Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

London on horseback.
j. B, WELLS, of Red Bluff, Cal, cut down a
| sound oak. and four feet from the butt, in a
little cavity in the heart of the tree, were five
small and healthy frogs. They were little
| OF IN color, but all right.
BOSTON BooTBLACK whose customers IN
| clude large number of lawyers has the fol-
| lowing dignifled quotation on his chair: I'm
| taminatis fulget hOnoribus," which. being IN =
terpreted, means ''he shines with untarnished
| honors."
CAPT. BROWN, OF the British bark Omega,
voyaging between Shanghai and British Co.
| lumhia. employs none but Chinese sailors, AMI
says that they cost him 600 per cent. less than
an English crew would. He pays III N IS 4
month, and feeds them on kelp and dogush, at
an expense OF 81 so a month to each man.
For twenty miles on either side of the Bay
| of Chaleur, from Dalhousje down, each farmer
10 using herring to a greater or less extent for
manure; IN some cases dozens of cart loads
lay rottIng in the sun during part of the sea-
son From Paspebac down immense quantl-
Ties OF capelln are used for the same purpose.
PROF. JOHN COLLECT, the indiana geoIo-
glst, says that a number of wells bored for
gas or oil in different parts of northern Indi-
ana and northwestern Ohio gave no Indlca-
ton OF yielding anything before the earth
quase, but since then many of them have be-
gun giving out immense volumes of gas and
considerable quantities of oil.
SEVENTEEN years ago, when Pat Mccoy, Of
Wilkesbarre. left his wife and went West 10
make fortune, he was a very spare man
Inc other day, when he returned with few
Thousand dollars and a weight of $50 mounds
Mrs. Mccoy refused to recognize him as her
lean huso nd. She had not heard from HIM
during AL his absence. Mccoy takes her re-
iusal to recognize him much to heart.
AN indianapolis lady sends her small bov
~ school in the forenoon only. She thoue hit
she would go to the school and see him at
work and observe the surroundings. So on,
afternoon she dressed carefully, kissed her
boy at the gate, told him to be good and went
TO the school. where she carefully scanned the
array OF faces In vain search for her off
spring before she remembered that he was
home.
A BOSTON CLERGYMAN deeply interested
in getting money for charitable Institution,
has offered newspaper man $500 if he viii
be married on the stage at q coming enter
talnment IN aid of the institution. The news
paper man said that he'd do it, What the
young oman said has not been made public;
and why tho minis er doesn't give the $500 to
Ihe charitable institution outright is also an
unanswered question.
NJ. YRIARTE's discovery of Caesar Borgia's
bones was in this wise; He first tried the town
OF vienna, where B0rgia was killed, but with
no SUCCESS he Inen sought all over Navarro
and ransacked archives for a clue. AT last
after many false scents, strong one was
found. The street in trent of the Church of
Nlrne was ripped up IN presence of the loca
Judge. and there coffin and body were dis
covered. Whose they were the skept cs VIII
question, but NJ. YrIarte says that they are
Borgias.
A YOUNG WOMAN picking her way across
the railroad tracks in indianapolis saw a
brakeman wave his hand to her from the ton
OF departing freight train. She smiled
sWeetlY aud waved back. Then the brake
man waved more violently, and the girl
smiled more sweetly and stopped and tried to
get out her handkerchief to nttingy carry on
the Irritation. The next thing she Knew she
was yanked of the track by iagman inst
IN time TO escape backing train, which the
brakeman had seen aud tried In vain 10 warn
her Of
The other day Engineer Merritt Turner on
an eastbound Delaware, Laekawana and
Western train from B,hghamton, saw buck
on the track ahead OF him. On one side was
steep mountain. on the other a thirty loot
emhankment. r Turner UulfeI the throttle
wide open and made after the buck at full
speed. The chase was hort. The lOcomo-
tive gradually closed on the frightened deer
and at length caught it, and, as it happened
held 1t entangled on the cowcatcher, where
the fireman killed it.
INAsMUCH as one-tenth OF the Bible is di-
rectly devoted to woman, the desire OF a
group of women in New Jersey to ascertain
how strictly the translation from the origins al
tongues has been made is not altoge Their to he
laughed at. These women have been sus-
piclUu' that the learned doctors of transla-
ton in trousers may not have heen
as liberal as they might have been in the con-
strucEIon put upon matters feminine in HOLY
Writ, and they are now carefully ira Gslatinf
revising aud annotating the Scriptures. A
fair sex revision for the sake OF the tair sex,
IMITATION AMBER has largely taken the
place of real amber in the manufacture of
pipes. This is the last informal from the
Konigsberg coast, where amber has. time out
of mind. been sought by dragging at Schwart-
zort, and by mining for the last twenty years
at PAlmni ic The company pays 100000
ID arkst 100, 600 to the German government for
the CHI OF mining for amber. The mines pro-
duce about 1900 cwt. year, and large pieces
fetch TO per kilogramme as taken from the
mine. The largest mannfao' ure OF pipes with
mouthpieces of amber IL AZ Vienna and there
the sham article Is very much used. In the
mines at PalmniGken about 200 men are con-
stantlY employed.
CIVILIZATION gets its supply OF coal and
iron at a costly expense of human life.
parliamentary paper which has just been pub
lished showing that during the year 1885 the
total number of fatal accidents was S66, and
the total number of deaths oocasioned therenv
l,24, show decrease compared with the
totals for the preceding year Of 81 IN the mum
Der Of fatal accidents, and an increase Of 2 ie
in the number OF lives lost. On an AVERAGE
during the year these was one fatal accident
to every GAS persons employed, and one death
by accident to every 1852 persons empIoyed
The average for the ten years 1874 to 1854 Is
one fatal accident to every 594 persons en-
ployed. and one death by accident to every
ASS persons employed.
THOSE who have a taste for sonai de-
tails in history will be pleased with La Ga
zette Anecdotique's list of Napoleon's places
OF residence at Paris, from his arrival there
in 1884 to his final departure in 1876. This il
the catalogue, chronologlcally arranged: a
room in the Ecole Militaire; an attic on the
DUAL Cont: an attic in the Hotel de Metz
Ru de Mail; room in the Hole des Droits
de PHomme, MOntmartre; small apartment
in the Rue de la MichOdiere: room in The
Hotel Mirabeau, near st. Roch: an apart
ment in the Hotel de la Colonade, near the
Bank; the Luxembourg palace. and the tn
ileries. To complete the list must be added
the chateaus Of FOntalnebleau, Compiegne
and st. Cloud; the Elysee, his home durlnS
the Hundred Days; and Malmaison.
IN the second northern gallery at the Brit
ish Museum has been arranged in chronology
cal order series of English coins in gold, sill
YER and copper. 1t seems that the coinage of
the English had no direct connection with the
earlier British coinage, nor with the short
lived currency which the Romans introduce ID
into this island. IL was Henry VII, in 5e4.
who placed, for the first time, an authentic
portrait on English coins; he also made an
addition to the gold coins Ivy striking ..soyer-
eigns," so called because they bore the figure