Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-08-05

A physician Of Raleigh, n. c., says that
the mortality among infants in that city
during the months of June and July was
only about one-sixth that Of the same
months in either OF the last two years.
Frank Cushing says the Zuni Indians had
such a good time with the Boston young
ladies that they are wild to get back East
aud see the dear girls down at Nantasket
Beach Their dispositions were so alike
An order has been issued forbidding pro-
fessional guides to accompany visitors
through the Treasury Building in Washing
ton. II desired, an employe OF the depart
ment will accompany visitors through the
building without charge.
Two hundred refugees were saved
during the bombardment OF Alexsndris in
the Catholic chapel by the ingenuity Of the
Arab doorkeeper, who told the soldiers that
the place was empty, and there was nothing
to steal or he would have taken it himself.
Miss Sarah Brown, daughter OF old John
Brown, has accepted position in the Ad-
iuster's Department of the branch mint IN
San Francisco, which was voluntarily Of
ferad her by Superintendent Burton. Her
home is in Saratoga, Santa Clara county,
Cal.
A Philadelphia physician a graduate Of
the University of Pennsylvania, certified
that ''by the appearance of the Body" a
certain person whom he named "dyed Of
Heart Diseas" The Coroner thought the
certificate insufficient, and an inquest will
be held.
A Milwaukee drug clerk was whipped for
In I'D
and the next day lost his situation because
he failed to comprehend the significance of
an influential citizens wink, 1t evidently
requires a Metternich to run a Milwaukee
soda fountain.
The pine forests of Maine, which twenty
years ago were considered inexhaustible,
and made Bangor the greatest pine-dis-
tributing centre on the continent, have been
so much reduced that, as factors In the
country's supply OF timber, Maine forests
Of all kinds are not now worth considering.
The remains of Miss Fanny Psrnell,
which were temporarily placed in the re-
ceiving vault at RlVerview Cemetery, in
Trenton, were on Monday re-embslmed by
Drs. Tantum, o. Trenton, and Newlin and
Hart, OF Philadelphia. The body was In a
perfect state of preservation, and the re-
embelmment was performed to insure Its
arrival In Ireland, where the final interment
will take place.
Gen. Skobeloff died possessed of large
fortune. His annual income from it is reck
oned to have been about 100, 900 rubles. By
his will he gave but a small sum to his d.
vorced wife; the remainder he divided in
equal shares among his three sisters, the
Duchess of Leuehtenoerg, Princess BelOrs
liski, and Princess Beauharnais. 1t was
through the Princess Beauharnais that Sko-
beloff was related to the imperial family Of
Russia.
A recent candidate for political Office in
Canada is charged with having promised to
buy wedding dresses for some young ladies
in the constituency, and, "lest he should
forget to make the purchases" with having
deposited the necessary funds with the
parents Of the damsels, requesting, at the
same time, that the ballots of the parents
be marked in his favor. American politi-
clans can't teach those on the other side OF
the line much.
Since serfdom was abolished in Russia the
gold mines Of Siberia have lost much OF the
value formerly set upon them, for the cost
of working them has been thereby increas-
ed. Between 1925 and 1850 was the period
of their greatest prosperity, in spite of the
fact that in more recent years the number
of mines has been largely augmented. The
official estimate OF the average value OF the
yearly production is now 10000 0Of., but
It is believed that this sum is too high by
The committee appointed to collect metal
for cannon for Gen. Beauregard's army ap-
piled to a farmer Of Adams county, Missis-
sippi, for his bell. Not having such an arti-
Gle, he mentioned it to his wife, when she
very periodically offered her brass kettle.
The little ones rather demurred to the sacri-
fee, and one of them. with sweet tooth, said:
''La, pa, what will we do for preserves ?"
"My daughter" said the wag Of father,
''our whole duty now is to preserve our
The kettle was sent.
Examinations show that the Waterloo
Bridge, OF London, has suffered greater
damage from the wash of the river against
its foundations than was originally sup
posed. II has been decided to sink enOrm-
GUS eaissons around each pier, and to run
them down to such depths as completely to
obviate any injurious effects that might be
caused by the constant disturbance Of the
bed of the river. The work on these repairs
has already been begun, and it is believed
that it has not been undertaken too soon.
Norwegian papers report a remarkable
find on the coast near Trondhjem, consist
ing of what is supposed to be door from
one of the carriages forming part of the ILL
fated train that fell from the Tay bridge,
Scotland, during the gale. 1t is described
as being half covered with blue satin and
padded with horsehair, while in the upper
part is a frame to slide up and down, in
which some bits of glass may still be seen.
It is provided with brass handles and lock,
and bears on the inside the number Ala.
The door has been sold by public auction as
wreckage, but is still in the possession of
the purchasers, who think 1t probable that
somebody in England may like to possess #.
At Socialist meeting at Geneva
Frenchman was discoursing on the rights Of
man, the infamy of kings and priests, and
the sacred duty of resistance to tyranny,
when a female voice shrieked out: sect
down and come here?" Dead silence. The
dismsyed orator hesitsted, and the sum-
mons was repeated. "Do not interrupt the
speaker" said the President. ''Not inter
rupt himl' cried the cheyenne. "He is my
husband. was dying in Paris; telegraph
ed for him; he never came. | mad to come
to Geneva to look for him; and here he is.
Let him come down and come here" The
champion of liberty meekly succumbed,
and was walked away by his lawful pos
SCISSOR.
statue in clay of Oliver Cromwell has
been placed in the private corridor behind
the House of Lords, with what object no
one seems to know. 1t is all the more sur
prfsing that there is no statue Of the pro-
tector in London, as his features might De
exactly reproduced. At Mr.. Wilkinson's,
he fc Z is
posed to have been blown down from the
top of Westminster Hall, where 1t had been
placed, picked up, and sold to an ancestor
of Mr.. Wilkinson. The head had been
embalmed, and the hair and the features are
in excellent preservation. There is hole
in the skull made by the pike on which it
was impaled, also q hole where large wart
had been cut out.
An electric arc regulator which the In
ventors, NM. Clerc and Bureau, of Brus-
sells, call the "Sun Lamp" was an accepta
BILE illuminant of the picture gallery of the
late Electrical Exhibition in Paris, is now
employed in the foyer Of the Grand Opera
House of the same city, and has latterlY
been received with favor In the vaults OF the
ROYAL Exchange, London. 1t Is as ugly as
NAV be. whatever may be its other proper
ties. Two holes are bored In square block
of marble or dry limestone so that they
slant toward each other and nearly meet at
the base of the block. The carbons a. in
serted in these holes, and the current ira
yersing them raises the partition OF calcare-
GUS substance to incandeseence. All &C
counts agree in stating that the light Is soft,
white and steady.
A few years since, in those old countries
where light wines were the common beVer-
age, drunkenness was vice that was hardly