Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-02

would begin its "March" with the awakening
OF plant life: September, October. November
and December would, IN reality. be the sew
enth, eighth, ninth and tenth months; and the
year would come to a close with February,
which would become, with more reason, what
its meaning indicates, time for expiration.
THERE is opposition at Malta to the en-
couragement and diffusion in that island of
the English language. Lawyers have institu
ted among the priests the idea that the British
Government intends to abolish Italian, to cut
on all communication with Rome, and to eX-
tend Systematically the influence of the Pro-
testant Bible among the Maltese. 1t is in
sisted by the alarmist party that officials be
compelled to speak Italian and prohibited
from speaking English. and mat Italian be-
come the basis af Instruction in the schools.
It is said that Lord Derby has firmly opposed
these absurd pretensions."
AT recent meeting of the Cuyahoga Coun-
ty Medical Society at Cleveland, an interest
ing case in medical Jurisprudence was re-
ported. A doctor dressed a boys injured ell
bow, and gave his mother directions for after
treatment The mother neglected the diree-
tons and deformed elbow was the result.
The mother brought a suit for damages, and,
Notwithstanding that the doctor could prove
the mothers negligence he was advised by his
lawyer to SETTLE" The ground for this adj
vice was that in ONO ga child of tender years
injured by the fault of another, is not de-
priyed of a right of action by reason of con-
tributory negligence on the part of the parent
or guardian" The surgeon must not only
give the necessary directions, but see person
| ally that they are carried out.
THE Paris police are endeavoring to sup
press a strange traffic in dead bodies, which
they have discovered to exist on the river
/ Seine in and near Paris. 1t appears that a
reward of fifteen francs is given in the De-
/ partment of the Seine for any bodies found in
/ the river and delivered up to the authorities.
J In the neighbOring departments if only few
miles away-as, for instance, in the Seine-et-
/ Oise-nO such reward is offered. The cOnse-
quence is that boatmen finding bodies outside
| the stipulated boundary, instead of giving
! them up to the police of their own district,
sell them to men employed higher up the
/ river, who obtain the reward for them, reallZ-
! ing profit by the transaction. This custom
/ has become so prevalent that there is a re-
! cOgnized tariff of five francs for bodies pur-
chased in this way.
THE prevalent idea that the whole interior
| of Madagascar is clothed with immense for
ests must give way before the recent dis
cOverfes of NJ. Grandidier, a young French
| explorer which have been communicated to
/ the French Academy of Sciences. The above
| idea has been prOpagated by erroneous charts
| ever since the middle ages. Grandidier finds
| that the whole eastern part OF the island is
! covered with tract of highlands, extending
! over some twO-thiFds of 1t. These hills rise
| to a height of 1000 feet or 5000 feet, and are
| intersected by narrow glens and dried up lake
/ DeuS. Iney are bare OF trees, ana Tor the
most part covered with course heritage. The
| western part of the island is a plain, covered
| with grass or tufts of trees. a belt of timber
| encircles the whole island near the coast, and
| trees and grasses fringe the shores. The water
| courses which traverse the plain take their
| rise near the eastern side Of the island.
THE nitro -glycerIne bomb is a recent addi-
ton to destructive projectiles, its serviceable-
ness in reducing entertainments being, 1t is
| claimed, uneXeelled. In its construction a
| heavy cOncal shell is first cast, and so ar
ranged that one end is much heavier than the
| other. one end being also closed with tightly
! fitting cap, screwed on after charging. The
interior of the shell is divided into three com =
! partments, each separated by a heavy plate
| glass cap; the division fuTthest from the open
| end is filled with sulphuric acid, the next with
| glycerine, and the outer one with nitric acid
| these three elements being the component
| parts of nitrO-glycerine. A small opening
| through the centre of the cap fitting the open
| end of the proectile admits q steel rod, to
! each end of which is firmly attached a small
| circular piece of metal, the inner end resting
| against the first glass cap; the outer cap is
| then screwed on, and the prOjectile is ready
for service. According to the principle OF
| gravitatiOn, the heavy end naturally strikes
the ground first, the steel rod is driven through
| the plate-glas partitions, the chemicals are
| mingled, and nitro glycerine discharge
| takes place.