Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-10-27


health.
very serious matter for the British troops
who will have to remain there. The prices
Tor everything are enormous, and the whole
days pay of a subsltern will purchase him
but one meal at hotel.
Mr.. Winsns, OF Baltimore, pays SIS. 600
year for a vast tract of deer forests, extend
ing from one side of Scotland to the other.
Not content with this, he has just leased
another estate, and has brought suit against
the owners for failing to eject the shepherds
and crofters who are on it.
Probably the youngest farmers in the
country are two children living near Shreve-
port, La, who have eight acres in cotton
and TED acres IN ecrn, and will make good
crops. The children are brother and sister,
aged respectively thirteen and ten years, and
have done most of their own work.
A disease for which the veterinary sur
geons know no name is prevailing among
the blooded cattle In the vicinity of Paris,
Ky. By some it is supposed that 1t is the
old-time bloody murrain," while others
again contend that 1t is the episootic known
as red water" and due entirely to local
causes.
A young man Of Kenton county, KY, has
applied for a patent for device to tele-
graph a train, running at the highest rate of
speed, at any point on the road. He Is also
at wcrk on safe lock, to be operated by
electricity, and which will require no key
hole in the door. A burglar could by no
possibility open the safe by operating on the
lock.
PIsh0n QIropsor of tho Methodist Cburoh
in an address at the laying of the corner
stone OF a new church the other day, made
the following point: "Our answer to those
who assert that Christianity is dying out is
simply this-we build more churches. The
line of argument cannot hold against the
line of action. lnfidelity builds no churches,
POUNDS no asylums, endows no universities.
Unbelief provides no refuge for the infirm
and poor, nor furnishes help nor comfort
for those who weep"
As Miss Sarah Jewett was playing in Chi
cago the other night it was her part to lean
on gate and watching for her husband
coming up the lane, to say: "See how pale
and worn he looks" But the husband"
was Just at that moment in his dressing
room, trying to get into his old clothes and
come on to the stage. keep it up as well
as you can," said one of the actors, and she
did, for time. he still delayed his coming
and the curtain was about to fall when the
"husband" entered. He had been taking
a nap at his hotel, leaving orders to be
called, which were dIsregarded.
The Dutch polar colony has been unable
to reach it's destination at the mouth of the
Yenesei. The latest advices from the Kara
Sea state that the Vsrna is beset by the ice
about eighty miles from the Asian CONT
nent, near Waiga'z Island. This Is the
locality where Lieutenant Hovgaard's ex-
p'oring ship was previously reported to be
ice bound during September. The Dutch
colonists cannot hope to reach their station
at Port Dickson this fall, but they may still
be able to CO operate with the other colonies
in the international scheme of polar obser-
walton. II they can be put on shore, either
on the mainland near Waigsz Island or on
Novaia Zemlia, they would have almost as
favorable a station as Port Dickson. Wal
gatz Island is about the same distance from
the Russian station at the mouth OF the
Lena as Point Barrow, where one of the
American colonies is stationed. The Swedish
colony is reported to have reached Spizber-
gen in safety.
The parties for the observation Of the
transit of Venus in this country have just
been made out by the Commission at the
Naval Observatory, and are asltollows: Cedar
Key, Fla.-Prof. John r. Eastman, United
States navy, in charge; Lieut. John A. Nor
ris, United States navy, assistant; Mr.. Geo.
Prince, the Treasury Department photo
grapher, principal photographer; and Mr..
Geo. F. Maxwell, of Philadelphia, assistant
photographer. San Antonio, Texas.-Prof
Asaph Hall, United safes navy; assistant,
K. G. Woodward, of Detroit, Mich: photo
grspher, D. Z. Holmes, Of Milford, Del;
assistant photographer, George H. Hurlburt,
of Belvldere, Ill. In the vicinity of Rincon
Station, New Mexico-Prof. George David
son, United States coast survey; assistants,
James s. Lawson and j. F. Pratt, both of
the coast survey; photographer, d. G. Chap
man, United States coast survey; assistant,
Thomas Tappan, Belair, Ohio. Prof. Hark-
ness will have charge OF the party, which is
to be stationed at the Naval Observatory.
An improvement has been made in Ger
many in the process OF refining and crystal
lizIng starch sugar. Hitherto sugar of this
kind has been sold either in solid masses or
granulated by scrsping in finer grains, ready
for mixing with cane sugar. In one pro-
cess the ordinary starch sugar of commerce
Is taken and mixed with seventy or eighty
per cent. of alcohol, or pure wood nsphtha
-meB0yl alcOQOIs pUlVeflZSu Starch sugar
is then added to this sYrupY mixture, and
the whole left to solidify at q temperature
of Sc degrees Fab, with frequent stirring.
The mass of crystals thus obtained
is pressed and put in centrifugal machine,
and the alcohol is recovered by distillation.
In making solid transparent starch sugar
the starch sugar solution is concentrated IN
a vacuum to 46 degrees Baume, and put In
moulds to crystalline, at tempers ure be-
~ los
temperatures the well known warty crystals
form. This ingenious method depends, as
is seen, upon the removal OF uncrystslliza-
BILE and unfermentable substances from the
sugar by means Of ethYlic or methylic slco-
hol, in which grape sugar is itself but
slightly soluble.
The Signal Service Bureau has resolved
to enlarge its data for foretelling storms,
and has ordered or requested It's officials and
scientific, or well-informed men, to gather
all the popular proverbs in existence among
all classes of people, including Indians,
colored people and foreigners. Proverbs
relating to the sun, moon, stars, rainbows,
fogs, dew, clouds, frost, snow, rsin-at
different times of the day-thunder and
lightning-in different parts of the year
winds-st different times of day and from
different points OF the compass. They are
also asked to collect predictions from the
actions of animals, Including bats, oxen,
cats, dogs, horses. mice, wolves, hares,
moles, pigs, rats, blackbirds and
almost all kinds of birds, various
fish, ants, bees, BEETLES, criekets, flies,
spiders, frogs, gnats, wasps, bees;
from trees and plants, chickweed,~ clover,
dandelions, ferns, onions, pears, Spples,
thistles, walnuts, leaves, and also from
chairs, tables cracked before rain, etc, Goals
burning brightly, corns, bitches, doors, dust,
lamps, rheumatism, salt, seed, sign boards,
smoke, soup, sound, strings, toothache,
walls. To these are added proverbs relating
to the days of the week, the months, the
sea sons, the weather throughout the year,
etc. There are many intelligent people who
have great faith in weather lore, and col
lection of it tested by the scientific observa-
lions of the bureau will be both entertaining
and instructive.
According to reports In late number OF
the Buenos Ayres Herald the railroad in
vasion of the Argentine confederation is
making rapid Roadway. The utmost diff
Guilty is experienced IN finding able-bodied
laborers TODD the work on the several lines
that are being extended into the interior.
The Bahia Blanca Extension Company are
advertising for eight hundred men, and four
other new lines are also shorthanded. In
addition to all this there is talk Of still other
projects for pushing railroads into new
country. At the same time there has lately
been a great increase in acreage OF the
sugar plantations in several provinces, cane
growing having for some years proved most |
lucrative. The reports OF trouble or
official misunderstanding with Brazil are |
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