Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-01-21
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

The total amount of press tele-
grams sent over the Western Union
lines reaches a thousand million words
year.-N Y Tribune,
"A dog belonging to Cincinnati
shoe dealer chews tobacco. using up
about quarter of ten-cent plug ev-
cry day. Cincinnati Times.
"A New York paper gravely de-
clares that lit is now the aim and am
bition of the girl of the period to make
herself as conspicuous as possible eA
"A Philadelphia "doctor'' is doing
a lively business among the colored
people of that city by selling liquid
fcr the hair that takes the curl and the
kink out. t!ai's5Py
A Boston man has written an elab-
crate article to prove that before the
close of the next century all of North
America, including the British posses.
sions, Mexico and Central America will
belong to the United States.
An alleged doctor in Georgia, to
relieve the earache, inserted bunch
of cotton saturated with hot glue in a
young mans ear. The glue got cold,
and it became necessary to call in a
real physician to extract the cotton.
The spectacle of a little man un.
der hat too big for him is only lu-
dicrous, but the sight of young coun-
try like Canada laboring under debt
of nearly 100000, 900 is too serious to
be amusing. Toronto Truth. Li.
Nova Scotia has known coal area
of nearly seven hundred square miles,
or nearly twice the area of the Penn
sylvania anthracite fields, and some of
the Nova Scotia fields have. greater
thickness of workable coal than prob
able exists anywhere else in the world.
The Supreme Court of Massachu-
sets has decided that the word ''guest"
as defined by the public statutes under
the license law, is limited to persons
who resort to an inn for food and lode
ing, and clearly excludes thof OO6S
resort there for the purpose
ing and drinking into
The doctors havess ...ti u. - sasa
riding and tennis playing, when carried
to excess, produce peculiar muscular
diseases. II is to be hoped their dis
coveries will not tend to lessen the
popularity of these sports. There is no
kind of athletic exercise which is not
injurious when INDUCED in immoder-
ately Breathing can be carried to any
unhealthy extreme. Chicago Current.
Bread is luxury among the peas
antry in parts of Southern Austria,
Italy and in Roumania. In village
not far from Vienna the staple food of
the people is sterz, kind of porridge
made of ground beech nuts. A por-
ridge made of boiled maize, called po-
lenta, forms the chief article of food in
Northern Italy. The same thing, some
what differently prepared under the
name of mamaliga, is the common arti-
Gle of food in Roumania. iI""I
The Shut-in Society is the title of
new organization in New York for the
mutual benefit of the suffering. 1t al
ready numbers fifteen hundred men,
bers. To be ''shut in, from the outer
world by suffering is the only condition
of membership. 1t is not charitable
organization in the ordinary sense, but
aims at the inter-communion and
friendship of invalids who become
known to each other by letter Con-
certs of prayer in which invalids pray
: for each others consolation and faith
are feature of it. 1t publishes month
ly the Open Wind0,0. .., sfi 1e
l Miss Anna Ripley, of Buxton, Me-,
= has, unaided, secured the necessary
= papers and pension for George.W.
Edgerly, an old broken down soldier
of her town. While engaged in this
, work she took the affidavit of every
| man in his company, from Maine to
t California, every physician who had
2 treated him, and personally supplied
: his wants as long as she was able
rather than allow him to go to the poor
, farm. When the pension was granted.
! one thousand and seventy dollars was
/ allowed as arrearage. She asked and
received no compensation for her
!. fforts.-Boston Journal. 81, rat,,...
Smith, never was more sur
!, prised in my life than was last night.
) Jones' Indeed! What was the causeP'
e S,-"As was passing along the street
!. two ladies came to the door of house
d one evidently the hostess, as she had
e only a shawl wrapped around her bead
the other visitor. As they reached
= the bottom of the steps the visitor said
. We'll, I've had very pleasant time.
Q Goodnight, Mary, and the other said,
. Goodnight, Mehitable,' and they
parted" J.-''What, without another
o word?n S.-"Without another word.
/ Jim! l guess they were men in
|, women's clothes. boston Courier
r In the first generation a man reek.
o ons only two ancestors, his father and
v mother In the second generation the
d two are changed into four, since he
e had two grandfathers and two grand.
e mothers. Each of these four had two
o. parents, and thus in the third genera
t ton there are found to be eight ances-
p tors, that is, eight great grand parents.
/ In the fourth generation the number of
r. ancestors is sixteen, in the fifth thirty
two, in the sixth sixty-four, in the sew
enth one hundred and twenty-eight. in
~ the tenth. one thousand and twenty
-four, in the twentieth, one million, for
g ty-eight thousand, five hundred and
seventy-six, i'm the thirtieth one billion,
~ seventy-three million, seven hundred
- and forty-one thousand, eight hundred
mt and thkty-four. This may prove that
all the worlds akin Chicago Living
Church.
ir, The water-boy who goes through
the passenger trains in Connecticut,
with his pail of water and tray Of tum-
blers, offering free drinks to all the
passengers, is survival of the wal
rt period. During the rebellion thou
w. sands of sick and wounded soldiers
:" passed through the State on their'wa,
FL home to be nursed, and many Of them
ny their canteens being empty, longed IL
il vain for draught of cool water. I'll,