Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

cry prom sing.
TIE Duke Of sutherland's steam yaent mas
gen equipped with a double-oarreileo gun
q III whales. One barrel fires an eXpi,osii NS
99set a the other harpoon, Ootn OoinS
I'm rged 1T the same time.
peRKEEPER DATE, of the Connecticut
houspf Representatives, has ten cartridges
tnat we carried by Jude B. 'age IN the re-
1reat I'm New London IN the war OF leI-,
Ihey d. hand made. the wrappers being
PIrces newspapers. and the round Daiie are
kept IN ace by tow strings. Mr. Gage When
'O SeaIs gave the relics to Mr.. DATE
LAST vgK Missouri Sheriff left Quincy
tor the La over the Wabash railway having
IN charge ainsane latient whom he intended
70 place IN Sew York asylum. AS the hours
Pass IN y onieer grew weary, ana when
Inc Inc .taln rGhed TolonO was fast asleep.
bus the tunas WAS not, and making the most
Vi hls opporttGy he seiZ d his cNptors golu
Match ana Fise and, taking with them 500
IN money 1gbed from the train into the
aarkness. IN Sheriff did not realize the
situation untihe awoke at Danville and
io''hu us ohar2and his Yaluables gone
The case, sayhe London Graphic, OF Ash
well, who, borlFing a shilling, spent the
sovereign gwen nm by mistake, has been
more than once rsrred to in this column as
having divided u fourteen Judges into two
halNes, seven aiming him to have been
guilty OF larceny. = other seven prOnounclng
MN innocent OF az offense cognizable by tue
laW: IN accordanl with precedent ne was
auludgeu guilty: ut, when brought up lol
Judgment at the Leester Assize, he was SIM
ply ordered to appr again when called Tor,
Whlch VIII probabibe at the Greek kaenus'
The annual meetR of the Royal Zoologi-
cal society In Dubhdisclosed some interest
ing facts. The casl receipts from visitors
were about $4,000. Twelve lion cubs had
oeeh reared ana SIX Sd for 600 cash ana the
same value III other nimals The sale OF lion
cubs since the opeRg of the garden has
amounted TO about "A, 600. The President.
Or. HaughtOn. elaine that the garden stood
nrst In the world as sliO breeding estab-
llshment. Among tn, dogs Is Thlbetan
mastlh those PECULIAR rs and habits identity
the breed with the grille described by early
Greek visitors to the Ear.
THE FUNERAL Of job Rickaby, the late
manager OF the Lyceum theatre, took place
Thursday afternoon fromthe Little Church
Around the Corner" Twenty ninth
street, near Fifth avenue New York. The
black cloth-covered caskt was completely
covered with flowers. D,rinR the services
suddenly scream was leard, and LADY
dressed IN heaYy mourning fell to the nOOr'
1t was Miss Helen Dauvriy, the actress, for
whom the dead man was manager. She soon
recovered, however, and the services pro-
ceeded. Rev. DR.. HoVghton Oficlated. After
LHe tHUELlt fGEkEIBS tie CdShSk NhS IEHlONCNt
10 the a T, ere New York l. dye - ElkS
erfOrmed : cir funsal services. The body
was taken " Quebec.
TIE Numismatic aid Antiquarian Society
of Philadelphi has Undertaken the prepare
ton of an archaeological map to embrace the
valleys Of the Delaware and Susquehanna
rivers, to show the bcation of all the princi-
pal rem aims attributed to the Indian t'lDes
who forme ~ occupiu these regions. 1t VIII
include contiguous prtlOns OF Pennsylvania,
New Ork, New jersey Delaware and Mary
ant. Societies and Individuals are earnestly
requested to furnish to Henry Phillips. Jr.,
Secretary, No. l04 South Filth street, Phla-
deli hia. whatever Information they may
possess concerning thdoll wing classes of an
Equities: Gravel depsus q alaolithlc). artl-
hclal shell heaps. cav,retreats, encampments
or village sites. earthYorks, old field quar-
ries, workshops, surtce deposits OF nipple
meuts or c ,ches, largerocks ID place, used as
mOrtars. rock inscriptions Ia. stu, burial
places tumuli or mounds. Indian trails.
