Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-11-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| the other day. Hill searched high and low,
and at length found the dog deaf in the woods
wi n one forefoot securely caught in the roots
/ OF u tree. .8ifG1 Tt3n1 CO..
THE great Bible publishing establishment
! founded at Halle, in Germ any. earlylast GEN.
| tury by Baron Won Canstein. Is about 10 have
| Jubilee. and to issue the thousandth edition
| OF lie octave Bible, of which 2,ll21S0 copies
! nave now been published. q
! ROLAND WoRTHINGToN, editor of the Bos-
ton Traveller, recalls that when he took hold
of that paper, thirty years ago, it was the
| most successful in the city. and printed LAID
| copies on each Of five days in the week, and
| ten extra copies on Saturdays.
THE Secretary of the Interior Saturday re-
ceived through Mr.. Edward 4. Leigh. of Bal
| tlmore, large red clay pipe, which, it ls said,
| was used by Black Hawk. a noted les Of the
| Sac and Fox Indians, during Indian councils.
The pipe has been sent to the National Mu-
scum.
THE oldest newspaper in the whole wide
world is the King Pau, or Capital Sheet"
| published IN Pekjn. 1t first appeared A. D.
| Gil, but came out only at irregular intervals.
Since the year 1851, however, 1t has been pub
| lished weekly, and OF uniform size. Now it
| appears in three editions daily.
| M THEIRS new statue at Marseiles is fire.
| quently mud-spotted. "'Tis statue to be
thrown down." says a MarseIlles journal,
which then goes on to speak of '1'affreuX
| Thers," the miserable fusilleur de Mai
| 1871" and to declare that the statue is a pro-
vocation to the Republican ana Socialist
| populations.
1T is told of Gambetta that once when in the
| heyday of his power, when he went to some
| agricultural department to GUST a reactionary
candidate In favor of one of his friends, he in
quired about the agrcuturists' wants. I'VE
are sadly in need of rain came the answer.
| IN see about 1t when get to Paris" prom
| lsed Gambeua. And his listeners believed in
| his promise. The record runs that the rain
came down in torrents a day or two after,
| and that when the reactionary candidate pre-
| sented himself he was hooted at. Let your
party do as much for us as Gambetta, and
| We'll elect you" they said.
| RECENT number Of the Irish Times con-
| tanned the following advertisement: "How
| to change the color of an alcoholic red nose.
| Recipe, which ls effectusl in nine cases out of
| ten, may be had by sending postal order for
1es to 79s. this office" The Secretary of
| the Dublin Total Abstinence Society hap
| pened to see this advertisement, and the neat
| day he inserted another advert isement quot
| ing iJ, and adding: How to change the color
| of an alcoholic red nose-Don't waste los. :;
| call over to the coffee palace, TOwnshend
street. and. in 80 cases out 100, sign the pledge
| and keep il, your nose will assume its natural
| shape and color"
Ex-KING THEBAw's golden state chariot las
I
gorgeous as might be expected from the
tastes of the extravagant Burmese monarch
| but is merely a clumsy reproduction of
| European model. carved, gilt and lnlaid with
| small bits OF glass set like precious stones
| The BODY of the car is carved with an elabo-
rate scroll border and ornamented with
4 panels traced out in decorative lines of tiny
| glass mosaic, while in the centre is gilt re-
| lief of the symbOlical Burmese peacock. In
| the front stand a pair of birds resembling
| pea hens, with their necks entwined. and
| which were evidently surmounted by an UNI
brella. King Thebaw occupied the solitary
seat in the car, with the royal umbrella
| spread over his head. There was no coach
man, the coach being drawn by led bulocks
| ONE Of the dozen actresses who have played
| in New York city lately, ana who is cele-
| brated for the beauty and cost of her cos
| tunes, decides during the first portion of
| Camille" what she shall wear in the ensu-
| ing ball scene. She has four costumes for that
/ act, ranging in quality from beatiac new
creation fresh from Paris to a worked over
| gown from season before last: and her choice
| for each evening depends the ze and de-
meanor of the audience. Only full auditO-
rum and plenty OF enthusiasm command the
| very best dress, with the lustre and frou frou
of newuess undlmlnished; an assemblage
| little deficient In numbers or appreciation
sees the second best robe, and 60 on down 10
| the frayed one for a cold, sm ali house. Some
| times. however. a half audience in size is so
expandingly full of delight that the actress
| reward III WIN ner nne6b uTGSS; ana, on the
| other hand, misbehavng crowd Is punished
| with the worse for-wear costume.
A REMARKABLE CASE is reported by a re-
liable physician. DR.. Peete, of Humboldt,
Tenn. About eight months ago a negro living
| there had a personal encounter with sable
| brother and was badly wounded in the face
| by thrust from an umbrella. The wound
| was sewed up, and IN few weeks was en-
! tirely healed. The negro raised q good crop
|
| ago he began to suffer cons derable pain from
| the old wound and experienced great diff
| Guilty in opening his mouth. Finally he sent
| for DR.. Peete 20 treat him. who decided that
| the blow from the umbrella had probably
| fractured the bone of his face, which created
| the trouble. He made an incision just below
| the cheek bone and extracted piece of the
| umbrella handle about five inches in length.
The handle had penetrated the face ana
| broken off. The broken piece was about three
| fourths of an inch IN diameter. The case Il
| remark able. Dr. Peete VIII report it IN
| medical journal.
| THE Audubon Society, of New York contin-
ues its warfare against what one OF its lady
members calls the "heartessness of fashion
able women, who disregard appeals made in
behaH OF the birds. and who blndly follow
| the df6tates of French mlliners in mattera of
dress" If It be true that the demand for
birds for millrery purposes has greatly In
| CT eased Abe slaughter of inaectIv orous snd
| other wild birds not used for food, a writer m
the Post suggests Cnat tue only possible wav to
| discourage such slaughter is to prosecute
those persons having in their possession and
| exposing for sale the BODIES of those birds
The addition made last winter to the game
| laws of New York makes those acts IL egal .
vet. IN spite of ibis, the illegal sale goes on,
| He also says: Il saw more birds in the case
of one miliiner In Philadelphia this autumn
than / had seen alive oil summer in nv coun-
| try ramiles, and this, too. notw ithstapdng
| the fact that the laws Of that State since 1874
have impofed fine of IS on all such Offend
| ers." The Audubon Society are alsa urged to
make 1t the interest of fashion writers to rep
resent ID as extremely vulgar to wear the
wings or heads of birds on bonnets or hats.
JAMES BROOKS had presented TO him on he
Tippecanoe battle field, during the Harrison
campaign Of lsiO, flag, to be placed in the
national archives. IL was carried in the bat
tie by Ensign Upton, Tennessean by birth,
who went to Indiana with only his AK for a
| patrimony, and who becamea United States
| Senator from his adopted State. During the
bait Gen. Harrison rode up and inquired of
| the young ensign: where is your Captain?'
"Dead. sir" Your LieutenantP" Dead
sir" ''Your Second Lieutenant dead.
| sir" "Your ensign" HE stands before
you" where Upton then stood, holding and
defending this very flag, but so covered with
! dirt and 50 besmeared with blood that Gen.
Harrison scarcely knew him. Hold on"
| said Harrison. for moment longer; | will
reinforce you;" and he rode of and led up
! there the company OF Capt. Robb, by which
| time, or soon after, OF the seventy-hye men
under Capt. Spencer. there we're only ten or
twelve left not killed or WOunded John Tv