Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-02
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BIRD's-EYE VIEW from Trinity spire,
New York. would disclose, it is saiI. 1900
saloons IN sight-i2 0J1 i New York and 1900
IN Jersey City, Newark and Paterson.
SOME ladies at Vienna lately entertained
an American prima donna at lunch, and IN
an omelet she was ask TO serve she found
S2,OeO, TIE result Of a concert for her benefit.
ORIGINAL Mr.. Labouchere wants to see a
new British navy maintained by the entire
empire, and 80 strong that the sea-ways from
one part Of the empire to another could he
held against the erUrc world"
WHEN the Philadelphia cricketers were in
England they got off without a nickname;
the Australian cricketers. now gaining eX-
perence and losing cOnceit of the sward Of
The ti2ht Little Island, are labeled The an
garoos.'
TALK about the Nineteenth Century! In
Ccrea, the other day. an old IAN, his wife,
two daughters. grandchtld and sons wife were
hanged. because thev belonged TO the family
o. Corean soldier Is no took part in the con-
spiracy of December, 1881.
AS TREASURER OF the Pennsylvania Rail
! road Company. the late John D. Taylor was
the signer OF the $4,000 900 check paid for a
controlling interest IN the Philadel phia, Will
| mlngton and Baltimore road the largest
check ever drawn IN Pennsylvania.
AcLERK in a mems furnishing store says
that the man who buttons the left side of his
conan hrsl MAKES mistake, for he uses mis-
/ right hsnd for hat amt then uses his left for
the more di ficult task CT buttoning the other
/ SIDE. He should reverse the process.
YOUNG WOMAN who is peddling clocks on
the installment plan in the rural districts of
New York collects 80 as the first instsllment
and leaves the clock. Then a young man
comes along and claims the clock as stolen
property, giving the number OF the clock as
proof.
The Indiana towns of Washington and
Vincennes are at loggerheads and boycott
Is the result. At recent meeting in Wash
ing on her clergymen. editors, merchants, lar
mers, lawyers and citizens generally solemnv
agreed not 10 buy anything OF Flncennes or
/ OF her citizens.
| LITTLE BOY, If you find mail pouch pad
/ 'ock lying around, carry 1t right to the post
master. a nice little boy in Michigan found
| the lock OF mail bag in the ruins of burned
/ postal car and took II home TO his father. His
/ father thanked him kindly and fitted the lock
/ with Key and put ton his trunk. Aud now
/ the United States Marshal has the Iather in
/ custody on the charge Of having n his posses
| on a United tates mail bag lock, with the
| intent to use the same unlawfuliy.
| LADY FANNY MARGoRrBANKs and Miss
/ Rail-. the former on spirited roadster the
| latter on pony, rode boldly into a stream
near Beauly, Scotland, the other day, at
| which place they were the guests Of Lady
| Aberdeen. 1t was at ford, but the stream
1 was swollen. Lady Fanny MargOribank hav-
/ ing crossed in the lead looked back. Miss
! RAIN was of her pony and unconsclous. Lady
/ fdnny wheeled and galloped her horse down
| stream, seeking To seize the drowning girl,
| but the swift current bore her SO far that
/ when brought ashore she was dead.
WHEN Justin Mccarthy and his wife went
| 10 London in 1860 their joint capital in money
| was FLO, and OF this they spent more than
one-tenth in buying a shrub to plant in the
| garden of their new home at Battersea. and
| which persisted after a short and sickly eX-
| istence. The fortunes Of the future novelist
| and historian, however, increas in inverse
ratio. His profits IRON his History of Our
| Own Times" nave been about So, 600. and
/ would be more had there been an interna-
! tonsl copyright to protect his interests here.
! where several editions of it were publ shed
! that never brought him penny.
| DR.. AMEs. the Democratic candidate for
| Governor of Minnesots, ought to be popular
man II this is a sample of his practice. Three
| children of a laboring man had diphthera,
| and the doctor cured them. Their mother
| worn out with watching over them, was iii
| for a month and the doctor cured her. Then
! the father fell from a scsGold and broke
| al leg, and the doctor fixed him up as good as
! Sill and went to the doctors Office to make
! at Leaf part pa' ment on his bill. what
! do l owe you. dcctor?" said he. "Oh, give
me 81 and call it square," said the doctor
| That man will vote for Ames.
AN interesting archaeological discovery was
made few days ago in kertch During some
! street excavations in the Woronzafskaia the
marble basement and pedestal once ,upport-
ing statue were laid bare. The inscription
on one Ice of the pedestal, still in perfect
preservation, records that the missing statue
was raised by Marcus Aul elius in honor of
| Tlberius Cesar. search Is being made for
| the statue Pantika paion. or Panticapaium of
| the Romans. The modern kertch first came
hp I'M
| deai of the poison proof King of Pontus
| Mthridates the Great or Sixth, whose son
and successor, Pharmacies, became Roman
yassal.
MASTERPIECE of Claude Lorrafn, which
/ was recently stolen from one of the fashiona-
bic mansions of Paris and recovered through
the ingenuity of a member of the police, was
first sold by the thief to dealer in old clothes
for five francs, who disposed Of it to col
league for six francs, the secon purchaser
exposing the painting for two weeks to the
gaze of the paesers by, until he found a Gus
toner who offered him ten francs. The
family of this purchaser upbraided him 20
much for what they considered his foolish in
vestment that he hung the painting out Of
! sight in dark corner of his house, where il
! was discovered by the detective. The ya,ue
| of the picture is estimated at 5000 francs
WHEN the engine attached to the train
from the ale air at Narragansett Park. r
l., wei mt crashing INTO the platform in the
station Friday nirht passenger seated in
| the Stonington train standing on the next
! track hear the great noise, ard thinking that
J the world was cOmlng TO an cad or that the
! city mad been visited by an earthuuake. in
| his fright gave mighty leap and yent
/ through the car window, CARRYING with him
/ glass and sash in Is flight. II g landed safely
/ upon the platform unIDJureu, and 10 K ng
! about. took In the stua 1 IN at glance Hls
! COURAGE returned 80 a railroad official asked
/ his name, and he replied: "Never mind INV
name, I'll settle for the damages" and he
| did.
ANOTHER school is about to be added to tho
many practical and technical schools estab-
! lished by the city of Paris. Next month an
ecole de meuDlement will be ope ned, the oh
| ject OF which is to rear able and skillful work.
men who will maintain the artistic traditions
! Of the furniture industry in France. Instruc-
| lion Will be given by professors in cabinet
making, sculpture, in wood turning, joinery
and tapestry. There will also be classes for
geometry. the history Of art. Technology in
dustriL design, modelling etc. The period
of apprenticeship will be for four wears
Sixty pupils will be admitted every wear and
they Will be selected by competitive examina-
ton in French composition and ornamental
design, and must he between 10 and IL wears
Of age.
NEW and important discoveries have been
made in the c. urse of the excavations at the