Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! agc, uIg nIIeu s.
a GOOD voice. considerable eioeatlonary
I abi'lty. and IS creating il Pennsylvania an
excellent reputation as an evangelist.
A ST. LOUIS CLERGYMAN devised pretty
present for a bride whose marriage service
he read the other day. He wrote out the
| words OF the ceremony IN pretty little vol
ume IN which the marriage certificate v as
/ bound, WIN the autograph OF the brides
| maids, the hes; man and the ushers.
HENRY Ii. STANLEY, the explorer. is in
robust health and has grown stout since he
| was last in New \ Ork. An old brown Derby
hat of style several years gone by, dingy
brown Overcoat. check trousers, an old-fash-
| Toned linen collar and general air of neglect
| are ~ arked features of mis- appearance.
A SoNOMA, CAL, hunter saw deer under
! small madrona tree 200 yards away. He
hred and missed the deer. but hit the tree
about six inches above the animals head,
knocking OF 4 splinter four inches long that
| struck the deer3 head with such force as to
penetrate the skull and cause instant death.
L. L. LgIrEl, the A. T. Stewart of Chicago.
made last week the biggest purchase of real
estate in lots ever made IN that city. The
| ground purchased was the northwest corner
Of Clark and jackson sheets. with 1856 feet
| frontage on Clark street. Part OF The grpunt
| Is occupied by the Grand Pacific Hotel which
! pays $1,000 annual rent. The price paid was
over $4,000.
| A YONG COUPLE Of Valley Ford, Cal, ran
| away together, and were married at Santa
Rosa. Tie girls father chased them vigor-
ously. and caught them just after they had
| been made one, but, instead Of shooting his
| SON n-iaW full of holes, he asked him what
| in olazes he wanted TO run away with the girl
| for, when he could have married her at home
| Tor the asking.
| THE other day a passenger tram of the Chi
cago, Burlington and Quincy railroad in Iowa
| ran over and killed a number of ssunks. but
| the victims had an instant revenge for the
| odor thai pervaded the car made the passen-
| gers feel that lIfe was not worth living: and
the train men are willing to make an affidavit
that they could hang overcoats on the smell
anywhere outside OF the cars.
A LABoRING MAN of Minerville, Pa. has
patented car brake which he thinks is much
better than the Westinghouse brake. He says
! that it can stop a freight car running at the
rate of thirty-hve miles an hour In fifteen
feet, lock The wheels dead in six or eight sec
| onds, and stop locomotive running at the
rate Of forty miles hour before it has
| moved twenty-five feet. He has Ueen offered
| $4,000 for his invention.
THE average duration of life has been made
the subject of fresh investigation by German
| statistician, who finds that the lowest average
is for the day laborer (32 years., and the high
| est among those who engage in manual toll Is
among the gardeners, sailors and fishermen,
% years. ne professional occupations come
even ABOVE regular open air occupations, as
the averages given show 40 years for physi-
clans. 81 Tor jursts, 81 for teaL hers and 67 for
clergymen.
OSCAR KIDD, of Port Jervis. dreamed three
times that a watch, wrapped in cotton and
placed in tin box, was hidden in the cellar
of a certain house in that village. The owner
of the house laughed at Oscar, who wanted
10 look tor the watch, but finally went down
| IN the cellar with him, and, sure enough,
| Kidd found the watch just as he had dreamed.
| Then the owner of the house claimed the
| watch because 1t had been found on has
| premises, and he kept it, too.
JOHN L. SULLIVAN happened to be standing
on the corner of Kearny and Geary streets
in san Francisco the other evening, when two
politicians came 10 blows and big crowd
| asse mbled. John at once hurried away TO his
hotel, and was IN a very bad humor for the
rest OF the evening, and this IS what he is
| said 10 have said to Pat Sheedy: "SoW, this
is nice bloody row, amt it? This thing will
be telegraphed to the East, and everybody
there will think I've been mixed up in il.
D-n It, SheedY, why don't you keep away
| from this lighting crowdV
SENATOR BECK has reached Washington and
announced it as his opinion that Speaker Car
Isle will be reelected without dissenting
Democratic vote. If MIR. Thoeoe insists on
| making contest the Kentucky Senator be-
| leves that Mr.. Carlisle can be relied upon to
| appoint fair and equitable Comm ttee on
| Elections. IF were Speaker" sand the SEN
| ator, with merry laugh. Il would remain
IN the chair and show to the country that |
could rise above personal interests and select
an impartial Committee on Elections" And
! then he argues with cheerful equanimity that
| no party has gone TO the dogs which IN time
| OF peace maintains working majority IN the
| second year of new administration Still,
| the Senator might change his opinion if the
| wrong man or woman happened to get into
| the right post Office.
AT the age of 40 Washington E. Connor
the New York broker, has made arrange
mcnts TO retire from active business for Others
on Wall street. He will stu retain a quiet
interest in the firm of W. e. Connor & Co
but the active woi of thar firm will be done
! by his brother K. ). CounOr, who has been
associated with him for many wears by A
q. Segu, who has been cashier of the firm and
! by +. l.. Mathez. Jr., the confidential man OF
, the Office. Though al an age when most men
! are sui bending every energy to amass
! greater fortune, Mr.. COnnor's Fight has been
| won. and all ne needs TO do now Is to care
| fully guard what he has already gained. His
| plans are TO 90 To Europe next month, have a
H, new ana improved yacht built there and then
| take care Of his health before mis- health
| breaks down. Not many men are able TO
| follow that simple and sensible plan, but not
| many men have been Jay Gould's broker
FRITZ EMMETT. the tctor, bought Kentucky
saddle horse for his wife the other day. and
! naml6t, ludL 8 Tue horses name, must be a
! good one, Judging from the description OF
| Russell kailcy. the Kentucky horse dealer.
| lie Is the finest rcd bav you ever saw siy-
! teen hands high, anu five years Old neat
| spring; sound as Il dollar; weight ll5C
| pounds. HIS tail Is unusually heavy and
! long. ana carried IN perfect shape. His head.
neck. oar and eye cannot he beaten by any
| horse; in fact from nose to bottom of hind
foot he is q true made horse. with the best OF
legs and feet To plain walk. trot. rack and
! canter, together with style, appearance and
| pleasant handling qualities, ne can peat AEy
! horse on earth, or he can outrack and trot FOR
! speed any stallion, mare or geldinE in Ken
| lucky. lie Is perfectly broken 10 harness
| afraid Of nothing and can step mile IN 3:lb
| / have owned him for fifteen months ana pro-
nounce him the best one 1 ever saw"
THE EFFORT to rear a monument TO the
memory Of the late Paul Hamilton Havue.
the Southern poet, has not met with the sue
cess which II had Il right to expect. Begun
| by Georgia lovers of the sweet-voiced sinner
| 1t was hopei that nothing more would he
needed To start the necessary dow of contri-
buttons than Il mere announcements of tho
! fact that such contributions would he re
! CcivCd. No one VIII be surprised however
! to hear that such has not been the case. n
! was credit bic 10 the South that il meant to
| rear the monument without ppcaiing to alien
| nurses ana IT /, even more credItable that
| that policy Will be adhered to despite TIE re-
! SUIT 70 Tar. so pure a life, both public and
! private, as that of the dead singer NAV be
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