Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-09-05

have almost entirely abandoned their use.
A few of the old easements, however, are
still left in France. and one of them lately
caused tragedy in Havre. While look
ing out of such a window in house IN
the Rue de FHOspital an old woman named
Basel was caught BY the falling frame
which descended squaTely upon her neck,
piniOned 1t to the sill, and choked her TO
death before the Mortified spectators IN the
street below could reach her.
THE MARQUIS OF LoRNE recently COM
missioned the City Clerk of Ottawa, a
well-known sportsman, TO procure for him
some live muskrats. Two of these crea-
lures have been secured, and will be sent
BY the Governor General to Scotland.
The Marquis and his father have taken
considerable interest in the acclimatiza-
ton of American animals on the ducal es-
tate. where there is already a colony Of
Canadian beavers. The Governor Cen
erals muskrats may be tanned by feeding
them with the hand and scratching their
backs. an attention which muskrats very
soon learn to appreciate.
4 BOY in Vermont, accustomed to work
ing alone, was so prone to whistling, that,
as soon as he was by himself, he uncon-
sciously commenced. When asleep the
muscles of his mouth, chest and lungs
were so completely cOncatenated IN the
association. he whistled with astonishing
shrillness. pale cOuntenance, loss OF
appetite. and almost total prOstratiOn Of
strength. convinced his mother it would
end in death. if not speedily overcome,
which was accomplished by placing him
in the society of another boy, who had
orders to give him a blow as soon as he
began to whistle.
WHILE a contractor was removing five
dead bodies recently from the mOrtuary
in Northampton street, Clerkenwell, to
the Great Northern Cemetery, the con-
vevance broke down in EXmOuth street,
one of the popular thOrOughfares in the
town. The collins were precipitated
into the street. 4 large and indignant
crowd assembled quickly. But, in answer
to their TemOnstrances, the contractor
pointed out that his contract with the
Guardians was so ridiculOusly low that
he could not afford to take the bodies to
the cemetery one at a time. Several per-
sons then volunteered to carry the cofilns
back to the mOrtuary
AN INGENIOUS ATTACK Of cholera Oc-
CURED in a popular restaurant of Naples,
where a Well-dressed young man ordered
an expensive meal, and was apparently
seized Immediately after eating 1t with
Z
such deathly pallOr that the guests, with
whom the possibility of infection from
/ Egypt is frequently a topic Of converse
ton. hurried in CONSERVATION from the
place. The Young man was taken 10
hospital apparently in "A state of collapse,
but there the physicians soon concluded
that he was shamming. 1t turned out
finally that he had no money about his
person, and feigned an attack of cholera
to avoid being required to pay for his
meal.
ALFONSO. who is about to visit Ger
many, must behave himself while there.
The pale-eyed, tallow-haired girls whom
Bismarck has denied the succulent
American hog are totally unlike the dark
eyed. raVen-haired. Olive-skiHned beauties
with whom. according to gossip, Alfonso
is wont to daily. If he should 20 prOwl-
ing around in red tights, flowing white
mantle and a cap with big white feather
in it, advancing a Spanish lutte under
some German girls window at the hour
when night lends secrecy to the pranks Of
lovers it is pretty safe to say that he Will
get most emphatically fired. The German
girls won't have it, and, Alfonso, don't
you forget 1t.
EFFORTS were made for a long time IN
Germany to direct the course of emigra-
ton from that country toward Brazil,
where a fertile soil, healthful climate, a
friendly government, and gifts Of land
were promised to TeutOn settlers, Many
German colonies were induced by these
representations to locate themselves with
in the Brazilian domain; but they have
failed wretchedly, and in almost every in
stance the story Of their collapse has been
one of sickness, death. and general mis-
cry. The history OF these attempts at
German colonization is now given in a
connected form in a series Of articles
originally printed in the AlgemeiHe
DeatScbe ZcituRg for Brazil. and now re-
published in pamphlet form in Vienna,
with comments by the Austrian Consul
General at Rio. The narrative that they
furnish will prove sufficient to deter Ger
man emigration to Brazil for many years
to come.
f. w. H. MEYERS, in his notable essay
on George Eliot, gives the following rem
.iniscences: 4 remember how, at Cam
bridge, / walked with her once in the Eel
lows Garden Of Trinity on an evening of
rainy May, and she, stirred somewhat be-
yond her usual wont, and taking as her
text the three words which have been
used so often as the inspiring trumpet
calls of men-the words God, Immortality,
Duty-prOnOunced, with terrible earnest
ness. how incOnceivable was the first, how
unbelievable the second. and yet how per-
emptory and absolute the third. Never,
perhaps, have sterner accents affirmed the
sovereignty of impersOnal and unrecOm-
pensing Law. l listened, and night fell;
her grave, majestic countenance turned
toward me like SibyFs in the gloom; it
was as though she withdrew from my
grasp one by one the two scrolls Of prom
Use, and left me the third scroll only, aw-
full with inevitable fates. And when we
stood at length and parted, amid that CO.
lumnar circuit of the forest trees, beneath
the last twilight of starless skies, l SEEM
ed to be gazing, like Titus at Jerusalem,
on vacant seats and empty halls-on a
sanctuary with no Presence to hallow it,
and heaven left lonely of God"