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

/ THE chewing gum yearly used by certain
! family of eight persons in Minnesota costs
SMALL BOY at Bismarck, D. T., won l54
( marbl' in about four hours playing for keeps
the other day.
II. Z. JACKSON. CT Mount Pleasant, MINI.
Killed wild cat weighing thirty-one pounds
| IN his back yard.
SoJoURN SCHUYLER, a trapper Of Battle
! Creek, Mich, caught a raccoon a few days ago
that weighed 81 pounds,
CHILD was recently born in Guthrie
county, Iowa. that measured u inches in
! length and weighed just one pound.
THE famous Blenheim Madonna" Is the
! most costly picture eXtant. The Duke of
Marlborough, who owns it, values it at $780,
| 700.
| 1T Is announced that the creditors Of the
late King of Bavaria must accept pay ments
| al an abatement Of from IS to 20 per cent. on
| The fun amount.
ABOUT twenty barrels of fish are shipped
South from Oshkosh. Wis, every night; They
| are caught with nets in both Lake Winnie
| Dago and Lake Butte DIES Morris.
\ MUsCALLoNGE caught in the Boone river
and weighing twenty-siX pounds was on eX-
hibition at Webster City, Iowa, last week, A
| small duck was found in its stomach.
DR.. scHwEINFuRTH has presented fine
collection of Greek costumes of the fifth CEN
! fury to the AnthropolOgical Museum at Ber-
lin. They were found in graves in Arsino,
and are remarkably well preserved.
NEW CHURCH or sect has recently been
| formed at Panora. Iowa. 1t is known as the
| Corners Ont. its members having come out
| from different churches 1t has a member
ship OF about forty ana is rapidly increasing.
DR.. JEx- has resigned the head mas
I n IF fap ir tn
! land, in which capacity he served or thirteen
| years, succeeding to the post after the unfor-
| tunatc regime of DR.. Hayman, VINO followed
Dr. Temple, the present Bishop of London.
WILLIAM Fl. CROKER, the second son Of
! Charles Croker. of san Francisco, was mar
| ried recently, and his fathers wedding pres
| ent to his son was a building site on his own
| grounds and house which will be one of the
| handsomest residences on California street
| hill.
| w. ToDD, deputy marshal of Paoli, Kan,
wears probably the most novel necktie that
ever adorned a shirt front. 1t is made of the
| skin OF rattlesnake, and the rattle is used
| for scarfpin. Thus, when out with the boy g..
| Teddy alw avs manages to have rafting
| good time.
| TIE women OF Hyde county, Dakota, went
to the polls on election day and voted. They
did not NEEDLE with the legal ballot boxes,
| but had one of their own at each precinct,
with an arrangement for having the votes
counted and announced. They did this merely
TO help express public opinion.
ANNA CROMWELL, daughter of Richard
Cromwell and granddaughter of the famous
| Protector, lies buried in an almost unrecog-
| niZab grave in the disused burial ground OF
| st. George the MARTYR, Hoborn, which is
| presently to be converted into a park. She
was 1.-THE only Cromwell born to the purple"
Mr., sCHNADHORsT, the supreme "boss" of
| ba I oo33
used to be a small dealer in haberdashery in
| Birmingham. Failing to make it pay, he
went into politics and has for nearly twenty
| years devoted himself exclusively to that
J pleasant pursuit, with profit to himself and to
| his party.
PROF. CHESTER S. LYMAN, who for many
years has occupied the Chair of Astronomy in
the Sheffield Scientific School of ale Univer-
| sity, is believed to have been hope iessly
stricken with paralysis, and his place will be
| filled by Prof. Hastings. Prof. Lyman's con-
nectlon with ale dates back more than half
| century.
| ENos BRAGG, of st. Lawrence, Mimi, and
Frank Morgan, of Belle Plain, traded horses
the other day, neither having seen the horse
| of the other Bragg went to Belle = ain to
| get his new horse, but The animal died before
| he got him home. Morgan got his horse from
| BragGs barn, but the animal broke down
about half way home and had to be killed.
| DIR. SALMON, Chief of the Bureau Of AMI
NAL Industry, ha. received official notice that
at a recent meeting of the Council of the
| Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons he
| was elected an honorary associate Of the col
lege in consideration of the great service rem
| dered by him IN promotion of veterinary
| science-the highest honor which this re :
| nowned society can confer.
| PROFESSOR RILEY, OF the Agricultural De-
partment, has recently been elected an hon
orary member the Americana Bee Keeepers'
| Society, and the Imperial Society of Natur-
| alists Ia Moscow, in appreciation, the Secre-
| tary writes. OF the great g TEEN IN which he
| ana his many valuable researches are held,
| has erected him an active member The an
| nOuncement is accompanied with an elabor-
! ately executed diploma.
| ACCORDING to NJ. E. Laveleye, the consump-
| ton of ardent spirits in Belgium has nearly
| doubled in fourteen years, and is now sur
! passed only by that Of Denmark and Russia
Ever thing is done to encourage 1t. as if
drinking alcohol was good hing. and one
needing TO be fostered by the State. The dutv
| is only about fifty francs per lltre while even
| in France 1t is 200, and in England near 50A
| There is place for the sale of drink to every
| forty-four Inhabitants, or one to every ten
| famil es. - XXI.
The following figures show how the great
staple Of Jamaica tsugarj has declined in Gull
| tivation during the periods named The
number of estates were, in 1882. 653; ls47
| SID: 1879, PIG, and 1884, 1885, The legislative
council has Det'tioned permission from the
English government to make arrangements
with the United States or with Canada ON
! the basis of ciprocIty in order hat Jamaica's
! sugar products, now so seriously affected NV
| the bounty system in the English market
may find favorable outlet nearer home,
TIE Massanah correspondent of the Cologne
Gazette writes that the General-in- Chief of
the troops of King John, of Abyssinia, Ras
Alula. is again devastating the Habab
country, and committing frightful atrocities.
The entire country, to the very gates of
Massanah, Is at the mercy OF this cuJthroat
The notorious bandit, Debeb, nephew of
King John. is also spreading terror before
him. and he meets with but feeble ouuosition
on the part OF the Bashi Bazauks, who in truth
are but little better than bandits themselves.
Ii. W. PAINE the Boston lawyer, relates
that n his early years he and kufus Choate
were counsel for f. o. j. Smith in a railroad
case. In addition to their speeches to the
jury their client also had his own saw. and
then q verdict was rendered against them
A few days sfterward he saw in an Augusta
paper re ort of the trial, which stated that
"kufus Choate furnished the eIoquence.
Henry W. Paine the law and Mr. Smith he
slang" Inquiry elected the fact that the
graphic paragraph, plcturing the three men
exactly and without a super1uous word was
from the pen OF James G.. Blaine who was
just entering upon his editorial career.
The English turf has developed another