Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-20

truck under a car to win bet that ne
could not steal passage. Lacking nag
TO wave in token of victory, he took on
his shirt and flung it to the breeze.
AT THE Golden DINNER in London
permission to smoke was accorded at the
very beginning of the post-prandial
speech. The announcement by the
Chairman that smoking would be IN
dulged in excited loud applause. The
fact is set down as signlncant sOclai
circumstance.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany proposes to establish in the cool,
refreshing and heathful air Of the noun
tains a sanitarium for sick and disabled
emploves, where they VIII receive gOOq
food and careful attention at nominal
cost. Cottages will be erected which
may be occupied by the families OF the
patients. the only charge for which VIII
be for food and attendance.
A GENUINE wHIPsNAKE, SIX feet long,
attacked d. B. Taylor, of Charlotte, Va,
and tried to Jump into his wagon. With
every lump it would crack its tail like
whip and with such force as to make the
horses prance. Mr.. Taylor finally sue
ceeded In knocking it senseless, and one
of his sons cut off its head. After the
head was cut off it snapped at the boy.
TITS GIVEN OUT that the iron-clad ship
Ting-Yuen, which has been built at Stet-
tin. will be taken to China by Germans
under the commercial flag of Germany.
CAPTAIN VOss, of the Vulcan, will act as
commander, The Hong Kong Daily Press,
bv the way, advises China not to go to
war with France on the ground that
China cannot afford, in face of the Rus
sian conflict, to weaken herself. The
Dnilg Press is an English paper, though
its opinions are not at all like those which
are expressed in the London journals.
A SMALL OPEN BOAT of foreign build,
known as the Neptune, arrived at Old
Swan Pier, on the Thames, recently.
This boat is "A feet long, so feet beam,
and feet deep. In this cookie shell Will
liam Johnson, a native OF Chrlshansand,
had made an ocean voyage of LOCO miles.
The Neptune left Drontheim, IN Norway,
on June l. and cOasted along the land for
about 400 miles to Stavanger. After one
DAYS stay there, she started again. and
made the English coast on June %. In
the North Sc for two days she stood a
northeasterly gale.
A LADY down in New Orleans had sent
a poem to a magazine that was returned
to her, She doesn't believe that the editor
ever opened J0e pdChdS6s anu tnuo gives
her reasons: II do not really believe they
ever unfolded it to look at, because, while
rewriting it, an eyelash fell upon the
paper, and. instead Of brushing it off, L
concluded to leave it there just to see
whether they would read the piece. Well,
sure enough! when L opened the paper,
there was my eyelash all undlsturbed
| Now you know if those three half sheets
had been fingered the little eyelash would
never have come back"
THE GALVESTON Ne,os concludes an
article on Texas horse thieves as follows
| ''The NelvS has nothing to say against that
munifcent spirit which was at the last
session of the Legislature exhibited in the
| substantial contributions of cash for
monuments, historical works, the univer-
| sity, colleges and schools, but suggests
| that a small amount from the cash balance
| for protection of sweating producers
against these bands OF horse-thieves
should have first been allowed. The
| farmer is sometimes obliged to sell his
! COW to pay the tax on his stolen work
| horse, and he has the right to ask that the
tax be used to catch the thief rather than
to build monument"
IN REPLY to some inquiries it may be
stated that the new liquid explosive,
''panclastic," as it is called by its in
ventor, NJ. E. Turpin, consists of a mix
| ture of carbon disulphide and hyponitric
| acid. The liquids are kept separate be-
fore being used. UncOnfned, the mixture
| burns with a soft light like that of the
moon. When a little phosphorus is added
| to the disulphide the radiance is very
brilliant. Confined in shells, tOrpedoes,
| ETC., and exploded with illuminate of mer-
| curry or gunpowder, its effects are terrible,
| far exceeding those of dynamite or nitro
| glycerine. 1t will not be well for ine-1-
perienced persons to tamper with these
| liquids.
| The CITY of San Francisco pays $225,-
600 year for 5000 gas lamps. By some
municipal misunderstanding or misman-
! agement, no money was provided to pay
| the last installment of this tremendous
| bill; the gas was shut off, and the streets
| were left in darkness for two months. The
! night of July 1 was celebrated by relight-
| ing the eXtinguished burners, and the
/ citizens rejoiced as if they had now had
| gaslight for the first time. Reviewing
the period of municipal eclipse, the local
papers declare that there was an actual
decrease of crime during those dark
nights. One newspaper accounts for this
unexpected result of civic neglect by say
ing that garrOters and fOOtpads were afraid
to venture out in the darkness, the preca-
riOus condition of pavements, cutters,
and sidewalks making rapid flight difficult
and dangerous.