Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-11-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

BOSTON ARTIST bought dirty canvas,
which proved to be o Gilbert Stuart, at a re-
cent auction sale In Bromfeld street for $l3.
He was Immediately offered $500, but W ants
$1,000 If he sells it at all.
Lawyers clerical error in the transfer
OF certain piece of property in Kansas City,
which in 1874 was sold for $3.50, has led to
lawsuit over the possession OF the land, which
Is now valued at 5000. 600.
| WoRKMEE's cooperative stores in England
have during twenty years done business to
| the extent OF f275, 1000, 900, with net profit
| amounting to f22, 100000. In one year the
sales were nearly $3O,OO0,o0o.
THE mind cure has found congenial field
in Chicago, where there are 800 professional
healers five chartered colleges of instruction,
| and twenty that are not, and these various in
| situations are graduating at least $50 pupils
each month.
LADY in Oh City the other day lost $500
cash on street. A little boy found il, and
the lady, overjoyed at the recovery of her
treasure directed her husband to reward the
| lad suitably. The smallest coin the husband
had was nickel, and the little boy got it.
BIN of bituminous coal in New Haven,
200 feet long, so feet wide and IA feet deep.
| and containing 1000 tons, caught fire from
| spontaneous com buston, and smouldered for
week in spite of all the water poured upon
| IL. Hen SilONelSu OuI INC COAL 10
| cool it off. ..
DR.. WARREN. an associate of the " ashing-
| ton Pathological Department of the Agri-
| cultural Bureau, saws that hawks and owls
feed on mice and insects. and not poultry
as has been com monly supposed. In eXamin-
! ing number of the stomachs of these birds
| he found no poultry.
Two big pensions were granted at Wash
| ingLon the other day. One was to John T.
| MOnpriaf M in mo af MI fret nav
| ment will amount to $12224 80. This ls said
| 10 be the largest pension yet issued. The
other was to Josiah Brinard, whose first pay
ment will amount to $l,91z 49,
THE horse of Mrs. Ann Dment, of Madi-
son, Wis, tripped over a ssgging telephone
wire, runaway followed, and Mrs. Dment
and companion were seriously injured. The
| Wisconsin Telephone Company, W hich owned
| the wire that caused the runaway. has just
| COMPROMISED by the payment of 5000.
THERE is a very mean man in Portland,
Ore. He keeps big store in the centre of
the city. Several nights ago a special police
man found the store d or unlocked and sent
| a hack to the merchants house to notify him.
| The merchant walked down and locked the
| door, but left the policeman to pay the hack
| man.
ASHAKER in asettlement near lbany tells
a newspaper reporter that, while the order is
little over 100 years old, it numbers only
| seventeen soci etles. averaging from 100 TO 200
members each. Name, New Hampshire,
Massachusetts,, Connecticut, New York, Ohio
and Kentucky are the States in which they
exist, and their numbers are diminishing.
1T is said that when Long John Went
worth was running for some office in Chicago
a few years ago, friend told him that his
political enemies were circulating the report
that If he should be elected he would put his
hand in the public treasury and help himself.
To this Long" John answered with a merry
twinkle in his eye, "Mebbe will, and mebhe
won't. But L can tell you one thing; nobody
else will put his hand in; Ill set on the chIst."
THE late William Barnes, the ''Dorsetshire
poet" used to tell of little boy whom he
found one day in village school, and who
had written the word psalm in his copy
| book and then accidentally blotted out the
initial ''p' with his sleeve. His little sister at
| his side was In tears at the disaster, but the
| natural born spelling refOrmer defantly eX-
claimed: what If did scrope of en- out? H
didn't spell naught, and what was the good
| of enr'
IN illustration of the simplicity of the old
staging times it is related that Gen. Veazle, of
the Veazie Bank, Bangor, hired 900 in
cash of the Suffolk Bank, of Boston. The
money, in gold and silver, was put into boxes
and transported all the way to Bangor on
stages without any guard They attracted
| no more attention than would an equal nu m
Der of boxes of eggs, and at night they were
put in the stage offices and remained there
safely until the next morning.
DIR. PHILIP SCHAFF says that there are in
New ork city more men wearing the title of
Doctor In Divinity than there are to be found
in the entire continent Of Europe. Recently
when "a clergyman, without university fix
ngs, was introduced to an audience by the
chairman of the meeting as the Rev. DR.. -.
Permit me-" said he. ito retain the COM
Portable consciousness of being one of the dis
tinguished ministers of this city-distin-
guished for lack of a electorate of any SORT"
PRESIDENT POLK visited Maine IN lS47. He
was bound for Augusta. and it was arranged
that when he came up the river in a steamer
gun should be fired at Hallowell on his ar
= rival there, as signal to Augusta citizens to
| light up, 80 that when he got to the capital he
| should lind a general illumination. But as lC
happened, Hallowen citizen fired gun sew
eral hours ahead of the Presidents arrival,
the Augusta candles were lit. and when he
ma e his appearance on Augusta streets they
! had all burned out.
THERE was loud applause in Knickerbocker
Hall, Clymer street, Brooklyn, Sunday after
noon, when Mr.. Ii. Smith told the prohibition
audience that the prohibition vote In the late
election was more than twice as large as it
had ever been before. Col. Sherman, a
brother of Gov. sherman, of Iowa, who
strongly resembles Benjamin II. Butler, SPOKE
= vehemently against rum selling. He said the
: Prohibition party wanted men six feet high
who had plenty of muscle and brains, not men
of three feet, with no backbone, hollow,
emaciated. narrow -chested fellows. When
| u. T..
out in the wilds of Montana, but he said he
didn't lose his vote, for ne wrote the names of
his candidates on piece of paper and de-
posted IL in hollow tree.
COL. RAvENSHILL recently arrived at Fort
Mcleod, Ore. from England. on a tour of
inspection and to purchase horses for the
English army. He found very few among the
I numerous bands OF horses in that section
which fulfilled his requirements. He stated
that the English government would purchase
l about 1900 head of horses yearly if suitable
3 stock could be raised, and would pay $3.50 a
! head for them, halter broke, delivered at
l Montreal. The horses are required to be OF
good color. black or gray preferred, to 4
years old, and fifteen to sixteen hands high,
| The visit of Col. RavenshIll caused quite a
stir throughout the Northwest, and a mum Der
' of stockmen are making arrangements for
3 breeding horses TO fill the requirements. A
good horse. fifteen TO sixteen hands high,
3 Will bring $3.50 IN almost any part Of Oregon.
3 THE building season now drawing to close
t in Philadelphia has been the most remarka-
Bile for the improvements inaugurated and
completed, in the history of the city The
| record OF the buildings projected and COM
: | pleted thus far, with fair estimate for the
month of November and December, still to be
heard from, gives a grand total Of ., build
| ings TO he credited to this memorable wear
a MT a.