Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-24
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don Times that he has watered his stock from
pond that receives the drainage of his barn
yard for thirty years without having any SlcA
animals.
''DULLNEss," says Professor seelye in an IN
terview on Goethe in the Contemporary Re-
vieao, sis, after all, relative term; it express,
es only a want of correspondence between Ing
mind Of the writer and that OF the reader'
THE italian authorities are said to have
lately insisted on disinfecting two railroad
cars which arrived at Chiasso, one laden with
chloride of lime, the other with carbohc aclo
The result of the disinfectiOn on those mate
rails is matter only of conjecture.
IN the shop of a boulevard pastry cook in
Paris, a young masher questioned the fresh
ness of a tart. The shopkeeper was touched
to the quick, and remarked severely: 81 made
tarts, young man, a good while before yod
were born" 81 don't doubt it," was the re-
ply, land this must be one of them"
ONE of the fashionable BARRIERS at Saratoga
mourns over his loss of patronage, and says
''Men have gone mad over election BETS"
One says, ''Let my beard alone; have sworn
not to trim it until Cleveland is elected
Another says, ''Don't touch my moustache; it
must grow until Blaine is installed in the
White House,"
THE McClOud river, or, Indian named VIM
ME Min, is one of the most romantic rivers in
the West, It's source is in crystal springs,
|
Mount Shasta, and its general course is north
and south. In traversing six townships it
presents hundreds of bends and curves, but
does not vary from a north and south line
more than five or SIX miles.
a MAN who was walking quietly in the Ga
lerie Saint-Louls, Paris, suddenly drew a re-
volver from his pocket, and, aiming at the
nus, .r,, n.,,s.,. Of the rsfPuolic over the en-
trance to the Palais de u us.iCo, . ..red three
| times. He cOntented himself with saying !:
1.-THE pistol was loaded only with powder, but
! have killed the republic; l am satisfied. !"
| No trace of ball was found. The assassin of
! the republic was taken to the depot.
JOACHIM, the celebrated violin player, tells a
| good story about himself. He has q heavy
head of hair, except one spot, which he can
easily hide by not cutting off a particular lock.
! One day in London he went to the BARRIERS to
| have his hair trimmed. The barber wished
| to take this lock of, but Joachim insisted upon
| its remaining, WhereupOn the barber eX-
| claimed; Let me cut it Off; it makes you look.
| like one of those old Dutch iddlers."
In Brunswick the Supreme Court of the
duchy is at present engaged with case which
commenced in 1904 before the then Imperial
| Court of Wetzlar. 1t was carried on for half
a century, and was then left in allegiance till
comparatively recent period. 1t involves a
claim set up BY the Counts OF StOlb1rg against
main for the restitution of the Whole 81 the
estates, forests and mines in the county of
BlanKenberg tHartz Mountains), which are
valued at fl,000, OO0 The Duke Of Brunswick
is the real defendant.
THE great cathedral in the City Of Mexico
is the largest in America, and cost nearly 81
100000. 1t was commenced by the Spaniards
in 1873, on the site of the old Aztec temple or
pyramid and finished in 1867. It's facade is
beautifully carved. Against its western wall
leans the celebrated Calendar Stone, covered
with hleroglyphics, and weighing twenty-five
tons. Its cast, which the Mexican Govern
ment IS at present engaged IN taking, will be
exhibited at the New Orleans EXPOSITION
Within the cathedral are number Of paint
lngs, some OF them said to be the work of
MurillO.
THERE is a man around New York with a
new scheme. He proposes a subterfuge by
which men on limited salaries can keep up APP
pearances to some extent. He makes a pool I
on summer hat, for instance. Four men put (
In 80 cents each and buy 81 hat. Each man !
Is entitled TO wear TINS hat one night in four. /
On this night he looms up on the principal /
streets or at the theatre. On the other three
nights he skulks down back alleys with the |
"Ould plug" or remains at home The same
combination is proposed on other articles Of !
apparel, and it seems to offer pleasing induce |
ments to number.
OFFICERS in England, writing home ac-
counts of their military adventures or Incl
dents of voyage, are obliged to be far more
careful than here. If any of the recipients of
such letters, which frequently contain very
interesting information, venture TO publish |
even the smalle and least important portion
of their contents, the writers are threatened
with punishment. Not long since Lieut. Saun-
ders of the Starting, wrote a letter to his
father about last years Niger expedition,
Portions of the letter appeared in print, and
the luckless Lieutenant was called on to ex-
plain his audacity or undergo court martial.
