Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

STORE and house rents in Chicago are
higher tnan year ago, while office rents are
lower.
1T TAKES but six minutes now to send
cable message to London and to get the
| answer.
LILY AND BLANCHE are favorite names
among the colored children in Southern
schools.
GIN. PAINE's new yacht. now building
| which is expected to beat the Puritan, has
been named the Mayflower.
AT the City Theatre at Cologne all the seem
cry and implements have lately been impreg-
mated with chemicals as a preventive against
fire.
STATES which have rooted Carrick Castle
for 300 years are found to be perfectly sound.
are all but idle.
MANCHESTER, VA, has produced the
largest diamond ever found in this country,
weighing 1874 carats uncut, II Ills carats
cut, and formerly valued at $1,000.
LETTER received at Washington from the
United states steamer Galena, at Key West.
states that there are fifteen cases OF yellow
| IeVer on board, ana among them Carpenter
| DeDIamln Markham, of Portsmouth.
The CONVERTED CLOWN who has joined the
Salvation ArIey is at present the great attrac-
ton at the army's barracks in Washington
street. lie sings number of religious songs
10 secular tunes and relates his experience"
almost every evening.
MR.. GALL, a bookkeeper in indianapolis
Ind. true TO his name, remembers when the
present King Of Denmark's seven daughters
used TO wash and hang out clothes, and when
the only equpage they had was billy goat
aud little cart.
AMERICAN cannon powder claims to beat
all creation, some of the latest make speeding
a 100 pound projectile through the air at the
hyely pace of 1929 feet per second. This re-
| suit was reached at recent trial Of the new
navy guns at Annapolis.
A GENTLEMAN, possessed with a spirit of
adaptation and doing a season in Nice, sends
boxes of flowers to all of his lady friends. He
addresses white hyacinths to young ladies'
| PINK roses to women OF 20, pnks to women Of
| 81, vlolets to those who confess two score, and
a mixture Of all to women above that age.
WHAT kind of place is that White
HouseP' asked friend of Mr.. Lincoln. SIT
Is not modern house, is it? 1 do not suppose
it compares with some other houses in the
country" Mr.. Lincoln's eyes twinsled ~
do not know much about your modern con-
Veniences." he replied; sits the best house
ever lived in"
FLOCK after flock of larks have crosse7 the
North sea and the channel to England this
winter, congregatIng in vast numbers wher-
ever the ground appeared to afford a likeli-
hoo1 OF iood: On Royston heath, favorite
| locality for the bird, thousands have been
netted: not less than 500 weight have been
| sent TO London within few days.
THE GEORGE K. STARR, of Victoria. B. c.,
took away the immense plank sent from the
province to the Colonial Exhibition. This is
9 feet IN width and 20 feet long, and is with
out knot OF bemsh of any kind. fine sample
OF the TIMBER wealth OF the province. The
| stick was sawn at the MOodyvile mill. An
| other plank IL feet in width will also be sent.
The PATRIARCH of the Jardin des Plantes
In Paris is fat old pig-tail baboon, who has
survived the fall Of his patron, the Emperor
Napoleon, who used to pay him q weekly visit.
he Is as bald as q Mormon elder, and so jeal-
| Gus or his rivals, q pair of pet spider monkeys
in neighboring cage, that he rarely misses a
chance to reach out and pull their protruding
| tails.
DR.. SToERs and Henry Ward Beecher. who
broke an old-time friendship when the great
scandal was first bruIted, never even bow.
"Neither has said anything against the other
in the pulpit, but each arrayed his social
| forces in assault and defense. At the dediea
ton of the Brooklyn bridge Storrs was chosen
| over Beecher as orator Of the occasion. and SO
strong and dangerous was the resentment OF
Plymouth church tnat Mayor Low placated
| Beecher's friends by taking part in a great
adulatory birthday demonstration"
SOME CHARITABLE LADIES of New York
have interested themselves in a movement to
erect and endow an asylum for destitute Ital-
ian girls The girls are to be trained for do
| mestics of higher grade. 1t is proposed TO
purchase 100 acres of land on the line of the
| Harlem railroad and beGin there by building
| substantial house for the children. house
| in town will be hired. The institution will
| be placed under the care of the Sisters OF
Charity: The scheme has the approval of
Arch bishop Corrigan. A matinee for the hen
eft OF the institution will be given by Mr.
| Days company at Days Theatre, on Mon
day, March 8, at p. M, when Love on
! Clutches" will be played.
A REMARKABLE affair occurred at Zanes-
vile, o.. recently, resulting in the death of
prominent young man. Mrs. Cochran, who
lives on the bank of the canal, purchased a
parrot four years ago. The bird could utter
very distinctly several words. About O'clock
it flew out of the window and dropDed into
the canal. AT once it screamed: 'sSaye met
! save mel" and tapped its wings IN a vain
endeavor to rise. Milton Cochran the son.
who was the real teacher of the bird and de-
| votedly attached to it, plunged into the water
to save It, but, being unable to swim, both
went down together. the birds last words
! being "Save mep' Mr.. Cochran's BODY was
| soon after recovered, and also the parrot
The body of the would be rescuer and the
bird were inferred together.
REV. JOHN CUcKsoN, of Springfield, Mass,
has been suffering for some weeks from symp
LOHlS CHdtdcttli5biC VI dIst0lCdl poisoning.
such as extreme lassitude, loss of appetite
| insomnia. and swelling of the hands and
feet. week or more ago he SUSPECTED the
| wall paper in his study and bedroom and mn
| der the advice OF q friend samples of the ma
| peFs were sent to the University Laboratory
| at Cambridge for chemical analysIs with tho
result. that the library paper was found 10
| CONTAIN half gram o. arsenic to every
| square ward. and the bedroom paper nearly
| he same quantity. On Sunday while An
! New YArk, Mr.. Cuckson was persuaded Inv
his 4r1eads TO visit physician who. upon en-
| ami atAon, said he was suffering from anm-
mia, veEY probably caused by arsenical nois.
1 oning, ann that IL was not safe to occupv the
rooms containing the paper referred to.
ALMOST the first duty OF a new reRiInent
stationed in Edinburgh Castle is lis onlv nm.
pleasant one. Immediately it gets into Its
quarters in the Castle IL has to dispatch a
representative body through the oldest Al reots
to cry out at the top of their voices that tho
/ citizens must be way OF the soldiers beRnil-
| ing ways. This Is called ""crying down the
| or dit of the regimen >" and the ceremonv
has Just been performed by the SeafortL
| Hlghlanders. One Monday forenoon n d.
| tacnment OF these accompanied bv a drum
| major. paraded High street and npighborb"aJ
r. discharge what must he described "A tbis
unple sant duty. IL consists of a urocIana
/ tiun TO all whom IL NAV concern, thai nnv onn
| who is so foolish rs to supply the soldiers win
| goods on credit to The amount Of more than n
| single days pay does 80 at his own risk A.
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