Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-11-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

BASE BALL has been introduced in o the
Plttsburg Insane Asylum for the physical and
mental Improvement of the inmates.
Two Italian sawdust swindlers robbed a
New Haven peanut peddler of 1854 by offering
MIN chance 10 make $4,000 out of nothing.
MIsLED by dispatches from Bismarck, a
young attache OF German embassy in one OF
the European capitals LOST $1,000, 900 IN stock
spec
VERMONT pays its judges $4,000 and there is
scheme 10 raise the salaries to $4,000, with
soUO Tor expenses. The Green Mountain q ov-
ernor gets $1,000.
PRIMROSE LEAGUE Flannel, which has
prinroses printed on it's cream ground, is
used for the waistcpats OF dark green and
black frocks in England.
The increas in the registered vote of Los
Angeles over that OF two years ago is about
$500. The population of the CITY as indicated
DY the registration is now about $4,000 OF
10000.
PARTISAN DOLLS are now constructed after
the model of famous actresses. Sarah Bern
hardt, Mary Ander on and other theatrical
celebrities appear faithfully represented in
the wax piaythings.
\ METHODIST PREACHER in Virginia has
hit upon plan of quleiing his congregation
when it makes too much noise with shouts
ana amens under religious excitement, He
passes around the hat.
BY his own desire the late Marquis of Allies
bury's coffin was made of the wood OF tn IA
nous King OAK, long the glory of Savernake
forest. ThAt tree shaded an area lS0 feet in
diameter, and its trunk was more than eight
Ieet Chlck. 1t was cut down in 1910.
A ST. LOUIS CLERGYMAN devised a pretty
present for bride whose marriage service
he read the other day He wrote out the
the words of the ceremony IN a pretty little
volume in which the marriage certificate
was bound. with The a itograp BIS of the brides
maids, theseest man and the ushers,
METAB-coxEREp LEAVES. set in brooches
and made into scarfbins, from the trees and
bushes a. Lake Sfarnberg, where mad King
Ludwig drowned himself, are now sold in the
stores In Munich. An enterprising manu-
facturer has obtained from the government
permission to gather the leaves, and enjoys q
monopoly of the manufacture.
MLLe. JEANNE GBANIER. the French act
ress, was recently sued by her iaundress for
$40, single years bill for washing her cloth
ing. At first the Judge thought the bill too
large, but when IL was exp aimed that Mile
Granier's silk stockings cost $50 q pair. and so
had to be handled with unusual care, he gave
a decision in favor of the laundress for the
full amount.
TIE Young Mems Christian Association is
considered good bu-iness investment in
many Western towns. The Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe railway contributes $1,000 a
year to the ASSOCIATION at To eka, besides
contributing literally to the association in
Kansas CITY. In San Francisco, Wells, Fargo
Il Co.. make their employees members of the
association at an annual expense OF $3.50.
REV. Mr.. INGLIS is Presbyterian minister
of Toronto in goou standing, who is editorl-
a ly connected with The Toronto Globe :"
Not long ago a Presbyterian paper of Toronto
printed an article in which it was ated that
all writers for secular newspapers are liars;
and Mr.. lnglts thinking that this was a re6ec-
ton on him brought the matter uD in the Pres
byterian Synod. But nothing came OF 1t. as
the editor of the offending paper said that Mr..
IngllS was not especially referred to.
IN accordance with the suggestion Of Cali
clan papers, there is to be demonstration of
Polish peasants at Cracow ON the approach
inn three hundredth anniversary of the death
of the Polish King Stephen Batbori, not oplv
for the purpose OF honorng his memory, but
also to devise means for the improvement of
the present condition IF the Polish peasantry.
An influential journal of Posen polish Prus-
sia), however, discOunteuances the scheme
saying that the present state of affairs calls
f'r nothing so much as patience and self-re-
straint on the part of the Poles.
GEORGE WHITE, negro, who now resides
at Bullock's Bayou, Concorda parish, La.
last Friday swore before the Federal grand
White is "A years OF age and quite INTEL
He insists that he has kept an accurate ac.
CONT of his chi dren, and that they mum bered
.65. When asked how many wives he had
had, he said he had not had any: that co ored
ueOple in HIS young days never paid any at
tention to MARRYING" number of his sons,
he says, were killed in the war; and he is now
In Jackson. Miss, on pension business. He
owns plantation. and Is not crank"
WHILE farmer in one of the central coun-
ties of Dakota the past week was driving
home from town a large eagle, 9 feet from tip
to tip, lighted on his shoulders and attempted
TO get away with HIM After hard tussle he
overpowered the bird and tied it with his
lines, securing it alive. He took 1t TO town
and sold 1t t. get money to bring his family
to Dakota, and the agile is to be kept Gagged
till Dakota is admitted as a State. when il
will be carr ed at the head of g jubilee pro
cPssion. 1t is believed since the election that
both parties will be in favor OF speedy ad-
mi-si' q. perhaps with Montana as Demo-
crat C State.
EDMUND RANDOLPH, now three score and
ten years in the dust, finds a friend at last.
This friend is Moncure D. Conway. who
lectured in Brook yn night or two ago on
" A Suppressed Statesman of Our Early
Republic" Randolph was the statesman
meant. He it was who, being in Washing
toms shadow and being also a political rival
of Patrick Henry suffered UGH oblOouv He
was suspected. indeed, OF letting out state
secrets whilstin Washington cabinet, and he
died of - broken heart" Perhaps it was
bad liver. for he was a tide wat Virginian
and 8 years old. but Mr.. Conway thinks his
heart was broken.
GEN. ADAM BADEAU writes q whole letter
about Mrs. Lanetry and says the first time he
ever saw her she was leaning on the arm OF
Gen. Grant and being taken into table at q
dinner gwen by Lord Houghton to the great
General. Once Mrs. Langtry playfully asked
the Prince of Wales "HOw 10 your wife?" His
royal nibs put on his crown. hguratiyelv
speaking. and answered:"H Her Royal Highuess
the Princess OF Wales, is we'll" walked of
and would not speak to the Lily for a whole
weck. Mr.. Langtry is described as a straight
forward manly young fellow, who gnihed
the position into which society forced him of
beng merely beauty's beast.
A NEVADA CITY CALI PAPER saws that
gentleman writes its editor from New York
stating that he has purchased small interest
in gold mine near Nevada City and feels
little nervous about the speculation. lie SAYS
the paper will confer favor on him by telling
him the price of gold mines IN the vicinity Of
Nevada CITY. as he 10 quite anxious to know
whether lie has made good investment or
not. The odiJor-som"Wha heartlessly we
tn nk-reples that gOlG mines in the vicinity
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