Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-23


and cut it off.
Many Missouri Legislators, whose eyes
are affected by the snow, are wearing
green spectacles.
Marion is the largest county in Missis-
sippi, and has 1,4s6 square miles; Clay is
the smallest, 401 spare miles.
A bill has been introduced in the Legis-
lature of Wisconsin designed to prevent
malicious prosecutions by making the
complainant responsible for costs When IL
is shown that he did not have good ground
for action.
In damp weather the odors arising from
the oil factories at Hunters Point are
plainly pereeptible to the OlfactOrles OF
this residents of the Nayesink Highlands,
a distance of twenty-five miles as the crow
flies.
The Asiatic Society of India have taken
steps to erect a monument on the, site OF
the Black Hole of Calcutta, the dungeon IN
which 146 British prisoners were confined
on June 20, 1866, of which number l23 died
the same night.
NJ. AlphOnse Daudet, the celebrated
novelist, has had narrow escape. AS
he and friend were visiting~the ruins OF
the Tuileries, now being rapidly dem0l-
ished, a huge block of stone. fell from an
upper story close to their feet.
Philadelphia's policeman most notorious
as a clubber struck disOrderly stranger
a single blow, and was promptly knocked
down, kicked. dragged over the pavement
by his hair, and compelled to beg Tor
mercy. He had hit the Samson OF a circus
side show.
The Supreme Court of Illinois decides
that no man is obliged to clean the side
walk opposite his house. The case was
that of resident of Bloomington, who
allowed the snow to accumulate in front
of his property, and, being fined under
city ordinance, appealed to the court.
Prof. Shelton, of the Kansas State Agri-
cultural College, holds that the cultiya-
ton of such crops as broom corn, hemp,
flax, and, perhaps, castor beans, which
furnish but little, if any, stock feed, Will
ultimately lead to serious consequences
in the loss of fertility sustained by the
laEds SO cultivated.
A Chicago boy, being told that a narrow
bag filled with sand was weapon that
would stun at a single blow without kill
ing, armed himself with one, and lay in
wait, ON dark night, for man to hit and
rob. The man whom he struck on the
head, however, instead Of dropping, drew
a pistol 4hd shot him dead
The wife of Texas livery man told him
to send close carriage to their house,
with discreet driver. as the order was
from couple who proposed to elope, and
desired to make the flight secretly. He
believed this, and found that it was the
truth, but not the whole truth, for the
woman of the pair was his wife.
The decree of the Prussian Government
ordering all youths who were born Danish
subjects, and are now inhabiting Schles-
wig, either to enter the Prussian army or to
leave their homes, causes intense indigna-
ton in Copenhagen. The Danish gov
eminent will send to Berlin protest
against this fresh breach of treaties.
A liking for one-stOry factories has been
developed among the manufacturers Of
New England, and they are being built in
many cases where the nature of sites per-
mits. They are said to be economical,
handy, safe and free from that vibration
which looms impart to tall structures. An
immense flax mill on this plan has just
been opened at Jamaica Plain, near BOs-
ton.
The Rev. Y. p. Morgan, of Cleveland,
undertakes to state the position Of the
Protestant Episcopal Church on Biblical
inspiration. 1t has never adopted any
theory, he says, but it simply declares
that the Holy Scriptures are the word Of
God, and contain all that is necessary to
salvation. Mr.. Morgan would venture to
say that Mr.. Newton is still loyal to his
ordination vow.
Sarah Bernhardt is about to give another
proof of her versatility, in bringing out
two volumes of artistic memoirs, under
the title of ''Ma Vie an Theatre" The
idea was suggested to her by publisher,
who offered her $4,000 for the copyright
The amount will hardly cover her losses
on ''Les Meres Enuemies,'' the piece with
which Maurice Bernhard began his cam
paign at the Ambigu.
Oxford has never been very great in the
mathematical line, but it seems to be in a
worse plight than ever just now, says the
London Truth. Five colleges University,
Merton, Exeter, New and COrpus) held a
combined examination at the beginning
of term for mathematical scholarships,
but the candidates were so deficient both
in quantity and quality that only Corpus
was able to make an election at all.
A year after the fire which destroyed
nearly the whole Of Hayerhill, the leading
shoe men of the town had dinner and con-
graduated themselves on what had at the
time of the occurrence been regarded as
disaster. Handsome and solid buildings
have replaced the wooden structures on
the burned district, the new factories
hold better machinery, better goods are
produced and the owners are the best adj
Yertised shoemakers in the country.
The falsity Of a girl who, being natural
ly pallid in the cold, gave her cheeks de-
ceptively increasing glow while out sleigh
riding, is exposed by the Cincinnati En-
Quirer. She slyly dabbed on the red a lit
tie at the time, just fast enough, she con-
iesses, to make her companion think that
the cold was doing it. ''The wind was
blowing on us from the right on the way
up" she says, "and so / redeemed my
cheek on that side first. Then we turned
back, and gradually touched up the 9TH
er one. Oh, Pm a fraud, am"
There are eleven States in which women
can vote at the elections for school direc-
tors. "Women for these Offices" says
Susan b. Anthony, care particularly APP
propriate, since large proportion of the
school teachers are of the same sex, /
find that they show much more tact than
men, as, of course, they do in every posi-
tlon." In those eleven States the qualitl-
cations for voting are in nearly every
instance similar to those of men. In Ken
lucky, however, a woman has to be a
widow to poll, and IN Michigan a tax
payer.
A concession has been granted by the
Emperor of Austria for the construction
of the Elevated Metropolitan Railway in
Vienna 1t Is to connect all the railway
termini with the principal streets and the
suburbs. The work is to be completed
within four years and the first part within
two and a half years. The cost is estima-
ted at $25, 100000 The whole material
must be of Austrian manufacture, and
will come from Rothschild's iron works at
Witkowitz and TeplitZ. The chiefs ex-
employed. The engines are probably to
be worked by electricity.
The Phoenix Park, the scene of the
assassination of Lord Frederick Caven-
dish and Mr.. Burke, for which so many
prisoners are on trial, contains 1000
acres and is entered, like Hyde Park in
London, by a stately gateway. 1t is SUR
rounded by solid COPIED wall, and is the
play ground of the Irish metropolis, civil
and military, and contains bits Of leafy
bower and grassy glen, in which solitude,
pure and simple, may be realized. 1t
contains statues of Lord Carlisle, Lord
Cough, and a hideOus granite obelisk,
frequently referred to in the evidence,
200 feet high, recording the exploits of
Wellington. The spot where the assassi-
nation took place is about half mile from
the entrance, and is overlooked by the
viceregal lodge, the semi-ofticial home OF
the Lord Lieutenant, which looks exactly
like a twin of our White House. 1t has,
hovUavar tho ADVANTAGE of MANY mOun-