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

of the Parsees there are only 100000 in
tho world and n. 600 are in Bombay.


from adclteration.
A late report is to the effect that it has
become the thing for London girls of ton
to learn dressmaking.
Pink-eye prevails to an alarming ex-
tent in parts of Oswego County, New
York, and horses are dying rapidly
One million two hundred and forty-one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-six
persons visited the different departments
of the British Museum last year.
In Goshen, n. Y, tramp asked for his
breakfast and was set chopping wood to
paw for his meal. He was given an ak
worth So to do his work, with which he
docamped.
There is a place in Ceylon called the
worlds end. You stand on the edge of
plateau and look over a precipice 5000
feet in height If you tumble, you tumble
about a mile. One step will do the bust
ness.
The weapons used in duel by Wagner
and Burkhart, Missourians, were clubs,
which, by agreement, were to be perfectly
smooth and weigh four pound apiece.
Burkhart was hit on the temple and in
stantly killed.
Miss Lillard did not die in Cincinnati,
though the doctors said that she could not
possibly recover, and she regards the
restoration of her health as a miracle.
Therefore, she is about to open a hospital
in which prayer will take the place of
medicine.
The Post Office Department advises
that the address on printed matter or mer-
chandise mailed to distant points at home
or abroad be written on the enclosure as
we'll as on the wrapper. Failure to deliver
the articles in case the wrapper is lost or
destroyed will thereby be avoided.
An action against an English railroad
company for injuries sustained by young
woman, ended in verdict of $4,000 dam
ages, whereupon counsel for company
moved for a new trial on the ground that
the beauty of the plaintiff had unduly at
fected the minds Ofthe jury.
The St. Louis bakers are wrangling as
to who shall have the contract for baking
the pies which are to be supplied the I'M
ruly pupils of the st. Louis schools after
September l. as the old-fashiOned rod is
not to be allowed in the schools after that
date. The pie wagon will approach the
school buildings only after nlghttall.
Sir Robert Garden, eX-LOrd Mayor of
London, was run over the other day, and
he paid the fine of the offending cabman.
Though eighty-seven years old, he was
uniniured, being as hale and hearty as
most men half his age. This makes the
third time he has been knocked down by
a cab, but he is always up and smiling
directly, as though nothing had happened.
A Norwich, Conn.,, family saw some
country friends coming to return days
visit and hastily pulled down the curtains,
locked the doors and fled to the kitchen to
escape the infection. Nothing daunted,
the farmer baited his old mare on the
sidewalk. and put his women folks on the
steps to await their friends return.
Then the malicious neighbOrs took them
in and kept them till the family showed up.
The ''darned net craze" atfiicts large
part of the feminine world. 1t is a coarse
lace work wrought on lace netting with
darning or knitting cotton, though much
| of it is done in linen floss, especially in
the West, and it can be made as fine as
the finest lace i'll the market. Still, for
the most part, the numbers eight and tent
are the cotton used, the lace netting being
bought by the yard and of a size of mesh
to suit the cotton.
The Virginia Military Institute, at Lex
ington, Va, has turned out 1,24l gradu-
ates, of whom 200 were killed in battle, 175
have become professors, 125 mining and
civil engineers, 120 merchants, "a farmers
and planters, 30 physicians, 80 clergymel
and 10 bankers. The institute is support
ed by the State, and is conducted upon t1e
| same principles as West Point, and is the
\ pride of Virginia. StOnewal jackson
was one of the Professors.
Small boys will carry all sorts of things
in their pockets, and sometimes the result
| is disastrous. Joseph Wurzburger, of
| New York, a siX-year-Old boy, carried a
piece of lime in his pocket, probably to
| use as chalk. 1t rested in the pocket OPP
posite the lower part of the lads abdO-
men, and blister appeared at that part
| of the body, whereupOn a physician was
| called in. The lime produced blood pol
| soning, which resulted in death.
From Maine, New Hampshire and Yer
mont the crop returns are most encour-
| aging. 1t is yet too early to estimate de-
| cisiveIy the yield of anything but hay,
which is the chief product. New Hamp-
| shire makes the most favorable returns,
| Maine comes next and in Vermont the
! crop is an average one. The indications
| for cereals are favorable, and if the
weather clerk INDUCES in no eccentrIcl-
! ties before the harvest the yield VIII be
| fully up to the average.
Three marriage ceremonies, all per-
| formed at once, are about to be celebrated
| at the Grand Ducal Court. The Grand
| Duke Louis ", whose wife-the Princess
Alice. of England-died five years ago, is
said to be about to marry his sister-in-
! law. the young Princess Beatrice, the
| charming young girl for whom, if ro-
nance is true, the son of Napoleon Ill.
went to seek death in Zululand. At the
same moment that he himself is going to
marry the aunt of his children the Grand
Duke will give his two eldest daughters
the first to Prince Louis, OF Battenburg,
and the second to the hereditary Prince
of Baden.
A card bearing the following instruc-
tions hangs conspicuOUsly upon the safe
in one of the stores on Water street, Maui
gatuck. Conn: ITO burglars: We keep
no money in this safe. This is for fire
only: our money is up to the house. Come
up. We have four shOtguns, two rifles,
three horse pistols and one revolver, all
loaded and ready for use, and warranted
to kill at ten rods. Time spent here is
time wasted. VerblnR salts SdpieBti."
Then follows the figure of the combination,
so that if the burglar is determined to get
in anyway he can do so in decent man.
ner, without spelling the door.
The AmeSbury Mass. )NetoS relaJes tnat
a trader in that town, accompanied by his
wife. visited a friend in Merrimac, pro-
vision dealer, who invited him to his store
to examine his ice closet, in which he
kept his meats, vegetables, etc. Upon ar
irving at the store the Amesbury gentle
man left his wife in the carriage and pro-
ceeded with his friend to an inspection of
the ice closet, which they entered, the
former pulling the door to after him. A
spring lock being attached to the outside
of the door, they were prisoners in the
coolest place the town could provide. In
vain they shouted-their cries could not
be heard. The wife, tired of waiting, took
a short drive about town, and her husband
not appearing on her return she entered
the store, but no one was to be seen. In
passing a particular place she thought
She heard voices, and upon opening the
door or the C1USCJ WIS surprised TO Gee JlI0
gentlemen, who had become nearly eX-
hausted by their close confinement and
endeavors to escape.
Fortune, the editor of the New York
Globe NEGRO organ) admits that negro
preachers are not as a rule what they