Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-05
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! BALLET DANCER named Luca Resta was
| arrested in Paris the other evening, charged
with murder. 1t was subsequently discovered
that he was the same person who has long
been searched for by the Italian police Tor no
fewer than sixteen murders.
A TORONTO CAT is credited with remark
able intelligence. She saw a rat about to go
/ through a small knothole in tight board
fence, and, knowing that she could not reach
the rat before he reached the hole, she went
over the fence like shot, and captured him
on the other side.
LOUISIANA sPORTsMEN have hitherto been
careful not to shoot the white cranes which
abound in ST. Landry, but now large numbers
OF these beautiful birds are being killed
solely for their feathers, which are used on
the wearing apparel of women. There should
be an Audubon society in Louisiana.
FALL RIVER BOYS had lots OF fun throwing
green apples at a lot of English sparrows the
| other evening; but after awhile the sparrows
apparently organized, for they made a dash
at the boys. flew straight at their faces, and
pecked some of them until the blood ran, and,
according to local paper, actually forced the
boys to retreat.
ON a recent Sunday the Rev. Joseph Scott,
of Springfield, Mass, was very late at church.
AS he arose to begin his sermon he said: 81
am very seldom late at church; my horse
gave out this morning and | had 70 walk.
You Will find my text IN Psalms xxi, 9: BE
no understanding
IT is SAID that the Zion Hebrew congrega-
ton of st. Paul has adopted heroic method
for testing the sermonlzng qualities of a can
dldate for its pulpit He is not permitted to
lre his very best sermon at the congregation,
but committee meets HIM on the way to
church, gives him text, and he Is expected
to preach from 1t without further noCce.
lens of thousands of baskets of cherries ar
rive in London every week during he season
| from Holland and Germany. If it pays to
! send them so far, | cannot understand why
| land owners in the home counties do not Ego
in" for extensive cherry orchards. The de-
! mand for cherries is enormous. and increases
| every year, and understand that remuner-
| alive price Is always forthcoming.
YOUNG CITIZEN of Guelph. Can, going
| home the other night, was asked by a woman
! to aid her in getting her husband INTO the
| house. The young man complied He seized
| the lnebrlate, who was lying by the fence, and
after much nard work got him into the house
| and on Il couch. The fearful woman thanked
| him warmly, lighted lamp, and screamed.
| The drunken man was not her husband. He
! came home quite sober few minutes later.
| IN the July number of the Zeitschrift fur
Meteorologie Prof. j. Ham combats the
| opinion, not uncommon among tourists in the
mountains, that a thunder storm may be OBJ
served below the standpoint of the spectator,
Prof. Ham thinks that this can only happen
on the summit of very high mountains, as
careful Investigations on the Alps have con-
WINGED HIM that the height above the earth of
tine lowest stratum of clouds in a thunder
storm is never less than 4.200 feet, while gen
orally 1T Is more than $500 feet. The appar-
ent play Of lightning beneath the spectator is
simply due to an optical deluson.
TUE lot of the average monarch is not an
extremely happy one. An English Stats
| tician has recently compiled statement of
| the number of sovereigns who, within the
| historical era, have come TO violent or irno-
| minlous ends. On his list are 2 $50 Kings and
! kmperors, reignng over seventy-four ma
| tons, Or these 800 were overthrow, GA were
| deposed, % committed suicide, % became IN
| sane or lmbecile, 100 were killed in battle, 1913
we're captured by the enemy, 70 were tortured
| to death. Isl were assas5inated. and los were
| hanged, shot or beheadFd by their subjects
| Less than ole-thIrd lived out their reigns
| prosperOu5ly.
PROF. HACKEL writes thus concerning the
| frequency of insanity among the reigning
! houses: ALREADY the famous aienist. Es-
! qurol, proved that the proportion of insane
| members of governing families to those of the
| rest OF mankind Is as sixty to one. If similar
| statistics concerning the hereditary nobility
| could be gathered IL would probably be found
| that the arIstOcracy, too furn shes a much
larger contingent OF mental diseases than the
| ordinary people. The reason lies IN the nm
| natural or One-sided education, and in the ar
| uticial separation Of the "prlvileged" caste
| from the rest Of the world. This favors The
| development OF the dark sides of human ma
| ture. which are artificislly propagated. and.
| according to the laws of heredity, transmitted
with redoubled power from generation to gen
| GRAFTON"
| SENATOR SHERMAN has contracted a new
and apparently distasteful habit, if the ex-
| preston of his face is any criterion. AS soon
as dinner Is finished, and if his duties in the
| senate permit, his carriage is ordered for
| drive, nut before entering the vehicle the
| a - lInhfc
| cigar. Then the trouble begins, and q bow
| with his first cut-a-siX could not be mora
careful with il than the Ohio statesman is
| with his digestive stimulaut. 1t is held GIN
! 2erly between the thumb and fOrefnger of
| the right hand, and pnffs are taken at inter
walls OF a minute. Every time the Senator
| gets mouthful OF smoke his face assumes a
wish hadn't dOne-it" expression. and the
| sOiicitude manifested for the safety of the
| cigar is suggestive that the Senator Is afraid
the weed IS going to be sick.
TIE Bishop of Ajaccio was on his way from
q DIOCESAN meeting at Piedicroce, Corsica.
when he was stopped about eight miles from
| that village by two men, who, presenting at
! the same time their rifles at him ordered
him to get out OF his carriage. He obeyed
their injunctIons and offered to ACCOMPANY
| them, thinking that one of them had O. AIRED
| Oh some young girl and wanted him to ner-
| form the marriage ceremony. He WAS soon
| undecelvef. for their motive was not to ex.
! tort money from hlEl, bat to extort from him
! q promise tnat he would remove the curatp ~
| village in the neighborhOod who had Of
| Tended them. The Bishop mad no alternative
| but to promise that he would do So and The
| brlgands then decamped, leaving him in such
| nervous condition that he has been IN ever
since. Owing to the misplaced leniency Of
| jurymen, who bring in verdicts accomDaniad
| by eXtenuating circumstances there has
been great Increase of hrigandage during
! the last few years, there being at the presenf
! time more than 500 brigands in the forests
| who succeed in eluding the pursuit of Inc
gendarmes, and do not scruple to meet them
| In open fight.
THE illustrious Blowltz is ALWAYS ready a
use hlmseH"to point moral or adorn a
tale" yelling on the way Gen. Boulanger
! turns to account the French love of tinery he
! relates the following: Fourteen years aga
| Theirs visited Roucn. | was there among
| those who accompanied him. Ihad returned
| from hurried visit TO the Valley of the Neck
er, whence had brought with nue.. ms q son-
! venlr, red cap, richly decorated with gold
| lace, OF the Find worn as fancy dress by stu
| dents IN the Rhine countries. [ had IL with
| me, anu made use of il as travelling can
| AT Nantes THEIRS came down from his car
! rage and walked about on the railway plat-
! form, lie beckOned to ne to 20 to him. and
| naturally took OF my cap to speak to him
II was rather cold. Theirs said politely 'put
! nyour cap. When had done 80 he said:
| what magnificent cap you have; where
| did you pick up that splendid head drAssg,
! and he burst into laugh. There was then a