Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-09

ago. It then belonged to an aristrocratic
clHb which blackballed the president Of
lottery company when he made application
for membership. BY way of revenge he
bought the grounds and gave them to the city
for cemetery.
THE following are given as the daily allow
ances of carnivora at the Jardin DIES Plantes
in Paris: For each lion, tiger and bear, 10
pounds of flesh; for each panther, pounds
for each hyena, from pounds to pounds;
for each wild cat, pound, and for each eagle,
pounds. All of this meat must be flesh and
free from bones.
REyIvALIsTs MOODY AND SANKEY are hold
ing series of meetings "for men only" in
some rough buildings in the rear of the Md
land Grand Hotel, in London. Vast crowds
hover around the buildings. attracted by the
sound of exhortation within. Some go to scott
and some to pray. but all are kept in excel
lent order by long files of stalwart policemen.
PROF. CLELLAND, of Glasgow University,
said in recent lecture on terminal forms Of
life that man was "a terminus" anatomical
evidence showed he had reached the limit of
development in vertebrate life. Hence it was
in the last degree improbable that in the
future there would be a progression in the
construction of the human body that would
give birth to greater intelligence than was
possessed by the sages of antiquity.
IT is just one mile between Sault st. Marie,
Mich, and the Canadian village opposite yet
mail communication between the two points
occupies ten days. letter posted on the
American SIDE goes first to Detroit, crosses to
| Windsor, where it enters the Canadian mails,
and Is then sent over Canadian routes back to
/ the Sault, reaching the Canadian office there
IN ten days from the time 1t started.
DIR. GIBBONS in the Pacific Medical and
Surgical journal cites case Of hypOchondria
in which a farmer imagined his nose to be a
| bundle of hay. He took great care not to go
near horse or COW lest his hay nose should
women. says the doctor, to have hypochon-
dra, though women have hysteria Oftener
/ than men. The diseases are closely allied in
their origin and nature.
THE French commission appointed to con-
slider the practcability of cutting the 18TH
mus of Kraw for the proposed Malayan canal
have completed their survey. The report as
serts that the cutting of a maritime canal on
the level through that lsthmus will present no
considerable obstacles The Isthmus IS de-
scribed as being covered with valuable tim
Der; the lower stratum of the ground is grant,
! tic. and the upper is generally soft sand
tone.
AT the invitation of a French gentleman,
whose home is now in Rio de JanerO, a num-
Der of French Senators, Deputies and journal
lists dined together recently in Paris to cele-
brate the abolition Of slavery in the Brazilian
Province of Ceara. Up to very recent time
there were 10000 slaves in this province. An
English newspaper at Rio (the Neacs) has
made a good fight for the Ceara slaves, as for
all slaves in Brazil. The editor of it is a
young Cornell graduate, Mr.. A. j. La
mOureuX.
THE President of the French Republic sent
some little time ago to the French Ambassa-
dor at Constantinople three handsome cine
tiers made IN exact imitation of the much
priced Damascus blades, for presentation to
the Sultan's three sons. An Oriental poten-
tate receiving present from such quarter
would probably have preferred some product
of European art to a counterfeit of what he
can get better at home. ''If you wanted to
make an Englishman a present. says a
French paper, crIticising NJ. Crews gift,
you would not offer him dozen of pale ale,
an article of Sheffield cutlery, or a coat made
by Poole"