Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-07
THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEws SUNDAY SEPTEMBER J. 1884,

run like water aud melt down nro clay has
| absolutely no effect upon it. You may
1 put piece OF platinum wire not thicker than
human hair into blast furnace where ingots
I 81 steel are melting down all around Y and
/ the bit Of Wire viii come out as absolutely
unchanged as n u had been m an ice box.
AN INDIVIDUAL who represented himself rs
/ a scientist has been amusing the medical
4 journals with descriptions Of his method for
/ she cure Of al diseases. IL consists OF no less
tormidahle process than the complete filter.
ing OF the PATIENTS blood-in n Vacuunl-and
thereby removing all deletcrious substances.
lie applies one mouth Of his machine 10 an
artery and the other % a vein, and, as he re-
otter or the manu- die" The doctors are
kind TO him, his language Is good, he asks for
/ nothing, and he believes he is going 10 save
the human race.
AN ITALIAN corvette, the Victor Pisani, has
been utilized for making collections Of marine
zoology and conducting deep sea soundings
and thcrmomotriC experiments during the
past two years. rod invented by Signor
! Plumbo, Captain Of the ship, is used in con-
nectlon with Thomson's steel wire, and the
ttahan thermometer OF Negretu \ Hamba
by means OF q net opening and closing auto
maucally many rare marine animals have
been secured. In the bay OF Panama a huge
shark, 80 feet long and 70 feet round in the
largest part, was captured, after he had
dragged the boats for more than three hours.
OFFICERS OF the United states army on the
active list: one Lieutenant General, three
Major Generals, fifteen Brigadier Generals,
twenty three Aides de- Camp, one Military
Secretary, siNty-siX Colonies, eighty five
Lieutenant Colonies, al Majors, 81 Captains
(mOunted). sol Captains mot mOunted), thirty
! four Chaplains, fourteen Storekeepers, forty
Adlutants, forty Reglmental Quartermasters,
Adlutant and Quartermaster OF Engineer
Battalion, 2lS First Lieutenants (mounted),
$50 First Lieutenants mot mounted), AS Sec
IARUEpnlnts lmnnnlpUN. second
tenants mot mOunted), $50 Acting COmmiSsa-
ries Of Subsistence.
THE island OF NIauritius is the home of
witchcraft. The London Times asserts posi-
lively that young children are frequently tor
tured and killed for alleged magical purposes.
One Picot was tried by the British authorities
and condemned 10 death. He cOolly told mis-
Judges that they could not hang him. Nor
did they. The house of the chief Judge was
instantly haunted by spirits, who threw
stones. Night after night the missiles ratified
about the states. No watchers could discover
the human hands of the flesh and blood allies.
Finally 1.-The Judges lady was nearly fright
ened to DEATH says the Times, land the
Judge himself pleaded for Picot's lite with
the Executive Council"
JOHN F. SWIFT, an American, who has re-
Gently Travelled over India, writes: 81 found
that the average pay of farm laborer was
five rupees a month, or, at the present depre-
ciated value Of silver, about 50. Out of this
sum the labOrer supports himself and family.
Ii wheat-growing becomes general, the eau
casian races can III afford to compete in the
market with product that Is so cheaply
raised. The possible area for wheat cultiva-
ton is immense. In considering the possible
product from this great wheat territory, the
fact must be borne in mind that the soil is
very rich, and that at least two crops can be
raised on it every year"
PASSING conditions have developed IN Lon
don a somewhat CHASTITY literary taste, and the
favOrite reading there is found in certain
records of Herodotus, Boccaccio and De Foe
All about the plaques of Athens. Florence and
London is read with morbid interest. 1t
looks as though history will repeat itself in
more aspects than one should the emergency
which many predict arise. They are talking
OF camping out In case of an epidemic, and of
late the white tents have thickened by the
Thames side, and are to be seen dotted all
around suburban London. especially in and
about Epping Forest. This, of course, recalls
the plight of the merry company who pre-
pared themselves for the worst by narrating
the Decameron, and brings to mind also the
colony who fixed themselves in the East Lon
don woodland when the cockney was DIVING at
the rate Of 10000 per day.
DURING the twenty -four hours preceding
the execution of the officers lately convicted
of mutinous conspiracy in Spain all the stores
were closed and the balconies draped in black.
The venerable Archbishop went in full canoni-
Gals, IOliOW6u Dy thousands, TO LQe Governors
residence to implore mercy for them. Large
placards hung everywhere inscribed: pardon
for Major Fernandez and Lieut.. Wales" The
extraordinary interest their case excited con-
sisted in the fact that the court martial had
condemned them to prison for life in chains,
but the government objected to the sentence
as too lenient, sent all the judges (ofIicers)
who composed the court to prison for two
months in a fortress for prOnOuncng such an
inadequate ~ sentence, and had the men
executed.
"ANTIsEPTIC FLANNEL" prepared by the
eminent DIR. Burg, just deceased IN Paris, is
claimed to be a sure preventive Of cholera.
LabOuchere says of it, in London Truth: 81
gave friend who was troubled with heat
rash enough of 1t for an under WaistcOat
which he only wore for two DAYS, when the
eruption disappeared. The color is a delicate
cert d. eau. Curtains of this stuff would not
be receptacles for moths and microbes. BY
wearing clothing OF this flannel hospital SER
wants would not spread or perpetrate cOntag-
iOus diseases. Instead of poisoning ourselves
with 'mitigated viruses,' it would be better to
seek protection in sleeping the invisible sides
OF fiOOrings, wainscOting, the under part of
chairs and tables and the shelves of presses
with green copper solution, and DOMINIC an
useptc flannel. The latter should be washed
with the best white soap in cold or tepid
water.
A NEAPOLITAN correspondent writes:
swine at Naples is dear for Italy, because it
has to pay an OctroI duty Of 10 centlmes the
ltre; but l have brought to my house, all
bottled and nicely cOrked, most excellent
wine at 60 confines ~ cents United States
currency per litre bottle. OF course / re-
turn the bottles. | buy very good table wine,
in the wood, but not equal to the above, for
about 30 centimes Is United States cents per
bottle. / only wish that, of the many million
gallons purchased annually by France from
Italy, you could have a few bottles Just as it
went in the wood to your seaports. There is
a considerable quantity exported in bottle,
but for private use. Italian wines. within
the last few years, have found great favor at
the CLUBS in London, the Chianti, from Tus-
cany, being especially liked. The first SIX
months of this year have seen a large increase
in the exports of Italian wines to foreign
countries besides France"