Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-09
MEMS OLE INTEREST.

THERE are rumOrs of a congress in Pari:
which is to settle the nature of the offensei
which demand duel.
CANADA is delightfully."- cool now, and
whisky is only seventeen and one-half cents 9
gallon at Windsor, in that country.
OF the three branches Of engineering me-
chanical to-day pays the best. The average
civil engineer makes $1,000 per annum, the
mining Zoo, and the mechanical $500
This includes bridge and locomotive construc-
ton.
EXPLORERS have discovered petroleum in
Formosa, about twenty miles to the south Of
Ke Lung. At the latter place are the richest
mines Of bitumlnous coal IN the chinese en-
pire. Thus far the government has refused
permits tor the sinking of wells.
NJ. DE LEssEPs thinks that if a woman were
once admitted to the French Academy, in
ten wears it would contain no men, because
the immense superiority of the women would
be so plainly evident that masculine candi-
dates would no longer be possible.
1T tickles the sweet-toothed Britons that
fine grade German sugars, which they get for
1 cents per pound. are selling in Germany for
cents per pound. The excellent German
Government pays a bounty on the export OF
sugar and the free-trading Englishmen get
the benefit of it.
THE latest novelty in bouquets was carried
BY the Princess of Wales at a ball after the
races at Goodwood. 1t was Of roses, and in
the middle Of it was concealed miniature
electric lamp, the light from which could be
turned on at will by means OF little switch
in the form Of a lady's brooch.
AMERICA begins to initiate Germany. The
crane cure practiced in the latter country is
Daralleled by the treatment now in vogue at
Oakland, Cal, in which the patient, for food
and drink, is given Bartlett pears ad lib. An
invalid Is said TO grow thin upon the diet, but
in a few weeks usually grows stronger.
MISS BERTHA HIGGINS has been investigat-
ing samples of American and foreign iodide Of
potassium. as sold in New York, and finds that
none OF the specimens IS up to the require
ments Of the PharmacOpmia. IL is an import
ant matter, both from commercial and a
medical point of view, as enormous quantities
of the drug are consumed.
Mr.. CARLYLE's house in Cheyne Row,
Chelsea, is still to let. A tenant in the person
Of n Mr. Haweis was soon found for Rosetti's
home with It's dark passages and gloomy
rooms: but as yet no hero worshiper has
been found ardent enough to take possession
OF 1.-THE famous tenement" as we have heard
it called, in which the dyspeptic seer grumbled
away so many years OF his life.
THE Irish informers have found settle
ment In the Banda Oriental, close to the
Swiss colony on the Rio Negro. Originally
tuey MeIe att ldhuoS AZ bueuOs AyioS, yu :
they shortly migrated up country, aud settled
in this district. The British Government
made arrangements with a ranchero on the
Rio Negro to provide them work. They were
all at home members of the Invincible So
ciety.
THE Digger Indians were, until few years
ago. considered the most ignorant and least
intelligent human beings on the Pacific coast.
Those who 1--we on Rancho Chico have now
heen educated in civilized ways. They have
learned to read and write almost as we'll as
white people, and some of them have even be-
come musicians. They recently gave an en-
tertainment in San Francisco, under tne care
national songs and other musical ana metrl-
cal compositions were rendered by their choir
in a very felicitOus style.
THE superstition connected with the horse-
shoe Is supposed to have had its rise in the