Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Dunidpi H., ana Rllleu score Oh noSs IndI
were lying against tine fence quarter OF a
mile away.
ONE of the chief charms of Paris is its clean
illness. The streets are thoroughly swept ev
cry night, and washed when they need il,
ami the house fronts are periodically scraped
or secured under heavy penalty for neglect.
THE National Polish Benevolent Alliance is
investigating the allurIng of Poles into kind
OF semi slavery by SHARKS at emigrant sta
tons. and finds that many men have been
trapped and carried as far as Australia be-
lore they realized the deception and escaped.
Piute Indian in Virginia City, New. pr nts
The following local price list for game:
whitley man pay UNI two bits fer teal duck
and four bit for mallard, maybe Piute bring
UNI. White woman kick like mule, no
want to pay nm Piute only one bit for mallard
and four bit for goosen Injun no sell um
goosen IS than one dollar quarter. Piute
want UNI four bits, one for big JACK Liability,
ana Two bits for little"
POOR LITTLE THIN-LEGGED BOY, says a
New Orleans paper. bicycling on the avenue
at night must carry his lantern lighted. A
drayman may drive his draw at the same
time Without light. The inference is that
poor little, thin legged bicycling boys are in
the habit of smashing up drays on the r. al,
ana must give all sorts of warning. Beer
wagons can go as they please, with or with
out lights and fast or slow. No policeman
likes to arrest q beer wagon, He thinks TOO
much OF beer.
JOHN WANAMAKER, the Philadelphia mer-
cham, who has Just returned from Europe. says
that study OF the new system of railroad
operations in Germany, where the roads are
under government admin stratiOn, convlnces
him that the service OF private corporations
Is far preferable. There If traveller COM
plains he at once sets himself az ainst The gov
eminent. The trains mel Their start on time
pNCpOtl00B
the express trains are as SOW ss The way
trains on American roads.
DUEL was fought the first of this month
in Rio Janeiro. Brazil, between Vsconde de
S. Salvador, editor of the Paiz, and DIR. Fer
reira de Aranio, editor of the Gazeta de No
ticias. Pistols were the weapons used. OTIS
were cast for position, and the choice fell to
Vlsronde de S. salvador. DR.. Ferreira failed
to fire. and the bullet of the Visconde passed
close to the head of his antagonist. The diff
entity was adjusted. The cause of the troub e
was newspaper controversy in which the
father OF the Vlscondc WIS cenSured.
THE British government having decided to
take steps toward legislating on the subject of
the storage and handling of combustible and
explosive materials, Col. Majendie. Her Ma
jesty's Chief Inspector of the Bureau of En-
plOsives, who Investigated the dynamite eX-
blossoms IN the houses Of Parliament and the
Tower of London last year, and Mr.. Boverton
are about TO visit the United States to study
the conditions under which similar materials
are stored and transported here.
THE government of Belgium has sanctioned
the project of holding in Brussels in the sum
mer of 1888 an international exhibition of war
material, and it is said that the cost of the eX-
| hibitinn, estim ated at twenty million francs,
| is already covered by subscriptions. Ger
many will take leading part in the eXh BIZ
| ton. one portion OF which will comprise a
! complete collection of arms from the DAYS I
antiquity. another collection of all modern
military uniforms, third portraits OF the
most famous soldiers of all times, etc.
MRS. MARK HOPKINS cannot keep people
from talking about her new house. Says the
latest gossip: 1.-The palatial residence of Mrs.
Mark Hopkins, in process OF erection at Great
harrington, Mass has stare dining room.
40 by so feet two stories in hei hit. with a rn,
of glass. The walls of this room are finished
in all varieties of Italian marble There ar
two breakfast rooms. one capable OF acc"'I-
modatlng a large numb of guests. III res
dence has several beautiful towers and II la n
of over one hundred acres. The place VIII
cost nearly sS,000,o0o.
PRESIDENT MORGAN, of the Brooklyn Saw
ings Bank, said the other morning: 1--WE have
large number of Chinese depositors at least
| 500 Our signature book. since the Chinese
| have invested here, looks as If number of
| flies had crawled into our ink bottles and then
walked over our pages. They keep their bank
| books Clean. and only draw upon them when
| they take out the whole am unit. ] suppose
! when thev do draw out it is because they are
| going home or moving west. We have quite
| a considerable sum in this bank deposited by
| our Celestial citizens"
"THE Public Advertising Record Company
| is a concern at ll6l& LasalIe street, Chicago.
whose western managers" styling them
| selves f. f. Ellis Co., find themselves in
! troublc-at least Mr.. Ella does. hecsuse the
! "Co." has not vet been found. John Melon
| aid. Woo 5land (Mich.) youth paid the
| firm" his last soc. 70 secure employment.
! He was sent to an address on Wabash avenue
which did not exist. From neighbors he
| learned that three victims had been there be-
| fore him. al sent By the concern with the
| high sounding name. Mcdonald then had
Ellis arrested. Not less than fifty complaints
have been lodged against the latter.
A CORRESPONDENT writing from st. Peters
burg under date OF Aug. says: 81 have
! lived here over thirty years. and have never
! seen so many American tourists in Russia as
! dur ng the present summer. They arrive in
'swarms.' Among the more noted Americans
| were Mr.. J j Aston aud his friend Mr. Clar-
| Prce Seward. Mr.. Lothrop. the American
/ Minister. sits in almost permanent session TO
! give Information about Russia and ST. Peters,
! burg, VS. MANY Americans seem more or less
afraid to strike out from the beaten paths Of
! travel in Russia. A great many engaged
]
| Russia. and TO engage them there is only
| throwing money away. B."
LORD BRAssEY tSir Thomas) publishes in
the London Times letter giving his imprcs-
sions OF the relative merits of the yachts Nav
flower and Galstea. He attributes the defeat
OF the Galatea. not 10 any inferiortv in the
seamanship with which ahe was handled but
to the form of her hull. ON the important
point Of aeaworthness and stability Mt CON
siderable angles with the keel. he thinks that
n serious trial at sea would proI ab'y show
that the Americans have something to learn
from the English yachtmen. The FnQli,h
builders he Saws. have done the best thew
could under the conditions imposed vnon
them. IT is for the Yacht clubs and societies
In consider whether these condition. are CAL
cu'ated to secure the utmost perfe, tion OF
form in yachts.
GwYNEDD, a small town about twenty miles
from Philadelphia, has been for day or two
past the scene Of o remarkable mystery. The
residence OF prominent citizen of the place
has been visited by some unseen power which
seems to delight in breaking up all his china
and gla 'sware. and performing other acts OF
sunernatural character, which tend to rem
der things uncomfortable for The family Nv
some mysterious influence dishes and lars fall
to the floor or are hurled through windows
or broken in the hands Of those carrying them
The whole neighborhood is excited. and the
town IS visited by thousands Of people TO wit
ness the mantle tAtIone. No satisfactory So
luton of the strange affair has vet been
re ched but several scientific men who have
visited tho plare attribute the phenomenon TO