Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-16

wore colored stones in preference 10 dia-
monds. Josephine because she was too dark,
and Marie Louise because she was too fair.
The Empress Eugene made no little use Of
person to wear them.
THE amount of absinthe drinking which
takes place at Marseilles, where the cholera
shll fingers, is abnormal. The great street IS
the Rue Cannabiere, which is the Boulevard
MOntmartre OF Paris raised IN intensity. The
shady side is an almost unbroken series OF
cafes, and from early morning until late at
night usually the tables in front are occupied
BIZ Marseillais, with a little decanter full OF
syrup OF gum and two or three bottles con-
tanning absinthe, from which they help them
selves Since the advent Of the cholera these
tables have been wholly deserted.
TIE well known English Snowman, Womb
well. was buying animals in London when he
heard that Atkins, rival, had announced
his as the only wild beast show at forth
coming fair Wombwell struck his tent and
came to town by forced marches. The long
journey was too much for the big and only
elephant. who succumbed on arriving in Lon
don. Atkins announced that his was the
only live elephant at the fair. Wombwel
proclaimed the fact that his tent contained
the only dead elephant in England, and did a
wonderful business, the rival concern being
quite deserted.
There are q, 600 beer shops in Paris at the
present time and the money spent daily for
that beverage alone is Sl50,O00. The impOrta-
ton of Bavarian beer into Paris has increased
to such large proportions this season that the
Eastern Railway has been obliged to provide
special facilities for its transportation be-
tween Munich and Paris, running what are
called special beer trains. These trains, which
at first ran only once a week, now run daily,
except Sunday, covering the trip from Stras-
burg 10 Paris in nineteen hours. Each train
oor IN n hnnF-
N the estate of a citizen of Wilmington,
Del, recently deceased, there was silver
puneh-strainer, which was referred to as fol-
lows in the will: "A silver punch-strainer
belonging to nv maternal grandfather. James
Parker. Its history is briefly this: DR.. B
| Franklin and my said grandfather were
printer boys in Boston. and saved silver dol
lar from their first earnings by selling news
papers in that city. They had these dollars
made into punch-stralhers, and exchanged
with each other, so that this strainer Is made
out of the dollar earned by DR.. Franklin
This is bequeathed to the Smithsonian Insti-
| tute."
AN absconding banker Of Verona has been
unearthed by the police, disguised as her
NIT. in one of the tufa grottoes that abound
| on the outskirts of Albano. During the few
weeks that have passed since the hermit first
| appeared in the neighbOrhOOd, wearing the
| habit of the Third Order of st. Francis, he
| acquired some reputation for austerlty an0
| piety, as he declined all offerings brought tC
| his cave by the charitable and religious, eX-
| cept bread and vegetables, and when seen
was always either PROSTATE before cross, OF
| lying on a straw mat reading a devotional
| book. 1t is possible that his intention was
| really to do penanee by spending the rest OF
his life in solitude, rigorous simplicity and re-
| liglOus exercises.
| How the hundredth part Of a second il
measured is told in the Washington Post. II
| says: 1.-THE chronograph, as its name implies
is a time writer. Without it the division Of
| time into the hundredth part Of a seconds
| division so small that the mind can hardly APP
| preciate ft-would be impossible. 1t is a re-
| volving cylinder, bearing a fountain pen at
| tached to a magnet. As the pendulum OF the
| clock swings its seconds it sends the electric
| current to the magnet. The latter gives q
nervous click and the pen marks a small but
| distinct break on the paper. These breaks
distinguish the seconds, and the space be-
| tween them is measured by fine divisions on a
| slip of steel. A second in time, measured by
! Is about a : long this: