Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-05-28
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left directions that free copy Of his book
should De given four have died since last sum-
mer.
Mr.. TUPPER's BIOGRAPHY notes that he
won a university prize for a theological essay
in his younger days in a contest with Mr..
Gladstone.
The ancient Abbey of Calder, Cumberland,
Eng, is undergoing restoration, and the work
Is exciting much attention. Several interest
ing discoveries have been made, the most re-
markable being that Of massive stone coffin
thirteenth century, and contained the body Of
a man over feet in length. Two more
bodies have since been found
THE Iron PIPE WORKS to be erected at
Chattanooga, Tenn, will be one of the largest
manufacturing establishments of the kind in
the world. 1t is to be built by the proprietors
of the Louisville, st. Louis Cincinnati and
! Newport Iron Pipe Works, and is to manu-
Iacture not only for this country, but for ia
pan and China and other foreign countries.
Cheaper freight rates, cheap iron and other
advantages moved to the venture.
! AN ORDINARY FIGHT is, it seems, too tame
an affair for the patrons of the prize-ring at
Leicester Eng, so last week an encounter
was arranged near that city between a cham
pion with one arm and another with one eye.
| Inc pollce, Wno seem to have known all
| about the fixture, dispersed the first meeting,
which was fixed for O'Clock on Sunday
| morning In the suburbs of Leicester. The az
| talr, however, came of in a neighboring VII
age the same evening, when the one armed
man succeeded in closing his opponents sim
gle eye, and was declared the winner.
! sIx-INCH- SQUARE SECTION of the cuticle
OF Emma Jacobs, once one of Philadelpha's
most notorious females, is, if a Chicago tan
ner can be believed, in that city, transformed
into piece of coarse, buff-colored leather.
\ dispatch from Chicago states that William
IL Pennington, foreman for a firm OF hide
/ iealers, has the relic, about which he says:
! II can vOuch for the fact that it is from the
BODY of the noted Emma Jacobs, of PhiladeI-
| phla. IL was sent me in the raw state by one
! ot the physicians who dissected the remains.
l had it tanned in Milwaukee. 1t was not
proper Y cured, but that was the fault of
those who put 1t up at the COLLEGE,"
FROM o'clock Monday afternoon until 70
in the evening Miss Sophia Earle received her
friends at DR.. H. W. Adams house at Hack
ensack n. j., and proved that her 100 years
of life had failed to destroy sight or mental
! faculties. During the afternoon four genera
lions of Earles called upon her, to whom she
recOuI ted many events of her life. She told
| what a belle she was when living in New
| York with her brother John, who was Major
of Artillery, and she kept her hearers in con-
| tinued laughter with witty sallies and re-
parties In an adjoining room lunch in
Keeping with the occasion vas spread upon
very Old table. There were cups and saucers
200 years old, many rare and quaint dishes,
and heavy solid silver punch ladle that was
as old as Miss Earle. Thu event was one Of
great interest. and attracted visitors from far
and near. The general expression wa that
| Miss Earle was the most animated centenarian
| OF the century.
POT FISHERMEN have for several seasons
habitually used dynamite for killing fish in
| the waters of Northwestern Pennsylvania.
By means Of this destructive agent thousands
Of q Il.
! have been killed to every dozen captured with
! hook and line. Persons engaged 10 the Illegal
practice take great risks, and many narrow
| escapes from death while handling the bonn bs
are Fuown. The first fatal casualty resulting
from the practice occurred on Sunday r. Z.
smith and Ames Hougntaillng, of Carman,
| ELK county, went to q stream noted for Its
trout for the purpose OF di>charging a cart
ridge of dynamite in the wafer. HOughtai-
ing was letting the cartridge down to the
water. Smith stood near him The bomb
! exploded. Both Of Houghtaiing's arms were
blown of to the elbow. One cheek WAS
carried away and one eye destroyed. He was
| alive at last accounts, hut his recovery is i'm
possible. One OF Smiths legs was almost de-
| nuded of flesh. aud his face was terrib Y
lacerated and disfgured. His recovery lie in
doubt.
MAHOGANY has become the leading and
fashionable furniture and cabinet wood in
this country. as it is now and has been for two
centuries in England and Europe. 1t is al
ready largely used in house trimmings and
doors IN our large cities. 1t is a wood which
does not crack. warp, swell, or shrink, and is
! famous for holding glue. 1t improves with
age in color ana tone, and therefore gets more
beautiful as it gets older, whereas other
precious woods look their best when
new. so great has the in
crease in the use of mahogany
be come in the past few years in this countrs
that many manufacturers, especially in the
Western States, have been making goods If
| cherry. other ehPan and inferior
woods. and staining them to initiate ma
hogany; but these imitation goods very soon
begin to fade IS well as to crack, warp, or
shrink, to the disgust of the purchaser.
Walnut 10 rapidly going out of fashion, and
as this wood is now very scarce, and getting
more SO every year, its use is necessarily
diminishing. and mahogany is taking its
place, as also of rosewood. Mahogany should
not be vanished till it mas grown dark to SUIT
ones taste. as varnish is said to stop the ma
tural colorlng process.
A NEW YORK correspondent says: We are
promised a genuine literary sensation some
time between now and the LIST of July, the
Historical Society having invited Ignatius
DOnnelly, Of Wisconsin, to deliver a lecture
before them upon the remarkable cipher
which he claims to have discOvered--after
five years' hard labor-in Shakspe ares works
showing that my Lord Bacon and not 'the
bard of Avon" was the real author of the
immortal plays, which mankind generally
have been crediting to the latter during the
past ~ years, more or less. II Mr.. Donnelly
accepts, as no doubt he will, the lecture will
be delivered before the society just prior to
his departure to England, where, it would
appear, he has made arrangements
for the publication of his extra r
binary revelations. The recent arti-
Gle on the subject in the Nineteenth
Century" by Mr.. Percy Wallace, no doubt
moved the Historical Society to invite Mr.
Donnelly TO come before them and "tell all he
knows" but il is a me ancholy reflection that
II the author of Atlantis and ''R gnarok"
makes out his case our "divine William" viii
be ruth lessly showed from his pedestal, and
'all the hOnors" that are due to "Hamlet."
macbeth" aud the rest Of them will have TO
be finally awarded to tsee Macaulay) 1.-THE
brightest, best and meanest of mankind"
Another effect is sure to follow the revival of
the chrOnl controversy outside of Mr. DON
nelly's alleged discoveres) as to ''who wrote
Shakespeare" which Is revived every quarter
Of century on an average. but which gen
orally ends like one of the chapters in "Ras-
selas." with "a conclusion, in which nothing
Is concluded"
A CURIOUS ILLUSTRATION Of careessness
on the part Of the officials at the New York
Morgue is narrated; An old man named
Hahn, German, went to the almshouse and
died there about three months ago In order