Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

IT is zone of the great millionaires" who
testifes that human happiness ends after a
man has accumulated beyond his first mil
hon."
THE latest discovery of English medical
science is said to be that scarlet fever and
| scarletina are transmitted in milk from tho
! COW TO the human subject.
A CHICAGO PAPER asks: "Who says we
| have no ruins in American Another brick
| building has fallen in ST. Louis. The poor
| old town is crumbling away faster even than
! was anticipated"
WITH the compliments of st. Louis paper
to Chicago: with dozen OF her best citizens
! on trial for bomb throwing, with not dollar
| in her county treasury, with her racing sea-
| son disastrous failure, with the Canada
| thistle in full bloom in all her streets, and the
! Hennepin canal steal defeated in the House,
I poor old Chicago is in a very bad way, in
| deed"
! TWO young men of Warwick, N. y, went
! fishing at Wayayanda Lake a few days ago.
In building near the shore they heard some
| one playing on an old violin. They liked the
tone OF the instrument, ana finally one of them
| bought it for $40. The new owner took 1T to
| New York for repairs, and was told there that
| 1t was genuine Stradivarius, and was worth
| about $1,000.
THE founder of the Campbell family was
| Beauchamp, Norman from Rouen, who fol-
| lowed William the Conqueror, to whom Will
| liam gave large estates in England. In the
| thirteenth century it was customary among
| the nobility to give Latin names TO their es
| tates. Beauchamp translated in Latin m akes
| campo Beilo; translated in Saxon English 1t
| means Fairfield.
NJ. CLEMENoEAU is going to Carlsbad. A
marriage has been arranged between his
brother, Nj. Paul Clemenceau and Viennese
heiress, and all the prelmlnaries having been
DhoN.n
the family is paying the brides family the
| compliment of going so ask for her hand Off
ciHlly. Nj. Paul Clemenceau is a young and
accomplished man.
DoMENCIo MoRELLT is at present engaged
on picture which has stimulated the curl
osity of art circles in Rome. Report says that
| the subject ia taken from the libretto of Yer
dis yet unfinished opera 'Iago," and that
painter and composer have entered into a SOL
emn compact that no one is to know anything
| about the picture or its subject until the opera
| has been actually performed.
THERE is a story of a brave and magnani-
nous French officer who ran the risk of his
opponents fire, letting his own pistol off in
another direction, but who, unfortunately.
paid insufficient heed to the direction taken
| by the bullet. "Monsieur," exclaimed this
| officer to his foe, "je vous rends la vie - and
he fell into noble attitude, fired his pistol
| behind him, and killed one of his own seconds
| on the spot.
| THE Commune of Zwittau few DAYS ago
received from Mr.. Oswald Ottendorfer, New
York. the second and last installment of that
gentleman's munificent gift of 200. 900 forms
| for the erection, in his above named native
| town, OF poOrhouse and orphan asylum. 1t
| was accompanied by letter, in which the
donor announces his visit at the end of Au-
gust or beginning of September. His bust,
| which Is to ornament the facade of the build
| ing, mas just been finished In Vienna.
The visitor 10 any 81 thu oi+iaa 49, 49,.
pose the hub of the Saginaw Valley, Michi-
gan, is forcibly struck with the large number
of ingerless, handles and armless men and
| boys that are to be seen during an hours walk
| on the busiest thorouEhfares. A correspond
| ents curiosity was 80 excited by this circum-
| stance that he sought an explanation from an
| acquaintance, who suggested visit to one OF
| the saw mills on the river bank. The saw
mill is the explanation for the absence of
| arms, hands and fingers.
A GREAT deal of the typhoid fever preva-
| lent IN that part of Pittsburg known as the
South Side is attributed to the fact that many
| of the houses are built on made ground, COW
ering low land on which natural water
| courses have been filed up. The rains in the
Allegheny and Monongahela watersheds have
| made the river water at Pittsburg very mud
dy, and although it would probably be more
| wholesome for all that than well water, the
| South Side people have been drinking the
! well water, into which various impurities
have found their way from the artificial soil.
LILLE and Bessie Bishop, aged respective
! ly II and Ia years. residing in South Boston.
went down to Nantucket Beach for an excur-
sion on Thursday. Here they met two Young
men, who took the girls to get omething to
| eat. While IN tine Restaurant one of the men
| offered Lille glass of sherry, which abe
| drank. They I'll en- tried to entice her away
from her sister, but she refused, and whi'e
| arguing, fell to the ground in a swoon The
| young sister went after help, and after an
| hours hunt found doctor. He said h Young
girl had been rrugGed. and given so much
| that her case was hopeless. She was taken
home after lying on wharf two hours un-
| conscious.
THE Lewiston Me- Journal says that a
! curious natural phenomenon that puzzles
| everybody OF more or less pretensions to
scientific attachments has occurred in the
town of Dubois, IN Washington county-just
| when nobody knows. A large body of earth.
| chiefly sand, by some action of nature was
| removed from the side of dry sandy hill
called the Pineo field, leaving an open chan
| mel or hole extending into the hill about 200
feet, being 30 feet deep at the head and per
| haps 40 or so feet wide, as near as il could be
| judged without measuring. After the sand
in it's course left the base Of the hill and here
| the channel was contracted and quite narrow
! 1t extended long distance into piece OF
woods spreading over wide space, burying
the underbrusn and leaving the trees standing
| intact.
A NEW YORK paper says three woodcock
were known to be on Staten Island last Mon
day when the season opened. They sucked
their mud Juleps in a small thicket back of
Sailors Snug Harbor. Among those who
! hunted and shot at them and missed them
| were: Ed. Burfield, the champion seal can
| turer; Prof Harry Jones, the Stapleton snan
| snot; lack Purdy, who has the best pointer in
| Iomkinsville; G.. NJ. Dodge, who owns the
| Panama fox terrier; President Frank Endi-
! colt, OF the Projection for Game Association.
! Baron Fielder. John Woods, the old tran
| shot; and Mr.. Bostwick, who gets up early To
! hunt. The birds would be sure to AFFORD
much amusement in the future had they not
| been shot on Thursday by little I3-year-old
! Stewart Opilby. He took two home and thew
| were eaten by Pop 0gilby. The boy savs he
killed the other bird, but could not find il.
JEWELLERS along the shore of Cayuga Lake
have been very much exercised Ivy the alleged
| existence OF monster sea-serpent in that
body of water. Several persons OF veracity
clam they have seen the reptile recently. On
| Tuesday last Capt. Fred wer, of tho Yacht
| "Wanderer,' saw the serpent in the vi
| entity OF Atwater's, where 1t had been seen
| by several different people. He concluded to
| investigate the matter and upon nearing the
! fearful object he discovered IT, to be nothing
more nor less than an old water soaked pile
about thirty feet long, which had floated from
neighboring dock. The lower end OF the tim
| Der was so water soaked that 10 was comnleta-