Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


A BALTIMORE HOUSEWIFE found living
frog in bottle of chow-chow the other day.
He was too big to get out through the neck Of
the bottle and must have grown considerably
during his confinement in his air-ught prison
This story is vouched for by Baltimore
newspaper.
DURING the last 1876 years 632 theatres have
been destroyed by fire, and the number of
people burned to death in these fires is 6.57S.
an average Of As a year. OF these 632 thea
tres ia have been burned during the last i've
years, a fact which shows that such casualties
are rapidly increasing.
The French Minister of the Interior has is
sued an order to the Mayors and Projects Of
France that they are to do all in their rover
TO dlssuade emigration. The French are the
least migratory of nations, the annual
average of emigrants being under 5000 out of
population of 37000,000.
NOT LONG AGO the floors and other wood
work IN the house of John Wilson of Mount
Palstine, ILL.,, began to give way. An exami-
nation showed that most of the wood in Inc
house had been fairly honey-combed by white
ants and rendered utterly useless. The ants
are described as resembling those of Africa.
THE great majority of English medical
women undoubtedly marry either before or
soon after they complete their curriculum; in
fact, one almost fancies that men either per
versely seek as wives the very type OF women
whose intellectual tastes they pretend to de-
test, or prudently apply marimony as a SOL
vent OF sexual competition.
A sKEPTIc who was trying to confuse a
Christian colored man by contradictory pas
sages In the Bible, asked how it could be that
we are in the spirit and the spirit in us; he
received the following reply: "0h, dar's no
puzzle bout dat; it's like dat poker. / puts
1t in the fire till it gets red hot. Now, de
poker's in the fire and de fires in de poker"
SOME Germans In the Fatherland have
issued an appeal to Germans beyond the seas
for Universal German Congress, to be held
in Berlin on Sept. ID, IA, Is and l6 next, at
which the promotion OF the intellectual and
economical interests of the nation are to be
discussed. Applications Tor attendance ana
for more ample information may be addressed
to the Bureau Of the Society for German Colo
nizatlon.
THE OLDEST MAN in New England is said to
be Chesley Heal, of Searsmont, Me-, who is
lO7 years old. 1t is recorded that he has been
married three times, twice to the same wo-
man; that he has chewed tobacco for 100
years and drank New England rum for nearly
as long time; that he voted for Jefferson
the first time he was Presidential candidate,
and has been Democrat from that day to
this, and that he can and does read the news
papers without spectacles.
GEORGE w. BREWER, of Sterling. Ill.,, says
that as boy he was once a passenger on
Mississippi river boat with the famous chief
Black Hawk and other Indians. Some of the
passengers were afraid of Black Hawk, and
asked the Captain OF the boat to get rid Of
him. At the next stopping place the captain
gave Black Hawk some money to walk to the
end of plank running to the shore. When
ne was safely.landed The plank was drawn in
and the boat started away. Black Hawk
waded out into the river and hurled a vOlley
OF aboriginal oaths after the vessel.
ONE Of Longfellow's sweetest short poems
grew out Of the gift of pen by a schoolgirl,
whom the poet addresses as beautiful Helen
Of Maine" The pen was made of a piece of
the chain which bound the prisoner of Chillon
and q fragment of the frlgaJe Constitution,
while precious stones from Ceylon, Siberia;
and Maine were inset. he ''beautiful Helen"
is the daughter of DR.. A. G.. Hamlin, now
prominent in the list of candidates for the
Maine Governorshlp. On her mothers side
the young lady is granddaughter Of the late
Judge Cutting, of the Maine Supreme Court.
IF PRESIDENT CLEVELAND complied with
all requests for lock of his hair his head
would be as bare as a billiard ball in less than
a week. One lady from indianapolis has
written that she is poor, and asks the Presi-
dent to instruct his barber to forward to her
all the hair cut from the Executive head. She
proposes to make this hair into Cleveland
charms and sell them to gentlemen to wear on
their watch chains. Another person in Rich
mond, Va, wants the same hair TO stuff PIN
cush on made OF silk taken from an old United
s tates flag This cushion she will raf1e at
church fair for the benefit Of a needy Metho-
dist congregation.
SOME MONTHS AGO Roscoe Conkling, being
IN Washington on business, called upon Fred.
Douglass, and took occasi N to thank him for
the many kind things which the distinguished
leader of the sable race had said about him
during the recent civil rights agitation. The
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in good old Ango-Saxon, but as he waxed
eloquent changed to the ancient Latin tongue.
"Much obliged to you, Mr.. Conkling," ex-
claimed Mr.. Douglass. as the former paused
for breath, but really didn't understand
word you were saying" II was merely Civ
ing you a Well-wO quotation" responded.
the EX-SENATOR speak kindly Of the dead
ETC."
THE KdrS of st. Petersburg reports the APP
pointment of a commission on the Russo
Turkish frontier of Asia Minor to investigate
the conduct of a Turkish officer of the frontier
guards, who In July last crossed the Russian
frontier several times with his men and en-
deavOred to drive away a herd of cattle be-
longing to the Russian village of Thiogan. He
and his men beat all who attempted to oppose
them with the butt ends Of their muskets aud
fired among the outraged inhabitants. After
repeated complaints m SIDE at COnstantinople,
the Porte has at last instructed the Vail of
Erzerum to appoint commission to investi-
gate the mater on the spot. Col. Druchpff
has been appointed Russian delegate to the
ommissiOn.
II was amused at the sagacity Of small
woOdpecker," writes rs. l.. -, of Greenup,
Ill. Down below the house, in a ravine, is a
eump OF sugar trees. Hearing a tapping
from my window, in the direction of the trees,
looked that way and saw wood pecker
pounding away with all the energy his little
body possessed. After time he quit work
and new away. Gong down to the tree he
had been GENERATING upon, found 1t picked
with small holes, out OF which the sap WAS
ooZing. The holes were arranged in the form
Of the letter V. thus causing the water to run
into the larger hole at the focus Here the
feathery inventor would sit. hour after hour
and feast on the sugar water. and numerous
ants, which were lured to their fate by the
sticky liquid. How the little fellow distin-
guished the maple tree from the others is to
me unknown.
A PERFECTLY dreadful story has come to
the ears of the historian which proves that
some other things than skinned milk some
times masquerade as cream. An elderly
lady Of he ola school, who lives in a subnr-
ban town, who always does her shopping IN
the morning and gets home to dinner at 2
O'Clock, was lately detained in Boston during
one OF her shopping tours, and decided to
make dav 81 IL. She stepped into well
known "ladies' cafe" and called for cup OF
tea. Presently he waitress brought It, As
she was walking away the old lady called
what is itY" 1T can't be about here, ma'am.
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