Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

word about the Baines.
SEVERAL Salt Lake people, widely varying
IN social standing, have been affected by the
recent strike in the Ccmstock lode, which
| caused boom in stocks. hotel o. OK Is
able now to retire on $4,000, and man who
| mas walked the street with well ventilated
| ciothlng can now call 81 ,000 his own.
The faster Merlatt is going it on pure grit,
without his liquor, and is trying to commit a
most courageous suicide. Recently he fell
down through weakness and exhaustion. The
medical umpires, who have been accused OF
connlving at self-murder. have finally de-
cllned TO nave anything more to do with MIN.
WELSH couple from mining settlement,
near Pottstile, Pa. recently obtained mar
riage license from Register Johnson. Then
they went home happy in the thought that
they were man and wife, and lived together
Two or three weeks before they found out that
a minister or Squire was necessary before
they could be really married.
THERE are forty-two college graduates on
the STATS of the six leading daily newspapers
of Boston. Fourteen colleges are represented.
Harvard sending seventeen of her sons, Yale
i've, Dartmouth, Wesleyan and Boston Col
lege three each. Williams and Colby Two
each, and Bowdoin, Amherst. Tufts, Cornell =,
Trinity, Brown aud the University of Michi-
gan one each.
AN increased demand for cut diamonds,
which has been noticed for some time at AM
sterdam, is reported also from Antwerpt
which is the principal rival Of Amsterdam in
tn peparing of diamonds for the market.
me worknen engaged in the trade have de.
CT ted to ask for a considerable increase of
wages, and they threaten general strike If
thls increase Is not granted.
THE Sherlffs Of England are taken from gen
tlemen residing in a county who are supposed
to be rich. The selection is arbitrary, al
| though it sometimes happens that some
wealthy snoh who has ju-t settled in a county
announces his readiness to serve. and the eX-
pense, which averages about 50. 800, is some
times heavy tax upon the unlucky gentle
men Who are pushed INTO the honor.
IN all the attributes of an ideal wife and
woman Mrs. Grover Cleveland has reflected
credit on her sex. and it is not strange that
she is beloved by all who can penetrate with
IN the charmed circle of her sunny. joyous,
fruitful daily life. Even Bottom, conservative
and conventional, if you will. yet keenly and
lnte'ligently discriminating, welcomes Mrs.
Cleveland as wife who is the worthy theme
Of hOnor's tongue"
1T is not, perhaps, generally known that
the stamped envelope enjoys certain very
practiCa! advantages over an envelope with
an adhesive stamp. The latter can be sent
only by mail, whereas q letter contained in a
stamped envelope may be carried "outside o.
stages and other means of conveyance" The
prlvileg of tee STAMPED envelope NAV he
Turned TO good account at times by business
men.
a MECHANIC in Louisville, KY, thinks that
he has invented an apparatus which will dis
courage the giving of false a arms of fire. His
appliance is pair of magnetic nippers. which
grasp by he wrist the man who turns in the
alarm and hold him at the box until the arri-
val of the fire department, The man who
turns IN the alarm can be released only by
the firemen, who are supplied with keys W hich
turn on the current, when the magnet re-
lakes its grip.
A CLERGYMAN of Providence, in a recent
address on the property of doing the right
thing at the right time, said that when he was
chaplain in the army at n certain battle he
came upon a man horribly wounded, over
who n a comrade was kneeling. endeavoring
| to supply religious consolation by reading a
standard catechism to him. The dying man,
as the clergyman reached him, was having
this neart-searching question put to him {:
Who gave you this name?"
A GENTLEMAN of st. Thomas, Ont, WHO
had an account for S56 against a person who
did not seem anxious to pay. consulted a
lawyer as to the course it would be best for
him to pursue. The lawyer eXacted $35 of
advance money, and when the collection was
made demanded more, which the client de-
clincd to pay, having found that with his prP-
vioUs payment to counsel and with various
fees for which he had been taxed, it had cost
him 500 to have the SIS collected.
WHAT one woman can do is illustrated by
| Jennie Collins, who. fifteen years ago. was a
tailoress in Boston working for her daily
bread. Realizing the SORROWS of a larGe class
| of shop girls who must perforce live in cheap
| boarding houses and miserable lodgings, she
thought out the idea of establishing place
for them where they could meet for social
| anIf I,a,1Y. L
! employer. "BotIin's Bower" which has since
hecCme famous for the good it works, was es-
tablished.
THE measuring OF the candle power Of a
light is accomplished by comparing the
shadow cast by rod in the light of standard
candle with the shadow cast by the light to be
tested. BY moving the latter toward or away
from the d point will be reached at which
the shadow cast bv both lights will be of the
same intensity. The intensity of the two
lights is directly proportional TO the squares
OF their distances from the shadows; / e.
suppose the light to be tested is three times
the distance Uf the candle. its illuminating
power Is nine times as great.
CHOLERA has not pursued its usual course
during the last two years. 1t started out
from India on its usual path to Europe, but
fingered in Italy, Spain and the south of
France through one whole season without
| crossing to America; and returning again the
next season began to spread eastward instead
Of coming west. 1t has now crossed the At
lantic apparently, but has developed in South
instead of North America, the Argentine
Confederation being the chief sufferer thus
far. 1t would be Interesting to ascertain
whether the course OF cholera has been affect
ed by rec ent sanitary improvements in cities
and houses. IL has certainly developed in
neglected cities, and it has failed to spread to
others which have IN recent years been largely
improved.
"SAY. kurrel," began one OF the colored
whitewashers at the market yesterday to a
butcher whom he knew, II want to ak We
sunthin'." Don't ask for money" "Oh, no.
sab l want to ak we what roorback amp
see it IN all de papers to look out for roor-
backs, but doan' Fetch on" Wen, William.
iFs political term; roorback is lie
about a candid1te." "Oh." ION Monday
say tn 3 or that candidate ought to he elected.
and this or that one defeated" ~ sec. and
mustn't pay no 'tenshun to 'em. NO" "If
dey say a candydate am all right OATS roor-
back; IL dev say he am all wrong OATS
anoder2" EXACTLY" "Dat hits me- kurnel
an knows now 10 take em. | won't vote
fur any candydate onlcss he delibers de
flourw
ALBERT c. CROKER, Superintendent of
California Wells for the CHARTERS Gas Com.
pany, was inspecting well five miles from
Hickory. Pa. the other evening, when there
was an explosion OF gas and his left foot was
blown of just above the ankle. 1t was pitch
dark. ana no lanterns are used about the well
so that CrOcker could not see how Dadlv hn