Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1HE letter-sneeL IS seen DuL nttle IN orul-
nary correspondence. About 10000 are sold
every day in New York.
THE polo ponies bought for the English team
do not go back home, but are to be dispersed
by an auction sale among American anna
teurs.
AN Indian family living near Pierre. Da-
kota, recently sold their farm for $500, and
spent the entire amount the first day for
gaudy trinkets.
ENGLISH milliners are said to have discov-
cred way OF making bonuets of tissue paper;
they coat about as much as If they were COW
cred with bank notes.
A FARMER in Oconto county, Wis, dug up
an iron box in which were two gold watches
and chains, a big roll OF greenbacks and a
large quantity of silver money.
THE rose, thistle and shamrock interviewer
form the chief feature of the interior decora-
tioc of the new carriage in which Queen Vic
t0ria will take her drives about Deeside this
autumn.
THE following terse note was recently left
behind by an clipping couple in one of Hamp-
shlre's hill towns: We've eloped. Forgive
us if You can. and if you can't, what will you
do about it?"
IN French paper there is a matrimonial
Advertisement from a widow with 200. 900
francs, who seeks husband in one who must,
at least, have a like sum Of money, with other
equally pleasant recommendations. Her
postscript ia emphatic. She saws, If a negro,
he must have double the sum else requisite.
AT the recommendation of Prince Bismarck
impregnated blocks of German beech are for
the first time used for wood paving In Berlin
IN preference to foreign timber. 1t seems
that the trials with beech. made last year
with the blocks furnished from the Princes
forests in Friedricbsruhe, have yielded better
results than any other.
A MANUF ACTURBR of Cohoes, N. Y, is pros
pecting at Wayne Junction. on the line OF the
Philadelphia and Reading railroad, for a Fite
for the erection of buildings for the manufac-
ture Of wood from straw. Wood Of every kind
can be made from straw in imitation of the
genuine product. The persons interested have
a arge factory at CohOes and another in the
West.
THE earthquake has its uses. after all. Ac-
cording to the Washington Post, servant in
that city was saying her evening prayers be-
fore a small alabaster statue of the Virgin
Mary. She was proceeding in her devotions
when suddenly the statue hogan TO sway and
nod. Frightened nearly to death by this MIRA
Gle. the girl ran down stairs to her employer,
and kneeling Rt his feet, exclaimed: "God.
forgive me! 1t was me that broke them
dishesn
MR.. CARPENTER, the "Carp" Of the " ash
ington regiment of winter letter writers, be-
ing now in Dublin. sends this: "The Irish
brogue coming out of the pearly teeth Of a
rosy checked. bright-eyed Irish girl sounds
very sweet indeed, and we're 1 q millionaire
American with one or two American girl
babies, l would bring them to Ireland to raise
them for the sake OF their compilations The
beauties are not, however. confined to the
upper classes. l saw pretty girls every
where.'
A MARRIAGE has been arran ged between the
Baron Louis de la Grange and Miss Carroll,
daughter of ex-Gov. Carroll, of Maryland,
and 6 'anddaughter of Royal Phelps, founder
of the old banking and com merclal house Of
Maitland, Phelps & Co., of New York. Miss
Carroll is related to Mrs. Cation, OF Baltimore
whose three daughters became the Duchess of
Leeds, the Marchioness Wellesley and Lady
Sta ford. The wedding will be an important
social event of the season, and among the
guests will be representatives of the leading
French and English aristocratic families.
CARL PLoETz, of Greifswald, Germany, the
eminent naturalist, has committed suicide BY
taking poison. In letter which he left he
stated as a reason OF his desperate act the fact
that he W as threatened with total blindness,
and that the certainty of being deprived OF
sight within few weeks, and thus becoming
unable to continue his studies, made life no
longer desirable for him. He added that he
felt he had a right, in his seventy third year,
to put an end to an existence which was no
longer of any use to himself or to his fellow
men. Only week before he had sold his
magnificent collection OF butterflies, probably
unequalled anywhere.
a PIECE OF WRECK was washed ashore on
Brigantine Beach, n. Y, Saturday. 1t was
covered with barnacles, moss and other sub
stances. Following this wreck was a large
school OF fish, about 400 OF which were washed
ashore with 1t. The fab are different from
any ever seen before, and though shown to
many old fishermen none of them hes a name
for the strangers. snd all declare that the7
never saw any OF the snecies before. The fish
average about pound each in weight, and
are shaped somew hat like blackdsh. In col
or they are black. with quite large eyes and
large and peculiarly shaped head. Some OF
the fish have been preserved IN alcohol, and
will b. sent to Prof. Ledy, OF Philadelphia,
and number of other scientists to learn, II
possible, their species.
THERE ia on exhibition in Paris" SAYS the
British Medical journal, "a type of a very
primitive race. 1t is very curious speci-
men. entirely covered with hair, the SKIN very
dark; the child would remind one of the
chimpanzee. The hairs ON the arms and legs
follow the same direction as those on the mon
key, the legs are thin and short, while the
arms are very long. IL appears that the tribe
to which she belongs dwells more on trees
than on the ground The child is H. and seems
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interest IN her doll. Her eyes and hair are
very fine, her nose is flattened, and her ears
are deprived OF cartilage She has thirteen
pairs Of ribs, and consequently thirteen DOR
sal vertebr9. The race to which she belongs
Is found in the north OF Siam, and several
families are kept at the court of the King of
SIAM"
CHOW JU TEN, a Chinese Buddhist priest,
is in New York on his third visit to the United
StateS AS well as being a priest OF high
order-In fact, the ruler of the Chinese church
in Inda-Chow Ju Tien is a physician and
cures all complaints by laying on of hands
Every ten years be vi Sits America and STAYS
about year. The other nine years he passes
world. The priest and medicine man is looked
upon with awe by the Chinese, and the mer-
chants in Mott street will shortly tender him
a complimentary dinner at the lie King Com
pany's restaurant. The preparations for the
feast, which IS to surpaee any thing ever before
given in Chinese New York. are now going on
The priest Is so years old AM is very bald. He
is unable TO speak word OF English, but has
an interpreter.
WIN. c. HBNDRICKsoE q Co., of Trenton, N.
Y. Saturday successfully fired one of their
decorating kilns with gas m ade from anthra-
cite coal by newly discovered process with.
which the firm have been experimenting for
the last two months. Heretofore wood has
been used and its cost has formed considera-
BILE item In the expense of firing a kiln OF
ware. Mr.. Hendrlckson said that the results
were entirely satisfactory. The gas IL m AIDE
l..N Ia H. 80