Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AT fancy ball given in sydney not long
ago. fat lady of 90 appeared as Mary Queen
| Of scots.
THERE are white Knights. black Knights
and yellow Knights. for the men OF labor have
| taken IN some Chinese.
THE big well at Belle Plain, Iowa, stopped
Rowing one day last week. After three hours
OF rest it began flowing again.
TIE latest "fad'' among fashionable ladies
| IN New ork city is to go coaching with their
gentlemen friends on the new Fifth avenue
| stages IN the dusk of early evening.
THE Burlington Coastng Club, which num-
bers 300, has decided to have another carnival
this winter. over 500 toboggsns are owned
in the city and 100 traverses or bob sleds, and
| there'l ii be tremendous lot of sliding.
A YOUNG MAN found a handbag in a car
rlage at Tuscola, Ill. 1t contained $35, and
belonged to a young widow in Atwood, and
| when the young man returned it to her, she
rewarded him by marrying him the next
day.
NoLAPUCK, born two years ago, and des-
tined, as was predicted, to become the uni
versal commercial dialect, is now numbered
among the dead languages, the English So
| Clety which had undertaken to carry it over
the world being dissolved.
A CITIZEN of Albany recently received a
letter from his brother in law telling of an
arrival in his family in this way: 81 will an
swer your last question first. julia is doing
splenddiy to-day. She was somewhat used
! up Yesterday, and last night especially, in at
| tending and participating in the birthday eX-
ercises Of our oldest daughter. lovely girl,
whom l think yOu have never met."
ACCORDING to the Chicago directory Victor
| Hugo is an engraver on Sedgwick street: ;
George Washington Is following the meek and
lowiy occupation of hostler, and Andrew
! jackson cuts hair up on Polk street. John
| Browns body may be Wondering IN the
grave, but the John Brown on Lake str ct
is pretty lively policeman. Cesar drives a
| wagon and Brutus is an Elk Grove avenue
| laborer.
DURING the recent German mannuvres the
novel experiment OF employing trained dogs
in the Transmission of messages on the line of
outposts was tried with success. The animals
resembling the well-known species of shep-
| herd dOgs-when not n active field service
| did duty with the field watch and the senti-
! nels, and proved to be Of such efficiency in
giving the alarm that their use is henceforth
| to be extended.
THE substitution of glass flooring for boards
continues to increase In Paris, especially in
those business structures in which the cellars
are used as offices. At the Bank of the Credit
| Lyonnais the whole of the ground in front is
| paved with large squares or blocks of rough
ened glass Embedded in strong iron frame.
| and In the cellars beneath there Is sufficient
light, even on dull days, to enable clerks to
| carry on their accustomed work without re-
| SOFT to gas.
IT has once been charged that NJ. Barthold
modelled the goddess originally to represent
Commerce for the purpose of setting it up at
one of the entrances of the Suez canal as a
| lighthouse, but that Ismall Pasha did not
like The design, and that it was palmed OFF as
goddess breathing the spirit of freedom IL
| is a fact that with the advice of Count de Les
| n m a afah Of
| figure of Egypt with the face of a fellah, but
the sketch does not at all resemble the one
now on Bedloe's Island.
MRS. ELEANOR MOORE died in Georgetown.
Me-, few days ago, having lived five days
| more than 100 years. On her birthday, Oct
4, she said to her SON. ITO day I'm 100 years
OLD. Can 1t be possible? 1T seems like q
| Dream" The day before her death she re-
| peated several passages of Scripture, and her
last words, an hour before she died, were ::
| God bless you all. Good bye. darlings. Pm
| going home" Three children, fifteen grand
children, twenty eight great grandchildren
| and one great-great grandchild survive her.
1T was Sir Walter Raleigh who gained the
| favor OF his gracious Queen by spreading his
| cloak upon mud spot so that Elizabeth could
save her boots a wettIng. 1t was lesser
youth who opened pew door for an old iadv
ana a1terward got 100000 for his trouble
And now 1T IS Richard Llghttower, an Eng
| llsh carpenter, who has Just received f25 600
in property and fl, $50 in money by the will
OF stranger 1t appears that he once pulled
| TINS stranger out of the river Tyne, but MIR
| LightUower had forgotten the incident
THE celebrated waterfall of Teverone. which
Horace calls "prpceps Anlo," has been en-
ployed to put in operation two dynamos 100
horse power for the illumination of the city of
Tiyoli. Others are being fitted up. The mo-
| tive power, which is to he utilized by a com
pany from the designs Of NJ. Cantoni, is
| c,rrfx lnr1f n Nal fhs,V,, a l.
| illumination of Rome is contemplated as
well as the distribution of force to a distance
! from the station. The excavations and canal.
| are conducted under the house of Macenas
| whichis described as situated at udum Thur
now Tivoli.
SOME TINE AGO Herr Paul Won Ritter of
Basic. gave the sum of 1000 marks to the
jena University for the furtherance of scien-
tiic inquiry on the basis of Darwin's theory.
| 1t has now been decided to employ half the
interest in the maintenance OF a Ritter pro-
fessorship for philogeny." The chair is TO be
| filled by DR.. Arnold Lang, formerly scholar
| and assistant of Prof. Hackel of Jena Uni
| versity. Dr. Lang has for several wears taken
part in the work Of the geological station al
Naples. The other half of the interest Will
be expended in grants for scientific travel
and n furnishing improved means OF in
structton in zoology az this university. Herr
Won Ritter has been made doctor of philosophy
honoris causa.
Judge Andrew Wylie, recently retired from
the bench, and especially is this the case when
it is market day at the Centre Market. With
his basket on his arm the Judge walks down
Massachusctts avenue to Tenth street. and
thence to his destination, preferring the con-
crete pavement to the uneven. rlckety brick
Sidewalks, and he is one of the most familiar
figures in the throng of early purchasers of
provisions. Despite his age. the sprinRy gait
OF this well-known citizen seems the same as
a score of years ago, ana his smooth baven
| face and tall form would attract instant at
tenton in any assemblage. early rising
and a walk before break ast have been verS
conducive 10 my health and appetite" said
the Judge recently. land / am stranger 10
| dyspepsia or any Kindred complaint"
IN some interesting experiments made bv
an English oculist on the relative values of
various forms of lamp shades. an Important
result was arrived at. The method pursued
by him was to measure the brightness of whlte
paper lying on a table over which the source
OF artificial light was suspended at q given
distang c by means of Weber photo meter
Thus the fact was confirmed that the general
effect of shade IS to increase very greatly
the illumination Immediately under the lrhf
while not modifying IL notably at an anpIIlar
distance greater than IS deg. from this re-
gtOn. Taking as measure Of the value of
the illumination in this case the number of
lines which can be read from a newspaper in
q minute, and as the unit OF illum n alton that
of normal candle at a perpendicular dis
tance of q meter from the paper. il is found