Western
waters. The "cracken" (octfDuSl of the North
men is no myth; only little exaggerated in
size. Several Of these polyps have been can
tured OF the coast of Newtound and and Cey-
! Ion that exceed sixty feet as measured along
| the outstrctched arms. This il the devil fish
| OF Victor Hugo. As much as this d Distinguished
! writer seemed to have exaggsf ated tile won
I derfu power of this animal a DESTROYING hu- |
man life he was not far out of the way: as |
only four years ago a heuoOk Indian In Pu-
yet Sound WAS captured, drowned and de- |
vOured by one OF these same devil hshes Too
many sea monsters have been met with OF |
late years ana described Dy competent obser.
vers to leave the naturalist to doubt their |
existence.
HERE Is good story that Lady Brassey. |