Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-06-21
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/ town OF Kent, Stephenson county, where q
| monument is to be erected.
| THE manufacture of solid carbonic acid gas
has become a settled industry in Berlin. 1t is
putt in small cylinders. and if kept under
/ pressure VIII last some time-that is, a cylin-
| der one and One-half inches in diameter and
/ TWO inches long VIII take FIVE hours to melt
away into gas.
A GOAT in herd at Lamerigue, France,
finding the waistcoat of the goatherd lying
about, nibbled at some paper sticking out of
one or the pockets, and when the owner of the
yesture returned he found that the animal
mad devoured 9G0f. in bank notes out of a
bundle OF ,SOOf., which he had saved up. The
goat is doing well.
The Cornell crew, which it was expected
would row at Philadelphia for the Childs cup,
has dsbanded because of a lack of funds.
there being but S25 left in the treasury after
the purchase Of the new shell, while the trip
TO Pmladel phia would cost upwards of $500.
The Childs cup, which Cornell now holds, will
De forfeited in consequence.
A GREEDY HEN, belonging to Mrs. Hummer
of GAINESVILLE, o., ate so much that her crop
became clogged. and she was IN danger Of
dying. Mrs. Hummer was equal to the
emergency. She clipped the feathers off the
crop, then opened 1t with a sharp knife, re-
moved the contents, deitly sewed it mp again,
ana the hen Is now the mother of a fine brood
OF chicks.
changed to saloon An absent minded
preacher who had been one of the barber's
regular customers dropped in and, seeing
crowd ahead of him, sat down to wait his
TURN. me men at the bar thinking that the
preacher had come to learn their names. fed
in dismay. Then the good man discovered h
error and quickly left
YESTERDAY the first private house in
Boston to be lighted with eli ctricity was
illuminated from the Weston Companv's CEN
tral station" says the Boston Transcript of
June l6. at was DR. BaTtlett's. next door to
the VendOme, on Commonwealth avenue
ne only other in this region Is the Waltham
residence of the Hon. Robert Treat Paine
which was lighted by plant of its own
three weeks ago"
EVERY YEAR at this season John H. starin
gives an iexcursion to the veteran Union SOL
dlers and sailors of New York and Brooklyn.
The one for the current season came off re-
Gently and was decided success. The place
OF rendezvous was Excelsior Park, up the
Hudson, and the total number of persons par
tlcipating was between $4,000 and Is. 900, to &C
cominOuate which the services of four steam
boats and six barges were called into requisi
tlon. The music was supplied by a band OF
ITO pieces.
HOW much Capt. Sam Brown really won on
Troubadour's victory is a question botheripg
the Eastern race men. Some say sec. 900,
others $S5, 900 and some 500. 900. The New
A"IA WoIlu says MS winnings In bets aggre-
gated $4,000. The st. Louis Globe Democrat
says before the public knew anything about
Iroubadour recovering his form this epring
hls owner succeeded in placing $500, at odds
~ to ], on him for the Suburban. That in
vestment alone Melted $4,000 to Can't Brown
who Is said 60 have won at least 500 900 more
on the race. Rogers. his trainer, won Sl4, 900
on an investment of 5000.
THERE is a law in Pennsylvania which pro-
vides that no deed for property executed by
married man is valid without the wife,s
signature, the object being to protect wo-
mans right OF dover IN her husbands estate
rhe spirit of the law is entirely frustrated
however. by the fact that the wife's signature
IS not necessary to mortgage. and many
cases occur In which imprOVident husbands
mortgage their properties for their fun yaIue
TO The entire exclusion of the wife's legal
rights. In New York and other States the
law is more consistent, and a wife must be
party TO mortgages as well as other instru-
ments.
THE Mental Science University of Chicago
has just conferred degrees upon thirty-seven
graduates. This institution teaches the sci
ence of mental healing, commonly known "a
the faith cure. Disease is simply fear and
the true treatment Of disease the efore is to
drive out fear and replace it by faith. The
President of the college says that Garfield and
Grant might have been saved in this wav.
The names OF the graduates are not published
because several of them are regular physi-
N
was known that thew believed in mental heal
ing. The mental healers expect eventually
to drive the regular physicians to the wall
THE quail harvest is now delighting Italian
spOrtsmen. Every spring enormous flights of
quails pass over the coasts OF Italy on their
way from their African homes TO more tenn
perate cllmes Tor the warm weather. and
numbers OF the birds are so exhausted by the
journey that they fall an easy prey to the gun
or net. SO many are taken in Capri that the
Bishop levles a small tax on each bird killed,
and has accordingly acquired the nickname
of the "Blsh0p of the Quails" King Hum
bert is especially food of quail shooting and
left mis- Ministers in the lurch the other morn
ing, rushing of to castle POrziano on recejv-
ing the news that fight Of his favorite birds
was in the neighborhOod.
THE shipping community of Montreal ex-
press considerable surprise and indignation
at the action of the owners of the island of
AnticOsti in Selling salvage from the wrecked
Dominion line steamer Brooklyn which was
put up at auction In Quebec Thursday. The
claim OF the owners of the island Is based
upon the presumption that their proprietor
ship includes the shores. contrary to the gen
orally accepted law, which regards the sea
shore as puble property. II is said that the
owners of the island claim that they become
owners of all vessels wrecked on their shores
and color is lent to this statement BY the fact
that the seizure on salvage landed at Quebec
was for its full value, $4,000
Il REMEMBER, says q writer in the CHICAGO
Inter-Ocean, THAT one of the most daring
and strongest willed men in our regiment was
much given to laughing at the poor fellows
who went down under disease or Who COM
planned much OF what we called mere scra tcbes
OF wounds. For two years 1t seemed that he
was proof against all troubles Incident TO
army life, but one day as he stood in line of
battle, as fine specimen OF soldierly spirit
and courage as / ever saw. there came bonnd-
ing and rolling toward the line heavy cam
non ball fired from one Of the large guns Of
the enemy The temptation to slop a spinning
ball OF this kind was so strong that most SOL
diers nerved themselves up to the point of re-
sisting the Inclination TO give the apparently
harmless ball kick. The only man to Weld
to the temptation was my superb soldier, lie
put out his foot with a smile ON his face and
went down shattered, manned and helpless
he shock made him on the instant as helpless
as a babe"
THE special agent Of an Eastern insurance
company was IN Pittsburg recently and was
giving some anecdotes Of experiences in vari-
Gus paris of Pennsylvania. If was in Tama-
qua not long ago." said the agent, 'and / was
told that the town had new fire engine and
had provided n first-cass team and ali the
essentials OF good department. The local
insurance men Congratulated themselves on
the arriva Of the machine aud on the prOmpt
service 10 woHld render In the future. They
asked me 10 go ami see the engine, and went
Just as we got to the door Of the engine house
there was an alarm of fire. We found the
horses hitched and tue men standing around.
The gineer didn't seem 10 be In a hurry 10
get out, aud after a lew minutes / said.
Wasn't that an alarm Of nreY Il gueeg IL