Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| MR.. WILMoNT, an English expert in such
matters, gives us a bit of statistics that
sparkle. He says that six and half tons of
| diamonds- tons. mark you--have been dug up
| In south Africa. This product, as he further
! hgures, has brought $500 Oo0,0 900.
A BANKER, respectable as rich, giving coun-
eel concerning men and things to a young man
just about entering business, said: For me.
| Young man, men are classified in two ca e.
| gorles, knaves and fools, and no more" but
| yourself thenP II? have foot III each
| category"
FREDERICK T. FRELINGHUYsEN's grave at
Newark, n. j., is surmounted now by gran
tie obeisk forty feet high. The shaft bears
| this inscription: "A diligent and conserva-
tive statesman, a sincere friend and wise
/ counselor, busy in the affairs of life he walk ed
| humDly and trustfully with his God. Blessed
are the pure in heart, for they snail see God.'''
THE Indian agent at the Rosebud Agency
refused to give the Indians their agricultural
! implements unless they used them where he
| designated Whereupon, says the Nebraska
| State Journal, the Indians organized strike,
| winch was so successful that the agent not
| only turned over the Implements, but ''set
| up three barrels OF sugar and a lot Of fancy
| groceries.
ONE hundred and eighty-one bags of the
mail that went down with the Oregon were
recovered on Tuesday. The letter mail was
found to be IN pretty far shave, and about
three-tourths of the newspaper mail was in
condition for distributing. A bag of news
paper mail was also received at the New
DIRK post office that had been picked uD on
June at Cape Hatteras, 40C miles from where
the Oregon went down.
THE cost per child in average attendance
for the State schools in the principal Austria
| Ian colonies, and for the Board schools in
| England and Wales, is as follows Total cost
| per child of the average attendance in the
| S ate schools in New south Wales f6 l2s,
| l12d.; ditto ditto in Victoria f5 "a. 214d.;
! ditto ditto in South Australia Is Is; ditto
ditto IN Queensland f5 Is s1&d.; Board
| schools in England and Wales "a los. l I'D.
FISHING PARTY, consisting of Rev. DIR. j.
| B. Bracket. Of Brookline, John W. Ella and
! A A. Mason, of Chicago, and their wives,
caught an enormous sea turtle, weighing 1000
| pounds, IN Narragansett Bay, off Connancut
Island, Newport, one day last week. They
| succeeded, after great difficulty, in towing
| the monster to the nearest shore, about mile,
and anchored him there with strong ropes.
| Two men were unable to draw him up on the
| shore.
NOT many years ago mother residing in
! st. Paul discovered that her youthful son was
about to rob bank. She at once, though it
| was late at night, sent messenger to the
| bank cashiers home to inform him of the fact.
1t was raining hard and the night was dismal,
| and TIE cashier, reused from a warm bed. de-
| cllned to believe the statement and turned in
| again. When he entered the bank on Mon
| day morning, he was $4,000 short in cash and
! the bank had been robbed.
NEW UIM, IN Minnesota. is probably the
only city on the continent in which German
| is the official language of the Municipal Coun-
| Gil. The Mayor and all the Councilmen are
| Germans, and all business ia transacted in
| German. However, the German Post, which
! had been the official organ of the Council for
| twenty three years. has just COLLAPSED. ard
| every document will now have to be trans
! lated into English for publication in the Re-
! view, Its successor.
THE Tile Club is an association of the
| younger artists of New York. of which we
heard good deal in former years, especially
in the newspapers, but of late it has been
! qulescent. Now, however, it is announced
! that it will publish at Christmas an album of
! reproduction from pictures by its members
! Chase. Miliet, ST. Gaudens and others of the
! best artists of New York will be represented
| by their finest work.
THE news that the world would come to an
! end on June Is, at o'clock p M. gained re-
Gently credence among the lower classes of
Madrid. and at the appointed hour more than
a thousand persons gatheret on the heights of
| Nlste les to watch with trem bling for the an
preaching catastrophe. Many curious pbe-
nomena were seen in the skies bv the excited
| spectators. as, for instan q, SAINT Peter walk
| ing in the midst of q red cloud, but the end
| did not come. Some persons finally set down
| June "A as beyond doubt the last day of the
world, and the meeting adjourned.
THE golden rose sent by the Pope to Queen
| Christine rests, according to the Osservatore
! Romano, IN a massive silver and gilt vase.
/ showing on one side the image of Saint Chris
! tine, aud bearing on the other the La in dedi.
| cation, TO Maria Christine, mother of AL
! fonsO Kill, of Spain, Pope Leo XIII. dedi-
| Gates TINS golden rose IN the year 1885," Two
| gilt angels form the handles of the vase. The
] m re of bro, nafv.
! fourteen buds and about Il hundred leaves
! The topmost rose may be opened, and is filed
! with musk.
AN English surgeon a few days ago per
! formed an operation on a little boy The
! operation was comparatively trifing The
mother and the father and the little boy were
! in the surgeons house just a quarter of an
hour. "What IS your fee?" ssked the father.
| "a hundred guineas," was the reply. The
! father was startled and said he had not
| hundred Guineas. "Oh. then will take fftv
| guineas " But can't afford It," said tho
| father, land had you told me what your
| charge would be, | would not have come"
! Then l viii take twenty-five guineas."
After little more delay the surgeon took ten
| gulneas on account.
The boundaries fixed upon for the new CITY
of Mani attain, and which were laid off,
the Star declares, by a competent engineer.
who took into consideration the question of
| uTdlidgt. ponce supervision ana al similar
! matters coming properly under municIpal
| control. include the present cities of New
| Y ork and Brooklyn, Staten Island. all Kings
| and part of Queens counties. and n portion of
| Westminster. It's total area would be 1913
! square miles, less than London, and but little
! more than the district under the municipal
| control of New Orleans. It's population was
20}3,G46 in 1887, Is 2,73O0O0 to-day. and will he
! about $500 0l0 by the next census equal 10
that Of he thirteen American colonies when
they seeded from Great Britain.
THE leading Vienna hatters met recently to
deliberate as usual on the correct" fashions
in headgear for the coming fall season. The
commission decided unanimously on a num-
Der Of felt hats v hch hencefOrth take their
place in history as the Verdi" "Floto,y -
''Rossin," and ~ iszt." The President Of the
Hatters' Club stated thai the reason whv the
names of composers were chosen was that
only artists are 'above parties" while if Ans
trian statesmen had been selected party pre
JUDGE might have inter'ered with the ponu
larity of the styles bearing their names. !.In
general" WI ties the reporter of the Fremden
blatt, the leading principle Of the new fash
ions is q departure from the high and leaning
toward the 10 rnd. "A dropping Of sharp edges,
and the substitution Of narrow bands for
broad Ones"
HERE is in miniature one OF the blazing
Tory posters that now decorate the dead
walls OF ondon: