Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-13
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/ ture Of Massachusetts which prohibits the eX-
hiDition Of deformed persons who are minors
/ or insane, and Of persons who have an appear
/ ance of deformity produced by artificial
1 means.
GREAT DAMAGE has been done in the fruit
district along the Hudson river by the CON
tinued bad weather, and the loss to growers
VIII foot up MANY thousands of dollars.
should cold weather prevail during the next
few days. the loss will be quadrupled.
DID anyone ever think how much space is
required to bury the dead2 If one would De
contented with a grave two feet by six, $50
bodies could be inferred IN one acre, allowing
nothing for walks, roads or monuments. on
this crowded theory London's annual dead,
numbering 81, 100. would iii 2315 acres.
TEXAS reports the following as ghost story,
the locality being TurnersviIle: "Just at the
moment of the dissolution Of a Mrs. Reneau.
six collins were seen to come and hover over
the house and then glide gently upward to the
sound of sweet and mel0dious music" Sew
eral reliable persons claim to have witnessed
the spectacle.
The Bombay Chamber of Commerce has
submitted a memorial to the Vieeroy urging
that railway extension be prosecuted at the
rate OF 1000 or 5000 miles annuallylfor the next
ten years, at a cost of f20. 900 per aunum.
They recommend that this sum be raised by
sterling loans in London. az guaranteed in
terest of 80 per cent. in perpetuity. The
less the risk of famines.
TIE population Of Ireland is now very
nearly the same as it was in the year of the
Union. . l00.0 600, the great increase up to lS4l.
when 1t, reached S.l99000, having been en-
tirely lost. But whereas in 1892. on the pass
ing Of the reform bill. ireland had 1913. per
cent. OF the population Of the United King
dom, it has now but 4.Sl per cent, and its
electors, who were 1872 per cent. Of the
whole in 1882, are now but As.
QUITE a remarkable incident in murder
case has just occurred in New Hampshire.
Last week jury at Dover found Premier
Boudoir. French Canadian, guilty of the
murder of Edward Grant, of Great Falls.
Monday afternoon, before the convicted man
had been sentenced, his son. Desire BOudoir,
young man of 20, arrived from Canada, de-
clared his father innocent of the crime, and
confessed himself the murderer.
SPoNGE-PLANTING is an enterprise that
some speculative Frenchmen have on foot. 1t
is proposed to bring the sponges from the wa
tiers of Syria and the archipelago They will
be carefully selected, placed IN a box pierced
with holes along with the rocks to which they
are found adherng, and transplanted in that
part of the Mediterranean that washes the
shores of Algeria and France. Three years at
least will tell whether Frenchmen will con-
tinue to pay az the rate of 80 franc pound
for sponges. There are others, too. who are
interested in the success of this undertaking.
II sCHoNEN. sweden. a very interesting dis
coverv of antiquities has been made through
excavations for a water reservoir in the VI
entity of Esloef vast number of articles
made of stone have been found, large enough
to stock a respectable museum. 1t is supposed
that the people who lived around Esloef three
or four thousand years ago made business of
making tools, weapons, ornaments, etc, from
stone. The find is all the more remarkable
because the majority Of the articles were made
from an almost transparent variety Of flint
stone which is not found at or in that vicinity
TURTLES may now be cIassed with few
other luxuries which the wise man had better
learn to do without. The genuine trufie, too
costly to be devoured in large quantities, was
for that reason perhaps innocuous; and it had
certainly flavor of its own. The imitation
trufie has also strong flavor: but il Is so per-
ncous that no fewer than ten Generals who
partOok of sham trutlles at a recent banquet
were all made seriously i'll. The manufactured
truffe Is composed of black potatoes, crumbs
of black or backened bread. and phosphorus.
1t is TO this latter ingredient that it owes its
distinctive odOr; and to the same source may
no doubt be ascribed its injurious character.
PRINCE DoLGoRoUKI, who Is known to be
entirely in the confidence of the Car, had
la ely an interview with the Emperor of Ger
many, and Immediately proceeded on a visit
to Prince Bismarck, at Frledrichsruhe, with
er the Minister of War was presently sum-
moned. 1t is the general belief that the OBJ
jet of this meeting IS to consider the posi- /
bility of a reduction of the military expenses |
of both countries, which are such terrible
incubus upon them. The cost of the German |
army now reaches $ll6O00,000, and is met with |
much difficulty. 1t has been demonstrated |
that Russia, deeply in debt, can only borrow |
now on ruinous terms.
An EXCHANGE describes one Of the many old |
Creole MSS. which have, it is said been placed |
in Mr.. Cables hands for use in his stories. 1t |
contains the story of an old French lady Of |
New Orleans. written by her own hand at The /
request of her young friends. The old lady in /
1893 Il pretty French Countess, married |
at IA TO a nObleman many years her elder. /
Husband and father were both guillOtined, /
and the young wife, seeking to escape. was /
protected by her fathers gardener. In his /
family she lived as a daughter by adoption
till the gardeners son fell in love with her,
when. reciprocatlng his attachment, she be-
came daugh rim law. Later this prede-
cessorO of Claude Melnotte" emigrated with
his nigh born bride, ana ultimately became
PROSPEROUS citizen of New Orleans. The story
is beautifully told, and the manuscript, like
the others in Mr. Cables possession, is OF I'M
doubted authenticity.
THERE is considerable agitation in Belgium
over the lace-making schools. They are
chiefly in the hands of different religious COM
munities, as the ApOstolines, the Maricoles,
the Josephines, and COllectines. and are I'M
derstOod. while teaching the art of lace
making, to give some primary instruction. 1t
appears that less than hour is devoted to
ECdQluE anu Wflblngs inc resi- 20 tue 11ltdUy !
and the loom. The age Of admission is as low
as five or six years. The regulations issued
by the Bishop Of Bruges fix the school hours
from o a. m. to p. m, but these hours are
nearly always exceeded, and the children are
kept at work from $50 in summer and Z in
winter to $50 in summer and sin winter:
their health is consequently very bad. They
are robbed, In addition. child is mentioned
in the report who, after working for two
months, took home 30 confines, or at the rate
OF half centime a day; another. u years
old, received for three years work francs,
or centime day.
IT is stated that the electric light for loco
motive headlights is an assured success. Many
attempts to adapt electricity to this use have
been tried but st was left to some enterpris-
ing Ohio and Indiana men to devise per-
fectly balanced lamp to hold the carbons, so
that the movement of the engine frame can
not shake them together. 1t has been tested
on one division of the Pan Handle Railroad,
and pronounced by the Superintendent to be
a success. 1t is run by a little engine and
dynamo placed on the side Of the locomotive
back of the Westinghouse air brake. The en-
CINE is of course, in constant motion, and fed
direct from the boiler by an eighth Of an Inch
tap. This invention will make travelling at
night safer than in the daytime. The electric
light will show an obstruction q mile away.
Collisions mostly occur on curves, but the cone
Of light sent out from one of these headlights
would pierce the darkness SO far in a straight
line as to be seen from any part of the curve.
Railroad men consider it the most important
invention for railroads since the Westing-
house AIR brake. 1t will no doubt be gener-
ally adopted
BRIGHT BITS.