Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

actually hired the other day to cheer the
bride and bridegroom at suburban wedding.
FRENCH SOLDIER OF Napoleonic longings
climbed alone to the top Of the Pyramid OF
Cheops the other day He fell TO the base
with blood, bones and flesh in pulp.
TWO Iowa girls, sisters, have solved the
bread and butter problem. They are profess
slonal paper hangers, do a good business,
charge the same prices tina { men do and earn
as hlgh as $l2 day.
ALMOST every millionaire in Chicago IS fat
or heavy, because OF big frame. Sid. Kent.
though, who is rated at S.. 900, 900, is thin,
small and wlry, and so nervous that he can't
Keep still long enough to have photograph
taken.
A WOMAN DELEGATE in the Union Labor
Convention in California last week lost SIC in
the hall, and she made such fuss that the
convention suspended business while the hat
was passed around. Results, 81; which the
woman rejected withscorn.
A CRAWFORD COUNTY. PA, lad shot part
ridge and, being in need of money, took the
head to Justice of the Peace and said that
IL was the head Of hawk that he had shot
Inc Justice, after due examination, paid the
QUO. bounty to the wicked boy.
THE strength Of hand and wrist necessary
to the professional prestidigitator was Illus
trated by Hermann the other day He took
" Now pdCh Vi ordinary linen -DdCk CdrQS anu
oroke 1t in two, then broke one Of the halves
INTO quarters. If any one thinks this is easy
let him try it.
A BRooKLYNITE who bought a barrel OF fine
apples the other day had the curiosity to find
out now many the barrel contained. He
counted between $50 and $40. AS he had paid
~ 20 for the barrel he had little difficulty in
street apple stands.
Rosa EgNTON A u;.i -. I,;t+o,,
In the foretngers by cottonmouth snake.
She shook off the serpent, ran to the wood
shed, seized an Ak, chopped of the finger, t ed
ner handkerchief tight around her wrist, and.
telling her mother 10 pour WHISKY down her
throat, talnter. She Is all right now.
BRoNcHo John. who has been showing his
pet bear in New Haven, went chestnuting
the other'day withgsome citizens of the place.
The bear enjoyed the rides the grove. and
when there at once climbed trees and ratified
down the nuts ia great stvle. The owner of
the trees, who had hitherto kepta close watch
over them to keep away bows, beat retreat
when ne saw the bear, and tti not modest the
party. iieI 20 s4t "-t..
A RESIDENT Of VIM parish. La, ia noted
there for his rem arkable sense of smell. 1t is
said that, on calm day. or when the wind is
blowing toward him, he can smell deer from
thirty to sixty yards. He is popular hunt
ing companion with the neighbors who know
of his power. While riding or walking
through the woods he will stop. throw up his
mead very much as dog does when he strikes
a scent, and in this way he rarely fails to To-
cate the deer If 1t is within gunshot distance
Of him.
A YEAR AGO bogus dispatch was sent from
Washington saying that Senator Pike had
dropped dead in the street on the way to his
office. To some newspaper men who called
on him that evening he said: This bogus dis
patch has accurately described the manner of
my taking off. shall die just as suddenly as
that person described. | shall go out like a
flash, without moments warning, save what
my doctor has given me-" just one year TO a
day from that date. Gays the W ashngtOn Post.
Senator Pike dropped dead while on his way
to his Office.
ONE of the legal luminaries in Boston has a
sweet tooth of pronounced type. Not long ago
he was taking dinner, and when the coffee
was served drew the sugar bowl to his plate
and began to drop in the Jumps, at the same
time carrying on q spirited conversation A
friend saw five Jumps disappear in the Gun of
coffee, and fearing that the lawyer was alb
sent-minded suggested to him that he was
spelling his coffee. ''Oh, not at all. I ALWAYS
take ten humps in my cup" was the replv
and the conversation and the sweetening pro-
cess was resumed.
1T is related that one day, when newspa-
per man of experience suggested an evident
improvement in a certain department of the
Ledger, Mr.. Bonner SAID: SIT would be bet
ter column, but wouldn't do it for $1,000.
The human eye 10 the most conservative thing
in the world. 1t is easily offenC ed / have
often lost subscribers by improving the Led
ger-yes, sir! actually by doing something
that made IT better, but changed its appear
ance. The eye resents any little change in
place and appearance. 1t looks for The same
layout week by week, and it will not do to
trltie with 1t"
A NICE little story comes from Maine about
a young lawyer and a rich man from Pbila
delphia, who met him at Poland Spring. The
rich man wanted to send some one on whom
he could rely to Europe. He liked the Young
mans appearance, and proceeded to put his
honesty to a peculiar civil service eXamina-
ton. After gaming his confidence he told him
of u Clan ne had for making money bv a short
but very dishonest method. The Young man
declined TO be party TO any such arrange
ment. The old man pleaded that scores of
men occupying high positions to-day had
made their start in precisely such way. The
young man was firm as a rock. The Young
man is now on his way to Europe to attend TO
the business of he rich Philade,phian
MUCH interest has been excited among en-.
gineers by the construction, under the direc
tion of the Russian government, OF some loco
motive cars of a special type for the Trans
caspian railway, and built so as to meet two
a
large section OF the line. and the insignificant
ordinary traffic. To meet the former the
locomotive car is provided with tanks con
tanning sufficient water to last seventy miles.
and. as the waterless stretch from Michaelovsk
to KaZantchlk is about dfly miles in length
this supply Is amply sufficient under any con
tIngencies that may occur. With regard To
the second difficulty, the locomotive is CON
structed with car connected o it, and capa-
BILE of convey ing eighty passengers The loco
motive car is warmed by the exhaust steam,
from the engine, by which arrangement An
mpor ant economy in the consum ption of
fue results.
GEORGE GOULD re ated the other day. saws
a New York writer, how he had studied tele
graphy for five months. and how useful he
found the art when he had to consult with his
father, who was in Florida. about the policy
TO adopt against the railroad strikers Every
man his own telegrdphcr may be an impossi-
bility. but the art Is easily leprned and
venture 10 suggest that 1t should be Taught IN
all the blind asylums. A blind opera tor might
not be able TO send OFF messages. unless thev
were read to him. but be could receive them
by ear and transcrlbe them on type writer
with rapldlty and certainty which would
astOnisn operators with eyesight So few
trades or professions are open TO the blind
that the directors of asylums should take ad-
vantage OF a chance like this 70 enable the
afflicted TO earn their own livelihood. with
their exquisite delcacy Of touch and quick
meas OF perception, the blind can learn the
typewriter easily, and have no doubt that
they would be equally expert teleRraphers.
VISITORS to Central Park, New York, have
noticed frequently during the past two weaks