Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-19

soup kettles and ash cans.
SURVEYS are again in progress for the
proposed Madeira and Mamore Railroad
in Brazil. the unfortunate enterprise by
which Philadelphians were chiseled out
Of hundreds of thousands Of dollars and
many lives lost.
Cleveland, Tenn. permitted no reIgl-
Gus services whatever for the last half Of
Lent. on account of the presence OF small
pox in the town, and the Episcopal rector
protests that this is an unprecedented
stretch Of power.
The queen is very successful Journal
ist. The three official papers published
bv her authority, the London Gazette,
Edinburgh Gazette and Dublin Gazette,
Maid pToft last year Of tZ9,3lb anG III the
ppreceding twelve month OF f29,o43.
Roselle. y. j.. is the first small town in
tho Tnjted states to be lit by ''village
nIant,, on Edison electric lights, which
la,,,,si,4s of eight miles OF wire, 800 lights
i, % bousas 80 street lamps and clusters
AT the deDot' all run by 100 horse power
According to the r rankJarter Zettaag, a
,a,.,,o oao,Ia was shot ~, April ID at Max
koo. Lapland, which had q 'Ouno us NECK
a brass chain with a little IN Do oii. at
tached to it. This box cOntainet. o,,isf u
paper on which was written in L "i .no,i
9Caught in 1892 by W. and c. Ande1. 'oH'
Boetod, in Falster, Denmark"
An obstinate juryman at Springfield,
Mass, who had held out all day against
eleven companions, weakened at O'Clock
in the evening as he saw his chance Of
using two Langtry tickets in his pocket
oozing away. Agreeing to a verdict, he
started on a run for the opera house,
where she was playing a single night en-
gagement.
To Belgium we must look for one Of the
most stupendous engineering works of
modern times-the new Antwerp docks,
which will be completed in 1884. There
is to be quay two miles long and 300
feet wide. The uniform waterway will
be $50 feet wide and 26 feet deep. 1t is
calculated that fifty Atlantic liners will
be able to lie broadside on the quay at
once.
Much ritualism seems to have made Mr..
George Campion mad. A few days since
he jumped upon the altar in st. PauFs
Cathedral, in London, tore down the cross
and dashed it to the ground, and hurled
after it the two altar candlesticks. A
cross anu fdllUlcSIlChb DtlHH ltCO1iilLtu
ornaments in every cathedral, it was
rather monstrous Offense. He was fined
E5. which friend paid, but there was
clamOr for lunatic asylum or SIX months
hard labor.
DR.. Piachaud til inks that trees in streets
do more harm than good, because they i'm
pede the circulation of the air, while Pro-
fessOr Goyet SAYS that the evaporation
{Ioi 1ooVoc L-aQnE fbQ surrounding
air moist and cool, and that they are Il
protection against dust; they absorb the
carbOnic acid and send out oxygen, while
their roots draw up stagnant water, and
absorb the organic matter in the filth
from which the streets Of town are never
free, acting as disinfectant.
A piece Of Plymouth Rock has been for
warded by the Pilgrim Society of Ply
mouth, Mass, to the Rev. Henry Allen,
of the Mission Chapel, Islington, London,
to be built into the chapel pulpit. The
original rock is now sheltered by a hand
some granite canopy, the floor OF which is
so built around the rock that only two
square feet are visible. This was found
necessary TO preserve it from the depre-
datiOns Of visitors, who chiseled and ham,
mered pieces from it to carry off as me-
mentOes.
The private cars which American rail-
way magnates build for themselves are
homelv and uncomfortable compared with
the new railway carriage which has been
constructed for the Prince Of Wales. 1t
is fifty feet long and contains saloon,
study. two bed rooms, two dressing rooms
and a bath room. The Princes bed room
is hung with old gold silk and the furni-
ture is upholstered to match. Mirrors are
let into the door panels, and the whole
suit can be lighted either by candles or by
electricity.
A New York marketman, in order to
impress his customers with the extent Of
his business. fitted up box to look like
telephone, and when the shop was full
would 90 through the telephone drill, Civ
ing out imaginary orders to his assistants:
One day when he was waiting on shrewd
old lady. and his stand was full Of pur-
chasers, he began, as usual, to work his
false machine, crying, "Ned, send three
frkins of butter to FrencRs Hotel"
o S9Y 59 96k hhe1e a. said the old lady Hi
ness YOU have been doing with that ma
chine: but now you've betrayed yourself.
Freuch's Hotel has been closed for four
months" The butterman was demoral-
lied.
Civil marriages had become so common
in France that the Church felt in neces-
sary to adopt some measures in its own
defense. The Society of st. Francis-Regis
accordingly offered a premium of five
francs to every couple that went to church
TO be united instead of TO the Mayor. 1t
occurred to peasant named ChetOn ana
his wife, who were regularly married last
December both by priest and Mayor, that
they could make few francs in an easy
way by representing to the society that
they had not invoked the blessing OF the
Church on their union, and ofierlng 10 90
so-for a consideration. The society made
them grant of five francs, and the re-
ligious ceremony was duly solemnized in
the church-not the same as that in which
they were first marrled-and at the time
aDnointed. Unfortunately, for this IN
penious couple, their fraud was discover
ed. They were prosecuted for obtaining
money by false pretences, ana they nave
just been sentenced-the husDand 10 elght'
the wife 10 six months Imprisonment.
When the new electric lights in the Big
Mountain colliery, near Shenandoah,were
first put in operation last week, seven
dazed and dazzled mules, which for tive
years had seen no brighter luminary than
a Davy lantern, turned tail and fed into
the depths of the mine. The .workmen tell
interesting stories about the habits OF col
liery mules. their toughnesS, their con-
fentment. and their total deprayity.. Sew
erai months ago the lower levels in the
largest colliery at st. Clair were flooded,
work was stopped, and all the mules were
hoisted to the surface. More than dozen
of them had passed eleven continuous
wears in the mine, and had apparently
forgotten that there was a world OF grass
and sunshine. for when they were turned
out to pasture they huddled together in
evident alarm, and for a whole day did
nothing but gaze at earth and sky: The
probability is that they were first blinded
by the glare, common experience with
their kindred under similar eircumstan-
on;ov their new life work was resumed in
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