Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

he built fire under balky horse.
FARMER of Scotia, Neb., found particles
of gold from the size of pin head to pea
seventy feet below the surface while digging
a well.
AN Iowa MAN who had been converted at a
revival meeting groaned so long and loud
over his sins that he was arrested and fined
$40 for disOrderly conduct.
GERMANY has eight schools of forestry,
| where five years trainingi is required OF those
who seek positions under the government,
/ although cOnr-e Of study half as long may be
| taken by amateurs.
ROUGE POT full Of rouge still 1T for use
was lately excavated at Naucrats, so that
| the modern young lady might appear with all
the color Of the GrecIan belle, if she could
| borrow the rouge pot.
A LEGEND says that the devil gave a hermit
the choice of three great vices, one of which
was drunkenness. The hermit chose this as
| being the least sinful. He became drum k,
and then committed the other two.
NEW YORK JUDGE has ruled that a hus-
band is liable for slanderous words spoken by
his wife, and on this ruling verdict Of SIX
| cents was rendered by jury against man
whose wife had uttered the SANDER.
AT THE recent marriage at Vienna of the
daughter Of the Grand Duke Of Tuscany, to
| principal ladies In attendance wore dress
trains from thirteen to nineteen feet long.
THE Salvation Army has reason to be en-
couraged at its success in Kalamazoo. Sixty
eight sinners have protested to be converted
! since 10 sounded its first war cry there. and
OF these all but three are keeping the faith,
| while twenty have enlisted as earnest and
| Yocllerous soldiers.
A LABOR-sAvING YANKEE Of Chapinville,
! Conn, has rugged a crank attachment to a
! wheel Of his wagon connecting 1t with churn
! that he places IN the wagon; and when the
| cream Is all ready he dumps it into the churn,
! bitches up his horse and takes ride return
| ing home in due time with nice mess Of but
ter that has indeed come very easily.
| ACATTLE DEALER in Pomerania was trying
| to teach calf to drink by letting it suck his
fingers. In the operation the calf sucked off a
ring from the hand of the dealer, who didn't
/ then notice the loss. He solo the animal, and
| week after read in the ButcAets' Gdsette that
! in the stomach OF a calf slaughtered in Berlin
| his ring, mlnutely described, had been found.
LIEUT. ADAMsoN, Z S. N, has written to
relatives in Fond du Lac, Wis, that his ship
the Iroquojs, is en- route to the Easter Island,
| 1000 miles from the coast of Peru, to examine
anu photograph Tor the Smithsonian Institute
the remains Of an unknown race. 1t is said
that one of the islands is covered with re-
markable ruins, and that the present resi-
dents are unlike any other people.
ABOUT five miles from Hadsmar, in Nassau.
a depression of the ground is taking place,
which is alarming the neighborhood, and is
beginning to attract the attention Of scientific
men. The region is one of extinct volcanoes,
and the formation of small gaps and crevices
- OF not infrequent occurr, nee, This time the
depression is on a large scale, its diameter be-
| Ing mile in length.
THE most conscientious man of the "Bovcott
Convention in California was DR.. May, of
San Francisco. He stopped at a boarding
house where no Chinese servants were EN-
plOyed. Only Japan tea was served at the
table. White sugar, manufactured by the
Spreekels refinery from the Spreckes planta-
! ton, " as not used, because Chinese are en-
ployed IN It's production, refining and trans
portation.
THE MEANEsT MAN in Rondout is known as
"The SPONGE" He never buys a newspaper
or advertises in one. but he knows the value
of advertising, for he said to a freeman re-
porter the other day: "If you want an item
you might say that --, the enterprlsIng
dealer, has gone to the city on a visit to
| friends, but will combine business with pleas
ure by bringing back spring stock of deslra-
bic goods"
THE first slave ship in this country was the
ship d sire, built in 1885, at Marblehead, in
the State of Massachusetts,. The first cargo
OF slaves aside from few brought in
Dutch ship was imported in the ship Desire,
into the harbor of Salem, Mass, in 1898. One
hundred and fifty years afterward the Rev.
Jeremy Belknap, in his history of Massachu-
setts, says that rum distilled in Boston was
the handspring to the slave traffic.
IT has been decided to place so stand of rifles
in the Treasury Department at Washington
with which to equip the watchmen, so that
they Will be prepared IN case Of an emer-
geency, Investigation shows that the men,
1 80 in all, are poorly supplied with weapons
and II has been thought advisable to remedy
| the evil A. once. Breech- leaders will be pur-
chased and conveniently located for use and
each Waterman Il be compelled to keep his
| rife in good order for inspection.
AN OFFICE has been opened at Brussels for
the sale OF orders. Four hundred francs are,
says circular, to be paid on application.
which will be returned If the order be not
procured. The tariff is ~ follows: A com
mander's cross of a papal order, {, 500 francs:
Nicham (Tunsl round tne NECK, 1850 francs:
Nlcham (Iunls) IN the buttonhole, 1000 francs:
st. Sylvester an St. Gregory Gtaly), $500
francs; Order Of Christ (PortugaD, 5000
francs; Isabella the Catholic Spain, 1000
francs, and Order Of Venezuela, 1900 francs
A REMARKABLE CASE in surgery has been
developed at san Antonio which will 20 down
in the works OF medical Jurisprudence as a
cruise ceiebre. A few days ago an Alsatian
Jew. Ernest Schiling. attempted TO co.i nit
suicide by shooting himself with a thirty
eight callhre revolver through the left te pie.
The bail penetrated and lodged in the frontal
lobe of the BRAN, and IS still there The
wound did not render him UNCONSCIOUS. and
when seen this en- NJ he was comfortably
seated IN his store, apparently free from pain
and in the best OF spirits occupying his time
in reading and smoking when not engaged IN
attending to the wants Of his customers.
IN HIS NEW BOOK telling of life In Corea
Percval Lowell mentions this matter of in
terest for those whose curiosity is so healthful
as to run round the globe itself: Four little
stars fash out upon the brow OF Nam San.
the great South Mountain, within sight Of
the chief city, soul. POISED so high in the
heavens says Mr.. Lowell. "they might well
be the light from other worlds" But IN
fact, they are watch fires, signal to the
city that all ia well In Corea. They burn for
fifteen minutes and vanish. All through tho
country Gordon Of such beacons is rstah-
lshed, which transmits the message of peace
and safety daily, or rather nightly, to the
capital.
"PAssGvR RESISTANCE" in Ireland has some
humor. AtBallysimon, near Limerick. fortv-
four head Of cattle we're advertised to be sold
for non payment Of rent Preceded by two
donkeys, decorated with gay ribbons.
the cattle were driven into Lin
erick. followed by great crowd OF
jolly. boisterOus people. The auction
Ger, fearing the unmerclful Ruying 81 the nnI-
ttude. refused 70 perform his Office The
sheriff was appealed 70, and he also declined,
Had q seller been found IL was morally GER
la IA no "a ~.