Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-11

door was opened suddenly against him,
which thrust the switch inside the ear,
broke the drum, caused the most INTENSE
suffering, and made Holman maniac
MISS NJ. WILLIAMS, ofEdinburgh, MISS,
after placing the three-year-Old child OF
George Blocher in the shade under tree,
started off to pick wild flowers. Turning
suddenly, she saw a limb about to break.
She rushed back, but the limb fell, Killing
both her and the child.
THE DUKE OF WESTMINSTER, in re-
cent speech, declared that the London
smoke was injurious to health, While II
represented waste in the city alone OF
100000 a year. Its effect on pubic
buildings was destructive, and II cost
f2,500 year to repair its damage 10 Ihe
House of Parliament.
THE RATIO of suicide in the great cities
for every million inhabitants averages
yearly as follows: Naples, "a; Rome, IA;
London, ST; Genoa, 1876; New York, IA;
Berlin, 10; Florence, 1870; st. Petersburg,
POS; Dresden, 240; Brussels, 21l; Vienna,
2S7; Copenhagen, 3O2; stockholm, 3o4 !;
Paris. 402 New York, it will be seen, is
well up in the list, though majority Of
the suicides there are said to be Germans.
enforced by the penalty of fine ranging
from $50 to 800 for the first otfense. The
last Legislature extended the provisions
of the act to mechanical and mere antile
establishments. This affects many
women employed in bakeries, millinery
shops, retail stores, and boys in groce-
ries, drug stores and other places. AS
vet, however, the small grocery slave la
bors from the taking down of the shutters
until the putting up Ofthe same.
Few PERSONS have the knack of be-
coming first-class shorthand writers,
such as can obtain occasional employ
ment on newspapers. Experienced short
hand writers themselves say the business
is a poor one for young man or young
woman to adopt in the hope Of making a
living out of it professionally. Verbatim
reporting is hard WOrk-hard to get and
hardly paid for. There is not one person
in fifty beginning the study of shorthand
writing who makes anything that can be
called success out of it.
THE American visitor to Brighton is in
varably disappointed, because he expects
beauties and diversions that only the
combination of half dozen metr0pOlises
and watering places would satisfy. The
wonderful thing about Brighton is its being
such substantially built city, with long
lines of brick and stone residences risin g
almost from the brink of the sea and eX-
tending inland over the hill of Surrey.
The resident population is over 100000,
and this number is reinforced by an enOr-
nous daily contingent of transient visi-
tors. The Saturday to Monday influx is
so great that locOmOtiOn through the
streets skirting the sea is difficult. The
London carry" abounds with his rude
horse-play.
a BOUQUET recently carried by the
Princess of Wales was remarkable. 1t
was composed entirely of large lilies,
tinted with the most delicate blue and
pink hues by the absorption of dyes
through the stems. BY this process, which
was discovered by Mr.. Nesbit, the we'll
known analyst, while experimenting upon
the anatomy of flowers, very beautiful re-
suits can be obtained without in any way
affecting the perfume or freshness. Sim
gular to say, flowers refuse to absorb GER
tain colors, while they dispose of others
in different manners. If placed in a
mixed solution they make a complete
analysis, and some Of the lilies which had
been treated with purple showed distinct
red veins and blue veins, the colors hay
ing been divided in the process of absorb
ton.