A EAR average Paris kitchen is about
feet long and feet wide. Along the wall
runs an iron edged table or feet long and
about feet wide. In this table are cut from
4 to square holes, and underneath runs a
shelf of stone or iron of just the same size as
the table itself. The space between this shelf
and the table is closed in front by iron doors
This block against the wall bears the general
name of fOurneau, and, with the exception of
roasting, it is on this block that all the cook
ing IS done. Teakettles not existing in
France water is boiled in a covered tin jug
called bOuil lOtte, and in this the water heats
very rapidly, but never sings.
CONGRESS SPRING flint glass bottles cost
about 40 cents dozen. Hathorn Spring beer
bottles made in Wayne county and at Homes
dale, Pa, and at Poughkeepsie, cost about s.
10 IS 50 per gross, or say 2 cents apiece. A
$50 bottles, or sixty barrels las of the Gey-
SER. II costs to send carload of the water
rom the springs to New Y rk about $40. The
)arreled water costs about IS per barrel The
1athorn Spring flows gallons a minute. The {
Congress Spring bottles 500 to 500 dozen
lay ten months in the year, and 5000 to 5000
lay in the season. !
HOWARD PAUL writes IN q Paris American
"How completely defunct is {
he aesthetic boom Inaugurated by that shrewd l
apostle, Oscar Wilde. To be aesthetic now is l
o be out of the fashion, and the greenv- l
-ellOwy maidens are looked upon with con-
empt by their more robust sisters and broth
rs. MIR. Wilde himself has settled down to g
Iuiet and prosaic citizenship, broken occas- d
Onally by lectures which are quite sensible Z
md commonplace. Meanwhile the man who !
made the aesthetics ridiculous made Oscar !
Wide famous, and gave Gilbert his scheme
or "Patience"-the man, In fact who was re-
ponslOie for the whole aesthetic craze, and '
lively unknown. GeorWersl Maurier. Of !
Du9ch, deserves all the serors and gets few :
L them' utfel
The archaeological jour SprudeL saws: :
OF the four and fifty rooms occupied BY En-
error William and his suite at Gastein. thirty +
our are in the Bath Hotel, ten at Straubin- &
er's, and ten at the so-called SchwaIger
louise. For these 1fty-four rooms Including Fl
ONE d21sGrdeS for the serYantsl the Imperial
curt Treasury pays for twenty-one DAYS she
um Of 5000 fOrins-the form being worth
%. Besides the early breakfast the En-
'eror only taxes two meals, namely, a deieu- E
er In strictly private circle and dinner \
etween and O'clock, to which rarely ever U
ess than ten and never more than fifteen per- i
ons are invited. The menu of the dinner d
onslsts of soup, fish, beef, two entrees, a roast
udding, or pie, confectionery, and fruit. For h
his dinner the landlord OF the Bath Hotel re- =
elves twelve forms cover without wine Il
he imperial naend9e brings the wine for the y
,mperOr's own use from Berlin"
The self-starylng case Of Kate, daughter of ,
Ieorge Smusley, of Fort Plain, New York. .
aflies the medical profession. Her physician, :,
'r. VIM. Zolen, says that she is a living skele- Il
1n, yet so bloated that she actually weighs :,
lore than three months ago. Her parents
I'D physicians have begged In vain to try and q,
old something on her stomach. but she posi- =
vely refuses to swallow anything, only oc Il
asionally taking slight quaffs of water in her n
louth, which Is quickly elected without beinq 81
flowed 10 enter the stomach. The girl has b.
AIKEN no food for l62 days up . noon TO-DAY. n
nd no water or liquid in her stomach in 81 :"
avs. She is 20 years Of age. and was. previ- -
us TO her sickness, prepOssessing and a zen v
raj faYOrite. She was taken i'll tweHtT-threc K
lOnths ago with spinal disease. Every effort n
-as made 10 cure her, but she finally gave M
Ope and adopted the slow method Of suicide \
y starvation. She suffers great pain. cans y
IL her body TO keep IN constant motion frr,n, 3
ne side Of the bed to the other, Death i ex. 4
ected at any moment,