Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-10
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LABoUcHERE says the best preventive for
cholera Is to take during the day some time
two spoonfuls of salt, either spread on bread
ana butter or IN some other way. The salt
acts as disinfectant.
BELMONT (DAKoTA) FARMER owns horse
/ affected with the CHAMBERS. He has given
/ mortgage upon the horse II he allows the
| horse to live his neighbors threaten him with
! arrest for keeping glandered stock. II he
/ KILLS the morse the mortgage threatens to ar
| rest him for DESTROYING mort gagged property.
| Local papers advise him to shoot the mort
gagee.
HOW long after apparent death by drown
ing resuscitation can be successful is a matter
of considerable uncertainty. DIR. Richard
| son thinks that up to twenty minutes of APP
parent death the patient can be brought to
ne, ana Iaylor records case where resuscl-
tation began to be feebly established after
eight and half hours treatment.
Two FRENCHMEN, the Brothers Fore, have
invented a new kind Of harp. made entirely
of wood. Instead of strings the inventors
| use stTong stflps OF American mr.. Inc SOUND
Is produced, as in the ordinary harp, by the
contact OF the fingers, but the player wears
leather gloves covered with rosin. The tone
OF the instrument is said to be of remarkable
purity.
AN AMERICAN has invented a novel rifle.
He uses an accelerating charge of gun cotton
instead Of powder, and hollow steel arrow
or bolt for bullet. The bolt may be charged
| like percussion shell or filed with chemical
| compounds. The latter are two in number
one being an inhammable fluid like Greek
fire, and the other liquid that bursts into a
highly poisonous gas.
NUREMBERG is to have an international ex-
hibitiOn of gold and silyersmith's work, jew
| elry and bronze. From both sides of the At
lantIc, from India and North Africa, treas
ures of workmanship will be sent to it. The
| exhibition will be unique of its kind: dis
/ NAV of of the richest collections of dcfi1a
art ever brought together, and in one of the
| oldest and most interesting towns of Europe.
IN AMSTERDAM every common trade has a
! government shop. and the worthy poor when
out of work are employed there on application.
! The wages paid are very low, only enough to
sustain life. The goods produced are used
wholly by the government, and not sold in
competition with common labor. AS whole
the results are said to be satisfactory. This
| plan IS urged in London as way to relieve
! the ''bitter cry"
| THE last Bremen Line steamship brought to
| New York as passenger a handsomely
marked young female Bengal tiger, confined
! in a huge iron bound box that allowed it Just
| room to turn. 1t is the only one imported
| this year. These animals are now rarely i'm
| ported, as they are growing scarce and sell
for about $500. They are more valuable
! than lions and are harder to trap and trans
! port. The animal is years old.
! THE remarkable increase in the use Of steel
has greatly benefited junk dealers and rag
| pickers, Formerly iron and steel were sold
| together as 'scrap" or ''junk," and brought
from one-quarter to One-haf cent per pound
Now the steel is separated and finds ready
market at from One-half to two cents per
pound. A few junk men, who have learned
TO easily distinguish the different varieties of
the metal, have made considerable money.
IT is fact strangely ignored, says Moncure
d. Conway, that the Mahometans are Chris
tians. 1t is true that Moslem Christianity has |
suffered a sort OF arrest In primitive phase,
outgrown by the development of Christen-
dom; but the MahOmetan's faith in the pre-
sent and hope for the future of the world cen
tres in Christ. They are called Mahemetan, !
but it is epithet; Mahomet is to them little |
more than what Wesley is to the Wesleyans.
AMONG the numerous surprises which the |
progress of analytical science has sprung upon |
the modern cuisine are two of a very opposite |
but equally interesting nature. One is that |
the oyster, Notwithstanding his high sound |
ing traditions and exclusive character, is
after all little better than an imposter. being
worth nutritively less than its own weight in
milk. The other is that the cucumber, nearly
always partaken Of with a certain inward
mls%lvln@ as to consequences. Is a most di-
gestible and wholese"a..@.-- sood
A SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE is related to
have occurred near Dayton, Canada. A little
9-year-old son Of Mr. Vaughan living near
town, was taken quite sick recently, and died
on Monday week. The boy had little pony
to which he had become very much attached, |
and which had become very much attached to
HIM. On the morning of his death, not over !
five minutes thereafter. the animal came IN
to the house where lis lifeIe@.s voung master
was; ana lala down Ds cno door and expired
in few moments without any previous sick
ness whatever,
THERE 49, relics of slavery in Delaware yet.
