Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-08
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brought into Norwich, Conn, by Salem
farmer. The only places in Connecticut that
are known TO produce them are a round hill
JOCK In big swamp in Salem, and similar
place at Spring Hill, in Windham county.
Another patch is in Dudley. Mass.
IT is rare, if not an unprecedented. feat
for lady to shoot stag dead, after a fair
stalk, at her first attempt, but it was achieved
last week in the Dowager Lady Seafeld's
forest OF Baimacaan. Inverness shire, which
ls leased by Mr.. Bradley Martin, of New
YORK, the Diana being an American lady from
New fork-Miss Oetrichs-who proved her
nerve and her accuracy of aim by shooting
the oeast right through the heart.
A ST. LOUIS harness dealer has on exhibition
horseshoe of English design, which is simply
cushion or pad of vulcanized rubber cover
ing the frog of the boot, and held in place by
the horseshoe in an ingenious manner. In
cltles where there any great quantity of
asphalt pavements, this invention will be-
come invaluable. as 1t Will prevent slipping,
ana reduces to the minimum the conclusion
that soon ''staves'' a horse up when driven
on pavements.
PRINCE HENRY of Battenberg dned with
the members of the Portsmouth Corinthan
Club on the evening before the court left Os-
borne. A blight was cast over the hilarity Of
the evening through the dislngenous Prince
let handing his hat and coat to one of the
mistaken for menial). as he entered the hail
OF tine club. Prince Henry is certainly not
fortunate in what LORD Beaconsteld would
nave termed his social Cruisfngs."
TIE pigment known as mummy is neither
more nor less than your ancient Egyptian, his
bones, his bandages, bitumen, and all, ground
up with oil. Pharaoh is sold for balsams, and
his subjects serve the purposes of painters. 1t
resembles asphaltum In its general qualities,
except that. probably owing to admixture Of
linen fibre, or the complete deslccation time
has effected, the mineral oil of the ancient
bitumen has disappeared, so that mummy is
not quite SO liable TO crack or move on the
canvas.
SOME genius in England has taken advant-
age OF the aversion Of children to taking medi-
cine to obtain patent for indicated raisins
in four different ways, namely, an aperient,
vermifuge, cough remedy and digestive.
These are simply large raisins lmpreguated
with the medicine in q highly concentrated
form, ana covered with an arom atized syrup
dried. A better way, perhaps, to prepare
these would be to dissolve the active medicl
nal properties in raspberry ether, and to in
Ject the raisin with an accurate dose OF thts
ether with fine hypodermic syringe.
THE Cadets of Temperance of Baltimore
have determined that the custom Of the Old
Defenders of going to Divine worship in
commemoration of the battle OF North Point
shall not be allowed to die out. So, Sunday a
number OF them attended Monument Street
Methodist Episcopal Church in the morning.
There were present represen' atives of Ellis
worth, Reliance, Golden Rule, Chrystal, De
Leon, Clifton, Greenmount and K. T. Smith
sections. Rev. MIR. Ferguson referred in his
psayers to their mission. and made reference
also TO the Old Defenders, many of whom
wee wont to attend worship IN that church.
but who were by their age now prevented
from coming.
A SALE took plsce last week of the entire
contents of, save the family portraits,
Skrcens, the ancestral seat In Essex (England)
of the Bramston family, which has been
| seated there since 1885, when the estate WAS
purchased by Lord Chief Justice Bramston,
himself a member of an old family. The
mansion. spacious and comfortable, dates
| from the reign of Anne; it is surrounded by a
delightful park, containing splendid ard
most picturesque oaks, some of which cannot
be less than $50 years old, and are now get
ting slowly toward the end of their days.
Col. Bramston is said to be one of those land
lords on whom agricultural depression has
borne the hardest.
AVAILABLE suggestion respecting the use
of ice in the sick room is made by a CORES
pondent o. the National Druggist. The wri-
ter's son suffered with typhoid fever during
the heated term of last summer, when the
temperature of he room often rose to 80 deg.
and the PATIENTS temperature ran up to !05
deg. +. and over. A number of tubs were
placed IN the room anu kept ntIeu WIN Ice,
the doors being kept closed. The tempera-
ture of the room sank to 80 deg. or less, an
average of y deg. or Is deg. below that of the
cther rooms in the house: and the cooler at
mosphere not only added to the comfort of
the patient, but aided in keeping down the
body heat and materially contributed to final
recovery.
DANIEL DAVIS ScrantonPa bachelor Of 70
years. was smitten by the charms of buxom
Widow Cannon, also of Scranton. She was
fat. fair, and within five years of 40. and she
said tn! she would be Daniels, and Daniel
| sealed the promise with fine ring. and set MP
| two keGs Of beer in the Widows house-she
| runs a saloon. Then the widow asked Daniel
| for q small loan OF 5000. He had it, and much
| more, too, but he also had a large head. and
| he said mo-" and at that the widow first
| wept. then stormed, and said she wouldn t
| marry such mean man. IAN right" said
| Daniel. "give me pack my ring" But she
| wouldn't do this, and so he sued her at law,
| and won the suit, and now he drinks no more
| beer at the widows bar.
| A CENTENARIAN named Lenor died re-
Gently in Paris at the ripe age of 1o3 years.
Lenor was a parrot. During the reign Of
Louis XVI. he was Matched out in the royal
palace, and there he continued to live through
| all the vicissi ude hat animated French gov
| ernmental affairs. Since the reign of Charles
| Y. it has been very ffcult to teach any new
phrases to enoir, but h" possessed already
Il
| and often with singular inapposi eness. They
| did get him to learn "Nive Gambettar aud
| he used to alternate that phrase with "A has
| Robespierre! !" which was a mem DRY retained
| from the time of the Reigp OF Terror. Le-
| norris last words were Grace pour Marie
Autoinette." When events in the Reign OF
| Terror and names of those then conspicuous
| were mentioned before him he would repeat
| liam est terrible"
| on Sunday evening Mexico turns ont in her
best. The dude Of the day, clothed in goat
skin and tinse, is here with his horse. He
wears a silver mounted, wide sombrero, and
carries long lasso and large revolver on one
| eide, and dangling, shcsthed sword on the
o'her. or course there are no cattle to catch
! or men to carve and shoot, but his IS the cava-
| lIer style, and the poor creature would feel it
! n burning shame to be out without his acou-
| trements when there we're so many beauX and
| bellies to gaze upon him. When he meets a
| lady friend he lifts his hat high in the air and
| says: "Buenos todas, para server" Good
| evening. | am at your service.) To which
! Dona Lu'sa replies: "Muy bien, gracias"
! Very wei, thsnk you.) II he is on foot, he
takes her hand and says IN Spanish. grandilo-
| duently II place myself at your feet, miss"
| To which she answers by saying, 81 kiss your
| hand, sir" after which they begin CONVEX
sation composed of terms equally extrAva-
| CANT. When particular friends meet they
! often fail to shake hands, but will give each
| other a close embrace. The ladies usually be-
! gin by kissing the right ana left cheek. next
| they embrace few moments after which they
finish their verbal greetings and proceed to