Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

I against The S3l6.0OO of the Devastations sDd
the after thip has no hydraulic sneeh5nery.
Nhleh 10 Inc Howe adds 20 the sxPease 10 the
tune OF 1915 900.
IN London the price of gas to private con
sumers Is IS. per 900 feet on the north side
q the Thames, and p. Cd. on the south SIDE.
The charge for public lamps consuming 81.
] feet per nOur. l. f3 g.. On the south see and
/ II i's. 2d. On the north side of the river. 1t
! Is probable thai Parliament will be agked 10
ADJUST these prices.
WHILE the question Of the advisability Of
women studying medicine is being discussed,
the women are settling Il for themselves BY
entering The medical schools in no inconsid-
/ cradle number. At Zurich tWenty-Dine are
/ now pursuing that study. in London forty
eight and al Paris 100 At the latter eighteen
| have obtained their diplomas of doctor dur
| ing the past seven years.
TEE heaviest European mail that has ever
been dispatched from New York was that car
ried BIZ the steamship Elder, which sailed
from that port recently for Bremen via
| southampton. 1t consisted OF 255 sacks of let
| tiers and $50 sacks Of newsps pers and other
! printed matter, samples. pack ages. ete.-a
| total OF SIS sacks, of which SIS were made up
al the New YORK post office.
THE Chinese pubic school in San Francisco
has now thirty eight pupils, although it
started year and half ago with only six.
! 1t Is uudtr the charse of Miss Thayer. who
finds tue young Celestial very bright IN learn
/ ing English and the common branches. Her
hardest Task is to en- Orce silence. The little
fellows Ike to chatter In Chinese about their
| lessons. Three Of the pupils are girls, all
wear the Chinese costume, and all take a Two
| weeks holiday at the Chinese New Year.
CRoCKIE BALDWIN, of Philadelphia. is 8
| 95-year-old cockatoo In the Geological Gar
dens there. She is very garrulous and very
cross. A white haired citizen told the keeper
Z Or a- ~ rk1ae hD- Er.
| odd years ago. he used TO plague Croekie who
| was then the pet Of Mrs. Baldwin and note /
| for her conversational powers. Mrs. Baldwin
| gave the bird TO q friend, who kent her
| twenty-five years. Then she was offered for
| ssle In bird store, where Mr.. Cox. of Ger
| mantoWn, found her, bought her for $50 and
gave ner 70 the Zoo.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Thomas King. a
young Englishmau. came to Manayunk, Pa
! and there fell In love with a young woman
whom he would have married had not George
| " hnoG, young man OF the place, warned
| him that she was not what he thought she
| was. hing fouDd mat Knox was right. and
| was so thankful for his escape that he said lie
would reward him when he got rich. He went
Oaek 70 London. and there died the otner day,
| and III his Will left to Knox, who now lives in
| Philadelphia. 5000 for tie service rendered
SO many years before.
| ONE OF the most admired performers in a
| sensational drama recently produced in Gin
einnati was big bulldog, that at a critical
point in the play came bounding out, and
SEEING the villain by the throat, or there
| ateuts. hung on Ike grim death, amid up
roaTlous applause. The other night he
grabbed his man as usual. but something gave
| way, ana the dog fell near the footlights, and
t1en ne stood there ana calmly ate big piece
OF liver. which had b en- fastened un0er the
| villains throat, and had hitherto been the in
cenuye Tor the dogs eXeruon.
FRANCE now has a total debt Of about
$1,000, oo0.ooo, or twice as large as that of the
| United states at the close OF the war and six
| times as large as our present interest bearing
DEBT The French debt Is nearly 500 per
| head OF her population, while that of the
| United States Is less than $50 per head There
Is an interest charge of SAC. 000, coo year be-
| sides annuit1es snd other burdens not clearly
stated. amounting to as nearly as much more
The annual revenue wrung from the peopIe
| is $3.50 100000. and yet thar Is insufficient to
meet the necessities Of the government
JAY GOULD is never in a hurry. When he
| is on the witness stand he is as easy as an old
| shoe, sinks into the chair with a benevolent
complacency, looks mildly around with an
| innocent air Snd-lets the opposition attorney
| Try his hand on him all he wants. Nothing
can surpass the calm urbanity of Mr.. Could
| al such time. and nothing can surpass his
skill In answering questions. He tells every
| thing he knows; yet he tells nothing Mr.
Gould moves around quietly and upostenta-
| tieusiy and no man knows where he will turn
up next. whether in st. Louis or in a pew in
| DR.. Paxton's church.
Mrs. CHAMPAGNE, of st. Louis. has not
known where her father was tor years. The
other day an old gentleman called and said he
was her long lost parent. He showed such n
surprising knowledge of the family that she
| believed him. He told her that he had made
| fortune Of $50 900 in the far West and
now that ne had found his heir he would die
| happy. 1t was touching meeting. and the
Lon rz-nr NaCsa IL H. ~ =
Was the fact that il was after banging hours
and he was out Of cash. Then his dufjfpl
/ daughter loaned him SIS, and pretty soon ne
/ stepped out Mrs. Champacue has moi seen
| him since, neither has she seen her sons
beaver overcoat nor his gold watch and chain
AUGUST BELMONT, who has for some wears
been the agent Of the Rothschilds at New
York. has exercised powerful influence in
1 the Democratic party. He married dsueh-
ter of the Commodore Perry who discovered
Japan. not the one who fought on Lake Err.
I and be was for years the leader of fashion BILE
| society in New fork. Personally he reseU,
bles Leopold Morse, except that be lilnps 8 T.
tie, owing TO wound received in a duel when
| held ofhce except when for q time he was
! Consul General OF Austria at New York. and
! afterN ard I nlted s. ates Minister 10 Holland
His son, Perry BELMONT now in Congress. is
! a smart young fellow. lavish in his expepd-
| itures and anxious for distinction.
4 cOoLIE belonging TO the Chatali tea
| estate at South Syihet, Hindosfan. was re-
! turning from market al dusk. when a jacksl
] attacked am in a determined manner. The
! man succeeded in driving the aninal axsv
I though NOS before he was severely bitten a
few minutes later. and after the coolie had
proceeded some distance. the brute overlook
him and renewed the attacks. TINS time IN
4 managed 10 get the man down. and terrible
/ struegie toek place. Finally the coolie suc-
cee0ed in stralgling the beast. which he con-
viewed 70 his employer for inspection: aud tho
/ state of the wounded man fully bears ont the
/ truth OF his story. The jackal. which was a
I very large one, was in splend d condition.
/ aud appears 10 have been suffering neither
| from hunger nor madness.
/ A LEIPZIG INVENTOR has devised an ex-
| tremely dramatic mode OF execution for Grim
nals, which possesses the additional sdvan.
| ivge Of being painless. The machinerY con-
sisls OF platform nine meters square. an.
preached by FIVE steps. In the centre OF the
\ platform is chair for the condemned mac
/ Behind II stands figure OF Justice haidiuc a
pair of scales in her eff hand. the scales leinr
movable Under The platform Is placed Al
/ electric battery, IRON which the wires us.s
through the legs Of the chair into the sea- ard
J uaoS. terminat ne IN platinum piates II thU
pal ient obi rcis Ia sealing aim self IN the char
Z ne is simply tied in. After the sentence ha,
| been read the eNecutlJnera TAX es a slscf
! breaks it and places The pseccs la one Of inc
/ JUSTICES scales. This descend. pals battery
Ia motion and-hnls. Death 3 frtfht.t ueot,s