Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-11
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than ToAntO, the latter's Commercial IrAN
elers' ssseciation numbers $500, while tha' Vi
| Montrealeas only l,5Oo members
In FRAiCE it was found that for lons
series of years for every million OF mhaoi,
tants abou 2l6 were annually accused Oh
| crime OF sone sort, and about lSo were an
nually convicted.
THE 9th Of July next it will be 500 years
since the "adgenossen" won their famous
victory over Leopold of Austria near sem
| pach. a great memorial festival Will be helu
on the battle ground that day.
GLAsGowCHEMIsT has found that at about
So deg. Cent the flesh of animals, such as
mutton, become 50 exceedingly hard that II
rings Ike porcelain when ruck with an IRON
instrument, indeed brushes by The blow OF
hammer into fine powder, in which muscle,
rat ana bone ire intermingled.
1T HAS been much noted of late years to
what remarkable degree of prominence
members of tie Jewish race heretofore almost
exclusively occupied in money getting and
music, have attained in other lines of life IN
| England so SON as these were opened TO
! them, An instance in point is afforded in the
| new Professor OF Poetry at oxford, whose
! father was fy birth a Hebrew, by name
| Cohen, but wac changed his name to Pal-
| greVe.
GRRENYILLE PA, boasts about Mrs. Mag
dalen Miller, Who is 30 years old and the
|
ffty-one grandchildren. When young she
was as vigorow as a man and could shoulder
| lhree bushels oil wheat. During the graveyard
| insurance crazeshe was insured for over $780,
600, and has outived a the companies. She
! ls yet 40 bale AID hearty that she can 60
through the snow for some miles on foot. She
has smoked tobacco for more than seventy
years.
IN CONSEQUENCE of the high price demanded
for liquor licensts in New Haven, Conn.-$2Oo
now as against $50 year agO-over forty sa-
looms have recently been closed. They say
! they cannot afford to take out licenses. 9th
ers claim that tie business has been OverdOne.
| and that the larse prohts formerly made have
induced many to embark in 1t until the num-
| Der Of saloons became too large for the drink
ing population The multiplying Of saloons
| ana the prosperous temperance organizations.
| IL Is SAID, are breaking down the business, and
| now only centrally located barrooms DO any
| business In com parisOn with that Of year or
| two ago.
THE CowBoYson the lonely ranches of Ari-
IONA do not forget their social duties. When
the work of the roundup" is ended they
generally give grand ball which is conducted
| in the most bon-ton manner. At such a ball
| VIII Oh recently took place the order Of dances
| was as follows: l,grand circle march; 2, horse
| hunters quadrile; 8. catch waltz; 4,
| saddle up lancers; 8. bronc racquet; 8, Cap
| tain's quadrllle; Z circulars galop; &, round
up laucers; 8, eut.Out schotTische; 10, brand
| log quanrille; Il, COW and calf waltz; u,
| night horse lancers; Is, day herders' waltz;
IA, maverick polka; Ia, bull calves medley;
| 10. stampede all.
ANOTHER story Of feeling in an amputated
limb comes from Byron, N. Y. Four weeks
ago DR.. Townsend amputated Mrs. William
! Goodlif's leg just below the knee. The leg
| was buried, and the patient was getting well
| all right, except that she constantly com
planned thai corn on her departed foot
q A hrnn rynn he
! of this kind of suffering, her husband dug up
| the buried member, and found that q band
age rem aimed bound tightly around the toes,
/ on one of which was the corn. He removed
| the bandRge, buried the member in an easy
| ant comfortable position. and since then Mrs.
| Goodlin has had no trouble with that foot or
/ corn.
A FIRE in Portland, Me-, the other day,
| p aged havoc with a mems furnishing store.
The day following one of a gang of men clean
ing out the cellar saw q foot with stocking
and shoe on sticking from under a pile of
0lackened bricks. The men were much ex-
| cited, and decided at once to send for the Cor
| Oner While one started for him, another,
bolder than the rest, took hold OF the foot and
| pulled IL a little. The foot and leg readily
| came out Of the pile of bricks, and his COM
| panions scattered, shouting, Hes pulled of
| one Of his legs.n They were mistaken. The
| leg was made of papier ache for the purpose
Of advertising stockings and patent CATERS.
/
a bargain when he gives his mind to it. A
Waterbury weekly newspaper made an inva-
riable rule to charge 81 cash down for years
! subscription, and 81 Is wnen the subscriber
| was in arrears. One subscriber was three
weeks behind when he went 10 renew his sub
scription the other day. He offered his dollar
and was told that 81 25 was the price. "PH
stop my paper" said The subscriber. "Here
are twelve cents owe you for the three pa
pers." After the editor had pOeketed the
/ ralv- e ha anh ar ri d.
same dollar and said he guessed he'd SUBJ
scribe for a year. He saved just thirteen
cents by the operation. He is rs years old.
The WORK Of drilling hole through the
| hill directly over where the lost Nanticoke
miners are supposed to be is progressing fast
On saturday night ITO feet of 6-inch pipe had
been put down. There then remained lS5 feet
to be drilled. The superintendent thought
| bottom would be reached in about ten days
| When bottom is reached it will be ascertai ned
for the first time " neither that portion of the
| mine is filled with debris. II 1t is, there will
| be no other way but TO clean out the gang
| WAYS Asked If he had any idea of finding
| any Of the % men alive, the superintendent
SAID: ooh, no; those men are dead long ago;
We only put down this pipe to satisfy the
relatives OF the poor unfortunatss. l would
! be only too glad If the men were alive; but
under the circumstances, the drilling Of hole
| is only useless task"
SENATOR VEST, Of Missouri says Republi-
can writer, Is bitter partisan, and one Of the
die-in- the last-ditch class of Confederates
Taking with 4 gentleman who served in the
Missouri Legislature with Vest about the
breaking out Of the war, he said IL remem-
Der on one occasion that Vest arose in his seat
| in the House, and. addressing the chair. said: :
| L see by the morning papers that the Sixth
| Massachusetts Regiment, which was ON It's
| way to Washington 70 coePee the South, was
| fred upon in the streets Of Baltimore and one
! Of It's members killed. / also read that his
| body was packed in ice and shipped back TO
| New England. / now wish 70 say Mr.
| Speaker, IL the North proposes 10 put on ice
| and ship TO their homes the bodies Of all the
| men killed in that uBholy crusade. they had
/ better make a eOntract for Greenland's lev
mountains, and be ID quick about 1t,
| too.'"
No MAN ever in the White House knew 90
well how to treat their majestiss the people as
Grover Cleveland. Many Presidents, Mr..
Arthur for example, had a superb manner;
that is. superb in its digniaed simplicity, but
none OF them had the tactful bondhomie of
| MIR. Cleveland In meeting people who don't
ask Oaace. Mr.. Cleveland wants to be Presi-
dent another time, and he Il making friepds
| with the voters and their wives and daugh-
| ters lie can be short and sharp enough when
occasion requTes, but when old Farmer HAv-
| seed and Mrs. Hayseed come TO see him and
| tell MIN they've been hoping and PRAYING for
| q Democratic President for twenty Il We years.
| he talks 10 the Old couple as nicely and bows