The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

IN SOME parts of New Hampshire, where the
glaciers were unusually thick and Deep says
the CofnhW Magazine, fragments of the prime
| val ice itself still remain on the spots where
| they were originally stranded. Among the
| shady glens OF the White mountains there
| occur here and there great masses of ancient
| ice. the unmeted remnant of primeval glaciers;
and one of these is so large that an artificial
| cave has been cleyerly eXcavated in it, as an
] attraction for tourists. by the canny yankee
| proprietor
Gov. EAGLE of Arkansas is one of the many
| men whose success in life is due to the encour-
agement and stimulus of a clever wife. Ever
| since her marriage Mrs. Eagle has pushed her
| husband forward. She even educated him, for
| he could not read until he had reached mature
| years, and as a result of her efforts he became
| IL turn student, preacher of the gospel and
teacher. In every way she encouraged him,
and his nomination TO the governorship was
traceabie directly TO her influence the state
convention. Naturally Arkansas is proud Of
mrs Eagle, and her position in the state is not
unlike that of Mrs. Logan in Illinois.
IN DIGGING OUT the colossal statue of Rameses
H. nine feet aud four inches Of consolidated
Nile mud had to be removed before the plat
form was reached. This platform was laid
1861 years before Christ. in the reign of Rame-
SEES. Hence, three and half inches of this con-
sohdated mud represents a century, there
having lapsed 3.215 years since then. Under the
platform depth of thirty feet of Nile mud had
TO be penetrated before sandy soil was reached,
aud, according to this, 10, 900 more years must
have ella psed. Pieces of pottery were found
there that show the Egyptians to have pos
sessed enough civilization to form and bake yes
sells Of clay $4,000 years ago.
Some days ago one of our countrymen, who
lives at Pasadena, was astonished to see one of
his best cows lying apparently dying in front of
the barn. The animal lay there inert with open
eyes. Obvious of everything The man called
a veterinary surgeon, who could not diagnose
the case, and q butcher Tn hlpad
the animal He was some time in arriving, and
when did come the COW was found eating at a
naystack, but with legs little uncertain. An
Investigation followed, says the Los Angeles
Progress, and it was found that the COW had
eaten copiously of the refuse at a neighboring
winery. This stuff, composed of grape skins
and stems had fermented and induced a state
of intoxication.
SIN Brazil" says a traveller. rats are very
troublesome, and to rid their houses of the
pests the inhabitants resort to a peculiar
method. The glbola, small species of boa, is
reared expressly for the purpose, and the ser
pents, many of them fifteen feet in length and
about live inches thick, are sold in the markets
of the principal towns. The snake is harmless
and slow of movement during the day, but at
night, when the household is deep in slunber.
| the exterminator gets in his work. His method
of killing a rat is to catch 1t by the nape OF the
neck and crush the cervical vert ebra The SER
| pent, like a dog IN this country, soon becomes
| accustomed to its master house, and if carried
|
ONE of the livelIest practical jokers of Phila
delphia's famous fun loving Clover club is ex
| Governor William NJ. Bum. who is bright
newspaper editor and gained his title as a terri
torial chief magistrate BY appointment OF Presi-
dent Arthur. Philadelphian says that part
ing dinner was recently given at Atlantic CITY
to gentleman about to sail for Europe at
which Gov. Bum and young lawyer of
Chicago we're guests. They had known each
other for many years, and the Chicagoan i'm
parted to Bum his huFDin0 dggire lO ba al Had
out for speech, the manuscript of which
he had prepared and carried in his
coat pocket, By some sharp ruse
Bum accrued possession of the manu-
| script, and by collision with the chairman was
called upon as the earliest speaker after coffee
and cigars, when he deliberately proceeded TO
deliver the Chicagoan's speech, reading from
the concealed manuscript. AS the author OF
the speech heard Bum delivering one after an
other the choice ideas he had evolved and put
on paper with hard mental toll, his face was a
picture of ama1ement, then of despair aud
finally, as he thrust his hand in his pocket aud
found it empty, of dumfounded realization
that he was the victim Of one of Gov. Bunn's
4 ful loK IS The whole tableful was on by
this time, and even the victim could not resist
| the laughter that ensued on his discontinue
The news that Senator George of Mississippi.
notwithstanding the discontinue of defeat in
his own country by the Farmers Alliance, viii
be returned TO the Senate is well received in
| Washington. The Senator is no ordinary MAJ.
| He is thoroughly unconventional. being careless
| in dress and sometimes bluff as to department,
but he has brains and courage and those who
l tackle him in debate usually carry some re-
minder Of the bout away with them 1t is not
true that on one occasion h removed one of his
shoes in the Senate chamber and whetted his
knife blade on it, but it is unusual thing for
him TO cross his feet on the top of his desk while
the Senate debates are in progress and sit there
taking his ease as he would do in his own law
Office or in the county court house at home
That, too, is always the sign that the subject
under discussion is interesting TO him When
he tits back his chair throws his feet up on his
desk and l0osenS with his fingers his thick
! mass OF brown hair SO that it falls in confusion
over his brow, ne is getting ready for a
spring" He'll be 10 in ten minutes asking
some question or disputng some proposition
he and Mr. Morgan of Alabama are regarded
az the best lawyers from the south in the SEN
ate. The fact that Mr.. George is what they call
IN the south a dead game man, made some
observations of his in the Senate last year.
when there was proposition up practically to
censure Mr. Call for some language he had
used in debate about Mr.. Ingalls,, Of decided
Interest. Mr. Ingalls, had been rather severe in
ms references TO Mr.. Call. and in reply the
Florida senator had said some savage things
ABOUT Ar ingalls,. IL was proposed to strike
some OF Mr.. Calls reply out of the
plored as much as any senator. he said, the
employment of severe or unkind terms in de-
bate, but where one senator had in
duiged himself in that way at the expense of
another there was nothing left the other sena-
tor to do but to sass back" That was the
term Mr.. GeOr ge employed, and then he con
tinued: 1T was different in the old days, Mr.
President. Senators then were more guarded in
their language. Vituperation was not lightly
to be employed. Responsibility attached to
what was said of personal and offensive nature
by men in high places. But those days are
gone. That responsibility is gone. The Sen
ate chamber is the safest place ] know now for
the use of insulting language. Nobody is ever
seriously called to account for it. and if one
senator NAV indulge himself, why not another?''
Mr. Georges remarks created great amusement
in the chamber and he good-naturedly joined in
the laughter He saved his friend Call