Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-07-29
GENERAL NOTES.

He eloped with her.
The remains of mammoth, an elephant,
a stag aud horse have been discovered in
digging out the foundations Of the new
Central post Office in Paris.
Chang Chi Lang, the Chinese giant, "who
speaks French and smokes a whole package
OF cigarettes at one puff" sailed from san
Francisco for home the other day.
The Governor General Of Canada and her
Royal Highness caught large number OF
very fine fish In the Csscspediac river; 1 re
ten DAYS the distinguished party tooh -
salmon weighing from 26 to IS POUNDS eS0n'
The Dominion of Canada, pays out an
nuallv for fish culture in the different prov
inces over 500, 900, and it is conceueuL anas
- brarnb ~ Dublic expenditure SHOWS
hetter results for the money thAh Ihis az
fisb story from Washington Territory
has r. that in some Of the small streams
tributarv TO the Columbia river the salmon
RIM in such big schools that the less robust
fish are crowded out of the water, and that
tbe banks are strewed with dead fish thus
forced out OF their element.
Henri Rochefort declined to attend the
great banquet at the Hotel de Vile, Paris,
on July 13, on the ground that he finds it
difficult to chat pleasantly with people who
helped to send him among cannibals, and
who, 10 prevent his escape or his jumping
into the sea, had him locked up in cage on
deck, like g wild beast.
Senior CASTELAR, has written a Characters
tic letter to Menotti GarIbaldi on the death
Of his father, in which he says: 'Rspid in
his inspiration, a fanatic Of right, an idealist
in his faith, full of contempt and caring
naught for defeat, despislng death, devoted
to ali great principles, Garibaldi is the Illus
trious personifcation of our race in history,
and the prophet of the inevitable Latin
Confederation in the world"
London Judy, hearing that Mr.. Abbey had
engaged Mrs Langtry at a salary of five
hundred dollars night, remarks that
"America is a comparatively new country,
and is lacking In many institutions that
have hitherto been the sole prerogative OF
older lands-such as ruins. Let us trust
that this engagement will not lead the Yam
KEGS into the possession of one Of old Eng
lands greatest glories, viz: ruined Alb
bey."
A French journal, the Paris GaalOiS, sup
plies its readers with some exclusive inform
alton about the manners and customs Of the
Prince of Wales. His Royal Highness and
the Duke of Edinburgh, says the veracious
GdqtyOis, introduced the fashion OF wearing
bracelets on the left arm. The Princes,
however, were amiable enough to discon-
tinue this effeminste practice when they
found that the innovation was not liked by
all classes of society in prudish England.
A council of Juvenile Good Templars in
England having memorialized the Queen,
thanking her for having refused to accept
a bououet from the Monte Carlo gambling
house, while she was at MentOnP, Mr.. Pom
sonby makes a reply that, although Her
Majesty would have refused such bouquet
had f. been sent, no such bouquet was sent,
aud therefore no such refusal WAS given
The gardener of the Casino Gardens did
send her bouquet, without the knowledge
of his employers, but even 1t was declined
by Der Majesty. for fear an acceptance
might be misunderstood.
Oae of the curiosities OF Nantucket is a
clock make by Walter Folger, who died in
IS49, at the age of 81. This ingenious piece
of mechanism was constructed before Mr..
Folger was "a years old, and combines a
representation of the motions of the sun and
moon with the ordinary timekeeper. II
shows also the time OF full tide at Nan
tucket, and the chief phenomena dependent
upon the obliquity of the moons path, as
also the times of the hunters and harvest
moons. The wheel which Indicates the
year is so constructed that its revolution Is
not completed until It has seen its hundredJh
year.
The New York Evening Post, in an edito-
rial on "The Approach Of the False
Prophet" says: at is a striking picture
this last inundation of the Nile-the dark
wave along that ancient river of races IN
known, the Arab tribes, the warriors OF
Kordofsn and Darfour, the endless mixed
races Of the Soudsn, IN the full flood OF re-
lfgious fanaticism, heightened and upoorne
by prophecy and devotion to a sacred
person and figure, aud the interest or 1t
grows when we consider that its barrier
NAV be one of the most vigorous products
of western civilization, that the British
army may be that which shall perhaps en-
counter the strange shock"
Uneasy rests the head Of Oscar beneath
the roval crown of Norway, and all because
that monarch tries to be too much King.
Bv nature of an overbearing disposition, he
allows this trait to make itself extensively
manifest to his Norwegian subjects. His
recent speech from the throne to the roth
ing was full, from beginning to end, o. the
shoe rOIO. sic jltbeo," of the Roman Empe
rors. This is almost uncomfortable to the
proud Norwegians, and many prominent
men among them are openly discussing the
Feasibility OF q national uprising against
King Oscar and the union with Sweden,
accompanied by the declaration OF an indie
pendent Norwegian republic.
The progress of Japanese literature is no
ticeable. Last year the number OF works
published was 4,9l0 against g, 992 in the pre-
yious year. OF these works 545 were politi-
cal ones published by the government, 80
| pertained to jurisprudence, tiftY-tve to
political economy, 164 to geography, 2o1 to
medicine, 116 to mathematics, seventeen to
chemistry and twenty TO natural history. 1t
was in works Of history, poetry and drawing
| that the chief increase took place, but In
| light literature, like novels and fairy tales,
| the works published numbered only 1913
| Newspapers did not do so well; out of l67
published 10 1880, over 100 had ceased tC
| exist by the end of 1881. Many translatione
and adaptations of European and American
works were among the total OF 4,9lO
Magic photographs, in which the image Is
depicted by tobacco smoke, have been lately
supplied in various tobacco shops on the
European Continent. A cigarette mouth
niece is provided, and with It are some
white Photographic papers about the size OF
| a postage stamp. One OF the latter !.
placed over lateral orifce In the mouth
piece, and n sliding piece drawn over 1t
| After smoking, one finds the image on the
paper. La Nature explains the process. A
small photograph prepared on chloride OF
| silver paper as usual, but without intensity
| ing. is pat in a solution Of i-chloride OF
mercury, where 1t pales and disappears
| The bi-chloride OF mercury changes the pho
| topraph partly into white chloride OF silver
| and partly into protochloride of mercury
also white, making the image invisible. The
| image may be brought back by action Of
hypochloride of soda, or of ammontacal va
| pors. Tobacco smoke, as containing the
| latter, does very well. The principle Of
magic photographs was indicated by Her
schel in 184o.
A wood cut portrait Of TUG" Wilson
the champion English bruiser, who has come
over to America to try his chances with the
Boston prize fighter, Sullivan, shows the
most completely brutal, thoroughly ANNA
| make up that was ever pictured. Evidently
no Sullivan, or any other "slOgger," is going
| to knock him out of time. His shori
pug nose, long and heavy upper lip, massive
| cheeks and Jaws Of "all muscle" and tt
general expression Of eyes and face, with
| the thoroughly animal head, give the instan
famous impression of bulldog. The bull
dog IL the type, the admiration point OF the
English idea. No wonder they have nsmed
one of their war vessels in honor of the
brute that fights merely for cOmbaps sake
holds on, and never lets go. 1t is interest
ing to see the one man brute whose pre-emi
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