Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-05-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
AN ANONYMOUS FRIEND has given Harr
School $50 COO for n football field

AN ANONYMOUS FRIEND nhb given hdITOW
School $4,000 for football field
In LOWELL, MASS, there are 400 liquor sa-
looms and only tive nty -four bakeries.
BARRIERS near Mono Lake, California,
whose water is heavy with SAT- OF sodium and
borax, use it as a natural shampooiDG water,
TO the satisfaction OF their customers.
THE liquor dealers of Indiana have formed
the Indiana Protective Association, The
avowed ami only object of which il to oppose
| any legislation looking TO higher license.
TIE WOMEN of the Salvation Army in BrIs-
tot, Conn.,, have armed themselves with Cay
| enne pepper to throw in the faces of the ruff
| mans who are accustomed to annoy them in
! thelr street parades.
AN EXPRESS TRAIN on the Central Vermont
railway dashed round a curve the other day
and rushed head ong into d herd of cattle
Oocklug crossing. Five ANIMALS were
Killed, but the train did not leave the rails.
THE lady student in the Yale Law School
was appointed TO MAKE an argument in moot
court recently. A large audience was at
lracted- AMI she sustained her part with a
hlgh uegree OF credit. he is described as
very wOmanly ami hand some withal.
THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT have begun to
construct az Castries, on the Island of St.
Lucia. the dockyards and other works needfu
u turn that obscure port into naval st ton.
TINS harbnr is the only one in the British
west Indies except that Of Kingston,
Jamaica) where the steamers can go to the
Wharves to coal
THERE is pansy thief on the hill in Brook
Ign. He goes from house to house very early
IN the morning aud steals from each accessi-
Die bed or vase OF pansies plant or two. He
has carried his curious theving 70 far that
there has been general comp. aint, and steps
are being taken to arrest this unlawful lover
OF pansy blossoms.
Two TBAMPs near Belleville, Ill, were taken
sick with ague. They went to a farmers
house to get some medicine. The farmer told
them to d g up snakeroot and make tea of it
They procured guam itS of roots and made
tea as directed. They drank the tea and near
" ulei IRON It's effects. They' had dug up
poisonous pokeroot by mistake.
SEVERAL KINDS OF oUADRUPEDs in the Lon
don Zoo suffer from corns on their feet, due to
the hard floors, and these produce boring ul-
GERS wnicn IN ny extei d clear through the 10 OF,
Hernia occasionally affiicts the monkeys. and
a tiger has lately been killed by an accumula-
tl"n In hi lntes Ines of saw dust, swallowed
with MS 1000. These are new diseases in me-
nageries,
TaE DEEPEST BORING yet made is said to be
at Schladebach, near the line between Leipsc
and COrbetha. 1t has been made by the Prus-
sian government for the purpose Of ascertain
ing the pre- ence OF coal, and was bored with
diamond DIR lls It's depth is 1890 m tres. { r
4,56 fee, its breadt h at the bottom inches.
and at the top II inches. The temperature at
the bottom indicates lis deg. Fair.
AERONAUT WELLS. of indianapolis, saws
that he once made an ascent from Buenos
Ayres, ana while far above the La Plata river
saw the sun set. soon after the wind ceased
aud the balloon went down to the water He
threw out all ball asst. and then, sitting in the
hoop, cut away the car At this the balloon
n 1 No q hoi M fhaf ha
had set hours before TO the persons be ow him,
again appeared. The effect was as if the sun
was rising In the west.
TOBACCO BLINDNESS is becoming common
Addiction At present there are several per-
sons under treatment for 1t at one London
hospital. 1t first takes the form of color blind
ness, the sufferers who have smoked them
selves into this condition being quite unab e
to distingm h the color Of a piece of red cloth
held up nefOre them. Sometimes the victim
Loses his eyesight altogei her. Although smok-
Ing Is to large extent the cause OF the NAL
Is also partly responsible.
DEAFNESS appears to be exceptionally
p' evalent in Kennebec county, Me-. and in
Marthas Vineyard. A recent scientific in
vestigaton of the matter shows that in boil
districts there is abundant evidence of heredi-
ty and especially of atavism. In the families
affected there were also found blindness, In-
sanity, idiocy and deformlty, and in some
long history Of cOnsanguineal marriages
In Msrtha's Vineyard the distribution of
deafness comedies with that of cert, in soils
ami its eastern boundary is also the typhoid
fever line.
JAMES BAITY, farmer Of Clay county, ILL.,,
residing near Xenia, is the father of twenty
three children. He is 20 years old and has
been married twice. His oldest son ls IS and
his youngest child is 10 months old. There
are but two pairs OF twins. Mr.. Baty l.
nw fhaW ~ Ion . =
ha wing married sisters OF hls second wife. In
the ga neighborhood with Mr.. Baity dwell
r. Il. Forth, John Forth and Buck Forth
They are brothers. The hls has twenty six
children and the other two have twenty three
each. BaitY and the FOrths are all Well-to-
40 farme s.
A BURGLARY WAS committed recently at the
Austrian Art aud Industrial Museum in
Vienna, and artistic objects valued at 5000
forms were stolen. The thieves have not vet
been found. list of sixteen stolen arSicles
has been published by the police, and includes
some Rena ssance silver COB cts, bronze aud
silver caskets, jugs, and candlesticks. All
these objects were easily portable. The
thieves threw away handsome mediaval
bronze clock, as being too heavy TO carry
famous copper jug and goblet, with embossed
medallion portraits of The heroes OF the siege
Of Vienna in 1885, are among the things
missing.
THOSE SENATORS who fancy that Mr.. Rid
NiObSi VIII nOb EtC6lNe Tue moral support
OF intelligent people in his battle for open SEES
siOns, merely because his course on other
questions has not been approved. evince an
ignorance OF pubic sentimr MT that Is hard to
equal anywhere. In this day the peO, le care
less about public men than they do about pub
lie measures, and go bill from bad men q, @
rated above bad bills fathered by so called
statesmen. The best way for Ingalls,, Ed
munds, and the others who advocate the star
chamber would he to tumble over on the other
side of the question.
TEE political situation OF the republic of
Colombia is far from satisfactory. The old
constitution OF the nation which was a very
liberal one, has been suspended. and no other
has been substituted for IL. Consequently the
people are governed simply by the patriotic
Keeling which induces them TO preserve order
though actually there are no lava extant TO
enforce IT, for with the abolition Of the con-
sttuiiun AL laws became IN abey nee, as they
still are. The will OF those in authority seems
TO be the only standard for governing con.
munlties. TINS arbitrariness Is certainly
alarming, and may eliminate in disorder and
attempted despotism.
Mr.. WoERIsHoFFER. the great Wall street,
operator. who died in New York last Monday,
had an interesting career. He was born at
Hanau, in Hesse Nassau, IN August, 1913. He
was trained TO the brokerage business at
Frankfort aud Paris. and In 1864 came 10 this
country. He was a poor boy seeking a for
tune in the New World. He was lrst u CLERK
win August Rutten, and after few wears