Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! euiubTs 10 luTulhu SOIlc Iu.uOpsOOu pOuAiAS "a
iagot copper, report says, at as low f1gure
! as l0c. per pound. This is the heaviest trans
/ action of the kind that has been reported for
! long while.
A PRETTY STYLE of envelopes and note
sheets is just now fashionable among the
| young ladies in the Catsklls. They are made
of birch bark green from the tree upon whic II
there is no difficulty in writing. The envelope
Is secured after the birch sheet is enclosed by
dainty blue or red ribbon fastened at the
lap and then tied about the missiye.
FLORENCE SCHUsTAR and Frank Hooper
live in St. Louis, Mo-, and are both popular.
Florence went visitlng in Leavenworth and
Frank went over to see her. He asked her to
take walk, and before they returned the
two were married. The next day they went
home. and, as the account says. "were warm
ly welcomed BIZ hosts Of admiring friends"
PETER HAWK, blacksmith of Lakton, Ind,
went to Wabash, and Bill Tower and Joe
Dunfer got him drunk. Then Joseph Foster,
hitherto reputable barber, personated po-
lCeman and threatened TO lock~i1aWk up I'M
less he paid him something. Hawk turned
over all the money he had, but was not so
drunk bat that he remembered the transac-
ton, and next day he had the three arreste q.
The barber SAID 1t was all a little joke. lie
is likely to pay dearly for it,
DURING the recent balloon voyage OF Messrs.
L'Hoste aud Mangot between Cherbourg and
London, NJ. L'Hoste made some interesting
| experiments TO d etermine the feasibility of
using balloons for war purnos0s The Hro-
nauts maneuvred while passing over ships, and
| threw down unlOaded torpedoes, which, II
! charged with dynamite, would have played
! sad havoc, for the aim was almost uniformly
| successful. The result seems to establish the
! Importance OF the balloon in future warfare.
AT the last meeting of the New York Typo
graphical Society one of the oldest members-
Mr. Robert Smith, OF Raverstraw. n. WAS
|
| 1918, and says he can to-day set a column
! about as well as ever. Mr.. Smith has shaken
| hands with all the Presidents from Jackson
| to Cleveland inclusive. He was recently pre-
| sented to President Cleveland as the oldest
! compositOr in the United States. which he I'M
! doubtedly lie. Mr.. Cleveland thought he car
| RED his age well, and hoped he would live for
some years yet.
| A BRANDON, ONT, journalist about to be
| married learned that another person was very
! anxious to take the brldegroom's place in the
| proposed ceremony, and in order to prevent
! any underhand work he borrowed a shotgun
! and for a week before the day fixed for the
wedding day he kept watch nightly over the
! premises occupied by the girl of his choice, IN
| doubt as to whether funeral or a marriage
was the more probable event. Fortunately
however, no opposition offered, he was
! duly married as per arrangement, and sent
home the shotgun on the following day.
THE following characteristic anecdOte about
the Comte de Paris is going the rounds of the
clubs: The Comte was receiving his friends
| at Eu on the eve of his departure, when a
| we'll known Orleanist nobleman, in making
| his adieu, observed: II will say au revoir
| monseigneur. because 1 hone that you will
| graclously permit me to pay my respects to
| you every year of your exile, wherever YOU
may chance to be.' every year," eXclaifue ed
the COmte de Paris, IN an emphatic tone
mo, no; glad as shall be to see you, mona
mi, | sincerely hope you will have the oppor-
| tunlty of c0ming only once"
SPEAKING Of names, those OF many of the
cottages at Bar Harbor are interesting for
their Oddness. Here are some of them: otter
Nest" "Astlcon, ""Magnum Donum" Bishop
| Doane's). "ROckend," Eye Haven" "Abewr
druh," "Edgemere," ''Marigold," "Uhkans,"
| villa Marevista," "Toppingwold." "Bunga-
| lOw," "Beaudesert," "ClOvercroft," The
sea Urchins." "Mainstay." .'MizzentOp,"
| "Mossey Hail." "SOnogee," "Villa Mary"
witch Clyff." "Jacqueminot" 1.-The Band
box" 'Fernirest," ''Devistone'' Wander
| bit's), casa Far Niepte." In ana around
| Bar Harbor there are in al about l20 cot
tages. They are most all OF striking style.
AN English paper tells an anecdote of an
American LADY, who was invited by the Prince
and Princess of Wales to a garden party, ex-
cusing herself from attending on the grounds
| of a previous engagement, and it sneers at
| the American lady Tor not knowing that royal
| invitations in this country are commands,
| This" saws Vanity Fair. 'Is all rubbish. The
| only roy al invitations that are commands are
those of the sovereign herself. Neither the
| invitations of the Prince of Wales nor those
| of the Duke of Tecg or Prince Henry of Bat
tenUerg are commands in any sense of the
word. The sovereign alone can command her
subjects on their alleG ,ance, and she can only
com mand her own subjects. Her power OF
| command docs no. extend to an American or
to any other foreigner"
CAPT. JACK CRAWFORD, formerly chief Of
scouts in the Sioux and Apache campaigns.
was bitten on the back of the right hand by
| rattlesnake Sunday evening while en- route
from his mines IN the South Oscra mountains
| to his bone at Fort Craig. He had lust killed
one monster snake with his whipstock, and
| tant struck another with his foot, when il
| sprang up and fastened its fangs in His hand
lie selzed the reptile with his left hand and
| tore 1t loose and stamped it to death and at.
| once sucked the wound, extracting the Dol SON
| which act undoubtedly saved his life. He
then drove to the post, distance OF THIRTY
! miles. suffering the most intense pain His
hand and arm are frlghtfully swollen and he
is very sick man yet. The physician thinks
| he may recover.
THE city of Paris has become lately the
possessor Of a remarkable collection of docu-
ments, which Will have great interest IN years
to come for historical investigators This was
the series OF death warrants, extending from
| April Z, 1908, to December s, 1892 belonging to
| Samson, the notorious headsman of the Reyo-
luton. The collection was bound up in nIne-
| teen volumes, and samson has pref Sed To
each volume summary of the conteuts
! During twenty-five years he executed Z la
capital sentences, being an average of 2l7
executions in each yedr-rRther q 6usv life
During the twenty-five years he only twice
assembled the scaffoid wltnout fatal result
once in 1915, when Gen. Count Lavalette was
to have been executed for completely in the
return Of Napoleon, but escaped the night be-
fore his intended execution through the hero
IAN of his wife. The second time was in 1917
| when Phillippe-Jean Antoine, a noted coiper
was respited at the last moment by Louis
XVII.
EDWARD DE MATTos, Managing Director of
the London Traders Qimited). writes from
No. II Great ST. Helens, July 2I:"With refer
ence to the paragraph in your issue OF
| July 20, reporting special meeting of the
| Committee OF the Workingmen's Lord DAVIS
| Rest Association as affecting the Steamship
| Great Eastern, TO which my attention has
| been called. shall be glad If you would per-
| nit me, on behalf of the owners of the vessel
| TO state that the steamer being let under a
| charter party we have no power TO restrain
| the charters from exhibiting her on SUNDAYS
| AT the same time the exhibition is proceed
| ing in very harmless fashion, and [ am
! moreover, glad TO state that have informa-
ton that the sacred music hitherto held on
board on Sundays has been stopped. Although
the number visiting the ship on week days Is
| very large, her spacious decks afford sum-
I Cipnt a hoard or a n