EGBEET A. briggs. of Amityville. L. l..
was buried at Babylon last week. He was
born at Dix Hills. town of Huntington, il
July, 1897. At the age " IA he suffered from
an attack Of inflammatGy rheumatism, which
left him a cripple. A feT years later n affec-
tion of the spine was developed, and shortl!
after he attained his majority he was RENDERED
helpless by the disease and TOOK TO MS ed
W0cFe n6 renamed unul MS uedbns L Ut III
last thirty years of lEs life he was totally
blind. During the last twenty years he wa
unable to feed himself, or even to raise elthel
hand to his mouth. Several years ago hi
jaws became firmly set, and food could b.
ri ven TO him only With grea' difficulty Dur
ing his long period Of helplessness he wa
carefully and faithfully nursed and waited up
on by his mother, vino is now in her seth year
He has been gradually wasting away. and
his death was reduced TO mere skeleton.
CKEosoTE is the latest candidate for favor
in the race of illuminants, and Lucigen thu
name of an apparatus devised for making US
of Il. 1t is vessel of cylindrical form, capa
BILE of holding thirty gallons, and 1t is htte'
with q special burner having two tubes, on
within The other. leading up 70 1t. Air force.
at moderate pressure into the cylinder cause
the creosote to mount in the inner tube, whicl
dips into the liquid. A portion Of the air dnd
its way 10 HE burner through the annula
space between the two tubes, and when
| lighted match is applied to the burner a fam
| Is produced of such size and brilliancy that j
is said to be useful over circle 300 to 400 yard
| across. The proportions of air and creosot
employed are four and one respectively. I
is rather singular that at the same time tina
We road OF this new light, creosOte has beer
used at Portsmouth for producing heat; Col
onel Sadler, OF Middlesborough. having in
vented an apparatus for generating steam 10
war ships by us aid, with results said TO b.
highly favorable.
CONTRACTING AGENT ABRAMS Of the Chi
cago and Northwestern railway, at New
York received business looking postal carr
on "Wednesday, inviting him to call at noon Oh
the next day AZ the Kings county hydrauli
machine works Kingston avenue and Win
thrOp street. Brook n, ard name the loves
rate TO Omaha on 90 tons of m tch npry' .
He spent near all W Wednesday evening igir
ing on the expected job. Twenty other fire. Oh
agents, unknown To Mr.. Abrams, were SINH
iarly engaged. They had all received posts
cards requesting them to appear at the ma
chin e ufk- ana name tneir rates for traus
porting 700 to Of machinery 10 twenty diff
f,r nj places on this hemisphere The neigh
bpthoOd of Klug-tOn avenue snd Winthrop
street Is saved from being wilderness b
big building that looks ike q I ct1rv Well.
dTes ed men hoped ulmbly up the stone step
OF the building at half hourly intervals on
Thursday mur ing and aske'i the man " no re
spond, TO the jingle Of the bell IL the buildinl
beio, ged o tue ii g county hydraulic g. a,
chine VI rk-. They were all told that IL wal
the Kings county lunatlc asylum, and they
made no further INQUIRY.
IT had to come. Col. p. Donan. the Dakots
statesman aud the one who has done so muci
TO encourage the immigration Of unmarried
women TO the Territory, while remainine
heart whole himself, has written a letter q
the Fargo Argus ami confess d his condition
How Dakota man feels when he il enamored
NAV best be inferred from this quotation
"Tnat dai test. ugostenchantingest oi
pedal terrestrial. Ia visions Of he night. he
fore my mOOnstruck eyes, noat in may dance
long, unceasing whrl OF tiny gaiter boots
I'm bewitched. I'm be-gai crbOoted o. star
Of the strickenhcar'ed ed, beam softly dovrn M.
streaked and striped state Of pleasure and
pain. Of bliss and o anguish. of certai, " AM