Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-14

port. has been rendered improbable, in
fact almost entirely eXtinguished.
Twenty-seven million barrels of petrO-
leum are pumped from the wells every
year, and the world has been searched in
vain for a market for this vast ocean OF
mineral oil.
The ancient Egyptian believed in the
immortality of the body, and deemed it
his religious duty to have his remains so
prepared that when resuscitated that his
old lineamentS would reappear.
On Saturday, the Portland, Me-, dry
dock was opened for a vessel to come in,
and after the gates were closed and the
water pumped out it was found that a
large school of herring had been cap
tured.
A man suing a lady for breach of prom
ise of marriage gets no damages allowed
him. At least, it happened so to Bernard
H. Barwich. who sued Rebecca Mclean,
StapletOn, ;. l., for $4,000. The referee
decided adversely.
The largest cable ever made on the Pa
cific coast was finished at the California
Wire Works on Sunday. 1t is $4,000 feet
in length. and weighs twenty-siX tons.
Rolled on a shaft it makes bundle about
twenty feet in diameter and ten in depth.
1t is made of steel wire, and cost $4,000.
The cable is for the California street rail-
road.
The creation of the Civil Service Com
mission has given rise to a new branch of
industry. Civil Service Institute" are
the words painted in large gilt letters on
a sign which is attached to a respectable
looking building on cross street not far
from PENNSYLVANIA Avenue, Washington.
Ii is affirmed that the Institute" is to be
place where persons ambitious of enter
ing the civil service may prepare for the
examinations.
De GrammOnt, when a young man,
waited on Cardinal Richelieu and sur
prised the great minister in the somewhat
undignitied amusement of leaping on a
wall. The Cardinal looked annoyed. A
less ready man would have apolOgiZed
and retired. But De GrammOnt was
wiser and exclaimed, Il will wager that
l leap higher than your Eminence." The
challenge was accepted. De GrammOnt
was courtier enough to allow himself to
be surpassed and the Cardinal was his
friend for the future.
Among the most prosperous colOred
men in Richmond the following may be
instanced: The Rev. James Holmes, said
to be worth $1,000; Joseph E. Farrer, mas
ter builder, $4,000; Abner Cooley, mas
ter builder, $4,000: the Rev. Richard
Wells, $4,000; the Rev. William Troy,
$4,000; the Rev. j. Jasper, $4,000; c. VIII
son, $4,000; J. Turner a Sons, $4,000; NJ.
Hill, $4,000; William WilkesOn, $1,000;
Benjamin Smith, $4,000; Willis Wines,
$1,000: Ernest East, $4,000: William B.
Lyons, barber, $4,000. r. {. Hobson,
barber, $4,000. Most of this money is in
vested in real estate.
Mr.. Austin COrbin, who recently re-
turned from Europe, says that the articles
of incorporation of the MOntauk and Mil
ford Haven Steamship Company have
been drawn up. subject to some amend
ments, and will be filed in London at the
end of this month. Experts are at work
preparing plans for the ships, which are
to cross the ocean in five days. Mr.. Cor
bin saws that travel between America and
Europe has come to point where time is
a more important consideration than
money, especially when equal safety and
greater comfort are afforded. All this is
promised by the new route.
Recently. while class of little folks of
Providence were having an object lesson
on cOlOrs, feather, the dOwny part Of
which was medium gray, was held up
for inspection; red. white and brown
feather had been previously shown to the
children. Pointing to the gray, the teach
er inquired. "Who will tell me the name
Of this cOlOr:" There was puzzled look
on many faces as the little ones Yainly
tried to recall the word; but it was evil
dent that the children were trying to find
out for themselves. Suddenly a little
hand went up and a siX-year-Old pair Of
eyes danced with excitement. ''Well,
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this cOlOr!' "A dark white!' was the
ready answer.
The most eventful incident in late Jules
Sandeau's calm and unruffied existence
was his liaison with George Sand. He
was then about twenty, and she was five
years older. The intimacy, meant to be
eternal, lasted barely two years. The
story of their meeting some thirty years
afterward is told in various ways. The
most probable version is this: Jules SAM
deau visited the 0deOn about ten years
ago. When he handed in his ticket the
registrar was engaged in examining an
order just presented by stout, elderly
lady. Her eyes met Sandeau's for an in
slant. Sandeau hesitated;. half lifted his
hat, and, turning to friend who accom-
panied him, he asked: "Who is that lady?
it strikes me | have met her somewhere
before"
a tramway is to be built up Pixies
Peak, which will overshadow the Mount
Washington Railway. The plan is to con-
struct three of these tramways, each
nearly three miles long, one beginning at
the end of the other. The first will start
from the rear of the iron spring at Mani
tOu. and the last will be terminable in
front of the signal station on Pixies Peak,
at an elevation of ii, 209 feet. The sup
ports will be made of trees not less than
eight inches in diameter and about
twenty-fOur feet higb, braced above
and below. On these an endless
wire cable of one inch bore
will revolve, and upon which will be fast
ened, at intervals OF about 100 feet each,
large covered arm chair, in which two per-
sons can comfortably sit. This will be
suspended about eight feet from the
ground, and pass at entering and dis
points along movable plat
form 10 load and unload without stop
ping. The lower section will be propelled
bv an engine at the lower end. The cen
tire one will be driven by water power,
on the mountain side through a
turbine wheel, and the third by an engine
erected on the summit of the peak.
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