Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-20
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ton, Tex, is a bigger man in the estimation
of his n%eighburs than President Cleveland.
When the savings bank recently failed he
took the books of all depositors having less
than 500 and paid them in full.
THE FINEST TIGER in America, it is said.
was received a6 the Philadelphia Geological
Garden. Saturday. He is one of the three
cubs born In the Antwerp Garden in 1882, ana
IS not yet 4 years old. He is remarkably well
developed for his age, weighing about 400
pounds.
AN EPISODE of Yankee ingenuity greatly
amused the LOndoners at the Oxford-Cam-
bridge boat race. An enterprlsing adver-
Using agent released at Putney, just when
the crowd was thickest, several hundred
small balloons, each bearing In big letters the
advertisement OF some American wares
IT was the illustrious Napoleon III who
made the profound observation: The wealth
OF It country depends on It's general prosperi-
ty." The famous Havin wrote, as if giving
utterance TO a most valuable phllosohhlcat
statement: LAS soon as a Frenchman crosses
the frontier he fnds himself on foreign SOIL"
AN American bald eagle was captured at
Edenville, Mich, a few days ago. The bird
was taken to East Saginaw. Richter, the
taXidermist prOnOunces the bird to be mp
wards OF 80 years old. 1t measures nearly
eight feet from tip to IT'D, and had on one Of
its talons when captured a common mink trap
with six inches of chain.
THE Princess de Beauffremont can't wear
her rings outside her gloves in the manner ma
tural to humble souls desiring display, because
she is a Princess. But at PATHS appearance
at the new opera house in Nice the noble lady
had some Of her diamonds caught dexterously
into the back of her gloves to make an eject
whenever she lifted her hands.
The Russian painter, vereschagin. was in
London during the recent riots, and feels in
clined to paint the scenes he witnessed, "Never
in my life" he says, chad | seen human be-
ings 80 famished, so badly clothed and abb
jectly miserable. Language cannot express
The effect produced on me by the sight of such
an lneXpresslbly unhappy MOB brutalized by
want"
A ROLL OF papyrus was eXhumed from Her.
culaneum in the middle of the eighteenth CEN
fury. The process of unrolling was begun at
Naples and continued until Il few years ago
when the untouched rolls were completed in
England. They have now been edited by an
Oxford scholar. They are, for the most part,
Greek dissertations on the epicurean philOs-
only, selected or written by ~Philodemus, the
friend of Cicero and Horace.
H BUFFALO FISH are very common in the
Iowa lakes, and frequently weigh as much
as sixty or seventy pounds. When the water
begins to grow warm In the spring they are
around the shores in immense quantities, be-
ing generally in punches of seven or eight.
IH6y rise from the D0tIOm 20 Ine Top OF JH6
water until their tails and fms are out; then
they make a tremendous rush, causing the
water to foam and creating a noise which can
be heard a mile on a still evening.
NJ. DE LEssEPs is splendidly lodged in a
new house in the Avenue Montaigne, which
was purchased by the money made by Nine.
de Lesseps on her original suez investments.
Her dowry Of 100, 0OG francs was employed in
buying shares when they were below par
that IR TO saw at the time her marriage WAS
agreed to. That sum last year was swollen 10
1900. coo francs, and a great deal of interest
produced in the meanwhile was invested in
other profitable ventures. The hall In the
Lesseps mansion is one of the largest In any
very modern private house in Paris.
STATE SENATOR JOHN FLKINs, of Colorado,
was in Denver when the news flashed over
the wires that New York was 30 close that it
was thought Cleveland had it. He took the
train that night to come East. He was in the
sleeper, and at a station some distrnce this
side of Denver a man got on the train. who,
after inquiries Of the porter, came back where
the Senatar was sitting and asked: "Are
you not Mr.. Etkins? Are you not a relative
about the election" The Senator's response
was: Pm not related TO steve Elkins in
the slightest degree. Before the election 1
was his brother"
THE DANISH frigate Upland, with Prince
Valdemar aboard, was to have called at New
York in the summer of this year on its way to
St. Thomas to give King Christians youngest
son, brother-in-law of the Gear, the Prince of
Wales and the king of Greece, a chance to see
the metropolis of the new world; but advices
from Copenhagen state that the programme
has been changed. The young prince instead
is to go to Greenland in the corvette Fylla.
No Danish prince has ever visited the colonies
there. Such cold comfort as they have to give
has been expended to royalty only once be-
fore, when in 1855, Prince Joseph Napoleon
visited Greenland.
THERE is on the island Of Amager, at CO.
penahgen, a wide field, known as the m
ger field. 1t is probably a mile or more
across, and is perfectly level and unobstruc-
ted. A tailor chose an hour when nothing
was astir in the parade ground and walked
out to its mathematical centre with a bean
pole, which he planted in the soft turf, then
fixed a moose to the end Of it, put it around
his neck AND threw himself upon it with his
whole weight. The pole bent under the bur-
den, but bore it, and when the astonished
spectators who had witnessed the tailOr's
preparations from a distance reached the
place they found him dead TIL ten min
utes it took them to get there had proved
enough for his purpose.
MUNICIPAL LOGIC at Paris is of a novel and
refreshing kind. At a late meeting of the
Town Council several members rose to COM
plain, with reference to the large number Of
recent murders, that insufficient protection
was taken for the public safety. The Pref ct
of the Police was %astounded at the charge,
and proceeded to prove its injustice by giving
statistics of his wo *. From these IL was
shown that in 1885 l., 7Gl dIsorderly women
had been arrested, as against GALS In 1888;
31.lS0 beggars, a. against 23.6T3; Al. l52 crimi-
mails, as against 49, 20; 1857 cabdrivers. as
against l3. U69; and finally 5,06S dogs, as against
4,34S in the former year. The figures are in
teresting, bat cNnnot have been so reassuring
as the Prefectintended them to be.
ANENT KAISER WILHELM's recent birthday
celebration says the London Times: Gin
creasing years only seem to lend freshness
and vigor to the grand old Emperor; and az
he fitted about among the ladies Of the Diplo-
matte Corps, now chatting cheerily for a few
mOments with Lady Ermyntrude Malet, or
bowling graciously to the lesser lights Of other
foreign skies. one could scarcely realize that
this was the SAM man who won his youthful
spurs at Bar-sur- Auhe. and entered Paris
with the triumphant allies before Napoleon
had been made to bite the dust at Waterloo.
Ruddy and radiant in his scarlet uniform of
the Gnrdes du Corps-not yet wholly bald. and
Only partially bent by his great age the En-
peror was a most fascinating object to all.p
A~CONTRAcT was closed to-day between the
Confederate Monument Executive Committee
aud Alexander Doyle, Of New YORK, for build
ing the Confederate monument at Montgom-
cry, Ala, for about $45, 900. twin be erected
on Capitol hill here. Its height will be so
feet and its base IS feet square, around which
five figures. representing infantry. artillery,
cavalry, the navy and Hon. jefferson Davis,
in a sitting position, taken from life The tor
figure repre- .pnts a southern woman. IL IA