Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-18
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the prohibition law could moi f4foEced in
his city. he people Of Creston arn*e f1 q ciosed
every sd oon in the place. tH
THERE was no gold dOlIarip lN7ks II was
not till after the discovery IL 4n|d in Cali
fornia that the act Of March 3, 1s4B, added to
the series Of Unted States gold coins the dou-
bic eagle and the gold dollar.
THEY TILL in Louisville OF a citizen of that
town who came 10 New York recently and
lived at one of the most expensive hotels there.
He stayed four DAYS and asked for his Dill.
"Fifty-pne dollars" said the clerk. ''Guess
again." said the Kentuckian. ''You haven't
sized my pile yet. I've more money than
that
THE red and yellow notified tulips. called
"pon parro s." have a faint, woody fragrance
and make handsome centre pieces for dinner
tables or plaques and st RS for ballroom deco
raJiOn. Scarle' tn ips, in both the single and
double varieties, re III u lily large Lhla
year and look like lilies when the petaJs are
turned back.
Gov. sEYMoURs aversion to display ex-
tended TO the erection Of SNOWY monuments.
Acting in accord with his views, he selected
and paid for his monument some ten years
ago. II lies VIII ne he found it, in the town of
Remsen Oneida county, and consists of
boulder of native granite, 81 feet long, feet
wide ami IA feet thick.
UNLESS one is bitten upon some uncovered
portion Of the person hydrophobia rarely fol-
lows the bite. he passage of the teeth
through the clothing wipes the virus from the
teeth before they reach the flesh. Ia such
cases, if a maidstone were applied, a cure
would probably be accredited to it; but
single nail or a cobble stone would do just as
We'll.
THEY attempted to play the other day 81 the
Birmingham. IL CLAMP Theatre little farce
of Dickens produced at the st. James Thea
tire in 1880. EMIT Ell "a strange Gentleman"
an IL fell rfect dead. He was hut rs
years of age thep, but young as he was II is re-
markabe, as he had already published
''Sket ches by Roz.' tn t he could have pro-
duced so weak play.
THOsE QUEENS and court women over in the
old countries have to be almost as strong as
tugboat- As aged as the Empress of Germany
is, -he wore train of purple velvet, trimmed
with ermiDe. twelve feet long, at state unc-
ton the other lay True. four boys served as
her pages, but the weight must have been
several hundred times greater than the
feathery tai of the peacock.
CAPT. Tom GREGORY, Of Winchester. Tenn,
has in his possession pair of gloves made en-
tirely OF the wool of rabbits. They are knit
ike the ordinary yarn gloves. On the back
OF each glove. about midway, is the ear and
scalp of full grown rabbit. Miss Mamie
Philips, young lady in the country, caught
the rabbits IL snare, card d ana spun the
10 Capt. Gregory.
IN THE eleven years from 1873 to 1884 the
number of lions killed In Algeria was 2O2, for
which premium of E 400 has been paid by the
government. The number of pauthers de-
strOyed IN the same period is 1,2i4. and the
money paid by he government f720. About
G40O ma been paid for 1852 hyenas, and c $500
for q 900 jackals. The large feid@ are al
most eXtirpated principally In the western
proyin rs, ,d the lion of the desert is fast be-
coming myth.
A SINGULAR OCCURRENCE is reported at
Hamburg, Erie county, N. Y. Carrie Pat
ridge, whose parents live at BLASTED, was
playing "bind mans buff'' with companions
and suddenly cried out, Il 'annOt see." As
she was blindfIied her first exclamation was
treated rs u joke, but her evident terror soon
convinced her playmates that she had really
been stricken blind. Her parents consulted
m deal authorities, but there seemed to be
no AID for the child.
MINER TYLER, of Prairie du CHEN, Wis.,
swallowed tablespoonful of Iaudanum on
wager for $40. When his friends arrived with
a doctor to ''pumc him QUIZ they fount him
saving wood. On urging him TO su init TO
the pumping process, he replied, Ppm doing
tina myself" AID sawed away for three
hours, IN the me tDtIme perspiring freely. He
then went home Slept iour hours. GOT ug, and
went about hi- work the next day feeling just
IS well as ever.
THE statement that Gen. Hancock, in the
crisis Of great battle, addressed his soldiers
as ''gentlemen," calls to mInd the fact that a
well known Captain IN tn revenue marine
was once equally courteous in giving orders.
lie would order bOaPs crew to give way,
gentlemen; lively, If you please, gentlemen."
''fhat viii do. gentlemen; port watch. 20 Ne
low, If you please As a consequence he &C
q liTed the name OF "Gentleman =" and al
ways had the best crew on the station,
TuU WAL Arr fol NTH c,rsot .-,,nt,
the story of a German who opened beer sa-
loon in COnstantinople. OF course Mahomem-
dams do not drink strong liquor. But when
they saw the fOamiug lager they SAID; 'By
the Beard of the Prophet! that does not look
ike zine. But by the way the giaours drink
1t, it must be good. Let us try lt!'' Tn did
try It; numerouSly: indeed, multitudiDously.
md Gen. Wallace says the enterprising man
from Vienna Is making an iudepe ndenL for
tune from good Mahommedan patronage.
IN sANDBAGs the OLD styles are still in use,
saws q Chicago fashion writer The beat are
made by filing long aud slender bags with
alternate layers of shot and sand. They are
very effective and warranted not 70 produce
fracture of the skull. The more ordinary
kinds are made by putting gravel in a rough
cloth pouch. The most wonderful combine
ton OF innocence which produced deadly
weapon was bab,'s stocking wIlhka big
glass marble IN the toe. 1t was fOund'by the
side o man who had been sandbagged ON
the west side.
TAXING the greatest depth of the ocean "a
five miles aud the height OF the highest noun
tain as five miles above the Level OF the sea.
and remembering that the globe itself has a
diameter Of 500 miles, the comparative in
significance " all the surface inequalities of
the earth is at once force1 on our attention
but is is better seen II we take circle sixty
six feet IN diameter, having on its surface
depression of one inch. or globe 1ne foot in
diameter with groove Onits surface ono six
tieth Of an inch in depth, which would repre-
mountain height and ocean deep on the sur
face of the earth.
The TELEPHONE, il 10 said, was used and
known previous 60 the Ben patent by James
W.McDonOugh Of Chicago, Daniel Draw bauEh
Of Pennsylvania, Elisha Gray OF Illinois.
Thomas EdIson # New York, Amos p
DJlDear OF Mass G usetts, Philip II. Van der
We de Of Il Ooklyn. Adolph OF OF New York
W. b. CnHnnl"g of Providence, r, l., Benia-
min Il. EdW ards. formerly Of Boston. now de-
G. ased, james Ha nlett, Jr.. OF Bro l. IA.
Edward Farraud Of New Hsmpshire An opio
MeucGi Of staten Island, ". ) Nauker OF
Pennsylvania. Chares *. Cross Of Boston
lI0lCOmb OF New York, and Ellen G. Hol
com Of Massachusetts.
EUROPEAN INGENUITY In the construction
Of destructive Instruments wa, pernaps never
so,aIoS e. IA qt the present time, and past sue.
cess ON Emulate to still greater achieve
ment0S\. \is line. In England and other
cOuuN. ~ order 20 o. ercOme the riHpd m,,r.
tar-SS sguu with relatively Short ranfr