Marriage licences must certify cOlored people
TO be free. One issued by John Vasey, Justice
Of the Peace of MiddletOwn, not long ago,
reads as follows: This is to certify that there |
has been sufficient proof filed with me, John
Nasey, one Of the justices OF the peace IN and
for the county aforesaid, in accordance with
the laws of the State of Delaware, that Geo.
W. Veal is a free COlOred man, and that Mary
Reason is a free colored woman, and. they are
hereby licensed to enter INTO the bonds OF
matrimonY.
THE new buffet Pullmans now running on I
the Eastern and Maine Central, between BOs-
ton and Mount Desert Ferry, have one or two
new features. The chairs at either end are I
convertible into a sofa. A new idea Is intro |
duced in the arrangement of the windows, |
several being in the form of a bay, and while |
projecting but few inches, give the passen-
ger good view ahead Above the. Windows |
are panels of figured plush, with solid bronze |
racks for packages between them; the ceiling |
is of metal on wood, the effect being similar |
to that Of the ceiling Of the Bijou Theatre: |
In other respects the cars have the usual I
features The lunches that are served are |
desirable to most passengers and ore well |
patronlEed.
THE Pasco de la Reforma, in the city Of !
Mexico,is pronounced bymany travellers to be |
the most beautiful drive in the world. Be
ginning in the main plaza in the centre of the /
city, and going westward to the castle of Che |
pultepec, the distance Is about mile. At in |
terVals are six circles, each 400 feet In dame
ter. A magnificent Columbus in marble and |
bronze is in place, the great explorer standing |
on the summit of the lofty pedestal, and sit |
ting at the four angles are the Spanish fathers
to whom Mexico considers herself indebted
for her present civilization. A forthcoming
work is a figure of Guatimozin, the last In
dian Emperor of Mexico, to cost 100000 |
There Will also be an Arch of Liberty, costing
$250000, which is intended to be as durable as
the mountains looking down upon it.
DAN RICE, the once popular clown, once
said that he was about as bankrupt as usual.
The times had moved past him. he thought,
and he saw no good reason to believe that he
would ever catch up again. Il have never
made money so easily, pleasantly or heavily"
he remarked, 'tas when ! ran my horse
show. l guess that was rather before your day.
/ had an exceedingly clever trick horse and
moderate sized tent. The beast and did our
level best to make folks laugh, and we sue
ceeded. The admission price was only Is
cents, with 10 cents more for best seat; but
the expenses were light, and nearly all we took
in was clear profit. 1t was in Dan Rice's One
Horse Show that | made my reputation as
clown, and gained enough. capital to lose in
stuck to my original line of business"
IN the last ten years there has been practi-
cally no increase in the expectations of Mexi-
can silver which is still the chief product Of
that country; but the exports of fibre plants
and their products are growing at great
rate. In ten years the export of "heneduin'
| has been quadrupled, and of ''iXtle" more
than doubled. IXtle Is chiefly used in the
manufacture of brushes, but it can be spun
| into thread. Henequin is used for ropes and
cordage and is best known to the public per-
! haps when made into Mexican hammOcks.
! Mexico grows great number of fibre plants,
| some of which have not yet been utilized, and
! it is proposed to begin the cultivation OF jUte
under government auspices, the hot lands of
! the coast being well suited to its growth. An
| American machine which greatly simplines
| the work of extracting the fibres of all such
| plants has recently been introduced, and this
| stimulates the business of preparing the fbres
| for market. ~
THE attention of brain disease 81 G. lists is
especially directed to the multiplASSI ion Of
| sudden lapses of memory on the witness
stands, particularly as it affects millionaire
| speculators Mr.. Jay Gould is well known to
| be an unfortunate sufferer from this COM
| plant at occasional intervals, and it appears