Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| expects to salute the first king who assails
| him.
'STEwED PRUNEs" have been in contempt
since ShakesDeares day, but the prune crop OF
Santa Clara county, Cal, this season will be
worth $l,200,000.
AN American banker who is worth $4OO.OOo
lately wrote letter home from Europe in
which he spoke of meeting another tow
ernst" and of the two visiting an "artt gal
cry"
| puget SOUND" writes Miss Kate Field
picturesquely. 'lies ike a hand with its fn-
gers stretching in aud out OF the shores that
come plumply down to meet IL on every sloe.
1t is a very well kept hand, neat around its
edges. l never saw saltwater and land agree
so well before"
CHIMNEYs that smoke, roofs that leak, gut
ters that overflow, RAIN pipes built into the
walls that discharge the showers of heaven
into his drawing room-all these the London
| tenant has the privilege of making good at
his own sole and Individual expense.
THE apple crop along the Hudson valley is
said to be failure, and exporters are now
receiving some choice fruit from Ohio, Ken
lucky and Virginia. 1t is expected that not
less than $4,000 barrels will be shipped from
TINS and other United States ports by the end
of the season.
THE last census has shown that there are in
France $500 idiots and persons Of notorl-
ousy weak minds, in addition to "a 900 luna
tics. Lawyers, politicians, authors, and art
lists furnish the largest continents of insan-
lty. The number of Frenchmen over 100
| years OF age is l27.
GRAvEsToNE in a cemetery at Bethel.
| Conn.,, was erected by man over the grave
of hisJwife, and is q rough boulder which was
! brought from neighboring hill. 1t was Sc
lected because, rs the husband said, lit was
on that stone that my wife and sat when
proposed to her and she said she'd have me-"
AT a horse trot in Belfast. Me-, the other
day, Isaac A. won the first heat with ease in
2:33. In the second heat he led to the last
| quarter, where he faltered. His driver
| whipped him. he responded gamely, passed
under the wire second, and fell dead The
crowd ut once made up purse of $500 for the
| owner, and the horses entrance fee was paid
| back.
A CURIOUS law case is likely to result in
| Freiburg. Switzerland, from the theft COM
mitted by an elephant in Kleeberg's me-
nagerie, who, being in the habit of rumma-
| ging the pockets of visitors for delioacies. in
cautiously abstracted the pocket-book Of one
| OF them The pocket-book and most OF Its
| contents were recovered, bit two bank notes
| of so francs seem to have fallen prey to the
! elephants appetite.
A ST LOUIS MAN was very much startled
while going through dirty alley one rainy
night to feel something warm on his leg just
| above his shoe. He thought it was a rat.
and folding mis- umbrella he beat on the leg
| until 1t WIS sore and his umbrella was bfOGen
! Then he carefully covered the supposed rat
| with one hand and reaching up HIS trousers
| leg with the other pulled out his gold watch,
| which hal slipped through a hole in his watch
| pocket. and which was considerably the
| worse for the pounding that II had received.
A PHYSICIAN who was told of the late case
of resuscitating dead woman in Chicago by
| hypodermic injections of nitro glycerine
savagey expressed his disgust by exclaiming
| Fudge! Three minutes after the hypoder
| mic injection had been given the patient
| gasped four times, but that WAS not life, ,
| Now, II 1t wasn't life, what the deuce was 1t?
! If the woman was dead how did the blood cir
| culate and carry the nitro glvcerine through
| the body? why not administer hypodermIc
| Injections to piece OF bacon and resusctate
apigP"
AUGUST BELMONT has sold his well known
farm Oakland, r. l., of about 1873 acres, to Cor
nelus Vanderbilt, of New York, together with
the large number of Ayrshires, Jerseys and
other expensive stock on the farm. The sale
| WAS effected Saturday. Dir. Belmont has fire.
| quently given pleasant pIcnics there, and not
lnfrequently the meets were had there during
| the days of fox hunting. The price is not
stated, but it is believed TO be In the neighbor-
| hood of $1,000. 1t is announced that Mr..
Vanderbilt Will maintain the reputation Of
perfection.
THE appearance of Edwin Booth in st. Paul
and Mime polis leads one of their news
papers to recall the fact that in the same
year that Booth made his first regular ap-
pearancc on the stage In Boston the Indians
made an attack upon the little log fort where
! now stands one of st. Paul's leading hotels:
! and that the year in which he first appeared
| III this city In leading tragic parts was the
n n W q NUaa h1i bar
| Minneapolis now stands. Now each CITY
claims 10000 inhabitants. and all this growth
has been within the professional life of ma
| whom no one yet calls old.
A YOUNG lady OF Boston recently promised
to meet a cousin at a railroad station in the
suburbs, and she walked up and down the
platform for an hour without seeing the per-
son with whom she made the appointm ent.
| Finally che went into a waiting room for n
drink of wster, and there sat the object of her
Afa, oh. There We're eXcam ations OF surprise
| on both sides. and then the one who had re-
| manned indoors said: "Why. | noticed Won
| walking up and down. but I thought Won
| were member OF the Salvation ARMY"
| The lady a DIRE sed had on IL red Jersey and a
| gray dress, VIII oh she discarded as soon as
| she reached home,
1T is reported that the commission charged
with investig tting the condition of the labor
ing population in northern Belgium has die
covered the existence of almost incredible
misery. In some manufacturing places of
! from coo TO 10000 inhabitants more than
| 1900 people were without means of auhsis-
| tence. tho.e still employed earning about nine
| francs 81 S0) per wee. The textile industry
| IN Flanders is AT a perfect stardstill and the
| manufacture Of cotton yarn is rapi lily declin-
! ing. 1t is SAID that the King will allude to
| the industrial depression in a special speech
| from tie throne on the opening - the Cham
| bers-an unusual evert in Relgium-and that
/ he will commute the sentences of some o. the
rec mt rioiers.
a NEW YORK correspondent, who lately
visited the monastery of the Passionist ia theirs
at Hoboken, where miraculous cures are said
to he effected, says that in the course of his
peregrina atoms lie WAS considerably start ell.
! In one OF the rooms. on bed. Law a lifeline
| figure in wax. Just received from Rome in
whose thighs was supposed to he imbedued a
| bone from tomb recently opened In the cat
acombs. The inscription on the tomb told
! that the body or a deacon Of the early church
| who had obtained martyrdom had been buried
! there. The waxed face, surrounded by :.
| wreath OF laurel, was life-like, but knife
protrude from the heart, and the blood stains
were horrible.
AMONG tho pieces of jeweIry belonging to
King Thebaw, and which were sent to Eng
land by the VIceroy, On be placed on exhibit
ton, were gold vaeeS Of d fIerent sizes, dishes
OF quaint shape, some IN the form Of a duck.
be'el boxes. reliquarics to hold the teeth OF