Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

of Detroit made 50 miles, using a 57-inch
bicycle, on an asphalt road, IN hours q min
uJes and "a seconds. 1t is claimed that this
lowers the road record of the world by 6
minutes and So seconds.
ALTHOUGH Winnipeg is the headquarters
of the Hudson Bay Fur Company, it Is almost
impossible for stranger to buy furs there.
The company's agents will not sell, and the
only cnance a traveller has to get a robe or
SKIN OF any sort is from the Indians.
ANNIE LEE WILSON, of Memphis, strapped
her baby to her breast Bnd jumped into the
river. In pathetic letter found on the dead
| DO ~ OF the young mother were these wOrdS:
| God, deal as gently with an erring and
broken hearted girl and her innocent little
baby as you can"
PITTsBURd, the smoky city itself. got ex-
| tremely angry because it was not even men
toned In report to the government on
site for heavy gun foundry, and was in no
| way appeased to fud that the omission came
| because none OF the iron manufacturers had
| made BID for the work.
VERY interesting discovery is said to have
been made by the experts who are now ex-
aiming the collection of papyri consisting of
many thousand rolls, which were found at FL
! Fayoum, in Egypt, and were acquired by the
| Archduke Rainier. The experts declare that
among the rolls are several autograph
letters of the Prophet Mahomet.
PROF. BAIRD, President of the Fish Com
mission at Washington. has acknowledged
the receipt of several valuable specimens Of
natural history from the members Of the life
Swing service. Among them Is rare speci-
| men Of shark about 10 feet long. known as the
/ heXanchus grisens, aud a fish Of great variety
ana scientific interest known rs the argen-
Tine.
AN IDEA of the extensiveness of Oregon's
salmon fisheries can be had from these stats
tics. over 80, 900 boxes of tin have been or are
| being work I'm ir to cana for tho canning
| mon seasons pack. Nearly $350,000 worth of
| Irvine has been sold to Columbia river can
ners for nets for the season. In the next three
weeks boats 10 the value of $500. On will be put
| in trim for the fishing season of 1886.
Robert c. Win hrop was the originator of
the proposal to make April 90, instead Of
March 4, Inauguration day, and which now
| reappesrs in Senator ingalls, bill before Con-
| gress. Mr. winthrop sug gested the change of
| the day IN his Grafton a. the dedica ton of the
! w ashlngtOn monument, and recalling the
| fact that W ashington was inaugurated as first
President of the United states on April 80.
/ DURING recent discussion Of the estimates
| for the railways OF Alsace- Lorraine. which
are owned and worked by the State, it was
| mentioned that the daily work of locomotive
! drivers varied from four to five hours on fast
| trains to ten hours on freight trains with
! swift hing service for long time The
| drivers had every fourth or fifth, or at the
! least every seventh day for rest. POntsmen
/ nave d Nay Ou every Two WEEKS
! SOMEBODY was showing to the ex-King of
/ Naples a beautiful album which contained
| photographs of all the splendid palaces and
chateaus when the Princes of Orleans had
! from time TO time occupied. Francis II. shut
/ the book with a sweet smile ana the express
/ ion OF regret that he could only show the
| engravings of the hotels where for several
wears past he had been compelled to lodge
| those engraylngs being on the heads of the
bills he had paid.
MILE. DUDLAY, Of the Coincide Franchise
is " oman of great pluck aud perseverance,
When she first began acting in Paris the crit
| les complained of certain stbillation of the
voice, which was due to a peculiar formation
/ of her lower jaw A dentist sand it could be
| remedied by forcing back her lower teeth.
| So Tor six months. day and night, she wore an
| instrument of India rubber never removing
! it. and always suffered severely from it. She
! obtained perfect enunciation.
DIR. DAWSON BURNS, in a letter to the Lon
! don press, states that Notwithstanding the de-
preston in trade andthe general shrinkage
of values, the expenditure OF the country on
| Intoxicating liquors in the past year was not
| less than fl23. 2SS,760. THIS enormous total is
| equal to the entire expenditure of the nation
! for bread, butter, ana cheese together, is not
4 far short of The rents paid for farms and
| homes IN the United Kingdom and is three
/ times the amount spent for tea, sugar, coffee,
and cocoa.
II W dS Ohc VI tue uODltsb bIdlbS OF w eDSbeFB
character that he never treated the men who
worked for him as menIals. For Porter
Wright he always entertained the highest re-
| gard, and he was his constant COMPANION in
! all his fishing and hunting eXeursiOns. Prob
| ably no man living knows so much about the
inner life Of Webster. Of his habits, customs
| and disposition as MIR. Wright. We found the
! old man CHI piping wood. and on learning my
errand he replied in CHEEKY tones: Come in
| come in. All, yes. Mr.. Webster was a grand
| good man aud jovial companion. His death
| left gap in Msrshfiec that can never be
| hlledn' Itdtdn't seem TO occur to his honest
/ soul that the death of Webster left a gap that
| extended from Maine to the Golden Gate.
LETTERS from Lubbock and other German
Baltic ports,' says the London Times of March
/ 90. "declare that so severe a winter has not
| been experienced in those parts for very many
! years. In the harbor of Travemunde the YES
! sells are quite blocked in by the deep ice which
! cannot be broken through. Hundreds of la
/ borers were employed to cut passage. but
/ She northwest gales brought fresh masses OF
! ice to blockade the port. The neighhorinr
1 island of Rugen has been practically united
/ TO the continent. heavily laden wagons pass
/ ing over the frozen STRAIT "a il it was an ord.
| nary snow covered ROAD, while the Baltic is
/ frozen rs far as the eye can see in the direc-
ton of sweden and the Danish Islands.
| Sledges and sleighs were already NOV
! ing swiftly over the frozen Baltic in n Wav
wholly unprecedented in modern times.
THE OTHER NIGHT Col. &. Nj. Brace. of the
third regiment Illinois Volunteers reeled
into the armOry of the Rockford Rifles, who
were being inspected by Maj Durand. Be
hind him walked his huge dog. At the end Of
the room a smaller dog. owned by a member
of the company, lay sleeDinR. The Colonel at
once sci on his masth and a fight ensuei
Private Whipple tried To separAt tie the brutes
when the Colonel assaulted him, striking hlm
over the head with loaded care and cutting
An ugly cash IN his forehead. The entire
company, maddened by the insult, attacked
the officer and would have thrown him out of
the W ndow but for the interposition OF Capt.
LaA Ter. The affair is the sensation of the
town. Whipple Will sue for damages. and
viii prefer charges Of military misconduct
against the Colonel. At the same time a con.
certcd effort will he made to induce Gov
Oglesby TO demand Braces resignatio
AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT In agriculture
is about to be tried on the Duke Of Portland's
Nottinghamshre estates in England. His
Grace has let a farm Of $50 acres at Gringley
Carr to a company Of six agricultural labor
ers. They are allowed to take the farm az il
stands without paying valuation or tenant
right. The Duke also finds them stock i'm
plcments, horses. etc, charging them a low
rate of interest on the whole. In response TO
applications from large bodies OF Agricultural
labOrers artisans and Others in south NORTH
amptonshlre, the Duke Of Grafton has in |
tmatet his Willingness 10 take stems to pro.
vide alotments ant small holdings Those |
who require allOtments up 10 half an acre /
Will have them Immediately, and those who |
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