Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
HE little tiger in the Central Park me-
,erIe Is being brought up ON the bottle.


oysters-hgures, as the Boston Transcript
thinks, perfectly appalling to the oysters.
The eight-hour system has been in opera
ton for several years in Australia and it
works with great smoothness and to the gem
eral satisfaction OF the trades, now that busi-
ness has conformed to it.
THE peppermint oil market in Lyons, n. Y E,
reopened last week. Thousands and thou
sands Of people 90 through the world without
ever knowing that that there is such thing
as peppermint oil market.
NERVOUS LoNDoNERs are in tremor over
the report that there are enough German
walters in the city to seize Woolwich Arsenal
and hold 1t until an army from the fatherland
can come and capture London.
DAYTON MAN went to Cincinnati, and
some one who saw him and knew him went
TO the telegraph Office and telegraphed in the
Dayton mans name TO his wife for Sis, and
got II by telegraph money order.
ENGLISH newspapers record the death OF a
man known as the Sussex giant. He was 30
years of age and weighed 546 pounds. His
death occurred from heart disease IN an in
terval at performance, when he hal fallen
asleep in his chair.
"WAsHINGToN by moonlight" says cor
respondent, sis wonderfully beautiful, The
moon tints to meilowness the rare old marble
of the public buildings, 1t takes away the
rustiness of the tomb-like Treasury and puts
life into the statues. The White House looks
like fairy palace under the rays of the moon,
back in among those old forest trees"
THE practice of medicine in Russia is ex-
ceedingly one GUS and unremunerative. A
physician who fails to respond to the sum
mons of a PATIENTS punished by fine of from
to 100 roubles. II the case were danger
Gus one, and the physician knew it, he may
be imprisoned in the jail for three months.
The legal tee for an ordinary visit is from nc.
10 l5c.; for anaccouchment, '5c.
"SUCH disturbances" says Prof. Proctor,
speaking of earthquakes, ''assure us that as
yet the earth Is not near death. She is still
full of vitality. Thousands-nay, tens. hun
dreds OF thousands, of years. Will still pass pc
lore even the beginning of the end Is seen in
the steady disini 9 grafton and removal OF the
land without renovation or renewal by the
action OF sobterranean forces"
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED and eighty-si began
on Friday, will end on Friday, and con-
tains fifty three Fridays. Four months in the
year have five Fridays. Five changes of the
moon occur on Friday, and both the Ion gest
and shortest days in the twelve months are
on Fridays. This might, indeed. be termed
Friday year." concludes the Pail Mall Ca
Zette, having earthquakes and such things in
mind,
THE forged Bank Of England notes which
have been circulated widely on the Continent,
and perhaps elsewhere, are finding their way
to London and are there marked forgery" at
the bank. They are so well done, both as to
engraving, paper mark and paper, that it re-
qulres an expert TO tell the real from the false.
Inc severe simplicity of the Bank OF England
note has not been altered since its first issue
in the seventeenth century.
THE little village of Parrottsvllle, in Cook
county, Tenn. is in q wild state of excite
ment over a frightful epidemic which has
made its appearance there. The disease.
which in every case proves fatal, resembles
lux, except that the Victims are attacked
with severe pains in the head simultaneously
with the pain IN the bowels. The physicians
are unable to cope with the disease, and the
sick succumb in a short slime. Twentg-seven
deaths have occurred within three days.
THE sale of ecclesi astical property in Italy
yielded to the State last year, according to the
Vossische Zeitung, the sum of $4,000 lire
Sl,700,000). The total value of the property
originally confscated was 100000 lire; of
this amount a.. 000. 900 are still to be disposed
of. Estates to the amount of 10, 0000 900 lire are
unstable. They consist largely of converts
inhabited by nuns and sisters of charity and
VIII probably be ultimately turned over to
the communes in which they arc situated and
devoted to humanitarian purposes.
A SINGULAR combat took place a night or
two ago at lslip, L. l. A gentleman who had
favor tie cat about two years old, one morn
ing found evidences of a struggle of some sort
on his lawn; blood was scattered about and
near by lay the cat perfectly dead. Coiled
about her neck aud body was a black snake,
about four feet in length, also dead from nu-
merous lacerated wounds scattered over the
whole length of it's body. Each had evidently
slain the other. The cat had inflicted
such wounds upon her adversary that death
soon followed, bnt in all probability life re
NAMED long enough IN the snake TO enable it
TO crush the life from the cat by it's powers of
construction.
SAD ROMANCE was developed by the sui
eide in the Detroit river of Minnie Charland,
the handsome adopted daughter OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Richard Charland. Minnie was just 81,
and was adopted by the Charlands when quite
young at Toronto, Ont. She grew up into =
handsome and intelligent woman, believing
Mr.. and Mrs. Charland were her parents
She recently revisited Toronto, where she
learned the facts of her parentage, and this
so preyed upon her m ind ia at she finaly deter
mined to take her life. She left her home Fri
day morning early. or Thursday night, leaving
a pathetic letter stating what she was going to
do. When this letter was found a search for
the body was at once instituted.
PETER HARRIS, of Manchester, N. H., is a
genius with pocket knife and in whiting
will be hard to beat. During the past few
weeks he has, out of piece OF inch square
WHlle pine, COnhITuCJeu the Hollow
ing, which may be seen at his store: A pair
of pincers. double link chain, q movable
ball inside ball Enclosed in an octagOn, to
which is attached double hinge joint with a
fob in which Is a movable ball, a wreath one
inch in diameter. composed OF sixty pieces
adjustable by close joints, n chain consisting
OF q hook. swivel, three straight links with a
ball inside an octagon, four small links q
cable link. three twisted links aad a straight
link TO which is attached wheel, all from
one solid piece OF wood.
WITHIN the pest few weeks the banks of
the Elbe, near Dresden, have been the scene
of singular yet pretty sight at twilight.
From Dresden up to Koenig tein the shore on
either side of the river was lined with fires
lighted for the purpose OF destroying the
large moths of the So-cAlled white worm, :"
which swarm just before dark, and which
attracted by the light, are killed by thou
sands. The insect Is attracted by the flame,
and with its wings slnged drops down dead
on white sheets spread on the ground around
the fire, where they are swept up by thou
sands and tens of thousands, their dead bodies
furnishing not only dainty food for the in
sectiverous birds kept in almost every family,
but also an excellent manure for farm usea.
MOTHERS and nurses Will find the ingeni-
GUS and simple method proposed by DR.. Fila
ton, in the Archifur KInderheilkunde, vol.
viii, part 3, useful for eXpeditng the trouble
some process of obtaining he temperature IN
children. He recommends that by the use OF
previously warmed thermometer the fall,
aud not, as is usual, the rise OF the mercury 10
observed. In from one to two minutes the
column is found to stop at point which very
close y approx imates 10 the actual tempera-
turp of the uatieuI. II Ia found TN tho hiohar