Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-06-24

San Jose in California has a physician who

San Jose in California has physician who
believes that monkeys are human beings
Senator David Davis, the President pro
tenn. of the Senate will spend the summer at
Saratoga.
The London World says that the London
police force is a costly sham, "seandalously
inadequate" to the task OF suppresslng
crime.
An Iowa Judge refused woman adivorce
because her husband kissed the pretty ser
want. He said he didn't propose to have
every woman In the State get divorce
The Belgian Government is about to adopt
pulyerIzed meat for an army ration. one
pound of the article is said to be equal IN
nutritive power to six pounds OF 1resn oeeI'
Its believed that there are FIVE thousand
elk ranging on the headwaters OF the
streams and tributaries heading up in the
Olymp!c range, Washington Territory, ana
putting into Gray's harbor. Fish, both salt
and fresh water, are abundant. 1t Is simply
paradise for sportsmen.
The Hoosick Falls Courier says the blood
less duel between two rival aspirants for the
hand of a young lady Of that village was
fought not with pistols but with nsts, Inc
LADY discarded them both, and the fellow
who got the worst OF the fight is half dis
posed to crow over his victor.
A gay and gallant beau in New York
stole q suit Of clothes from the father OF
the girl he was counting, pawned them, and
spent the money for bouquets and ice cream
for the girl. The youth, in close quarters,
Is bordering over the close-hsteds hard
l. q. rrhfah hQ nnQrlT
being allied.
Emperor williams brother, Prince Frede-
rick Charles, who is 81 years old, slipped
while rising from the dinner table recently
and fractured his left thigh. It is feared he
will not recover from the shock. Prince
Charles Is the father Of the famous ked
Prince and the father-in-law Of Prince
Leopold of England.
On the 10th inst, while colored man
named Lewis Lowry was blowing in his
field, about six miles east Of Opelousas, La,
his plow struck upon some obstruction,
which, upon examination, proved to be
ten-gallon Jar filled with Spanish silver
coins Of the date of 1779, and bearing the
imprint of Charles Ill. OF Spain. The
amount found is estimated at s., 900 to SlO,-
900.
When Schuyler Colfsx was asked what
position he held on the proposed female
suffrage amendment to the Indiana State
constitution, he said: al intend to vote for
the equal suffrage constitutional amendment
for many reasons, chief of which is that, as
women are subject to taxation, and the
penitentiary, and all other civil and criminal
laws equally with men, it seems but just
that legislation on such subj scts should be
with consent Of the governed"
The Federal land Office has sold and given
away IN the fiscal year just closing l3, 000, 900
acres, the largest on record. Add the sales
BY States out of their grants, by Texas out
Of its imperial domain, and by railroads, and
at least IL, 900 900 acres have passed from
public to private ownership by sales during
the last year, an area half as large as Penn
twice the size of Vermont. In a word, a
new State annexed by the peaceful Western
march OF emigration.
They tell good story on Governor Denni-
son, of Ohio, recently deceased, TO this
effect: The Neil House at Columbus took
fire on the night OF the November election
10 1850. Columbus was poorly supplied
with fire engines, and the Governor sent the
following telegram to the Mayor Of Cincin-
natl:
'sThe Neil House is on fire. Lincoln has
carried Ohio by so 600 majority. Send two
fire engines to put It out.
civilian DENNIsoN."
Forty ragpickers of st. Louis have formed
an association. Gentlemen" said the
President, "the object this organization was
formed for was to place ourselves In position
to show the public that men can be ragpickers
and gentlemen at the same time" But IL
seems that rsgpieking, like every other call
ing, is sometimes engaged in by men who
are not really gentlemen, for one OF the by
laws adopted is as follows: when the
President finds out that member has been
guilty OF any crime or crimes, he shall have
power to expel the guilty member from the
union, and that without any debate what
| ever.n
There is project on foot to erect monu-
ment at Charlotte, n. G., to the memory OF
the Mecklenburg patriots Of 1775. Senator
Bayard, Of Delaware, has written q letter
strongly urging the raising of an " impres-
sive monumental column" to the memory OF
the signers. He says "The Lion Of Lu-
Zerne," by Thorwaldsen, 'is the most ad
mirable type Of such commemoration, and
it dignifies immensely the ninety odd Swiss,
who were only military police at the palace
OF Versailles, serving for money only In q
foreign country, but who fell at their posts. u
Senator Bayard adds, that while such a
work OF genius may not, perhaps, be ex'
pected Just now at Charlotte, " something
should De done to mark the place, arrest the
imagination. and enforce the memory
The North Carolina papers generally favor
Mr. Ravardis suggestion
The Paris police returns for 1881 furnish
a number of interesting facts as to the dis
tribution Of crime between the sexes and
among the different nstionalities and oceu-
nations. or the whole number of persons
convicted, 40, 900 were of the male sex, aud
| 1900 of the female sex. OF the former
| three in eight were minors; and Of the lat
| ter, only one In five was under age. The
English colony contributed So arrests, the
German 277, the Italian 600, and the Bel
gian nearly 900. Unfortunately the returns
| do not show what numerical proportions
these colonies bear to one another and Il
the native population. About Il, 900 of the
| offenses committed are included under the
title ''Vagabondage;" nearly 5000 under the
title rebellion" or refractory and dis,
orderly conduct; and $50 were thefts OF
all descriptions. The trades which coz
tribu,ed most largely to the army of erlmi-
nails were those OF masons, painters, jewel
ers and seamstresses. The butchers fur
nished $50 convicts, and the bakers only
2Ol; the cab drivers 755, wine sellers 1000
domestic servants 1900, cooks 239, and
"proprietors" only Go.
Alcohol paid into the British Treasury In
1874 S155, 900, 900. In 1881 the sum was re-
ductd to $l45, 900. The figures the Pal
Nal Gazette cites from the budget, quoting
Mr.. Hoyle in estimating the average yearly
expenditure on drink of each English man
woman and child IN 1875 to have been more
than $29. and in 1881 to have fallen to less
than SIG. The Gazette attributes this, first
to the want OF money to buy liquor; sec
ondly, to the coffee-hoCse movement; and
thirdly, to the ''Blue Ribbon" and religious
temperance societies, notably those sup
ported by the Catholic clergy, and the
''Salvation Army" The effect of this di-
minution in the use of stimulsnts is shown
in the immediate increase in the amount Of