Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-23

revive man who has falntedT NO, sir;
we just put a piece of Limburger cheese
under his nose, and if that doesn't bring
him to we send for the Coroner"
According to annual custom, the Presi-
dent of the French Republic issued de-
cree reducing or annuling the sentences
of certain prisoners detained in peniten-
tiaries by virtue Of COMBINATIONS by
councils of war. The number of persons
who profited by the Presidential clemency
this year amounted to 1o9.
According TO recent return, there are
LAST theatres in Europe. Italy heads the
list with 348; next comes France, with
337; Germany, 1871: Spain, $50; Great Bril-
tain, $50; Austria and Hungary, 1872; Rus
STA, "A; Belgium, "a; Holland, %; SwitZer-
land, 20; Sweden and Norway, Is; Portu-
gal, 16; Denmark, 10, and Turkey and
Greece, each.
The higher the office the bigger the pay
is not the rule in the German empire.
Bismarck, the Chancellor Of the empire,
and next the Imperial presence, gets a
salary of $4,000 a year, his official resi-
dence free, and $1,000 a year to run 1t,
while the Ambassadors in London, st. Pc
tersburg, Paris, Vienna, COnstantinOple
and Rome receive variOusly from $3l, 900
to $25, 900 each. and every Ambassador has
a free house. The Governor of Alsace-
Lorraine receives $4,000, which is the
largest salary paid to any State tunc-
tiOnary.
Mr.. Disraeli hesitated much, says the
London Truth, like Sergeant Ballantine.
Before bringing out some telling and we'll
| prepared adjective, he would ''er-er-er"
for a minute or two, so as to make his
! hearers suppose that he was choosing be-
| tween half a dozen words. And yet
many of Mr.. Disraelis most effective
| speeches were learned by heart. He
would give them to the Times reporter be-
fore delivered, and although the reporter
| followed the speech, pencil in hand, he
/ seldom had to alter q single word, so eX-
| cellent was Mr.. DisraelPs memory.
California is a grasping State. Itwants
| to be first in everything. 1t is not con-
tent with raising the biggest pears, and
! grapes, and cabbages, and peaches, and
/ hoodlums, and rows. 1t wants to be first
| also in the number of divorces. 1t bids
| fair to succeed, The number for the past
/ year, according to the San Francisco
| Chronicle, was 1856, or IA per cent.
of the whole number of marriages con-
I tracted during the same time. The pro-
! portion is 1 to 500 of the population of San
/ Francisco, excluding the Chinese, who
have not yet learned to get divorces, "alle
/ samee Mclean man."
! The statistics of Spanish Professionalism
| show that there are in Spain thirty-two
! churches or chapels-six in Madrid, two
/ in Barcelona, three in Seville, and one in
| each of the twenty-One important towns,
! chiefly SeapOrtS, in the south and west OF
! the peninsula. There are also twenty
| three missions in the rural districts, with
! Bible societies, schools for both sexes,
| adult classes, missions for women con-
! Quoted by lady teachers, and Sunday
/ schools. In Madrid and fifteen provincial
| towns there are large numbers of children
| in the schools, and communicates in the
| chapels in Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Ca
| diZ and Bilbao. Professionalism prevails
most among the poor. Few of the middle
| classes belong to it. The present govern
/ ment and the authorities display the ut
most tolerance compatible with the con-
stitution, and with the intOlerant spirit of
| Spanish Catholicism. The native Protest
ants barely number $4,000.
There has been a noteworthy increase of
humane societies in this country in a few
years, and the multiplication of societies
| for the prevention of cruelty to children
since 1873, when the first society was es-
| tablished here, is significant of the spread
of the spirit of opposition to the brutality
of which children are the victims, There
| are forty such societies that have been or
| ganiZed in the past seven years. New \ Ork
| State leads the list in numbers, and, Curl
/ Ously enough, Wisconsin comes next,
while Connecticut, with its vast number
| of mill villages. has but one Of these sOci-
| cites, and Massachusetts has but two in
| all of her cities. Where discretion gov
/ erns the work of such societies, the mere
| knowledge of the fact that they exist must
prove deterrent to the evils they seek to
correct. Some of them are turning their
! attention to enforcing the law preventing
the sale of liquor to minors. The report
/ of the Brooklyn society refers to the death
| of several children as a result of the sale
to them of liquor.
! Many ancient manuscripts of untold
value are believed to be stored away in the
monasteries of Greece. A loss that will
never be understood to its full extent has
| Just been sustained in the destruction of
the monastery of Vatopedi, which took
fire through the carelessness of one of the
monks, and, in the absence of any appli-
ance for extinguishing the flames, was
speedily burned to the ground. Several
thousand Byzantine manuscripts were
consumed in this fire. To prevent such ir-
reparable losses in the future, the Greek
Government has sent two Athenian pro-
fessOrs, Findiklis and Kalogeras, who are
experts in deciphering old manuscripts,
to examine the libraries and archives of
the mOnasteries, and to send such manu-
scripts as they find of value to the nation
al library in Athens. These gentlemen
report that they have already discovered
great store of parchment treasures in
the monastery of Dusiko, among them
some of ancient Greek authorship. 1t is
said that they found an unquestiOnable
tragedy by Eschylus and one by Sophocles.
There were 124 more establishments
where distilled liquor is made in this
country in 1850 than there are to-day. But
the establishments of to-day have much
larger productive capacity than did those
of 1850, and more liquor is made and drunk
now than ever before. In 1850 there
were 4,00S persons engaged in this manu-
facture; there are 6,492 now. In this
time the capital investment was increas-
ed from So, 400, 1874 to $24, IA, 595. The pro-
duct in 1880 was worth SIS, &c, 240, and
last year it was valued at $42,-
O63. 663. 1t has been said that with
the increased consumption of malt
liquors the distilled article has been
less used. This does not appear from the
facts. The use of malt liquor has in
creased in much larger proportions than
distilled, however. In 1880 there were 431
breweries, while there are 2,191 now; the
number of persons employed in the manu-
facture has increased from 2,347 to &c, 220;
capital from $4,072, $50 to $91 POS, 224; value
of product from 50, 72S, 56S to $101, SOS, 3S5.
The per centage of increase in the manu-
factlire and sale of both malt and distilled
liquor is far in excess of the increase in
population.
France and Italy are both somewhat ex-
ercised respecting the enforcement of
oaths. The French Senate does not con-
cur with the Chamber, which favors aboli-
ton, and the question will have to be eX-
amined over again. Mr.. John LemOinne
prefers a solution which would retain the
oath for those who, as he puts it, feel that
a declaration on honor and conscience is
not enough, and leave others at liberty to
affirm, as we should say. In Italy a
Deputy will not take the oath, and the
Unitd CdttOIicd thus ironically improves
the occasion: "We demand" says that
journal, ''the abolition of the oath because
we respect it: because State which cares
nothing for religion should not exact an
OATH" The writer also insists on his
demand sin the name of liberty, which
should not exact the sacrifice of any con-
viction;" and, finally, he remarks: GA
Senate which does not respect the Sab
bath, and Chamber which does not go to
mass, may also dispense with the OATH"
The points are sharply made, but this mode
of treating a practical question is not one
which can be described as conciliatory.
Probably, however, the URitd CdttOlicG
does not in the least desire to cOnciliate,
h1lt only To hit hard at its OnOonpntS