Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-06-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

/ PUTTY has become scarce and high since the
recent glass breaking storms in the West
/ One druggist in Illinois has sold 600 pounds
/ within few days.
! A CITIZEN of Grand Rapids, Mich. claims to
have razor used by Father Marquette in
1870. 1t was dug mp from an Indian grave
| near Harbor Springs, and is pretty well pre-
| served.
sTREAToR, ILL, has a cat that delights in
killing snakes; but she nearly met her match
/ the other day when she tackled big garter
/ snake. III cotled about her body, and the two
! rolled around on the ground until the teeth
and claws of the cat got her the victory.
ABARN was burned in Rockingham, Vt,
not long ago, and valuable horse was sup
! posed to have been burned too; but the other
| day he was found in the possession of a milk
man of neighboring town, who had put his
own old horse in the barn, stolen the good
! horse and set fire to the building to conceal
/ the theft,
| A WASHINGTON correspondent says that
Senator Edmunds has a small dog to which he
is much attached, and has had bmlt for the
soIe convenience OF his pet q tiny stairway
| leading from the lawn to the second story Of
! his house. terminating in little spring door,
Just big enough for the dog, and through which
II goes and comes at its own sweet Will.
THE lost ring story comes 10 hand as usual.
| This time the scene is laid in Kentucky,
where five yearsago William Howe, of Moore
field, lost his sisters ring while fishing in a
pond. Not long ago he went shooting bull
frogs IN the same pond, and while cutting II
the hind legs of a big one that he had shot,
WhaJ should he see protrudlug from the bullet
wound IN the side of the victim but his SISTERS
long lost ring with the identifying inscription
still quite legbe.
POLICEMAN O'DoNSELL, Of Cleveland, at
tempted to arrest Andrew Zesch, SALOON
Keeper in whose place lot of his country
men were making disturbance. The gang
pitched on the policeman. who attempted to
| draw his revolver. One of his assailants
grabbed it. and it looked bad for o. Donnell.
Just then Charley Harris, a bootblack. rushed
IN, snatched the revolver, leveled it and
! yelled: "ll shoot the fret bloke what lays a
mana on de cop" The crowd fell back and
the policeman took Mr.. Zesch to the-lockup.
"HoNEYSUCKLE BALL" will, it is said, be
given In London next month by the same set
of aides who gave the Rose ball last year and
| hurled defiance at the Prince of Wales by
blackballlng three names that he sent in. On
| tins occasion the rooms and the women will be
decorated with trailing SPRAYS OF honey suckle,
ana she fields and hedges VIII be forced to
give up their treasures as literally as the gar
! dens and lighthouses did before. This naming
a ball after popular flower is a suggestion
| for Newport, where a Wall-hower ball might
not be unsuitable as an encouragement to fad
ing rosebuds and disappointed debutantes.
THE following letter, addressed to Secretary
Bayard, is said to be the only one John Kelly
wrote asking any favor of the present admin
| lstratiOn. He was then at Atlantic City in
| search of health. threads: Mr. Hugh Farrar
/ McDermOtt, personal friend of mine, is can.
| dldate for the office of Consul General at Lon
| don, Eng | know Mr.. McDermOtt to have
| done good and effective service as a Demo-
| cratic editor. He is thoroughly qualified to
discharge the duties of the Office that he seeks.
/ He is scholar and a gentleman, and his ap-
| WOUlt vi
pleasure in New York, as well. dare say, as
| in New Jersey, and / should regard it as a
| personal favor to myself. Believe me be
| very truly yours"
WE heard of girl the other day. says Mr..
| Bonner, who was 'as wild as an Indian"
| But an Indian girl is not wild. No girl is
more submissive to the rules of her race and
tribe than an Indian girl who is not yet cor
| rupted by the proximity of the white man.
| She never goes anywhere alone, and she never
| passes man on the highway without turning
away her head. II man comes into her wig
wan she cOnceals her face, and she does not
| stand within hearing distance of men who are
| ing. She lives up to her idea and her
| tribes idea of what Is proper and becoming.
| If she fall to do so she places herself beyond
| the protection of her tribe. There is no safe
place in this world for the girl who knows no
/ law but her own Will.
THERE has been introduced at the Paris OBJ
| servatory an apparatus specially designed for
! photographing the heavenly bodies. and NJ.
Mouchez, director of the observatory, has pre-
| sented to the French Academy of Sciences
| chart obtained by this wonderful method.
| This map contains a small section of the Milky
| Way, and presents to view 5000 stars. rang
! ing from the sixth to the fifteenth magnitude
| In view of the fact that there are 900 super
| fetal degrees in bhe armament it Is estimated
/ that representation of the whole surface
| completed in the same way, would require
! 5000 similar sections, forming 1880 eclptical
gln 80 Fvsv4f no cd
| such a work appears-that, if it were UNDER
| taken BY six or eight Observatores, favOrably
| situated in the two hem, spheres, the work
| might be concluded IN FIVE or six years. and
1 would contain photographs of %, 0oO, 900 stars
| down to the fifteenth magnitude,
! AN ELECTRIC BOAT run by secondary bat
| teries, has been tried with success at London,
success 80 far as tina can be measured by speed
and effectiveness. The cost does not seem to
| have been considered, and is not necessarily
an important element, for an electric launch
would PROBABLY be used either for pleasure or
az a war vessel for placing torpedoes and in
either case, cost would be subordinate to con
venlence. The launch in question attained a
| speed Of about l24 miles an hour and could be
4 relied upon for eight against the current Of
! the Thames, and this speed is quite sufficient
i for the purposes for which the boat is design
1 ed. The arrangement of the electrical appa-
| ratus Is similar to that used in railway ars
/ using the same force, the motive driving a
! propeller instead OF he whee 3 of the car In
! the case OF boats driven by electricity de-
rved from secondary batteries, the we ght of
! the latter ta not an objection, "a they can be
! used in place OF other ballast. How freuuent-
! ly the secondary batteries have to be changed
| how long it takes to make the change ana
/ what are the facilities for This necessary and
/ necessarily retarding operation, are elements
in the problem not yet disposed Of.
FERDINAND GREGoRovIUs, the famous Ger
man traveller, has written from Munich to the
| President OF the Roman Academy OF san
! Luce, protesting against the transformation
now going on IN Rome, and which he describes
as "the most considerable Of all the metamor-
| ph0ses undergone by the Eternal CITY since
| the Time OF AuRustus." lie complains that
/ "much has been destroyed in order to build
! teverlshly anew ana SAYS that those who
/ love Rome cannot bear TO think that the his
/ torca character OF the Eternal CITY is TO be
/ euaced," 40 that the capital may be modern
/ tied, and 'places like the Coliseum. the
/ Celian liill, the Ayentne, the gardens OF
/ Nero, and the surroundings Of the Vatican"
/ are % be destroyed 30 make room in the
/ future for "mOn0touOus lines OF houses built
/ for speculative purposes lie also sees no
/ excuse or necessity for "transforming the
most beautiful villas of Rome into building
sites. Already Villa Ludovici has beeu un-
mercliuly destroyed-that villa which seemed
park such as kngs and ancient sages could
desire. And now" he adds, 1--WE fear for one
OF the most beautiful monuments Of earth
with the exception OF the AcrOpolis OF Athens
for the Capitol. 10 which the monument 10
Victor Emanuel Will give a modern appear.
auce.' a II this aud much more are pure van