Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-06-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

GoRHAM, Me, which has been celebrating
its l5oth birthday, is famous for It's hay felde.
| and is unique among Maine towns in having
| a rock on which its first settlers landed. Its
| sturdy citizens are worthy descendants OF
their ancestors.
OSCAR ii. COOPER, who has just been chosen
State Superintendent of Public Instruction in
Texas, is only % years OF age. He is a gradu-
ate of Yale College, and a young man of dis
tnguii he'd ability. The school fund of Texas
IS larger than that OF any ten other States il
the Union.
MISS JUDIc's COMPANY, having reached
Paris from America, spicily entertained the
| lntervieWers. Said a reporter: "Are you
satisfied with your trip" And the reply
was: We are very pleased to think that il
! Is over. Barrels of gold would not induce US
| to return there. Never! Never"
NEBRASKA MAN who sent a lot of corn to
Chicago has realized just SC. bushel for it.
as 22c. OF the &c. for which it sold went to pay
! for transportation and storage. Another man
! in the same State got S2,650 for $50 bushels
| Sl41 90 went to the railroads. These are of
course extreme cases, but it is declared that
! tney have not few parallels.
THE Jealous English ladies who interest
themselves in reforming the Zenana system in
India are frequently surprised and disguised
because the women of the Zenanas whose con-
! - N~SAe~-S
they are perfectly happy as they are, and in
dulge in considerable contemptuous pity for
the ladies of Christian England.
THE Oneida community Is, outwardly, a
| community no longer, but simply limited
company holding TO the old name as a busi-
ness trade mark. About half OF the members
have left the big dwelling house. Some have
married; some have gone to pastures new.
About $50 live in the old place. Do they live
In the old way? They say not. There is a
vast difference in opinions on the subject.
AMONG the elaborate outfits of toggery for
fishing. nothing in the memory, even of the
oldest fisherman, has been seen at Rangeley
Lakes equal to the outfit of a New York man
Mr.. w. j. Cassard-Whc arrived last week.
lie carries a leather case nearly two feet
long ana foot wide. packed full of iy hooks
filled with artificial flies. A low estimate
places the number of his fly hooks at 10000
Mr.. BEECHER's audiences are astonshingIy
thin in some towns nowadays. In Washing
ton, where twenty years ago people thronged
| to hear him, his recent talk was to a few hun
4 dred persons. Yet as Mr.. Poore saws Beech
| ers lectures are better now than they were
| then. Now ''tnere is less drum and trumpet
and more melody; less thunder but more sub
! dued lightning; less rhetoric but more wis
! DOM"
Col. "PAT" DOMAIN, who has recently been
visiting South America, Central America and
the West Indies, tells wonderful stories of the
things he has seen. The famous star spangled
DakOtan wakes indignant at the indifference
of the United States to the possibilities OF COM
merce win these countries. Many of them
have no circulating coinage of their own, but
use as circulating medium the COINS of sew
eral European nations, Not United States
coin can be found in them.
THE grape growers Of Sonora county, Cal,
have introduced an electrical alarm Their
mometer into many of their vineyards to give
notice of approaching frost. 1t is set in the
lowest and dampest place, where a frost is
most likely to strike. A wire connects with
an alarm bell inside of the house, and when "a
deg, is reached the bell is made 10 ring con-
tlnuously. when all hands turn out ana kind g
| fires with previously prepared material
throughout the vineyard, the smoke of which
protects the vines.
MONDAY MORNING, while workmen were
engaged in digging trenches on the hill in
| West Bethlehem, Pa, a number of human
skeletons were unearthed. During the Revo-
luton many British prisoners were brought
to Bethlehem, where many of them either
| died of wounds received In battle or from dis
| ease. The skeletons found are undoubtedly
! those Of British soldiers. a large number hav-
ing been inferred on The brow OF the hill eppo-
site Bethlehem. Six skulls were found to be
in an excellent state of preservation. The
| graves were carefully closed up again.
WILLIAM DARRAH, Leon L. Hanff, and
Thomas Wimble, of Brooklyn, started out for
an afternoons boating on the Lower Bay a
week ago. and since that time have been
| cruising about the broad Atlantic in a variety
! of craft. They started from Fort Hamilton
for Staten Island IN small boat, but were
| blown out to sea. When they were picked up
| by the steamer Beaconsfield. bound for Cork
they were helpless and had to be hoisted over
the steamers side. The pilot boat Francis
1 Perkins fell in with the steamer and fine mon
| Transferred ati lei,
about on board her.
GORDON S. HUBBARD is dying in Chicago. at
the age of IS. He was the first trader who
| ever furnished the Indians with supplies at
thatpoint, was Chicago's first pork packer.
| built the Chicago warehouses, raised Perry,s
| famous flagship and with it and three other
vessels founded the Eagle line, the beginning of
| Western lake commerce. Over half a century
| ago, as agent of the American Fur COMPANY
| he made the trip between Mackinac and Fort
| Dearborn 26 times in an open boat. He re
members having entertained Jefferson Davis
| once, manv years ago, and having PLAYED
| cards with the Confederate chieftain far into
| the night.
1T has not been altogether plain sailing for
the American Opera Company in the West
| When it was in st. Louis Rev. C. S. Black
well, of that city, denounced its performance
/ as indecent in asermon. ''WhaJ is the differ
ence," he asked. "between forty high kicking
/ females in the old Black Crook and the same
! high kickers, only with less clothing in the
! ballet OF he American Opera COmnapv per-
| formed in the music hall of the Exposition
! building. The only difference 10 that in the
! latter he nude women were hid behind the
| bars Of some popular and splendid music It
was performed above Twelfth street. in a
| building owned and contro led lar reIv nv
! church members. and these Stockholders
got large dividends from the immense andi-
ences of Christian ladies ana gentlemen"
1T was in the blue room, only a few weeks
after President Cleveland's inauguration.
that, at one of the first Saturday afternoon
receptions of Miss Cleveland, Miss Folsom
stood with her and assisted in receiving the
/ guests. She was then making her frat visit
| to the Executive Mansion. The whole scene
was new to her. and she, like frank young
girl, made no disguise OF the interest which IL
created in her. She was really more intent
in watching the long line OF new faces. as il
! swept by in its waving course, than in doing
her share Of the receiving, and was more than
once reminded by little tap on the shoulder
| from Miss Cleveland, and straightened mn
| with a shake Of her beautiful chestnut locks
/ Many OF those who passed along stoned 10
| look back at her and eXclaim what a pretty
\ girl she was, and how fresh looking and in
| genu0us. II Is recalled that on this occasion
| Mics Kate Bayard, then apparently in the
| full bloom OF life, and with the promise Of
long years before her, who was gazing at ber
spoke Of her beauty, and then added: ,'she
Will soon be President Cleyeland's wife -
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