Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-06
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THERE is a house III Norfolk on which there
has been $50 mortgage for 81 years. and on
| which interest has been PAID annually.
TIE swallow is now the fashionable orna-
ment of the day In Partisan emblem of the
coming summer fitting. Sometimes the real
| stuffed bird nestles IN front of the hat, but 1t
! Is mostly reproduced IN diamonds as a tiny
| brooch and earrings,
THE stage coaches that were superseded by
! the railroad died hard, aud it is said that on
| one occasion stage driver agreed to beat the
''Old steam kettle" and succeeded in doing so
because esnow storm blocked the railroad so
that he drove into Worcester, Mass, three
hours ahead of the T. ain.
IT has been the custom from time immemo
rial for the children of Florence to go out to
the Cascine on Ascension Day to search for
| crlckets, aud lit cages to contain the pets
are regularly on sale. If the crckets survive
! for year the household is guaranteed against
! all harm and endowed with luck.
| A CORRESPONDENT writes from Madison
county, Va. George D. Aylor was out hunt
ing when his gun failed to make fire. While
! sitting with it across his knee endeavoring to
| ascertain the cause 1t accidentally went off.
| 10 harm was done anybody, but on hearing
| something fail from tree he found the bullet
| nat hit and killed squirrel. Mr.. Aylor did
| ana not know there was squirrel anywhere
near him."
!
| gemene Zeitung denies the report of the find
ing of 2CO0 Byzantine diplomas on blue
| parchment at Bari. He says that as soon as
he news OF the discovery reached Rome
Abbe Duchesne, the we'll knows editor or the
! llber ponti1calis, and several members of the
| Ecole Franchise Istencd to Bari 10 inspect
the treasure, but were mortified to find that
there was not a word OF truth in the affair.
THE Neue Freie Press learns on good au-
| thority that the total OF King Ludwig's
debts is 2O,o00,0O0 marks ts5, ,06o). He left
no private fortune. but the value of the cas-
| ties he inhabited, and which have now tenn
pOrarily passed into the possession of the
| State, is very great. 1t Is said that the work
| of furnishing and changing some of these
castles, which was begun by the late King,
will not be at once suspended in order to
save the business men depending on it from
ruin.
THE New York Whist Club is considering
the proprety of challenging one of the best
London clubs to play rubber by cable. Now
| that the cable rates are so low il is est mated
/ that a game can be sent over the wires for
about so, the hands being teegraphed in
cipher and then the different caId s led BY
single word. The difficulty is that such a
| game would he more like double dummy than
whist, as all the hands would be known before
the play commenced. A chess match by cable
is already arranged, and the whist rubber viii
probably follow in the autumn.
MISS BOOTH. daughter of the Salvation
Army General, not only declined either to
leave France or to fight duel at the order Of
! Nine, Astie de Valsayre, but she convened
meeting for the special purpose of discussing
madame, and charged an admission fee. OF
! course Nine de N8lsayre was not going to
! pay 10 hear herself discussed, so she pushed
her way in without paying. for which she was
summoned to the courts and ordered to pay
the one frame. She has now written to the
papers that Miss Booth is miserable flea"
which IS both elegant and convincing.
THE schooner Volunteer, of Gloucester,
Mass, had a remarkable experience few
days ago. The Volunteer was coming about
! in search of mackerel off Block Island. The
| wind was light and the vessel was near neither
shoals nor rocks when there was shock and
| a terrible commOtion in the water alongside,
| Investigation inside the craft showed the
sword of swordfisb sticking through the
! planklng. and on the outside part of the head
| OF the fish was found which had been twisted
| off in Its endeavOrs to free itself. shortly
after the body of the fish was found. The
/ Volunteer then put INTO port and sold the fish
| for $26, enough to repair the damage done.
THE Duke of Marlborough is looked on by
good half Of England as the meanest, corrupt
est, and the most worthless of the great
mobiles. His youth was so rank that its fGtor
rose to the nostris of the Queen, and when
his father died she absolutely refused to con-
fer on HIM the order of the Garter that tradi-
ton gave him title to. His own crony, the
! Ifl0Ce OF w ares, Cul MIN VedQ Tor MS brutal
and uumanly lreat ment of Lady Aylesfo ord a
woman he LED astray and then made public
mOCkery of. He has during al, his life been a
| lioertlne and wanton betrayer of friendly
confidence until there is not, probably in a
England man who carries as black a name
or as heavy a burden of obloquy. 'There
are as an English writer recently put it Of
! him, more loathsome scoundrels, but none
| greater"
DR.. KINGSLEY, of New York, who, in adj
dItion to his medical practice, has won a
reputation a sculptor, tells a story which
goes to prove that there is some practical
value in phrenOlogy. Twenty five years ago
! he had his head examined, and the professor
told him that he should adopt an artistic
| career. He laughed Mt this ADVICE; forgot all
| about 1t. and developed his talent for sculp-
| ture quite by accident. AT the end of quar-
ter of a century nc put his old chronological
| chart in his pocket and had his head exam
ined again by the same professor, who did not
remember him. After the details had been
written down he pulled out the old chart and
| compared the two. Or. Kingsley who is far
from being an enthusiast about ANYTHING.
testhes that agreement of the two charts,
| making due allowances for the influence of
age and new habits OF life, was perfect
! marvellous.
THE arrival of Nine. Sarah Bernhard at
Rio Janeiro was marked by a singular cir
cumstance which, perhaps, one less an adept
in the arts of self advertising than she might
have regarded as unfortunate. Through some
error of arran cement, the successor of Ra-
| chel" was met by two delegations in two
| separate boats, each prepared to gl0rifv and
| land heroine delegation OF Frenchmen resi-
! dent in Brazil, and the other party of Bra
| Zllians she de med it best, under the cir
| cumstances, to refuse both means of trans
| port. She went ashore IN the custom house
| launch. leaving herentertainers quite behind
The members of her company took the Bra
| lillian boat IN 'the spirit in viii h
it was offered but the crowu on shore.
| which had gathered IN antcI patton of meeting
| the star. precipitated a riot hen 1t founG
that she did not appear, and the demonstra-
! ton ended in the arrest OF several Of her South
! American admirers. Nevertheless-and pos
slblY as a cOnsequerce-"grand afliuenceu Of
| people at Nine. Bernhardts entertainments.
A sANGUINE Young man has started IN
near the roof of one of the tallest buildings
on Duane street. n. Y, what seems to be a
new line of business. He has a lot OF shot
guns. single and double barrelled, that he
proposes to lend. for q consideration, by the
| day, week, month or year. He reasons that
! in population so large as that of New York
! there must be great many people who woul
| like to go hunting il they only had guns But
| they cannot afford to make permanent inyest-
! ments in the purchase of guns, so he steps IN
Ito supply a lOng-feit want They might
| not shoot anything, even If they had guns,
! but they would like TO try, and, anyway, il is
! good exercise 10 tramp through the country.
| and carrying gun gives a certain sportman-
! like style to the tramper, even if the gun is
unoaned. A. yet, no guns have been lent by