Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-11-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
ING HONG Sic has been elected Mayor of
| Chinatown, y. Y. His salary is Sc a week.
SAMUEL CROSS of Cherry Camp, Va, has
thirtv-six- old horse that ia as active as any
young horse, and has just cut brand new set
Of teeth.
PRISONER in the Santa Clara county jail,
California, has invented water wheel which
1t said to be great Improvement on the tur-
bine wheel.
GEORGE Fl. CHIcKERING elected last week
to succeed the late C. C. Perkins in the Presi-
dency of the Organization. has been Vice
President of the Boston Handel and Hadyn
Society for twenty-nine years.
TALKING recently to ST.. Paul newspaper
man, Phil Armour said, speaking of his habits:
Il go to bed about 10 O'Clock in the evening.
Then get up ut O'CLOCK in the morning and
take bath-thats what you ought to do"
GEN. HENRY B. DARLINGTON. of Boston,
has presented to the library of ale Univer-
sIty the original MS. of an address delivered
by the Rev James Beebe, Yale class ot 1745,
to the soldiers he led to Canada in the French
and Indian war.
For fourteen years Thomas Hebden. an old
Englishman, lived in little shauty in Port
land Oregon, apparently very poor. The
other day he was found dead, evidently hav
carefully concealed. were sl,40O.
A CURIOSITY in the shape of full-grown
white buzzard has been frequently seen Of
late on Capt. Troup Randle's prairie planta-
ton near Union Surlngs, Ala. The bird is
perfectly white. The Captain has given
strict orders TO his tenants that it shall not be
killed.
WHILE the steamer Ethiopia was bringing
the Anchoria's passengers to New York from
~ LII sko
The officers declared that there must be
Jonah among the passengers, and suggested
That theF should cast lots to see who ought to
be thrown overheard.
MRS. BATTLE. of Moorehead, Mimi,
dreamed that robber entered her house.
She told the dream to her husband, who at
once put all his IN pney in a bank. The next
night Mr.. Bartle was stopped on the road by
a robber. He turned his empty pockets inside
out and was permitted to pass on.
A NORTH TAKoMA. W. T.. Indian had his
first glass of soda water the other day, and
liked 1t so much tn at he at once proceeded to
put nineteen more on top of it. The next day
he drank thirty-three more and wanted to
keep IL up, but the druggist was afraid that
ned explode and stopped the supply.
A CITIZEN of Seattle, w. T., has this card
standing in newspaper there: "W hereas, l
have left my wife and her board: whereas,
have become attached to another and more
the public that 1 will in future pay my own
bills without any assistance from her what
ever"
SAM GooNs, a Chiuaman from Omaha, and
Katie Peterson, white girl, were to have been
married in q hotel parlor at Council Bluffs,
Ia. and large crowd gathered there to wit
ness the event. In order TO b8tflG the sight
seers the couple got into hack with the
minister, and had the ceremony performed
while driving along the street.
BILLY DoUGAN, of LeadviNe, shot and
wounded an elk up on Grand river and fol-
lowed it. At dusk he tracked it to a clump of
timber and thought he saw mountain lion
crOuched over the elk's body. So he fired and
XII ed Dave HERMAN, well known hunter.
who hal come upon the elk, killed it, and was
| in the act of skinning the carcass.
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York Chris
| tian Advocate says that Catherine Rood, of
Hamburg aged LOB years, is the oldest Metho-
dist in America. she has been a protesting
| Christian for over eighty years. and when in
| her prime was noted for her faith and power
| in prayer. ION one OCCASION" writes the
correspondent, ''Sister Rood was exhorting at
| camp meeting. a young man oke in
| triflng way of her exercises. As she rebuked
him the scorner fell as one dead. He soon
sought God"
ABOUT the most cruel thing that has been
reported from Connecticut lately was the
| conduct of three citizen of Norwich, who
| we're on Nianuc Bay recently in search of
| ducks. A gale was blowing ana a bevy of
| quail, which had evidently been blown off
| shore, al ghted on the duck shooters boat, too
| we ~ to fly Sny FORMER. The shooters de-
| llDerateiv shot ten OF the little fellows, and
| the few that escaped went winEIng their way
out over the bay aud doubtless were droNned.
LORD DUFFERIN. Viceroy of India, recently
! visited POndicherry to pay his respects to the
Governor of the French possessions in India.
Il
visit was in return for that which Lord and
Lady Dufferin received last year from the
e vernon of Pondcherry. The Frencn gov
eminent ordered the Governor of the French
Indies 10 receive Lord Dufferin with the
greatest distinction. No English Viceroy h d
visited POndicherry since 1918. l. is not gen
orally known that the Indian government
pays heavy tribute to the Governor of the
French Indies for the monopoly on salt.
THE residence of DR.. d. H. Platt, at Pcton,
Canada, had narrow escape from fire the
other day. The doctor has bird possessed
OF Intelligence, and he has amused himself in
educating 1t to perform several curious tricks.
The bird looked very cunning and wise when
he struck a match and held it for the doctor
to lghJ his pipe with. but when it got some
IN qtches AMI proceeded to light them on his
own account in the doctors temporary
BIS nee the situation was altered seriously
His birdshp managed to drop lighted match
on some loose paper and set the WoOdWorE of
a window in a blaze. II was discovered in
time, and supply OF water being on hand,
was soon eXtinguished. A few moments later
and the fire would nave been yond control
A PET FOX in New London escaped from DR..
Ticknor. his owner. The cunning animal
visited the neighboriDg hen roosts among
them Capt. Champlain's place in Waterford
He made careful survey OF the hen roost.
and selecting the blgges, rooster in the dock
ne broke the poor birds neck and, swinging
the carcass over his shoulder, proceeded with
an appetite excited by the taste of blood IL
| find place where he could eat his break fast
| in peace. Alas! for poor Reynard; the best
| LAID plans OF men or foxes gang aft aglee
| That matutinal meal was never fated TO be
eaten. Capt. Champlaln got his weather eve
| on the destroyer of the domestic harmony or
| his chicken coop and then got his gun.
| quick, steady aim. report from both bar
| rels of the towing piece aud Dr. Tick
| n0r's pet fox was as dead as Capt. Cham
| plains rooster.
A QUEENSLAND JOURNALIST tells in a sgd
ney paper how the press in his locality is
worked. He is sub-edItor, compositor, war
correspondent, and looks after the dog fights
The weekly sermon and the sporting intelli-
gence sometimes get m Xed, as in this way:
"lIe said, Saddle me the ass and they sad
died him; and he 6na ly came in a good first
beating Ben Bolt on the post by neck.n The
EDITORS disregard for linen has aienated the
support Of the auctoneer and the chemist and
1.-THE rest Of the arlstocracy." The leading
article "commcnce- invariably with u vicious
attack on Prince Bismarck" and ends with an
anecdote about the sagacity OF dogs. There