Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

NJ. ESTRADA, French engineer, is building
a forty ton locomotive which is expected to
attain q speed of seventy eight miles an hour.
The driving wheels are to be eight feet In dl-
ameter.
THERE are several towns in Montana with
out single nmarried woman, and the local
papers tell piteous tales of rich ana eligible
bachelors who are travelling about from Town
TO town looking for wife. In some parIs OF
the Territory, it is said q comm lsslOn OF from
$40 to $40 is freely offered for good article in
wives.
THE Imperial Library in st. Petersburg has
recently been enriched by two parchment
leaves Of gospel in the old Georgian lam
guage. The drawings on the leaves are well
preserved; they date from the twelfth or
thirteenth century, and are considered TO
rank with the greatest curiosities of the ORR
entail art of that epoch.
e. C. MONTGOMERY, who resides at Clifton,
Arizona, came home from little trip through
the country the other day and brought with
HIM the head of an Apache. He had been at
tackled by three; he killed two and took the
head of one as souvenir. He was able 10 DO
this because he was not a soldier and could
light Indians Indian fashion.
TEMPERANCE WOMEN in the prohibition viii
lage of Marshalltown, Ia, watched the drug
store sales of liquor for a month, and ascer-
tanned that the six druggists sold ll214 gal
Ions of whisky, 2,lH BOTTLES of beer, II gallons
OF alcohol, gallons of brandy, gallons OF
gin, barrel of ale and gallons of wine. 1t
wasn't very sickly month either.
Mr.. AND MRS. THOMAS FOSTER. who are
visiting at Hornesvllle, Y, are the parents
of very remarkable child, who is now l6
years of age. The young man is only IA
inches high and weighs only pounds when
dressed. He s probably the smallest child
of his age in the world. The boy is as intel
how
enjoys good health, and is as playful as an
any child. The father weighs over 200 pounds.
FEW boys desiring an education have over
come more obstacles than Adam S. Green,
Colby senior. He is a colored young man,
born in poor circumstances, in Mississippi.
Becoming converted when young, he felt
cali to preach. He had but one leg, and In
the first place had to painfully earn and lay
by money enough to buy an artificial limb.
Toiling manfuliy through his environment,
he fitted himself for college and has worked
his way through Colby. He will take theo-
logical course at Newton.
DONALDSON, the swimmer, recently swan
the Mohawk at Schenectady tied hand and
foot. A young athlete thought that be could
do the same. and after a friend had well tied
him he started to cross the river. Half way
across he gave out and went down. His
frightened friend in a boat tried to get him
into the boat, but couldn't. Neither could he
tan gu with severe cramps. Finally the man
in the boat tied rope around the swimmers
neck, and thus towed the half drowned ath-
lete to shore, where 1t took considerable rub
hing and stimulant to reduce the cramps and
get the youth In good condition again.
ANOTHER miraculous escape from immi-
nent death has just occurred. Two seamen,
Charles Crogan and Christopher Choland, be-
longing to the schooner William n. Cakes, of
Gloucester, NJ ass, fishing for halibut on the
Banquereau. got adrIft in a dory during a
thick fog. In this condition they remained
without fOod for four days and nights until
they sighted brigantine and hOisted black
ball as signal OF distress. The vessel hove
to and the seamen reached it. This vessel
proved to be the Liberia, of st. John, n. b.,
laden with lumber bound to Ireland. She fell
in with The English schooner Elizabeth on the
Grand Bank and the seamen were brought
to st. Pierre safe and well.
ON Tuesday last Yene. wife of Isoshima, of
the japanese village, gave birth In Chicago to
q girl baby. the first of full blood, they say.
ever born in the United States. Everybody
wanted to see the baby. and most everybody
did. lsoshima fluttered around with the tiny
thlDR IN MS arms, the proudest man in the
city OF Chicago. as he told that the baby
weighed SIX pounds Many of the ladies who
visited the village called on Yene in her room,
and they all seemed very much surprised to
see that Yene acted just they would act
under such circumstances. The women of
the village took care of Yene, and no doctor
was called in at all. Yene is the prettiest
woman in the village. The baby will try TO
grow W unGer the name of Columbia Hil
Yene Isoshma.
STORY of a Boston literary man who had
more than his share of admiring devotees has
not been in print Once he decided to spend
week or two in a small country town, where
the necessaries of life required so much atten
ton that the lnhabii ants had little time for
literature. Blu. there was one young woman,
the daughter of the school teacher. who had
read many books. When she heard of the
great visitor she Immediately lOnged to know
how literary divinity moved and lived. For
several DAYS she followed him about in his
walks through the town. and then becoming
holder. went to his boarding house She di d
not venture to address the author hut with
an awe struck whisper asked the landladv
what the great man did. well" said the
woman in apracticaI maaner. ''he gets up in
the morning. comes down stairs ana eats his
vlctuals like other folks"
AMONG other reforms which Gen. Boulan-
ger desires to Introduce into the French army
Is that of obligatory celbacy for subalterns.
and as one means of effectng this he pro
poses to raise the regulation dowrv, Now an
officer can marry any lady VINO brings him a
portion of l20Of. year. But it appears that
there has been too much marrying and giving
in marriage, since the establishment Of ner
manent garrlsons, to suit the War Minister
who evidently thinks that q wife detracts
from the galiantry of an officer in the field
Possibly he has forgotten the example Of
Bonaparte, who got married the day before
he TOOK command of the army of Italy; in
fac, that command was the dowry which
Josephine brought him. Ii ia on record that
on one occasion, hearing that Josephine had
wept over ms dangers. he exclaimed, "Wurm-
ser shall pay dearly for those tears"
JOE BUCHER, the section boss at De sair
station, on the Illinois Central railroad. and
his three sons boarded their earnings. and
when the old man dicd last April there was
$40, 900 concealed in the house more than half
the money being In gold. One night in the
absence Of the family sic, 90 was stolen. Last
Tuesday Benjamin Davis (colored) accosted
Louis Anspacher, shoe store clerk in Nav
Orleans, ana offered him a 800 gold niece for
SIS. The gold WAS black as if il had been dre
out Of the earth. Anspacher bought the enI6
and notified the police. on Thursdov
spacher saw Davis passing the store and had
him taken to jail, when he confessed the
money had been given to him by John Camne
bell, colored section hand at De Salr to lis
pose OF. Campbell will be arrested. There
is reward of 81, 900 for the thief and tho
police are claiming all the credit and the
cash.
Mr.. DANA, of the New York Sun. dec,ares
that the most difficult subject for a new spa-
per reporter to handle We'll is a big fire. II
has, he says, so many varied and VARYING
aspects; It's cause must often be ascertained
from lips that are pAnic-stricken; It's imme-