Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-08

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to Breslau, connecting 50German towns.
The system cost $40, 600. 600, and is work
ing admirably.
The Mexican city of Christiana is rap
idly becoming Americanized through its
situation on the line of the Mexican Gen.
trail Railroad. Breweries, flour mills,
street railroads, sugar refneries, numer-
Gus stores, and all the hotels are in the
hands of Americans.
In 4 Nevada mining town, now desert
ed, which once had several thousand IN
habitants, Indians are living IN abandon
ed rows of good brick houses, which they
have adapted to their tastes as far as pos
sible by knocking out the doors and VIM
dOWs and punching holes IN the ROOFS
Girl graduates in England wear gowns
precisely like those worn by university
men and made by the same tailor. AT
present they have only dOnned the b: a.,
or Bachelor of Arts robe, which is BLACK
and brown, and like b. S. c., or Bachelor
Of Science, which is yellow and black, but
no doubt in time they will attain those OF
the higher degree.
A species of spider has been discovered
on the African coast, the long firm web
of which very closely resembles yellow
silk, and is said to be very nearly as good
as the product of silkworms. The mat
ter has been investigated by the Lyons
silk merchants with favorable results,
and there seems to be nothing TO prevent
acclimatiZing the insect in France.
The costumes that will be worn at Mr..
Vanderbilt's mask ball on the 9th in
slant will cost New York society many
thousands. Mr.. Wallack's private ward
robe is said to have been levied upon by
host of fashionable young men. Mr..
George GOuld's suit will cost 5000. If Mr..
Gould arrives at the ball at IL and leaves
at ?, he Will be paying 5000 an hour for
his pleasure.
If the United States had Queen she
would probably wear sealskin. The En-
press of Russia's favOrite fur is sable.
The Empress of AustrO- Hungary will
have nothing but astrachan, while her
daughter-in-law, the Archduchess Ste
phanie, wears only otter. The Queen of
Roumania cares little what furs she
wears, so it be gray in color, while the
Queen of Holland prefers marten, and
Her Majesty of Spain bestows her patron
age upon the beaver.
Sir Garnet Wolseley is an ardent adyO-
vocate of temperance in the army. He
says that, i'll his opinion, drink is the
chief cause Of disobedience, crime and
disease. In South Africa his bOdy-guard
were all strictly temperate men, and all
enjoyed excellent health, in spite of the
climate. In Egypt, also, very little liz
uOr was given to the troops, although the
doctors insisted that it was necessary on
account Of the climate; yet the general
health of the men was good, and their be-
haviOr admirable.
The severity of the past winter is said
TO have had most disastrous effect on
Western herds, thousands of cattle losing
their lives where usually no trouble is eX-
perienced. The cattle in Montana and
Wyoming and other Northern ATTITUDES,
rapidly moved Southwark at the begin
ming of the bitter weather, and in some
instances have strayed as far South as the
Indian Territory and the LlanO EstacadO
in Texas and New Mexico, so that large
losses are likely to occur to the owners
from theft as we'll as from starvation and
cold.
Dueling at Jena University is likely to
fall into some disfavor, owing to a series
of fatal events. There were twenty-One
serious duels in one day, and, owing to the
fact that the swords had not been properly
cleaned since having been used previously,
some forty students are in hospital, suffer-
ing from blOod-poisOning. Two have al
ready died, and one, losing his mind, COM
mitted suicide by strychnine. Duelling
at the German universities has lately been
carried to a great excess, and there is
prospect that public opinion will at last
be effectively aroused against it.
4 Baltimore court has decided that the
publication of ''Iolanthe'' in score and
with piano accompaniment gives the pur-
chasers of the. book the right to perform it
with any ''tone-colOr'' they may prefer
In other words, the composers instru-
mentatIOn is not protected so far as to
prevent other people from getting up a
new Instrumentation from the piano score.
1t seems at first sight a hardship upon the
composer, or the party who purchases the
right to perform the opera, but it is not
nearly as severe as the strain upon the
public, which will be obliged to listen to
multitudinous varieties of "tOne-cOlOr"
prepared by musical blacksmiths and
cheap amateurs.
The famous blue laws of Connecticut
enacted by ''the people of the Dominion of
New Haven" were so called because
printed on blue paper. They prohibited
the ceremony of marriage being performed
by a parsOn, on the strange ground that a
magistrate might perform it with less
scandal to the church. Adultery was
punished by death. Wearing clothes
trimmed with gold, silver or lace above
one shilling yard involved a tax on the
persons estate of $1j. No one to cross
river on the Sabbath but authorized cler-
gymen. No one shall travel, cook, make
beds. sweep houses, cut hair or shave on
the Sabbath. No one shall kiss his or her
children on the Sabbath or fasting days.
The Sabbath day shall begin at sunset
Saturday.
Two Mormon elders recently paid
missionary visit to New Zealand, and at
Papawai, fell in with keen old Maori
chief, named Manihera. The story of
their meeting is thus told by a Hobart
paper: ''The elders, as usual, COM
menced by a long discourse on the origin
of the Mormon Church, stating that the
angel Maroni descended from Heaven,
and delivered into the hands of Joseph
Smith two tables of gold, wherein were
inscribed all the laws of their religion.
Manihera here interrupted by asking
whether they still had those two tables of
gold He was informed by the elders
that the angel took them back again;
whereupOn Manihera remarked that it
was a very curious proceeding on the
angels part. as, if he had left them for
the world to see, it would have been
great proof of the truthfulness of Joe
Smiths revelations, which he very much
doubted happening at all.
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