Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-06

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casket box, which had been in the ground
twenty years, was perfectly sound.
\ report issued by the French Minister
of War, relative to last years recruiting
operations, shows that out of 1886 foreign
recruits born in France and inscribed
upon the lists, 1,464, or more than One-half
refused to take advantage of their nation
alitv, but preferred to enter the service.
Somebody told young English noble
man that to be popular in Boston society
he must profess to be very fond of baked
beans. And so. when he dined at Mrs
Beaconstreet's, he said in a loud voice to
the servant, "Pass me the baked beans
please" There was none, of course, and
the hostess sand she was insulted.
A wife-beater at Turtle river, Dakota
was taken by his indignant neighbors and
thrown into the river, and, not satisfied
with that, they filled large tub with ice
water and held him under until he begged
for mercy. After being nearly stIangled
in the tub the wife beater promised never
to offend again, and he was set at liberty
General Canby's old war horse Dan
died on Saturday at West Brighton
General Candy rode him in his Indian
campaign. The animal was wounded be-
tween the two fore legs. Dan was also in
the rebellion. Major Barrett was requested
by General Candy to keep him as long as
he lived. The horse was bred in Kentucky,
and was thirty years old.
The Able Moigno has formed a com
pany IN Paris, and has raised $4,000 for
the purpose of dragging the Red Sea and
Bitter Lakes in order to recover the
chariOts, treasure, arms and other re-
mains of PharaOh's host, which he believes
to lie there covered with a saline deposit.
The research will be prosecuted by divers.
The expedition is ready to leave Mar
settles. and is only detained by the out
break Of cholera at the Red Sea ports.
Certain well known French mOnarchists
have been visiting the Pontitf with the
purpose of sounding him as to what line
of conduct they should pursue in the
present condition of affairs in France.
The agents in question were unable to OBJ
tain any opinion from the POntitf or from
Cardinal Jacobini. But it is certain that
the Cardinal expressed an opinion that it
would be eXpedient to prepare the ground
for a mOnarchical restoration.
The printers in Chicago gave notice OF
a strike tor an advance of wages. The
following singular miX-up in the Chicago
Nelrs. before the strike, suggests that the
time has about arrived when the papers
might with prOpriety strike for an adj
vance of printers: "NOtice.-My wife,
Emily Coote Ferguson, having left my
bed and board and gone back on me, for
Gods sake and for the sake of your life
take it away. Temperature, 1891 de-
grees above zero"
The families of Peter and James Carey
left Dublin for Liverpool on Tuesday last.
Peter is with them in England, and a
Dublin dispatch states that James Carey
left Dublin on Saturday night for England,
and that he will sail this week for Nova
Scotia, where he will determine whether
he will settle in Manitoba or British Co
lumbia. Carey's house has been without
a police guard since Wednesday morning,
and it is completely coated with mud
thrown at it by passers-by,
Oxford University's income for the past
year was f53,0OO, including f13,30O from
estates. $4,000 from the press, 924, 700 from
fees and dues, and eli, 300 from miscella-
neous sources. The expenditure was 451,-
267, including 94,200 for interest and
sinking fund on loans. The examination
fees amounted to $4,000, and the payment
to examiners came to f4,061 PrOctOrial
fines only produced f267; degree fees, co.
600; University dues, $500; matricula-
ton fees, $1,000. Professors cost 4S,063,
and University officers f4,5S0,
of Soderini, once a vocalist in the Lon
don Opera House, and a very ugly man,
''Belgravia" tells this story: "When Fa-
var was ballet master Soderini went on
the stage after a rehearsal and introduced
himself to him, saying that he was the
dearest friend he had on earth, and that
he never could sufficiently thank him for
the happiness he had conferred on him by
coming to London, Favar, who had never
seen or heard of SOderini, was astounded;
at last he asked HIM to what he might at
tribute these compliments. ''TO your I'M
paralleled ugliness, my dear SIR replied
SOderini; for before your arrival | was
considered the ugliest man in Great
Britain"
Last Thursday night an East-bOund
construction train on the Oregon Railway
and Navigation COmpany's Columbia
River Line ran into a black bear and her
cub near Warrendale. The cub was
stunned and captured by the train hands,
who have saved it as mementO; but the
mother, who weighed about 200 pounds.
was only rolled Off the grade. She jumped
to her feet, skedaddled back to the woods,
and when she reached an eminence sat
down, put her left fOre-paw to her nose
and twirled her toes. The crew of that
train have secured two rifles and are now
laying for the bear,
The Commissioner of Patents, In a de-
cisiOn Just announced, says: "He who
uses reasonable diligence and first reduces
an invention to practice, embodying it in
practical form, must be regarded as the
first inventor, and entitled to patent as
against one who, although prior il time
in making it. by negligence allows it to
remain unknown. Where inventors with
hold their inventions and confer no bene-
fits upon the public there is no reason
why protection should be afforded them
ii other and more diligenI inventors pro-
duce the same thing and do confer such
benefits. The rule is well established
that an applicant cannot have patent
for that which has been patented to an
other, unless he shall make out such a
case as would defeat the patent"
The first steel rail rolled in America
was rolled at the North Chicago Rolling
Mill Company's works in Chicago, May
%, 1909, eighteen years ago the 18th of
last month. That steel rail cost those
who made it over halt a million dollars in
experiments and outlay, and when it was
made there was nothing to show for the
outlay but that the rail was an estab-
lished fact. At the time this rail was
rolled the Albany and Rensselaer, works
at Troy, q A., and the WyandOtte, Mich,
were experimenting with the Bessemer
cOnVerters in making steel. The steel
from which the rail was rolled was made
at WyandOtte, and the plant cost $780,
600. The ingot was taken to the North
Chicago Rolling Mill to be rolled,
The old style Irish harp was about four
feet high, had no pedals, and was strung
to the back with straps. The one belong
ing to King Brian BOru, killed in the bat
tie of Clontarf, in l014, still exists in the
museum of Trinity College, Dublin. 1t is
black with age and polished, but now
Worm-eaten, and is adorned with silver
ornaments. 1t was taken by his son,
league, to Rome after the battle and pre-
scented to the Pope, with the crown and
regalia. A succeeding Pope presented it
to Henry VIII, with the title of Defender
of the Faith, and Henry gave il to the
Earl of Clanricarde, in whose family it
was held until the beninning of the
eighteenth century. 1t then passed
through several hands until 1886, when
the college became its owner.