Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Monday and Whit Monday shall be holiday
throughout France.
THE Indians of New Mexico are very thrift!
and economical. When bloodhounds are sen
in pursuit of them they shoot the dogs and ca
them.
THERE is but one chinaman left at Snohom
ish, Wyoming Territory. and he is married t.
an Indian squaw and, according to a loca
newspaper, ''is quite civilized"
BY decree of the Peruvian government
the third centennial of the birth of SAINT;
Rosa, Of Lima, the only canonized American
saint, Is to be celebrated with great pomp OF
April 30.
IT is PROBABLE that the veterans of tn
Washington Artillery, New Orleans. viii
make an excursion to Virginia this summer
and revisit some of the scenes of their mill
tary exploits.
ANDREW CARNEGIE says: II would lay i
down as maxim that there is no excuse for
strike or a lockout until arbitra'ion Of differ
ences has been offered by one party and re-
fused by the other"
A Boston LADY last summer attended fu-
neral in a country church. After the singing
of HYMN a man who was sitting beside hel
remarked Beautiful hymn, isn't it, ma'am'
The corpse wrote it,
RHODE ISLAND has a colored member of the
Legislature named Van Horn. H has &C.
quired some notoriety by introducing a bill
"tO prohibit determinations by life insurance
| companies by reason of color
ANEW WORD has just been added to the
French language. To throw the manager Of
a factory out of a window. so that he may be
trampled to death in the streets, is to "Wat-
rluZe' MN, because Wotrin is the name OF
the engineer who was murdered by miners at
/ Decazevlle.
AT SoHwEINFURG the wine merchant Kas-
! par Heyd has been sent to prison for three
months aud sentenced . pay fine of Loco
| marks for having sold as genuine VINE a com
pound product of alcohol, gycerine, fannie
acid. glucose, salcine, dried grapes Whortle
| berries, coriander, sugar, ana water.
AT THE CEREMONY of laying cornerstone
| for the Confederate monument at Montgom-
cry, which will take place on April 80, the
Army of Northern Virginia of New Orleans
| will act as an escort to Mr.. Jefferson DAVIS,
and 1t is probable that fuly75 members of the
| Benevolent Association of that city will go to
| Montgomery.
JULIAN HAWTHORNE has found in his liter
| airy experience that the "true reward of lit
erature for men of limited calibre are the in
| cidental ones-the valuable friendship and
| the charming associations which il brings
/ about. For the sake of these would will
| lngly endure again many passages OF life
[ OAdO hetS uOb u66u all TOo66s
| SERIOUS WATER FAMINE, which may
| break out anew in consequence of the fright
| full cold weather now prevailing in Austria,
threatened Vienna a fortnight ago. On
| March "A only 100000 gallons of
water were left in the reservoirs. although by
| extraordinary economy the daily consump-
ton had been reduced 900 600 gallons,
HORACE DoDD, of Millview. Va, killed a
| 6-foot moccasin snake last week that had a
| wire collar around its neck, TO which was at
/ tached button with these words: Don't
/ tread on me-" AS this was the motto of the
! Famous Revolutionary "Cupepper Minute
/ men,, ami as the button was probably from
I one Of their uniforms the question arises as
| to the probable age OF this particular serpent.
| THERE is no better way of sealing letters,
/ than the old fashioned one of breakingoff a
| piece of wax of suitable size, and, placing it
/ on the spot to be sealed, apply to it the blade
! OF an ordinary case knife that has been heate ed
| In ire flame of an alcohol lamp The wax at
| once mells and under gentle pressure spreads
| out smoothly and thin'y and is ready for the
| application of the stamp. By this method
the wax is kept clean and free from smoke.
SOME LUMBERMEN of JeannOrette, La
caught genuine wild man on the banks of
Lake Savage Saturday. He was quite
| naked, and his hair had grown TO a great
| length. He struggled hard at first but after
/ yielding proved by hsOwn story to be an Ohio
| man. He said that his wife had betrayed him.
| his friends robbed him, and that ne did not
| want any more human society. He had been
| IN the wood since he war but had lost all
| reckoning of years, an months. and days,
| only knowing that it was spring.
THE ACTIVITY of the temperance folks in
Massachusetts has melted the liquor men of
that State to form an organization which Will
be called 1.-THE Massachusetts, Protective Lii
| quor Dealers. Brewers, Distillers', and
! Clerks Association" According to the con-
stituliOn. no disreputable person. no one who
| sells to minors. no keeper of a house of III
fame, no one under Is years of age, and only
such druggists as pay an annual forfeit Of $50
| will be allowed to become members.
WILLIAM r. WINANs is said to intend to
close the Hotel Struy at Strathglass, the only
good hotel in that very beautiful district. Pc
utions OF protest have been presented, and a
! strong effort is to be made to have the hotel
| kept open to the public as place necessary
for the accOmm, datiOn OF the travelling
| public. The hotel is on Mr.. Winans' ESTATE. .
which he leases from broken down noblemen.
| ana his selnsh management Of which has
made him 20 unpopular. The Indignation
against him is represented to be intense"
! A HOLLOW STEEL FLOAT, so feet square, an
chored in midOcean and bearing a O-foot
! light tower, is the suggestion Of an English
| inventor. lie would have this known as
/ harbOr OF refuge in distress. or place for
/ lfhbhNll7Hlou OF snip news DIV telegraph. and
/ as weather station. The saving Of cost in
| cable telegraphing "a one by he use of relay
| instruments on this lightship would in his
! opinion, he sufficient to pay its current ex
/ penses. lie undertakes to provide secure an
| chorage, stability, and harmless detection of
waves.
WHEN DR.. Warren was promoted by the
legislature OF North Carolina to the rank OF
"Brigadier General" as a special reward for
! his services as Surgeon General Of the state.
| some one asked Gov. Vance if he Thought
/ Warren would accept the promotion IN view
/ of the report which was then in circulation
! that all persons holding the rank of General
| we're to be shot in the event of the failure of
! the COnfeteracy. well" said he II know
| tell YOU this about him: He would take the
rank Of rgadeI1General with the chance of
! being shot or account of IL NJ the end OF the
war, an he would take the rank of Major
General with the certainty Of being shot for il
TO morrow.
A MAN in evening dress, but with rather a
dlsheveed appearance, tapped lightly on the
door at the entrance to the New York Casino
one night recently and peered anxiously INTO
the darkened corridor. H. was midnight an
everybody hat ieuarted but the watchman
who went 10 the door, opened 10 slightly and
said: Well, what is it2' The man burst into
an afiable and huttery smile thrust "a q in
ly: "Gimme a programmes: there's a good
fellow" The janitor smiled, puled a neatly
folded one from his pocket and then paseed IL
out. "EYervlhng all rightfn The ianitor
smiled good ma uredly and nodded his head
ana the wicked husband went home to show