Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-23

OK the stage or in real life a man al
ways puts his arm round a girl to protect
her. Now. unquestionably, a man with
one arm occupied in huggIng a. girl isn't
in the best form to ward off danger, but
still it's a good custom, which we would
not for the world see go into disuse, the
danger is so often imaginary.
The Moscow Gazette publishes the pro-
ceedings of the trial of seven Christian
Tartars at Kazan, who were recently con-
yicted of reviling and renouncing the or
thodoX faith, and were sentenced to exile
in Siberia. They appear TO have been the
rIngleaders in movement, which began
soon after the Turkish war. for the reYer-
sion of the whole village to Mohamme-
danism.
GEN. JOSEPH z. JOHNSTON does not
sympathize with JEFF. Davis views ex-
pressed in his recent letter. He said to
reporter that it was incomprehensible to
him how Davis could make the statement
that if there had been no attempt to REIN
force Fort Sumter there would have been
no secession. He supposed that there was
not a schOOlbOy in the North or South VINO
did not know better.
ADMIRAL BALDwIN's snuff-boX, coro-
nation present from the Car, is thus
described in a Hamburg letter to the Bal
timore Sun: ''lt is estimated to be valued
at $4,000. Six solitaires, three on each
side of the portrait, are said TO be worth
81. 200 apiece The portrait is surrounded
by a ring of about forty diamonds. The
box itself is an art gem. and has ca
pacity for fully half pound Of snuff. /
don't think the Admiral uses snuff"
THE averages longevity in England is
increasing. Not many years ago cele-
brated author denied the existence of
such thing as a. centenarian. The
statistics for 1881 record ninety-one per-
sons who did not die until they had COM
pleted one hundred years and upward.
OF these twenty-five were men and sixty
six women. The oldest man was 112
years of age; the others ranged between
that and 100. Three of the women were
107, three 106, two 105, six 104, five 103,
eight l02, and the rest were 100 and up
ward.
AN ENGLISH correspondent of the
Paris SolcU tells the following anecdOte
of the recent visit Of the Prince of Wales
to Prince Bismarck at Berlin. The Chan
cellor asked him pOint-blank why Eng
land did not once for all annex Egypt.
I'VE and our friends would not only" be
added. mot oppose, but we should APP
prove and even abet it, if needful.' The
Prince of Wales replied that Mr.. Glad
stone was the proper person to speak TO
on this subject, WhereupOn Prince Bis
marck expressed himself so dIsrespect-
fully ON the subject Of the English Pre-
mier's want of patriotism and Judgment
that the Prince of Wales abstained from
repeating the Chancellor's words.
THE greatest eel pond in America is on
the farm of James n. Wells, i'll the town
of Riyerhead, Mass. 1t covers five acres,
and is so full of cells that they can he raked
out with "a garden rake. Two years ago
Mr.. Wells put 1000 dozens of cells into the
pond. intending to have them undisturbed
for five years. These have increased to
millions. They are fed regularly every
third day on ''hOrse feet a peculiar
shcll-tish. The cells know when they are
to be fed and the stroke of Mr.. Wells
whip against his wagon calls thousands
of them up to dinner, although any one
else may pound away all day without any
effect. one of these shell-tish, fastened to
a strong cord and thrown into the water,
may be drawn out in a few minutes with
hundreds Of cells fastened to it.
The Scientific american, abiding to such
charms as carrying a potato or horse
chestnut about the person as a preven-
tive against rheumatism, cites the
cases of a doctor of divinity and man Of
liberal education and cosmopolitan eN-
perience, who INDUCED in such (tO use
the Scientific ImericdH'S term mon
sense" 1t may be difficult" it con-
cludeS. ''tO draw the line between the Ell
feet of Inducements on the human sys-
TEN under certain known laws and the
mental influence Of belief and desire on
the physical body. Whether mental emo
ton or intelligent faith does really affect
the animal portion Of the human struc-
ture or not. it is "A curious fact that edu-
cation and culture do not eliminate a
belief in faith cures and remedies"
SIMON FERGUSON, an Hliterate negro
coal miner at the Campbell Creek mines,
West Virginia, told a Mrs. Williams that
she was possessed of devils and that ne
was the only man in the country who
could cast them out. AS she had been
''daunsy'' Tor some time she believed him.
He then prescribed pOkerOOt, smartWeed
and iron weed, to which he added grass
hOppcrs, angle-WOrms, grub-WOrms, flies
and other insects. This being mixed,
was placed in quart bottle, set in hot
water and STEPPED for some time. The
quantity taken was wineglassful every
four hours. She was to have a teaspoon
full of tobacco snuff blown up her nose
with pipe three times a day, while her
diet was to be nothing but raw salt mack
erel, fresh from the brine and unwashed.
She took several doses of the mixture,
which stirred the devils up to such an eX-
tent that she had to send for another doc
tor to settle them.
\ CALIFORNIA hen, while engaged with
her brood of chicks in blowing up neigh
boris garden recently, was charged upon
by a full-grOwn rat. The old representa-
tive of the poultry show" Immediately
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her flock and awaited the onslaught. The
rodent, somewhat checked by the bold
front presented by the garden DESTROY
err crOuched for moment, and then
made dart for one Of the chicks. In an
instant the old hen opened her cackle bat
terry, and commenced battle. She flew at
her enemy, and, striking it with her bill,
grabbed 1t by the back and threw it in the
air. The rodent came down with thump
upon the walk, but before it could regain
Its feet the hen repeated the performance,
and kept it up until the rat was only able
to crawl away a few feet and die in dis
grace. After contemplating her fallen foe
for few moments, the old hen called her
brood around her and walked off.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, JR., has Gu
riOusly overlooked an episode in the yaga-
bond career of George Primrose, in the
''Vicar of Wakefield" which would have
enriched his Phi Beta Kappa address.
'When came to LOpyain,p says he. 81
was resolved not to 90 sneaking to the
lower professors, but openly tender my
talent to the principal himself. l went,
had aamittance, and offered him my
service as a master OF the Greek IAN
guage, which l had been told was desid-
erdtula in this university. The principal
seemed at first to doubt my abilities;
but of these ! offered to convince him by
turning a part of any Greek author he
should fix upon into Latin. Finding me
perfectly earnest in my proposal, he adj
dressed me thus: You see me, young
man. | never learned Greek and l don't
find that | ever missed it. | have had a
doctors cap and gown without Greek; |
have ten thousand florins a year without
Greek: eat heartily without creek; and,
in short continued he, 'as l don't know
Greek. do not believe there is any good
in it,"
BRIGHT BITS.
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