Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-09
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mour nam Company Is triumph or the
heraidic art. Upon field engrailed vert,
with bordure purpure, appears shote ram
pant, with two link sausages issuant and
appellant dexter; underneath is the motto:
"ln Hog Signo."
SEVERAL WEEKS AGO the body of man,
supposed to be Jacob Beardsmore, of Berrien
county, Mich, was found near Buchanan. 1t
was not Mr.. Beardsmore, however, and when
he returned home the other day well and
hearty he found the shock of his supposed
death had turned his wIfe's black hair white
ana unbalanced her mind so that she did not
know him.
The sons of Mrs. John Benner, of st. Louis,
a few weeks ago spoke to her about the birth
day dinner they meant to give her on her
ninety first birthday. Although in good
health the old lady SAID: mo, boys. Instead
OF dinner 1t will be a funeral" No atten-
uon was paid to this, but soon after Mrs. Ben
ner began to fail, and just she had pred CT
ed, on her ninety first birthday her sons as
sembled at her funeral.
Mr.. LESTER, of Chicago, having bought
paintings and brio a brac in Paris, has been
caught in an awkward predicament. The
receipted bills for the articles do not agree as
to price with the invoices issued by the art
dealers in Paris. The latter valued the OBJ
jects about $1,000 less than the face of the
bills. The articles have been seized at the
house OF the owner, who aflirms that he did
not know of the er-valuations.
AN ENGLIsHMAN who saw the German EN-
peror at Baden the other day, says: HE
looked very haggard and worn, and had
vacant look in his eyes that seemed to denote
advanced dotage. He has given up his daily
drives. During the last fortnight he only
drove out once or twice. On one of these oc-
casions he called on the Duchess OF Hami-
ton; he walked from the carriage to the house
"a few PAGES only-and the effort was pain
full one"
MHE. DIEULAFoY, who enjoys with Rosa
Bonheur the honor of being a chevaliere of
the Legion of Honor, was proposed for that
distinction last July, but her name was re-
moved in fsvor of the sculptor OF the statue
of Lamartine, which some critics call a
wretched work of art. The cross was handed
her by NJ. Goblet. Minister Of Education, in
that room of the Louvre which contains the
antiquities she and her husband unearthed IN
Suslana.
SOME of the protectionists in Congress who
are violently opposed toa repeal Of the taxes
on wool, which would cheaper the blankets
and clothing of the people, express their will
lingness to reduce the interest taxes on malt
liquors. They recall the refrain of the old
song:
Back and side go bare, go bare;
Both foot and hand go cold,
But bely-GOd send thee good ale enough,
Whether it be new or old.
THE exhibition to be held next year In
Manchester, England, to commemorate the
jubilee of Victoria's reign will offer very large
wall space to the works of artists belonging
to the Victorian epoch. Oils, water cOlOrs,
drawings, enRravings. and statuarv will be
shown. Each artist is allowed six pieces,
which will be grouped together. The dead
artists of Great Britain and Ireland whose
work will appear include Turner. Wilkie.
Stanfield. MulreRuy, Leslie, Landseer, ROS
SETH, +. Walker and de Whit.
ACCORDING to the returns published by the
Statistical Office of the German empire the
number of recruits unable to read or write
who joined the German army last year was
1857, or is per cent. of the men Incorporated.
In 1884 the total was 1851. or l.2l per cent. :;
in 1888 it was 1898, 1.27 per cent; in 1882 1t
was 1892, or 1872 per cent; in 1850 il 400,
or l.59 per cent, ana in 1875 is was 3,3ll, or
81 per cent. The largest PROPORTION OF
illlterate recruits were from the districts of
Marienwerder, Bromberg and POsen.
THE latest thing in book advertising has
been devised by French publishing firm. A
large number of men are made to walk in
single file along the most frequented streets,
apparently intent on reading an open book,
which they hold out before them with both
hands, that. the back of the book can be
seen. The public naturally wishes to know
the title of this work of such absorbing inter
est, and finds on looking that it is a newly
published novel;, 1t is hardly necessary to
add that several of the hired men could not
read a line of it to save their lives.
THE little altar found at Rome in the SAL
Justine gardens has small Cupids carved on
it's side. separated from each other by ex-
quisite decorative designs. Spring is Cupid
holding a basket of flowers in one hand, with
a cloak hanging over it, while flowers are
dropping from the other hand Summer has
a sickle of peculiar shape and in the other
hand a large poppy. Autumn has a skin
about his body and holds q mace in one hand,
while the other touches a basket of grapes.
Winter has shirt on. and rests the right arm
on a jar of wine; the left rests on some object
no longer distnguishable. 1t is thought to
be Greco-Roman work, of the time of
Hadrian.
FRANK HATToN, once Postmaster General,
now editor Of the Chicago Mail. tells how he
enlisted for the wa. He was but a boy and
thought it would be fun to run away from his
nome in Cadiz, o.. and join regiment at
Nenia, in which his brother-in-law was
Captain. 1t was awfully rainy and muddy.
and after night in camp the boy had enough
and ash ed the Captain to telegraph to his
father, saying that he WAS in camp, ard ask
ing what TO do. Frank confidently expected
to get orders to return home before he was
sworn in. but to his horror the telegram that
came from his stern and patriotic father read ::
swear him in" and he was sworn in and
A CURIOUS LITTLE STORY was told me il
Illustrative of the snobbishness of London go
ciety and of the real kindness of heart in the
family of the Prince of Wales. There is In
London an American dentist who is very
skillful in his profession. and. among other
people. has attended the Princess of Wales,
He was invited TO one of the annual garden
parties at Marlborough House, and met there
nearly fifty of his patients. They cut him to
man. Soon after he found himself face to
face with the Prince and Princess, and they
at once gave nim the most cordial reception
and shook him warmly by the hand. AT once
every one of the fifty patients pressed IN to
the lucky dentist, and shook hahds with equal
warmth.
W. II. SoNNER, OF Fort Worth, Tex, has
n maidstone that has been used over one hum
dred times and with success. 1t has history.
In IS4S Capt. Wilson. OF Alabama, killed a
white deer, ana, knowing the Indian theory,
looked in its stomach, and there found stone
as large as goose egg that resembled Det RI
fed sponge. This was the maidstone. The
Indian theory ia that the white deer is more
susceptible to vegetable pOlsons taken into
the stomach when eaten with grass than other
AM M ais. To preserve the life OF the animal
nature has placed in the stomach this porous
stone, which abeorbs the poison. neutraliZes IL
and saves the deer's life. The stone, applied TO
a bite into which poison has been Injected. nc
once draws 1t out, and when its pores are filed
drops of. Being soaked in mix the stone Is
made pure again and ready for another appli-
cation.
A RECENT BOOK on Siam contains a descrjp-
ton of the way in which sacred images are
made for the Buddhists. In making the