Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-11-18
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week printed on dark blue paper as an illus
tratlon OF the feelings of the editor over the
election.
IT is reported that corduroy is to be the
| fashionable wear for ladies' jackets now. be-
cause Mrs. Cleveland was becomingly attired
IN such garment In Boston last week.
THE messenger of the Western Union tele-
graph office in Easton, Md, is the oldest boy
in tho service. He is over 81 years Of age, and
still would beat the average messenger boy of
the city.
ALEXANDER YOUNG. a Frenchman, was
smothcrcd TO death III a corn bin last week at
West Springfield. Mass. He was filing the
upper tiers OF the crib with corn, when they
Tell upon MIN.
THE pistol with which Guiteau shot Presi-
dent Garfield is in the keeping of the civil
authorities of the District OF Columbia. All
Inc personal property found on the assassin's
body at the time Of arrest was con1lscated and
Is still retained by the officials.
A RESIDENT of Geneseo found a mink in his
hen house after it had killed thirty of his
fowls. The mink ran under wood pile.
Determined t. kill it, the man handled the
Tour cords of wood four times. Then the
mink, growing tired of lodging from one pile
OF wood 10 anoth4 r, ran away
THE citizens of Centreville, N. Y, say that
there can be no doubt that Jane Colhoun, OF
that place. is lO6 years old. She was born,
and her age has been verified beyond ques-
ton. She frequently walks TO Highland, four
miles distant.
AGARDENER who recently received a sound
rating from his master, a land owner of Nor
mandy, turned Indignantly upon him with
the remark: You need not treat me like a
common fellow. I'd nave you to know am
nephew OF LouYe. who assassinated the
Due de Berry,"
COMMISSIONER SPARKS, of the Land Office,
has no knowledge Of Canadian lumbermen
who are alleged to be preparing to buy the
| pine lands OF the Minnesota Indian r. serva-
| lions. When those lands pass from under the
| control of the Indians they will be under the
| jurisdiction of Mr.. Sparks, and the chances
| are he Will permit settlers to occupy them the
| same as other lands.
IT is understood that in his forthcoming re-
| port Secretary Lamar will recommend that
| the pension law be changed that the De-
| partment of the Interior shall be allowed
| some latitude. in cases of peculiar kind,
| where moral considerations require that a
| pension should be given to the children instead
| OF widow, or to a father instead of
mother, as the law now directs.
THERE was buried last week in Washington
a man who had shaken hands with eighteen
| Presidents. Nicholas Calan was born in
| Washington In 1908. a short time before that
| city became the seat of government. He
| acted as private secretary to President Har-
| rlSOn. lie WAS q Tall. sender ola man, with
| high forehead, thin face and silky gray hair.
| His memory was remarkable and his CONVEX
sation filed with interesting anecdotes Of the
| past.
THE Due d'Aumale's gift Of Chantlly in
| cludes stpulatlons for annual payments Of
| $1,000 to the Condo Hospitals; $1,000 for paro-
chial buildings, disabled priests. scholarships,
| etc. in the Department of the Oise 1913 for
| three nelghboring churches; 5000 for the GuIse
| prize at the Lycee; $500 for the old pupils of
the College of Henry ", and $500 for the
| most merit OriOus student there. The value of
the entire Chantilly estate and the collections
in The chateau is fully 100000
ACCORDING to the returns published by the
statistical Office of the German empire. the
number of recruits unable to read or write
| who joined the German army last year was
1861 or 50 per cent. of the men Incorporated.
In 1884 the total was 1;S5l, or LII per cent;
in 1888 it was 1923, or LIZ per cent lin 1882 it
was 1892, or 1872 per cent: in 1880 1t was
2,406 or 80 per cent. and in 1875 it was 3.3li,
or 2S7 per cent. The largest proportion of
| illiterate recruits were from the districts OF
MarIen werder, Dromberg and Posen.
On behalf of DR.. McCosh, of Princeton. it is
asserted that he did not become angered
| while attending the Harvard anniversary
solely because his college was overlooked in
the granting of degrees. The real cause of his
outraged feelings was an Objectionable flight
in DIR. Holmes poem. in which Princeton and
1.-The whole Church of Calvin were alluded to
in far from complimentary terms. Letters
have passed between DR.. McCosh and Presi-
dent Eiiot descriptive Of DR.. McCOsh's feel
ings on his part ana deplOring the words of the
p ct CT the occasion on the part of President
Eliot.
IL. RIDER HAGGARD, whose book "King
Solomon's Mines" achieved such a success. is
a barrlster by profession. A the early age of
I9-he is now only 30-he accompanied Sir II.
Bulwer as secretary to Natal, and served on
the staff OF Sir Theophilus Shepstone during
| his mission to Trahsvaal. 1t was during the
time he was at the Cape that he acquired the
local knowledge which he has turned 10 such
good account. His first effort in literature
was not novel, but a history of events in
South Africa. which was published in 1882
under the title of "Cetewayo and his White
NeighbOrs."
ONE EVENING recently three teachers in at
tendance at the County Institute, at Harris
burg, Pa, thought they would like to have
drink of something to take the chill of before
retiring. but they didn't care to be seen bv
the other teachers at the hotel. They strolled
out and entered another hotel, very quietly
as they thought, and headed for the bar,
| when they ran plump into "a dozen teachers
who were sitting around smoking. They
| stopped, looked arounp in q dazed sort of
| way, and then one OF them, looking up at the
electric light. said: "Yes; they are beautiful
lights" and the trio went out, They didn't
want drink.
IHE Will Oh retro lIerry J Dortlcos was
offered for probate in the Surfogate's Office at
New York Monday. 1t was executed in
Paris, Sept. 16, 1856. Dorticos died in that
city and the will was sent to New York bv
Consul General Walker. Dorticos is said to
be heir to about Sl0,000000. His father is n
large plantation owner in Cuba, and Petro
was the only heir. To his wife, Kate he
bequeaths one nth of the property that NAV
accrue to him after his fathers DEATH and
the remainder to his child. Petro O'Bourke
has been appointed executor. administrator
and guardian. According TO a clause in the
win, If his wife begins legal proceedings to
secure more than he has bequeathed to her
she forfeits her claim TO the legacy.
A Constantinople correspondent explains
how the recent prohibition of Dante's ''Di-
vine Comedy" throughout the Turkish domin-
ions came about. The Director of the Mill
tary School, Sudde Pasha while travelling in
Italy, ordered in Florence a copy of the ''Di-
vina Commeda" with Dore's illustrations
On its arrival at Constantnople the work was
as usual, submitted to the censor, who took II
home in order to look over the pictures at
| leisure. To his surprise he came upon ono
Illustrating Mohammedan suffering cruel
tortures. Suspecting an intended insult to
the Turkish nation. he SHOW cd the book 10 his
superior. who by dint of much inquiry ana
consultation OF authorities, brought out the
shocking fact that the Mussulman 10 question
was no less a person than Mohammed himeelf
whom Dante had condemned to eternal suf-
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